JUST TROPHIES !?
Trophies are not the most important thing with hunting, but of course they play a significant role as memorabilia for most hunters. I collected some pictures of...
Category: History – Geschichte
Engraving - Gravur/Gunmaker - Büchsenmacher/History - Geschichte/Literature/Rifles - Büchsen/Uncategorized/Underlever Rifles
SIEVERT NIELSEN FROM ZANE GREY
by Miles Gilbert SIEVERT NIELSEN FROM ZANE GREY That was the inscription on a ‘95 Winchester carbine held by Tommy Hunt when I met him near Parks, Arizona on th...
A VINTAGE HUNTER
I saw this nice vintage photograph yesterday when I visited Gunmaker Theo Jung and he was so kind to leave it to me. Many thanks! I love these old pictures in t...
Companies - Firmen/Gunmaker - Büchsenmacher/History - Geschichte/Side by Side - Doppelflinten/Technics - Technik
3 DOORS FROM PICCADILLY
A rare Hammergun of London Gunmaker William Moore & Grey. The gun is a 16 bore using the Grey patent. At the first glance it looks like a Pinfire Gun, but t...
BRIAN NICHOLSON – LAST OF OLD AFRICA
Good news for German readers: The tales of one of the last famous hunters in Old Africa, Brian Nicholson, are published by Neumann-Neudamm Verlag. Originally it...
THE HUNTING MUSEUM OF FINLAND
High up in the North, you will find one of the last wilderness of Europe: Finland. Since the last Ice Age the landscape has not changed much . Most of the 5 mil...
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WESTLEY RICHARDS – OR NOT?
Picture above: Andrew Maloch and Charles Smith both obtained whole guns, or very nearly so from WR. WHO MADE THIS WESTLEY RICHARDS? OR, WHO MADE THIS, WESTLEY R...
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THE “RUSSIAN PURDEY”
By Aleksey Morozow Not many people in the West know of it’s existence – a best gun made completly in Russia by master craftsmen: The Russian Purdey,...
Gunmaker - Büchsenmacher/History - Geschichte/Side by Side - Doppelflinten/Uncategorized/Wing Shooting - Flugwild Jagd
JULES BURY – LIÈGE BEST GUNMAKER
One of the better known makers of Belgian Guns during the “Golden Age” of Liège was Jules Bury, arquebusier in Liège passage Lemonnier, 11. He was ...
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TOY FOR A BOY – DREYSE TESCHING from 1894
Probably there was a lucky boy at the end of the 19th century who got this nice little single shot rifle made by a famous German gunmaker in Sömmerda as a prese...