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Semiauto pistol

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 […]
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Bolt Action Rifles

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 […]
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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, […]
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Semiauto Rifles

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:  
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Bolt Action Rifles

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 – […]
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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 […]
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Competition

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 […]
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General Purpose MGs

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 […]
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Heavy MGs

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, […]
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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 […]

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