2001

COLLECTING REMINGTON CONVERSION REVOLVERS   

THE BULLET CROSSBOW    by David I.H. Johnstone
"Oh for a stone bow, to hit him in the eye!" Shakespeare: Twelfth Night. With these words Sir Toby Belch uses an alternative name for the bullet crossbow, which has also been called the "pellet crossbow" or prod", the latter an old English name.

REMINGTON RIFLES FOR TEXAS    by Ed Hull
A prominent Remington collector, and director of The Remington Society of America writes, "The militia, re-established by the State of Texas in 1870, had an obvious need for arms...and how Remington rifles came to be issued..."

Presenting a Selection FROM MY COLLECTION    by J.D. Hofer
A noted Remington collector gives a brief account of his years of collecting guns, and presents a pictorial of some of the guns from his collection.

REMINGTON MODEL OF 1875 REVOLVER - a deadly serial No.1   
by Robert W. Pryor
Finding a serial number 1 gun at a gun show is always exciting, but to discover that the gun has some notoriety...Wow!!

Anecdotes Told of OLD FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS...    by David W. Lumbert
A frequent contributor to "The Collector" relates some tales of the American West.

JENKS' CARBINES AND US M1841 MISSISSIPPI RIFLES    by Holman J. Swinney
Remington's first production arms - a brief history.

GEORGE C. McWHORTER'S GOLD MOUNTED GEORGIA MADE RIFLE    by Frank Graves
An interesting story of an early percussion rifle made in Georgia.

A GALLERY OF REMINGTON .22 BOLT ACTION RIFLES
A pictorial presentation by Roy Marcot from the collection of John Gyde.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF A UNION SOLDIER    by Jim Hopkins
Research into the past ownership of a Remington-Beals Navy Model leads the author to the interesting story of a humble Union soldier who suffered two amputations on the same arm, met with President Lincoln and received his first government pension check posthumously.

* A CIVIL WAR HENRY RIFLE    by Tom Seymour
The author traces the owner of the Henry rifle whose name is inscribed on the receiver.

* PVT. UNROE'S CONFEDERATE KERR REVOLVER   
by Mark R. Annaballi
The London Armoury Company Kerr revolvers and the story of one that was issued to a Confederate soldier.

FROM THE COLLECTION OF... Joe Musso
A colorful pictorial of some of the guns, knives and other historical artifacts from the extensive collection of the well known artist, historian and collector from California.

PERCUSSION CAPS AND PRIMER TINS     by Dick Salzer
In this short piece the author gives a brief outline of the history of percussion caps, a primer on primers as it were.

* SOME GUNS HAVE ALL THE LUCK    by Max McD. Laucke
An episode in the life of a Colt 1851 Navy revolver on the construction of the Overland Telegraph Line From Adelaide, South Australia to Darwin in the Northern Territory.

THE COPPER QUEEN CONSOLIDATED MINING COMPANY and One of its Guns     by David W. Lumbert
A Colt Single Action Army once sold by the famed Arizona mining company's store leads the author to research the history of the company

THE BLOODY MURDER OF CHIEF LITTLEPAGE And Others At South Austin    by Tony Smith
"Police Chief J.N. Littlepage had a strange premonition that he was going to die and on the night before his murder he told his wife of his conviction that his end was near..."