Accessories
Vintage Saturday: Bark!
Finnish dog wearing a canine gas mask during the Winter War.
Articles by Ian McCollum
Heavy MGs
Vickers Cal .30 Parts List
Presented for general reference: An illustrated parts list for the .30-06 caliber Vickers machine gun and accessories. Complete with translations between English and American!
Bolt Action Rifles
Book Review: Mauser Bolt Rifles by Olsen
Ludwig Olsen’s Mauser Bolt Rifles is one of the foundational reference books on the Mauser rifle, and deserves a place in the library of any bolt action rifle enthusiast. Olsen studies the rifle from its […]
Manual machine guns
Montigny Mitrailleuse Photos
The Mitrailleuse was one of the first pseudo-machine guns – the first ones were developed prior to the Gattling, but they continued to be purchased by military forces through the 1870s. There were several versions, […]
Accessories
StealthGear Onyx 1911 Holster Giveaway
I recently reviewed a new holster for TheFirearmBlog.com – a pretty swanky hybrid kydex design by a new company called StealthGear. They’re calling it the Onyx, and I came away very impressed by the design […]
Semiauto pistol
JoLoAr at the Range
I had the chance to take a .380 caliber JoLoAr pistol out to the range recently, and took the video camera along: The JoLoAr pistol was a combination of a poor-selling and unremarkable Spanish blowback […]
Semiauto pistol
Vintage Saturday: Captured
Antifascists holding a captured officer at gunpoint with a JoLoAr pistol during the Spanish Civil War. Check back Monday for a video on the JoLoAr!
Prototype
Andrews Machine Carbine
I’m flattered to say that we received another research question from the Pattern Room, and a bit dejected to say that once again it was something I couldn’t provide a good answer to. However, the […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Book Review: The Siamese Mauser (Banzai Special Project #1)
The Banzai group of Japanese weapon collectors has been around for a long time – they began publishing their newsletter in 1982 (actually, that makes the newsletter older than I am, to some peoples’ chagrin). […]
Anti-Tank Rifles
Soviet AT Rifle Performance
Sorry for the lack of post yesterday, guys. My day job has gotten a bit hectic in the last week, and it’s really cutting into the time I have available to work on the site. […]