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Mystery Shotgun With a Very Unusual Action

December 20, 2021 Ian McCollum 19

This is a commercial pump-action shotgun manufactured in France and proofed at the St Etienne proof house. I know basically nothing else of its provenance, including who designed it, who sold it (although I would […]

Combination gun

Weirdly Late “Buck-N-Ball” – Standard Arms 50 Caliber “Camp” Gun

October 25, 2021 Ian McCollum 16

Standard Arms was an early (circa 1909) manufacturer of self-loading hunting rifles in the US. The made the Model G, a rifle which could function either as a self-loader or a pump action manual repeater. […]

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The Crazy Guns of the Winchester-Bannerman Pump Action Lawsuit

June 9, 2021 Ian McCollum 16

Today I’m at the Cody Firearms Museum, taking a look at two of the guns that were used in the court case between Francis Bannerman and the Winchester company – a prototype Magot pump-action rifle […]

bullpup

Curtis 1866: The First Bullpup – with Jonathan Ferguson

April 22, 2020 Ian McCollum 18

Join the Kickstarter campaign and preorder your copy of Jonathan’s “Thorneycroft to SA80: British Bullpup Firearms 1901 – 2020”! Sorry for the poor audio quality – today I am back at the Cody Firearms Museum […]

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Colt Lightning: A Pump-Action Rifle to Challenge Winchester

November 29, 2019 Ian McCollum 18

Colt held a dominant market share in revolver sales in the 1880s, but was quite interested in taking a piece of the rifle market as well. This initially manifested with the Colt Burgess lever-action rifle, […]

Slide action

Vektor H5: Pump Action Adaptation of the South African Galil

January 2, 2019 Ian McCollum 10

The H5 is a pump-action conversion of the South African R4/R5 Galil rifles, developed by Vektor in the early 1990s. It was fairly difficult at that time to get a permit for a semiautomatic rifle […]

Gunsmithing

Weird Slide Action Prototype Rifles

November 28, 2018 Ian McCollum 21

These rifles sold at Rock Island on December 1, 2018 – the in-the-white prototype brought $14,950 and the more refined pre-production brought $12,650. These two slide action rifles came form the same collection, and are […]

Shotgun

Fosbery’s Pump Shotgun: An AR15 Bolt in 1891

September 21, 2017 Ian McCollum 26

Armament Research Services (ARES) is a specialist technical intelligence consultancy, offering expertise and analysis to a range of government and non-government entities in the arms and munitions field. For detailed photos of the guns in […]

Shotgun

Techno Arms MAG-7 Shotgun: Shooting, History, & Disassembly

March 16, 2016 Ian McCollum 46

The MAG-7 is an unusual shotgun made in South Africa in the 1990s, and imported to the US in small numbers. The idea of the gun was to offer maximum firepower in the smallest package […]

Slide action

Standard Arms Model M at RIA

June 9, 2015 Ian McCollum 11

At the turn of the 20th Century, prior to World War I, there were actually three semiauto sporting rifles on the market in the US. The two commonly known ones are the Winchester Model 5/7/10 […]

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