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1980 - $3.00 per issue
Volume Two, Number Six; November/December 1980
Jenks Breechloaders; Truly Yours - W.B. Masterson; Small Frame Merwin and Hulberts; Ames Century, 1829–1929; A.A. White - Prince of Craftsmen, Conclusion; Standing in for the President; Retracing Steps; Tanker Garand; Identical Colt Twins.
1982 - $3.50 per issue
Volume Four, Number Two; March/April 1982
Evolution of the Scottish Dirk - Part II; The Blakeslee "Quick-loader"; Captain A.H. Hardy; B. Homer Revisited; The Winchester 1 of 1000; Gun Accidents on the Frontier; The World's Only Sporran Gun; The Failure of the 1812 Musket Pattern.
Volume Four, Number Three; May/June 1982
Dog River Swords; D.M. Lefever Box-lock Guns; Imitation is the Sincerest of Flattery; Liberator: A Gun for the Underdog; The Duel vs. the Showdown; Portable Firearms Photography; Stamps and the Man-at-arms; The First Factory Engraved Model 1894; The Remington Model 51 Prototypes.
Volume Four, Number Six; November/December 1982
Observations on the New England Flintlock Rifle; American Roulette; A Wheel-Lock for an Austrian Archduchess; New Collectors Need New Themes; The Roosevelt-Merrifield Connection; The S&W Model 1 1/2 Tip-Up Revolver - A Survey.
1983 - $3.50 per issue
Volume Five, Number Two; March/April 1983
Colt's London Engraving; Perry Carbines; Overseas Gun Shows; The Sears Roebuck Cowboy Special - The Top of the Line; 19th Century Corps Badges of the U.S. Army; Target Balls - High Flying Collectibles.
Volume Five, Number Four; July/August 1983
Henry: An Underhammer Enigma; Three Remington Smoot Patent Revolvers: Serial Numbering and Production Estimates; The Duel in the Army and Navy; Ugly Ducklings, Iron Hilted Swords of the Federal Republic - 1795–1815.
1985 - $3.50 per issue
Volume Seven, Number One; January/February 1985
Sgain Dubh: Fact & Fancy; From M1922M1-M2: Little Known Transition Model; Art of Scottish Firearms; Another Firearm Which Figures in the Association of Cody; A Colt-FBI Classic.
Volume Seven, Number Two; March/April 1985
U.S. Trench Knives of World War I; Notes on the Proof of New England Militia Muskets; Seven Rounds Rimfire - The Spencer on the Frontier; "So Nobly Distinguished" - Congressional Swords for Sailing Masters and Midshipmen in the War of 1812; Man at Arms Visits an Ordnance Museum in Turin.
Volume Seven, Number Three; May/June 1985
The Wheel-lock Hunter; Miniature Portraits by Louis Daniel Nimschke; Rifles to the Missouri - The Fate of "Hall's Hundred"; Remarks on the American Dueling Pistol; A Venerable Collector's Club Plans Benefit Auction for Metropolitan Museum Towards the Result - An American Arms Room at the Prestigious Museum; Rose 1812 Non-Commissioned Officer Sword (Artillery).
Volume Seven, Number Four; July/August 1985
Henry Deringer's Early Years; The Evolution of the Socket Bayonet in America; Sengo Muramasa, Infamous Swordsmith; The Homers of Bilston, South Staffordshire, English Gunlockmakers to America; A Tribute to Merrill K. Lindsay, A Scholar and a Gentleman.
Volume Seven, Number Six; November/December 1985
The Blunderbuss Pistol; Colt Rifles For the Navy; The U.S. Martial Bolo; North American Indian Tomahawks.
1986 - $3.50 per issue
Volume Eight, Number Two; March/April 1986
Notes on the Rose Family - Swordmakers of the Philadelphia Area; Holsters of the United States Army 1872–1895; Enfield of the Lone Star; A Film of Significance to Gun Collectors; A Reminder Regarding the Prince of Liechtenstein in Exhibition.
Volume Eight, Number Five; September/October 1986
Winchester for All Seasons; American Export Bayonets (1866–1941); Elegant Continentals - "Swords Presented by Continental Congress"; Gold & Steel - Special Exhibition at the Winchester Museum; Contract Production of the "Model 1812" Musket.
Volume Eight, Number Six; November/December 1986
Colt Navy-Navies: Survival Rates and Scarcity; The British Breechloading Shotgun; Howard Thunderbolt; The Under and Over Pistols of Durs and Joseph Egg.
1987 - $3.50 per issue
Volume Nine, Number One; January/February 1987
A Collector's Guide to the M1 Carbine; Hawken versus Bishop in the Rockies; Man at Arms Visits a Re-enactment - The Battle of First Manassas on Its 125th Anniversary; The Best of Springfield - The Model 1864 Springfield Rifle Musket; Man at Arms Visits Fort Bridger State Historic Site.
