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July 2009 - Gift card email hoax, Joe Vorisek new book, Jim Whisker has three new ones, two more catlogs from India and a bunch of Belding & Mulls and Newton catalogs. More people buying Daisy catalogs thinking they are buying a set of real guns! Weird.
June 2009 - More books by Dr. Jim Whisker, the truth behind Herter's expansion plans of the 60s with Krupp American, Luger American and Ruhr American. Also announcement of the new website thanks to Virginia Carter, the consequences of too many email addresses visible in an email and Billie Bryant's diatribe. The interesting but poor copy of the Bannerman 1910. Vorisek's handgun names and people's names and much more!
May 2009 - A new book by Jim Whisker, also books by Ed Muderlak on Parker guns, the .410 ammunition bible by Greg Bickford, trick handling old catalogs and how to scan ephemera safely. The electric shotgun and loads of nifty new catalogs including some super Ithaca. Weird Rant about shooting bullets from cap guns and more...
April 2009 - Dr. Jim Whisker books on colonial Gunsmiths- four of them! Fish Stories, about glass balls and clay pigeons, interesting little percussion gun, what NASA needs to know, 1957 ethos, Aussie insults, parts suppliers, Rants & Raves of course and more.
March 2009 - More of Joe Vorisek's gun history research books. Answers for Berta Lledo's questions about the Big Bullet. Dexter Smith revealed. New Merwin Hulberts soon available, Vicker rifle question, Remington Rolling Block parts, rant not glossy enough!
February 2009 - Joe Vorisek's books, Bob Munden the fastest man alive, big bullet from the Turkish ship Ertugrul, Dexter Smith shotgun. Browning/Remington connection, Vickers, Misc.
January 2009 - Happy New Year! Happy, the car, Fred Reed, Joe Vorisek, Al Capone, Browning:Remington Shotgun connection
December 2008 - The economy, Holiday Cards for Servicemen and women, How to use your credit card on the internet, British Shoots and Shooting, Rancho Bellas Rocas, Bullet Casting, Deer Stands, more serial number links.
November 2008 - Cross-Indexing the website, Rants and Raves in perspective, 53 catalogs added to the growing inventory, lots of questions and pictures, The Shotgun that Dispatched the Snake, Serial Number/Date of Manufacture help, Box 3 of Original catalogs for sale and more...
October 2008 - Hurricane Ike, Gun Serial Numbers, Turkish naval ship Ertugrul, Zulu follow-up and more...
September 2008 - Henry Ford Museum, Al Raitano, New Books and Special thanks, Our local newspaper is usually a bit dry, Letters from Readers, pre-WWII Japanese shotguns, Snider Breech Loading .577 cartridge rifle, 220L gun in the photos is a "Zulu shotgun", Frank Troeh L.C. Smith Specialty Shotgun, Rants and Raves and more.
August 2008 - Telephone Calls from the Wilds (Dropping an A-Bomb on Mars Bluff, South Carolina, Ray Runpf-Wholesale Bookseller); New Books and Special Thanks to Lenders (Lots of new Greener's, Webleys, BSAs, more); Brit Soldiers in Afghanistan Get a Surprise; Letters from Readers (memories of Andy Palmer & Military Inn, Detroit); Rants and Raves.
July 2008 - Telephone Calls from the Wilds, New Books and Special Thanks to Lenders, Charleton Heston Gun Collection?, Provenance for Your Gun, Double Gun Classics Magazine, Original Publications for sale, Rants and Raves, Published Reviews of our Work, Miscellaneous
June 2008 - Telephone Calls from the Wilds, New Books and Special Thanks to Lenders, Police seeking information about military ammo, Provenance for Your Gun, Double Gun Classics Magazine, Original Publications for sale, Rants and Raves, Published Reviews of our Work, Miscellaneous
May 2008 - Telephone Calls from the Wilds, New Books and Special Thanks to Lenders, Police seeking information about military ammo, Lon Berg is looking for some books, Provenance for Your Gun, Double Gun Classics Magazine, Original Publications for sale, Rants and Raves, Published Reviews of our Work, Letters from Readers , Miscellaneous
April 2008 - Telephone Calls from the Wilds, New Books and Special Thanks to Lenders, Lysle Kilbourne and the 1960-62 Lyman letter from him, Short Chamber Shot Shells, Provenance for Your Gun, Double Gun Classics Magazine available in printed form, Original Publications for sale, Rants and Raves, Published Reviews of our Work, Pictures from Readers, Letters from Readers, Miscellaneous
March 2008 - Griffin & Howe research service for thousands of guns & Rifles sold by Von Lengerke & Detmold and Abercrombie & Fitch. "I'm much prettier than you" in Rants and Raves. Abby's Picture!
February 2008 - More Norwich, Connecticut gunmaker history - Bacon Mfg, Continental Arms, Hopkins & Allen, Merwin Hulbert/Hulbert Bros, Baty State Arms, Forehand Arms, WH Davenport, Rockwell-Marlin/ Marlin Fire Arms, and OF Mossberg relationship!
January 2008 - Calls from the Wilds, FBI - Forehand query, Manawa Knife, Abercrombie & Fitch/David Abercrombie/New York Sporting Goods/Von Lengerke & Delmold/Von Lengerke and Antoine relationship answered.
December 2007 - More cannon, Rants & Raves, Gun Magazine Reviews of us, William Moore Gunmaker, London/Cogswell & Harrison history. 6000 subscribers!
November 2007 - Missing Cannon, Moore gun, New Parker book, Norwich CT gun companies - Newton Rifle/Chas Newton, Kirkland Bros, Davis Arms, Davis Warner, Crescent Davis, Stevens Arms, relationships, Gun history
October 2007 - New Cross Index, Addall, interesting gun history
September 2007 - Advertising for fall
August 2007 - Dog Palace, Meadowbrook
July 2007 - Gilmore Museum, Paypal softens its anti-firearms position!
June 2007 - 5000 Subscribers!
May 2007 - More on the Ross
April 2007 - Buyer Beware - Ross, Gun Prices