Commentary
Short: How to Pronounce “Garand” (and why)
Is it “GUH-rand” or “GAIR-end”? Well, let’s find out by asking John Cantius himself…
Rifles
bullpup
Vektor CR21: South Africa’s Futuristic Bullpup
The CR-21 was a private effort to create a new rifle for the South African military in the 1990s. Bullpup designs were all the rage at the time (Austria has the AUG, France had the […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Iron Sights at 800 Yards: New Mexico Milsurps Match!
While traveling through Albuquerque, I was invited to join the New Mexico Milsurps club for one of their long range rifle matches. This is no typical shooting challenge – the course of fire is 20 […]
Select-fire Rifles
HK XM-8: What Was it and Why? (With Larry Vickers)
Larry Vickers has the closest thing most any of us will ever have to a true XM-8 rifle, and has more than a little trigger time on the original XM-8 rifles. So, I asked him […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Turkish “Enfauser” – Mauser/Enfield Hybrid Rifle
In the mid 1930s, Turkey updated and overhauled the bolt action rifles in its inventory, to bring them all up to that same standard for sights, ammunition, sling configuration, etc. Most of the rifles overhauled […]
Prototype
SIG’s World War Two Semiauto Rifle: The Model U
The SIG company of Neuhausen Switzerland spent the 1920s, 30s, and 40s working on developmental semiauto rifles to sell both to the Swiss military and abroad. One of the experimental models in the succession of […]
Semiauto Rifles
The Original Retro AR-10: Armalite’s AR10B
In 1994, a man named Mark Westrom, owner of Eagle Arms, purchased the husk of the Armalite corporation, and acquired its trademarks. Westrom wanted to create a new commercial .308 AR pattern rifle, and did […]
Semiauto Rifles
H&K Quality Meets the Thumbhole Stock: The SR-9
The H&K SR9 was a the version of the H&K G3/91 designed to comply with (or avoid, if you prefer) the Bush Sr. 1989 import ban on “assault weapons”. About 4,000 of these were imported […]
Single Shot Rifles
Incompetence, Corruption, and a Rioting Mob: The Gibbs Carbine
The Gibbs carbine is fantastic illustration of just how difficult it can be to actually manufacture a new firearm. The gun itself is a breechloading, percussion fired cavalry carbine designed to use paper cartridges. It […]
Semiauto Rifles
Danish Gevaer m/50 – An American Gun Made in Italy
Dozens of countries around the world received M1 Garand rifles from the United States in the decades after World War Two, and Denmark was one of those that not only got some rifle but went […]