Competition
Hi-Point YC-9 Yeet Cannon at the BUG Match
Hi-Point finally released their double-stack YC-9 Yeet Cannon a few months ago, and they sent me one to try out so I figured I’d take it to the monthly BackUp Gun Match. The new YC-9 […]
Year: 2024
Semiauto Rifles
SVT-40: The Soviet Standard Semiauto from WW2
The Red Army was interested in developing a semiautomatic rifle clear back to the mid 1920s, and they spent about 15 years running trials and development programs to find one. First in 1930 a Degtyarev […]
Single Shot Rifles
Beecher’s Bible: A Sharps 1853 from John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
On October 16, 1859 John Brown and 19 men left the Kennedy farmhouse and made their way a few miles south to the Harpers Ferry Arsenal. They planned to seize the Arsenal and use its […]
Conversion
Variations on Gras Cavalry Carbines & Conversions from Ethiopia
While I was at InterOrdnance unpacking French rifles, I took the opportunity to pull out a couple different examples of Gras Cavalry Carbines to show the differences between original French production examples and Belgian commercial […]
Competition
Hogue Avenger vs M1911 at the Range
Yesterday we looked at where the Hogue Avenger came from and how it works; today I’m out at the range to test it out against a nicely customized M1911…
Conversion
Hogue Avenger: Precision Accuracy Via Delayed Blowback
The Avenger is a flapper-delayed blowback, fixed barrel conversion upper assembly for the Model 1911 pistol. It was designed by Austrian Peter Spielberger, and manufactured by Hogue in the US and PowerSpeed in Austria. It […]
Submachine Guns
Ero: The Croatian Uzi (With Israeli Help?)
The best of the submachine guns made in Croatia during the Homeland War was the Ero, made by a company called Arma. The Ero is a basically perfect, parts-interchangeable copy of the Israeli Uzi that […]
Commentary
State of the Channel: 2024
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