Book review
Book Review: Paradox
I’m not normally all that interested in sporting double guns, but the name Fosbery perked up my ears when I heard about this book. Col. George Fosbery is best known (in some circles, anyway) for […]
Articles by Ian McCollum
Manuals
M1895 Nagant Followup: Manuals
It isn’t unusual for me to learn additional things about a particular gun from various folks after I write a post, which sometimes calls for an addendum to my original post or article. Well, after […]
Semiauto pistol
Boberg XR9-L Review
Last week I posted a review of a very much not-forgotten pistol over at TheFirearmBlog.com – a brand new Boberg XR9-L. It doesn’t have any historical significance yet, but it’s a pretty interesting mechanical design, […]
Revolver
Russian 1895 Nagant Revolver (Video)
One of the mechanically interesting guns that is really widely available in the US for a great price (or was until very recently, it seems) is the Russian M1895 Nagant revolver. It was adopted by […]
Light MGs
Vintage Saturday: Too Sexy For My Shirt
Greek soldiers practicing antiaircraft fire with a model 1926 Hotchkiss LMG – note the AA extension on the tripod. Thank to Di for the photo!
Submachine Guns
French MAS-38 SMG
In the early 1930s, France adopted a new standard pistol and a new cartridge to go with it – the MAS 1935 and the 7.65x20mm, closely patterned on the us M1918 Pedersen Device cartridge. They […]
Book review
Book Review: The Devil’s Paintbrush
One of my favorite books to just flip through at random is Dolf Goldsmith’s The Devil’s Paintbrush: Sir Hiram Maxim’s Gun. Every time I open it, I find another detail of information that I had […]
Prototype
8mm Kurz FAL Photos
As you may be aware, one of the very first prototype FAL designs was build for the German 8x33mm cartridge. The FAL was originally intended to be an intermediate-cartridge assault rifle along the same lines […]
Artillery
Need a Gunsmithing Project?
As you may have noticed, Defense Distributed has been in the news quite a bit in the last few days since the State Department decided that their posting of single-shot pistol plans violates ITAR regulations. […]
Uncategorized
Got Too Much Spare Cash?
Well, here are a couple things we’ve noticed that you could use to alleviate that problem. Boris Karpa (who did a great job translating Dror testing reports for us a little while back) is running […]