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Japanese WW2 Training Machine Gun

October 25, 2019 Ian McCollum 15
This is Lot 2086 in the upcoming October 2019 Morphy Extraordinary auction. Before and during World War Two, the Japanese used a variety of training rifles and machine guns in both formal military instruction and […]
Light MGs

Bill Ruger’s Prototype WW2 Light Machine Gun

October 23, 2019 Ian McCollum 21
In April 1940, the US Ordnance Department circulated a request for a new light machine gun to replace the Browning M1919A4. It was to be shorter and lighter than the Browning, and was not to […]
Light MGs

Origins of Constant Recoil: The Ultimax Mk3 (feat. Mae & a Yeti)

October 19, 2019 Ian McCollum 45
This is Lot 2052 in the upcoming October 2019 Morphy Extraordinary auction. The Ultimax light machine gun was developed by James Sullivan for the Singaporean military, and it is the first mass-production machine gun to […]
Light MGs

Before the Lewis Gun was the McClean Automatic Rifle

October 18, 2019 Ian McCollum 24
This is Lot 1158 in the upcoming October Morphy Extraordinary auction. Samuel McClean was a medical doctor from Iowa who began tinkering with firearms designs in 1889, and formed the McClean Arms Company in 1896. […]
Light MGs

WW1 Villar Perosa SMG at the Range

September 28, 2019 Ian McCollum 51
This is lot 1042 in the Morphy Extraordinary Auction on October 22, 2019. Courtesy of the Morphy Auction Company, I am out at the range today with a very rare Italian Villar Perosa machine gun from […]
Light MGs

C2A1: Canada’s Squad Automatic FAL

September 6, 2019 Ian McCollum 33
Canada was the first country to formally adopt the FN FAL as its standard service rifle, and in 1958 it added the C2 light machine gun version of the FAL to its arsenal. The C2, […]
Light MGs

Hiram’s Extra Light Maxim Gun

August 7, 2019 Ian McCollum 9
Designed in an effort to compete with the then-new Colt/Browning air cooled 1895 machine gun, the Extra-Light Maxim weighted in at just 27 (maybe 28) pounds for the gun, and 44 pounds with tripod. This […]
Conversion

From Bolt Action Lee to LMG: The Charlton Automatic Rifle

July 26, 2019 Ian McCollum 27
The Charlton automatic rifle is one of very, very few examples of a conversion from bolt action to self-loading rifle actually working reasonably well. Typically this sort of project founders in expense and unreliability. Charlton, […]
General Purpose MGs

History of the PK, PKM, and Pecheneg w/ Max Popenker

July 9, 2019 Ian McCollum 25
I’m happy to be joined once again by Russian small arms historian Max Popenker, for a discussion of the development of the Kalashnikov PK machine gun. This is universally regarded as one of the best […]
Light MGs

Last Gasp of the ZB26: Czech vz 52/57 LMG

July 1, 2019 Ian McCollum 40
Czechoslovakia adopted the 7.62x45mm cartridge after World War Two, introducing both a vz.52 rifle and vz.52 light machine gun using the round. It was about 200 fps faster than the Soviet standard 7.62x39mm. It was […]

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