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Semiauto pistol

Lugerman’s .45 ACP Target Model Luger

February 23, 2019 Ian McCollum 17
Eugene Golubtsov – aka Lugerman – has been building beautiful .45 ACP Lugers base don the original DWM technical data package for the 1907 trial Luger for a little while now. We previously looked at […]
Light MGs

Project Lightening Episode 03: Walking Fire

February 21, 2019 Ian McCollum 17
Project Lightening is a collaborative series with Othais and Mae of C&Rsenal in which we test all seven light machine guns and automatic rifles of World War One and put them through a series of […]
Single-shot Pistol

Bobbie Ford’s Romantic Derringer (NSFW – Happy Valentine’s Day!)

February 14, 2019 Ian McCollum 14
This surprising derringer was commissioned in the 1970s by Walther Buhl Ford III for his wife Bobbie Ford, and hand crafted by Alvin White, Colt’s renowned master engraver. Bobbie Ford was a collector of Western […]
bullpup

Boberg XR9S & XR45S: The Bullpup Pistols

February 12, 2019 Ian McCollum 123
Rock Island is selling these two Boberg pistols as part of a Lot 1089 in their upcoming Regional auction on February 14th, 2019. Arne Boberg founded Boberg Arms in 2009 and released his first pistol […]
Select-fire Rifles

Colt CK901: An AR in 7.62x39mm for the Yemeni Military

February 6, 2019 Ian McCollum 16
Colt developed this rifle, the CK-901, for the Yemeni military in 2014 – which appears to be the only buyer they have found for it since. The rifle is basically an AR-15 chambered for 7.62x39mm, […]
Book review

Book Review: US Aerial Armament in World War II

January 20, 2019 Ian McCollum 18
Aircraft armament is an area of firearms study that is vastly under appreciated by most people, largely because it’s difficult to study aircraft guns without the aircraft themselves (and those take up a lot of […]
Reproduction

Semiauto M2 Hyde Reproduction: The Interim US WW2 Subgun

January 9, 2019 Ian McCollum 37
George Hyde designed the gun that would eventually be adopted as the M2 submachine gun in the late 1930s, and it was first tested at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in October of 1939. At that time, […]
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 […]
Select-fire Rifles

Winchester 1964 SPIW: Flechettes and a Blow-Forward Grenade Launcher

December 19, 2018 Ian McCollum 76
Today we are looking at the Winchester company’s entry into the 1964 SPIW (Special Purpose Infantry Weapon) trials. The SPIW program was an attempt to increase small arms lethality by increasing hit probability with ideas […]
Book review

Book Review – Smith & Wesson Model 76 SMG by Frank Iannamico

December 16, 2018 Ian McCollum 16
Available from Amazon or direct from the publisher. Frank Iannamico’s new book on the Smith & Wesson Model 76 submachine gun is in fact a book about much more than just the Model 76. It begins […]

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