Volume Nine, Number Four; July/August 1987
Top Guns in the Early Sailing Navy; A Leatherneck Henry; Naval Dirks; The Best of Springfield; Modified Smith Carbine.
1988 - $3.75 per issue
Volume Ten, Number Five; September/October 1988
The Ghost King's Armour: An Extraordinary Child's Armour Discovered; Long Arms of the Bluejackets: Rifles of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1867–1900; A Guest Editorial: Mel Torme; Assn. of American Sword Collectors: Scottish Victorian Regimental Sword; The Dutch Luger; Ketland & Co.
Volume Ten, Number Six; November/December 1988
From Showman to Shootist; A Stevens-Lord Presentation Pistol; John Bull's Revolvers in the American West; The French 1935 Pistols; The Flobert, an American Enigma.
1989 - $3.75 per issue
Volume Eleven, Number Four; July/August 1989
Guns of the Rough Riders, Pt. II (Krag Carbines); They Bought it with Plastic - “Gutta Percha” Pistol Cases; Man at Arms Visits Musee de la Chasse; Powder Testers at the Hagley Museum and Library.
Volume Eleven, Number Five; September/October 1989
J.C. Petmecky, Texas Gun and Spur Maker; The Whitney Two-Trigger Revolver; Riot!, Snowhill, London, 1816; Colonial Swords of New England, Part III.
Volume Eleven, Number Six; November/December 1989
The Springfield Snipers; Some Interesting British Flintlocks; General Naranjo's Miniature Masterpieces.
1990 - $3.75 per issue
Volume Twelve, Number Three; May/June 1990
Norm Flayderman, Militaria's Mail Order Maestro; Cook & Brother, Major Supplier to the Confederacy; Dr. Maynard's Secessionist Gun (1st Model Maynard).
Volume Twelve, Number Four; July/August 1990
A Greenwich Close Helmet for the Field c.1585 from an Original in the Royal Armouries; Daniel Moore's Deringer Pistols; Neo-Classical Ornament and Design on British Presentation Swords.
1991 - $3.75 per issue
Volume Thirteen, Number Three; May/June 1991
Colt's Hartford-London Dragoon; Sharps & Hankins; Officers' Basket-Hilted Swords of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue).
Volume Thirteen, Number Five; September/October 1991
Sharps Lever-Action Derringer; Model of 1941 Johnson Rifle; Neo-Classical Pistols.
1992 - $4.00 per issue
Volume Fourteen, Number Five; September/October 1992
The Williamson - Famous Dual-Ignition Deringer; Thomas Archer; Confederate Tarpley Carbine; Gun Photography for Amateurs.
Volume Fourteen, Number Six; November/December 1992
The Browning Automatic Rifle; U.S. Cavalry Colts, An Alternate Theory on their Usage; The Snaphaunce.
1993 - $4.00 per issue
Volume Fifteen, Number Three; May/June 1993
To the Admiral & the Commodore: The Story of Two Famous Colt London Navy Pistols; Bluegrass Enfields - The Arms of Morgan's Raiders; Repeating Air Rifle of Charles Bunge.
Volume Fifteen, Number Four; July/August 1993
Captain Samuel H. Walker, R.I.P. or Where is Sam Walker?; Military Bolt-Action Rifle Conversions, Creative Solutions in the Battle Against Obsolescence; Horace Kephart and the Hardware of "Scientific Sharpshooting," Two Scoped Winchester Highwalls as a Case Study.
1994 - $4.00 per issue
Volume Sixteen, Number Two; March/April 1994
Variations of the M1908 Colt .25 Automatic; The Philippine Colt; The John Miles Virginia Sabers; The Winchester .40-60 Model 1876
Volume Sixteen, Number Three; May/June 1994
The Pedersen Device; Guns of the '49ers; The Development of the Halberd; An Update on Colt's Number Three Deringers.
Volume Sixteen, Number Five; September/October 1994
Miniature Firearms - A Leading Expert on Crafting and Collecting these Diminutive Masterpieces Shares His Insights with Beginners; The John Fraser Tomahawks; Collecting the Indian Wars Trapdoors.
1995 - $4.00 per issue
Volume Seventeen, Number Two; March/April 1995
The Artillery Train Sent to Virginia in 1676; A Review of Some Exciting Documents Regarding Schuyler, Hartley & Graham; The Remington Over-And-Under Derringer.1995 - $4.50 per issue
Volume Seventeen, Number Five; September/October 1995
Winchester Single-Shot Muskets; A Survey of Colt 1877 D.A. and 1878 D.A. Revolvers; The Welcome Collection - A Look Back at the Largest Arms Collection of All Time.
Volume Seventeen, Number Six; November/December 1995
Rebel Steel on the Rio Grande; Colt Navy Squareback-Roundguard Overlap; Smith Carbine Models: New Information; The British Bull Dog.
