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Aged Beauties

Handling an antique, iron gray firearm stimulates thoughts and images of a long lost time.

Category Shooting from the Hip Author Phil Spangenberger Date 11/03/2009
Famed Forty-Fours Shoot Again

Until 1900, one out of every four Colt’s Single Action Army (SAA) revolvers was produced in .44-40 caliber.

Category Shooting from the Hip Author Phil Spangenberger Date 09/25/2009
Vaquero Firepower

During Mexico’s Revolution of 1910, the rebel forces fought for their freedom.

Category Shooting from the Hip Author Phil Spangenberger Date 08/25/2009
The Non-British “English” Sharps

Often referred to as the “English Model,” the 1877 Sharps was the last of the company’s sidehammer rifles.

Category Shooting from the Hip Author Phil Spangenberger Date 08/01/2009
Movie Magic Muzzleloaders

In the heat of battle, the buckskin-clad Alamo defender raises his flintlock muzzleloading musket...

Category Shooting from the Hip Author Phil Spangenberger Date 06/01/2009
Good As Gold
Back in 1873, when Colt first introduced the Peacemaker, it sold for a whopping $17.50!
Category Shooting from the Hip Author Phil Spangenberger Date 05/01/2009
The Rifleman’s Rifle Returns

Armed only with a Winchester rifle, a lone, lanky figure walks resolutely down a dusty frontier street. 

 
Category Shooting from the Hip Author Phil Spangenberger Date 04/01/2009
The Most Famous Rifle of the Old West

Thanks largely to its use on the American frontier, the slab-sided 1873 Winchester lever-action rifle has become an icon of the Wild West.

Category Shooting from the Hip Author Phil Spangenberger Date 03/01/2009
The Firearms Legacy of Will Hoffeld

Back in the good ol' days of the 1960s and '70s, I frequented a magical, little shop in Los Angeles, California, called the Eagle's Nest.

Category Shooting from the Hip Author Phil Spangenberger Date 02/01/2009
Bianchi Celebrates
As his 50th anniversary in the gunleather business comes to a close, we honor the man and some of his top holster making credits.
Category Shooting from the Hip Author Phil Spangenberger Date 01/01/2009