Ian McCollum - Forgotten Weapons

Vintage Saturday: For Queen and Country

August 11, 2012 Ian McCollum 13

I am not familiar with this style of handy card table Maxim mount.

Steyr GB

August 10, 2012 Ian McCollum 40

After World War II, the Austrian military used a mixture of Browning High Power and Walther P38 pistols – they were effective and available in large numbers so why not? However, by the early 1970s […]

Book Review and a Refinishing Discount

August 9, 2012 Ian McCollum 7

As always, we have a book review to look at today, but we also have a neat video we put together for GunLab on hydroprint refinishing. On a recent trip down to Florida we had […]

Israeli Dror trials reports

August 8, 2012 Ian McCollum 3

Since we first learned of its existence we have been very interested in the Israeli Dror light machine gun. To us, it has all the elements of a fascinating piece of firearms history – design […]

The Proud Tradition of Gunbuilding in the Garage

August 7, 2012 Ian McCollum 17

I think that today in America (and probably in many other countries) we have a misconception of where new ideas come from, especially among younger folks like myself. We tend to think that products are […]

Fallschirmjagergewehr FG-42 Video

August 6, 2012 Ian McCollum 23

The German FG-42 paratroop rifle was a very impressive design, managing to meet a very strict set of performance criteria. The first production model in particular was exceptionally light and compact, while still offering semi […]

Vintage Saturday: Making a C96 look big

August 4, 2012 Ian McCollum 12

Chinese guerrilla fighter, circa 1939. Today, she’d be an Olympic gymnast.

Błyskawica: Poland’s First Successful SMG

August 3, 2012 Ian McCollum 10

We’re privileged today to have another guest article written by Leszek Erenfeicht (and I would strongly recommend that our Polish readers check out Strzal, the print magazine he regularly publishes in). This time he is […]

Book Review: The World’s Assault Rifles

August 2, 2012 Ian McCollum 9

Gary Paul Johnston and Thomas Nelson’s The World’s Assault Rifles is always one of the first books we turn to for information on automatic rifles. At 1200+ pages, it’s a huge tome and a massive […]

Mystery Gun Identified: 1944 Hyde Carbine

August 1, 2012 Ian McCollum 4

We’ve had this particular gun listed as unidentified for quite a long time, and had people suggest pretty much everything you can imagine to explain its origins: Well, thanks to a private collector we visited, […]