1996 - $4.50 per issue
Volume Eighteen, Number Two; March/April 1996
Armour of the English Civil War; Savage Automatic pistols: A Guide to the External Variations; T.R.'s "Other" Winchester M-1895; Needham Conversion Muskets: Fine Firearm or Fenian Folly?
Volume Eighteen, Number Three; May/June 1996
Collecting Early Second Generation (1955–1966) Colt Single Action Armys; The 1922 Newton/Mauser; A 20th-Century Field Test of the U.S. M1819 Hall Breechloading Rifle; The San Francisco S&W Schofield Revolver.
Volume Eighteen, Number Four; July/August 1996
Marlins in the Apache Wars; The United States Bayonet Model 1835; Lights, Camera, Krags! The Thrilling Story of an American Service Rifle's Epic Career in the Movies; Those Other Marks - U.S. Regi-mental Stamps.
Volume Eighteen, Number Five; September/October 1996
"Col. Colt London" - Some Notes on a Baby Dragoon Marked with the London Address and the Alleged London Pocket Pistol No. 2; Test Firing the Dutch M1895 Mannlicher; Some Victorian Officers' Swords; Bullet Moulds of Harpers Ferry.
1997 - $4.50 per issue
Volume Nineteen, Number One; January/February 1997
Sixty-Five Years of Savage Trombones: Savage 22 Pump Rifles; The Martial Colt Match Target Woodsman; The Presentation Sword of Capt. John Allen and an Introduction to Christopher Giffing; Rifles and Blades of the American Turners.
Volume Nineteen, Number Two; March/April 1997
Higgins Armory Acquisitions; Post Civil War .44 cal. Conversions; U.S. Bayonet Model 1812; Strong Vincent's Sword at the Smithsonian.
Volume Nineteen, Number Four; July/August 1997
The 1942 Massachusetts Light Dragoon Musketoon; The Plevna Delay, Winchesters & Peabody-Martinis in the Russo-Turkish War; The Sword Treasure Trove; Man at Arms Visits The Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum.
Volume Nineteen, Number Six; November/December 1997
Gun Collector's Guide to World Wide Web; Starr Arms Co. 1858–1867; Thomas Earle: Master Gunsmith of Early America; Colt Model 1877 Double Action Revolver
1998 - $4.50 per issue
Volume Twenty, Number One; January/February 1998
Colts Through the Artist's Eye: The Drawings of Rainer Dethloff; Winchester's Single-Shot: Drawing New Conclusions; Scottish Claymores; "Gas Trap" Garands.
Volume Twenty, Number Two; March/April 1998
British Longarms at Lexington; Peter Fritz and His Sword of Honor; The Greek M1903/14 Mannlicher-Schoenauer; Decorative Arms Treasure Trove of the Czars: The Gatchina Collection.
1998 - $5.50 per issue
Volume Twenty, Number Four; July/August 1998
Savage Automatic Pistols - A Study of Savage Pistol Grips, Showing Their Design Differences and Mechanical Evolution; A Trapdoor Collector's Worst Nightmare - Fooled by a Put-Together Gun; A Visit to the New Royal Armouries in Leeds, England; Smith & Wesson Revolvers of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service.
Volume Twenty, Number Six; November/December 1998
Infantry Hangers of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1742–1784; Winchester-Hotchkiss Martial Carbines: An Attempt to Adopt a Magazine Arm for the Indian Wars Cavalry; Small Bore Winchester "Restorations" - or Lust and Disappointment; A Momentary Design Glitch in Colt's New Model Army Revolver.
1999 - $5.50 per issue
Volume Twenty-One, Number One; January/February 1999
Holy Negroli! A Review of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Armor Exhibit; Winchester-Hotchkiss Martial Carbines: An Attempt to Adopt a Magazine Arm for the Indian Wars Cavalry; Isaiah Eaton: American Revolutionary War Armorer & Silversmith; 1860 Colt Army Richards Conversions Issued to the U.S. Cavalry.
Volume Twenty-One, Number Two; March/April 1999
.31 Caliber Manhattan Revolvers; Identified: The U.S. navy Model 1814 Cutlass; The Canadian Ross Straight-Pull Military Rifles.
Volume Twenty-One, Number Three; May/June 1999
An Apprentice's Eye View of the Allen & Thurber Pepperbox Factory; The Largest Collection of Colt Paterson Guns is Now on Public View in Paterson; Winchester Repeating Arms Company Model 1893 and 1897 Repeating Shotguns; The US. Contract Rifle, Pattern of 1792.
Volume Twenty-One, Number Four; July/August 1999
A Russian Boy's Flintlock; The Story of Savage Tenite Guns; The Merwin, Hulbert Army Revolver and its .44 M.H. & Co. Cartridge; Some Notes and Conclusions Regarding The 7th Cavalry Carbine.
