I spend all of the past week at SHOT Show 2023, and had a thoroughly exhausting time. I got a whole lot done though, including locking in about $60,000 in sponsorships for the Midnight Brutality pr...
2023-01-22 23:53:21 +0000 UTC View Post
When I decided that I wanted to try out hunting as a way to source my own meat and enjoy the...
2023-01-21 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Tony Neophytou developed this for Denel Land Systems, which has completely fallen apart as a company and left it now as his own independent design, with no manufacturer. I filmed this video in 2018...
2023-01-20 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Croatian engineer Marko Vukovic first developed his P38-based pistol in the late 1980s for the Yugoslav Peoples' Army. It was left unadopted at that time, but when Croatia declared independence in ...
2023-01-18 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The DWM company in Germany had a license on the Maxim gun design prior to World War One. They produced the rather old-fashioned MG08 for the German army, but also wanted to have a modernized type o...
2023-01-16 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
From my Las Vegas hotel room, it's time for SHOT Show 2023! Hopefully I will find a couple neat guns and not come home with more than one or two infectious diseases.
2023-01-16 00:37:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The simple truth is that short rifles and short shotguns were never a problem, and continue to not be a problem today. The 1934 National Firearms Act originally wanted to restrict handgun ownership...
2023-01-15 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostToday's Q&A is from Tim on Patreon:
"The great nation of Elbonia is looking to spin up a sniper program. But they know better than to adopt ZF41 scopes. What rifles do you attempt to sell...
2023-01-14 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's Q&A is from Tim on Patreon:
"The great nation of Elbonia is looking to spin up a sniper program. But they know better than to adopt ZF41 scopes. What rifles do you attempt to sell...
2023-01-14 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Interested in Chinese Warlord-Era pistols? My new book on the subject is now available at:
2023-01-13 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we continue our series on the development of Croatian pistols towards the XD line. Last week we saw Marko Vukovic's first design, and today we are looking at his second. This was the V.M.18, ...
2023-01-11 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the late video here...I had a long medical class ending Sunday that made me forget to film this. Anyway...
- Working on sponsor companies for Midnight Brutality; very h...
2023-01-10 19:46:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Recorded live January 9th.
If you have critiques or suggestions for next month's live Q&A, please let me know!
2023-01-10 15:30:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the link for tonight's livestream - we are doing this on YouTube this month so people on all three supporter platforms can tune in. This is specifically for you folks who support than channe...
2023-01-09 17:53:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Patented in Germany as System Schätzle, the L26 was a departure from the copies of the Russian wipe-based silencer designs. The L26 used a set of six identical cone-shaped metal baffles inside a s...
2023-01-09 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The Battle of Alligator Creek (aka Battle of the Tenaru) was a formative moment in the American World War Two psyche. After making an unopposed landing on Guadalcanal and taking its mostly-complete...
2023-01-07 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Scheduled for January 28. What do you think of some additional dynamic, fun sort of footage instead of just sitting at a table for the occasional video?
2023-01-07 01:18:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Scheduled for January 20. Been waiting 5 years to post this video!
2023-01-07 01:15:16 +0000 UTC View PostI'll post the link on Monday when we are closer to the start time, but if you want to join the Q&A live, mark it on your calendar! We will probably go about an hour, answering questions from th...
2023-01-06 23:08:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Finland used a variety of FN pistols prior to WW2, and had already evaluated the High Power when Russian invaded and the Winter War began. With an urgent need for more arms, Finland ordered a batch...
2023-01-06 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI'm going to be at SHOT Show all week wandering the floor, and what better place to do a Patreon meetup? I figure Monday night is least likely to interfere with other events, so I will be at the El...
2023-01-05 19:54:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-01-05 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The “Kordun” (named after a region in Croatia) was the first pistol design from Marko Vukovic, lead designer for IM Metal and later HS Produkt. It was made in 1985 for the Yugoslav Peoples’ A...
2023-01-04 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhat questions would you like me to answer? I will be covering a couple as full-length videos on the public channel, and others in shorter format in a livestream Q&A next week open only to you ...
2023-01-02 21:58:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Want to help support Forgotten Weapons? Benefits include:
- Ad-free videos (all levels)
- Behind-the-scenes weekly updates ($3)
- Monthly livestream Q&As ($5)
- Early ac...
2023-01-02 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Year - I hope you all have an auspicious start to 2023! A couple highlights for the past week here:
- Picked up a surplus Yugo M57 Tokarev and original trigger 2023-01-01 23:41:11 +0000 UTC View Post
For my main run through Desert Brutality this year, I decided to have fun with a full historical load out - or at least a mostly-historical load out. I used a Valmet M62/S (the semiauto version of ...
2022-12-31 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Type 94 was the standard infantry antitank gun of the Japanese Army during World Ware Two. It was developed in the early 1930s as tensions with the Soviet Union rose; there had not been much ne...
2022-12-30 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post