• Contact Ian
  • YouTube
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Utreon
Forgotten Weapons [TEST]

Support Forgotten Weapons

Enjoy what you read on Forgotten Weapons? Please consider supporting me on Patreon with $1/month! Thanks!
  • Contact Ian
Home2018May

Month: May 2018

Select-fire Rifles

Type 1 Russian AK: The Actual AK-47

May 21, 2018 Ian McCollum 75

https://youtu.be/f5UFzsnmIlQ The AK-47 rifle was formally adopted in 1947, as the name implies, and went into production in 1948. In this very first form, it used a stamped receiver with front and rear trunnions riveted […]

Bolt Action Rifles

A Book and a Rifle: The Vercors Resistance in WWII

May 20, 2018 Ian McCollum 13

One of the single largest actions of the French Resistance during World War Two was Operation Montagnards – the plan to drop about 4,000 Allied paratroops onto the Vercors Massif when the resistance was activated […]

Light MGs

M1918 Chauchat: First Shots (Will It Work?)

May 19, 2018 Ian McCollum 32

This M1918 Chauchat is still awaiting NFA transfer, but my dealer was able to bring it out to a public range where I could do some initial testing on it. I was expecting to get […]

Semiauto Rifles

Madsen M1896 Flaadens Rekylgevær: The First Military Semiauto

May 18, 2018 Ian McCollum 7

After losing out in the 1888 trials, Madsen and Rasmussen continued to refine their rifle. They reduced the overall length and weight, and replaced the feeding clip with a more modern enclosed magazine (although it […]

Q&A

Q&A 18: Ammunition Adventures (and more)

May 17, 2018 Ian McCollum 34

00:30 – Belts or links, and why? 04:53 – What determines locations of gun manufacturing centers? 06:40 – Why did France not use 7.62 NATO? 09:38 – CMMG Guard, yea or nay? 12:32 – How […]

Semiauto pistol

Development of the SIG P220, aka the Swiss P75 Army Pistol

May 16, 2018 Ian McCollum 7

The SIG 210, aka the P49, was a magnificent pistol, but really too expensive for a modern military sidearm. In the 1960s, the Swiss military began looking for a new service sidearm that would be […]

Commentary

Ken Hackathorn on the M1 Carbine: Reputation vs Reality

May 15, 2018 Ian McCollum 30

The M1 Carbine has long been a bit of an enigma to me, because I have never had really good luck with the design, and yet they were extremely popular with Americna soldiers, German soldiers, […]

Submachine Guns

Hungarian KGPF-9: Kalashnikov Genetics in a 9mm SMG

May 14, 2018 Ian McCollum 9

  This modern Hungarian submachine gun bears a remarkable similarity to the Hungarian AKM rifle in many aspects, from the pistol grip to many of the manufacturing practices. In fact, the more we did into […]

Book review

Book review: Experiment and Trial by Mathieu Willemsen

May 13, 2018 Ian McCollum 4

Americans can order the book from Gun and Sword Collector, and Europeans should order from Verlag Militaria. Experiment and Trial, by Mathieu Willemsen, is a catalogue of the 218 guns in the collection of the Dutch […]

General Purpose MGs

GPMG Firing Comparison: PKM vs UK vz.59

May 12, 2018 Ian McCollum 42

Since I had the opportunity to do some shooting with both a Yugoslav PKM and a Czech vz.59 general-purpose machine gun, I thought it would be interesting to compare them side by side. Which is […]

Posts navigation

« 1 2 3 »

Forgotten Weapons Merch!

After many years, I finally have a selection of shirts and cool stuff for sale! Just in time to buy something after Christmas, how's that for timing? Check it out, and don't miss the limited-time Puckle gun shirt!
Sites we enjoy reading
  • British Royal Armouries
  • GunLab
  • Historical Firearms (Tumblr)
  • Joel's Gulch
  • MicroBalrog’s Soviet Outpost
  • View From the Porch
  • VolkStudio Blog
  • Vuurwapen Blog
  • WeaponsMan
Research Sites
  • American Society of Arms Collectors
  • Artillery Luger
  • C&Rsenal
  • Carbines for Collectors
  • Gothia Arms Historical Society
  • GunPictures.net
  • James Julia auction archive
  • Manowar's Hungarian Weapons & History
  • Milsurps.com
  • Modern Firearms
  • Municion.org
  • Old Colts
  • Pistols of the German Wehrmacht
  • The Paul Mauser Archive
  • The Spanish Civil War Mosin Nagant
  • Unblinking Eye
What I’m Currently Reading
Contact Us

Forgotten Weapons

PO Box 87647

Tucson, AZ 85754

© 2018 Forgotten Weapons.
Site developed by Cardinal Acres Web Development.