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SR-88A: Singapore's Final Evolution of the AR-18 (Ad-free)

Chartered Industries of Singapore was founded in 1967, and started making M16 rifles under license in 1970. These were sold to the Singaporean military as well as Thailand. To get out of their lice...

Book Review: ERMA Erfurter Maschinenfabrik 1924–2003 (Three Volumes) (Ad-free)

Available from Schiffer Publishing as three separate volumes:

2025-01-19 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

PSA/H&R Clones the Department of Energy Colt 9mm SMG (Ad-free)

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 be...

PSA/H&R Clones the Department of Energy Colt 9mm SMG (Ad-free)

https://youtu.be/ZEb2o_RemVMPalmetto State Armory, under their Harrington & Richardson brand, has released a pa...

Rate of Fire: What Determines it and How to Change It (Ad-free)

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...

Rate of Fire: What Determines it and How to Change It (Audio Only)

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...

Praga I: A Blow-Forward Bullpup Semi-Auto-Selectable Vickers Gun (Ad-free)

The Praga I was the first machine gun design from noted Czech arms designed Vaclav Holek. Three examples were made for Czech military testing in 1922, but they were not acceptable. Instead, this de...

Aimpoint's New COA: Clever Optics Advancement (Ad-free)

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 ...

BD-44: The New Semiauto Sturmgewehr from D-K Productions (Ad-free)

D-K Productions is a collaboration between the rGerman company Sport System Dittrich (SSD) and an American partner. SSD has been making reproductions of German World War Two small arms for somethin...

2-Gun: Dillinger Gang Special! Winchester 1907SL and M911 (Ad-free)

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 Tisa...

Dillenger Gang's Winchester 1907 Self-Loader: The Lebman Conversion (Ad-free)

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 a...

Steyr AUGs of the Falkland Islands Defense Force (Ad-free)

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 L1...

Q&A Question Request: WW2 British small arms

In an effort to make the Q&A videos a bit more focused, I'm going to give each one a specific theme going forward 9or at least, I'm going to give that a try). For January, that theme is small a...

You Can Copy Anything: Chinese Bolt Action M1 Carbine (Ad-free)

This is a copy of the M1 Carbine made in China late in the Chinese civil war - likely between 1945 and 1949. While there was an attempt at factory production of a true M1 Carbine copy in northern C...

Development of the Uzi Family: Standard, Mini, and Micro (Ad-free)

The Uzi was originally designed in the 1950s, and it was on the technological cutting edge at the time. The stamped receiver, telescoping bolt, and compact magazine-in-grip layout made it an inexpe...

Q&A: The Falklands War of 1982 (Ad-free)

Want a patch or t-shirt with our adorably heavily armed rockhopper penguin? Both are available from Varusteleka:

2025-01-03 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Field to Table: Harvesting, Butchering, and Preparing Wild Game w/ Outdoor Solutions (Ad-free)

You can get Outdoor Solutions' ebook and companion videos along with their whole upcoming class schedule at:

https://www.f...

How Is Ammunition Made? A Tour of Sellier & Bellot's Factory (Ad-free)

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...

In the Footsteps of 45 Commando: 60 Miles Across the Falklands (Ad-free)

Want a patch or t-shirt with our adorably heavily armed rockhopper penguin? Both are available from Varusteleka:

2024-12-28 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Estonia's Much Better Sniper: the M14 TP2 (Ad-free)

The first Estonian sniper rifle built on the M14 was the "TP" - a very poorly done model with a lousy scope, worse mount, and unhelpful stock. These were made in 2000, and in 2008 a new iteration c...

Modernizing Le Clairon: the FAMAS Valorise (Ad-free)

The FAMAS was the best bullpup rifle of its era, but it was a difficult platform to modernize with optics. In 1995, the "FELIN" (Fantassin à Équipement et Liaisons INtégrés; Integrated Infantry...

ZB47: A Truly Weird Czech SMG (Ad-free)

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...

Enjoying Black Powder Episode 6: Berdan II (Ad-free)

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 unavailabi...

The End of the Mamba: A Tale of Manufacturing Incompetence (Ad-free)

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 Ma...

P320 Flux Legion Raider at the Range (Ad-free)

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 be...

SIG P320 Flux Legion / Flux Raider: The Best Pistol-PDW System Yet (Ad-free)

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...

Daniel Defense H9: The Hudson Reborn and Completely Reengineered (Ad-free)

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 f...

Moons Out 2025 Launch: Prepare Your NODs! (Ad-free)

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Moons Out 2025 is a Brutality-style night vision rifle matc...

Soviet Small Arms of WWII: Now Shipping! (Ad-free)

Now in stock and shipping! Order your copy here:

https://www.headstamppublishing.com/ww2-soviet-union<...

Rhodesian Mamba at the Range: Will it Work? (Ad-free)

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 ...