Ian McCollum - Forgotten Weapons

Monthly 2-Gun Action Challenge Match

June 18, 2013 Ian McCollum 27

In addition to studying and researching unusual firearms, I enjoy shooting, and like to take any opportunity I can get to get trigger time with the more obscure designs out there. The local 2-Gun Action […]

Myth and Reality of the Ross MkIII

June 17, 2013 Ian McCollum 44

This video took a bit longer than planned to put together, but it’s here at last… There is a long-standing urban legend about the Canadian Ross rifle, a straight-pull bolt action that was used in […]

San Diego Destinations and a Mystery SMG

June 16, 2013 Ian McCollum 25

First up, it looks like I’m going to be traveling to San Diego for the week of July 21st – does anyone know of a museum in the area with a good small arms collection […]

Vintage Saturday: Because Size Does Matter

June 15, 2013 Ian McCollum 34

US soldier inspecting a German Panzerschreck (left) and a US 2.36″ Bazooka (right).

Landstad 1900 Automatic Revolver

June 14, 2013 Ian McCollum 43

We spent a bunch of time earlier this week covering the Webley-Fosbery “automatic revolver”, and I would like to close out the week with another pistol of that type, but one that’s even weirder than […]

Book Review: German Pistols and Holsters

June 13, 2013 Ian McCollum 10

I’d heard some negative things about today’s book before I picked up a copy, and I was happily surprised by its usefulness. The book is German Pistols and Holsters 1934/1945, by Major Robert D. Whittington […]

Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver

June 12, 2013 Ian McCollum 28

Patented in 1896 and going into production in 1901, the Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver was the brainchild of British Col. George Vincent Fosbery, VC. Fosbery was a career military officer who had served in India for […]

Introduction to Collecting Seminar

June 11, 2013 Ian McCollum 28

So, I was doing a bunch of driving this past weekend and had lots of time to think (a dangerous thing). Well, the thought occurred to me that folks might be interested in an “Introduction […]

Webley-Fosbery Auto-Revolver (Video)

June 10, 2013 Ian McCollum 28

We shot a video on the Webley-Fosbery last year, but it was in a dark room and with a low-resolution camera. I’ve since had another opportunity to handle one of these very interesting pistols, and […]

Fighting Fair is Fighting Stupid

June 9, 2013 Ian McCollum 22

An excerpt from Guns on the Early Frontiers, on the subject of Spanish matchlock muskets in the colonial Americas: In 1576, a Captain Solis, commander of the Garrison at San Felipe, in the vicinity of […]