Video - Forgotten Weapons

37mm Gun, Bethlehem, Semi-Automatic (Video)

July 7, 2014 Ian McCollum 11

The 37mm gun was found in many guises during World War One – that caliber was the smallest allowed to use exploding projectiles by the 1899 Hague accords. Every nation in the world, it seems, […]

Book Review: China’s Small Arms of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War

July 3, 2014 Ian McCollum 6

I picked up a copy of this book a couple years ago when Bin Shih first published it, but by the time I got around to doing a review it had sold out – so […]

Mosin-Nagant 91/30 PU Sniper (Video)

June 30, 2014 Ian McCollum 18

The Soviet Union produced more sniper rifles during WWII than any other country, and was one of very few to have a well-developed sniper program in place before the war began. Starting in the early […]

Book Review: The Yanks Are Coming!

June 26, 2014 Ian McCollum 15

Most of the books I look at are primarily text-based, and today I figured we should do something a little bit different. Armor Plate Press, run by Tom Laemlein, specializes in photographic studies of various […]

Battle of the Greasy Grass

June 25, 2014 Ian McCollum 49

On this day 138 years ago, the combined forces of the Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapaho tribes delivered a staggering defeat to the US Army’s 7th Cavalry under the command of General George Armstrong Custer. The […]

MG17 Adapter, and Some Grainy Old Video

June 24, 2014 Ian McCollum 7

First up, you may recall that a while back we had some photos of an MG17 belt-feed adapter salvaged from the wreck of an Me-109. The fellow who owned that piece was hoping to restore […]

Yugo M76 Sniper’s Rifle in a 2-Gun Match (Video)

June 23, 2014 Ian McCollum 22

For this month’s 2-Gun Action Challenge Match, I decided to try using my Yugoslav M76, in 8x57mm. The M76 is one of the triad of eastern marksmen’s rifles – the PSL, the SVD, and the […]

Book Review: Italian Small Arms of the First and Second World Wars

June 19, 2014 Ian McCollum 12

Good news for everyone interested in collecting Italian military firearms (yes, both of you)! Ralph Riccio has just recently published a new book on Italian Small Arms of the First and Second World Wars. Until […]

M6 Gun Motor Carriage 37mm (Video)

June 2, 2014 Ian McCollum 17

The M6 Gun Motor Carriage was the first American tank destroyer of WWII – a 37mm antitank gun (basically identical to the M3 gun) mounted on the back of a Dodge 3/4 ton weapons carrier. […]

Margolin Target Pistols (Video)

May 26, 2014 Ian McCollum 43

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