Volume Twenty-One, Number Five; September/October 1999
A "Favorite Number 4" Revolver, Two Reunited Greeners and Winchester Serial Number Ledgers; Inspecting the Navy's Model 1842 Army Pistols: Who Was Inspector JCB?; A .22 Caliber 1849 Colt Pocket Model Conversion; The Guns of Sheriff Harry Morse.
1999 - $5.95 per issue
Volume Twenty-One, Number Six; November/December 1999
Ames Militia Staff Officer's Swords; The M1917 Revolvers, Part One: Smith & Wesson; "A Response to The 7th Cavalry Carbine."
2000 - $5.95 per issue
Volume Twenty-Two, Number One; January/February 2000
Guns Against the French: Late Short Land and India Pattern Muskets for the Ordnance; The Glory Days of the Forty-Four: .44 Metallic Cartridge Single Action Revolvers of the Old West; The M1917 Revolvers: Part Two - The Colt; The Civil War Presentation Sword of Colonel Henry Adams Smalley.
Volume Twenty-Two, Number Two; March/April 2000
Rainer Dethloff Shows Us The True Colors of Colt; The Ethics of Arms Restoration; The Mortimer Rifles of Archibald Campbell; The Reising Submachine Gun: The Story of a "Tarnished Warrior."
Volume Twenty-Two, Number Three; May/June 2000
Pennsylvania Rifles in the Beginning; Experimental Remington New Model Army Conversion; Charles Oliver Bruff: Tory Silversmith and Sword Cutler of Maiden Lane; Union Small Arms and field Artillery in the Peninsula campaign: Two Reports by Col. C.P. Kingsbury.
Volume Twenty-Two, Number Four; July/August 2000
An Illustrated Introduction to Dueling Pistols and Their London Gunmakers; A.W. Spies: Importer, Outfitter & Fireman; Battle Rifles of the Great War, 1914–1918, Part I - The Allied Nations; An Altered Remington Rolling Block and A General's Colt Revolver.
Volume Twenty-Two, Number Five; September/October 2000
Henry Deringer Offers $100 Reward; Battle Rifles of the Great War, 1914–1918, Part II - The Central Powers & Test Firing; The Private "San Francisco Police S&W Schofield" Confirmed; The Origin of the Palmetto Pistols.
Volume Twenty-Two, Number Six; November/December 2000
The Imperial German M89 Cavalry Sword; Finding the Lost Colt Records; Recent Observations Concerning the Issue and Trial of the Experimental 24" Barrel Springfield Carbine (Model 1886); Civil War Smith & Wessons and a Probin Volley Pistol.
2001 - $5.95 per issue
Volume Twenty-Three, Number One; January/February 2001
The Ruggles Pistol Factory Glory Days, The Early Years; Holy Grail: The Story of a "Missing Link" Socket Bayonet from the Early 18th Century; A "Doc" Carver Gun.
Volume Twenty-Three, Number Two; March/April 2001
British Long Arms at lake George; The Essential Arms Library (U.S.A.); The Rock Island 1919 National Match Rifles; The United States Navy's Exotic Elgin Cutlass Pistol.
Volume Twenty-Three, Number Three; May/June 2001
The Hutton Saber: A Silver-Mounted, Eagle-Pommeled Saber by Isaac & George Hutton, Albany, N.Y., ca. 1810; Major Thornton Goes West!; "In Defense of the Common-wealth" Arms, Armor & Equipment of 17th Century New England; A Trapdoor Carbine Recovered From Indians.
Volume Twenty-Three, Number Four; July/August 2001
The Little Colt With a Big Story: Sig. A.J. Goli and His Deluxe, Cased, Colt New Line.22 Revolver; The First Model Spencer Bayonet Identified; The Remarkable Snider Rifle: An Experiment Shows That it Was an Accurate Shooter After All; Cyrus Buckland's Recollections of Springfield Armory Before the Civil War.
Volume Twenty-Three, Number Five; September/October 2001
Man at Arms Visits The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum; Looking For the 1857 Light Cavalry Saber; A Hands-On Introduction to The Norwegian Krag-Jorgensen; Henry Deringer's Lost Counterfeit.
Volume Twenty-Three, Number Six; November/December 2001
D.J. Millard & His Civil War Cavalry Saber Contract; Weapons of the Boers 1881–1902; John Brown's Colt Navies; The Weaver Double Powder Horn.
2002 - $5.95 per issue
Volume Twenty-Four, Number One; January/February 2002
"Signed by the Maker": Thoughts For New Collectors About Guns Attributed to Early American Makers; The True Origins of the "American School" of Firearms Decoration; The M1A1 Carbine; Weathering the Storm - A Survival Guide to Gun Collecting in Today's Unsure Economy.
