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Book Review: Weapons Mounts for Secondary Armament

December 29, 2019 Ian McCollum 12

Weapon Mounts for Secondary Armament is a nearly 1200-page reference on all manner of machine gun mounting systems for tanks, aircraft,t light vehicles, and ground mounts. The book was commissioned in 1957 by the Detroit […]

Book Review: Walther Pistols – Models 1 to PPX

December 15, 2019 Ian McCollum 12

Dieter Marschall originally published his book on Walther Pistols in German, but it was translated into English to meet demand form the collector market here in the US. This is the third English edition, expanded […]

Book Review: The Martini Henry, For Queen and Empire

December 8, 2019 Ian McCollum 14

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 […]

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 […]

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

November 2, 2019 Ian McCollum 4

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 […]

Book Review: French Tanks of the Great War

October 27, 2019 Ian McCollum 13

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 […]

Book Review: Flayderman’s Guide to Antique American Firearms

September 22, 2019 Ian McCollum 5

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 […]

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

September 15, 2019 Ian McCollum 5

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 […]

Book Review: The Ross Rifle Story

September 8, 2019 Ian McCollum 9

“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 […]

Book Review: Carvings From the Veldt (3 Volumes)

August 11, 2019 Ian McCollum 1

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 […]