Shotgun

A Mystifying 3-Barrel Percussion Shotgun

November 25, 2019 Ian McCollum 38

This is a three-barreled muzzleloading shotgun, with two pretty normal hammers on the top barrels and a rather unusual and simple under hammer for the bottom barrel. It has no markings at all, a hinged […]

Experimental Bullpup Over/Under Shotgun with a Secret

November 19, 2019 Ian McCollum 36

This is a prototype or one-off over/under sporting shotgun, made in a bullpup configuration. It is basically two long slabs of wood clamshell around a pair of barrels, with the action at the very end […]

Cooey: The Unassuming Canadian Workhorse

November 6, 2019 Ian McCollum 24

Cooey is a brand name that will be immediately recognized by Canadians, but pretty much unknown everywhere else. Founded in 1903 by Herbert Cooey, the company would produce a series of simple and practical firearms […]

SPAS-15: Franchi’s Improvement on the SPAS-12

August 12, 2019 Ian McCollum 46

Lot 776 in the September 2019 RIA auction. The SPAS-15 was Franchi’s successor to the SPAS-12, improved with detachable box magazines (6 round capacity) and a construction of simple sheet metal samplings and polymer. Like […]

Shooting the Sjogren Inertial Shotgun

June 1, 2019 Ian McCollum 30

When I filmed this, I had limited time and figured I would do the shooting first and then film the history and disassembly of the gun afterwards. Alas, I ran out of time and never […]

Samuel Pauly Invents the Cartridge in 1812

April 17, 2019 Ian McCollum 45

https://youtu.be/BC7awTeuqRU This Pauly shotgun is lot #1346 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction. Samuel Johannes Pauli was born outside Bern, Switzerland in 1766, and became an engineer of wide interests. Among them were bridge design, passenger-carrying […]

A Mystifying 3-Barrel Percussion Shotgun

Experimental Bullpup Over/Under Shotgun with a Secret

Cooey: The Unassuming Canadian Workhorse

SPAS-15: Franchi’s Improvement on the SPAS-12

Shooting the Sjogren Inertial Shotgun

Samuel Pauly Invents the Cartridge in 1812

Nikita Kruschev’s MTs-11 Communist Party Shotgun

Becker Blow-Forward Revolving Shotgun

Fosbery’s Paradox, by Holland and Holland

California Arms Co 20ga “Defiance” Pistol-Shotgun