Artillery
M6 Gun Motor Carriage 37mm (Video)
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. […]
Video
Manuals
Margolin Target Pistols (Video)
Video Manuals
Commentary
2 Gun: FG42 vs BAR (Video)
By popular request, this month we are doing a head-to-head match of the awesome FG-42 (second model, in 8mm, made by SMG Guns) and the much-revered Browning BAR (M1918A3, in .30-06, made by Ohio Ordnance). […]
Handgun
Volcanic Repeating Pistol (Video)
The Volcanic was not the first repeating pistol, but it was an early one of the first in a line of firearms that would develop into the iconic lever action rifles of the American West. […]
Artillery
Bofors 37mm AT Gun (Video)
The Swedish Bofors company developed a sophisticated and very high-quality light anti-tank gun in the early 1930s, and found significant commercial success with it. A variety of countries either purchased the guns outright from Bofors […]
Conversion
Experimental .30-40 Trapdoor Springfield Repro (Video)
We have often touched on the series of US magazine rifle trials that took place through the late 1800s – those trials brought out a slew of interesting new ideas and clever (or not so […]
Anti-Tank Rifles
Bonus Video: Lahti L39
I had the chance to shoot a 20mm L39 Lahti antitank rifle (cannon?) at a recent get-together. It is the cheapest of the 20mm guns you can generally find, but also one of the less […]
Revolver
Belgian Mini-Revolver (Video)
Since our last video was the biggest gun we’ve ever filmed, I figured we would go the opposite direction this week, and feature the smallest gun we’ve ever filmed. It’s an example of a cheap […]
Semiauto pistol
Webley 1913 Naval Model (Video)
William John Whiting spent about 10 years trying to get the British military to adopt his automatic pistol, and finally achieved his goal in 1913 with a contract for pistols supplied to the British Royal […]
Bolt Action Rifles
2-Gun Match: Swiss K31 (Video)
I’ve been looking forward to shooting one of the local 2-Gun Action Challenge Matches with a Swiss straight-pull rifle for a while now, and had the chance this past weekend. I was debating between using […]