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Home2014August

Month: August 2014

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Bolt Action Rifles

1889 Schulhof Rotary-Magazine Bolt Action at RIA

August 31, 2014 Ian McCollum 15

Another of the interesting pieces in the upcoming September RIA sale is a Belgian-made Schulhof bolt action rifle. It is notable for its 9-round rotary magazine, and this same model of rifle was tested by […]

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Heavy MGs

Vintage Saturday: Mounts

August 30, 2014 Ian McCollum 12

From left to right, an MG08 on its sled mount, a captured Russian 1910 on a Vickers J tripod modified with wheels (and an MG08 blank adapter), a dummy MG08, and a blank-adapter MG08 on […]

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Semiauto pistol

2.7mm Kolibri Semiauto at RIA

August 29, 2014 Ian McCollum 24

Today’s item at the September Rock Island auction is an example of the smallest centerfire pistol ever made – a 2.7mm Kolibri semiauto. About a thousand of these were made between 1910 and 1914, firing […]

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Video

Nazi Belt Buckle Pistol at RIA

August 28, 2014 Ian McCollum 34

One of the items at RIA in this upcoming Premier Auction is a Nazi belt-buckle pistol. There is a fair amount of debate as to whether these are authentic WWII German artifacts, as opposed to […]

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Gunsmithing

Handmade Auto-Revolver at RIA

August 27, 2014 Ian McCollum 22

This very odd one-off pistol first appeared in a 1958 Golden State Arms catalog, with no description of its history or mechanical design. I have often seen it referred to as an automatic revolver, but […]

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Prototype

Krnka 1895 Semiauto Pistol at RIA

August 26, 2014 Ian McCollum 13

This prototype 1895 Krnka automatic pistol is another of the items up for sale at the upcoming Rock Island Premier Auction. This pistol, serial number 7, was the first in the developmental line that led […]

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Select-fire Rifles

Transferable FG-42 at RIA

August 25, 2014 Ian McCollum 18

The undisputed star of the upcoming Rock Island Premier auction is this transferable full-auto German FG-42 paratrooper’s rifle. Only a few dozen of these are in private hands in the US, and they are an […]

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Gunsmithing

Four-Shot Superposed Ratchet Pistol at RIA

August 24, 2014 Ian McCollum 19

Today’s item in the upcoming Rock Island Premier Auction is a rather unusual percussion pistol. It began life as an underhammer gun, and was rebuilt by an unknown gunsmith as a percussion gun that fired […]

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Vintage photo

Vintage Saturday: Gewehrgranaten

August 23, 2014 Ian McCollum 14

WWI German troops posing with a variety of grenade launchers.

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Single Shot Rifles

1875 Lee Vertical Action Carbine at RIA

August 22, 2014 Ian McCollum 21

My recent trip to the Rock Island Auction house was spent taking a whole slew of videos on guns that are coming up for sale in their Premier auction on the 12th, 13th, and 14th […]

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