Rifles - Forgotten Weapons

Mondragon Model 1894

January 4, 2013 Ian McCollum 22

The rifle we are looking at is an early Mondragon bolt-action design, model of 1894. Prior to designing his self-loading 1908 rifle (which is notable as the first self-loader adopted by a national military), Manuel […]

Mystery Swede

December 26, 2012 Ian McCollum 14

We found these photos of a Swedish semiauto conversion, and have no information on the design. Have you seen this rifle? Any insights? The only reason we’re even saying it’s Swedish is the “Stockholms Vapenfabrik” […]

FS2000 at the Range

December 24, 2012 Ian McCollum 18

Yep, it’s a rifle that’s barely 15 years old – but I think it’s on its way to becoming a Forgotten Weapon. So today we have a video on FN’s FS2000 black rifle. It was […]

AK and StG – Kissing Cousins

December 12, 2012 Ian McCollum 86

When people see the AK-47 and the StG-44 side by side an know nothing about their internal mechanisms, the nearly universal assumption is that one is a copy of the other. The overall layout of […]

Low Maintenance Rifle photos

December 6, 2012 Ian McCollum 15

I’ve found the TRW Low Maintenance Rifle to be pretty interesting ever since I found out about it – basically an American take on the Volksturm rifle concept. We’ve talked about the LMR before, and […]

Tomorrow’s Forgotten Weapon: the OICW

November 21, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

We often get email asking if we are going to write about some forgotten weapons that are relatively recent developments, like the OICW for example. We would like to have more coverage of some of […]

Guns that should have been

November 20, 2012 Ian McCollum 15

There are some guns that weren’t ever built, but really should have been. Like a paratrooper’s MP44. The shorty version of the AK is extremely cool, and it only stands to reason that a shorty […]

Last Ditch Innovation (Video)

November 19, 2012 Ian McCollum 38

I’m very happy today to present a video we did in cooperation with Oleg Volk, which I’ve titled “Last Ditch Innovation”. It is a look at two late-WW2 German prototype rifles which are the evolutionary […]

Snabb Semiauto Conversion

November 16, 2012 Ian McCollum 19

A reader named Roy sent us a link to a very interesting system for converting bolt action rifles to semiauto function. One of them was sold back in 2009 at auction, and (interestingly) the exact […]

French RSC Modele 1917 selfloading rifle

November 7, 2012 Ian McCollum 16

The French government had run a series of semiautomatic rifle trials in 1913 and had several designs with a lot of potential, like the A6 Meunier. In fact, most of the designs had dropped the […]