Accessories - Forgotten Weapons

Remington Model 8 Extended Magazines

March 4, 2014 Ian McCollum 18

After posting the video on the Remington Model 8 last week, we received an email from reader Rod, whose grandfather was an auxiliary police officer and something of a gun nut. One of his rifles […]

Swiss Stripper Clips?

February 9, 2014 Ian McCollum 13

I’m getting in a selection of Swiss straight-pull rifles to do some shooting and video work with, and to my surprise it looks like everybody is sold out of them (Numrich, Sarco, Liberty Tree, etc). […]

Vintage Saturday: Bark!

February 1, 2014 Ian McCollum 27

Finnish dog wearing a canine gas mask during the Winter War.

StealthGear Onyx 1911 Holster Giveaway

January 28, 2014 Ian McCollum 0

I recently reviewed a new holster for TheFirearmBlog.com – a pretty swanky hybrid kydex design by a new company called StealthGear. They’re calling it the Onyx, and I came away very impressed by the design […]

Syrian rebel using an iPad to measure mortar angle

Old Tech, New Tech (Syria)

January 17, 2014 Ian McCollum 48

Is there a computer-using gunnie anywhere who has not dreamed of doing this? Yep, an old German StG-44 mounted on a set of servomotors to allow remote control movement. Complete with firing solenoid and a […]

Austrian Body Armor

January 7, 2014 Ian McCollum 28

I am blatantly swiping this set of photos from a neat (and fairly new) blog I stumbled across, entitled Soviet Gun Archives. There aren’t a whole lot of posts there yet, but they cover some […]

Shooting a Bren 100-Round Drum

December 27, 2013 Ian McCollum 13

A friend of mine went to a local machine gun shoot recently, and came back with some footage of a pair of Bren guns being fired with a 100-round drum magazine. These drums were designed […]

“I Found This Old Maxim Silencer…”

December 3, 2013 Ian McCollum 39

Since I posted my brief article on the original Maxim silencers, I’ve had more than a few people contact me saying that they have found one among the possessions of a deceased parent or grandparent. […]

Nydar Reflex Sight

September 25, 2013 Ian McCollum 41

The basic technology for the Army’s fancy high-tech M68 CCO (the Aimpoint) was first patented all the way back in 1900. The concept of the reflex sight, in brief, is that ambient light is used […]

Sunday Miscellanea

March 3, 2013 Ian McCollum 4

A couple things that came in through the week… First up, Mark Serbu (owner of Serbu Firearms) has a neat video comparing the ATI .22 cal StG44 copy to an original StG44: Also, Leszek pointed […]