2025 - Forgotten Weapons

Dillinger Gang’s Winchester 1907 Self-Loader: The Lebman Conversion

January 10, 2025 Ian McCollum 26

Hyman Lehman was a gunsmith in Texas who made a variant of firearms for some of the most notorious gangsters of the 1930s. One of his specialties was to take the Winchester Model 1907 Self-Loader […]

Steyr AUGs of the Falkland Islands Defense Force

January 8, 2025 Ian McCollum 24

The Falkland Islands Defense Force is a small organization independent of the British military, run directly by the Falkland Islands government. When it decided to update its small arms form the L1A1 SLR (aka British […]

You Can Copy Anything: Chinese Bolt Action M1 Carbine

January 6, 2025 Ian McCollum 20

This is a copy of the M1 Carbine made in China late in the Chinese civil war – likely between 1945 and 1949. While there was an attempt at factory production of a true M1 […]

Development of the Uzi Family: Standard, Mini, and Micro

January 4, 2025 Ian McCollum 22

https://youtu.be/y3EIud0KKCM Full video cut available on the History of Weapons & War app. The Uzi was originally designed in the 1950s, and it was on the technological cutting edge at the time. The stamped receiver, […]

Q&A: The Falklands War of 1982

January 3, 2025 Ian McCollum 15

Want a patch or t-shirt with our adorably heavily armed rockhopper penguin? Both are available from Varusteleka: https://www.varusteleka.com/en/search?q=penguin Since I spent a couple weeks hiking across the Falklands and then visiting battlefields (and penguins), it […]

Field to Table: Harvesting, Butchering, and Preparing Wild Game w/ Outdoor Solutions

January 1, 2025 Ian McCollum 3

You can get Outdoor Solutions’ ebook and companion videos along with their whole upcoming class schedule at: https://www.fromfieldtotable.com My freezer is getting low, so it was time to refill it – and I chose to […]