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Vintage Saturday: Folding Transport

July 2, 2016 Ian McCollum 35
Not just any bicycle, but a folding Gladiator bicycle!   You can see the entire 13-photo set here. Thanks to Denny for pointing these pictures out!
French soldiers attacking in the Argonne in 1915
Bolt Action Rifles

Vintage Saturday: Fixed Bayonets

June 25, 2016 Ian McCollum 61
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RIA: Cripple Stock Shotgun

June 17, 2016 Ian McCollum 16
Okay, so the name may not be considered very PC today – you could also call this a cross-dominant stock. The concept was to allow a shooter to mount the gun in one shoulder but […]
Shotgun

RIA: Darne 1892 Rotary Shotgun

June 6, 2016 Ian McCollum 28
The most popular shotgun made by the French Darne company was their 1897 sliding breech side-by-side, which saw sales and use worldwide. Before that, however, Darne invented a rotating breechblock system – first a series […]
Wolfgang Riess, one of the Commandos who used these CETMEs, later to work as an H&K weapons technician
Select-fire Rifles

French Marine Commandos with CETME Rifles

June 1, 2016 Ian McCollum 40
I was doing some reading up on the early roller-delayed rifles (in Blake Stevens’ exquisitely technical and detailed book Full Circle: A Treatise on Roller Locking) and came across this very cool story, which I […]
Bolt Action Rifles

French M14 Conversion – the Gras in 8mm Lebel (Video)

May 16, 2016 Ian McCollum 35
The French adopted the Gras as their first mass-issued metallic cartridge rifle in 1874, replacing the needlefire 1866 Chassepot. Quite a lot of Gras rifles were manufactured, and they became a second-line rifle when the […]
Bolt Action Rifles

Vintage Saturday: Liberators

May 14, 2016 Ian McCollum 46
This is a pretty widely-published photo, but it sure is a good one. It also shows very clearly the US’ horrible excuse for a backpack of the time. For the record, the soldier on the […]
Handgun

RIA: Brun Latrige Model 1900

April 14, 2016 Ian McCollum 32
Patented in 1896, this is one of several models of unique pocket pistols designed by Paul Brun-Latrige. He was a manager of the Manufrance company located in St. Etienne France, a large mail-order catalog company […]
Revolver

RIA: 11mm Devisme Cartridge Revolver

April 9, 2016 Ian McCollum 34
Devisme of Paris was one of the early manufacturers of a true centerfire cartridge revolver, with production of this model beginning in 1858 or 1859. This is a bottom-break 11mm, 6-shot revolver, made to a […]
Light MGs

Yugoslav 8mm Chauchat M1915/26 Photos

March 25, 2016 Ian McCollum 42
Reader Mihajlo sent me a couple cool photos of Yugoslav troops with Chauchats converted to 8x57mm. Here’s his commentary: Here’s a picture from WW2 Yugoslavia I’d like to share with you. The guy on the […]

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