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ASK THE GUN GUY ARCHIVES

UNDER CONSTRUCTION - additional archives to be added in the future

Q&A column by Jim Supica, as originally published in Shotgun News.

Click on the blue words to go to that group of Questions, Answers, & gun photos:

Most requested essay:  Confessions of an Unrepentant Accumulator - YOU may be a gun collector!

FALL 2000:

Featured Essay -- HOW TO SELL COLLECTOR FIREARMS

Other topics:

• W. Richards Shotguns

• Confederate Shotguns

• S&W Model 36 "Made in USA"

• Dag Blunderbus

• U.S. Revolver Co.

• Maltby Henley

• Merwin Hulbert Model Classifications

• Captain Jack spurtrigger revolver

• Remington 1875 Single Action Army value

• Hood Firearms - Robin Hood spurtrigger revolver

• Stolen guns

• Double barrel muzzle loading shotguns

• Double barrel Garrucha pistols

• Japanese Arisaka rifle values.

EARLY 2001

Featured essay - Asian students ask:  WHAT'S the DEAL with AMERICANS & GUNS? 

Other topics:

• Authenticating Confederate firearms

• Identifying Colt percussion Dragoons vs. Baby Dragoons vs. 1849 Pocket Models

• Do manufacturer errors add value?

• Researching historic firearms - Wild Bill's Colt Navy

• Stun guns for personal protection?

• Powder horn values

• Dug-up rusty relics

• Early Marlin revolvers

• What's the earliest semi-auto pistol?

SPRING 2001

Featured essay:  HANG TOGETHER OR HANG SEPARATELY - Gun collector snobbery

other topics:

• Early Wm. Moore shotgun, & how to document a gun's history

• Golcher muzzleloader, and researching early American arms

• "Wells Fargo" model Colt 1849 Pocket

• Original percussion Derringers

• Colt .22 rifles

• Animal trap guns

SUMMER 2001

Featured essay:  SELLING COLLECTOR AMMUNITION

Other topics:

• Forehand & Wadsworth revolvers

• Marlin & Ballard single shot

• Inscribed S&W

• Cut barrel hogleg -- effect on value?

EARLY FALL 2001

Featured essay: NEW DEAL AT S&W! - return to American ownership vs. HUD agreement

Other topics:

• Martial Remington & general cartridge conversion revolver info

• Legal concealed carry of "antique" firearms?

• Remington Model 35 semi-auto rifle

• .41 Rimfire Robin Hood spurtrigger revolver

• Guns of the Pony Express ("15-shooter")

• Winchester High Wall & Low Wall single shot rifles

• Lewis & Clark air rifle

• Buying guns at auction

• Wells Fargo shotgun & legality of pre-1898 sawed-off shotguns