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Derek Landers

134 articles on Gun Mart

Collectables

ROLLIN WHITE PATENT EVASIONS

Derek Landers explores how 19th-century American gunmakers produced cartridge revolvers while avoiding Smith & Wesson’s Rollin White patent

13 Jan 2025
Antique Guns

ANTIQUE ARMS – AMERICAN CARTRIDGE DERRINGERS – A spot of history

Derek Landers looks at collecting 19th-century American cartridge derringers

12 Dec 2024
Antique Guns

A Cut Above the Rest – THE BOWIE KNIFE

Derek Landers takes a look at an American folk hero and the growth of large fighting knives that bore his name

11 Nov 2024
Antique Guns

Guns of the old West

Derek Landers looks back at the days when cinema and TV shaped his future interest in collecting antique arms and his choice of shooting disciplines

22 Oct 2024
Re-enactment

Defence of the realm – A PLACE TO VISIT

Derek Landers visits the Heugh Battery Museum in Hartlepool, the site of one of the first German attacks on the British mainland in World War I

17 Oct 2024
Collectables

Collecting antique arms – Any old iron?

Derek Landers takes a brief look at the collecting of antique arms for beginners

7 Aug 2024
Reproduction Firearms

Enfield P14 rifle – Inside Job

Derek Landers takes an Enfield P14 rifle to an indoor range for a bit of fun

26 Jul 2024
Reproduction Firearms

PIETTA REMINGTON NEW MODEL ARMY (STAINLESS) – A Worthy Choice

Derek Landers tries out a reproduction of the Remington New Model Army revolver in the shape of a stainless steel version from Pietta

25 Jun 2024
Reproduction Firearms

The Uberti 1873 Colt Revolver – Timeless Classic

Derek Landers takes a look at the Uberti 1873 Colt Revolver

7 Jun 2024
Reproduction Firearms

Uberti Winchester 1885

Derek Landers looks at a reproduction of a 19th-century Winchester rifle that is not a lever-action repeater

8 May 2024
Reproduction Firearms

Still Going Strong –  the Winchester Model 1894 rifle from Uberti of Italy

Derek Landers looks at a modern reproduction of the Winchester Model 1894 rifle from Uberti of Italy

9 Apr 2024
Reproduction Firearms

 Pietta Colt 1860 Army revolver – The Union’s Choice

Derek Landers looks at a reproduction of the percussion revolver that became the principal handgun of the Union forces during the American Civil War

19 Mar 2024
Reproduction Firearms

No-frills classic – PEDERSOLI SHARPS SILHOUETTE RIFLE

Derek Landers tries out one of the many versions of the Sharps rifle from the Pedersoli range

28 Feb 2024