Collectible Firearms for Serious Gun Collectors
Colt revolvers are always popular, whether they are antiques or modern guns, and in Rock Island Auction Company’s Sporting & Collector Auction they can...
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The Mink is Vosteed’s first fixed blade but, based on the attention to detail, you would think they have been making them for years....
Collectible Firearms for Serious Gun Collectors
When collectors think of Rock Island Auction Company, they think of the world-class pieces sold with close ties to some of history’s most famous...
Collectible Firearms for Serious Gun Collectors
The Texas Rangers, having fought Native Americans, Mexican guerillas, and lawlessness along the border and in cow towns and oil boomtowns across the Lone...
Collectible Firearms for Serious Gun Collectors
Developed a decade prior to the Gatling gun, the Mitrailleuse volley gun is an extraordinary piece of 19th-century arms technology that saw action on...
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Sharpshooters, marksmen or snipers, no matter the name, their era or the weapon, shooting – and hitting – military targets from a distance has...



































