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Month: December 2013

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Semiauto pistol

Mannlicher M1900 Pistol: Extra-Fancy

December 31, 2013 Ian McCollum 19

The M1900 is a pretty rare variant of one of Mannicher’s automatic pistols – the 1905 version was sold in relatively large numbers to the Argentine government, and those guns are far more common today […]

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Lever Action Rifles

Russian Winchester 1895 (Video)

December 30, 2013 Ian McCollum 27

By the 1890s, Winchester had established an extremely successful business in lever-action rifles. John Browning’s designs for the 1886, 1892, and 1894 models had proven very popular, and so Winchester (seeing the potential of the […]

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Light MGs

Vintage Saturday: Kiwi Rambo

December 28, 2013 Ian McCollum 19

Since we were just looking at Bren drums yesterday, here’s a New Zealand trooper in the desert somewhere with a pair of them…

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Accessories

Shooting a Bren 100-Round Drum

December 27, 2013 Ian McCollum 13

A friend of mine went to a local machine gun shoot recently, and came back with some footage of a pair of Bren guns being fired with a 100-round drum magazine. These drums were designed […]

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Book review

Book Review: The Colt 1911 – An Engineer’s Perspective

December 26, 2013 Ian McCollum 25

This really isn’t a book, but rather an article published for the Kindle. Malcolm Werner is a long-time skilled IPSC competitor and professional engineer, and decided to look at why the Colt 1911 was designed […]

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Bolt Action Rifles

Type 2 Paratrooper Arisaka at Nambu World

December 25, 2013 Ian McCollum 18

If you are looking for gun info today, you really deserve to have something more elaborate than what I am able to write while on the road visiting family. So, I will direct you to […]

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Bolt Action Rifles

Fake Nazi Marked Steyr M95

December 24, 2013 Ian McCollum 25

What is the fastest way to add a couple hundred bucks to the price of a WWII-era firearm? Add a Waffenamt to it, of course! German markings on a gun always drive up interest and […]

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Bolt Action Rifles

Remington-Keene Repeater

December 23, 2013 Ian McCollum 37

The Remington-Keene reifle was the brainchild of one James Keene of Newark, NJ, who began patenting its features in 1874. The gun would eventually go into production with the Remington company in 1877 and remain […]

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Looking for Some 7.65mm Mannlicher Ammo…

December 22, 2013 Ian McCollum 39

Update! Thanks to some leads I got, I now have 200 rounds of ammo inbound; half Argentine surplus and half modern loads made from .32-20 brass (and some great resources for other odd calibers I’m sure […]

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Bolt Action Rifles

Vintage Saturday: Strange Bedfellows

December 21, 2013 Ian McCollum 22

Soviet troops with M38 Mosin carbines and Breda Model 37 heavy machine guns (presumably captured from the ill-fated Italian ARMIR expedition in 1942/43). Thanks to Leszek for finding the photo at Waralbum.ru!

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