Video
Final Prices: James D Julia Spring 2018 Auction
As usual, I have a recap today of the final prices of the guns I filmed from the most recent Julia auction (spring of 2018). Once again, I focussed on machine guns, as well as […]
Video
Bolt Action Rifles
Turkish “Enfauser” – Mauser/Enfield Hybrid Rifle
In the mid 1930s, Turkey updated and overhauled the bolt action rifles in its inventory, to bring them all up to that same standard for sights, ammunition, sling configuration, etc. Most of the rifles overhauled […]
Book review
Book Review: The Kalashnikov Encyclopaedia by Drs. Cor Roodhorst
All three volumes available worldwide from: http://www.kalashnikov-encyclopaedia.com While there are several books available which showcase a decent number of different Kalashnikov variants (like Tokoi’s work), and there are good reference works on the history and […]
Reproduction
LugerMan Reproduction of the 1907 .45 Test Trials Luger
Eugene Golubtsov, aka LugerMan, is manufacturing reproduction .45ACP caliber Luger pistols, based on the original blueprints of the 1907 pattern US Army trials guns. When he offered to send me one to try out, how […]
Air gun
Pritchard’s 19th Century Precharged Air Gun
William Pritchard was a Birmingham gunsmith in the mid 1800s who offered both firearms and air guns, and this particular ball-reservoir air gun is a fine example of the latter. Air guns have existed in […]
Prototype
SIG’s World War Two Semiauto Rifle: The Model U
The SIG company of Neuhausen Switzerland spent the 1920s, 30s, and 40s working on developmental semiauto rifles to sell both to the Swiss military and abroad. One of the experimental models in the succession of […]
Prototype
Colt Tries To Make a Service Pistol: The Model 1971
In the early 1970s, Colt wanted to develop a new military pistol so that it could offer a modern replacement for the venerable 1911. Colt Engineer Robert Roy designed the new gun in 1971, and […]
Manual Repeater
The Schulhof 1884, Type IIa Manual Repeating Pistol
Josef Schulhof was an Austrian who decided to leave his farm and work in firearms design. He moved to Vienna and received his first firearms patent in 1882. He would go on to design and […]
Semiauto Rifles
H&K Quality Meets the Thumbhole Stock: The SR-9
The H&K SR9 was a the version of the H&K G3/91 designed to comply with (or avoid, if you prefer) the Bush Sr. 1989 import ban on “assault weapons”. About 4,000 of these were imported […]
Air gun
OSS Flying Dragon: A Silent Poisoned Dart Gun
The OSS experimented with a lot of…unorthodox weapons during World War Two, and one of their overarching goals was a weapon with a 100 yard lethal range but without flash or noise. To this end […]