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How the No2 Revolver Lost its Hammer Spur (A Correction & A Story) (ad-free)

In my previous video on the Albion-production No2 revolvers, I said that the removal of the single action capability and hammer spur from the design was done because of problems armored vehicle crews had with the hammers catching on hatches. That was wrong, and today I want to correct it and also explain the interesting serie...

Tobacco of the Emperor: Japanese WW2 Military Cigarettes and More

Pre-order your copy of Tobacco of the Emperor today! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/clockwork-basilisk?ref=7la1y7 

Today I'm happy to have Patrick Phillips with me, author of the upco...

Bonus Material: Flux Raider at Desert Brutality 2022 (ad-free)

I ran Desert Brutality 2022 this year with a B&T USW-320; a modern stocked pistol chassis for the SIG 320 pistol. One similar product on the market right now is the Flux Defense Raider, and at the match I discovered that Eric was using one of those as a PCC, just like I was doing with my USW. He was kind enough to let me ...

Evaluating the Modern Stocked Pistol: USW-320 at Desert Brutality 2022 (ad-free)

This year I was able to shoot Desert Brutality twice - one during the normal match and once the day before as part of "Trooper" division. That's where you carry all of your gear for the whole match (including food and all ammo) through all of the stages, shoot the whole match in one day, and don't get to use anything you didn...

Iceland's Domestic Guns: The Drífa and Others

Today I have the very cool opportunity to bring you a history of Icelandic domestic firearms manufacturing, courtesy of the Veiðisafnið - the Hunting Museum of Iceland:

https://www.hunting.is/english/

The first documented record of a firearm...

Clockwork to Percussion: Collier Revolver Types and Timeline (ad-free)

“Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler" is available right now for preorder on Kickstarter: 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/clockwork-basilisk?re...

Clockwork to Percussion: Collier Revolver Types and Timeline (Audio Only)

“Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler" is available right now for preorder on Kickstarter: 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/clockwork-basilisk?re...

Announcing "Tobacco of the Emperor" from Headstamp Publishing! (ad-free)

Pre-order your copy of Tobacco of the Emperor today!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/clockwork-basilisk?ref=7opr2k

I'm excited to announce an additional new book form Headstamp Publis...

Modular Guns: Assembling a SIG USW-320

Today I'm at SIG Sauer Parts (soon to be ModGuns) to play around with assembling a SIG 320. I've always been interested in stocked pistols, and so I'm going to take this opportunity to put together a USW (Universal Service Weapon). This originated as a complete pistol made by B&T (based on the CZ75) with an integrated fol...

Announcing Midnight Brutality 2023: Patreon/Utreon Early Access

Registration to Midnight Brutality 2023 is open early for Patreon and Utreon supporters of Forgotten Weapons, with a 10% match fee discount. This early access will last until December 1st, when the match opens to the general public (assuming any spots are still left at that point).

What is Midnight Brutality? Basically,...

FN's Millionth Pistol: Presented to John Browning; Saved by a Belgian Cop

Fabrique Nationale was formed as a consortium of small gunmakers to produce Mauser rifles for the Belgian Army, and when that work was complete the company basically had nothing else to do...until they met John Browning. Browning had a new pistols design and needed a manufacturer - and FN happened to be a manufacturer in need...

2-Gun: Suspiciously Silent vs Ludicrously Loud (ad-free)

This month's 2-Gun match was three pretty short stages, so my friend Tom and I decided to just play with a fun theme - he brought a pair of huge .50-caliber cannons (.50AE Desert Eagle and a .50 Beowulf AR) and I brought a pair of very quiet guns (SilencerCo Maxim-9 and Q Honey Badger, both shooting subsonics).

Firepower Back to the 1500s: Pre-Collier Repeaters (Audio Only)

“Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler" is available right now for preorder on Kickstarter: 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/clockwork-basilisk?re...

Firepower Back to the 1500s: Pre-Collier Repeaters (ad-free)

“Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler" is available right now for preorder on Kickstarter: 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/clockwork-basilisk?re...

New & Classic Forgotten Weapons Merchandise for 2022!

https://shop.forgottenweapons.com/  

The holiday spending season has arrived, and so I have my annual rundown on some of the nice merchandise options I have available from Forgotten Weapons...  At the Shop, we are introducing a couple n...

