General Purpose MGs
Greg from Allegheny Arsenal on the Lafette Mount
We met up with Greg – who runs Allegheny Arsenal – at a gun show a couple weeks ago, and this is the first of a couple interviews we did with him on the MG34 […]
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Book review
Video Book Review: Textbook of Automatic Pistols
Every pile of dusty old books you find at a gun show has a zillion reprints of Cartridges of the World and how-to pamphlets on stock refinishing from 1960. But occasionally you’ll find a real […]
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Mauser Showdown at the Range – C96, Carbine, and Schnellfeuer
I’ve been promising this range video for a while now, and here it is. We took all three configurations of the C96 Broomhandle Mauser – a pistol, a carbine, and a machine pistol – out […]
Book review
Book Review: AK47 – The Grim Reaper by Frank Iannamico
Frank Iannamico’s recently published AK47 – The Grim Reaper is an excellent resource for AK collectors and enthusiasts. It covers all the production AK variants from about a dozen countries, which include virtually every type […]
Semiauto Rifles
Shooting the British Farquar-Hill rifle
Today we have some video of a British 1918 Farquhar-Hill rifle at the range. This rifle was an early semiauto design that was accepted by the British army too late to see service in World […]
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Forgotten Weapons on Home Defense
I spent a bunch of time out at the range this weekend, and we got some great footage for you guys. As promised, I’ll be posting a video of the Farquhar-Hill rifle in action, as […]
Semiauto pistol
Steyr 1912 Video
We have another video to post today – this time about the Steyr 1912 handgun, aka the Steyr-Hahn. We have one in the Reference Collection that we are going to disassemble and discuss, so please […]
Semiauto Rifles
Sig AMT disassembly video
The Sig AMT is one of the orphans of the .308 autoloader world here in the US. They were imported in small numbers many years ago, and then the supply dried up.Lots of folks have […]
Semiauto pistol
Bergmann-Bayard disassembly video
Today we’re disassembling and explaining the Bergmann-Bayard M1910/21 self-loading pistol. This particular one is a very nice example of the Danish-made late variant of the design. You can see our other Bergmann videos (one of […]
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Bergmann-Bayard M1910/21 video
Today we have some video from a range trip earlier this summer, with a Bergmann-Bayard M1910/21 pistol. There’s a bunch of wind noise (sorry), but I hope the video is still worth watching. As I […]