Hunting dogs, fine firearms, and enjoying both.
Posted in DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUNS on May 5th, 2013
Arrieta is one of Spain’s top gunmakers, and the Arrieta 871 model is one of their top shotguns. With chopperlump barrels, a rounded, and a color-case hardened action, it’s a great looking double that has many of the features found on the world’s best SxS. The 871 you see here is up for auction now. [...]
Posted in DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUNS on Apr 14th, 2013
CSMC Fox FE Special 20g side-by-side double barrel shotgun: Spectacular A.H. Fox FE special, made by Connecticut Shotgun. Near new. 28″ bbl., 14 1/4″ lop (from back trigger), 3″ chambers, xtrfull/xtrfull, exhibition wood. Cased with all accessories. Outstanding deep relief engraving by master engraver Bryson Gwinell. Priced under what it would cost to reproduce, a [...]
Posted in DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUNS on Jan 25th, 2013
This nearly new 28 gauge Griffin & Howe Round Body side by side is coming up to auction on Sunday, Jan 26, 2013 at the Daniel Auction Company in Sylvester, GA. Griffin & Howe has been importing these spanish-made side-by-sides for a while now. I’m pretty sure they’re made by Arrieta. Brand new at G&H, this is [...]
Posted in DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUNS on Dec 28th, 2012
I think it’s going go! I’ve been watching this real nice little Orvis/Arrieta 20 gauge for a while now. It has been on Gunbroker.com for at least 6 months, and I’ve plugged it a couple of times as a great deal. But no matter what I’ve done, it just sat there. No interest. Well, it [...]
Posted in DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUNS on Nov 16th, 2012
Kull Auction & Real Estate Co. in Topeka, KS, is having a big gun auction tomorrow and Saturday. There are a bunch of Winchesters in the sale (Model 42s & Model 12s, Model 21s & 101s) plus many other side-by-sides and over & unders. Here are a few shotguns that caught my eye. Lot 840 [...]
Posted in DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUNS on Feb 3rd, 2012
Arrizabalaga double barrel shotguns have a reputation for being some of the finest side-by-sides made in Spain. This little 28 gauge is a nice example of the kind of work they turn out. It looks like a pretty low-grade model that’s in excellent original condition. If you shoot a smaller-proportioned gun (yeah, I didn’t want to [...]
Posted in HUNTING DOGS on Jan 30th, 2012
The history of the modern pointing dog is convoluted and tangled. The further into its past you go, and the more clouded its lineage becomes. People believed that Spain’s Burgos Pointer was the great-great-great-great grandaddy of them all, a dog that could trace it’s origin back to the beginnings of pointing breeds over 600 years ago. [...]
Posted in HUNTING DOGS on Jan 5th, 2012
I’m interested in side by sides — that’s pretty obvious. So when I came across the Pachón Navarros, a Spanish pointing dog with a double barrel nose, I was intrigued. According to Craig Koshyk’s Pointing Dogs, Volume One: The Continentals, the Pachón Navarros trace back to the very first sporting breeds to appear around the Pyrenees Mountains, [...]
