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Single Shot Rifles

Lee Carbine: Gunmaking is not for Sissies

April 16, 2019 Ian McCollum 19
This rifle is lot #1386 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction. James Paris Lee is known today as the inventor of the detachable box magazine, and the “Lee” in the “Lee Enfield” rifle system – a […]
Bolt Action Rifles

Italy Modernizes: the Carcano Needlefire Rifle Conversion

April 15, 2019 Ian McCollum 27
This rifle is lot #1415 in the upcoming April 2019 Morphy auction. When Prussia and its Dreyse needle fire rifles defeated Austria and its muzzleloaders at Shadow in 1866, much of the world took note. […]
Bolt Action Rifles

Israeli SP66: A Modern Mauser Sniper

April 14, 2019 Ian McCollum 16
This rifle is lot #2172 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction. Around 1980, Israeli purchased a batch of modern Mauser SP66 precision rifles to supplement or replace their stocks of M14 and Mauser K98k sniper rifles. […]
Light MGs

Shooting the Inglis 8mm Bren Gun

April 13, 2019 Ian McCollum 27
This Bren is lot #1013 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction. The Bren gun is widely regarded as one of the best light machine guns ever built, but that reputation is based on the British .303 […]
Light MGs

Canadian 8mm “Sterile” Bren Gun

April 12, 2019 Ian McCollum 30
This Bren is lot #1013 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction. The John Inglis company in Toronto first opened in 1859 as a metalworking shop, and grew steadily over the decades under first John Inglis, and […]
Anti-Tank Rifles

Boys Anti-Tank Rifle: Mk I and Mk I* Improvements

April 11, 2019 Ian McCollum 19
These rifles are lots #1087 and #1088 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction: The Boys Anti-Tank Rifle was adopted by the British military in 1937, and remained in production until 1943 when it was replaced by […]
Bolt Action Rifles

Silent Destroyer: Reimagining the DeLisle Commando Carbine

April 10, 2019 Ian McCollum 16
This suppressed carbine is lot #1079 in the upcoming April 2019 Morphy’s auction. Tom Denall’s “Silent Destroyer” (originally built on surplus Sanish “Destroyer” carbines) is a Ruger 77/44 bolt action rifle with a large integral […]
Artillery

Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon from San Juan Hill

April 9, 2019 Ian McCollum 34
This Hotchkiss and its accessories are lot #1116 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction: Benjamin Hotchkiss was an American artillery designer who moved to Paris in 1867 in hopes of building a business for his improvements […]
Bolt Action Rifles

Heym SR30: Straight Pull Ball-Bearing Lock?

April 8, 2019 Ian McCollum 39
This rifle is lot #2168 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction. The Heym SR30 is a modern hunting rifle produced in Thuringia, Germany using a rather clever and interesting locking system. It is a straight-pull rifle […]
Shotgun

Nikita Kruschev’s MTs-11 Communist Party Shotgun

April 7, 2019 Ian McCollum 21
This shotgun is lot #1256 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction. Presented to Nikita Kruschev at the opening of the 21st session of the Communist Party session in 1959, this is an example of the best […]

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