Book review - Forgotten Weapons

Book Review: The Burgess Long Range Repeating Rifle Model 1878

April 3, 2014 Ian McCollum 7

I’ve been getting curious to learn more about Andrew Burgess and his seldom-recognized guns, and took a look to see what books might be available on the subject. As it turns out, there are basically […]

Book Review: Out of Nowhere

March 28, 2014 Ian McCollum 6

I have been slowly trying to improve my education on sniper rifles, with the goal of putting together a series of videos on some of the interesting historical ones I have access to. On the […]

Book Review: Handloader’s Manual of Cartridge Conversions

February 28, 2014 Ian McCollum 18

John and Judy Donnelly have published a pretty cool book for those of us who like to shoot oddball guns – The Handloader’s Manual of Cartridge Conversions. It is not a reloading manual in the […]

Book Review: Winchester Model 07 Self-Loading .351 Caliber

February 13, 2014 Ian McCollum 57

The full title of this recently-published monograph by Leonard Speckin is actually Winchester Model 07 Self-Loading .351 Caliber: Its Past and Its Future with Modern Brass, Bullets and Powders. There is very little modern published […]

Book Review: Bullets by the Billion

February 6, 2014 Ian McCollum 20

Bullets by the Billion is a short book (77 small pages of large print) written by one Wesley Stout and published by the Chrysler Corporation on 1946. It was a company project to commemorate the […]

Book Review: Mauser Bolt Rifles by Olsen

January 30, 2014 Ian McCollum 8

Ludwig Olsen’s Mauser Bolt Rifles is one of the foundational reference books on the Mauser rifle, and deserves a place in the library of any bolt action rifle enthusiast. Olsen studies the rifle from its […]

Book Review: The Siamese Mauser (Banzai Special Project #1)

January 23, 2014 Ian McCollum 16

The Banzai group of Japanese weapon collectors has been around for a long time – they began publishing their newsletter in 1982 (actually, that makes the newsletter older than I am, to some peoples’ chagrin). […]

Book Review: MAGNUM – The S&W .357 Magnum Phenomenon

January 10, 2014 Ian McCollum 11

Today we’re looking at one of the most recent additions to the Collector Grade ensemble: Tim Mullin’s MAGNUM: the S&W .357 Magnum Phenomenon. It’s a very good history of one of American’s iconic handguns: You […]

Book Review: The M1 Garand Rifle

January 2, 2014 Ian McCollum 5

I have been procrastinating the addition of a good book on the M1 Garand rifle into my own library, reading the various published material off of friends’ shelves. Now I’m glad that I have put […]

Book Review: The Colt 1911 – An Engineer’s Perspective

December 26, 2013 Ian McCollum 25

This really isn’t a book, but rather an article published for the Kindle. Malcolm Werner is a long-time skilled IPSC competitor and professional engineer, and decided to look at why the Colt 1911 was designed […]