“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...
Great Guns in the Panhandle
What was once the vast, empty, grassy plains country of West Texas is now the quiet little town of Canyon and the home to the Panhandle-Plains...
John Wayne’s Six-Gun Clone
Arguably, the most iconic firearm of the silver screen West is the Peacemaker Colt, with the mellow ivory-looking stocks, so often carried by John...
The Sharpshooter’s Choice
“Aim at a high mark” was the motto adopted (even copyrighted) by the legendary female sharpshooter Annie Oakley, reflecting her lifelong quest for...