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Ultralight Silencer: the Carbon Research CR9T

April 17, 2023 Ian McCollum 7

One of the cool new products we found at SHOT Show this year was the CR9T from Carbon Research. This is a small research company that has figured out how to bond metals to carbon […]

Bolt Action Rifles

Successor to the Scout: Q’s 8.6mm Fix

April 14, 2023 Ian McCollum 24

0:00 – Purpose of the Fix 6:03 – The 8.6mm Blackout Cartridge 12:33 – Rifle Features 21:13 – Disassembly 29:35 – My Complaints 31:49 – At the Range There is a ton to go over […]

Submachine Guns

Prototype Silenced Sten Mk4(S) at the Range

March 25, 2023 Ian McCollum 30

Yesterday we looked at the mechanics and the history of the Sten Mk4(S), and today we have it out at the range! The very short barrel and its porting reduce the velocity of standard 115gr […]

Prototype

Prototype Silenced Sten for Paratroops: the Mk4(S)

March 24, 2023 Ian McCollum 0

The Sten Mk4 was developed experimentally in 1943 for use by British paratroops. It used a remarkably awful folding stock along with a shortened receiver and barrel to make a very compact package – albeit […]

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Accessories

Germany’s L26 Silencer for the K98k, G43, and StG44

January 9, 2023 Ian McCollum 17

Patented in Germany as System Schätzle, the L26 was a departure from the copies of the Russian wipe-based silencer designs. The L26 used a set of six identical cone-shaped metal baffles inside a simple tube. […]

Accessories

Germany Copies the Soviets: L23 & L27 Silencers

September 12, 2022 Ian McCollum 4

https://youtu.be/LcOmyQzaoPk The German L23 silencer was essentially a copy of captured Soviet Bramit silencers, complete with the attachment system locking around a rifle front sight. Two hundred of these made for the K98k rifle for […]

Suppressor

Soviet WW2 Bramit Silencer for the M91/30

August 29, 2022 Ian McCollum 19

The Soviet Union began to take an interest in military suppressors in the early 1930s, and experimented with things like suppressors for the DP light machine gun. Through the 1930s a variety of different designs […]

Submachine Guns

Agram 2000: Croatia’s Gangster Gun

June 13, 2022 Ian McCollum 24

The Agram 2000 was originally developed in the 1990s in response to a Croatian Army need for a submachine gun during the Independence War. It is a closed-bolt, hammer-fired, simple blowback submachine gun. The initial […]

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Suppressor

Radical Defense M249FVS: Laser Sintering Meets Lewis Gun

March 25, 2022 Ian McCollum 19

One of the problems with using suppressors on machine guns is that suppressors or generally much more susceptible to heat buildup than the guns themselves. In 2019, US SOCOM put out a request for a […]

Submachine Guns

The Sneaky Silent Sten MkII(S) at the Range

November 6, 2021 Ian McCollum 23

Today we are taking an original Sten MkII(S) out to the range – something I am excited to be able to do! The suppressor on this Sten is all original, and about 80 years old…and […]

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