The Old West may have been gone by the early 1900s, but the West was still a place where a man needed to be “well heeled.” It was the era of the...
Colt’s Last Wild West Six-Gun
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Phil Spangenberger
Scattergun Sidekicks Reunite
As the stagecoach gently rumbled through the soft dirt, I cradled my sawed-off scattergun, ready for trouble. A shot suddenly rang out from behind...
Guns with True Grit
If not for replica firearms, we’d still be watching movies where the actors shoot it out with 1892 Winchesters and 1873 Colt revolvers—regardless of...
Now Playing: Hollywood Guns
“Why, by God girl, that’s a Colt’s Dragoon,” uttered by none other than John Wayne in 1969's True Grit. These words, uttered by none other than John...
Cutting Through the Smoke
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning!” These were the words of Robert Duvall’s character, Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, in the classic 1979 film...
A Giant of a Gun
Teddy Roosevelt packed one of his 1876 Winchesters through a true Wild West adventure. During his stint as a rancher in the Dakota Badlands in the...
A New-Old Needle Gun
A long slender firing pin inspired the nickname “needle gun” for a custom, sporterized Springfield trapdoor rifle that was a popular single shot on...
Uberti’s Wild West
Benelli USA wanted the characters, location and props in its latest Uberti ads, online catalog and videos to have an authentic Old West look and...
A Cowboy Classic is Created
Did you know that the world’s best-known “cowboy six-shooter,” the 1873 Colt Single Action Army (SAA), started its career as a military sidearm,...
A Cowboy Classic is Created
Did you know that the world’s best-known “cowboy six-shooter,” the 1873 Colt Single Action Army (SAA), started its career as a military sidearm,...
Stay on Target When Collecting Gun Shots
How many times have you looked at an antique photo and thought, “If this old photo could only talk?” Well, they do, in a way. As a collector of...
The Mouse that Roared
If any single gun had an impact on the history of the West, it was the palm-sized Deringer pistol that John Wilkes Booth used in 1865 to assassinate...