Gunsmithing
RIA Feb 2020 Special: Sporterized M1 Carbine
Our final quick video from RIA this weekend is a look at a sporterized M1 Carbine – but one that was actually done quite nicely! I would never suggest that someone cut up an intact […]
Semiauto Rifles
Semiauto Rifles
RIA February 2020 Special: Venezuelan and Argentine FN49s
Today at RIA, a quick look at a pair of FN-49s – one Venezuelan pattern in 7x57mm, and one Argentine Navy model in 7.62mm NATO using detachable mags (the only variant of FN-49 to do […]
Competition
MAS 49-56 in a 2-Gun Match
A while back, I ran a 2-Gun match on my own with my MAS 49-56 (and a plain Glock 19), including the original APX L806 optic. It was not a particularly complex match, but it […]
Competition
French Resistance 2-Gun: FG-42 & Mle 1935A (Prep for Desert Brutality)
Next week is Desert Brutality 2020, the big annual 2-Gun “nationals”. I’ll be shooting it in the Classic division (guns from 1946 and earlier) this year, with an SMG semiauto FG-42 rifle and a French […]
Gunsmithing
Short: Inspecting an RSC 1917 Gas System
The French Model 1917 RSC rifle has a rather unusual gas system, and without some experience it can be difficult to know what one is looking at in one. So today, we’re taking a quick […]
Semiauto Rifles
SIG 550-1 Sniper: Answering a Question Nobody Asked
Today at the Kessler auction house in Kreuzlingen Switzerland, we are taking a look at a SIG 550-1 Sniper model. This is mechanically a SIG 550, aka Sturmgewehr 90, but made to a very high […]
Conversion
Erquiaga EM-62: Castro’s Ex-Armorer Makes an M14
Juan Erquiaga was a Peruvian Army officer who was introduced to Gordon Ingram and the Police Ordnance Company, probably during Ingram’s time working on sales of the Model 6 submachine gun to Peru. Erquiaga first […]
Semiauto Rifles
Prototype Mauser 1917 Trench Carbine
In the latter stages of World War One, the German military was looking for new arms for its Sturmtruppen. Without a reliable self-loading rifle design to use, they instead focused on pistil caliber arms. The […]
Miniature
Tippman’s Half-Scale .22 Rimfire Browning 1917 Machine Gun
In 1983, Dennis Tippman formed a company to manufacture half-scale functional replicas of Browning machine guns – the 1919 and 1917 specifically. He built these as both fully automatic and semiautomatic (the semiauto design being […]
Semiauto Rifles
Valkyrie Arms Semiauto M3A1 Grease Gun
Valkyrie Arms was formed in 1993 to produce semiautomatic copies of classic military machine guns, and in 2004 they introduced a semiauto M3A1 “Grease Gun”. The M3 and M3A1 are particularly rare guns as registered […]