Shotgun
Serbu Super Shorty: Is It Awesome or Just Dumb?
The Super Shorty is a pump action shotgun reduced to a 2-round tube capacity and a 6.5″ barrel made by Serbu Firearms. The first one was made in 1998 and since then Mark Serbu has […]
Month: May 2025
Bolt Action Rifles
Short Swiss Schmidt Rubins: M1900 Short Rifle & M1905 Cavalry Carbine
When the Swiss military went to make a short version of its M1896 rifle for cavalry, it realized that the early Schmidt-Rubin action had a problem: it was really, really long. With locking lugs all […]
Prototype
DSA’s Unique Titanium FAL Project
DS Arms got some billet titanium and decided to make a batch of titanium receivers and other parts. This turned out to be a nightmarish amount of work, and two of the receivers had to […]
Prototype
Haenel’s Prototype Simplified Sturmgewehr StG45(H)
In December 1944, the Haenel company received permission to produce a simplified version of the StG-44 Sturmgewehr. The idea was to keep the mechanical system and controls as similar as possible to the design in […]
Antiques
Enjoying Black Powder Episode 11: The Snider-Enfield
Full video with reloading segment and clip solid file available here: https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/ep-11-snider-app Black powder military rifles of the 1860s-1880s are a really enjoyable group of guns. A lot of them are relatively reasonably priced, and […]
Antiques
ASAC Presentation: Bullet Strikes From the First Day of the American Revolution
This lecture was presented at the Spring 2025 meeting of the American Society of Arms Collectors. It was given by Joel Bohy, coauthor of a new book of the same name, published by Mowbray. You […]
Uncategorized
Stamm-Saurer Model 1913 Long-Recoil Prototype Rifle
Hans Stamm developed a series of firearms in Switzerland in the early 1900s, and today we are looking at a second-pattern Model 1913 semiauto rifle. This was developed while Stamm was working for the Saurer […]
Select-fire Rifles
AK4: Sweden’s Beefed-Up Take on the G3
Order your copy of Small Arms of the Cold War: Battle Rifles of NATO today: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/cold-war-battle Or if you are in Europe, please order through our European site: https://www.headstampbook.com/cold-war-battle When Sweden decided to replace its […]
Q&A
Q&A: All About Submachine Guns (May 2025)
Today’s Q&A is brought to you by the fine folks at Patreon! Join us to help support Forgotten Weapons, get videos without ads, and to submit your questions for future Q&A videos: http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons This month’s […]
Semiauto pistol
Beretta Model 1934: Italy’s Unassuming Workhorse Service Pistol
The Beretta Model 34 was basically the final iteration of a design by Tullio Marengoni that began all the way back in 1915. That pistol was updated in the early 1920s, and that one was […]