Optics
How Red Dot Sights Work (What is a Collimator?)
A whole lot of people have used red dot sights, but how many actually understand how they work? Let’s see if we can fix that today…
Articles by Ian McCollum
Select-fire Rifles
Yugoslav M92: The Serbian 7.62x39mm Pseudo-Krink
The Yugoslav M92 rifle is most often compared to the Soviet AKS-74U “Krinkov” – it is a compact, folding-stock version of Zastava’s M70 AK, just as the 74U was the compact version of the AK-74 […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Rare & Unique Sightings From 100 French FR-F2 Sniper Rifles
Today I had a chance to dig through no less than one hundred FR-F2 snipers brought in by Navy Arms. I found a number of interesting and unusual things in the process, including a number […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Israeli Mauser K98k Sniper Rifles: Wild Heerbrug & Nimrod
The first Israeli military sniper rifles were German K98k snipers obtained by the nascent Israeli armed forces in the late 1940s. These were used in Israel’s independence war, and served well. When the IDF decided […]
Commentary
Buying W.W. Greener: Tales from the Golden Age of Surplus
I am joined today by Val Forgett III of Navy Arms for the first in a series of videos telling some of his stories form growing up in the golden age of surplus, with a […]
Prototype
The Real T26 “Tanker” M1 Garand
Check out Headstamp Publishing’s extensive catalog of excellent books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/home-forgotten The name “tanker” has been applied to shortened M1 Garand rifles for a long time and today we are looking at one of the rifle […]
Competition
Grendel P10 and its Stripper Clips at the BUG Match
The Grendel P10 is a .380 ACP pistol designed to use 10-round stripper clips in a fixed magazine. Specifically, it used M16 clips – the case head of .380 is nearly identical to that of […]
Prototype
Tomiska’s Czech Army Pistol: Empty Magazine Auto-Ejection
Alois Tomiška is best known for designing the first commercially successful double-action semiautomatic pistol, the “Little Tom”. But he also designed this pistol for very early Czechoslovakian military pistol. The first trial in the program […]
Semiauto Rifles
Beretta M1918: Italy’s 9mm Semiauto 9mm Carbine from WWI
Italy adopted the Villar Perosa in 1915, a gun that is sometimes considered the first submachine gun. Despite being fully automatic and chambered for pistol ammo (9mm Glisenti/Parabellum), it was actually not a submachine gun […]
Light MGs
LMG-25: The Swiss Toggle-Locked Light Machine Gun
The LMG-25 was designed by Adolph Furrer at Waffenfabrik Bern in the 1920s. Furrer was a devoted fan of the toggle locking system, and also designed a toggle-locked submachine gun that Switzerland (unwisely) adopted in […]