Austria - Forgotten Weapons

Austria’s Take on the Uzi: Steyr MPi-69

May 13, 2022 Ian McCollum 11

Designed in the 1960s by Steyr and adopted by the Austrian Army in 1969 to replace it aging MP40s, the MPi-69 is an economical and simple 9x19mm SMG. It uses many features seen in the […]

The Very Rare Clip for the 1896 Bittner Repeating Pistol

December 28, 2021 Ian McCollum 5

I have previously done some video on the 1896 Bittner manually repeating pistol, but I have not had one of the original clips for them before. So, that’s what we’re going to take a quick […]

Roth-Steyr 1907 at the Backup Gun Match

May 15, 2021 Ian McCollum 17

Posting a couple videos on interesting versions of the Roth-Steyr pistols recently made me think about just how nice of a pistol the 1907 is to shoot, So, I figured I’d bring it out to […]

Roth Steyr Developmental Models 1904 and 1906

April 30, 2021 Ian McCollum 10

Before the Austro-Hungarian Empire adopted the Roth Steyr Model 1907 as its official cavalry pistol, they of course went through a series of pistol trials. The winners of two sets of trials were the Roth […]

1896 Bittner: The Most Beautiful Steampunk Pistol

March 22, 2021 Ian McCollum 57

One of the very last, most common, and best looking of the Austrian manually operated pistols is the Bittner. Designed by Gustav Bittner in 1893 and going into production in 1896 (the known examples were […]

Reiger Model 1889: Quick-Change Revolver Clips!

March 18, 2021 Ian McCollum 6

Edwin Reiger was an Austrian designer who took the basic mechanism of the Passler & Seidl ring trigger manual pistol and added a sort of revolver magazine to it. Reiger used a drop-in 6-round clip […]

Passler Model 1887 Ring Trigger Pistol – Now With Mannlicher Clips!

March 16, 2021 Ian McCollum 17

Franz Passler and Ferdinand Seidl formed a partnership to make manually-operated pistols in Austria in the late 1880s, but the arrangement did not last. Their design was initially patented by Passler in Austria, and then […]

Schulhof Model 1887 Manual Ring-Trigger Pistol

March 12, 2021 Ian McCollum 21

Josef Schulhof was the the first and most prolific designer of manually operated pistols in Austria in the 1880s. For a brief few years, there was a lot of developmental work done in this field, […]

Mannlicher 88/95 – A Rare World War One Update

January 7, 2021 Ian McCollum 19

The Austro-Hungarian Empire went into World War One with the Steyr M95 straight-pull rifle as its standard infantry arm. Heavy losses in just the first few months of the war made it clear that the […]

Steyr-Solothurn MP-34 in .45 ACP at the Range

October 31, 2020 Ian McCollum 9

Today we are out at the range with the .45 ACP Steyr-Solothurn MP-34. I was curious to see how this submachine gun, much more commonly found in 9mm, would handle with the big .45 caliber […]