Tour - Forgotten Weapons

Tour: Greek War Museum in Athens (Lots of Guns!)

August 7, 2026 Ian McCollum 4

I had a chance to stop in the War Museum in Athens, and really enjoyed the visit. There are a lot more firearms on display than I expected, covering the whole gamut from muzzleloaders to […]

Virtual Tour: Estonian War Museum

March 28, 2025 Ian McCollum 8

The Estonian War Museum (Eesti Sõjamuuseum) is located at Mõisa tee 1, 74001 Viimsi, Estonia (just outside the capital Tallinn). For opening hours and entry fees, please check their web site: https://esm.ee The museum is […]

Virtual Tour: Swiss Shooting Museum Bern

March 7, 2025 Ian McCollum 1

Today we are taking a virtual tour of the Swiss Shooting Museum (Schweizer Schützenmuseum Bern) in Bern, Switzerland. The museum has been in this building since just before World War Two, and focusses on the […]

How Is Ammunition Made? A Tour of Sellier & Bellot’s Factory

December 30, 2024 Ian McCollum 17

Today I am in Vlašim in the Czech Republic, where Sellier & Bellot has allowed me to film a tour of their ammunition plant. This is one of the largest ammo manufacturers in the world, […]

Tour of Sport Systems Dittrich: Reproduction WWII German Rifles

July 6, 2024 Ian McCollum 9

I recently had a chance to visit Sport Systeme Dittrich, a firm in Germany that manufactures high quality reproductions of German World War Two small arms. They were the manufacturers of the PTR-44 Sturmgewehr copies […]

Tour: Croatian Homeland War Museum Vehicle & Artillery Park

February 4, 2024 Ian McCollum 2

While in Croatia for filming, we stopped in at the Homeland War Museum (Muzej Domovinskog Rata) in Karlovac. Built in the preserved ruins of the “Hotel California”, it houses a small but pretty comprehensive collection […]

Fiji in World War Two: the Momi Bay Gun Battery

February 3, 2024 Ian McCollum 10

When the clouds of World War Two began to loom in the 1930s, Britain decided to begin securing some of its more distant colonial outposts – places that might be of strategic importance in a […]

Cape Esperance and the Japanese Evacuation of Guadalcanal

January 12, 2024 Ian McCollum 0

Today we return to Guadalcanal, to the site of the last actuals of the campaign. For the Japanese, the defeat at Edson’s Ridge (aka Bloody Ridge) forced a disastrous and uncoordinated retreat into the jungle. […]

Fabryka Broni “Łucznik” – Radom Factory Tour

June 23, 2023 Ian McCollum 4

Fabryka Broni originally dates to 1925, when it was set up as a factory to make small arms for the Polish military. It was occupied be German forces during World War Two and on the […]

Tour of the AREX Defense Factory in Slovenia

August 30, 2022 Ian McCollum 11

During my visit to Slovenia, I had a chance to tour the AREX Defense factory in Šentjernej. I came away really impressed by the quality and the breadth of operations that the factory performs in-house. […]