We have another interview segment with Bin Shih today, this time discussing the commonly used bolt action rifles that were the backbone of the Chinese infantry during the war with Japan. I do want to […]
The FAMAS (MAS being the French arsenal at St Etienne, a facility with a long history of firearms manufacture) is a pretty rare rifle in the US, but has gotten a lot of exposure in […]
When we spoke to Bin Shih about his recent book and Chinese firearms in general, he brought several interesting guns along to show us. By far the rarest was a General Liu rifle, and we […]
Today, we’re joined by author Bin Shih, an expert on Chinese firearms of the second Sino-Japanese War (aka World War 2). We discuss the state of Chinese weapons manufacture in the 1930s and 40s, as […]
Let’s take a look at some of the early (but reasonably successful) automatic pistol designs, shall we? We have a Mauser and a Bergmann to compare – unfortunately a Mannlicher pistol was not available for […]
The Mannlicher was one of the early automatic pistol designs, and like most such guns, a small number were made as carbine variants. This particular one is the first prototype 1901 carbine (you can see […]
Another video for you today – we took a Czech ZK-420S out to the range to try out. This rifle was designed towards the end of WWII by the Koucky brothers in Czechoslovakia, and marketed […]
Today we have a disassembly video for you – we were fortunate enough to be given access to one of the very few Gerät 03 rifles ever made. The Gerät 03 was the first effective […]
Today we have an interview with Duncan McCollum, author of Japanese Rifles of WWII – you may also recognize him from the Japanese weapons episode of Tales of the Gun on the History Channel. Mr […]
This past weekend, we got to hit the range with a couple really neat forgotten weapons. I’m putting together separate videos for each one, and the first is a Czech ZH29. We have some information […]
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