Wheel lock
Breechloading Wheel Lock
I have some photos of a pretty cool firearm today, although alas I have very little information about it. It looks like a more or less typical wheel lock, missing several parts… On closer inspection, […]
Articles by Ian McCollum
Bolt Action Rifles
Book Review: Rifles of the Snow
Today’s book is really more of a pamphlet than a proper book, but it still serves well given its purpose. It is Rifles of the Snow by Doug Bowser and Powers Dunaway, and it is […]
Commentary
Recent Developments in Auto-Loaders (1922)
Today’s guest author is none other than Julian Hatcher – although he didn’t give me permission to use his article on account of having passed away 20 years before I was born. I was looking […]
Commentary
Digging for WWII Relics
I expect this is a subject more familiar to our European readers than folks here in the US – the idea is tromping out to the sites of WWII skirmishes or battles with a shovel […]
Prototype
George Wilson’s Prototype .45 Autopistol
George A. Wilson was a designer for the High Standard company, and also a competitive bullseye pistol shooter. Formal bullseye shooting requires the use of a .45 caliber pistol, and the 1911 really isn’t an […]
Semiauto Rifles
SKS Manuals at Allegheny Arsenal
One rifle that isn’t really forgotten at all but still interesting and historically significant is the Samozaryadnyj Karabin Simonova – the SKS. Predating the AK by several years, the SKS was a staple weapon in […]
Medium MGs
Light MGs
John Inglis and Bren Production
If I say “John Inglis”, the first two things that probably come to mind for a gunnie are High Powers and Bren guns. Inglis was a Canadian company that made a huge proportion of the […]
Book review
Book Review: Japanese Military Cartridge Handguns 1893-1945
Japanese Nambu pistols used to be widely ignored as inferior and uninteresting, but prices have been climbing in recent years (as with all Japanese wartime arms). As prices rise, it is beneficial have as much […]
Select-fire Rifles
1964 SPIW 60-round Magazine
Let’s step back to 1964 for a few minutes, into the midst of the SPIW development program. This was the US military’s attempt to increase hit probability from infantry rifles by, basically, changing focus from […]