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Grenade Launcher

Inkunzi Strike 20mm Grenade Machine Gun

January 20, 2023 Ian McCollum 42

Tony Neophytou developed this for Denel Land Systems, which has completely fallen apart as a company and left it now as his own independent design, with no manufacturer. I filmed this video in 2018, to […]

Light MGs

Vektor Mini-SS: South Africa’s Answer to the FN Minimi

December 9, 2022 Ian McCollum 37

While under international embargo and at war in the late 1970s, South Africa needed a new 7.62mm GPMG. The answer was Vektor’s SS77, a design which would replace the FN MAG in South African service […]

Prototype

Prototype Colt-Vektor: A 1911 on the Outside and a Beretta on the Inside

August 10, 2020 Ian McCollum 31

In the late 1990s Colt was looking for pistols it could license for sale in the United States, in the wake of the failures of both eh Double Eagle and All-American 2000. They approached CZ, […]

Competition

Competition with a Galil R5 and Armson OEG

August 8, 2020 Ian McCollum 9

Today I headed to the monthly 2-Gun match (which is rifle-only for this month) with a semiauto Galil R5 clone outfitted with an Armson OEG (Occluded Eye Gunsight). This particular OEG has a base specifically […]

Uncategorized

Striker 12: Shotgun Turned “Destructive Device”

October 3, 2019 Ian McCollum 5

This is Lot 1146 in the upcoming October 2019 Morphy Extraordinary auction. The Striker shotgun was designed by a Rhodesian named Hilton Walker in the late 1970s, although not manufactured until after he had emigrated […]

Bolt Action Rifles

Boer Lee-Speed Rifle from the Jameson Raid

August 29, 2019 Ian McCollum 22

Lot 1687 in the September 2019 RIA auction. The Jameson Raid in December 1895 was one of the key events in the lead to the second Boer War. Leander Jameson took a force of about […]

Book review

Book Review: Carvings From the Veldt (3 Volumes)

August 11, 2019 Ian McCollum 1

Over the past 15 year, Dave C. George has compiled three volumes of his book “Carvings From the Veldt”, documenting nearly a thousand carved rifles from the Boer War. This is feature almost unique to […]

Grenade Launcher

Shooting the Milkor M32 40mm Grenade Launcher

July 6, 2019 Ian McCollum 12

Thanks to Milkor USA, I have a chance today to do some shooting with both the M32 and M32A1 rotary grenade launchers they make for the US military. I’m using 40mm chalk training ammunition, with […]

Grenade Launcher

Milkor M32 and M32A1 40mm Grenade Launchers

July 5, 2019 Ian McCollum 18

The USMC adopted the Milkor USA M32A1 rotary multiple grenade launcher (MGL) in 2012. The history of this weapon goes back to South Africa, where designer Andries Piek was inspired to create it after building […]

Semiauto Rifles

Sanna 77: A Czech SMG Turned South African Carbine

June 19, 2019 Ian McCollum 8

The Sanna 77 was a semiauto copy of the Czech Sa 25 submachine gun. It was first produced in Rhodesia by the GM Steel company for the Rhodesian military. In this form, it was the […]

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