Rifles - Forgotten Weapons

PSA/H&R Clones the Department of Energy Colt 9mm SMG

January 18, 2025 Ian McCollum 16

Palmetto State Armory, under their Harrington & Richardson brand, has released a particularly neat model of 9mm AR. They talked about doing this “at some point” at SHOT Show 2024, but lo and behold it’s […]

BD-44: The New Semiauto Sturmgewehr from D-K Productions

January 13, 2025 Ian McCollum 21

D-K Productions is a collaboration between the rGerman company Sport System Dittrich (SSD) and an American partner. SSD has been making reproductions of German World War Two small arms for something like 20 years – […]

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 […]

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

January 10, 2025 Ian McCollum 26

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 […]

Steyr AUGs of the Falkland Islands Defense Force

January 8, 2025 Ian McCollum 24

The Falkland Islands Defense Force is a small organization independent of the British military, run directly by the Falkland Islands government. When it decided to update its small arms form the L1A1 SLR (aka British […]

You Can Copy Anything: Chinese Bolt Action M1 Carbine

January 6, 2025 Ian McCollum 20

This is a copy of the M1 Carbine made in China late in the Chinese civil war – likely between 1945 and 1949. While there was an attempt at factory production of a true M1 […]

Estonia’s Much Better Sniper: the M14 TP2

December 27, 2024 Ian McCollum 33

The first Estonian sniper rifle built on the M14 was the “TP” – a very poorly done model with a lousy scope, worse mount, and unhelpful stock. These were made in 2000, and in 2008 […]

Enjoying Black Powder Episode 6: Berdan II

December 21, 2024 Ian McCollum 7

The full version with hand loading information (not permitted on YouTube) is available here: https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/berdan-2-app Black powder military rifles of the 1860s-1880s are a really enjoyable group of guns. A lot of them are relatively […]

Steyrs for the Luftwaffe: The G29(ö) aka Gewehr 12/34

December 9, 2024 Ian McCollum 14

When the German government bought up the controlling interest in Steyr in 1938, they made use of its production facilities to start making rifles for the Luftwaffe. Steyr had tooling for the Mauser 98, but […]

French 1717 Rampart Musket from the American Revolution

December 7, 2024 Ian McCollum 8

American forces in the Revolutionary War took in a bunch of different types of surplus small arms, and one of the interesting ones was the French Model 1717 Rampart gun. When the French created the […]