Single Shot Rifles
1875 Lee Vertical Action Carbine at RIA
My recent trip to the Rock Island Auction house was spent taking a whole slew of videos on guns that are coming up for sale in their Premier auction on the 12th, 13th, and 14th […]
Video
Bolt Action Rifles
2-Gun Match: WWII Snipers (Video)
This month for the 2-Gun Action Challenge Match, Karl and I square off with WWII snipers’ rifles. I have a No4 MkI (T) Enfield sniper with a 3.5x No.32 scope, and Karl has a Mauser […]
Semiauto pistol
Slow Motion: Frommer Stop
This week’s slow motion gun is the Frommer Stop, put into production in 1912. The Hungarian designer Rudolf Frommer was responsible for a series of long-recoil pistols, of which the Stop was the last and […]
Prototype
Mauser 1912/14 Automatic Pistol (Video)
The Mauser 1912/14 automatic pistol was the final stage of a dead-end development track for a military sidearm in 9mm Parabellum made by Mauser. The program began as a plain blowback pistol in 1909, which […]
Semiauto pistol
Slow Motion: Colt All American 2000
The All-American 2000 was Colt’s attempt to compete with Glock for the military and police service pistol market. It had a polymer frame (except a few early ones with aluminum frames), a double-action-only striker firing […]
Light MGs
Type 11 Nambu LMG Disassembly (Video)
Thanks to the hospitality of the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, we had a chance to examine and disassemble a Japanese Type 11 light machine gun. This is, of course, the very unusual hopper-fed […]
Semiauto pistol
C96 High-Speed Video and Smith-Condit article
Now that I have this high speed camera to use, I am going to be making high-speed video a regular weekly feature, at least until I run out of guns to film this way. Today’s […]
Artillery
Krupp 50mm Mountain Gun (Thai Model 1902)
We’re taking a look at another artillery piece today, a 50mm mountain gun made for Siam (now Thailand) by the German Krupp company. It is a relatively simple (and thus relatively inexpensive at the time) […]
Semiauto pistol
Slow Motion Schwarzlose 1908
I am getting high speed footage of a bunch of interesting pistols right off the bat now that I have my Edgertronic camera, and one that has been on my list ever since I first […]
Semiauto pistol
The P.08 Luger and 1860 Army in Slow Motion
With my handy new high-speed video camera, I’ve started taking some footage of interesting guns operating. First up is the Luger: The camera will do 500 frames/sec at very high quality, and just under 18,000 […]