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Home2020March

Month: March 2020

Bolt Action Rifles

Experimental Remington-Keene: Preventing Magazine Detonations

March 31, 2020 Ian McCollum 14

This is lot #183 in the upcoming RIA Premier Auction. It was scheduled for April, but has been postponed – check their web site for upcoming Online Only auctions every month, though! This is a […]

Gunsmithing

Ross Rudd’s Prototype Delayed Blowback AR180

March 30, 2020 Ian McCollum 68

Sold for $1,610 in the February 2020 Sport & Collectors auction. Ross Rudd was born in Toronto in 1915, but his family moved to Springfield Massachusetts in 1917, and he would grow up there. Interested […]

Revolver

Engraved Tranter 577-Caliber Hand Cannon

March 28, 2020 Ian McCollum 25

This is lot #1347 in the upcoming RIA Premier Auction. It was scheduled for April, but has been postponed – check their web site for upcoming Online Only auctions every month, though! William Tranter’s Model […]

Submachine Guns

North Vietnamese K-50M Submachine Gun

March 27, 2020 Ian McCollum 44

This is lot #545 in the upcoming RIA Premier Auction. It was scheduled for April, but has been postponed – check their web site for upcoming Online Only auctions every month, though! The K-50M was […]

Semiauto pistol

USMC Force Recon & MEUSOC: the M45A1

March 26, 2020 Ian McCollum 51

This is lot #446 in the upcoming RIA Premier Auction. It was scheduled for April, but has been postponed – check their web site for upcoming Online Only auctions every month, though! When the US […]

Manual Repeater

Pietro Venditti Copies the Volcanic Repeating Pistol

March 25, 2020 Ian McCollum 6

This is lot #11 in the upcoming April 2020 RIA Premier Auction. The Venditti pistols are copies of the Volcanic made in southern Italy in the mid to late 1870s – well after the rocket […]

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Q&A

Experiment: Live Stream Q&A: Cocktails, Carry Guns, and More!

March 24, 2020 Ian McCollum 10

This month, I decided to experiment with doing a live streamed Q&A session. This was recorded yesterday and open to Patreon supporters at $2 and up (the same people who are able to submit Q&A […]

Prototype

Prototype Locked-Breech 9x19mm Mauser HSc

March 23, 2020 Ian McCollum 20

When Mauser began development of the HSc pistol, it was intended to be a pair of guns – a simple blowback gun in .32 or .380 caliber for civilian and police use and a larger […]

Competition

Blow-Forward Schwarzlose 1908 at the Backup Gun Match

March 21, 2020 Ian McCollum 9

The Schwarzlose 1908 is the only blow-forward firearm ever to see real commercial sale. It is a compact pocket pistol chambered for .32 ACP, with a 7-round magazine. They were sold by Schwarzlose in Germany […]

Artillery

Light, Mobile, and Deadly: the French Mle 1937 25mm Puteaux AT Gun

March 20, 2020 Ian McCollum 30

After World War One, the French military set up a program to modernize all of its weaponry, and that included a replacement for the Mle 1916 light infantry cannon. An anti-tank gun had not been […]

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