Russia - Forgotten Weapons

A Rifle of Many Travels

February 19, 2015 Ian McCollum 33

I was visiting a friend recently (James, who runs Tombstone Territorial Firearms, which you should definitely visit if you are ever in Tombstone – it’s a remarkably well-stocked shop), and he had pulled out a […]

Vintage Saturday: War Photographer

January 17, 2015 Ian McCollum 31

Waffen-SS soldier in Russia with a camera, hand grenade, and captured Russian PPSh submachine gun.

Vintage Saturday: Child Labor

January 3, 2015 Ian McCollum 45

PPD-40 submachine guns being assembled by young girls.

Vintage Saturday: Yer Doin’ It Rong

December 27, 2014 Ian McCollum 12

Waffen SS soldiers investigating a captured (and disassembled) DP-28 LMG pan magazine.

Vintage Saturday: Second-Rate Spoils

December 20, 2014 Ian McCollum 60

German troops with captured Mosin Nagant rifles (and one SVT-40).

Vintage Saturday: Legs and Wheels

December 13, 2014 Ian McCollum 18

Imperial Russian gun crew with a 1905 Maxim on an early Sokolov tripod mount.

2-Gun Action Match: Mosin & Nagant vs Trapdoor & SAA

November 22, 2014 Ian McCollum 38

No vintage photo today – instead I have a vintage rifle match! I’ve had had a bunch of people asking to see a Mosin-Nagant in one of these matches, and decided to oblige – but […]

Vintage Saturday: Assorted Machine Guns

October 18, 2014 Ian McCollum 21

An assortment of machine guns from the Russian civil war. Pretty much one of everything in there – a Russian 1905 Maxim, German MG08, Austrian Schwarzlose 07/12, Colt 1895 “Potato Digger”, M1915 Chauchat, Madsen LMG, […]

Slow Motion: PKM Machine Gun

September 25, 2014 Ian McCollum 30

The PKM is not exactly a forgotten weapon, but it is a very cool one, and I had the chance to do some 2000 fps video footage of one not long ago:

East German Mosins – or not…

September 23, 2014 Ian McCollum 19

One of the things that makes Mosin Nagant rifles particularly interesting to a lot of folks (myself included) is their tendentcy to appear in a vast number of conflicts all across the globe. Guns originally […]