Video - Forgotten Weapons - Part 68

Frommer Pistolen-MG Model 1917: A Crazy Villar Perosa Copy

November 23, 2022 Ian McCollum 18

After encountering Italian Villar Perosa machine pistols in the field, Austro-Hungarian troops requested a similar weapon. The project was given to FÉG to work on, and the result was the Pistolen-MG Model 1917: a pair […]

Tales of the Hunt: Stories from Writing Clockwork Basilisk

November 22, 2022 Ian McCollum 3

“Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler” is available right now for preorder on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/clockwork-basilisk?ref=9fouz5 Today Professor Ben Nicholson joins me to talk about some of the work behind the […]

Q&A: Desert Brutality Road Trip Edition

November 21, 2022 Ian McCollum 29

0:58 – Powernap – How do PMCs handle NFA issues and training. 2:46 – Tyler – Thoughts on the influx of MP5 copies? 4:40 – Beef Supreme – Advice for first-time Brutality match competitors 10:25 […]

TT33 Tokarev at the BackUp Gun Match

November 19, 2022 Ian McCollum 20

My holster and mag carrier in this match are made by BattleGnome Solutions in Slovenia, and available worldwide exclusively from the Polenar Tactical web store: https://polenartactical.com/shop/holsters/1363-tt-holster-bgs.html I was talking to the guys who operate BattleGnome […]

Operation CARPETBAGGER: French Resistance No4 Enfield

November 18, 2022 Ian McCollum 8

During 1944, the US and UK cooperatively ran a major effort to drop arms and equipment to French Resistance forces in preparation for the Allied landings in France. It began as Operation Carpetbagger with night […]

Announcing Clockwork Basilisk: Headstamp’s Fifth Book

November 17, 2022 Ian McCollum 7

I am very excited to announce today the launch of Headstamp Publishing’s fifth book, Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler. Written by Professor Ben Nicholson and a team of researchers, […]

Scotland’s Only WW2 Military Firearm: Albion Motors No2 MkI** Revolver

November 16, 2022 Ian McCollum 55

One of the lessons the British military took from the Great War was that without extensive training and practice, most people were not very effective with a large-bore revolver. So in 1922, they undertook a […]

S&W Pinto: The Wide World of Collecting

November 15, 2022 Ian McCollum 15

“Pinto” is a name given to a specific sort of Smith & Wesson revolver by collectors. It refers to guns – typically J-, K-, and N-frame revolvers but all some semiauto pistols – produced with […]

A Very Rare Confederate Columbus Armory Carbine

November 14, 2022 Ian McCollum 2

Carbines made by the Columbus Armory are particularly scarce, and their history is not really well understood. They were manufactured by John Gray of Columbus SC, whose brother William Gray was a partner in another […]

Leningrad’s Emergency-Production PPS-42 at the Range

November 12, 2022 Ian McCollum 18

Yesterday we looked at the history of the PPS-42 and how it was developed into the much more common PPS-43. Today we are taking it out to the range – the only time one of […]

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