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Home2011December

Month: December 2011

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Vintage Saturday: Maybe you can hire…the Model A Team!

December 31, 2011 Ian McCollum 2

Maybe this team can actually hit the bad guys once in a while…

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Book review

Video Book Review: Textbook of Automatic Pistols

December 30, 2011 Ian McCollum 4

Every pile of dusty old books you find at a gun show has a zillion reprints of Cartridges of the World and how-to pamphlets on stock refinishing from 1960. But occasionally you’ll find a real […]

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End of Major Construction Operations

December 29, 2011 Ian McCollum 5

Alrighty, I think we’ve got the major site layout changes done now. The new format has a couple big improvements, like automatically sizing itself to fit your monitor width. But the main reason I made […]

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Fusil Mexico – One More Set of Photos

December 29, 2011 Ian McCollum 0

You may recall the Fusil Mexico from our initial post or followup – it is the interesting slide-action rifle that showed up at a Denver gun show a few months ago. Well, the owner has […]

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Sniper Rifles

WWI P14 Sniper photos

December 28, 2011 Ian McCollum 10

From our friend Steve Hill at Spotted Dog Firearms, we have a good set of photos of an original World War I Winchester (as a result of British trials, it was determined that Winchester made […]

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Construction in progress…

December 27, 2011 Ian McCollum Comments Off on Construction in progress…

Please forgive the random changes you may see for the next few hours – we’re making a few changes to the site layout. We should be back running better than ever by the end of […]

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Feeding devices

Unusual Chinese ZB/Bren Magazine

December 27, 2011 Ian McCollum 1

I was visiting Apex Gun Parts just the other day, and while poking through a box of magazines I came across something pretty unusual: The body is clearly that of a Czech ZB26/30 twenty round […]

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Christmas felicitations from Salzburg

December 26, 2011 Ian McCollum 3

I hope you all had a happy Christmas holiday with family and friends, and maybe found something under the tree to add to your collections. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to spend […]

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Vintage photo

Vintage Saturday – C96 Mauser in the field

December 24, 2011 Ian McCollum 3

Also note the extra-tactical single point sling.

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Mauser Showdown at the Range – C96, Carbine, and Schnellfeuer

December 23, 2011 Ian McCollum 9

I’ve been promising this range video for a while now, and here it is. We took all three configurations of the C96 Broomhandle Mauser – a pistol, a carbine, and a machine pistol – out […]

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