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Enjoying Black Powder Episode 12: The Model 1885 Remington-Lee

June 28, 2025 Ian McCollum 22
Full video with reloading segment and clip solid file available here: https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/ep-12-rem-lee-app Black powder military rifles of the 1860s-1880s are a really enjoyable group of guns. A lot of them are relatively reasonably priced, and […]
Semiauto Rifles

One-Gun Action Match: Stuff & Things “Stizon” Kit

June 20, 2025 Ian McCollum 25
The PP-19 Bizon is a Russian 9mm AK model using helical drum magazines, made in several calibers. It was taken into service in 1996, and has been making Western AKphiles drool ever since, because who […]
Bolt Action Rifles

AR-1 “Parasniper” – The First Armalite

June 11, 2025 Ian McCollum 19
The first rifle produced by Armalite began in 1952 as a project between the brothers-in-law, Charles Dorchester and George Sullivan (no relation to later Armalite engineer L. James Sullivan). Sullivan is the chief patent attorney […]
Shotgun

Serbu Super Shorty: Is It Awesome or Just Dumb?

May 31, 2025 Ian McCollum 56
The Super Shorty is a pump action shotgun reduced to a 2-round tube capacity and a 6.5″ barrel made by Serbu Firearms. The first one was made in 1998 and since then Mark Serbu has […]
Prototype

DSA’s Unique Titanium FAL Project

May 28, 2025 Ian McCollum 21
DS Arms got some billet titanium and decided to make a batch of titanium receivers and other parts. This turned out to be a nightmarish amount of work, and two of the receivers had to […]
Antiques

ASAC Presentation: Bullet Strikes From the First Day of the American Revolution

May 23, 2025 Ian McCollum 3
This lecture was presented at the Spring 2025 meeting of the American Society of Arms Collectors. It was given by Joel Bohy, coauthor of a new book of the same name, published by Mowbray. You […]
Antiques

Fenian Needham Conversion: Just the Thing for Invading Canada

May 10, 2025 Ian McCollum 33
The Fenian Brotherhood was formed in the US in 1858, a partner organization to the Irish Republican Brotherhood. The groups were militant organizations looking to procure Irish independence from the British, and they found significant […]
Antiques

Military-Issue Colt Model 1839 Paterson Revolving Rifle

April 23, 2025 Ian McCollum 10
The first rifle made in Sam Colt’s Paterson NJ factory was the 1837 “ring lever” rifle. These were rather fragile and underpowered and while they were used successfully in the First Seminole War, they needed […]
Light MGs

M1922 BAR Cavalry Light Machine Gun

April 21, 2025 Ian McCollum 41
After World War One, there was a lot of tinkering with the BAR by the US military. It was recognized as being a very good platform, but the original M1918 configuration left a lot to […]
Antiques

Model 1875 Officer’s Pattern: The Finest Trapdoor Springfield

April 19, 2025 Ian McCollum 15
As the main national armory, Springfield got a number of requests to make specialty rifles for commissioned officers and important dignitaries each year. These were essentially all custom sporting rifles, and the orders were duly […]

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