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Book Review: ERMA Erfurter Maschinenfabrik 1924–2003 (Three Volumes)
Available from Schiffer Publishing as three separate volumes:
https://www.schiffermilitary.com/collections/military-new-releases/products/erma-erfurter-maschinenfabrik-1924-2003-vol-1
https://www.schiffermilitary.com/collections/military-new-releases/products/erma-erfurter-maschinenfabrik-1924-...
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PSA/H&R Clones the Department of Energy Colt 9mm SMG
Palmetto State Armory, under their Harrington & Richardson brand, has released a particularly neat model of 9mm AR. They talked about doing this "at some point" at SHOT Show 2024, but lo and behold it's here and available on the cusp of SHOT 2025! Specifically, this is the Colt 633, an extra-shor...
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Q&A: British Small Arms of World War Two
Today's Q&A is brought to you by the fine folks at Patreon, and by Penguin Brutality:
https://www.varusteleka.com/en/search?q=penguin
http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons01:11 - Was the Vickers .50 any good, and why did the British use 4 different heavy cartridges instead of consolidating?
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Rate of Fire: What Determines it and How to Change It
What determines the rate of fire of a machine gun, and how can that rate of fire be determined or changed from a design perspective? Let's talk about pressure, mass, and distance...
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BD-44: The New Semiauto Sturmgewehr from D-K Productions
D-K Productions is a collaboration between the German company Sport System Dittrich (SSD) and an American partner. SSD has been making reproductions of German World War Two small arms for something like 20 years - including Sturmgewehrs. Their guns are really good recreations of the 1940s origina...
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Enjoying Black Powder Episode 7: The M1871 Beaumont
Black powder military rifles of the 1860s-1880s are a really enjoyable group of guns. A lot of them are relatively reasonably priced, and they are actually pretty easy to reload for. The unavailability of factory ammunition (for most, although not so much for the Trapdoor) makes them seem like a ...
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Field to Table: Harvesting, Butchering, and Preparing Game w/ Outdoor Solutions
You can get Outdoor Solutions' ebook and companion videos along with their whole upcoming class schedule at:
https://www.fromfieldtotable.com
My freezer is getting low, so it was time to refill it - and I chose to do that this year at one of Outdoor Solutions' "Field to Table" classes. Set up w...
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The End of the Mamba: A Tale of Manufacturing Incompetence
The Mamba was a pistol that had a pretty decent design, but failed because of incompetent manufacturing. Today we are taking a look at a handful of surviving Mambas including the only know Green Mamba, courtesy of Val Forgett at Navy Arms. In addition, we have the minutes of a June 13, 1978 meeti...
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Soviet Small Arms of WWII: Now Shipping!
Now in stock and shipping! Order your copy here:
https://www.headstamppublishing.com/ww2-soviet-unionPlease note: we will do our best to get as many preorders as possible out before Christmas, but we cannot guarantee everyone's arrival date. New orders should not be expected to arrive before Ch...
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Moons Out 2025 Launch: Prepare Your NODs!
https://practiscore.com/moons-out-25/register
Moons Out 2025 is a Brutality-style night vision rifle match. It consists of 10 stages physically and mentally challenging stages over two nights, all shot in the dark with night vision equipment (Gen 3 highly recommended).
For details on the Polena...
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ZB47: A Truly Weird Czech SMG
The ZB47 was developed at Brno as a contender for Czech military submachine gun adoption in the late 1940s. The Czech Army had technically adopted a submachine gun prior to World War Two (the vz.38; video on that is coming a bit later) but production did not begin before the arrival of German tro...
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Aimpoint's New COA: Clever Optics Advancement
Let me first mention something that I didn't cover in the video: what does "COA" stand for? Well, nothing. They just wanted a name that they could trademark that wasn't already in use. So go ahead and make up your own acronym.
It may be hard to see how a pistol red dot sight could be exciting, b...
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TOZ-36 and TOZ-49: Soviet Gas-Seal Target Revolvers
These two revolvers were developed for competitive sport shooting in the Soviet Union. They are usually described as variants of the Model 1895 Nagant, but they actually work on a different mechanism, despite both being gas-seal designs. The TOZ-36 was designed in 1962, and it was a single action...
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Steyr AUGs of the Falkland Islands Defense Force
The Falkland Islands Defense Force is a small organization independent of the British military, run directly by the Falkland Islands government. When it decided to update its small arms form the L1A1 SLR (aka British FAL) in the early 1990s, the British assumed they would purchase the new L85A1 r...
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2-Gun: Dillinger Gang Special! Winchester 1907SL and M1911
Yesterday we took a look at a reproduction of the Winchester 1907 Self Loader made for the Dillinger gang (and others) by Hyman Lebman. Today, I'm taking it out to a 2-gun match, paired with a Tisas M1911A1. Let's see how it'll do!
Lebman 1907SL Conversion video:
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Beretta 93R: The Best Machine Pistol?
The Beretta 93R ("Raffica") was developed in the 1970s by Beretta engineer Paolo Parola at the request of Italian military special forces. It took the basic Beretta 92 pistol design and added a well-thought-out burst mechanism under the right-side grip panel. It does not have a plain full-auto se...
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Daniel Defense H9: The Hudson Reborn and Completely Reengineered
In 2017, Hudson released a new pistol that was the darling of the firearms industry. It purported to offer a radically low bore axis and 1911-style trigger in a striker-fired system that would be fast and simple to use.
In 2019, Hudson went bankrupt, out of money and having started to scavenge ...
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Dillinger Gang's Winchester 1907 Self-Loader: The Lebman Conversion
Hyman Lehman was a gunsmith in Texas who made a variant of firearms for some of the most notorious gangsters of the 1930s. One of his specialties was to take the Winchester Model 1907 Self-Loader and cut the barrel down, attach a Cutt's Compensator, and a Thompson gun vertical front grip on a rep...
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Rhodesian Mamba at the Range: Will it Work?
Today we are taking the Mamba out to the range to see just how badly (or how well) it works. This is one of the Mambas that was assembled in the US by Navy Arms - only a very small number of these went on the market before the whole project was abandoned.
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SIG P320 Flux Legion / Flux Raider: The Best Pistol-PDW System Yet
The Flux Raider is a chassis system designed to turn the SIG P320 into a very compact PDW. The design concept began as a desire to improve the practical accuracy of a handgun by adding a collapsing stock while keeping the weapon holsterable. Flux' first product, circa 2019, was a spring-loaded st...
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P320 Flux Legion Raider at the Range
Today I am taking the SIG P320 Flux Legion (aka the SIG Legion edition of the Flux Raider) out to the range. I'm a big fan of PDW systems, and the Raider is one of the best - in my opinion it is better than some purpose-built PDWs, much less other pistol chassis conversions. Anyway, I registered ...
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So Many Ways to Fail at Making a Pistol
Making a successful and popular new handgun requires doing a whole lot of things right...today we are going to consider what happens when they don't go so well.
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Book Review: The U.S. Model 1917 Rifle - "America's Enfield"
Available from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/U-S-Model-Rifle-Americas-Enfield/dp/1931464928Available from the publisher, Mowbray:
https://gunandswordcollector.com/product/us-model-1917-rifle-canfield/Bruce Canfield is one of the most prolific and prominent authors on American military small ...
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How Is Ammunition Made? A Tour of Sellier & Bellot's Factory
Today I am in Vlašim in the Czech Republic, where Sellier & Bellot has allowed me to film a tour of their ammunition plant. This is one of the largest ammo manufacturers in the world, and they start with basic raw material like lead, copper, and brass and ship out complete case ammunition. The ma...