Ian McCollum - Forgotten Weapons

Ask Dolf: Importers

January 22, 2013 Ian McCollum 13

Dolf Goldsmith has kindly offered to answer questions that pertain to his experience and expertise (primarily Korean War and earlier machine guns), for an occasional column. If you have something you would like to ask […]

Shooting an 1877 Bulldog Gatling

January 21, 2013 Ian McCollum 18

Thanks to a friendly collector, we had the chance to take out one of the new, gorgeous reproduction 1877 Gatling guns being sold by Colt. It’s a near-exact replica, with the added feature of being […]

Vintage Saturday: Willie and Joe

January 19, 2013 Ian McCollum 24

US Marines somewhere in the Pacific with a captured Japanese Type 92 machine gun.

Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover

January 18, 2013 Ian McCollum 30

You may have seen this video on YouTube – it got a bit of buzz when it came out a few months ago: Well, Arsenal (no relation to Arsenal Bulgaria/Arsenal USA of AK fame) has […]

MG34 Trigger Group Video

January 17, 2013 Ian McCollum 7

We spent some time with Greg from Allegheny Arsenal (aka MG34.com) a little while back, and one of the things we went over was disassembly and reassembly of the MG34 trigger group. When you get […]

The New Retro-Tactical?

January 16, 2013 Ian McCollum 45

Found this at SHOT, courtesy of Ohio Ordnance: Under all the rails and black, it’s a semiauto BAR. Not really sure what to say…

SAR-21 Photos

January 16, 2013 Ian McCollum 3

Last week we posted a video on the Singapore SAR-21, and today we have some very nice detailed photos of the gun’s internals for you to check out while we’re gone at SHOT. So, courtesy […]

Vltor Shop Tour (Video)

January 15, 2013 Ian McCollum 4

It’s a video kind of week this week…we’re at the SHOT Show in Vegas right now, but a little while back we had the opportunity to visit the extensive shop that is home to Vltor […]

FG42 Reproduction (Video)

January 14, 2013 Ian McCollum 41

There has been talk for a while of people making functional reproductions of the German FG-42 paratroop rifle for a long time…and it wasn’t just idle talk. We have gotten our hands on a sample […]

Vintage Saturday: Type 53

January 12, 2013 Ian McCollum 10

Unrelated to this photo…the Zhejiang Iron Works in China made everything from machine guns to grenades to field glasses – and called everything “Type 77” in commemoration of the Marco Polo Bridge incident of July […]