Rifles I Have Carried for Twenty Years and Still Wouldn’t Trade for Anything Current
A rifle does not have to be new to be better. In fact, once you have carried the same…
20 Handguns I Would Add to the Collection if I Found Them in Good Condition
Some handguns are easy to buy new whenever you want one. Others are the kind you have to stumble…
Pistols That Are Worth More the Day After You Buy Them — If You Know Which Ones to Look For
I have watched it happen a dozen times at gun counters and in buddy-to-buddy trades. A guy walks in…
The Guns That Appreciate While They Sit in a Safe — and the Ones That Don’t and Why
Gun guys love to talk about “investment guns,” but the truth is simpler: most firearms are tools, and tools…
20 Lever-Actions That People Wrote Off as Old-Fashioned and Are Now Wishing They Had Kept
There was a stretch where lever-actions got treated like wall-hangers. Guys traded them off for the newest polymer wonder,…
The Guns I Would Buy in Pairs if I Found Them Priced the Way They Were a Decade Ago
There are guns I regret not buying when they were just ordinary used firearms. Back then, nobody treated every…
Pistols That Have Spent Decades in Working Holsters and Still Have Nothing to Apologize For
There’s a difference between a pistol that looks good in a foam-lined case and one that’s lived in a…
The Rifles That Hunters Who Have Been at This Longer Than Most People Have Been Alive Still Won’t Replace
Every fall there’s a guy at camp who shows up with the same rifle he’s carried since gas was…
20 Bolt-Actions That Hunters Are Quietly Refusing to Part With No Matter What They’re Offered
Every deer camp has at least one rifle that never gets “upgraded.” It might ride in the rack behind…
20 Guns I Would Take Into the Woods if I Could Only Bring What I Could Carry
If I could only bring what I could physically carry, I would stop thinking like a collector and start…