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Home2018November

Month: November 2018

Bolt Action Rifles

Mosin-Nagant Factory Pressure Test Rifle

November 20, 2018 Ian McCollum 17

This rifle sold for $3,450 at Rock Island on December 1, 2018. How did people determine chamber pressure in the years before computers and fancy electronics? Well, by squishing a calibrated slug of copper. Factories […]

Bolt Action Rifles

Wehrmannsgewehr – German Shooting Competition After WW1

November 19, 2018 Ian McCollum 16

This rifle failed to sell at Rock Island on December 1, 2018. Introduced by a Dutchman in 1897, the Wehrmannsgewehr was a type of 3-position shooting competition using military pattern rifles in a sporting caliber […]

Bolt Action Rifles

British 1942 Prototype Simplified…Enfield?

November 18, 2018 Ian McCollum 47

This rifle sold for $5,750 at Rock Island on December 1, 2018. In 1942, the British government instituted a development program to design a new simplified rifle to replace the No4 MkI Lee Enfield. The […]

Bolt Action Rifles

British World War One SMLE Sniper Rifle

November 17, 2018 Ian McCollum 23

This rifle sold for $17,250 at Rock Island on December 1, 2018. The British started World War One without a sniper program, but were quick to develop one once faced with the threat of well-trained […]

Semiauto Rifles

FAL Paratrooper 50.63

November 16, 2018 Ian McCollum 62

This rifle sold for $7,475 at Rock Island on November 30, 2018. FN introduced the paratrooper folding-stock version of the FAL rifle in the early 1960s, and it became a very popular addition to their […]

Crude Copies

North China Type 19: The Improved Nambu Pistol

November 15, 2018 Ian McCollum 13

This pistol sold for $8,625 at Rock Island on December 2, 2018. The North China Type 19 pistol (not to be confused with the North China Type 19 rifle) is an improvement on the Type […]

Semiauto Rifles

Roth Haenel Model 1899 – The First Semiauto Sporting Rifle?

November 14, 2018 Ian McCollum 37

This rifle sold for $10,925 at Rock Island on December 2, 2018. While Karel Krnka and Georg Roth were in the process of developing the M1907 pistol, they diverted slightly to apply their patents to […]

Semiauto Rifles

MC58: A USMC Semiauto Trainer 22 for the M14

November 13, 2018 Ian McCollum 10

This rifle sold (for some reason) for $10,925 at Rock Island on December 2, 2018. When the USMC adopted the M1 Garand in 1942, they decided they would like to have a new semiautomatic training […]

Shotgun

Fosbery’s Paradox, by Holland and Holland

November 12, 2018 Ian McCollum 12

This shotgun sold for $6,900 at Rock Island on November 30, 2018. Lt. Col. George Fosbery was a British Army officer who was awarded the Victoria Cross for actions in India in 1863 – and […]

Conversion

Colombian 7.62mm NATO M1 Garand Conversion

November 11, 2018 Ian McCollum 22

This rifle sold for $2,070 at Rock Island on December 1, 2018. After World War Two, Colombia adopted the .30-06 cartridge as standard, purchasing a thousand .30-06 FN49 rifles and 19,000 surplus American M1 Garand […]

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