When it comes to silver screen legends, few are as beloved as cowboy heroes Hopalong Cassidy and the Lone Ranger. These celluloid range riders have...
A Silver Screen Peacemaker Set
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Firearms
John Wayne and the Peacemaker
On film, John Wayne often portrayed the Westerner of popular legend—tall in the saddle, silent, a man whose word was his bond, perhaps sometimes...
Hardin’s Hardware
Texas shootist John Wesley Hardin had a career that spanned three decades (minus 16 years in prison). Texas shootist John Wesley Hardin had a career...
Winchester ’73 —Take Two
In the world of movie making, duplication of important props, such as the firearms of principle characters, is a common practice. This is done so...
Frontier Army’s First Pick
Many think of the Schofield as the first of the frontier army’s top-break revolvers. In reality, the model was nothing more than an improved version...
Bisley Bops the Bull’s-Eye
The sleek-looking Colt Bisley revolver traces its beginnings to the closing decades of the 19th century, when the sport of target shooting was...
Appearances Deceive
In John Wayne’s last film, The Shootist, he uses a pair of blued and fully engraved single-action revolvers fitted with ivory stocks. A beautiful...
Out-pumped
By the early 1880s, Colt was the undisputed leader in the handgun field. Wishing to capture some of the rifle market, however, Colt acquired the...
Hollywood’s “5-in-1” Movie Blank
A “5-in-1” is a blank cartridge, originally designed in the early days of motion pictures, for use in a number of similar, but differently chambered...
Saddle Pals
Western fans know that every movie cowboy worth his hide had a trusty, four-legged saddle pal to help him tame the “reel West.” Roy Rogers rode...
Shoulder Holsters
While we often think of the shoulder holster as a product of the gangster era of the 1920-30s, the rig was actually a creation of the gun toters of...
The ’92 Reel West Winchester
Although the 1873 Winchester is often called “the gun that won the West,” no one can deny that it was the 1892 Model that became “the gun that won...