Shotgun
Serbu Super Shorty: Is It Awesome or Just Dumb?
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 […]
Shotgun
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Influencer Marketing in 1900: Charles Young’s Repeating Shotgun
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 […]
Commentary
The Unique Challenges of Self-Loading Shotgun Design
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 […]
Shotgun
Franchi SPAS-12 at the Range
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 […]
Shotgun
SPAS-12: Franchi’s Special Purpose Automatic Shotgun
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 […]
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Skeet with the M90 Shotgun From Halo (What Could Go Wrong?)
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?
Commentary
Why Don’t We Have Top-Loading Shotguns?
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 […]
Shotgun
USAS-12 at the Range (w/ the Fun Switch)
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 […]
Gunsmithing
M90A Close Assault Weapons System Prototype
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 […]
Crude Copies
Croatian Improvised Weapons: From Obrez to Single-Shot Yugo M70 Hybrid
During the Croatian Homeland War – as in all wars of independence – a wide variety of cobbled-together firearms were used by people who could not access proper factory arms for one reason or another. […]