Bolt Action Rifles
Successor to the Scout: Q’s 8.6mm Fix
0:00 – Purpose of the Fix 6:03 – The 8.6mm Blackout Cartridge 12:33 – Rifle Features 21:13 – Disassembly 29:35 – My Complaints 31:49 – At the Range There is a ton to go over […]
Video
Semiauto pistol
Surplus 101st Airborne M17: Differences Between Army and Civilian SIGs
Today we are looking at one of the surplus US Army M17 pistols that SGI put on the commercial market about 3 years ago. These were some of the very first M17s issued to Army […]
Antiques
Tallassee Carbine: The Confederacy’s Last-Ditch Effort
In 1863, the Confederate military decided to design a new standard pattern of cavalry carbine. The designs was put together rather quickly at the Richmond Arsenal; a 25 inch barrel, brass furniture, and Enfield type […]
Single Shot Rifles
Kongsberg M52: A Line-Throwing Rifle (or Harpoon Gun)
The Norwegian Kongsberg factory has a history of making firearms-based tools for maritime use, and one of the more recent is the M52 line-throwing gun, introduced in the 1950s and sold through the 1970s. It […]
Commentary
Ian and Jackson Crawford Discuss Making the Viking Atgeirr Videos
Dr. Jackson Crawford and I got the idea for our collaborative April fools videos on Viking firearms and gunpowder almost 8 months ago, when we visited Iceland together on the way to Finnish Brutality 2022. […]
Select-fire Rifles
Italy’s M14: The BM-59 at the Range
Beretta in Italy developed the BM-59 after World War Two as an improvement on the M1 Garand – lightened, shortened, and given a box magazine, bipod, and selector switch. And the did this in a […]
Antiques
Viking Atgeirr: Reevaluating the Origins of European Firearms
See Dr. Crawford’s video here: “Men of Terror: A Comprehensive Analysis of Viking Combat” on Amazon by Reynir Óskarson and William Short My helmet was generously provided by Grimfrost. I have been privileged to be […]
Revolver
Cutting Edge Military Hardware for Civilians: Manufrance Mle 1892
When the French Army adopted the Mle 1892 revolver, it was a huge improvement over the previous standard from 1873. The new sidearm has a swing-out cylinder, simultaneous ejection, was lighter, and used a high-tech […]
Book review
Book Review: Swords of the Emperor by John Plimpton
Now in stock and shipping from Headstamp Publishing: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/swords Swords of the Emperor: A Guide to the Identification of Imperial Japanese Swords, 1873 – 1945 is a comprehensive reference work examining a little-studied period in […]
Antiques
Musket to Big-Bore Rimfire: the Roberts Short-Frame Conversion
Brigadier General Benjamin Stone Roberts designed and patented a fall-block style of breech loading conversion to .58 Rimfire. Over the course of the decade after the Civil War, he was able to sell approximately 23,000 […]