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Seen at SAR West 2011
(It was, in fact, a sporterized Dutch Beaumont)
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Sig P210 – A Connoisseur’s Pistol
The Sig P210 is one of those few pistols that creates love as first touch. The perfect grip, a superb glass-rod trigger, and a slide that moves like butter. It’s as close to a match […]
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SAR West in Phoenix this weekend
It’s that time of year – time for the SAR West gun show in Phoenix. Maybe I’m spoiled, but it’s about the only show in the Southwest that I think is really worth going to […]
Semiauto Rifles
Farquhar-Hill rifle
The Farquhar-Hill rifle was developed by Colonel Moubray Farquhar and gunsmith Arthur Hill in England, and initially patented in 1908. The original design was a recoil-operated system, but this proved unreliable and was replaced in […]
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Pedersen clip
The main competitor to the Garand rifle in the 1930s was John Pedersen’s toggle-locked rifle. The Pedersen was designed to fire, appropriately, the .276 Pedersen cartridge developed just for it, and it used an en […]
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Updates: Heligun & Fusil Mexico
Thanks to some thoughtful readers, we have a couple updates to add to recent posts. From Joe T and with the kind permission of Dan Shea, we have a photo of a Heligun as carried […]
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EX-17 Heligun
I’m sure you’re all familiar with the M-134 Minigun that was used in Vietnam on aircraft – a 7.62 NATO rotary gun with a 3000RPM rate of fire. But have you seen its competitor, the […]
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Maxim Silencer: It Will Pay You to Know About it!
It may have been his father’s total deafness from years of demonstrating the Maxim Gun that led Hiram Percy Maxim to develop the first successful rifle suppressor, or maybe firearms were was just in his […]
Light MGs
Hotchkiss Portative video
The Hotchkiss Portative was the British variation of a light machine gun used widely in World War I. It was also used by the French, Belgian, and American armies (In the US, it was adopted […]
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Benet-Mercie photos
Thanks to a reader, we have a handful of vintage photos of US troops training with the M1909 Benet Mercie light machine gun, including a couple of its use on early military motorcycles. You can […]