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Semiauto Rifles

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Mauser 1902 Prototype Long Recoil Rifle at James D Julia

September 27, 2015 Ian McCollum 14
Paul Mauser was very persistent – if ultimately unsuccessful – in his long-tim goal to create a practical semiautomatic rifle using a full-power cartridge. In total he tried some 17 different designs, including one in […]
Semiauto Rifles

Holek Automat at James D Julia

September 15, 2015 Ian McCollum 35
The Holek Automat was a semiautomatic sporting rifle designed by Emmanuel Holek. Emmanuel was also the designer of the ZH-29 rifle, and brother of Vaclav and Franticek Holek, who developed the ZB-26 and ZB-53 machine guns. […]
Semiauto Rifles

RIA: Pedersen PA Carbine

September 9, 2015 Ian McCollum 5
We have done a number of videos recently on various different Pedersen long guns (the PA rifle, the Japanese copy, shooting the PB rifle, etc), but there was one version that I have not covered […]
Reproduction

RIA: M14E2 Semiauto Clone

August 28, 2015 Ian McCollum 39
The M14E2, later redesignated the M14A1, was the replacement for the ill-fated heavy barrel M15 rifle. Both were intended to fill the role of the BAR in providing automatic fire in support of M14 rifles. […]
Rocket launcher

RIA: Gyrojet Carbine

August 27, 2015 Ian McCollum 53
The Gyrojet was one of the more creative and one of the most futuristic firearms innovations of the last few decades – unfortunately it wasn’t able to prove sustainable on the market. The idea was […]
Semiauto Rifles

RIA: German Gewehr 41(M)

August 18, 2015 Ian McCollum 40
When the German military started looking for a self-loading rifle in the late 1930s, they had a pretty strict set of requirements. Most significantly, the rifles could not have gas ports or recoiling barrels, could […]
Garand converted to use AR10 magazines by Artillerie Inrichtingen
Conversion

Dutch M1 with AR-10 Magazines

August 5, 2015 Ian McCollum 19
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Dutch government was looking to adopt a new rifle for its Army, and considered both the AR-10 (which was being produced domestically by Artillerie Inrichtingen) and the […]
British trials Bang Rifle, caliber .303 (photo courtesy National Firearms Centre, Leeds, UK)
Prototype

Danish Bang Rifle for British Trials

July 24, 2015 Ian McCollum 26
  One of the first semiautomatic rifles tested by the US military was a design by a Dane named Søren Hansen Bang, which was first presented to the government in 1911. The rifles used a […]
Semiauto Rifles

Slow Motion: Scotti Model X

July 23, 2015 Ian McCollum 47
The Scotti Model X (the X standing for the 10th year of the Italian Fascist era, or 1932) was one of a bunch of semiauto rifles tested by the Italian military during the late 1920s […]
Rendering of an HMG Sturmgewehr
Reproduction

HMG’s US-Made Sturmgewehr

July 14, 2015 Ian McCollum 43
In all the time I have been able to look at MP-43/MP-44/StG-44 rifles, one of the comments that comes up over and over is the desire for someone to make a semiauto reproduction of the gun […]

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