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Home2014December

Month: December 2014

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Slow Motion: VG1-5

December 18, 2014 Ian McCollum 40

This particular rifle is a prototype of the reproduction VG1-5 (or more correctly called the Gustloff MP-507) rifles that are available for sale from Chuck at GunLab.net. I will take some slow motion footage of […]

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Book review

A Book For Aspiring Firearms Designers

December 17, 2014 Ian McCollum 24

Regular readers may recall that about a year ago I wrote a review of Firearms Anatomy I: The Thompson M1A1 Submachine Gun by David Findlay. It was a very neat book covering the Thompson from […]

Bolt Action Rifles

Repro German K98k Sniper for Sale/Trade

December 16, 2014 Ian McCollum 1

A friend of mine – Karl, in fact, who you’ve probably seen on InRange or 2-gun videos – is looking to sell or trade a reproduction German K98k sniper. It’s a gorgeous example of a […]

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1852 Slant-Breech Sharps

December 15, 2014 Ian McCollum 23

Reader Kymm was kind enough to load me this rifle to video, with a particular interest in seeing the amount of gas leakage (or lack thereof) on high-speed footage. This early model of Sharps featured […]

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Heavy MGs

Vintage Saturday: Legs and Wheels

December 13, 2014 Ian McCollum 18

Imperial Russian gun crew with a 1905 Maxim on an early Sokolov tripod mount.

FFV-890C
Select-fire Rifles

FFV-890C: The Swedish Service Rifle That Never Was

December 12, 2014 Ian McCollum 12

Seth Cane has previously written a 3-part series of articles for us on the Galil, which you can see here: Galil SAR, Galil AR, and Galil ARM. He is now following that with an in-depth […]

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Aircraft MGs

Slow Motion: lMG 08/15 Maxim

December 11, 2014 Ian McCollum 16

Today we’re looking at a luftgekühlt maschinengewehr 08/15 in slow motion – a lightened and mair-cooled version of the Maxim used on German WWI aircraft. This particular example is set up as a Zeppelin gun, […]

Top to bottom: .455 Hand Ejector, Trocaola, WW2 M&P
Revolver

Eibar “Spanish Model 92” Revolver

December 10, 2014 Ian McCollum 53

Today’s post is a guest article written by Mike Burns, taking a look at one of the S&W revolver copies made in Eibar for the French military. He compares it to a WWI .455-caliber S&W […]

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New Sponsor: James D. Julia Auction Company

December 9, 2014 Ian McCollum 5

I’d like to take a moment today to introduce our most recent new sponsor of Forgotten Weapons: the James D. Julia auction company. They are one of the premier firearms auctions houses in the US, […]

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Prototype

Danish Madsen-Ljungman Rifle

December 8, 2014 Ian McCollum 7

Thanks to reader John D, we have a chance today to look at a very scarce Danish-made copy of the AG-42B Ljungman rifle. The Madsen company in Denmark made about 50 of these rifles for […]

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