Prototype
T25 Rifle Report
I recently got my grubby hands on a big pile of gun-related documentation (thanks, Mike!), and one of the items that jumped out at me while looking through it was a 1949 report on the […]
Rifles
Bolt Action Rifles
Siamese Mauser Followup – the Type 66 Rifle
When I put together the video and post a couple weeks ago on the Siamese/Thai Mauser, I figured I’d be clever and call it a Type 45/66, since it had been rechambered for the Type […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Ishapore .410 SMLE Conversion (Video)
Quick, think of the first thing that comes to mind when I say “riot shotgun”! Does it have a brass buttplate? A tangent rear sight? Is it a single-shot weapon? Does it use a shotshell […]
Bolt Action Rifles
RIA Premier Auction (Part II)
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 […]
Sniper Rifles
Vintage Saturday: Marine Snipers
Soviet marines from the Baltic Fleet ashore at Leningrad, armed with PEM 91/30 sniper rifles.
Bolt Action Rifles
Type I Carcano (Video)
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 […]
Semiauto Rifles
Vintage Saturday: Inventor Afield
John Moses Browning (center) elk hunting near Jackson Hole, Wyoming around 1910. His rifle is a Remington Model 8 in .35 Remington, and he is flanked by his brother Matthew on the right. His skinning […]
Manuals
US Army Tokarev Rifle Manual
One problem I have consistently found with Russian weapons manuals is that they are all written in Russian, which I can’t read. The illustrations are still interesting and useful, but it does make some of […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth
So, I was browsing through the catalog for Rock Island Auction’s upcoming Premier Auction (I’ll have more next week on the various neat things available), and found one item in particular that jumped out at […]
Bolt Action Rifles
2-Gun Action Match: England Versus Germany
Once again, we have video today from the monthly 2-gun Action Challenge Match. This time, I thought it would be interesting to do a bit of a historical matchup, and look at the oft-discussed question […]