2025 - Forgotten Weapons

Deep Dive With Ian: Origins of the Navy SEALs

July 4, 2025 Ian McCollum 4

I’ve been holding out on you – I started a second channel a little while back, focused on SCUBA related material. It’s a subject I am very interested in, but I didn’t want to talk […]

Orita 1941: The Original Romanian Submachine Gun

July 2, 2025 Ian McCollum 7

The Model 1941 Orita was Romania’s first domestic submachine gun, but after World War Two the design was upgraded in many ways. The Model 41/48 improved the stock, sights, and controls – and virtually all […]

AK4 TP: Estonia’s Modernized G3 DMR / Sniper

June 30, 2025 Ian McCollum 13

When Estonia received a large influx of small arms from Sweden they got both regular AK4 rifles (Sweden’s version of the G3) and scoped DMR models. The standard Estonian infantry squad had nine riflemen and […]

Jonathan Ferguson: British Military AR15s & Flintlock Revolvers

June 29, 2025 Ian McCollum 0

Jonathan’s book, “Thorneycroft to SA80”: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/bullpup-rifle-book “Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier”: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/collier-book “Who Invented the Wheelgun?”: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/purchase/p/wheelgun Armax Journal: https://www.armaxjournal.org Jonathan’s flintlock revolver article:

Enjoying Black Powder Episode 12: The Model 1885 Remington-Lee

June 28, 2025 Ian McCollum 22

Full video with reloading segment and clip solid file available here: https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/ep-12-rem-lee-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 […]

Bullets and Bones: Archaeological View of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (ASAC Presentation)

June 27, 2025 Ian McCollum 11

This lecture was presented at the Spring 2025 meeting of the American Society of Arms Collectors. It was given by Doug Scott, who ran a series of archaeological surveys of the Little Bighorn battlefield and […]

Samopal vz 38: Czechoslovakia’s Interwar Drum-Fed SMG in .380

June 25, 2025 Ian McCollum 24

Military interest in a submachine gun was late in Czechoslovakia, but by the late 1930s a development program was put into place. Interestingly, the main use case for an SMG was seen as being a […]

Galand de Guerre Model 1872: Too Good for the Military

June 23, 2025 Ian McCollum 14

Charles François Galand is best known for his simultaneous-extraction Model 1868, but he also developed a very good solid-frame revolver. This was specifically for the French 1871 military trials, which specifically required a solid frame. […]

YouTube & Guns Q&A Roundtable (Feat. Bloke, Ziga, and PSR)

June 21, 2025 Ian McCollum 10

This month I am excited to invite three other firearms YouTube channels to join me in the Q&A – Polenar Tactical, Bloke on the Range, and PrintShootRepeat. We all just finished shooting Lynx Brutality (put […]

One-Gun Action Match: Stuff & Things “Stizon” Kit

June 20, 2025 Ian McCollum 25

The PP-19 Bizon is a Russian 9mm AK model using helical drum magazines, made in several calibers. It was taken into service in 1996, and has been making Western AKphiles drool ever since, because who […]