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Home2012October

Month: October 2012

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Charlton Automatic Rifle

October 9, 2012 Ian McCollum 16

  Concept The idea of converting bolt action rifles into semiautomatic or fully automatic designs is not a unique one. It used to come up fairly regularly – most national armies investigated the concept at […]

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Handgun

German Jager Pistol Video

October 8, 2012 Ian McCollum 16

Remember, today is your last chance to enter our DVD giveaway and get some cool free stuff! We’re drawing the two winners tomorrow, so if you haven’t entered yet, check out the contest page ASAP! […]

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Vintage Saturday: LMG Variety Pack

October 6, 2012 Ian McCollum 9

ZB light machine guns are pretty often seen with Chinese troops, but the DP-28s are less common. And the BAR variant (either a Colt or FN-D) is downright unusual.

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Artillery

“Enemy Weapons” of Germany – Part V

October 5, 2012 Ian McCollum 5

Don’t forget, there are still several days to enter our DVD giveaway – we’re giving away two copies of our recent Machine Gun Manuals DVD (worth forty bucks each!) – and you can get one!. […]

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Book Review: Deutsche Fertigungskennzeichen bis 1945

October 4, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

Anyone who has looked at German arms and militaria from WWII and the years prior will be familiar with the 3-letter (or number) code system used to obscure where production was taking place. The more […]

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Handgun

The Obrez and its Cousins

October 3, 2012 Ian McCollum 31

I’m not sure where it started, but the “obrez” has gained a decent bit of recognition among gun folks (particularly gun folks on the internet). The concept is a Mosin-Nagant rifle with the barrel cut […]

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We Hit a Milestone – and a DVD Giveaway!

October 2, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

I was very happy to wake up to this on the site statistics yesterday morning: We’ve had more than a million visits since I started keeping track in June 2011! Thanks to everyone who has […]

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Bolt Action Rifles

Turkish Orman Carbine Video

October 1, 2012 Ian McCollum 8

A couple weeks ago I mentioned that I’d picked up a neat new addition to my collection – a Turkish “Orman” carbine made from a French Berthier rifle. During WWII, the Turkish government wound up […]

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