It's always interesting to be able to try two particular pistols out next to each other on the range, particularly when one is a modification of the other. In this case, the Daddy-Gat is a 1974-dated FN Browning GP-35 Hi-Power, and the Son-Gat is an FN BDA-9 (not to be confused with the other BDA...

Well, there's only one fun way to test whether an FN Browning Hi Power magazine will fit and function in an FN BDA-9 (aka HP-DA or DA-HP, as in double action Hi Power) and vice-versa, and that's to test it out on the range! Will we confirm or refute what the Intartubes says about it?

With a so...

The Ruby is simple and of barely adequate quality for a service pistol but nonetheless rugged and reliable. It is often the case however, that the user can't disassemble it for cleaning.
Why is this and what can be done about it?

Chap aims to be (slightly) more competitive at Finnish Brutality 2023 and has got himself an Arex Delta Gen.2 to go with his VHS2. What are his first impressions and nerdy mechanical analysis of this pistol and what mods does he have in mind?

Everyone has that one gun that they love and that has nothing to do with the rest of your collection. It may be ugly, or inaccurate or tacky or just plain weird but you love it no matter what anyone says. For the Chap that gun is the humble TT33 or in this case a slightly more modern Zastava M57A...

Walther TPHs are known to be testy tempestuous little things and one of Mrs Chap's ones is exactly that. Light strikes are fairly common so the springs have been replaced but there was one more thing that could be done to hopefully solve the issue for good.

Also, lathe and mill go brrrrr!

Bloke and Chap get an Arsenal Strike One 9mm pistol thrust into their hands, and give their first impressions! The mechanism is kinda cool, as if Browning and Lahti had a child.

In early 1937 France adopts not one, but two service pistols, both in 7.65 Long for ammunition compatibility with the upcoming SMG (MAS38). The most widely known is the 1935A mostly due to being the template for the SIG P.49, but the other pistol, the 1935S, is usually dismissed as being somehow ...

Deep dive into the history and practicalities of historical concealed carry for ladies (and gentlemen) of distinction, namely the muff. We look at the pros and cons of different small pistols as firearms and fashion evolved through the ages, using Mrs Chap's furry muff for reference.

MAB was a successful firearms manufacturer in France for nearly 70 years, focusing on small carry pistols for civilian and police use, as was popular in Europe until the late 1970s. From the late 1960s though MAB developped a big all-steel 9mm service type pistol, the lost "wonder 9", which is st...

The SACM 1935A pistol, developped by Charles Petter, is a pistol mostly famous by association due to it's infamous offspring the SIG P.49 / 210 and myth sometimes blurrs fact as features of the later are attributed to the former. Let's have a closer look to filter fact from fiction.

Yet more Browning Hi-Power GP35 mechanical nerdery for you: this time it's what's simultaneously really clever but really dumb/awful/craptastic about the trigger mechanism.

The Browning Hi Power GP35 has possibly the worst magazine safety ever devised, and this vid explains why, with reference...

Some mechanical nerdery for you: magazine safeties / disconnects sound good on paper, but in my view are dangerous and counterproductive, so should not be a thing. But they are. So here we are.

The Browning Hi Power GP35 has possibly the worst magazine safety ever devised, and this vid explai...

Well, the question here is whether a Holosun 509T red dot sight mounted on a Glock 17 Gen 5 MOS will return to zero when removed and replaced... So, will it?

Deep dive into one of Chappie's many perversions, namely his obsession with French Ruby pistols. Despite their somewhat undeserved tarnished reputation, they do offer a very interesting and economical collecting subject with a huge number of manufacturers to look out for and as we discover, they ...

Bent Agner Nielsen was a Danish tinkerer born in 1925, who studied art as a young man and worked as a painter. In the 1970s he became interested in firearms, beginning with engraving work. This soon evolved into an interest in mechanical design, and in 1978 he began work on the M80, an Olympic-st...

As practice for Finnish Brutality, I ran a 2-Gun match with the Finnish M39 Mosin Nagant I am planning to use over in Finland. The M39 is the final iteration of the Mosin in Finnish service, and has very good sights, a great trigger, and a nice smooth action (for a Mosin, anyway). I was using PPU...

Yesterday we took a look at the history and operation of the Wilkinson Arms Linda, and today I have it out at the BackUp Gun Match. Since I don't have iron sights on mine, I fitted with with a period-correct Weaver Qwik-Point fiber optic red dot sight.

Overall, the Linda performed much better...

The German military did not actually adopt the Mauser C96 "broom handle" before World War One. It was the first really successful semiauto pistol, but the German military chose the Luger instead, in 1908. However, as World War One continued, the German military realized it was going to be serious...

The Linda is a semiauto 9mm pistol that just exudes 1980s aesthetics. It was made along with a carbine version called the Terry, by Wilkinson Arms of California (later Idaho). Both were named after daughters of the company founder, Ray Wilkinson. He would also later produce a Sherry pistol named ...

The Celmi brothers were Italians who moved to Uruguay and opened an arms factory. They are best known for sporting shotguns, but in 1943 they introduced an automatic pistol, much like the Walther PP but with a removable barrel bushing, a la FN 1910. Quality was questionable, and only a few hundre...

There are a lot of guns out there attributed to German leaders and politicians of the Second World War. Many of these are completely specious, and many more are true simply because these men had a lot of guns. What we are looking at today is an exception; one of the rather small number of guns wh...

A cornucopia of old Euro pistol goodness! Mike and Budi take the opportunity to try out side-by-side the following pistols from WW1 and from the interwar period at 25m:

Mauser Broomhandle C96 7.63 Mauser
FN Browning 1900 7.65 Browning / .32 ACP
FN Browning 1903 / Husqvarna 1907 m/07 9mm Brow...

Mike and Budi make a comparison between:

Colt 1911A1 (Remington-Rand, .45 ACP),
Tokarev TT33 (7.62x25 Tokarev)
French model 35A (7.65 French Long)
French model 35S (7.65 French Long)
Browning Hi Power GP35 (9mm Para)
Walther P38 / P1 (9x19mm)

Obviously the Browning HP is the best. Obvz...