Two open-top and solid-frame designs reigned supreme in the age of percussion revolvers, and each type had its advantages and drawbacks. ...
My Top Ten Favorite Movie Moments
True West’s Firearms Editor applauds authenticity. Western movies are made for entertainment, and we must consider them strictly as such, and not as...
Best of the West 2022: Firearms
Old West Classics Remain Popular Timeless frontier six-guns, rifles and scatterguns lead the list for this year’s top guns. While the...
Mr. Authenticity
Many fans of Westerns, especially the True West maniacs, are guilty of picking them apart for the anachronisms all too often found in such...
Own a Gunfighter’s Favorite!
Thanks to replicas, you can have a spitting-image, working copy of some of the Old West’s most colorful shootists’ famous guns. Talk about...
Arrows: Pointed Death
The Indians’ ammunition grew on trees. An arrow, the deadly projectile propelled from a bow, could arguably be called the Indians’ “bullet.”...
The 1841 “Mississippi” Rifle
This handsomely rugged 1840s muzzleloader was prized by frontiersmen and military riflemen alike and helped phase out the smoothbore musket. ...
Top 12 Guns that Tamed the Wild West
True West considers these the most significant workhorses of the frontier. “The Gun That Won the West!” “Which gun was that?” you may ask,...
Quigley’s Sharps – Cinema’s Most Famous Gun?
Among the most recognizable silver screen firearms, this Shiloh rifle has earned “star” status in its own right. John Wayne’s...
Cowboy Guns for Self Defense?
There’s no reason you can’t use your Old West replica firearm to protect home and family. Replica Old West metallic cartridge firearms are made to...
The Best of the West: Firearms
What a helluva year 2020 was! While the past 12 months will be remembered in largely negative terms, there have been a handful of firearms...
Cap & Ball Six-Guns: A Smoke-Filled Adventure
Firearms fans are finding old-timey black powder revolver replicas offer a “time travel” shooting experience.