Rifles - Forgotten Weapons

Mean Arms’ Bearing Delay System

January 27, 2025 Ian McCollum 36

Mean Arms has developed probably the most refined and sophisticated 9mm AR delaying system on the market, what they call Bearing Delay. This began as an exploration into fitting HK-style roller delay into and AR, […]

Enjoying Black Powder Episode 7: Beaumont 1871

January 25, 2025 Ian McCollum 14

For the full episode with the hand loading instructional section, click here: https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/episode-7-beaumont-app Black powder military rifles of the 1860s-1880s are a really enjoyable group of guns. A lot of them are relatively reasonably priced, […]

SR-88A: Singapore’s Final Evolution of the AR-18

January 20, 2025 Ian McCollum 20

Chartered Industries of Singapore was founded in 1967, and started making M16 rifles under license in 1970. These were sold to the Singaporean military as well as Thailand. To get out of their licensing agreement […]

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 […]