Frommer Pistolen-MG Model 1917: A Crazy Villar Perosa Copy (ad-free)

After encountering Italian Villar Perosa machine pistols in the field, Austro-Hungarian troops requested a similar weapon. The project was given to FÉG to work on, and the result was the Pistolen-MG Model 1917: a pair of Frommer Stop pistols with long barrels and 25-round magazines, redesigned to fire from the open bolt, mou...

Tales of the Hunt: Stories from Writing Clockwork Basilisk (Audio Only)

“Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler" is available right now for preorder on Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/clockwork-basilisk?ref=a6vy...

Behind the Scenes with the Collier Team

“Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler" is available right now for preorder on Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/clockwork-basilisk?ref=a6vy...

Q&A: Desert Brutality Road Trip Edition (Audio Only)

0:00 - Intro

0:58 - Powernap - How do PMCs handle NFA issues and training.

2:46 - Tyler - Thoughts on the influx of MP5 copies?

4:40 - Beef Supreme - Advice for first-time Brutality match competitors

10:25 - Josh - Ketchup on hot dogs?

11:16 - Kurosawa - Do I consider myself a competitive target ...

Q&A: Desert Brutality Road Trip Edition (Ad-free)

0:58 - Powernap - How do PMCs handle NFA issues and training.

2:46 - Tyler - Thoughts on the influx of MP5 copies?

4:40 - Beef Supreme - Advice for first-time Brutality match competitors

10:25 - Josh - Ketchup on hot dogs?

11:16 - Kurosawa - Do I consider myself a competitive target shooter or just a p...

TT33 Tokarev at the BackUp Gun Match

My holster and mag carrier in this match are made by BattleGnome Solutions in Slovenia, and available worldwide exclusively from the Polenar Tactical web store: 

https://polenartactical.com/shop/holsters/1363-tt-h...

Operation CARPETBAGGER: French Resistance No4 Enfield

During 1944, the US and UK cooperatively ran a major effort to drop arms and equipment to French Resistance forces in preparation for the Allied landings in France. It began as Operation Carpetbagger with night drops from B24 Liberators in January 1944, and escalated into the summer. Eventually a number of massive daytime dro...

Announcing Clockwork Basilisk: Headstamp's Fifth Book (ad-free)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/clockwork-basilisk?ref=an0msv

I am very excited to announce today the launch of Headstamp Publishing's fifth book, Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of...

Scotland's Only WW2 Military Firearm: Albion Motors No2 MkI** Revolver (ad-free)

One of the lessons the British military took from the Great War was that without extensive training and practice, most people were not very effective with a large-bore revolver. So in 1922, they undertook a program (via Webley) to develop a smaller sidearm that could be used with much less training. The result was the Revolve...

S&W Pinto: The Wide World of Collecting (Ad-free)

“Pinto” is a name given to a specific sort of Smith & Wesson revolver by collectors. It refers to guns - typically J-, K-, and N-frame revolvers but all some semiauto pistols - produced with a mix of blued and nickeled parts. The name derives from the Pinto horse, which has patches of white and color. The guns were ge...

A Very Rare Confederate Columbus Armory Carbine (Ad-free)

Carbines made by the Columbus Armory are particularly scarce, and their history is not really well understood. They were manufactured by John Gray of Columbus SC, whose brother William Gray was a partner in another (better documented) Georgia arms factory under the director of J.P. Murray. John Gray appear to have started pro...

Short-Notice Q&A! (CLOSED)

*** Question window is closed - I recorded the video this morning. ***

I am driving home tomorrow from Desert Brutality, and realized it would be a fine time to record a long-form, multi-question Q&A. So, what would you like to ask? Please keep in mind that I don't have any reference material or research time before...

Leningrad's Emergency-Production PPS-42 at the Range (Ad-free)

Yesterday we looked at the history of the PPS-42 and how it was developed into the much more common PPS-43. Today we are taking it out to the range - the only time one of these very scarce gun has been filmed in recent history.

Born in the Heart of Besieged Leningrad: the PPS-42 (Ad-free)

One would think that the Shpagin PPSh-41 was as simple as a submachine gun could get, but that wasn’t the case in World War Two USSR. Barely had the PPSh gotten into real production than the Army was looking for something even simpler. An answer came from young designer Aleksey Sudaev with a completely-stamped gun that used...

The Added Safety on German Inter-War SMGs (Ad-free)

Police in inter-war Germany used a variety of submachine guns, and sometimes added a distinctive extra safety mechanism to them. No patent or documentation ha been uncovered (that I am aware of, anyway), but the exact same device is found on gun from the MP18,I through the MP40, including the MP35, MP28,II, and Erma EMPs like...