Holland & Holland Adds Color
If any gun epitomizes the sumptuous shotgun, it’s one made by Holland & Holland. No best maker has created more lavish doubles than the...
The Spanish Revival
The Spanish gun trade rises again Anyone who has chased upland birds for more than a couple of seasons knows boom and bust. One...
Krieghoff Creates ‘The Perfect Memory’
Since the 1990s, Krieghoff has been creating specially finished “Guns of the Year” to showcase its brand. In 2020 the German company chose Austrian-based...
Full-Circle Partridge
A Saskatchewan foray for Huns & sharptails The writer had grown old. But a last gasp before the sedentary life of pipe and book...
Bird Names to Change
This past fall the American Ornithological Society announced it will change the English names of all bird species named for people, beginning with 70...
Ugartechea Relaunches
Ugartechea is back! Aficionados of fine Spanish firearms may recall that in the September/October 2015 issue we announced that “Armas Ugartechea, founded in Eibar,...
Purdey’s Anniversary Quail Guns
James Purdey & Sons will toast its 210th anniversary this year by unveiling a bevy of 10 celebratory 28-bores. The limited-edition set will be...
Rigby’s New Objet d’Art Collection
John Rigby & Co. has always possessed a certain je ne sais quoi when it comes to style. Beginning in the flintlock era with...
Beretta 486 Parallelo El Tartarugato
Is the round-bodied side-by-side the slimmest, sexiest gun ever built? First introduced by John Robertson in the 1890s and, according to author Donald Dallas,...
Holland & Holland’s Clothing & Accessories Collection
Back when Chanel acquired Holland & Holland, some of the London gunmaker’s more conservative clientele viewed the company’s clothing designs as more appropriate to...
Fausti Classico WLM Hammergun
Italian hammerguns are rare, since the Val Trompia’s fine-gun trade didn’t fully evolve until after the development of the hammerless design. But one maker...
Purdey’s New Blades
Guns and knives have a long history. James Purdey and James Wilkinson were once rival gunmakers in Regency London, and both eventually earned royal...