Review
Timney Trigger Review and Giveaway
We spoke to Timney Triggers at the SHOT Show last month, and they offered us one of their Mosin-Nagant triggers to try out, and a second one to give away. As you can see in […]
Articles by Ian McCollum
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: Armed to the Teeth with a Hall Breechloader
This man clearly has a high standards in personal armament. A Hall breechloading rifle for fast reloading (and interchangeable parts for easy maintenance and repair) and a Colt Walker revolver that will blow your head […]
Semiauto pistol
Charola-Anitua semiauto pistol
The Charola-Anitua is an early Spanish semiauto pistol dating from 1898. The mechanism of the Charola is similar in principle to the Mauser C96, with a moving wedge being used to lock the bolt to […]
Book review
Book Review: The Book of Rifles by W.H.B and Joseph E. Smith
This is an excellent book to start a firearms library with. It has a lot of great information for a very affordable cost – I found my copy for $3 at a gun show, but […]
Uncategorized
Custom Holster Giveaway Update
Okay, guys – I think I may have given the wrong idea when I said we are looking for a non-copyrighted picture for our holster giveaway. We don’t need a chain of custody on who […]
Uncategorized
Schwarzlose 1907 and 07/12
The Schwarzlose machine gun was developed by Andreas Schwarzlose starting in 1902, as an attempt to produce a machine gun simpler and less expensive than the guns then on the market. Schwarzlose achieved this end […]
Aircraft MGs
Assessment of the Schwarzlose M1907
A pointed account of the Schwarzlose M1907 aircraft machine gun, from John Biggins’ hilarious description of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in WWI, The Two-Headed Eagle (The Otto Prohaska Novels): The 8mm Schwarzlose had been the Austro-Hungarian […]
Submachine Guns
SIG MP46/MP48/MP310
Starting in the 1920s, SIG Neuhausen tried to develop a popular submachine gun, with little success. To a significant extent, I think the Swiss manufacturing philosophy was just not well adapted to the world standard […]
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: AA Gunnery in Gas Masks
Either shooting down aircraft or auditioning for a SyFy original…who can say? I think the gun is an early Oerlikon, but I can’t say for sure…
Review
Holster Review & Contest: Louisville Leather
Ryan Kuhl at Louisville Leather is a customer holster maker putting out a very nice product. We got one of his holsters for review, and I’m very impressed with it. He makes a wide variety […]