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Colt Model 639: MACVSOG’s Vietnam Carbine

October 24, 2018 Ian McCollum 17

This two-stamp transferrable Colt 639 is being sold at Morphys on October 30, 2018. The Colt Model 639 was the export version of the Colt Model 629, which was type classified by the US military […]

Select-fire Rifles

Shooting the M14: Full Auto Really Uncontrollable?

October 13, 2018 Ian McCollum 30

This M14 is being sold by Morphys on October 30, 2018. Today we are out shooting the H&R M14 “Guerrilla Gun” prototype, but fitted with a standard M14 stock and barrel. With these parts, it […]

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H&R’s Experimental M14 Guerrilla Gun

October 12, 2018 Ian McCollum 29

This M14 is being sold by Morphys on October 30, 2018. While Harrington & Richardson was making M14 rifles for the United States military, they were also experimenting with other variations on the design. Among […]

Light MGs

Full-Auto FG-42: An Original 2nd Pattern at the Range

October 5, 2018 Ian McCollum 2

This rifle is being sold by Morphys on October 30, 2018. The FG-42 is a tremendously hyped rifle, but very few people have ever had a chance to actually shoot an original one (including me, […]

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The American FAL: Harrington & Richardson T48 (w/ Larry Vickers)

September 24, 2018 Ian McCollum 1
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Steyr StG 77, aka the AUG

September 21, 2018 Ian McCollum 28

Today’s rifle is not quite an Austrian military StG-77, but it is virtually identical. This is one of the commemorative rifles sold by Steyr, which has been rebuilt with military parts and is a registered […]

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Holy Mother of Muzzle Flash, the Rico Special

August 11, 2018 Ian McCollum 17

Rico is a gunsmith at SIG Neuhausen who likes to tinker. He put together this SIG 510 (aka Stgw 57), with a modern collapsing stock, quad rail foreend, Aimpoint red dot, heavy barrel, and massive […]

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South African Galils: The R4, R5, R6, and LM Series

July 25, 2018 Ian McCollum 10

When South Africa decided to replace the R1 rifle (a metric FAL), they chose to adopt the Israeli Galil. Both nations had similar environmental issues with blowing sand (in northwestern South Africa particularly), and Israel […]

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WW2 Mauser Becomes Heckler & Koch: the StG-45(M), or Gerat 06H

July 20, 2018 Ian McCollum 11

After the Mp44/StG44 Sturmgewehr was starting to see substantial production and field use, the German military and the Mauser company began working on a way to simplify production of the weapon. The design for the […]

Accessories

Testing the Halbek Device

July 14, 2018 Ian McCollum 6

The Halbek Device was an interesting clamp-on muzzle brake designed by two Rhodesians, Douglas Hall and Marthinus Bekker. It was patented in Rhodesia in 1977 and in the US in 1980, and manufactured in small […]

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