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Interview with Dolf Goldsmith

January 16, 2012 Ian McCollum 9

Dolf Goldsmith is a renowned author and machine gun expert, having written landmark books on the Maxim, Vickers, and Browning machine guns, and having been an avid shooter and gun collector for more than 60 […]

Video Book Review: Japanese Rifles of WWII, by Duncan McCollum

January 12, 2012 Ian McCollum 0

If you need a resource on the incremental changes to the major Japanese rifles over the course of WWII, Japanese Rifles of World War II is just the thing for you. Focusing on the Type […]

Forgotten Weapons Tours Apex Gun Parts

January 11, 2012 Ian McCollum 4

How could a gun nerd like me possibly resist a chance to dig through a warehouse full of surplus? When Jeff at Apex Gun Parts offered us the chance to come visit his operation, we […]

PTR-44: A Semiauto Sturmgewehr

January 9, 2012 Ian McCollum 23

We had the opportunity to take a look at a PTR-44 semiauto reproduction of a German Sturmgewehr today, and it’s a gorgeous rifle. There were some issues reported by early owners (including miscut chambers due, […]

Video Book Review: Mexican Military Arms, by James Hughes

January 5, 2012 Ian McCollum 3

James Hughes’ Mexican Military Arms is a pretty good book on a subject not often written about. It covers all the rifles used by the Mexican Army (both locally designed and purchased elsewhere) from the […]

Greg from Allegheny Arsenal on the Lafette Mount

January 4, 2012 Ian McCollum 2

We met up with Greg – who runs Allegheny Arsenal – at a gun show a couple weeks ago, and this is the first of a couple interviews we did with him on the MG34 […]

Video Book Review: Textbook of Automatic Pistols

December 30, 2011 Ian McCollum 4

Every pile of dusty old books you find at a gun show has a zillion reprints of Cartridges of the World and how-to pamphlets on stock refinishing from 1960. But occasionally you’ll find a real […]

Mauser Showdown at the Range – C96, Carbine, and Schnellfeuer

December 23, 2011 Ian McCollum 9

I’ve been promising this range video for a while now, and here it is. We took all three configurations of the C96 Broomhandle Mauser – a pistol, a carbine, and a machine pistol – out […]

Book Review: AK47 – The Grim Reaper by Frank Iannamico

December 15, 2011 Ian McCollum 1

Frank Iannamico’s recently published AK47 – The Grim Reaper is an excellent resource for AK collectors and enthusiasts. It covers all the production AK variants from about a dozen countries, which include virtually every type […]

Shooting the British Farquar-Hill rifle

December 13, 2011 Ian McCollum 9

Today we have some video of a British 1918 Farquhar-Hill rifle at the range. This rifle was an early semiauto design that was accepted by the British army too late to see service in World […]