Ian McCollum - Forgotten Weapons

Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon

January 30, 2012 Ian McCollum 0

The Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon was designed by an American, Benjamin Hotchkiss, in response to the Franco-Prussian War. Hotchkiss chose to use large caliber shells in the gun instead of rifle cartridges (like the American Gatling […]

Sad News

January 28, 2012 Ian McCollum 7

We are saddened to learn that Kent Lomont passed away last night after a year long fight against cancer. Kent was a friend of ours and a well known and respected machine gun expert. He […]

Vintage Saturday: A St Etienne in the Argonne

January 28, 2012 Ian McCollum 0

Israeli Dror LMG

January 27, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

I’ve always been interested in Israeli firearms, because that nation has had more need to actually use their arms in combat in the past 50 or 60 years than almost any other nation. Couple that […]

Book Review: Collector’s Guide to the M1 Garand and M1 Carbine

January 26, 2012 Ian McCollum 0

Today we take a look at Bruce Canfield’s Collector’s Guide to the M1 Garand and M1 Carbine. This is one of Canfield’s earlier books, and is now out of print. It is still available, though, […]

Interview with Charles St. George

January 25, 2012 Ian McCollum 5

At the SHOT Show last weekend, we has the opportunity to interview Charles St. George, designer of the Leader T2 rifle we have previously discussed. We ended up having to run this interview twice, as […]

Browning 1897 Rotating-Barrel Pistol

January 24, 2012 Ian McCollum 4

In 1897, John M. Browning was awarded four consecutive patents, which covered a big swath of possible automatic pistol designs. The one we’re looking at today (pointed out to me by Rufus at SHOT – […]

SHOT Show Wrapup

January 23, 2012 Ian McCollum 4

Well, we arrived back home from Las Vegas and the SHOT Show last night. SHOT ended on Friday, but we took advantage of the weekend in Vegas with several more stops. Friday, of course, was […]

Vintage Saturday: Colt 1895 on a Cart

January 21, 2012 Ian McCollum 7

I’m having some trouble figuring out the expression on this soldier’s face…is he disdainful of the photographer? Or just tired of dragging the gun around? In any case, my experience taking machine guns to the […]

SHOT Show Roundup (Thursday)

January 20, 2012 Ian McCollum 15

The SHOT Show has been running for a couple days already, but we only arrived late Thursday morning. We spent Thursday mostly in the lower level, so we only saw about half the show (we’ll […]