I see that Griffin & Howe are opening a new facility.
I hear about them in terms of rifles, shotguns, etc.

What exactly are they? Custom gun brokers or makers or just a retail outfit with a familiar name that makes a person think they are something special???

Please educate me.

The History of Griffin and Howe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin_%26_Howe

In that wiki blurb there's a photo of Hemingway with a downed Buffalo, the caption identifies it as a lion. That's bad even by internet standards.

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Originally posted by hogfarmer:
In that wiki blurb there's a photo of Hemingway with a downed Buffalo, the caption identifies it as a lion. That's bad even by internet standards.

Maybe the buffalo identified as a lion...sorry, couldn't resist.....

Good question for Biebs

I've been friends with Paul Chapman and Griffin & Howe for probably 35 years. Much of what they sell are high-end European guns, some bearing the G&H name. I've primarily used the gunsmith shop for repairs and such, and had them make a rifle or 2 over the years from actions and other parts I've owned. In the last few years they've ventured into the long-range/tactical rifle market...not sure that makes sense for their brand. After closing their retail stores in Greenwich CT and Bernardsville NJ, they are now in the Hudson Farm complex, an old estate, and have sporting clays and rifle ranges on site. They seem to concentrate on the shotgun sports. They cater top the well-heeled folks in the Bedminster, Far Hills, and Bernardsville Mountains area, to whom a $12K-$50K firearm is not a stretch :-)

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Originally posted by congomike:

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Originally posted by hogfarmer:
In that wiki blurb there's a photo of Hemingway with a downed Buffalo, the caption identifies it as a lion. That's bad even by internet standards.

Maybe the buffalo identified as a lion...sorry, couldn't resist.....

You have a point, that buff looks more like a lion than most of the trans "women" look like females. Human females that is.

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Originally posted by hogfarmer:

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Originally posted by congomike:

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Originally posted by hogfarmer:
In that wiki blurb there's a photo of Hemingway with a downed Buffalo, the caption identifies it as a lion. That's bad even by internet standards.

Maybe the buffalo identified as a lion...sorry, couldn't resist.....

You have a point, that buff looks more like a lion than most of the trans "women" look like females. Human females that is.

OK, I fixed the incorrect lion callout on Wikipedia.

PIcky picky, sounds like an Star magazine or Inquirer rag gossip column. G&H are an old and respected business that we should treasure, the same as Holland and Holland, Wesley Richards, JP Sauer and sons..and a number of others as opposed to trashing..

I lived 2 miles up the road when G&H moved into the former Ace Hardware location in Bernardsville, and I was in the shop from time to time until 2000. They mostly carried outdoorsy wool clothing, firearms-related items like fitted leather rifle and shotgun cases and sporting prints- bird shooting and so on. Nothing inexpensive. They also had for sale 30 or so used custom rifles, half of them magnums, that customers could handle. A doorway to the rear of the store was always open to their workshop. There was a row of 6 or 7 well-used benches, each with a large vise, ready for a gunsmith to go to work. But I never saw anyone at work, and never any work in progress. It was pretty clear that their gunsmith business hadn't survived the bankruptcy.