Guns of the Old West

There are few men of the Old West as legendary as Doc Holiday. John Henry Holliday, better known as Doc...

The Colt Paterson is where the American revolver story really begins. Patented in 1836 and built by the Patent Arms...

A pair of aces and a pair of eights – the Dead Man’s Hand, made famous by a true legend...

The fight had begun almost instinctively. An image from a wanted poster flashed through the Sheriff’s mind as he saw...

The modern firearm market is full of guns that are the product of military trials. The government decides they want...

Sam Colt may have created the 1851 Navy, but Wild Bill Hickok made the .36 caliber Colt pistols immortal. Indeed,...

A man made headlines recently when he stopped a 250-pound black bear with his Uberti 1866 Yellowboy in .45 Long...

If I’ve written it once, I have written it a thousand times: Oliver Winchester was not originally in the gun...

The Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, exhibits a remarkable collection of famous Western firearms. This includes a cased pair...

One of my favorite black powder pistols is extraordinarily difficult to shoot. In fact, it is often difficult to hit...