Volume Twenty-Four, Number Two; March/April 2002
"Enfield" Bayonets in the Civil War, 1862–1865; The "Solid Barrel" Colt; An Indian Wars Remington Revolver; Cannon, Munitions & Small Arms from the Wreck of the Pirate Vessel Queen Anne's Revenge.
Volume Twenty-Four, Number Three; May/June 2002
"Splendid Steel" The Development of the British Pattern 1796 Light Cavalry Saber - A Sword Style Heavily Imported by the United States; Mr. Beach's Idea: The Combination Sight; The Dardick Pistol; A Savage Garand.
Volume Twenty-Four, Number Four; July/August 2002
Man at Arms Visits The National Firearms Museum; A Collector's Guide to Spotting Luger Restorations; The Colt Army Revolver of Sergeant Murphy; Abe Lincoln's Presentation Henry Rifle.
Volume Twenty-Four, Number Five; September/October 2002
You'll Put Your Eye Out With That Thing!; Happy Jack Allen: Wyoming's Colorful U.S. Marshal; The Sharps 1851 Boxlock; Swords in Service.
Volume Twenty-Four, Number Six; November/December 2002
General Ulysses S. Grant's Presentation Swords in the National Collections; The Johnson Rifle in U.S. Marine Corps Service; Webley's Little Pug: The Prospector's Pal; A Man at Arms Buyer's Guide to Digital Cameras for Gun & Sword Collectors.
2003 - $5.95 per issue
Volume Twenty-Five, Number One; January/February 2003
The Life and Life's Work of Famous Firearms Engraver Louis Daniel Nimschke (1832–1904); The Dutch M.71 and M.71-88 Beaumont Rifles; The Savage Musket; Unusual Dueling Pistols by Philip Bond.
Volume Twenty-Five, Number Three; May/June 2003
The Splendor of Classic Schützen Rifles; Colt Collectors to Mount Massive Exhibit in Wyoming; The Colt 1865 Pocket Navy and its Older Brother the Colt "1862" Police; A Minister's '66 Winchester Model 1866, sn96022.
Volume Twenty-Five, Number Five; September/October 2003
The Daylight Machine Gun; The Deification of Napoleon Bonaparte; The 1797 Apollo and Jupiter Pocket Pistols by Nicholas Noel Boutet; An Extensively Restored 1851 Navy Colt with Family History; Civil War Firearm & Bayonet Combinations of the Union & Confederacy: Austro-Hungarian Imports Examined.
Volume Twenty-Five, Number Six; November/December 2003
Forsyth & Co., An Unrecorded Ignition System; Buyer Beware! Is it real or is it fake?; Pieper's Mexican Revolving Arms; Peek at the Past; A Photo Essay.
2004 - $5.95 per issue
Volume Twenty-Six, Number One; January/February 2004
Italian Vetterli Rifles and Carbines: Swiss Engineering, Italian Flair; American Arms Makers and American Artists; The Deringer Name in Weaponry Appears Again in the 20th Century; Remington New Model Pocket Revolvers, The Diminutive Descendent.
Volume Twenty-Six, Number Two; March/April 2004
The Centennial of the Model 1903: A Soldier's Priceless Friend, A New Exhibit at Springfield Armory; Artistic Influences on Late 19th-Century and Early 20th-Century Firearms Decoration; Part I - Arts & Crafts Movement; Joshua Shaw - Landscape Artist...Con Artist? or Inventor of the Percussion Cap; The Swords of Diederichs & Company.
Volume Twenty-Six, Number Three; May/June 2004
The Newbury Cap Guard for Revolvers; The U.S. Krag Carbine; The Musicians' Sword Bayonet and Slide; Lt. Frith's Revolver: Find or Fake.
Volume Twenty-Six, Number Four; July/August 2004
Collecting Colt's National Match Pistols; Artistic Influences on late 19th-Century and Early 20-th Century Firearms Decoration: Parts II & III; The M1913 "Patton" Saber; A Maharaja's Treasure.
Volume Twenty-Six, Number Five; September/October 2004
The Bowie Knife and the Confederate Arms Shortage; Ells' Patent Improved Repeating Pistol; Smith & Wesson and the XM9 Pistol; On Guns and Cars.
Volume Twenty-Six, Number Six; November/December 2004
Harmonica Guns: A Guide for Collectors; Not Only Webley, But Also Scott; What is a Peanut?;Steyrs Turn Bolt Mannlicher Military Rifles.
2005 - $5.95 per issue
Volume Twenty-Seven, Number One; January/February 2005
The Guns of David Hall Hilliard; A Colt Paterson Brevette; Japanese Swords Among 19th-Century Eskimos?; The Colt Thompson: Myth and Legend; A Patriotic Fund Sword.
