United States - Forgotten Weapons

236 Year of US Army Accoutrements

March 24, 2013 Ian McCollum 13

Today’s guest post comes from Nightgear, a UK retailer of tactical gear: Accoutrement is the term used to describe items carried on a soldiers person. In modern military jargon it would be referred to as […]

Vintage Saturday: Desolation

March 23, 2013 Ian McCollum 20

US soldiers of the 23rd Infantry with a 37mm M1916 Infantry Gun in France, circa 1918.

Direct Gas Impingement Video

March 11, 2013 Ian McCollum 14

Many people already know everything I’m going to say in today’s video, but I think it’s important to get it out there for the folks who don’t have as much mechanical experience with their rifles. […]

Book Review: The Great Remington 8

March 7, 2013 Ian McCollum 13

I bought a Remington Model 8 a couple months back, and I’ve been remiss in not putting together a video on it – it’s a very neat rifle. Instead (for the time being), I figured […]

Sunday Miscellanea

March 3, 2013 Ian McCollum 4

A couple things that came in through the week… First up, Mark Serbu (owner of Serbu Firearms) has a neat video comparing the ATI .22 cal StG44 copy to an original StG44: Also, Leszek pointed […]

Biography: Christopher Miner Spencer

February 27, 2013 Ian McCollum 15

“[A] quiet little Yankee who sold himself in relentless slavery to his idea for six weary years until it was perfect” – John Hay, secretary to Abraham Lincoln Christopher Spencer was born on a farm […]

John Garand on US Weapons Development (Video)

February 26, 2013 Ian McCollum 23

Thanks to a tip from Big Al last week, we found a couple minutes of video of John Garand talking about the development of US small arms. It was buried in an episode of “The […]

T31: John Garand’s Bullpup

February 22, 2013 Ian McCollum 6

The light rifle program was instituted in late 1945 to develop a new infantry rifle using the T65 cartridge (which would go on to be adopted as the 7.62x51mm NATO-standard). Initially the project involved just […]

Book Review: A Revolution in Arms

February 21, 2013 Ian McCollum 5

When I cracked open Joseph Bilby’s 2006 book A Revolution in Arms: A History of the First Repeating Rifles, I was hoping for a history of the development of repeating rifles, and didn’t quite get […]

Vintage Saturday: Garand’s Garand

February 16, 2013 Ian McCollum 17

With all the discussion this week of replacements for the M1, I feel obligated to post this very cool photo of John Cantius Garand and the business end of his rifle.