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Not to brag too much...but it was pretty awesome. :cool: The gun is going up for sale at the Julia auction house and I was there making videos on a variety of guns they have, and mentioned offhandedly that Keith's carry pistol really deserves to be shot. So an email to the Keith family, and a...

I got a handful of shotgun box magazines in a batch of stuff, and I have been unable to figure out the identity of a couple of them. Does anyone know what these are for? They appear to have the same floorplates and followers, but the locking tabs are in different positions, and the long one has...

For this month's 2-gun action match, I decided to use a Remington Model 8 in .300 Savage. Kicks like a mule, but fun to shoot! Overall I placed 34th of 50, which is not bad at all considering my horrendous reload speeds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVHLTq9JTPM

There is a lot of mythos about how great the BAR is...but in reality it was obsolete long before WWII ever began. I finally managed to beat my 2-gun sparring partner Karl by using an 8mm FG42 myself, and saddling him with a semiauto BAR. See the whole grueling match here, complete with...

aka, Ian gets his ass handed to him. We finally had the chance to run a .308 caliber reproduction FG-42 in a 2-Gun match here, head to head with an M1 Garand. The FG was complete with an original-style 4x optic, and it performed flawlessly. My friend shooting it ended up taking 11th place out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_cCf3qT6nI&feature=youtu.be Nothing quite says serious firearm like a Vickers venting steam. :evil:

I found myself a very pretty Steyr-Mannlicher M1905 at a gun show a month ago, got stripper clips in from Sarco last week, and some Argentine ammo yesterday. Now I just have to wait another 10 days before I have a chance to hit the range to try it out! I'm more excited about this pistol than...

Does anyone have a deep knowledge on Western Field bolt actions? I recently acquired a model EJN-757 that I'm trying to find out some background on, and a value of. I know these were Montgomery Wards' store brand guns, and this particular one is marked "Made in Belgium", "FN", and has proper...

I used my Hakim (Egyptian 8mm semiauto, 1950s vintage) in a 2-gun action match yesterday, and had a really good time. On paper, it seems like a pretty iffy rifle - 10.6 pounds, 47.5" overall length, 10-round mag reloaded with stripper clips, post-and-notch iron sights, and a direct impingement...

I'd never heard of this happening before, but I was only about 5 feet away when it took place at a match yesterday. Two people were talking while one loaded an AR mag. The guy loading fumbled a round and dropped it on the ground, where is landed primer-first on a pebble and detonated. There was...

We have a really fun 2-gun (rifle & pistol) action match down here in the desert that I shoot every month. It's more fun than the other multigun matches I've participated in because it emphasizes physical stress and unorthodox shooting instead of just hosing a ton of targets. It frequently...

FedEx says it will be arriving at the FFL tomorrow... :D It's a semiauto rebuilt Bren. It started life as a an 8mm Mauser Bren built at Inglis under Chinese contract - the receiver is dated 1943 and still has the original Chinese markings: It was shipped to China, and used by...

I decided to make a bit of an experiment with this month's 2-Gun Action Challenge Match, and recruited a friend to help out. I ran a No1 MkIII SMLE (and Enfield No2 MkI** revolver), while my friend Karl ran a K98k (and Mauser C96). I knew my rifle would be faster, but Karl is a better shooter...

There is a lot of misunderstand or just lack of understanding about the Ross - the Canadian straight-pull rifle reputed to have a habit of blowing up in shooters' faces. Ross collectors generally know the details, but most other folks (myself included, when I got interested in the issue) don't...

I took a semiauto Madsen LMG to a 2-gun (like 3-gun, but without shotguns) match this weekend. It was a beast to haul around (20 pounds), but really a lot of fun. It's a 1946 Chilean Army gun rebuilt as a semiauto, and chambered for 8mm Mauser. I was a little surprised (and happily so) that it...

I had mentioned this last week, but I now have my video footage of a Savage .45 ACP trails pistol compiled and online for anyone who's interested: http://www.forgottenweapons.com/savage-45-acp-video/

It's a Savage 1907 in .45 ACP, one of the trials guns made for the US pistol trials that eventually resulted in adoption of the Colt 1911. Basically a scaled-up .32 Savage, with a grip safety, lanyard loop, manual slide hold-open, and 8-round double-stack magazine. My overall thoughts? The...

I found myself this past weekend with my Jeep, a Browning 1919, a video camera, a big swath of desert to play in, and a couple willing collaborators...and this was the result: :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HRsLa2gjuA It's definitely not Rat Patrol - because that show is copyrighted...

I took my life in my hands last weekend and put a few rounds through a Bannerman converted .30-06 Mosin (the actual firing starts at about 9 minutes in): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI7BCToQhRc http://www.forgottenweapons.com/bannerman-30-06-mosin-nagant-video/ Bannerman was lot...

A little while back I posted a teaser video from my review of the new semiauto FG42s being made in Texas...well, the whole video is finished now. It's a pretty awesome rifle: http://www.forgottenweapons.com/fg42-reproduction-video/