Ian McCollum - Forgotten Weapons

Book Review: The Yanks Are Coming!

June 26, 2014 Ian McCollum 15

Most of the books I look at are primarily text-based, and today I figured we should do something a little bit different. Armor Plate Press, run by Tom Laemlein, specializes in photographic studies of various […]

Battle of the Greasy Grass

June 25, 2014 Ian McCollum 49

On this day 138 years ago, the combined forces of the Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapaho tribes delivered a staggering defeat to the US Army’s 7th Cavalry under the command of General George Armstrong Custer. The […]

MG17 Adapter, and Some Grainy Old Video

June 24, 2014 Ian McCollum 7

First up, you may recall that a while back we had some photos of an MG17 belt-feed adapter salvaged from the wreck of an Me-109. The fellow who owned that piece was hoping to restore […]

Yugo M76 Sniper’s Rifle in a 2-Gun Match (Video)

June 23, 2014 Ian McCollum 22

For this month’s 2-Gun Action Challenge Match, I decided to try using my Yugoslav M76, in 8x57mm. The M76 is one of the triad of eastern marksmen’s rifles – the PSL, the SVD, and the […]

Small Arms of China – Update

June 22, 2014 Ian McCollum 7

Several years ago I had the opportunity to interview Bin Shih, who had just published a book in both English and Chinese on Chinese small arms – China’s Small Arms of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War […]

Vintage Saturday: Winter Watch

June 21, 2014 Ian McCollum 19

Bulgarian troops in the First World War, with fixed bayonets on a Steyr M95 rifle and carbine.

Help us fund a high-speed camera!

June 21, 2014 Ian McCollum 13

Thanks to everyone! We hit the full $13,000 goal, and I have placed an order for an Edgertronic high speed camera! It should arrive in 3-4 weeks. The campaign will still run until the 17th […]

Funding a Good High-Speed Camera

June 20, 2014 Ian McCollum 10

For the last couple years, I have been doing my video work for Forgotten Weapons with a consumer-grade little camcorder and a low-end wireless microphone. It works, but the video has some room for improvement […]

Book Review: Italian Small Arms of the First and Second World Wars

June 19, 2014 Ian McCollum 12

Good news for everyone interested in collecting Italian military firearms (yes, both of you)! Ralph Riccio has just recently published a new book on Italian Small Arms of the First and Second World Wars. Until […]

XM-2 Personnel Detector

June 18, 2014 Ian McCollum 23

by Tom Laemlein In the rather deadly game of “hide & seek” played by the US Army and the Viet Cong led to a rather bizarre technical innovation during the Vietnam War: the people sniffer. […]