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Ammunition

Why We Don’t Use Turkish 8mm Surplus

May 27, 2016 Ian McCollum 55
There is a lot of Turkish surplus 8mm Mauser ammunition on the market here in the US. It used to be super cheap (under 5c/round), but in the last few years I have seen it […]
Prototype

Savage Prototype Longslide .380 (Video)

May 26, 2016 Ian McCollum 29
Savage made just a few experimental long-slide versions of their pistols (most of the ones out there are fakes made by modifying existing guns). Personally, I think that this version in .380 would have made […]
Trench Warfare Notes (English, 1915)
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Trench Warfare Notes, 1915

May 25, 2016 Ian McCollum 22
I have a really neat document to share today, generously sent to me by a reader named Chris in the United Kingdom. These are the notes from a 1915 course on trench warfare as recorded by […]
Prototype

Japanese Type 4 Garand Photos

May 24, 2016 Ian McCollum 20
Towards the end of WWII, in 1944, the Japanese Navy developed a copy of the American M1 Garand rifle, chambered for the 7.7mm cartridge. This followed attempts to simply rebarrel captured US guns, which did […]
Competition

Greener MkIII Police in a 2-Gun Shotgun Match (Video)

May 23, 2016 Ian McCollum 39
Every few years, there is a special 2-Gun match at my local club, using shotgun and pistol instead of rifle and pistol. The rules of this match are a bit different than most multigun competition […]
Select-fire Rifles

The StG-44 in Africa

May 22, 2016 Ian McCollum 34
A while back, a video made the rounds of a cache of StG-44 rifles being found in (allegedly) Syria – I commented on it here, in fact. It was pretty much without any context, though. […]
Four Italian WWI soldiers of the Regia Guardia di Finanza (Royal Finance Police)
Bolt Action Rifles

Vintage Saturday: Royal Finance Police

May 21, 2016 Ian McCollum 39
  From left to right: The soldier without a hat is a sergeant holding a Beretta Model 1915 pistol chambered in 9mm Glisenti. He is resting his shooting arm on a folded coat with a […]
Accessories

US Uniforms of WWI: Interesting Details

May 20, 2016 Ian McCollum 9
I had another post planned for today, but found this video pretty interesting. It’s a look at what the US troops were actually wearing in WWI – when they shipped over to Europe, in the […]
Machine pistol

Mauser “Schnellfeuer”, or Model 712 Machine Pistol

May 19, 2016 Ian McCollum 43
The Schnellfeuer, or Model 712, was Mauser’s answer to the Spanish production of selective fire C96 lookalikes. Just over 100,000 of these pistols were made by Mauser in the 1930s, mostly going to China (although […]
M91/30 Rifles and M38/M44 Carbines in 1941-1945
Bolt Action Rifles

Book Review: M91/30 Rifles and M38/M44 Carbines in 1941-1945

May 18, 2016 Ian McCollum 25
The full title is actually (deep breath) M91/30 Rifles and M38/M44 Carbines in 1941-1945: Accessories and Devices – History of Production, Development, and Maintenance, by Alexander Yuschenko and translated into English by Ryan Elliot. I saw […]

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