Book review - Forgotten Weapons

Book Review: Borchardt & Luger Automatic Pistols

October 18, 2012 Ian McCollum 10

The Luger pistol is one of the most iconic firearms ever built, and has been a favorite of collectors for many decades. Not surprisingly, there is a lot of literature out there on the Luger […]

Book Review: Deutsche Fertigungskennzeichen bis 1945

October 4, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

Anyone who has looked at German arms and militaria from WWII and the years prior will be familiar with the 3-letter (or number) code system used to obscure where production was taking place. The more […]

Book Review: Volcanic Firearms

September 27, 2012 Ian McCollum 1

The Volcanic repeating pistol was the first direct step along the development path of the lever-action rifle that became an icon of the American West. Introduced before the advent of modern brass-cased cartridges, the Volcanic was […]

Book Review: Italy’s Battle Rifle

September 6, 2012 Ian McCollum 7

We just got in a copy of Russ Arendell and Steve Woodrum’s new book on the Carcano, Italy’s Battle Rifle: Story of the Mannlicher-Carcano Series of Rifles. It’s the most useful reference book on the Carcano […]

Book Review: Japanese Military Cartridge Handguns 1893-1945

August 30, 2012 Ian McCollum 4

Yesterday, we took a look at the Japanese Hamada pistol from World War II – a very rare piece that is extremely difficult to find information on. The only reason we were able to provide […]

Russian Hand-to-Hand Combat Manual

August 23, 2012 Ian McCollum 5

It has come to our attention that our friend Boris Karpa – who helped us out translating a batch of test reports on the Dror LMG – has released his first work on Amazon. It’s […]

Book Review: Mannlicher Military Rifles

August 16, 2012 Ian McCollum 3

We really liked the last book we reviewed by Paul Scarlata (German Gewehr 88 “Commission” Rifle), and so we decided to grab another one off the shelf. Today, it’sMannlicher Military Rifles, and Scarlata does another […]

Book Review and a Refinishing Discount

August 9, 2012 Ian McCollum 7

As always, we have a book review to look at today, but we also have a neat video we put together for GunLab on hydroprint refinishing. On a recent trip down to Florida we had […]

Book Review: The World’s Assault Rifles

August 2, 2012 Ian McCollum 9

Gary Paul Johnston and Thomas Nelson’s The World’s Assault Rifles is always one of the first books we turn to for information on automatic rifles. At 1200+ pages, it’s a huge tome and a massive […]

Books, Magazines, and David Tubb

July 31, 2012 Ian McCollum 1

If you were interested in Bin Shih’s very nice book on Chinese firearms of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) but didn’t get one before they sold out, you’re in luck! He’s going to be running […]