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Slow Motion: Frommer Stop

August 14, 2014 Ian McCollum 35

This week’s slow motion gun is the Frommer Stop, put into production in 1912. The Hungarian designer Rudolf Frommer was responsible for a series of long-recoil pistols, of which the Stop was the last and […]

Mauser 1912/14 Automatic Pistol (Video)

August 11, 2014 Ian McCollum 13

The Mauser 1912/14 automatic pistol was the final stage of a dead-end development track for a military sidearm in 9mm Parabellum made by Mauser. The program began as a plain blowback pistol in 1909, which […]

Slow Motion: Colt All American 2000

August 7, 2014 Ian McCollum 57

The All-American 2000 was Colt’s attempt to compete with Glock for the military and police service pistol market. It had a polymer frame (except a few early ones with aluminum frames), a double-action-only striker firing […]

C96 High-Speed Video and Smith-Condit article

August 1, 2014 Ian McCollum 11

Now that I have this high speed camera to use, I am going to be making high-speed video a regular weekly feature, at least until I run out of guns to film this way. Today’s […]

Slow Motion Schwarzlose 1908

July 25, 2014 Ian McCollum 34

I am getting high speed footage of a bunch of interesting pistols right off the bat now that I have my Edgertronic camera, and one that has been on my list ever since I first […]

The P.08 Luger and 1860 Army in Slow Motion

July 22, 2014 Ian McCollum 20

With my handy new high-speed video camera, I’ve started taking some footage of interesting guns operating. First up is the Luger: The camera will do 500 frames/sec at very high quality, and just under 18,000 […]

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 […]

Ole Krag’s Experimental Pistol: Made By Norinco

July 18, 2014 Ian McCollum 38

In 1908, Ole Krag (the same man associated with the Krag-Jorgensen rifle) applied for a US patent on an automatic pistol design. This design, along with many others, would be submitted to the Norwegian military […]

Book Review: United States Martial Pistols and Revolvers

July 10, 2014 Ian McCollum 20

Pre-WWI American handguns are an area that I am pretty weak in, and I’m working to remedy that. One of the initial resources I picked up was Arcadi Gluckman’s United States Martial Pistols and Revolvers. […]

Rock Island Regional Auction – July 2014

July 8, 2014 Ian McCollum 21

Yep, it’s time for another Rock Island Regional Auction this coming weekend! These are typically less valuable guns than the Premier auctions, and most of the lots include multiple guns instead of just one. Sometimes […]