Volume Twenty-Seven, Number Two; March/April 2005
Monitor vs. Merrimack: A National Treasure Comes Home; Duellers with a Powder Flask for Adjustable Charges; The Regimental Brown Bess Bayonet, 1754–1783; The Gun Exposed: Revealing Looks at a Ross Rifle and a Unique Pistol.
Volume Twenty-Seven, Number Three; May/June 2005
A Colt Second Model Dragoon with Panel Scene Portrait of Lafayette; Collecting Indian Wars Weapons on a Budget; The V-42 Stiletto; What the %*#! is it?
Volume Twenty-Seven, Number Four; July/August 2005
Fraternal Swords: An Appreciation; Detecting Flintlock Reconversions; Rifle Caliber Artillery The Gardner Battery Gun; Tools and Techniques: Russian 98k Mausers and Removing Shellac.
Volume Twenty-Seven, Number Five; September/October 2005
Man at Arms Visits The Frazier Historical Arms Museum; The Volcanic in Service; The Model 1895 Nagant Revolver; Rough Rider Guns Revisited.
Volume Twenty-Seven, Number Six; November/December 2005
Two Notable Savage Firsts: The Story of Savage .22 Semi-Autos; Civil War Longarm & Bayonet Combinations: The Less Famous European Imports (1861–1865); Privateer Pistols by Simeon North; A Mystery Gun.
2006 - $5.95 per issue
Volume Twenty-Eight, Number One; January/February 2006
Presentation Arms of the Collegiate and Commercial Institute; The Percussion Pistol with Cap Guard Revisited; Model 1875 Springfield Lee Vertical Action; A Closer Look at an Albini-Braendlin Military Rifle.
Volume Twenty-Eight, Number Two; March/April 2006
Man at Arms Visits Colonial Williamsburg; The First Arisaka...The Meiji 30th Year Type Infantry Rifle; The Burnside Carbine - Myth and Reality; An American Revolutionary War Naval Cutlass Hilt.
Volume Twenty-Eight, Number Three; May/June 2006
The Guns of Fort Ticonderoga; Winchester Presentation Gun Steeped in History; An Important Sword and a Canadian Hero; Arming the Teamsters - A Sharps Carbine from the Great Sioux War; The Soviet M44 Mosin-Nagant Carbine; Pre-Civil War Mystery Carbine.
Volume Twenty-Eight, Number Four; July/August 2006
English Truncated Turn-Off Pistols; Random Gunshots...; The Inscribed Saber of Col. James Decatur Potter; The Savage Enfield; Mystery on a Cow Horn.
Volume Twenty-Eight, Number Five; September/October 2006
Roosevelt Revolver Recovered; Tools & Techniques...White Markings Explained; A Study of Caltrops from Ancient to Modern Times; Pellets, Tubes and Caps; The Lefaucheaux Revolver of John Wysong.
Volume Twenty-Eight, Number Six; November/December 2006
Man at Arms Visits Samuel Colt: Arms, Art and Invention; Walker Colt Breakthrough; The Armory at Armsmear; "One Dollar a Vote" or How General Hawley Got His Colts; Early Marine Corps Gov't. Model M1911 Colt Serial Numbers; Samuel Colt's Wine Cellars.
2007 - $5.95 per issue
Volume Twenty-Nine, Number One; Jan./Feb. 2007
Man at Arms visits The Museum of the Confederacy; The British Bulldog Revolver; A New York Gun Extravaganza; "Sidewalk" Sedgley & The Height Fist Gun; The Origins of a Long Rifle from the Leatherstocking Country; Tools and Techniques: New Snider & Martini Ammo.
Volume Twenty-Nine, Number Two; March/April 2007
The New Hampshire Mushroom Pommel Sword; Antique Gun Prices: 1940 to Present; A Newly Discovered Mauser Oberndorf Model 1898 Test Rifle; The Rifles of the Franco-Prussian War, Part I: Prussia and Its Allies.
Volume Twenty-Nine, Number Three; May/June 2007
Man at Arms Visits Century International Arms; U.S.-Made Muskets of the Revolution, 178–1783; The Other Lone Ranger; Lt. Colonel Levi Woodhouse and His Engraved Presentation Sharps M1853 Sporting Rifle; The Sword of Lt. Col. Joseph C. Henderson.
Volume Twenty-Nine, Number Four; July/Aug. 2007
A Bad Case of the Utlies! The Results of our Ugly Conversion Contest; The Mexican War Presentation Sword of Moses Barnard; The rifles of the Franco-Prussian War: Part II - France; The Penn. State Police Springfield .45 "Trapdoor" Carbines; A Harpers Ferry M1841 Rifle Arms Chest.
Volume Twenty-Nine, Number Five; Sept./Oct. 2007
Rethinking the Potter: The Truth Behind the Rev. War's Ultimate Sword; The "Ivanhoe" Trench Guns; The Reming-ton "Transformation" Musket, Rifle and Carbine; The Gun Exposed: A German-Used Mosin-Nagant; A Nifty Hideout Gun Made from a Colt Model 1860 Army.
