by Ron Spomer | Jun 18, 2020
With 7,000 firearms and 30,000 related artifacts on display, the Cody Firearms Museum has the world’s most comprehensive collection of American firearms. Roughhewn men walked the streets with guns. Aggressive kids plinked at cans in backyards and sharp-eyed...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Apr 17, 2020
London gunmaker John Rigby & Co. has announced a new series of limited edition rifles, called the “Tsavo,” modeled on the firm’s phenomenally successful bolt-action Big Game. Following hot on the heels of the exceptionally popular “Mopani” special edition series –...
by Roger Pinckney | Mar 25, 2020
Black magic, junk pistols and lessons learned thereby. Pappy was county coroner 36 years; an elected position. It didn’t pay much, but he got to keep all the murder and suicide guns, and he was the only man who could arrest the sheriff, which he did when the new...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Mar 18, 2020
A popular old saw suggests that a lady known as Good Fortune has the power to change someone’s life with but a well-directed smile. Taking that for true, she didn’t just show some teeth to a young Kenyan formally monikered John Henry Selby. Nope....
by Dwight Van Brunt | Feb 27, 2020
Although it makes me appear a bit long-in-the-tooth, I’ve been actively participating in the firearms market for nearly 40 years. In point of fact, I clearly remember attending my first gun show in March 1982 and being captivated by the process. I jumped right in,...
by Ron Spomer | Feb 25, 2020
The clean lines and simplicity of all functions in George Hoenig’s Rotary Round Action gun camouflage the creativity and elaborate engineering involved in its creation. Many premier side-by-side shotguns are sold as round actions, but rounded is the more...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jan 27, 2020
Extraordinary Makinson & Son .600 Nitro Express, 1,100 hours of engraving by Adone Pozzobon, serial 600, 900-grain, one of the finest double rifles extant. As is sometimes the case with unique and valuable firearms, a degree of speculation and unintended...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Dec 11, 2019
Robert K. Brown, USAR (Ret.) has lived a life of incredible adventure. He served in Vietnam as a Green Beret, trained troops and fought communists alongside them in hotspots around the globe and has defended the Second Amendment via his long-held seat on the NRA Board...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 11, 2019
Absent anything short of absolute certainty, each of these rifles stands among the world’s most important and valuable sporting arms. That they are paired presents an unequaled acquisition opportunity. Both rifles have a captivating history. According to Roger...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 4, 2019
Intense bidding drove many rare, historically important guns to prices well beyond pre-sale expectations on October 23rd where Morphy Auctions sold the widely acclaimed gun that fired the first shot at the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill for $492,000. The company’s...
