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Desert 2-Gun: 108 Fahrenheit With a WWSD Commando (ad-free)

In may last full-match opportunity to practice for Finnish Brutality, I brought my WWSD Commando (10.5" barrel) and an Arex Delta out (my guns for Finland are already on their way across the Atlantic). The stages today were truly awful (awfully fun!) to really push us as a last practice session. It hit about 108F by the third stage, and I think I drank about a gallon of water over the course of three stages.  

A few notes...  

In stage 2, the kettlebell was 40lb / 18kg. ...

Innovative and Interesting: Tinck Arms Perun X16 (ad-free)

Don't miss Bloke of the Range's video of the X-16:

The Tinck Arms Perun X-16 (distributed in the US by AEA Arms) is a much more interesting rifle than I expected from an initial glance. I assumed it would be just another AR-18 derivative, but the truth is much more interesting. Slovenian company Tinck Arms designed the Perun (named after a Slavic god of thunder) to be exceptionally modular - even moreso than an AR, dare I say it. It is also designed to use a lot of standard commercially...

Utreon: Good Video Hosting for Both Viewers & Creators (Audio Only)

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I have mentioned Utreon before, but I want to take a moment to do so again. The site continues to grow and improve, and it has a bunch of features that are actually better than YouTube and Patreon - something virtually no other alternative hosting site can claim.  Utreon ...

Utreon: Good Video Hosting for Both Viewers & Creators (ad-free)

https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ 

https://utreon.com 

I have mentioned Utreon before, but I want to take a moment to do so again. The site continues to grow and improve, and it has a bunch of features that are actually better than YouTube and Patreon - something virtually no other alternative hosting site can claim.  Utreon ...

Poland's Problematic First SMG: The wz.39 Mors (ad-free)

Designed by Piotr Wilniewczyca and Jan Skrzypinski starting in 1936, the Mors was Poland's first domestic SMG. Polish police forces had purchased Thompsons and Suomi in the 1920s and 1930s, but the military still had no such guns by the 1930s. One of the main inspirations for the More was the Erma EMP, which was purchased in large quantity by Poland to supply to the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War.  

At any rate, the gun was developed by the State Rifle Factory in Warsaw...

Virtual Tour of the Polish Army Museum (ad-free)

On my recent trip to Warsaw, I spent some time filming guns in the collection of the Polish Army Museum. In an effort to create something of a library of museum tours, I made sure to take some time to film a short virtual tour of the exhibits for you - note that I did this after the museum had closed, so there is nobody else in the halls.

Also note that the museum is in the process of slowly moving to a new location, so some of their exhibits are not on display (notably material form th...

Before the High Power was the FN Grand Rendement (ad-free)

The Browning High Power story begins with a French 1921 request for a new military pistol. FN engineer Dieudonné Saive developed a double stack, single feed magazine and John Browning adapted a Browning 1903 pistol to use it, and this was sent to France for consideration. This pistol worked well enough, but the French trials board requested changes...and they would continue requesting changes and more trials for the next decade.  

By 1931, FN felt that the current iteration of the...

ArcFlash Labs EMG-02 CoilGun: Making SciFi Weapons Into Reality (ad-free)

ArcFlash Labs has come out with a new coil gun design that takes the best elements of their underpowered EMG-01 and their overly bulky GR-1 Anvil and melded them into a much handier EMG-02. This new design maintains the same muzzle velocity as the Anvil (200-250 fps / 60-75 m/s) but uses smaller projectiles (5/16" armatures). It is far better handling, with the balance much improved by having a single large capacitor mounted at the rear and a battery directly under the grip. That battery is a...

L39A1: British Service Target Rifle Before the L42A1 (ad-free)

The story of the conversion of the Lee Enfield to 7.62mm NATO would not be complete without the L39A1. This is essentially the civilian competition version of what would become the L42A1. It was actually in British service as a target rifle - not intended for combat. It followed the L8 (the first British military attempts at a 7.62mm precision version of the Enfield) and the L42A1. It was basically a copy of the conversions done by civilian competition shooters in the British NRA.

Sight...

Ask Ian - What Was the Best WW2 Rifle Cartridge? (ad-free)

From crablegs21 on Utreon:

"In your opinion and in hindsight, which country had the most optimized cartridge for the their primary infantry rifle for WWII? Additionally, which country would have benefited most by switching to that cartridge prior to WWII?"

In my opinion - and I think post-war development supports this - the best rifle cartridge was 8mm Kurz (7.92x33mm). The StG-44 was never actually Germany's primary infantry rifle, but they wanted it to be. The 8mm Kurz offers mu...