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Bolt Action Rifles

RIA Premier Auction (Part II)

September 4, 2013 Ian McCollum 13
Continuing yesterday’s post, today I want to take a look at some of the long guns that jumped out at me while I was perusing the catalog for the RIA Premier Auction coming up in […]
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Prototype

RIA Premier Auction (Part I)

September 3, 2013 Ian McCollum 5
There is another Rock Island Premier Auction coming up in a couple weeks (September 13-15, to be specific), and as usual there is some really cool stuff going on the block. Unlike the regional auctions, […]
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Revolver

Union Automatic Revolver (Video)

September 2, 2013 Ian McCollum 16
The most well-known historic automatic revolver is the British Webley-Fosbery, but there were other handguns of the type that were put into production. One example is the Union auto-revolver, made in Toledo, Ohio shortly before […]
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Semiauto pistol

Looking for a Bergmann 1910?

September 1, 2013 Ian McCollum 28
I’ve always had a crush on the Bergmann 1910 pistol, and I’ve posted about them enough that people looking to sell them often seem to find my comments. Today, for example, I have a gun […]
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Sniper Rifles

Vintage Saturday: Marine Snipers

August 31, 2013 Ian McCollum 27
Soviet marines from the Baltic Fleet ashore at Leningrad, armed with PEM 91/30 sniper rifles.
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Prototype

Prototype Clausius Model 1905?

August 30, 2013 Ian McCollum 14
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about a series of pistols designed by a German inventor named Claus Claudius, which began with a long-recoil design in 1895. He then progressed to a floating […]
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Book review

Book Review: Webley & Scott Automatic Pistols

August 29, 2013 Ian McCollum 10
Having previously read and quite enjoyed Gordon Bruce’ Evolution of Military Automatic Pistols, I was looking forward to checking out his much more in-depth volume on the Webley semiautos, appropriately titled Webley & Scott Automatic […]
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Caseless

TRW’s Proposed Caseless Machine Gun

August 28, 2013 Ian McCollum 17
TRW was a large engineering corporation which had decided to diversify into the arms business in the 1950s. Its first major contract was production of the M14, and its success in that endeavor led the […]
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Commentary

The Return of GunLab

August 27, 2013 Ian McCollum 32
Yep, I’m very happy to announce that there is some new content coming to GunLab at last! It won’t be from me, but instead from my friend Chuck. He is an SOT, and has a […]
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Bolt Action Rifles

Type I Carcano (Video)

August 26, 2013 Ian McCollum 13
One of the less common Japanese rifles of the WWII era is the Type I (pronounced “Type Eye”). The Japanese Imperial Army and Navy procured small arms independently of each other, and the Army received […]

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