Light MGs
Live Charlton Reproduction
Are you one those odd people like us who saw yesterday’s post on the Charlton rifle/machine gun and thought it would be really great to own one of them despite (or, let’s be honest, because […]
Articles by Ian McCollum
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DVD Winners!
Thanks to everyone who entered our DVD giveaway contest! Our lucky winners, chosen randomly from everyone who entered, are: Mark R. and Cory M. I’ve sent emails to each of you so I can get […]
Light MGs
Charlton Automatic Rifle
Concept The idea of converting bolt action rifles into semiautomatic or fully automatic designs is not a unique one. It used to come up fairly regularly – most national armies investigated the concept at […]
Handgun
German Jager Pistol Video
Remember, today is your last chance to enter our DVD giveaway and get some cool free stuff! We’re drawing the two winners tomorrow, so if you haven’t entered yet, check out the contest page ASAP! […]
Light MGs
Vintage Saturday: LMG Variety Pack
ZB light machine guns are pretty often seen with Chinese troops, but the DP-28s are less common. And the BAR variant (either a Colt or FN-D) is downright unusual.
Artillery
“Enemy Weapons” of Germany – Part V
Don’t forget, there are still several days to enter our DVD giveaway – we’re giving away two copies of our recent Machine Gun Manuals DVD (worth forty bucks each!) – and you can get one!. […]
Book review
Book Review: Deutsche Fertigungskennzeichen bis 1945
Anyone who has looked at German arms and militaria from WWII and the years prior will be familiar with the 3-letter (or number) code system used to obscure where production was taking place. The more […]
Handgun
The Obrez and its Cousins
I’m not sure where it started, but the “obrez” has gained a decent bit of recognition among gun folks (particularly gun folks on the internet). The concept is a Mosin-Nagant rifle with the barrel cut […]
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We Hit a Milestone – and a DVD Giveaway!
I was very happy to wake up to this on the site statistics yesterday morning: We’ve had more than a million visits since I started keeping track in June 2011! Thanks to everyone who has […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Turkish Orman Carbine Video
A couple weeks ago I mentioned that I’d picked up a neat new addition to my collection – a Turkish “Orman” carbine made from a French Berthier rifle. During WWII, the Turkish government wound up […]