Garbi Releases the Titanium Arrow
Since 1959 Armas Garbi of Eibar, Spain, has built fine shotguns that aspire to the ideals of the London gun trade. Now the firm...
Beretta’s Double Single Trigger
Bird hunters have long had multiple choices when selecting a method of discharging a shotgun. For 200 years, twin triggers were the bee’s knees...
Westley Richards’ ‘Falcon’ Gun
When the early 21st Century history of opulently ornamented firearms is written, the past 12 months will undoubtedly be described as the year of...
Purdey-Woodward Over & Under
The most sizeable shift in shotguns during the past 75 years has been the switch from side-by-sides to stack-barrels. One of the most influential...
Primos’ Purdeys to be Auctioned
Most gun nuts are familiar with the immutable stations on the collecting path: fascination, accumulation, obsession and ultimately the realization that you can't take...
Piotti Releases the Round
The Scottish round-action is the most elegant of guns. As a 1935 John Dickson & Son's catalog boasted: “The design is unique, having neither...
Beretta’s Marco Polo Gun
Rich collectors are hoovering up luxury “one off” shotguns. From the long-established Holland & Holland “Products of Excellence” to the relatively recent Krieghoff “Gun...
Smitten by Snipe
The year that The Beatles released their first LP, two schoolboys—one shotgun between them—walked a Northumbrian ditch bank. Suddenly a long-billed little bird sprang...
Sportarm Revives H.J. Hussey Guns
The catalog of revived British gunmakers is stocked with illustrious names, including Lancaster, Greener, Churchill, and Atkin Grant & Lang. Now H.J. Hussey has...
Rigby’s Bespoke Shooting Brake
The shooting brake—roughly defined as a vehicle conceived to take gentlemen and ladies on the hunt with their firearms and dogs—has taken a sharp...
Beretta Adds 688 for New Shooters
Like so many of the Baby Boomer generation, my initiation into the wonderful world of shotgunning was with a .410. The caliber was inadequate,...
Westley Richards’ Horsey Brace
When we think of Westley Richards, the “boxlock” and the “droplock” naturally spring to mind; but the famed Birmingham firearms maker has built guns...