Light MGs
Israeli Dror LMG
I’ve always been interested in Israeli firearms, because that nation has had more need to actually use their arms in combat in the past 50 or 60 years than almost any other nation. Couple that […]
Year: 2012
Book review
Book Review: Collector’s Guide to the M1 Garand and M1 Carbine
Today we take a look at Bruce Canfield’s Collector’s Guide to the M1 Garand and M1 Carbine. This is one of Canfield’s earlier books, and is now out of print. It is still available, though, […]
Interview
Interview with Charles St. George
At the SHOT Show last weekend, we has the opportunity to interview Charles St. George, designer of the Leader T2 rifle we have previously discussed. We ended up having to run this interview twice, as […]
Patent drawings
Browning 1897 Rotating-Barrel Pistol
In 1897, John M. Browning was awarded four consecutive patents, which covered a big swath of possible automatic pistol designs. The one we’re looking at today (pointed out to me by Rufus at SHOT – […]
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SHOT Show Wrapup
Well, we arrived back home from Las Vegas and the SHOT Show last night. SHOT ended on Friday, but we took advantage of the weekend in Vegas with several more stops. Friday, of course, was […]
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: Colt 1895 on a Cart
I’m having some trouble figuring out the expression on this soldier’s face…is he disdainful of the photographer? Or just tired of dragging the gun around? In any case, my experience taking machine guns to the […]
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SHOT Show Roundup (Thursday)
The SHOT Show has been running for a couple days already, but we only arrived late Thursday morning. We spent Thursday mostly in the lower level, so we only saw about half the show (we’ll […]
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Mystery bolt!
Okay, guys – I know we have a pretty well-informed bunch of readers, but let’s see how good you really are. 🙂 We found this at a show – can you identify it? [nggallery id=118] […]
Semiauto Rifles
Scotti Model X photos
Back at the SAR West gun show in Phoenix, we came across a Scotti Model X rifle – and the owner was kind enough to let us take some photos. The Scotti was an experimental […]
Semiauto Rifles
How Business Gets Done – Deer Hunting with a Pedersen
Want someone to buy your rifle? Butter them up with a demo model to play with. It still works that way today, and eighty years ago it was the same way. We have an interesting […]