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“If only this old gun could talk…”: A New Year’s Greeting

by Doug Turnbull | Dec 30, 2020 | Doug Turnbull, Firearm Restoration, Gun Restoration, Turnbull Restoration & Manufacturing Blog

Opening photo: “Grandfather’s Ithaca Flues”Copyright Ronald Jones. Used with kind permission. It’s a phrase we often say to ourselves when unpacking a firearm to be restored, as we lay eyes on it for the first time. We find ourselves wondering: what left that scratch...

Stewards & Stories #6

by Turnbull Restoration | Aug 26, 2020 | Shoot History, Stewards & Stories, Turnbull Restoration & Manufacturing Blog

Classic Firearms: Winchester Model 62 “You said it wouldn’t work, but it seems to shoot pretty fair to me.” – John Moses Browning, upon delivering his Model 1890 prototype to Winchester What if the engineers of the Winchester Repeating Arms...

Plan On Making Some New Memories: A New Year’s Greeting

by Doug Turnbull | Jan 1, 2020 | Doug Turnbull, Firearm Restoration, Gun Restoration, Turnbull Restoration & Manufacturing Blog

A hunting trip may only be a few days in the woods. With any luck you’ll bring back some great memories, a few tall tales, and some meat for the freezer. But the hunting trip is about a lot more than those few days in the woods. It might even start years before you...