Video - Forgotten Weapons

Slow Motion: Colt All American 2000

August 7, 2014 Ian McCollum 57

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 […]

Type 11 Nambu LMG Disassembly (Video)

August 4, 2014 Ian McCollum 25

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 […]

C96 High-Speed Video and Smith-Condit article

August 1, 2014 Ian McCollum 11

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 […]

Krupp 50mm Mountain Gun (Thai Model 1902)

July 28, 2014 Ian McCollum 22

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) […]

Slow Motion Schwarzlose 1908

July 25, 2014 Ian McCollum 34

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 […]

The P.08 Luger and 1860 Army in Slow Motion

July 22, 2014 Ian McCollum 20

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 […]

2-Gun Action with a Remington Model 8 (Video)

July 21, 2014 Ian McCollum 29

For this month’s 2-Gun Action Challenge Match, I decided to shoot my Remington Model 8 in .300 Savage. It’s a semiauto sporting rifle designed by John Browning, which went into production in 1906. It’s a […]

Reed Knight’s Experimental 1903 Semiauto

July 15, 2014 Ian McCollum 21

I saw this rifle when I visited Reed Knight’s Institute of Military Technology a while back, but didn’t have a chance to examine it. Well, he took it off the wall for a video segment […]

Ohio Ordnance M1918A3 Semiauto BAR (Video)

July 14, 2014 Ian McCollum 20

I’ve written a fair amount about the BAR, so I won’t belabor the point here – if you would like more to read, check out my general history of the BAR and comparison between the […]

Russian RG-6 Grenade Launcher and German Repair Depot Footage

July 11, 2014 Ian McCollum 11

Something new and something old today… From long-time contributor Hrachya, we have a Russian manual for the RG-6 grenade launcher. This is a pretty recent design, having gone into production in the 1990s. It fires […]