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Articles by Ian McCollum

IJA soldier in Chine with a Nambu Type 11 LMG and its tripod
Light MGs

Type 11 LMG w/ Tripod

August 4, 2015 Ian McCollum 28
Reader Blake sent me a couple very interesting photos recently, and they show a pretty unusual item – a Nambu Type 11 tripod. Blake is an American living with his Japanese wife in Japan, and […]
Handgun

Francotte .22LR Borchardt Lookalike (Video)

August 3, 2015 Ian McCollum 14
It’s fairly common today to see .22 caliber versions of larger firearms, marketed to folks who don’t want to spend as much for either the gun or its ammunition. For example, the ATI Sturmgewehrs, the […]
French officer with a Lebel rifle and barrel-mounted light
Vintage photo

Vintage Saturday Correction: Spare a Light?

August 2, 2015 Ian McCollum 37
Long-time reader and commenter Eon took a closer look at yesterday’s photo and recognized what I had not – it isn’t a line-throwing rifle, it’s a light mounted under the barrel. His comment in full: […]
French officer with a Lebel rifle and barrel-mounted light
Bolt Action Rifles

Vintage Saturday: Throw Me a Line!

August 1, 2015 Ian McCollum 25
Prototype

Furrer M1919 Double-Barrel SMG

July 31, 2015 Ian McCollum 21
  We have looked at one of Adolf Furrer’s M1919 submachine guns before, but this one is a much different implementation. The model 1919 Furrer designed was basically a chassis for converting a Luger pistol […]
Semiauto pistol

Slow Motion: Luger Snail Drum

July 30, 2015 Ian McCollum 25
The 32-round snail drum (or as it was properly known, the trommelmagazin 08) was developed in 1916 to give increased firepower to units armed with the LangePistole 08, or artillery Luger. These pistols were also […]
Bolt Action Rifles

2-Gun Action Challenge Match: SMLE vs Kar 98AZ (Video)

July 29, 2015 Ian McCollum 45
In this month’s 2-Gun Action Challenge Match, we decided to both run World War I rifles – Karl with a 1914/1920 Kar 98AZ and I had a 1918 no1 MkIII* SMLE. In the previous enfield/Mauser matchup the […]
Heavy MGs

Slow Motion Video from the Pattern Room

July 28, 2015 Ian McCollum 25
As someone who is very interested in the practical handling of old firearms, the idea of gun museums leaves me a bit conflicted. On the one hand, I am absolutely in favor of guns being […]
Prototype

Swiss Prototype Pistols: P44/8 and W+F Bern P43 (Video)

July 27, 2015 Ian McCollum 29
Switzerland was an early adopter of the Luger pistol as a standard military sidearm, but by WWII that design was becoming obsolete and the Swiss began looking for a newer sidearm. Several lines of development […]
Irish troops unpacking a new Boys Anti-Tank Rifle
Anti-Tank Rifles

Vintage Saturday: Big Boys Toy

July 25, 2015 Ian McCollum 37
The Republic of Ireland opted to copy the German WWI Stahlhelm design rather than use British Brodie-style helmets. Until 1940, anyway, and I think it’s pretty clear why they changed. The rifle here, of course, […]

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