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Forgotten Weapons Going to Orlando!
Yep, we’re heading to Orlando next month, and we’re looking for something to do on Friday and Saturday the 27th and 28th. If you know of (or are) a fellow enthusiast in the area who […]
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Craftsmanship or Bubbafication?
The other day I saw a post on a gunsmithing forum from a fellow who had picked up a somewhat rough but otherwise intact Argentine Mauser to modify into a hunting rifle for his wife. […]
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Forgotten Weapons Visits the Pattern Room
We took part of our recent European excursion in England, and part of that time was spent at the National Firearms Centre in Leeds, formerly known as the Pattern Room. The gun collection there was […]
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Chinese C96 Mauser Stock/Bayonet
Here’s an interesting item we ran across recently – a combination bayonet and shoulder stock made by the Chinese for the C96 “Broomhandle” Mauser (and also the TT33 Tokarev, I believe). This design is relatively […]
Select-fire Rifles
X8E1 & X8E2 SLR Manual
Before the British adopted the FAL as the L1A1 rifle, batches of several different variants were made for extended troop trials. The first two were the X8E1 and X8E2 – the X8E1 used standard FAL […]
Book review
Book Review: The Dutch Mannlicher M.95
In the 1880s, the Dutch decided that their single-shot Beaumont rifles were obsolete and needed replacement. They started a program to modify them with 4-round magazines, and simultaneously set about finding a more modern rifle […]
Semiauto Rifles
Sjogren Shotgun Photos
Thanks to reader David, we have several photos of a Sjogren 12ga shotgun. The Sjogren was a very early Swedish semiauto design using a recoil action with a fixed barrel. Most recoil orated firearms function […]
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Cutaway Oerlikon Cannon
So a funny thing happened on the way back from the Naval training faciliity… We were at a museum in Europe looking around with a guide, and noticed a nice Oerlikon cannon on a naval […]
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Cutaway AK kits available at Apex
I have been a bit remiss, and didn’t notice the cutaway Polish AK kits that Apex Gun Parts has had for a while. Well, they went on sale today, and I just took the opportunity […]
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Treeby “Chain Gun”
We’re going to jump back a hundred years, and take a look at a design from 1854 today – although it was a design well ahead of its time. The Treeby chain gun was a […]