Video - Forgotten Weapons

Dolf Goldsmith on $5 Finnish Mortars

April 8, 2013 Ian McCollum 4

We have another piece today from our interview with Dolf Goldsmith, this time on the subject of $5 Finnish mortars used for fun and profit. Well, actually just for fun. To clarify one of Dolf’s […]

Generic WWII Fantasy Squad!

April 7, 2013 Ian McCollum 21

Definitely not to be mistaken for Rat Patrol, which is copyrighted. Couldn’t help myself – I was at the range yesterday with a Jeep, a 1919, and a video camera… 🙂

Book Review: The Grand Old Lady of No Man’s Land

March 21, 2013 Ian McCollum 17

I got an email from a fellow a few days ago asking if there is a good book out there on the Vickers gun, so I figured it would be a good time to do […]

The French M1886 Lebel was the first smallbore smokeless powder rifle adopted by a major military, and was a game changer in the European arms race in the 1880s. It wasn’t an outstanding design in […]

Direct Gas Impingement Video

March 11, 2013 Ian McCollum 14

Many people already know everything I’m going to say in today’s video, but I think it’s important to get it out there for the folks who don’t have as much mechanical experience with their rifles. […]

Book Review: The Great Remington 8

March 7, 2013 Ian McCollum 13

I bought a Remington Model 8 a couple months back, and I’ve been remiss in not putting together a video on it – it’s a very neat rifle. Instead (for the time being), I figured […]

Roth-Steyr 1907 Pistol (Video)

March 4, 2013 Ian McCollum 18

We had the chance to dig into a Roth Steyr 1907 selfloading pistol recently, and put together a video on it. The pistol is quite unusual, with a fixed internal magazine, rotating barrel locking system, […]

John Garand on US Weapons Development (Video)

February 26, 2013 Ian McCollum 23

Thanks to a tip from Big Al last week, we found a couple minutes of video of John Garand talking about the development of US small arms. It was buried in an episode of “The […]

Ljungman AG42B Video

February 25, 2013 Ian McCollum 17

Being right in the depths of winter, it seemed like a good time to take a Scandinavian rifle out to the range. Specifically, a Swedish Ljungman AG-42B. This is one of the few semiauto military […]

Action Match Video: Leader T2 and Ballester Molina

February 18, 2013 Ian McCollum 11

I’m always up for the chance to put unusual guns through practical trials, so I jumped at the chance to try out the 2-Gun Action Challenge Match north of Tucson AZ this past weekend. For […]