2022 - Forgotten Weapons

ArcFlash Labs EMG-02 CoilGun: Making SciFi Weapons Into Reality

August 6, 2022 Ian McCollum 20

ArcFlash Labs has come out with a new coil gun design that takes the best elements of their underpowered EMG-01 and their overly bulky GR-1 Anvil and melded them into a much handier EMG-02. This […]

L39A1: British Service Target Rifle Before the L42A1

August 5, 2022 Ian McCollum 4

The story of the conversion of the Lee Enfield to 7.62mm NATO would not be complete without the L39A1. This is essentially the civilian competition version of what would become the L42A1. It was actually […]

Ask Ian – What Was the Best WW2 Rifle Cartridge?

August 4, 2022 Ian McCollum 97

From crablegs21 on Utreon: “In your opinion and in hindsight, which country had the most optimized cartridge for the their primary infantry rifle for WWII? Additionally, which country would have benefited most by switching to […]

Spanish M43: The Worst Sniper Rifle Ever Made

August 3, 2022 Ian McCollum 13

The standard Spanish infantry rifle from 1943 until the adoption of the CETME was the M43, an 8mm Mauser short rifle made at the La Coruña arsenal. As is fairly common, a sniper rifle variant […]

Anti-Gun Partisan Lawfare? GWACS Sues KE Arms et al.

August 2, 2022 Ian McCollum 10

There have been a lot of questions raised about the ongoing lawsuit between GWACS Armory LLC and KE Arms (plus Brownells, Russell Phagan, Sinistral Shooting Technologies, and Shawn Nealon) – so I figured I ought […]

Balanced Recoil AK-107 / Kalashnikov SR-1: Is It Any Good?

August 1, 2022 Ian McCollum 50

One of the really interesting variations on the AK to come out of Russian military development and testing is the balanced-recoil system, as exemplified on the military AK-107 and the commercial Kalashnikov SR-1 rifles. Contrary […]

Join Me for a Battlefield Expedition Tour of the Solomon Islands!

July 31, 2022 Ian McCollum 10

Sign up to join us here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuNoKO3lbssOgiRZ3CV0gAn9SYlSBeJHb7Z464UBDDFgcVog/viewform For more details on the tour and about War Historian Battlefield Expeditions, check out their web site: https://battlefield-expeditions.war-historian.com

Year: 2022