This Old Ithaca
Embodying a history of family, friendships and choices This began as a drawn-out conversation about refurbishing an heirloom shotgun, and then it swerved sideways...
Silvio Calabi has been a widely traveled journalist, author, editor and publishing executive for more than 45 years. He's been sharing his expert knowledge of fine guns, wingshooting, driven game and safaris with <em>Shooting Sportsman</em> since 1993, now as an Editor at Large. He is the author of many books, the latest of which is the second edition of <em>Hemingway’s Guns</em>. Silvio is a Knight of the International Order of St. Hubertus as well as a member of Safari Club International and the International and New England Motor Press Associations.
Embodying a history of family, friendships and choices This began as a drawn-out conversation about refurbishing an heirloom shotgun, and then it swerved sideways...
Elizabeth is the work of Paul Potratz and his team at Helderburg, LLC.
In 1919 in India, where peasants and oxcarts vastly outnumbered princes and motorcars, this bespoke Rolls-Royce must have appeared like the chariot of a god.
A century on, a new gun meets—and makes—gunmaking history.
Celebrating a gunmaking milestone.
Last November Carl Russell reached two major milestones: the age of 40 and his first new gun. No, he did not get a gun for his birthday; he completed one and delivered it to a client.
Henry Atkin 12-bore No. 768 was rebuilt by English gunmaker Carl Russell & Co. before it was reunited with its two siblings.
Avedon & Colby’s Signature Field Shirt has, by my count, 19 distinct high-tech features, eight of which appear to be unique to this garment.
Ruinously expensive, almost preposterously élitist, leading to giddy highs and suicidal lows, driven-grouse shooting is one of those sporting challenges that exceeds.
High-end gunrooms don’t open every day—in Great Britain or the US—so the debut of Carl Russell & Co. Gunmakers is news.
In Rock Island, Illinois, with paddle in hand.