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BUG Match: Serbu Super Shorty vs MIL Thunder 5

September 27, 2025 Ian McCollum 14

Today at the Back-Up Gun Match we have a showdown between shotguns. But not proper shotguns; oh no – we are using only tiny shotguns! Friend of the channel (and regular BUG Match enjoyer) Matt […]

Serbu Super Shorty: Is It Awesome or Just Dumb?

May 31, 2025 Ian McCollum 59

The Super Shorty is a pump action shotgun reduced to a 2-round tube capacity and a 6.5″ barrel made by Serbu Firearms. The first one was made in 1998 and since then Mark Serbu has […]

Influencer Marketing in 1900: Charles Young’s Repeating Shotgun

April 7, 2025 Ian McCollum 10

Charles Sparrow Young was an extremely talent trap shooter around the turn of the century, sponsored by the Peters ammunition company. He was also a mechanical tinkerer, and developed several patents, including a shotgun release […]

The Unique Challenges of Self-Loading Shotgun Design

November 22, 2024 Ian McCollum 45

This is your last chance to win this iconic SPAS-12! https://www.fanathem.com/forgottenweapons DEADLINE to ENTER is TONIGHT 11/22/24 @11:59 PM PST I think a lot of people under appreciate the difficulty of making a reliable self-loading […]

Franchi SPAS-12 at the Range

November 16, 2024 Ian McCollum 29

Today I’m taking the SPAS-12 out to the range, to try a variety of ammunition and see what runs in it. The SPAS is a gas-operated shotgun that can be switched to manual pump operation […]

SPAS-12: Franchi’s Special Purpose Automatic Shotgun

November 6, 2024 Ian McCollum 10

Enter to win this iconic SPAS-12! https://www.fanathem.com/forgottenweapons Deadline to enter is 11/22/24 @11:59 PM PST Franchi introduced the Special Purpose Automatic Shotgun (SPAS-12) for Italian military and police agencies in 1979 and it quickly because […]

Skeet with the M90 Shotgun From Halo (What Could Go Wrong?)

March 29, 2024 Ian McCollum 8

Today is my last chance to take the Halo M90 out for a fun day at the range…so why not make it the worst possible application for this sort of shotgun?

Why Don’t We Have Top-Loading Shotguns?

March 13, 2024 Ian McCollum 56

When I posted some video of the real-life Halo M90 shotgun, one of the most common questions I got was, “why don’t we have top-loading shotguns like that?” Well, it’s an intriguing question…so let’s see […]

USAS-12 at the Range (w/ the Fun Switch)

February 24, 2024 Ian McCollum 7

https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/usas-12-at-the-range-w-the-fun-switch The USAS-12, made by Daewoo in South Korea, is one of the better box-fed shotguns available (I use that term loosely; there are not that many of them around). It was available as both […]

M90A Close Assault Weapons System Prototype

December 25, 2023 Ian McCollum 15

Thanks to Nathan Frisque for loaning us this very cool project to film – a very merry Christmas to him and to all of you watching! If you haven’t caught on, this is a real-life […]