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AK and StG – Kissing Cousins

December 12, 2012 Ian McCollum 86

When people see the AK-47 and the StG-44 side by side an know nothing about their internal mechanisms, the nearly universal assumption is that one is a copy of the other. The overall layout of […]

My New (Old) Carry Pistol

December 11, 2012 Ian McCollum 39

I recently picked up a new carry pistol…it’s about 65 years old, rattles a bit when you shake it, has a bit of pitting on the slide, and the finish is worn off all the […]

Teri from NambuWorld.com

December 10, 2012 Ian McCollum 7

While we were at the SAR West show this year, we had the chance to chat with Teri, who runs NambuWorld.com. Teri is a Canadian collector who took a longtime interest in Japan and built […]

Vintage Saturday: The Female of the Species

December 8, 2012 Ian McCollum 10

When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man, He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can. But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail. […]

Dolf Update

December 7, 2012 Ian McCollum 1

We don’t have details, but Dolf is out of surgery and in recovery now. That’s a big step forward, and we have high hopes for his recovery!

Sorry, things are a bit light this week – more good stuff coming next week. For today, I have an interesting Aberdeen Proving Grounds catalog photo of an experimental stock for the Thompson SMG. Presumably […]

Thoughts and Prayers

December 6, 2012 Ian McCollum 10

We have just heard that Dolf Goldsmith suffered a serious heart attach yesterday, and is now in surgery – we do not know his prognosis. Dolf has been heroically fighting all manner of health issues […]

Low Maintenance Rifle photos

December 6, 2012 Ian McCollum 17

I’ve found the TRW Low Maintenance Rifle to be pretty interesting ever since I found out about it – basically an American take on the Volksturm rifle concept. We’ve talked about the LMR before, and […]

Checking in with Apex Gun Parts

December 5, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

While we were at SAR West this past weekend, we of course took some time to check in with Jeff from Apex Gun Parts. We’ve been buying goodies from Jeff long before we started up […]

Downtime

December 4, 2012 Ian McCollum 1

As I’m sure a lot of you have noticed, we have been having some connectivity problems over the last several weeks. Traffic to the site has been growing quite a lot, and it has been […]

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