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Book Review: The Martini Henry, For Queen and Empire

December 8, 2019 Ian McCollum 10

One of the perennial challenges facing authors of firearms reference books is balancing the very technical nit-pickery with the broad historical view of a gun and its context in world events. The emphasis is usually […]

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Book Review: Vickers Guide to the Kalashnikov, Volume II

November 9, 2019 Ian McCollum 3

  Fair disclaimer: I may be biased, as I am a co-author of this work… Vickers Guide is back with the second volume on the AK, specifically on 5.45mm and 5.56mm Kalashnikovs. If you like […]

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Book Review: FN49 – The Last Elegant Old World Military Rifle

November 2, 2019 Ian McCollum 3

I have been impatiently awaiting the expanded second edition of Wayne Johnson’s “The FN-49: The Last Elegant Old-World Military Rifle” ever since I heard a rumor that it was in the works. The first edition […]

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Book Review: French Tanks of the Great War

October 27, 2019 Ian McCollum 12

Having recently finished guiding a WW1 battlefield tour in France and Belgium, I found myself curious to learn more about the details of French tank development and service. We are used to seeing and hearing […]

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Book Review: Flayderman’s Guide to Antique American Firearms

September 22, 2019 Ian McCollum 4

Norm Flayderman opened an antique gun shop in 1952, and a few years later expanded his marketing to a mail-order catalog. He would ultimately print 119 such catalogs by 1998, researching and documenting a tremendous […]

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Book Review: Arms & Accoutrements of the Mounted Police 1873-1973

September 15, 2019 Ian McCollum 4

The Royal North West Mounted Police (later merged with the Dominion Police to become the RCMP – Royal Canadian Mounted Police) are an interesting and often overlooked element of the western frontier. We Americans tend […]

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Book Review: The Ross Rifle Story

September 8, 2019 Ian McCollum 7

“The Ross Rifle Story” is the Bible of Ross rifle collecting – it is the only substantial reference work on the subject and it has a tremendous amount of information about the development of the […]

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Book Review: Carvings From the Veldt (3 Volumes)

August 11, 2019 Ian McCollum 0

Over the past 15 year, Dave C. George has compiled three volumes of his book “Carvings From the Veldt”, documenting nearly a thousand carved rifles from the Boer War. This is feature almost unique to […]

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Book Review: Amateur’s Guide to the Colt’s Thompson SMG

August 4, 2019 Ian McCollum 4

Tom Davis Jr, having previously written on the history of the Thompson SMG in British WWII use, has recently released a buyer’s guide to the Colt’s Thompson SMG. This is not intended to be a […]

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Book Review: The Winchester Model 1895: Last of the Classic Lever Actions

July 28, 2019 Ian McCollum 7

Rob Kassab and Brad Dunbar have just published an excellent new book on the Winchester Model 1895 rifle – the Last of the Classic Lever Actions, as their subtitle describes. It is a very nice […]

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