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Book Review: Hatcher’s Notebook, by Julian Hatcher

July 12, 2012 Ian McCollum 7

I was looking through our reference library yesterday, and realized that we hadn’t mentioned at Hatcher’s Notebook before – which is a glaring oversight. Julian S. Hatcher (Captain Hatcher during WWI, and Major General Hatcher […]

Book Review: Collector’s Guide to Tokarev Pistols

July 5, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

Today we have a copy of John Remling’s work, a “Collector’s Guide to Tokarev Pistols”. It’s a thin volume, but a good introduction and basic reference to the development of the TT33 Tokarev pistol and […]

StG45 at an IPSC 3-Gun Match (Video)

July 1, 2012 Ian McCollum 23

The Sturmgewehr 45 (aka Gerat 06H) was the first functional roller-delayed blowback rifle developed, and it was slated to replace the StG44 as Germany’s primary combat rifle when WWII ended. We have a reproduction of […]

Book Review: Hitler’s Garands by W. Darrin Weaver

June 28, 2012 Ian McCollum 3

By request from a reader on the Forgotten Weapons Facebook page (where we post upcoming teasers, among other things), we are looking at W. Darren Weaver’s book on the G41 and G43/K43 rifles, entitled Hitler’s […]

Book Review: German Gew. 88 “Commission” Rifle

June 21, 2012 Ian McCollum 14

I recently picked up a very nice looking Gewehr 88 from an online classified ad, and when it arrived I really didn’t know what I had (I’m not an expert on older German bolt actions […]

Book Review: The Sterling Years by James Edmiston

June 14, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

The Sterling submachine gun is one of the better submachine guns ever built – a lot of throught and engineering work went into its design. It is light, compact, ergonomic, very durable and reliable, and […]

Forgotten Weapons Visits the Pattern Room

June 11, 2012 Ian McCollum 12

We took part of our recent European excursion in England, and part of that time was spent at the National Firearms Centre in Leeds, formerly known as the Pattern Room. The gun collection there was […]

Book Review: The Evolution of Military Automatic Pistols

June 7, 2012 Ian McCollum 0

Today we have a book with a wider appeal than most, as it covers a broad range of different gun designs and has lots of good information for both the very technical collector and the […]

Book Review: The Dutch Mannlicher M.95

May 31, 2012 Ian McCollum 3

In the 1880s, the Dutch decided that their single-shot Beaumont rifles were obsolete and needed replacement. They started a program to modify them with 4-round magazines, and simultaneously set about finding a more modern rifle […]

Video: Neat parlor guns

April 25, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

It may look like we’re only interested in military arms, but that’s not the case. We’re mostly interested in military guns, but there are plenty of other interesting corners of the firearms world to explore […]