Competition
I Tried to Use the GR-1 Anvil at the BUG Match…
So, I took the GR-1 to this month’s Backup Gun Match…but all did not go as I’d hoped. We blew a fuse in the gun (it is still an alpha prototype, remember), and were not […]
Articles by Ian McCollum
Electromagnetic Weapons
ArcFlash Labs’ GR-1 Anvil Portable Gauss Rifle
https://arcflashlabs.com/_accelerators/fully-assembled-guns/# The GR-1 “Anvil” is a portable, shoulder-fired gauss rifle made by Arcflash Labs. Yeah, it’s pretty awesome to be living in the future where we actually have real gauss rifles, isn’t it? First, some […]
Electromagnetic Weapons
The Reality of Gauss Rifles and Coil Guns w/ David Wirth of Arcflash Labs
David Wirth is one of the founders of Arcflash Labs, a small company developing “ultra-high energy pulsed power supplies”, which have applications in a variety of fields – but today we are talking about electromagnetic […]
Select-fire Rifles
Bren 805: A Rifle for the Post-Communist Czech Army
With the Velvet Revolution and the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, a new Czech Republic immediately looked to NATO membership. This would require rearming the Czech Army with a rifle in 5.56mm NATO. After some […]
Semiauto pistol
Alien vs Spinner: Round 2 (Now With Less Fail!)
Time for another practice session on the spinner…I am improving! This time, I stopped trying to make double taps, and focused instead on getting a single properly timed hit at each presentation. Hitting twice is […]
Revolver
Le Redoutable: A Double-Barrel 20-Shot Revolver
“Manufrance” was the common abbreviated name for Manufacture d’Armes et Cycles de Saint Etienne, a massive mail-order catalog company in France for many decades. Like Sears Roebuck in the United States, one could get pretty […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Amsterdam Police Carbine: 8mm Mauser for the Carbine/SMG Squad
In the wake of World War Two, much of Europe was awash in small arms – but there were still organizations looking to purchase new arms rather than use the available surplus. The Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam […]
Conversion
The Short-Lived Suomi SMG for Armored Vehicle Mounts
Prior to the Winter War, Finland had just a few armored vehicles; mostly armored cars. These needed some armament, and one idea put forth was to fit an m/31 Suomi to a ball mount inside […]
Commentary
What is UTREON? The Best Place to Watch Forgotten Weapons…
Utreon is a growing video platform that combines the functions of both YouTube and Patreon, without the problems of either one. I have no plans to stop using either of those, but I think Utreon […]
Optics
2-Gun: An Old-School “Ring Sight” Optic
This month at the 2G-ACM match, I thought it would be interesting to try out a “Ring Sight”. This is the same style of optics used on the FN P90 – the manufacturer marketed it […]