2022 - Forgotten Weapons

Modular Guns: Assembling a SIG USW-320

November 29, 2022 Ian McCollum 6

Today I’m at SIG Sauer Parts (soon to be ModGuns) to play around with assembling a SIG 320. I’ve always been interested in stocked pistols, and so I’m going to take this opportunity to put […]

FN’s Millionth Pistol: Presented to John Browning; Saved by a Belgian Cop

November 28, 2022 Ian McCollum 25

Fabrique Nationale was formed as a consortium of small gunmakers to produce Mauser rifles for the Belgian Army, and when that work was complete the company basically had nothing else to do…until they met John […]

2-Gun: Suspiciously Silent vs Ludicrously Loud

November 26, 2022 Ian McCollum 13

This month’s 2-Gun match was three pretty short stages, so my friend Tom and I decided to just play with a fun theme – he brought a pair of huge .50-caliber cannons (.50AE Desert Eagle […]

Firepower Back to the 1500s: Pre-Collier Repeaters

November 25, 2022 Ian McCollum 11

“Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler” is available right now for preorder on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/clockwork-basilisk?ref=9k8yzv Samuel Colt wasn’t the first person to invent a revolver, and Artemas Wheeler wasn’t either. […]

New & Classic Forgotten Weapons Merchandise for 2022!

November 24, 2022 Ian McCollum 2

https://youtu.be/QbGGdMY_ntc The holiday spending season has arrived, and so I have my annual rundown on some of the nice merchandise options I have available from Forgotten Weapons… At the Shop, we are introducing a couple […]

Frommer Pistolen-MG Model 1917: A Crazy Villar Perosa Copy

November 23, 2022 Ian McCollum 18

After encountering Italian Villar Perosa machine pistols in the field, Austro-Hungarian troops requested a similar weapon. The project was given to FÉG to work on, and the result was the Pistolen-MG Model 1917: a pair […]

Tales of the Hunt: Stories from Writing Clockwork Basilisk

November 22, 2022 Ian McCollum 3

“Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler” is available right now for preorder on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/clockwork-basilisk?ref=9fouz5 Today Professor Ben Nicholson joins me to talk about some of the work behind the […]

Q&A: Desert Brutality Road Trip Edition

November 21, 2022 Ian McCollum 29

0:58 – Powernap – How do PMCs handle NFA issues and training. 2:46 – Tyler – Thoughts on the influx of MP5 copies? 4:40 – Beef Supreme – Advice for first-time Brutality match competitors 10:25 […]

TT33 Tokarev at the BackUp Gun Match

November 19, 2022 Ian McCollum 20

My holster and mag carrier in this match are made by BattleGnome Solutions in Slovenia, and available worldwide exclusively from the Polenar Tactical web store: https://polenartactical.com/shop/holsters/1363-tt-holster-bgs.html I was talking to the guys who operate BattleGnome […]

Operation CARPETBAGGER: French Resistance No4 Enfield

November 18, 2022 Ian McCollum 8

During 1944, the US and UK cooperatively ran a major effort to drop arms and equipment to French Resistance forces in preparation for the Allied landings in France. It began as Operation Carpetbagger with night […]