welcome to today photo of the Day! Here we have one of the true holy grails of American gun collecting. This is a Winchester Model 1876 “One of a Thousand” a rifle that sits in the same rarefied air as the Colt Walker. Here grade means. Winchester tested the rifles in batches and set aside
Welcome to today’s program photo of the Day! Here we have Smith and Wesson trying to crash the party that Ruger has been hosting for years. This is the Model 422, S&W’s budget .22 plinker, and both are first-year guns from 1987. By the mid-1980s the affordable rimfire pistol market was dominated by the Ruger
welcome to today photo of the Day! Here we have a carbine that was used in the most studied battle in American history. This is a Springfield Model 1873 Trapdoor Carbine in .45-70, and it comes in the serial range issued to the 7th Cavalry. In other words, it is the type of gun that
welcome to today photo of the Day! Here we have a gun that became famous twenty years after its death. This is the Ruger PC4, and if it sounds familiar, that’s because the PC Carbine is another reworking of Ruger’s extremely popular takedown PC of recent years. Almost no one remembers the first time it
Welcome to today’s program photo of the Day! Here we have something that most people don’t imagine when they hear “Old West Colt.” It’s a Colt Model 1878, a side-by-side hammer shotgun, and yes, the same Hartford company famous for the Peacemaker also spent nearly a decade making high-end double guns. The Model 1878 ran
welcome to today photo of the Day! Here we have the rifle that started Remington’s entire bolt-action hunting empire, and it started life as war surplus. This is the Remington Model 30 Express, and its roots go straight back to World War I. When the US could not produce enough 1903 Springfields, it instead adopted
Welcome to today’s program photo of the Day! Here we have a strange gun from the Civil War, with a sad story behind it. This is the Lindsay Model 1863, commonly known as the Lindsay Two-Shot. Former Springfield Armory man John P. Lindsey built it on an old and troublesome idea, the superposed load. You
welcome to today photo of the Day! Here we have a high-end trap gun from a company that has made its name giving the working man a gun worth more than its worth. This is an Ithaca New Ithaca double, NID in grade 5. Ithaca began in 1880 in a water-powered shop on a valley
welcome to today photo of the Day! Here we have a .22 silencer in disguise. This is the ARA Mag-2C, built by Applied Research Associates around an aluminum tube that is basically a Maglite flashlight body. As the name suggests: “Mag” for Maglite, “2C” for two-cell C-shaped light. Inside that innocent-looking tube is an expansion
welcome to today photo of the Day! Here we have a tiny 9mm with a big backstory. This is Detonics Pocket 9, and to get it you have to get Detonics. The company was founded around 1976 in Seattle by a couple of explosives engineers, Pat Yates and Sid Woodcock, along with money man Chuck