Bloke hooked up with Les of @PegasusTests at Hätilä up in Finland. Mike took an L85A1 SA80 factory semi and a Browning Hi-Power, while Les took the L85 We Have At Home, aka the Aly and Kaufman AKB-23 lookie-likey based on a Brownells BRN-180. How did they get on?

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The British military decided to organize their disparate small units of riflemen into a single standardized group in 1800. The 95th Regiment - the British Rifle Corps - was founded and it was equipped with a pattern of rifle designed by one Ezekiel Baker. This was a .625 caliber rifle with a 30” ...

This is a custom rifle made by gunsmith P.E. Hall of Ashtabula, Ohio most likely between 1948 and 1854. It has a cluster of four .36 caliber rifles barrels (24 inches long) in an octagonal frame. The action is a quadruple set of mule ear hammers, two on each side, with a double set trigger. Prett...

There are a lot of different types of general purpose machine guns in use in Ukraine and one of the most surprising to appear so far is the M60.

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On 24 July the ongoing border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand flared into a 4 day armed conflict. Imagery from the brief conflict featured an interesting mix of small arms which I thought would be a good topic for a video.

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Colt SMG: First of the 9mm ARs

With the expansion of SWAT teams throughout law enforcement in the 1980s, Colt realized that it was leaving a lot of sales on the table by not having a submachine gun it could offer alongside M16/CAR-15 rifles and carbines. They addressed this in the early 1980s by...

When surplus rifles were cheap, they were the easiest rifles to "customize", "optimize", and "personalize"... but years later when we realize the true value within them, these "pioneers" are now branded as "BUBBA".

Bubba destroys historical rifles that we could have otherwise enjoyed today... b...

So is it a FAMAS clone or not? The VHS2 has a background that many in the US have not considered. We take it to the range and also confer Jordan from ⁨@ForgottenWeapons⁩ to chat about it!

In the first video we tested a barrel available from IGB Austria for the Steyr M1911/M1912 pistol chambered for 9mm Para. Although accuracy was fine it soon turned out that the vital camming lugs on the barrel had not been properly hardened. IGB offered to replace the barrel so here we are with a...

The KK-Mpi-69 (Klein Kaliber Maschinenpistole 1969) was a .22 rimfire training model of the standard East German stamped AKM. It used a simple blowback replacement bolt assembly and proprietary front trunnion along with a standard AKM receiver and fire control group. There is no gas block, since ...

In this episode of What Is This Weapon? Jonathan examines a curious Victorian-era pistol with a curious label...

We explore its design, its purpose, and the story behind its maker, touching on a unique moment in British firearms history.

The Nielsen Device is a type of suppressor mount that allows a suppressor to move forward upon firing and thus allow a recoil-operated firearms to cycle reliably despite the added weight of a suppressor. Popularized by Doug Olsen in the 1980s, they allow pistols to be readily suppressed without n...

If you had to pick one, would you take a G1 (FAL) or a G3 (H&K)? Both are 7.62mm NATO rifles adopted by Germany. The G1 has more features and capabilities, like the carry handle, bipod, multiple muzzle devices, and adjustable gas system. The G3, on the other hand, is simpler, without things to ch...

Ever wondered what is the largest distance a 17th century lead round ball fired from a matchlock musket have enough energy to cause a life threatening wound? Here is one answer based on the experimental archaeology project connected to the siege of Novi Zrin in 1664.

The Human Engineering Lab's HEL-E4A was the most commonly used suppressor used in the Vietnam War. It was the result of a series of suppressor designs from the Aberdeen Proving Grounds HEL which were developed to balance suppression and back pressure, so that they could operate reliably on a stan...

While pistols may not feature heavily on combat footage from the ongoing war in Ukraine, sidearms continue to be a key piece of equipment for many combatants. Germany has provided Ukraine with some 3,500 pistols, from the available visual evidence these have been distributed to some of Ukraine Sp...

It is quite commonly claimed that German gunners would prioritize, focus or single out Sherman Fireflies instead of other tanks. Yet, there is little to no evidence it in German sources, just to be sure I took a closer look at the information available to Germans based on the military intelligenc...

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Three rounds in fact, in our Antiques Gunshow format, this time the theme is it's 80's and 90's action movie with our special guest @hollywoodguns .

As Sweden was looking to adopt a new self-loading infantry rifle in the 1950s, one of the contenders was a modernized version of the Ljungman. The Fm/57 is one of the last iterations of that project. It is chambered for 6.5x55mm but uses the short-stroke gas piston conversion that we previously s...

This is a short introduction of the Cooper double action percussion revolver manufactured from 1864-69 in Frankford by Cooper Manufacturing Co. One of the best Civil War time double action revolvers.

The ZK-381 was designed by Josef Koucký, his first design of 1938 (hence 381). This is one of the last of the Czech pre-war self-loading rifle projects, of which there were quite a lot. It uses a tilting bolt and a short-stroke gas piston, with ZB26 machine gun magazines and chambered for 7.92mm ...

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The problem of the P320 has evolved past the actual mechanical issue with the pistol - which still hasn't actually bee identified. The problem ...