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Home2013October

Month: October 2013

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Commentary

Competition Skills Class with Russell Phagan

October 8, 2013 Ian McCollum 8

I had the opportunity recently to take a Competition Skills training class with Russell Phagan. Russell is a very accomplished multi-gun competitor and professional firearms trainer. He is a regular attendee at the 2-Gun Action […]

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Lever Action Rifles

Evans Repeating Rifle (Video)

October 7, 2013 Ian McCollum 22

I had the opportunity to stop by the display day at the Rock Island Auction House prior to their recent Premier Auction, and had the chance to get my hands on a bunch of very […]

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Remington Model 8 Ammo Test

October 6, 2013 Ian McCollum 47

I ran across this neat video a few days ago, and I think it might be of interest to some of you guys. One of the folks from the Remington Model 8/81 forum decided to […]

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Vintage Saturday: Government Shutdown

October 5, 2013 Ian McCollum 45

Note the assortment of arms – a Polish variant of the BAR, a Mauser rifle, Luger pistol, and what appears to be a Mauser 1910/1914/1934 pistol.

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Book Review: Testing the War Weapons

October 4, 2013 Ian McCollum 11

I was pretty excited to dig into Tim Mullin’s Testing The War Weapons when I first got a copy of it, having already read his book on SMGs, shotguns, and machine pistols cover to cover. I […]

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Warsaw Uprising

October 3, 2013 Ian McCollum 36

I normally have a book review on Thursday, but this week I’m pushing it to Friday. I meant to post this yesterday, but lost track of the date – which, 69 years ago, was the […]

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Patent drawings

Maxim-Silverman 1896 Pistol

October 2, 2013 Ian McCollum 35

We all know of Hiram Maxim for his groundbreaking work in machine gun development – but not many people are familiar with his automatic pistol designs. In fact, this is at least partly because the […]

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Bolt Action Rifles

Israeli 7.62mm Conversion

October 1, 2013 Ian McCollum 30

I was looking at a particularly nice FN Israeli Mauser the other day; one of their rifles converted to 7.62mm NATO: I was admiring the condition (much better than the one of these I have […]

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