Prototype
Caveat Emptor – “StG45 Prototype”
One of the fun parts of pursuing prototype and experimental firearms is that there isn’t much written or known about many of them – it’s like a great treasure hunt. Of course, the downside is […]
Articles by Ian McCollum
Select-fire Rifles
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: Guns and Butter
He must have been an economics teacher before the war.
Light MGs
Kiraly 1935 Experimental LMG
It wasn’t just chance that we got up to date on the KE-7 earlier this week – I wanted to have that in your mind before posting this interesting piece. We found it in the […]
Book review
Book Review: Hatcher’s Notebook, by Julian Hatcher
I was looking through our reference library yesterday, and realized that we hadn’t mentioned at Hatcher’s Notebook before – which is a glaring oversight. Julian S. Hatcher (Captain Hatcher during WWI, and Major General Hatcher […]
Light MGs
SIG KE-7 Light Machine Gun (Again!)
Yep, if you do a search through the blog, you’ll find that we’ve talked about the KE-7 twice before. But we have yet more material to add this time! And it’s a great example of […]
Uncategorized
The Most Interesting Guns
It’s a sad fact that there are always a lot more guns for sale than I can afford to buy, and that’s forced be to really think about what guns really hold the most interest […]
Semiauto pistol
Japanese “Papa” Nambu video
In 1925, the Imperial Japanese Army adopted the Type 14 pistol, which was produced in large numbers during WWII. It looks outwardly pretty similar to a Luger, but i mechanically very different. What many folks […]
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: No Such Thing as Overarmed
Well, Leszek in Poland has been sending us a bunch of great vintage photos, so I’m not going to have to dip into my own stash for a while: Yeah, you might not want to […]
Light MGs
Chauchat Followup
We had a lot of feedback on Tuesday’s post on the CSRG Chauchat light machine gun, so I figured I should do a bit of followup today. Leszek in Poland sent us these photos of […]