Nobody NEEDS any of these, and my chances of getting any range from possible to slim to no way on earth, but as an over- the- top wish list… From Aero Art, who do remarkable military miniatures (I have a Mongol drummer on a Bactrian camel and a Mogul warrior with a monitor lizard), comes …
Tag: Double Guns
Annie Oakley’s Parker
Tim Gallagher at Living Bird just sent me this note on the sale of Annie Oakley’s 16 gauge Parker hammergun. As you can see it is a nice little gun– but for $293,000, you could damn near buy my village, let alone house!
New Darnes!
Jacques Bollelli has revived the nearly dead Darne company, and is planning to make a few very high grade guns. Although these are beyond my reach I am delighted to see the old design going into its third century with renewed vision and originality. Jacques writes:”As you know we are starting to reorganize the team …
Gun Teaser
As I continue to work the Rubik’s Cube, seeking affordable perfection. More to come… You may try to guess the maker…
Appleby
Reader Darrell Mason brought this link on the Raven Gun and its history with the Tower of London to my attention. In the 80s I corresponded quite a bit with Malcolm Appleby, who engraves a lot of things, not just guns. At the time he was doing his series of magical “totem” guns for David …
Clapton’s Guns
Apparently Eric Clapton has commissioned and sold more guns than I have (and each and every one was probably worth more than my house). Many articles out there, a few by gunnies, some by folks horrified he would buy guns at all, some just concerned with auction prices. I assume we can all use Google, …
James Wentworth Day and big shoulder guns
Perhaps because I grew up on the New England coast, living a hunter- gatherer’s life and shooting magnum twelves and tens like my father before me, I have always been fascinated by England’s big bores– defined here as the gauges above ten that were made illegal when the first legislation to protect waterfowl from commercial …
Understandable Error, Matt!
I don’t know about a banana (see Matt’s comments below) but most Americans would see a double rifle from England, with its barrels arranged side by side, as a shotgun. We have not quite NEVER built a double rifle here but I would be surprised if we had built over 100 in the last century. …
A VERY light gun returns
Thanksgiving’s shoot made me realize regular shotguns may be beyond me, barring surgery, steroids, or scarier drugs. So from California and artist Tom Quinn, my old T Turner English boxlock is returning. Only .410 I could ever shoot- 4 pounds 8 ounces but FIFTEEN INCH stock. Compare to old Grant Pigeon 12 for scale. Again, …
Model 21
We used to have a Thanksgiving bird hunt every year when I lived in Massachusetts. My father was the one who started this tradition, though he sadly abandoned it under the self- inflicted burden of his work and company. I think this duck hunting image was from one of these hunts. Notice the Model 21 …