Ian McCollum - Forgotten Weapons

Vintage Saturday: A View of No-Man’s-Land

April 7, 2012 Ian McCollum 15

I’m hard-pressed to think of anything humorous to say about this snapshot – World War I does not lend itself well to glorification or joviality. I suppose it’s simply worth considering that if you think […]

Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon tests

April 6, 2012 Ian McCollum 2

Today we have a copy of an official US testing report on the Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon (a 37mm / 1.5″ model). The testing was carried out between September 1876 and February 1877 at Sandy Hook […]

Book Review: A Rifleman Went to War

April 5, 2012 Ian McCollum 3

Herbert McBride was a American who grew up learning to shoot from Civil War veterans and some of the big names of the American West, like Bat Masterson. He had a taste for adventure, and […]

FN Model D (BAR)

April 4, 2012 Ian McCollum 5

The FN Model D was the most fully developed variant of the venerable Browning Automatic Rifle. Introduced in 1932 by Fabrique Nationale (with whom Browning had collaborated extensively prior to his death in 1926), the […]

A Few Updates –

April 3, 2012 Ian McCollum 0

Thanks to reader Erik, we have a little more information on Fridtjof Brondby, which we’ve added to the Brondby page in the Vault. Apparently Brondby also designed a 20mm antitank rifle, although we do not […]

OSS “Bigot” Pistol

April 2, 2012 Ian McCollum 21

The “Bigot” was a dart-firing modification of an M1911 .45 caliber pistol developed by the Office of Strategic Services during WW2. The OSS was a clandestine operations service, the predecessor of the CIA. The Bigot […]

Vintage Saturday: Type 11 Nambu

March 31, 2012 Ian McCollum 2

That contemplative stare is him trying to figure out how to fire the gun, hold the hopper cover open, and load clips into the gun simultaneously with only two hands.

Japanese Type 11 Nambu LMG

March 30, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

Kojiro Nambu, one of Japan’s most prolific arms designers, developed the Type 11 light machine gun as an adaptation of his previous Type 3 HMG design. The Type 11 uses a distinctive hopper feed, and […]

Book Review: Pale Horse Coming, by Stephen Hunter

March 29, 2012 Ian McCollum 3

Anyone who hasn’t read Stephen Hunter’s work is really missing out on some great gunnie fiction. Most of his books are based on the characters of Earl Swagger (WWII Medal of Honor winner) or his […]

German Infantry Weapons (World War II)

March 28, 2012 Ian McCollum 2

A little while back, we posted a US military booklet on Japanese Infantry Weapons from WWII, and today we have a similar booklet on German Infantry Weapons of WWII (also thanks to our friend Hrachya). […]