Competition
Pecos Run-n-Gun Disappointment
As I’m sure you saw from my preview post an video, I was really excited to participate in this year’s Pecos Run and Gun in the Sun match…and it turned into a huge disappointment. Cancelled […]
Articles by Ian McCollum
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: (The World is) Worth Fighting For
Ernest Hemingway on the lines with a Mosin-Nagant during the Spanish Civil War. Photo by Hemingway’s companion Robert Capa, dated November 5th, 1938. What better way to research a book than to actually join the […]
Shotgun
Fosbery’s Pump Shotgun
Today’s post and photos were provided by guest author Miles Vining – thanks, Miles! Lieutenant Colonel George Vincent Fosbery VC is primarily known for his most famous contribution to military small arms in the Webley-Fosbery […]
Semiauto pistol
Type 94 Nambu in Slow Motion
The Type 94 Nambu is a much-maligned pistol used by the Japanese military from 1935-1945. It’s actually a better gun than people give it credit for, but we will address that in a later video. […]
Video
New InRange Trailer and Madsen Catalog
First off, in the past few days we have had a number of people ask for a trailer for the first episode of InRange that actually provides a thorough idea of what is in the […]
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Upcoming Match with a Swiss Gewehr 1911
This coming weekend, I’ll be taking a brief trip into western Texas to compete in the annual Pecos Run and Gun in the Sun. It’s a run-n-gun match, as the name implies, using rifle and […]
Submachine Guns
Madsen M50 SMG (Video)
The Madsen M50 was one of a series of submachine guns developed and marketed by the Danish Madsen company after World War II. The first was the M46 (1946), followed by M50 and the M53. […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: A Rifle for Cold Weather
German sentry in Russia with a captured Mosin-Nagant M91 rifle, WWI. Note the sling swivel on the front of the magazine, and the lack of sling slots in the stock – this is a pre-1908 […]
Bolt Action Rifles
German Mauser Obrez Pistol
From the collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, a reader named James found an example of an Obrez pistol made on a Mauser K98 rifle action. This apparently was made by Czech partisans during World […]
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Introducing InRange TV
I am very excited to introduce a new project today – InRange TV! InRange is intended to be everything that cable TV gun programs have utterly failed to be: intelligent and educational, while still being […]