Volume Twenty-Nine, Number Six; Nov./Dec. 2007
Did You Know What a Uruguayan "Dovitiis" Mauser-Daudetau is; London Gun Makers Get Their Day in Court; Beware of Counterfeits: The Cylinder Scene on Colt's Walker and Dragoon Pistols; The 12-Shooter of Carl von Pecker.
2008 - $5.95 per issue
Volume Thirty, Number One; Jan./Feb. 2008
Indian War Carbine Found; The Sharps Borchrdt Rifles of Jacob Hurd Smith; The Burglar’s Lament of Suicide Specials Revisited; Isaiah Jennings, Man of Progress; A Kentucky Style, Box-Lock Plains Rifle c.1850; Two Maryland Presentation Swords Reunited.
Volume Thirty, Number Two; March/April 2008
The Erie Winchesters; Infantry Officers’ Swords of the Imperial German Army: 1871–1916; A Baker Rifle With a Story to Tell; Elgin Cutlass Pistol; The Moore Derringer Cartridge; Street Sweeper Revisited; A Very Special Sharps Rifle: It Pays to Read Gun Books.
Volume Thirty, Number Three; May/June 2008
The Thrill of Discovery: Bringing Together a Pair of 1849 Colts; A “Baltimore” Model 1814 Cutlass of Questionable Authenticity; From the Pugsley Files: Should it Have Been the M1 Kewish?; Presentation Engraved and Cased Starr Model 1858 Double Action Army Revolvers Serial Numbered 6613 and 6805; An Introduction to the Nepalese Gehendra Rifle.
Volume Thirty, Number Four; July/August 2008
Collecting the .22 Whitney Pistol; Colt’s “Cavalry Cylinder” Model 1860 Army Revolvers; Webley’s Famous R.I.C. Revolvers; Revolutionary War Silver Plated Swords; The Daisy Model 50 Golden Eagle BB Gun.
Volume Thirty, Number Five; September/October 2008
A Unique Firearms Collection on Display in Holland; A Wartime Brown Bess of the 79th Regiment of Foot; Savage Bolt Action .22s, 1904–1941; Collecting Spanish Civil War Rifles on a Tight Budget; A Rare Presentation Remington Over/Under Derringer.
Volume Thirty, Number Six; November/December 2008
The Ruger Aluminum Single-Six; “Buck and Ball” Gets Newfound Respect; Indian Pistols from the War of 1812; The Fate of the 7th Cavalry Carbines; The Stewart Museum in Montreal, Canada; A Gathering of Patersons.
2009 - $5.95 per issue
Volume Thirty-One, Number One; Jan./Feb. 2009
Surplus Rifle Collecting: Is this the end of an Era; Ames Model 1832 Foot Artillery Sword Part I; Humor: A Gun Collector's Glossary; An Inscribed Colt Model 1860 Army Shipped to Richmond on April 15, 1861; The Gun Exposed: Intimae Views of an English Screw Barrel Pistol
Volume Thirty-One, Number Two; March/April 2009
Sword Showcase: An Ames Model 1833 Texas Oficer's Dragoon Saber; J.B. Hixson, The Hixson Family of Gunsmiths & the National Road School; Above the Trenches of Flanders A WWI Colt M1911; An Early "Bayonet Piece": The Story of a Musket & Bayonet from Papillon Hall in England; What a Difference an "A" Made: A Remington Beals' Navy
Volume Thirty-One, Number Four; July/Aug. 2009
Will the Real M1879 Argentine Remington Rolling Block Please Stand Up; A Spectacular Remington Pocket Double Action Revolver; Man Overboard! Faking Colt’s Naval Engagement Scene; The Swords of GUOOF; Uncommon but Super: The Pre-WWII Colt Super .38 Automatic; An Exceptional Paterson Colt No. 3 Belt Revolver.
Volume Thirty-One, Number Five; Sept/Oct. 2009
The S&W Model Number Two Army: A Collector’s Dream; Following the Paper Trail of a Truly Intriguing Colonial Longarm; The Ames M1832 Foot Artillery Sword: Part II; Military Rifle Markings Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Markings that Can Make a Gun Worth Extra Cash!; An Arms Collector’s Guide to the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890.
Volume Thirty-One, Number Six; Nov./Dec. 2009
Short Land Muskets for the British Light Infantry in America; Collecting First World War Mauser Trophy Rifles; Engraved Remington No. 1 Rolling Block Sporting & Target Rifles; The Mashin Khana: The History of the Kabul State Arsenal.2010 - $5.95 per issue
Volume Thirty-Two, Number One; Jan./Feb. 2010
The Mauser M1891 Carbines: Telling Rarities from Run of the Mill; Bright Colts: Four Very Special M1860 Army Revolvers; The M1930 Sauer Pocket Pistol; A Spendid Winchester M1873 “One of One Thousand” Rifle; An Officer’s Flintlock Pistol by Joseph Perkin of Philadelphia.
