Publication/Issue: Guns of the Old West

David Livingston has been a friend and fellow Fast Draw shooter for many years. He is a former chairman of ...

Sam Colt may have created the 1851 Navy, but Wild Bill Hickok made the .36 caliber Colt pistols immortal. Indeed, ...

There’s no point in prolonging it, or holding off till the end, I’ll just come right out and admit it ...

Winchester is paying homage to America’s greatest achievement of the 19th century: the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad on May ...

Released in 2017, Hostiles is a Western film written and directed by Scott Cooper. The story is set in 1892 ...

In an era when the average man had one shot from a fowler or musket, maybe two with a swivel barrel, ...

As far back as the 1850s, Colt began offering silver plating and gold-washed cylinders, hammers and triggers as options on its ...

One of my favorite Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS) games is the Wild Bunch match. Introduced a number of years ago ...

The second most-issued percussion revolver during the Civil War has become known as the Remington Model 1858. This designation is somewhat ...

The Colt 1871-72 Open Top was new, innovative and virtually obsolete the day it was introduced! In Colt’s haste to ...

The Mare's Leg concept is far from new, so I won’t repeat the much-told story of Josh Randall, the lone bounty ...

"Godless" is a seven-part Netflix miniseries written and directed by Scott Frank and produced by Steven Soderbergh. The story centers ...

Bill inwardly smiled at the hand he was being dealt. He already had two pairs: aces and eights. Things were ...

Double-action cartridge revolvers had a somewhat unremarkable beginning in the American West. This was mostly due to the Civil War. ...

"The Son" is a new TV series that debuted recently on AMC, beginning in April 2017. It is based on a ...

Great Britain’s role in America’s early history has been one of both adversary and ally. From the fight for our ...

The Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, exhibits a remarkable collection of famous Western firearms. This includes a cased pair ...

One of the most useful and versatile guns in the Old West was the side-by-side double-barreled shotgun. It usually had a ...

It began with a patent, an unbreakable patent belonging to Samuel Colt since 1835 that kept E. Remington & Sons ...

Truth be told, the shotgun was the versatile weapon that helped tame the wild West. Countless shotguns were carried by ...