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Arms of the Venezuelan Coup

January 25, 2013 Ian McCollum 28
Fifty five years ago this week Marcos Pérez Jiménez, dictator of Venezuela, fled from power in the face of a popular uprising and botched military coup. Among other things, Jiménez had used Venzuela’s oil to […]
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Manual machine guns

Gatling Gun Feeding Mechanisms

January 23, 2013 Ian McCollum 25
The Gatling Gun is interested for many reasons, and one of them is the variety of feeding mechanisms that were developed and used with it. Most firearms are designed around a single specific feeding mechanism, […]
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Manual machine guns

Shooting an 1877 Bulldog Gatling

January 21, 2013 Ian McCollum 18
Thanks to a friendly collector, we had the chance to take out one of the new, gorgeous reproduction 1877 Gatling guns being sold by Colt. It’s a near-exact replica, with the added feature of being […]
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Medium MGs

Vintage Saturday: Willie and Joe

January 19, 2013 Ian McCollum 24
US Marines somewhere in the Pacific with a captured Japanese Type 92 machine gun.
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Medium MGs

Vintage Saturday: Type 53

January 12, 2013 Ian McCollum 10
Unrelated to this photo…the Zhejiang Iron Works in China made everything from machine guns to grenades to field glasses – and called everything “Type 77” in commemoration of the Marco Polo Bridge incident of July […]
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Book Review: The Gatling Gun by Wahl and Toppel

January 10, 2013 Ian McCollum 7
Today’s book review is a re-run, because I’ve been re-reading this book in preparation for doing some video on an 1877 Gatling gun: The book we’re looking at is Paul Wahl and Donald Toppel’s The […]
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Aircraft MGs

Russian ShKAS Aerial Gun

January 9, 2013 Ian McCollum 25
The Russian ShKAS (Shpitalny-Komaritsky Aircraft High-Speed Machine Gun) is a machine gun design form the 1930s that doesn’t receive nearly enough attention. It was the result of a need by the Soviet air force for […]
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Aircraft MGs

Vintage Saturday: Wingshooting

January 5, 2013 Ian McCollum 22
The guns are aircraft Degtyarevs (DA-2), and appear to not have the drums mounted when the photo was taken. Note the vane-type front sight, and the distinctive muzzle brakes.
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Paean to the Vickers Gun

January 2, 2013 Ian McCollum 22
I may be a bit biased here by my ownership of one, but I believe that the Vickers gun is one of the best all-around firearms ever made. It was designed during an era of […]
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Light MGs

Vintage Saturday: Death in the Long Grass

December 29, 2012 Ian McCollum 18
That’s a Dutch Madsen peeking out above the grass, there. Specifically designed with long bipod legs for this sort of terrain in the East Indies. I believe the photo dates to 1941.  

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