Competition - Forgotten Weapons

2-Gun Action with a Remington Model 8 (Video)

July 21, 2014 Ian McCollum 29

For this month’s 2-Gun Action Challenge Match, I decided to shoot my Remington Model 8 in .300 Savage. It’s a semiauto sporting rifle designed by John Browning, which went into production in 1906. It’s a […]

Battle of the Greasy Grass

June 25, 2014 Ian McCollum 49

On this day 138 years ago, the combined forces of the Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapaho tribes delivered a staggering defeat to the US Army’s 7th Cavalry under the command of General George Armstrong Custer. The […]

Yugo M76 Sniper’s Rifle in a 2-Gun Match (Video)

June 23, 2014 Ian McCollum 22

For this month’s 2-Gun Action Challenge Match, I decided to try using my Yugoslav M76, in 8x57mm. The M76 is one of the triad of eastern marksmen’s rifles – the PSL, the SVD, and the […]

2 Gun: FG42 vs BAR (Video)

May 19, 2014 Ian McCollum 96

By popular request, this month we are doing a head-to-head match of the awesome FG-42 (second model, in 8mm, made by SMG Guns) and the much-revered Browning BAR (M1918A3, in .30-06, made by Ohio Ordnance). […]

2-Gun Match: Swiss K31 (Video)

March 17, 2014 Ian McCollum 21

I’ve been looking forward to shooting one of the local 2-Gun Action Challenge Matches with a Swiss straight-pull rifle for a while now, and had the chance this past weekend. I was debating between using […]

FG-42 vs M1 Garand – 2 Gun Match (Video)

January 20, 2014 Ian McCollum 53

For this month’s 2-Gun Action Challenge Match, we had a loaner .308 FG-42 from SMG Guns, which I handed off to my friend Karl to shoot. I went up against him with an M1 Garand, […]

Egyptian Hakim in a 2-Gun Match

November 18, 2013 Ian McCollum 34

This past weekend was another 2-Gun Action Challenge Match, and this time I decided to shoot my Hakim in it. The Hakim is an Egyptian license-built copy of the Swedish AG-42 Ljungman (you can find […]

2-Gun Action Challenge Match: SVT40 vs M1 Garand

October 21, 2013 Ian McCollum 23

So, after the hype about setting the FG-42 up against the M1 at a practical action match, I unfortunately have to let you down. We had a bit of a mishap right before the match […]

2-Gun Match: Chinese 7.62x39mm Bren

September 24, 2013 Ian McCollum 32

Thanks to the folks at SMG Guns in Texas, I just got my completed semiauto Bren gun in 7.62x39mm. What the best way to break it in? Take it to a run-n-gun match, of course! […]

2-Gun Action Match: England Versus Germany

August 19, 2013 Ian McCollum 50

Once again, we have video today from the monthly 2-gun Action Challenge Match. This time, I thought it would be interesting to do a bit of a historical matchup, and look at the oft-discussed question […]