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Fenian Needham Conversion: Just the Thing for Invading Canada

May 10, 2025 Ian McCollum 33

The Fenian Brotherhood was formed in the US in 1858, a partner organization to the Irish Republican Brotherhood. The groups were militant organizations looking to procure Irish independence from the British, and they found significant […]

Conversion

Experimental AG-42B Conversion to 7.62mm NATO

April 14, 2025 Ian McCollum 10

Circa 1954, Sweden was starting to look for a new self-loading rifle to adopt for its infantry. The 6.5x55mm cartridge was a good round, but the idea of having ammunition compatibility with its neighbors was […]

Conversion

Stamm-Zeller 1902: A Swiss Straight-Pull Converted to Semiauto

March 8, 2025 Ian McCollum 31

Today’s rifle was designed by a Swiss inventor named Hans Stamm while working for the Zeller et Cie company in Appenzell Switzerland. The company originally made embroidering machinery, but turned to military rifle parts subcontracting […]

Conversion

Deckard’s Pfläger-Katsumata Series D 5223

February 8, 2025 Ian McCollum 35

In the film Blade Runner, Deckard carries a pistol called a Pfläger-Katsumata Series D 5223 – a name created by the fan community to have the initials “PKD” after Phillip K. Dick, who wrote Blade […]

Conversion

Ljungman Updates: the AG-42 vs AG-42B

January 31, 2025 Ian McCollum 14

In 1953, the Swedish military launched a program to refurbish and refit all of the Ag m/42 rifles in inventory. Aside from replacing broken parts and worn barrels, the program also made a number of […]

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2-Gun: Dillinger Gand Special! Winchester 1907SL and M911

January 11, 2025 Ian McCollum 28

Yesterday we took a look at a reproduction of the Winchester 1907 Self Loader made for the Dillinger gang (and others) by Hyman Lebman. Today, I’m taking it out to a 2-gun match, paired with […]

Conversion

Dillinger Gang’s Winchester 1907 Self-Loader: The Lebman Conversion

January 10, 2025 Ian McCollum 25

Hyman Lehman was a gunsmith in Texas who made a variant of firearms for some of the most notorious gangsters of the 1930s. One of his specialties was to take the Winchester Model 1907 Self-Loader […]

Conversion

P320 Flux Legion Raider at the Range

December 19, 2024 Ian McCollum 18

Today I am taking the SIG P320 Flux Legion (aka the SIG Legion edition of the Flux Raider) out to the range. I’m a big fan of PDW systems, and the Raider is one of […]

Conversion

SIG P320 Flux Legion / Flux Raider: The Best Pistol-PDW System Yet

December 18, 2024 Ian McCollum 50

The Flux Raider is a chassis system designed to turn the SIG P320 into a very compact PDW. The design concept began as a desire to improve the practical accuracy of a handgun by adding […]

Conversion

Semiauto MGs: How Are They Made?

October 25, 2024 Ian McCollum 3

This is your last chance to win this awesome Semiauto DPM! https://www.fanathem.com/forgottenweapons DEADLINE to ENTER is TONIGHT 10/25/2024 at 11:59 PM PST Semiauto versions of machine guns are a way to have examples of historically […]

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