During Mexico’s Revolution of 1910, the rebel forces fought for their freedom with a vast variety of firearms that ran the gamut from blackpowder...
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Firearms
The Non-British “English” Sharps
Often referred to as the “English Model,” the 1877 Sharps was the last of the company’s sidehammer rifles and is considered by many as perhaps the...
Movie Magic Muzzleloaders
In the heat of battle, the buckskin-clad Alamo defender raises his flintlock muzzleloading musket, takes quick aim at the oncoming Mexican soldados...
Good As Gold
Back in 1873, when Colt first introduced the Peacemaker, it sold for a whopping $17.50! That was nearly a month’s wages for a laborer. You could...
The Rifleman’s Rifle Returns
Armed only with a Winchester rifle, a lone, lanky figure walks resolutely down a dusty frontier street. Suddenly, with almost machine gun-like...
The Most Famous Rifle of the Old West
Thanks largely to its use on the American frontier, the slab-sided 1873 Winchester lever-action rifle has become an icon of the Wild West. The 1873...
The Firearms Legacy of Will Hoffeld
Back in the good ol’ days of the 1960s and ’70s, I frequented a magical, little shop in Los Angeles, California, called the Eagle’s Nest. Stuffed...
Bianchi Celebrates
It was 1958. TV Westerns reigned as king of the small screen, with programs debuting such as The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca, Lawman and MacKenzie’s...
Sheriff’s Sale
“Quien es?” asked the lone figure standing in the dim-lit doorway. Instantly, two shots rang out from a darkened room, ending the life of one of the...
Birth of a Breed
The day before the fall of the Alamo, in which Santa Anna and his soldiers crushed the rebellion in Texas, Samuel Colt formed the Patent Arms Mfg....
The Frontiersman’s Mexican Loop Holster
"Before leaving the train, I had prudently strapped to my waist a new (how distressingly new) Colt’s six-shooter, that looked and felt a yard long...
Here Comes the Cavalry
Boots and saddle troopers, did you know that several firearms companies are producing replicas of the 1873 cavalry Peacemaker? Military Colt copies...