Crude Copies
The Worst AK Build I Have Ever Seen, Bar None
This AK was purchased by someone I know, and it is so utterly awful that I just had to put it on camera. I’m obscured the name of the shop that did the build because […]
Gunsmithing
Commentary
Restoring Sporterized Military Rifles for Fun and…Probably not Profit
I get a fair number of questions about restoring sporterized rifles, so I figured I should address them in a stand-alone video…
Gunsmithing
The REAL Heroes of the M1 Carbine – not “Carbine” Williams
The Hollywood-spawned mythos of the M1 Carbine is that it was created by David Marshall “Carbine” Williams. The reality is far different. In real life, Williams was talented, but short-tempered, stubborn, and unable to work […]
Gunsmithing
Ross Rudd’s Prototype Delayed Blowback AR180
Sold for $1,610 in the February 2020 Sport & Collectors auction. Ross Rudd was born in Toronto in 1915, but his family moved to Springfield Massachusetts in 1917, and he would grow up there. Interested […]
Gunsmithing
RIA Feb 2020 Special: Sporterized M1 Carbine
Our final quick video from RIA this weekend is a look at a sporterized M1 Carbine – but one that was actually done quite nicely! I would never suggest that someone cut up an intact […]
Gunsmithing
Real, Reworked, or Faked? Authenticating a C96 Mauser
When you get into expensive historical firearms, values begin to diverge significantly for guns in particularly good condition. This, naturally, leads some people to take poor quality guns and make them better. Sometimes this is […]
Gunsmithing
Short: Inspecting an RSC 1917 Gas System
The French Model 1917 RSC rifle has a rather unusual gas system, and without some experience it can be difficult to know what one is looking at in one. So today, we’re taking a quick […]
Gunsmithing
EOKA Cut-Down Beretta 38 SMG
This cut-down Beretta Model 38/44 submachine gun was made by the EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston) terrorist group, which fought in the late 1950s for Cyprus to be reunified with Greece, instead of being a […]
Gunsmithing
A Mystifying 3-Barrel Percussion Shotgun
This is a three-barreled muzzleloading shotgun, with two pretty normal hammers on the top barrels and a rather unusual and simple under hammer for the bottom barrel. It has no markings at all, a hinged […]
bullpup
Experimental Bullpup Over/Under Shotgun with a Secret
This is a prototype or one-off over/under sporting shotgun, made in a bullpup configuration. It is basically two long slabs of wood clamshell around a pair of barrels, with the action at the very end […]