Engraved and Gold Inlaid Mauser G33/40

Engraved and Gold Inlaid Mauser G33/40

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I don’t know what your taste in rifles is, but I’m a bolt action sporting rifle aficionado with a penchant for the controlled feed Winchester Model 70’s and sporters based on the legendary Mauser 98. I…

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Hollis Bentley & Playfair .375 Flanged Magnum Double Rifle

Hollis Bentley & Playfair .375 Flanged Magnum Double Rifle

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Prestige gunmaker Hollis Bentley & Playfair was established in 1911 by the joining together of Hollis with Bentley & Playfair which had both been formed during the early-mid 1800’s. Hollis Bentley & Playfair had a retail…

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Lebedev PL-15

Lebedev PL-15

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Back in the days when I was involved in competitive pistol shooting I was shooting with a Walther OSP for the Olympic Rapid Fire match, a Walther GSP for the Standard Pistol Match, and a Vostock…

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Beretta SS06 Over-Under Double Rifle and Shotgun with Three Barrels

Beretta SS06 Over-Under Double Rifle and Shotgun with Three Barrels

If considering the perfect gun for the “World wide one gun hunter” then most of us think about a rifle chambered for a common “all around” cartridge that meets legal minimum caliber requirements everywhere we intend…

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Ford Car Hauler

Ford Car Hauler

Whether you are going to a car auction to pick up something interesting, or have just bought something from “Bring A Trailer“, or have a competition car you need to transport to the track, you need…

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Holland & Holland Royal Double Rifle .577 Nitro Express

Holland & Holland Royal Double Rifle .577 Nitro Express

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American author Ernest Hemingway owned and used a .577 Nitro Express double rifle, and the caliber was popular as an emergency stopper of dangerous game, especially noted as a charge stopper. There is little difference between…

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Douglas 596cc Aero

Douglas 596cc Aero

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Those who are aficionados of the BMW R Series motorcycles may not realize that the horizontally opposed Boxer engine of the R Series was first created when a BMW engineer named Max Fritz reverse engineered a British…

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Stutz Speedway Four Roadster

Stutz Speedway Four Roadster

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Although we tend to associate twin cam engines with double valves (i.e. four valves per cylinder) with the late twentieth century and the present day in fact this level of sophistication dates all the way back…

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Porsche 911 Turbo ‘Slantnose’ Cabriolet

Porsche 911 Turbo ‘Slantnose’ Cabriolet

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Porsche’s 935 was the racing version of what was then the fastest accelerating road car. Predictably there were those who wanted a 935 to drive on the road and one of those people was racing sponsor…

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Colt Trooper

Colt Trooper

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When Colt ceased production of their double-action revolvers back in 1999 there was much wailing and gnashing of the teeth amongst the Colt aficionados. It remained possible to get a Colt Python made to special order…

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