ALAIN LOVENBERG – MAÎTRE GRAVEUR
The Golden Age For centuries, Liège was the most important firearms forge in the world. Already since the 16th century, weapons were produced here for both mili...
Category: History – Geschichte
Companies - Firmen/Engraving - Gravur/Gunmaker - Büchsenmacher/History - Geschichte/Over and Under - Bockflinten/Wing Shooting - Flugwild Jagd
KRIEGHOFF “ULM” O/U Shotgun
The first Krieghoff was build in 1886. In that year Ludwig Krieghoff together with a partner founds the „Sempert & Krieghoff Gewehrfabrik“ (Sempert & Kr...
Citroën Sahara, the four-wheel-duck
From Auto Motor Sport 1961 This is such a wonderful article of late car Guru Fritz B. Busch in German Car Magazin Auto Motor Sport: Source: https://www.auto-mo...
Falling Block Rifles/Gunmaker - Büchsenmacher/History - Geschichte/hunting/Hunting Culture - Jagdkultur/Hunting Gear - Jagdausrüstung/Jagd/Rifles - Büchsen/Shooting - Schiessen/Uncategorized
HORATIO ROSS & THE QUEEN OF THE FOREST
by Miles Gilbert & James Donohue Horatio Ross was born at Rossie Castle, Forfarshire near Montrose about 35 miles northeast of Dundee, Scotland on September...
Gunmaker - Büchsenmacher/History - Geschichte/Hunting Culture - Jagdkultur/Jagd/jagen/Shooting - Schiessen/Technics - Technik/Uncategorized/Wing Shooting - Flugwild Jagd
THINK BIG – A J.&W. TOLLEY 4-BORE
In earlier times, when it comes to waterfowling, only seize counted. Shooting geese and ducks was not a sport, but hard work, very often to earn one’s liv...
Ammunition - Munition/Gunmaker - Büchsenmacher/History - Geschichte/shooting/Shooting - Schiessen/Side by Side - Doppelflinten/Underlever Rifles/Wing Shooting - Flugwild Jagd
A HOLLAND & HOLLAND 8-BORE HAMMER GUN
This Holland & Holland is a nice example of a waterfowl gun from the 19th century. The 8-Bore Underlever Hammer Gun looks mighty but elegant. Made in 1882, ...
Ammunition - Munition/Combination Guns - Kombinierte Waffen/History - Geschichte/hunting/Jagd/Optics - Optik
A HEYM BOCKBÜCHSFLINTE
My First Gun This is a personal story of a Heym Combination Gun in Cal. 7×75 RSE vom Hofe and 16/70, some 45 years ago. It was my very first own gun as a h...
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A. CORDY & FILS, LIEGE
If you talk about Best Belgian Guns, you should not forget A. Cordy. It was a family of gunmakers and they certainly made some of the finest guns in Liège. A s...
Ammunition - Munition/Black powder rifles/Gunmaker - Büchsenmacher/History - Geschichte/Hunting Culture - Jagdkultur/Hunting Gear - Jagdausrüstung/Knives - Kalte Waffen/Muzzleloaders/North America/Rifles - Büchsen
CHARLES JONES, GUNMAKER TO H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT
By Miles Gilbert It is a short walk from Buckingham Palace to 26 St. James’ St., London, the address on the rib of the lovely percussion stalking rifle that is...
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WILLIAM MOORE & GREY GUNMAKERS, LONDON
The story of a famous London gunmaking brand, founded more than two hundred years ago and its rebirth in modern times. In 1808, gunmaker William Moore started...