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Excellent New Premium Members’ Benefit

October 25, 2013 Ian McCollum 2

I’m happy to announce that I’ve added a new benefit item to the Forgotten Weapons Premium Member program! Rock Island Auctions is offering us a great discount on their catalogs. If you’ve seen their catalogs, […]

To Restore or not to Restore?

October 15, 2013 Ian McCollum 33

If you’ve been watching the blog for a while, you may recall that I have a relic-grade VG1-5 rifle – I found it at a gun show in Belgium and brought it back home in […]

Vintage Saturday: Government Shutdown

October 5, 2013 Ian McCollum 45

Note the assortment of arms – a Polish variant of the BAR, a Mauser rifle, Luger pistol, and what appears to be a Mauser 1910/1914/1934 pistol.

Book Review: Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn

September 19, 2013 Ian McCollum 36

I’m sure all my American readers are familiar with George Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, one of the more famous disasters in American military history. For our European folks, a bit of […]

The Return of GunLab

August 27, 2013 Ian McCollum 32

Yep, I’m very happy to announce that there is some new content coming to GunLab at last! It won’t be from me, but instead from my friend Chuck. He is an SOT, and has a […]

For Sale: German History of Selfloading Pistols

August 25, 2013 Ian McCollum 5

We wound up with a duplicate book in the Reference Library: Geschichte und Technik der Selbstladepistole (History and Technology of the Self-Loading Pistol) by Werner Mootz. It’s a pretty neat book, loaded with patent drawings […]

Still Talking When There’s Science to Do

August 18, 2013 Ian McCollum 15

The monthly 2-gun match was yesterday, and I used the opportunity to do some research into a classic question: To what extent can the faster action and increased magazine capacity of an Enfield rifle compensate […]

John Inglis and Bren Production

August 2, 2013 Ian McCollum 42

If I say “John Inglis”, the first two things that probably come to mind for a gunnie are High Powers and Bren guns. Inglis was a Canadian company that made a huge proportion of the […]

Browning BDM Controls (Video)

July 22, 2013 Ian McCollum 16

Last week, we talked a bit about obsolete firearms controls, and that discussion made me think of a fairly recent pistols with a fairly unique feature, the Browning BDM. Mechanically, the BDM is a pretty […]

Rifle Manuals DVD Now Available

July 9, 2013 Ian McCollum 15

We’ve been digging through the Forgotten Weapons Archives, and compiling all the rifle manuals were can put our hands on, and there were enough to justify Volume II: Rifles of the Manual Archive (you can still […]