Guns

Sporting Scene
Restoring Classic Side-by-Sides
A North Carolinian readies vintage guns for new days in the field

Made in the South
Rifles with a Davy Crockett Pedigree
A Tennessee gunmaker
reproduces a powder rifle with
serious history

Sporting
Tour the Ultimate Shotgun Collection
A trove of classic doubles brings America’s golden age of shotguns to life

Sporting
Thomasville Doubles
A new shotgun series inspired by the Southern quail woods

Guns
Pretty Sight
A British-Italian collaboration yields an exceptionally agile bird gun

Books
Celebrating 500 Years of Beretta
A new book of photographs and essays tells the story of the family-owned Italian company’s passion for sporting tradition

Guns
Sure Shots: Eight Great Gun Shops
Eight of the best shops in the South and beyond for the bird-gun enthusiast

Guns
The Rebirth of the Sweet Sixteen
Long a favorite among Southern hunters, a classic shotgun returns to the field

Sporting
The House of Beretta
For half a millennium, in a small valley in Italy, one family has been producing some of the finest guns in the world

Arts & Culture
One of the Country’s Finest Gun Engravers
A closer look at the craftsmanship of one of Lisa Tomlin

Sporting
Ernest Hemingway’s Guns
Excerpts and photos from the book Hemingway’s Guns: The Sporting Arms of Ernest Hemingway, by Silvio Calabi, Steve Helsley, and Roger Sanger

Collections
True Patriots
Virginia collector Michael Tuccori’s eighteenth-century Kentucky rifles are studies in American history

Sporting Scene
A Gun for the Ages
On the hunt for a very famous Greener