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Colt All-American 2000 (Video)

October 27, 2014 Ian McCollum 71

The All-American 2000 was Colt’s attempt to break into the polymer high-cap pistol market in the early 1990s, when Glock was dominating that field. Colt took what appears to have been a pretty good pistol […]

Vintage Saturday: Mujahideen

October 25, 2014 Ian McCollum 47

Mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan during the 1980s. Mostly armed with SMLEs, but I see at least one No4 Enfield in there as well (and the AKM, of course – which appears to have a 40-round […]

Tactical and Technical Trends #50: September 1944

October 24, 2014 Ian McCollum 6

Today I have another issue of Tactical and Technical Trends – this time #50, from September 1944. As usual, most of the material herein will be of interest to folks who like to study WWII, […]

Slow Motion: M1 Garand

October 23, 2014 Ian McCollum 12

The M1 Garand needs no introduction, does it? Here is is at 2000 frames per second:

7.62 mm PSG LANO Sniper Rifle

October 22, 2014 Ian McCollum 12

Today’s post is more modern than most of what we usually cover, but it is about a rifle for which very little information is available. It is a Swedish report translated by Arne Bergkvist – […]

Another Great Video Channel – CapAndBall.eu

October 21, 2014 Ian McCollum 22

One area I have very little coverage of here on Forgotten Weapons is that of black powder muzzleloading firearms. I would like to get more into these at some point, but right now I am […]

2-Gun Action Challenge with a MAS 49/56

October 20, 2014 Ian McCollum 28

This month I chose to shoot the 2-Gun Action Challenge Match with a French MAS 49/56, in the original 7.5×54 caliber. I really like the handling of the rifle, and I was curious to see […]

Reptilicus: Danish MGs in Action

October 19, 2014 Ian McCollum 25

Want to see more Danish machine guns (mostly Madsen LMGs, but also a couple Madsen-Saetters) in one place than you’ve ever seen before? Well, try the 1961 Danish monster flick “Reptilicus”. It’ a pretty terrible […]

Vintage Saturday: Assorted Machine Guns

October 18, 2014 Ian McCollum 21

An assortment of machine guns from the Russian civil war. Pretty much one of everything in there – a Russian 1905 Maxim, German MG08, Austrian Schwarzlose 07/12, Colt 1895 “Potato Digger”, M1915 Chauchat, Madsen LMG, […]

Tactical and Technical Trends #49: August 1944

October 17, 2014 Ian McCollum 13

A little while back, I got my hands on a number of copies of Tactical and Technical Trends booklets – this was a bulletin published by the US Military Intelligence Service during WWII to keep […]