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German Freikorps arraying with flamethrowers during the 1919 Spartacist revolt in Berlin
Flamethrower

Vintage Saturday: Serious Riot Control

October 31, 2015 Ian McCollum 63
Nothing says “Disperse!” like flamethrowers and grenades…
No Picture
Bolt Action Rifles

2-Gun WW1 Extravaganza: 1918 German Sturmtruppen vs German Landser (Video)

October 29, 2015 Ian McCollum 57
This month’s 2-gun match was a special WWI themed event, with three long stages instead of the usual four shorter ones. The design included bayonetting, climbing ladders, crawling under wire, and throwing grenades. I shot […]
Bolt Action Rifles

System Luger 1892/6 Bolt Action

October 20, 2015 Ian McCollum 21
Georg Luger is known today for just one firearm: the Luger pistol. However, he actually spent significantly more time during his career working on rifles than he did on that iconic handgun. One project in […]
Select-fire Rifles

Q&A Video #1: H&K G11, Owen, F1, Worst Gun Ever, and More!

October 8, 2015 Ian McCollum 32
As part of my new fundraising system on Patreon, I am starting a monthly Q&A video series, answering questions from Patreon contributors. The support from you folks is a tremendous help to me in running […]
Book review

Book Review: The P08 Luger Pistol by S.I. Publicaties BV

October 6, 2015 Ian McCollum 10
I have seen a lot of folks asking for information on Lugers, so I figured I should recommend a good book or two. There are a lot of books out there on Lugers, cutting across […]
Prototype

Mauser 06/08 Semiauto Pistol at James D Julia

October 2, 2015 Ian McCollum 21
Throughout the pre-WWI period, Paul Mauser was working continuously to develop a reliable self-loaiding rifle. Among his many experimental designs was a flapper-locked rifle. The flapper-locking system was first patented by a Swede named Kjellman, […]
Handgun

Berger Repeating Pistol at James D Julia

October 1, 2015 Ian McCollum 13
The 1880s saw a brief explosion of experimental manually-operated repeating handguns, mostly throughout Europe. The most common weapon of this type known in the US is the Volcanic pistol, forerunner to the Winchester lever-action rifles. […]
Prototype

Mannlicher 1901/04 Carbine at James D Julia

September 29, 2015 Ian McCollum 13
Ferdinand von Mannlicher was a brilliant and prolific European gun designer with more than a few widely-adopted military arms to his name. One of his very last guns was this carbine, which was also one […]
Gunsmithing

Mauser 1902 Prototype Long Recoil Rifle at James D Julia

September 27, 2015 Ian McCollum 14
Paul Mauser was very persistent – if ultimately unsuccessful – in his long-tim goal to create a practical semiautomatic rifle using a full-power cartridge. In total he tried some 17 different designs, including one in […]
Accessories

MGK-1000 Gunnery Camera at James D Julia

September 25, 2015 Ian McCollum 5
With the advent of aircraft, marksmanship instruction gained a huge new element of complexity. Now there were gunners firing at rapidly moving aerial targets from the ground and worse, gunners in moving aircraft shooting at […]

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