Ian McCollum - Forgotten Weapons

The Coolest Gun You Will See All Day: China’s Type 64 Silenced Pistol

August 14, 2020 Ian McCollum 19

Lot 1487 in the September 2020 RIA Premier auction. The Type 64 is a dedicated suppressed pistol first introduced in 1965 and used in the Vietnam War. It uses a rimless version of the .32 […]

Book Review: Textbook of Pistol Technology and Design

August 13, 2020 Ian McCollum 26

Peter Dallhammer is a mechanical engineer who works for the Walther company, and has written an excellent book on firearms manufacture. If you were going to design a university program around the design and production […]

CETME-L Comparison: HMG and MarColMar

August 12, 2020 Ian McCollum 6

Today, a comparison between a semiauto CETME-L rifle from MarColMar Firearms and one from HMG (albeit an example I built myself).

Q&A 44: My Workout Routine, NATO-Caliber Brownings, & Defend the Alamo!

August 11, 2020 Ian McCollum 21

00:59 – Is there a future in balanced recoil type systems? 02:05 – Does 8mm Kurz have a place today? 03:44 – Was there ever an M1 Carbine in .223? 06:05 – How is Floatplane […]

Prototype Colt-Vektor: A 1911 on the Outside and a Beretta on the Inside

August 10, 2020 Ian McCollum 31

In the late 1990s Colt was looking for pistols it could license for sale in the United States, in the wake of the failures of both eh Double Eagle and All-American 2000. They approached CZ, […]

Calico Reliability Testing: Round #2

August 9, 2020 Ian McCollum 13

When I ran my Calico carbine through the PCC course of fire last month, I was rather surprised to see it run through 150 rounds without any malfunctions. I plan to continue shooting it without […]

Competition with a Galil R5 and Armson OEG

August 8, 2020 Ian McCollum 10

Today I headed to the monthly 2-Gun match (which is rifle-only for this month) with a semiauto Galil R5 clone outfitted with an Armson OEG (Occluded Eye Gunsight). This particular OEG has a base specifically […]

Prototype .45 Caliber Roth-Krnka for US and UK Trials

August 7, 2020 Ian McCollum 24

In an effort to appeal to American and British military testing commissions, Georg Roth produced a handful of prototype Roth-Krnka pistols in .45 caliber. They used a proprietary cartridge; the 11.5mm Roth (approximately 200 grains […]

Century-Old Challenge Coin: The American Legion’s 1927 Paris Convention

August 6, 2020 Ian McCollum 9

The American Legion was founded in 1919 as a veterans service organization for soldiers who served in World War One, and they chose the 10th anniversary of America’s entrance into the war to make a […]

Both Versions of the CETME LV: Enosa and SUSAT

August 5, 2020 Ian McCollum 13

The Spanish military used the CETME-L rifle as its standard rifle in the 1980s and 1990s. In addition to the standard model, they also had two versions of marksman’s CETME-Ls. These were designated the LV […]