Ian McCollum - Forgotten Weapons

BAR Base Shop Data

June 27, 2011 Ian McCollum 2

Back to something a bit more recognizable, we’re adding a 1943 copy of the M1918A2 BAR shop manual today. In addition to the usual assembly and disassembly diagrams and instructions, this also includes drawings of […]

Czech ZK-420S at the Range

June 24, 2011 Ian McCollum 13

Another video for you today – we took a Czech ZK-420S out to the range to try out. This rifle was designed towards the end of WWII by the Koucky brothers in Czechoslovakia, and marketed […]

Gerät 03 Disassembly Video

June 22, 2011 Ian McCollum 6

Today we have a disassembly video for you – we were fortunate enough to be given access to one of the very few Gerät 03 rifles ever made. The Gerät 03 was the first effective […]

Reising light rifle prototype

June 20, 2011 Ian McCollum 3

We have some more information to add to the page on the Reising light rifle prototype today. A reader in Brazil send us a series of color photos of an example of this design, slightly […]

Spanish Ameli LMG

June 17, 2011 Ian McCollum 6

One of the less well known firearms in the roller-locked family of designs is the Spanish Ameli (a contraction of “Ametralladora ligera”), or “Special Purpose Assault Machinegun”. Developed in the late 1970s by CETME, the […]

Forgotten Weapons is hiring field researchers!

June 16, 2011 Ian McCollum 1

Yes, we have an intrepid team of freelance agents out in the field, bringing back all manner of interesting guns… Okay, so he’s not actually working for us (but if any Libyan rebels are reading […]

A Type 2 Arisaka and an Interview with Duncan McCollum

June 15, 2011 Ian McCollum 2

Today we have an interview with Duncan McCollum, author of Japanese Rifles of WWII – you may also recognize him from the Japanese weapons episode of Tales of the Gun on the History Channel. Mr […]

Madsen Light machine gun

June 13, 2011 Ian McCollum 5

The Madsen was the first successful light machine gun, entering production in 1902. It saw much use, but was an unusual design – basically a fully automatic falling block action. It used a top mounted […]

T12 Light machine gun

June 10, 2011 Ian McCollum 1

We don’t have very much information on the T12 – it was an experimental US belt-fed light machine gun in the early 1930s, with a flapper locking system similar to the DP series of LMGs. […]

ZH29 at the Shooting Range

June 8, 2011 Ian McCollum 2

This past weekend, we got to hit the range with a couple really neat forgotten weapons. I’m putting together separate videos for each one, and the first is a Czech ZH29. We have some information […]