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Semiauto pistol

Portuguese Navy Luger

April 11, 2022 Ian McCollum 1

The Portuguese Army purchased 5,000 7.65mm Luger pistols in 1908, and the Navy followed suit the next year – but the Navy opted for 9mm ones, with 100mm barrels. A contract for 350 was placed […]

Semiauto pistol

Portuguese Army Lugers: From Manuel II to World War Two

November 10, 2021 Ian McCollum 12

Portugal first tested the Luger pistol in 1901, and its commission on self-loading pistols recommended the design for adoption in 1904. No money was available at the time, but a second commission again recommended the […]

Bolt Action Rifles

Portuguese m/937B Kar98k: Back to the Standard Pattern

September 22, 2021 Ian McCollum 23

In the 1930s, Portugal was looking to update its small arms, and wanted to get some top-shelf K98k Mausers to replace its 1904 Mauser-Vergueiros. The country was on good terms with Germany, and so Portugal […]

Bolt Action Rifles

Winchester Model D: The WW1 Origin of the Famous Model 70

August 11, 2021 Ian McCollum 13

Just as World War One broke out in Europe, TC Johnson was working on a new Mauser-based sporting rifle design for the Winchester company. With the war, Johnson added options for military configurations (handguard, bayonet […]

Revolver

Portugal’s Model 1886 Trooper’s Model Abadie Revolver

June 2, 2021 Ian McCollum 9

Isaac Abadie’s gate-loading system was a significant improvement in revolver technology in the 19th century, and Portugal was one of the  first to adopt it. The initial Portuguese model was adopted in 1878 specifically for […]

Select-fire Rifles

South African R2 and its Special Furniture

June 5, 2019 Ian McCollum 11

In South African military service, the R1 was the FN FAL and was the preferred infantry combat rifle until the adoption of the Galil as the R4 rifle. So what were the guns in between? […]

Light MGs

Portugal’s MG-13: the M938 Light Machine Gun

May 2, 2019 Ian McCollum 40

The MG-13 is a transferrable machine gun being sold as lot #746 in the upcoming May 2019 Rock Island auction. The MG13 was an interim machine gun used by the German military in the 1930s […]

Select-fire Rifles

Evolution of the Dutch-Made AR10

January 5, 2019 Ian McCollum 25

The AR-10 rifle was developed in the United States (Hollywood California, specifically) by Eugene Stoner, but the Armalite company did not have a suitable large scale manufacturing facility to produce the number of guns they […]

Semiauto Rifles

Semiauto Portuguese AR-10 on a Sendra Receiver

March 23, 2018 Ian McCollum 30

So, you would like to get an original AR-10 rifle to shoot? Well, the original Armalite AR10 rifles were almost all manufactured by Artillerie-Inrichtingen in the Netherlands, and they were virtually all machine guns. They […]

Portuguese Para in Angola
Select-fire Rifles

Vintage Saturday: AR10 in Angola

November 5, 2016 Ian McCollum 55

From the look in his eyes, he knows you will burn down a village to get one of those rifles. Note the integral bipod on the AR-10 (A Portuguese m961 model).

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