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“Howth” Mauser 1871: Irish Volunteers Gunrunning into Dublin

May 2, 2025 Ian McCollum 20

On July 14th, 1914 the 50 foot pleasure yacht “Asgard” sailed into Howth harbor in Dublin with its cabin completely filled with arms. It has 900 Mauser 1871 rifles and 29,000 rounds of ammunition for […]

Antiques

Enjoying Black Powder Episode 10: Model 1871/88 Beaumont-Vitali

April 26, 2025 Ian McCollum 6

Full video with reloading segment and clip solid file available here: https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/ep-10-beaumont-vitali-app Black powder military rifles of the 1860s-1880s are a really enjoyable group of guns. A lot of them are relatively reasonably priced, and […]

Antiques

Military-Issue Colt Model 1839 Paterson Revolving Rifle

April 23, 2025 Ian McCollum 10

The first rifle made in Sam Colt’s Paterson NJ factory was the 1837 “ring lever” rifle. These were rather fragile and underpowered and while they were used successfully in the First Seminole War, they needed […]

Antiques

Model 1875 Officer’s Pattern: The Finest Trapdoor Springfield

April 19, 2025 Ian McCollum 15

As the main national armory, Springfield got a number of requests to make specialty rifles for commissioned officers and important dignitaries each year. These were essentially all custom sporting rifles, and the orders were duly […]

Semiauto Rifles

Voere SAM-180 – Semiautomatic American 180 SMG Made in Austria?

April 16, 2025 Ian McCollum 11

The American 180 is a .22LR machine gun that fires at a high rate (1300 rpm more or less) from a super-high-capacity magazine (177 rounds). Conceptually it was designed by Richard Casull in the 1960s, […]

Semiauto Rifles

Springfield Kuna: Croatia’s New Delayed-Blowback PCC/SMG

April 15, 2025 Ian McCollum 9

The Kuna is a delayed-blowback 9mm pistol/PCC/submachine gun developed by HS Produkt in Croatia and marketed int he US by Springfield Armory. Development on it began in 2020 as a commercial project, but probably also […]

Conversion

Experimental AG-42B Conversion to 7.62mm NATO

April 14, 2025 Ian McCollum 10

Circa 1954, Sweden was starting to look for a new self-loading rifle to adopt for its infantry. The 6.5x55mm cartridge was a good round, but the idea of having ammunition compatibility with its neighbors was […]

Select-fire Rifles

Domestic Burmese G3s: BA64 Rifle and BA-72 Carbine

April 12, 2025 Ian McCollum 3

After achieving independence from the British, Burma (now Myanmar) looked to develop a domestic small arms industry to supply its armed forces. The first weapon produced there was the BA-52, a copy of (how they […]

Semiauto Rifles

KH-9: B&T Remakes the SITES Spectre Just Because It’s Cool

April 9, 2025 Ian McCollum 4

Karl Brügger, CEO of B&T, is a true gun nerd and avid competitive shooter. When he got his hands on the Spectre SMG with its quad-stack magazine and weird DA/decocker fire control system, he thought […]

Bolt Action Rifles

Stamm-Saurer Model 1907: A New Swiss Straight-Pull Bolt Action Rifle

April 2, 2025 Ian McCollum 4

After leaving the Zeller company, Hans Stamm went looking for work at major gun manufacturers like WF Bern and SIG. He ended up hired in 1907 by a company caller Saurer. This was an automotive […]

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