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Bolt Action Rifles

Rifles of Simo Häyhä: The World’s Greatest Sniper (w/ 9 Hole Reviews)

January 14, 2021 Ian McCollum 26

In light of the approaching Finnish Brutality: The Winter War match, I though we could take a look at the two rifles associated with the world’s most successful sniper: Simo Häyhä. Häyhä was born in […]

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Bolt Action Rifles

Finnish Brutality Practice: 2-Gun with a Finnish M39

December 19, 2020 Ian McCollum 19

As practice for Finnish Brutality, I ran a 2-Gun match with the Finnish M39 Mosin Nagant I am planning to use over in Finland. The M39 is the final iteration of the Mosin in Finnish […]

Bolt Action Rifles

Checking Ammo in my Finnish M39 Mosin for Finnish Brutality

December 15, 2020 Ian McCollum 15

Finnish Brutality 2021 is going to be a tough match in the best case. But I will be running it in a 1940 uniform, with a Mosin. A Finnish M39 Mosin, sure, but still a […]

Light MGs

Valmet M78: Finland’s Hypothetical Squad Automatic Weapon

November 2, 2020 Ian McCollum 9

The M78 was Valmet’s RPK-style heavy barreled squad support weapon pattern of the Finnish AK. It was initially developed as the M74 cavalry machine gun for Finnish military service, but never adopted. Instead, that experimental […]

Semiauto pistol

Finnish m/44 Prototype Blowback 9mm Pistol

April 24, 2019 Ian McCollum 15

The m/44 pistol was intended to be a lower-cost replacement for the Lahti L35 pistol for the Finnish Defense Forces, but production delays resulted in the first batch of 25 examples not being completed until […]

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Valmet’s Bullpup: The M82

August 25, 2018 Ian McCollum 11

RIA’s catalog page for this rifle The Valet M82 is a bullpup conversion of the Valmet M76 rifle, originally designed in the hopes of attracting Finnish military interest for paratroopers. These initial military rifles were […]

Submachine Guns

Suomi m/31 – Finland’s Excellent Submachine Gun

August 17, 2018 Ian McCollum 15

RIA’s catalog page for this SMG (transferrable) Designed by Aimo Lahti, the Suomi m/31 submachine gun is in my opinion one of the standout submachine guns of the World War Two era. Despite its hefty […]

Book review

Book Review: The Suomi M/31 by Michael Heidler

August 5, 2018 Ian McCollum 7

Michael Heidler’s bi-lingual (German and English) book on the Finnish Suomi m/31 submachine gun is a small but dense history of one of the best submachine guns of World War Two. It covers Aimo Lahti’s […]

Semiauto pistol

Lahti L-35: Finland’s First Domestic Service Automatic Pistol

April 23, 2018 Ian McCollum 21

When Finland decided to replace the Luger as its service handgun, they turned to Finland’s most famous arms designer, Aimo Lahti. After a few iterations, Lahti devised a short recoil semiautomatic pistol with a vertically […]

Select-fire Rifles

Valmet M71 – How Does it Shoot in Full Auto?

February 24, 2018 Ian McCollum 20

The Valmet M71 was introduced as a commercial export rifle in 1971, and was the first AK available on the commercial market in the United States and Europe. It was offered in both .223 and […]

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