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The Best Night Rifle Match Yet: Moons Out 2025, Night 1

March 21, 2025 Ian McCollum 0

Full uncensored video available at HOWW or Patreon: https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/moons-out-lage-uncensored-day-1-4k https://www.patreon.com/posts/124738375/ 00:00 – Intro; overall match sponsor Q 02:30 – Stage 1: Rambo’s Reading Rainbow, sponsored by TNVC 05:57 – Stage 2: Seal Team Extraction, sponsored […]

The Swiss Suomi: MP43/44 (With Bayonet)

March 19, 2025 Ian McCollum 48

During World War Two, the Swiss had adopted Adolf Furrer’s toggle-locked MP41 submachine gun, and they found it too fragile, complex, and expensive. Looking for an alternative, one easy choice was the Finnish Suomi. Used […]

Type 56C: China’s Last Military AK (And It’s Totally Non-Standard)

March 17, 2025 Ian McCollum 14

The Type 56C is the final iteration of Chinese Kalashnikov, originally intended for export but primarily used by Chinese police and special forces. It is a short-barreled carbine with a folding stock, and remarkably few […]

Enjoying Black Powder Episode 9: 1869 Swiss Vetterli

March 15, 2025 Ian McCollum 10

For the full episode with the hand loading instructional section, click here: https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/ep-9-swiss-vetterli-app Black powder military rifles of the 1860s-1880s are a really enjoyable group of guns. A lot of them are relatively reasonably priced, […]

Optic and Reticle Choices (featuring Mike Branson)

March 14, 2025 Ian McCollum 6

I’m speaking with Mike Branson of Gideon Optics at SHOT Show 2025, and today the topic is scope and reticle choice. What is good, what is bad, and what is best for you?

ZB37: Czechoslovakia’s Super-Heavy Machine Gun

March 12, 2025 Ian McCollum 46

The ZB37 began in 1930 as a design by none other than classic Czech arms designer Vaclav Holek. The Czechoslovakian military was still using the Schwarzlose heavy MG, and wanted something to replace it. To […]

Rifles on the Danube: Hungarian AK-Pattern Firearms – NOW SHIPPING

March 11, 2025 Ian McCollum 0

Now Shipping! Order your copy here: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/danube-book At the end of the Second World War, Hungary was occupied by Soviet troops and soon fell into the Soviet sphere of influence, joining the Warsaw Pact in […]

Beretta Tries a Machine Pistol: the Model 951A

March 10, 2025 Ian McCollum 9

Beretta’s first machine pistol was actually a full-auto variant of the Model 1923, complete with shoulder stock – but that did not sell well. They tried again in the 1950s with an automatic model of […]

Stamm-Zeller 1902: A Swiss Straight-Pull Converted to Semiauto

March 8, 2025 Ian McCollum 31

Today’s rifle was designed by a Swiss inventor named Hans Stamm while working for the Zeller et Cie company in Appenzell Switzerland. The company originally made embroidering machinery, but turned to military rifle parts subcontracting […]

Virtual Tour: Swiss Shooting Museum Bern

March 7, 2025 Ian McCollum 1

Today we are taking a virtual tour of the Swiss Shooting Museum (Schweizer Schützenmuseum Bern) in Bern, Switzerland. The museum has been in this building since just before World War Two, and focusses on the […]