2018 - Forgotten Weapons

Britain’s Only Repeating Trainer: the No7 Mk I

June 12, 2018 Ian McCollum 9

This rifle is coming up for sale at Rock Island on June 23. Developed by BSA immediately after World War Two, the No7 MkI training rifle was the only one of the British Enfield trainers […]

Republic Arms RAP-401: Compact South African Steel

June 11, 2018 Ian McCollum 11

This pistol is coming up for auction at Rock Island here. The Republic Arms 401 was originally designed as a compact pistol for the South African Police. The country was under international arms embargo, and […]

Gewehr 71/84: Germany’s Transitional Repeating Rifle

June 10, 2018 Ian McCollum 16

This rifle is coming up for auction at RIA here. In the ongoing arms race between France and Germany, the Mauser 71/84 was the first German repeating rifle. Paul Mauser began work on it in […]

Citadel Martini – British Guns Rebuilt in Cairo

June 9, 2018 Ian McCollum 5

This rifle is part of a lot coming up for auction at Rock Island here. In 1903, the British government shipped a load of spare/surplus Martini parts and tooling to Egypt, where it was set […]

10mm is the Best Millimeter: the Colt Delta Elite

June 8, 2018 Ian McCollum 14

This pistol is coming up for auction at RIA on June 23. Colt introduced the Delta Elite in 1987 to take advantage of the hype and publicity surrounding the 10mm Auto cartridge in the Bren […]

Origin of a Flare Pistol: Shpagin’s SPSh-44

June 7, 2018 Ian McCollum 2

This flare pistol is coming up for sale at RIA on June 23. After finishing his work on the PPSh-41 submachine gun, Georgiy Semyonovich Shpagin was tasked with creating a simplified flare or signal pistol […]

Britains First Standard Trainer: the No 2 Mk IV*

June 6, 2018 Ian McCollum 16

This rifle is coming up for sale at RIA on June 23. The British military started using training rifles in 1883, with the .297/.230 Morris cartridge in adapted Martini rifles. This would give way to […]

Serbian 1908 Carbine – Light, Handy, and Chambered for 7×57

June 5, 2018 Ian McCollum 11

The carbine in this video is available at auction here. The DWM order placed in 1899 had not provided Serbia with as many rifles as it had wanted, but it would take until 1906 for […]

Serbian 1899 Mauser – Like Boers in Europe

June 4, 2018 Ian McCollum 13

Rifle in this video is selling at auction here. Serbia in the 1890s was not a large or wealthy kingdom, and they had no domestic arms manufacturing capacity – but they did appreciate a good […]

AMT Automag IV – A Browning in .45 Winchester Magnum

June 3, 2018 Ian McCollum 25

The pistol in this video is coming up for auction here. The Automag series of pistol introduced by Arcadia Machine & Tool in the late 1980s and early 1990s were produced by the same man […]