Volume Thirty-Two, Number Two; March/April 2010
Tools and Techniques: High-Tech Flashlights; Fort Ticonderoga Mystery Musket; Collecting Winchester Factory-Scoped .22 Caliber Rifles; German & Austrian Gunmakers of the Mid-19th Century; Fraud Alert: Is Your M1895 Nagant a Fake?; The Gedney Automatic Percussion Priming System.
Volume Thirty-Two, Number Three; May/June 2010
Guns for the Trail West; Remington Rolling Blocks in the Dutch Army; Mauser Spotlight: The Spanish M1891 “Trials” Rifle; The Civil War Bacon Revolver of John Hancock; Sword Collecting: An English Hunting Hanger; Did You Know How a Tap-Action Flintlock Pistol Works?; Is Your Gun or Sword Refinished?
Volume Thirty-Two, Number Four; July/August 2010
Swords by F.W. Widmann, W.H. Horstmann and the United States Marines; The Danish Garand GV/50; America’s Incredible Louisbourg Victory, 1745; A Buyer’s Guide to Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk I (T) Sniper Rifles; Random Gunshots: A Nimschke-Engraved Southerner Der- ringer; Collecting Rusty Relics of the Old West in Texas.
Volume Thirty-Two, Number Five; Sept./Oct. 2010
Did You Know How a Screw Barrel Flintlock Pistol Works?; The Birth of the Mauser; A New Approach to Dating the Winchester M1894; Colt “Navy-Army” M1860 Army Revolvers; Sears Private Brand Double Guns.
Volume Thirty-Two, Number Six; Nov./Dec. 2010
Collecting the M1 Garand: A Practical Guide for Beginners; Leonard Geiger: Inventor of the “Rolling Block” Rifle; Can You Identify This Mystery Sword?; An Intriguing Pistol From Napier’s Magdala Campaign; Colt’s Paterson Revolver Production Figures Revised; Don’t Be a Victim of Holster Rust!!2011 - $5.95 per issue
Volume Thirty-Three, Number One; Jan./Feb. 2011
Louis Barbar: A Great English Gunmaker and Some Fine Examples of His Work; Gen Wingate’s Sharps Rifle; Cast Brass Mounted Swords of the Philadelphia Region: The So-Called Prahl Sword; Our Staff Surveys the Latest Batch of Surplus Military Pistols; U.S. Arms Sales to Mexico in 1924; A Rebuttal of “Colt’s paterson Production Figures Revised.”
Volume Thirty-Three, Number Two; March/April 2011
The Confederate Bowie Knives of Thomas Leech & Co., Memphis Novelty Works; The Farthest North Colt Single Action Army Revolver; K98k Mausers: Are Low Serial Numbers Important?; Fakes and Restorations Exposed: Getting a Grip on Ivory and Its Imitators; Gustave Young: New Research Reveals a Wealth of Information About the World’s Most Famous Engraver.
Volume Thirty-Three, Number Three; May/June 2011
The Earl’s Pistols; A Scottish Prize Pistol; The U.S. Rifle-Musket M1855 Bayonet in the Civil War; An Argentine M1891 Mauser Presented to the U.S. Secretary of the Navy; Early Scottish Dirks Anyone? Spectacular Scheutzen Rifles; U.S. Krag Rifles in the Mexican Revolution.
Volume Thirty-Three, Number Four; July/August 2011
John Thompson’s Pilgrim Long-gun; Krag Carbines in Cuba; Russian Rifles of the First World War, Revolution and Civil War — Part 1; Smith& Wesson’s .38 Single Action First Model: “The Baby Russian”; Ever Wonder How Your Pistol Got Scratched?; The Dangers of Dating a Sword Entirely by Style or Model.
Volume Thirty-Three, Number Five; Sept./Oct. 2011
M1 Garands Served Up Italian Style! A Collector’s Guide to the Beretta BM 69; William Billinghurst Cylinder Rifle; False Muzzles at War; A Trapdoor Carbine Fired 39 Times at Custer’s Last Stand; A Most Uncommon Common Longarm: Charles Ammarell’s M1863 Springfield; The King of Ugly Guns Reports; Advice on Dating M1860 Staff and Field Officer’s Swords.
Volume Thirty-Three, Number Six; Nov. /Dec. 2011
Ketland Guns in America; Russian Rifles of the 1st World War, Revolution and Civil War — Part 2; Remarrying a Pair of Derringers; The Many Uses of Wax in Preserving Collectible Guns and Swords.2012 - $5.95 per issue
Volume Thirty-Four, Number One; Jan./Feb. 2012
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