Conversion
Vietnamese MAT-49 in 7.62mm Tokarev at the Range
While I have filmed a MAT-49, I have not had a chance to actually try one out at the range until today. But today I don’t just have a normal example; I have one rebarreled […]
Articles by Ian McCollum
Heavy MGs
Vickers Mk IV .50 Caliber Water-Cooled Tank Gun
Development of the .50 caliber Vickers guns began during World War One, but stagnated after 1918, and was not really completed until the early 1930s. At that point, Vickers produced a series of the guns […]
Antiques
Ethiopian Oddities – Single Shot French Mle 1878 Marine
Among all the standard rifles that are coming into the US from Ethiopia through InterOrdnance, there are a handful of really unusual oddballs, and we are going to look at several of them. We have […]
Submachine Guns
Danish M1941 Suomi SMG
When the Tikkakoski company bought the rights to produce the kp/31 “Suomi” submachine gun in the 1930s, they attempted to make a bunch of export sales, although none were very successful. By the late 30s […]
Commentary
Cheek Pistol Concept: Unorthodox But Effective
My friend Rhett Neumayer has been experimenting with an unorthodox but very interesting way to use handguns that don’t have reciprocating slides. He fits a red dot optic on a relatively tall mount, then presses […]
Uncategorized
A Rare Navy Stopgap: the CLLE MkI Naval Enfield
The British Royal Navy tended to accumulate some of the obsolescent patterns of Enfield rifles around the turn of the 19th century, as the Army had higher priority for the new types of rifle. This […]
Competition
NAA .22 Magnum Mini-Revolver at the BUG Match
I’ve been taking a lot of big pistols to the (alleged) BackUp Gun Match, and I figured it was time to try out something that actually would quality as a back-up gun. So, I got […]
Semiauto Rifles
Zastava’s M90: The Serbian M70 Updated to 5.56mm
Zastava has been making AK rifles in Serbia (formerly Yugoslavia) since the 1960s, and today has a number of offerings made for the commercial market. One of the recent ones is the M90 (or more […]
Commentary
Throwback Thursday: 70 Years’ Perspective on Gun Collecting (Dolf Goldsmith)
Today I am reposting an interview I filmed with Dolf Goldsmith back in December 2011. We talk about the state of gun collecting at that time, and how things have changed since Dolf first took […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Odd BSA Prototype Charger Bridge Long Lee
Today we have a very odd BSA prototype Long Lee rifle. The details of its production are unknown, but it has good provenance; the Charnwood Ordnance collection. What makes the rifle unusual is a unique […]