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Heavy MGs

Vintage Saturday: Legs and Wheels

December 13, 2014 Ian McCollum 18
Imperial Russian gun crew with a 1905 Maxim on an early Sokolov tripod mount.
FFV-890C
Select-fire Rifles

FFV-890C: The Swedish Service Rifle That Never Was

December 12, 2014 Ian McCollum 12
Seth Cane has previously written a 3-part series of articles for us on the Galil, which you can see here: Galil SAR, Galil AR, and Galil ARM. He is now following that with an in-depth […]
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Aircraft MGs

Slow Motion: lMG 08/15 Maxim

December 11, 2014 Ian McCollum 16
Today we’re looking at a luftgekühlt maschinengewehr 08/15 in slow motion – a lightened and mair-cooled version of the Maxim used on German WWI aircraft. This particular example is set up as a Zeppelin gun, […]
Top to bottom: .455 Hand Ejector, Trocaola, WW2 M&P
Revolver

Eibar “Spanish Model 92” Revolver

December 10, 2014 Ian McCollum 53
Today’s post is a guest article written by Mike Burns, taking a look at one of the S&W revolver copies made in Eibar for the French military. He compares it to a WWI .455-caliber S&W […]
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New Sponsor: James D. Julia Auction Company

December 9, 2014 Ian McCollum 5
I’d like to take a moment today to introduce our most recent new sponsor of Forgotten Weapons: the James D. Julia auction company. They are one of the premier firearms auctions houses in the US, […]
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Prototype

Danish Madsen-Ljungman Rifle

December 8, 2014 Ian McCollum 7
Thanks to reader John D, we have a chance today to look at a very scarce Danish-made copy of the AG-42B Ljungman rifle. The Madsen company in Denmark made about 50 of these rifles for […]
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Uncategorized

Savage is Looking for Design Engineers, and an InRange Old West Vignette

December 6, 2014 Ian McCollum 43
Are you a firearms design engineer looking for a new gig? Savage Arms contacted me to say that they are looking for an experienced designer for their Westfield, Massachusetts team. You can see their full […]
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Manual machine guns

Reproduction Nordenfelt Gun

December 5, 2014 Ian McCollum 21
A few days ago I was at a small machine gun shoot (which wound up being a bit larger than I’d expected), and was happily surprised to discover that one of the attendees had brought […]
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Semiauto pistol

Touring the Iraqi Tariq Pistol Factory

December 4, 2014 Ian McCollum 10
Nick Crawford contacted me after seeing my recent video on the Tariq pistol RIA is selling this weekend, to mention that he’d had the opportunity to poke around the factory where those pistols had been […]
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Bolt Action Rifles

Clever Double Barrel Sporting Rifle at RIA

December 3, 2014 Ian McCollum 17
This double-barreled sporting rifle made by Christoph Funk in Germany is not much like the typical over-under double-barreled rifle. It began as a fairly standard Mauser bolt action, chambered in 7×57 Mauser with a 5-round […]

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