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Year: 2024

Accessories

Suomi Noisemaker Training Magazine

February 11, 2024 Ian McCollum 21
No blank-firing adapter? No money for practice ammo? What you need is a wooden clicky-clacky noisemaker that locks into your Suomi!
Light MGs

DSA’s Modernized Mini-RPD at the Range

February 10, 2024 Ian McCollum 18
Full video available at all of these sites: History of Weapons & War Patreon Playeur Floatplane Today I am at the range with one of DSA’s mini-RPDs. The RPD is a nearly 80-year-old design (doesn’t […]
Gunsmithing

Ultra-Premium S&W Performance Center Model 3566

February 9, 2024 Ian McCollum 14
When Smith & Wesson introduced their Model 3566 pistol for USPSA use, the company shooting team needed six of them for use at the 1994 USPSA Nationals. The Performance Center made these six guns, and […]
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Update: Clockwork Basilisk Books on the Way!

February 8, 2024 Ian McCollum 0
Want to help us cover our extra shipping costs? All of Headstamp Publishing’s books are available at: https://www.headstamppublishing.com If you have changed addresses since ordering Clockwork Basilisk, please head over to Backerkit now to update […]
Commentary

Everything Wrong with the Sniper Rifles in “Enemy at the Gates”

February 7, 2024 Ian McCollum 17
One of the very few blockbuster American movies about the Eastern Front in World War Two is Enemy at the Gates, a film about the Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev. The movie is based around a […]
Prototype

PT83: The Sneaky Silenced Version of Poland’s P83 Pistol

February 5, 2024 Ian McCollum 26
When the P-83 pistol went into production, the Polish military decided that it wanted a dedicated suppressed version of the gun, and the result was the PT-83. Thw P-83 was a 9x18mm pistol with a […]
Museum Review

Tour: Croatian Homeland War Museum Vehicle & Artillery Park

February 4, 2024 Ian McCollum 2
While in Croatia for filming, we stopped in at the Homeland War Museum (Muzej Domovinskog Rata) in Karlovac. Built in the preserved ruins of the “Hotel California”, it houses a small but pretty comprehensive collection […]
Artillery

Fiji in World War Two: the Momi Bay Gun Battery

February 3, 2024 Ian McCollum 10
When the clouds of World War Two began to loom in the 1930s, Britain decided to begin securing some of its more distant colonial outposts – places that might be of strategic importance in a […]
Single Shot Rifles

Whitneyville Rolling Block for the Montreal Riot Squad

February 2, 2024 Ian McCollum 1
In 1875 the Montreal City Police decided that they wanted to equip a riot squad in case of public disturbance. They initially requested funds for 50 revolvers, but this changed to 60 carbines instead, and […]
Prototype

Prototype French MAS-49 SMG in .45ACP

January 31, 2024 Ian McCollum 0
In the late 1940s the French developed a new suite of small arms, including a competition to replace the 7.65mm MAS-38 submachine gun with a new 9x19mm SMG. The eventual winner of this program was […]

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