Rifles - Forgotten Weapons

Martini-Henry I.C.1 Carbine (Video)

December 29, 2014 Ian McCollum 33

Formally adopted in 1877, the I.C.1 Martini Henry was formally designated the “Arms Interchangeable, Carbine Breech loading Rifled, with clearing rod Martini Henry Mk1”. The word “interchangeable” refers to its use for both the artillery […]

EM-2 Rifle Manual

December 24, 2014 Ian McCollum 13

I recently got an email from a reader who had scanned the EM-2 manual section from the back of Thomas Dugelby’s EM2 Concept and Design and sent it to me. I thanked him (although I […]

Vintage Saturday: Second-Rate Spoils

December 20, 2014 Ian McCollum 60

German troops with captured Mosin Nagant rifles (and one SVT-40).

Slow Motion: VG1-5

December 18, 2014 Ian McCollum 40

This particular rifle is a prototype of the reproduction VG1-5 (or more correctly called the Gustloff MP-507) rifles that are available for sale from Chuck at GunLab.net. I will take some slow motion footage of […]

Repro German K98k Sniper for Sale/Trade

December 16, 2014 Ian McCollum 1

A friend of mine – Karl, in fact, who you’ve probably seen on InRange or 2-gun videos – is looking to sell or trade a reproduction German K98k sniper. It’s a gorgeous example of a […]

1852 Slant-Breech Sharps

December 15, 2014 Ian McCollum 23

Reader Kymm was kind enough to load me this rifle to video, with a particular interest in seeing the amount of gas leakage (or lack thereof) on high-speed footage. This early model of Sharps featured […]

FFV-890C: The Swedish Service Rifle That Never Was

December 12, 2014 Ian McCollum 12

Seth Cane has previously written a 3-part series of articles for us on the Galil, which you can see here: Galil SAR, Galil AR, and Galil ARM. He is now following that with an in-depth […]

Danish Madsen-Ljungman Rifle

December 8, 2014 Ian McCollum 7

Thanks to reader John D, we have a chance today to look at a very scarce Danish-made copy of the AG-42B Ljungman rifle. The Madsen company in Denmark made about 50 of these rifles for […]

Clever Double Barrel Sporting Rifle at RIA

December 3, 2014 Ian McCollum 17

This double-barreled sporting rifle made by Christoph Funk in Germany is not much like the typical over-under double-barreled rifle. It began as a fairly standard Mauser bolt action, chambered in 7×57 Mauser with a 5-round […]

Roth-Sauer Automatic Pistol at RIA

November 30, 2014 Ian McCollum 24

The Roth-Sauer is a rare early automatic pistol designed by Karel Krnka, financed by Georg Roth, and manufactured by J.P. Sauer & Sohn in Germany. It is mechanically quite complex – much moreso than strictly […]