Today is my last chance to take the Halo M90 out for a fun day at the range…so why not make it the worst possible application for this sort of shotgun? The post Skeet with the M90 Shotgun From Halo (What Could Go Wrong?) first appeared on Forgotten Weapons ..read more

Get Entered to WIN this incredible fully functional Halo M90 Shotgun! https://go.getenteredtowin.com/forgottenweapons DEADLINE to ENTER is 03/29/24 @ 11:59pm (PST). When I posted some video of the real-life Halo M90 shotgun, one of the most common questions I got was, “why don’t we have top-loading shotguns like that?” Well, it’s an intriguing question…so let’s see if we can find the answer. The post Why Don’t We Have Top-Loading Shotguns? first appeared on Forgotten Weapons ..read more

https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/usas-12-at-the-range-w-the-fun-switch The USAS-12, made by Daewoo in South Korea, is one of the better box-fed shotguns available (I use that term loosely; there are not that many of them around). It was available as both a semiauto and a fully automatic model – although the semiautos were arbitrarily defined as Destructive Devices in 1994, and must now be registered as such. The fully automatic ones were already registered and were not impacted by that rule. While I have shot a semiauto USAS-12 before, I’ve not had the chance to try the full auto one…unt ..read more

Thanks to Nathan Frisque for loaning us this very cool project to film – a very merry Christmas to him and to all of you watching! If you haven’t caught on, this is a real-life recreation of the M90A CAWS shotgun from the Halo series of video games… The post M90A Close Assault Weapons System Prototype first appeared on Forgotten Weapons ..read more

https://youtu.be/zoRFnt0HZiA During the Croatian Homeland War – as in all wars of independence – a wide variety of cobbled-together firearms were used by people who could not access proper factory arms for one reason or another. Today I’m as the Sisal Municipal Museum looking at four different examples from specifically the Sisal area in Croatia. Two are 16ga shotguns (16ga was more common there than the 12ga we are used to in the US), one is a classic Enfield “Obrez”, and one is a neat hybrid of a Yugoslav M70 AK onto a single shot break action frame. Thanks to the Sisak Municipal Museum for ..read more

Get Entered to WIN this original 1897 Trench Gun! https://go.getenteredtowin.com/forgottenweapons DEADLINE to ENTER is 09/29/23 @ 11:59pm (PST). We’ve all heard about how the Winchester 1897 is capable of slam fire, but is that really a useful feature? Or is it just a cost-saving safety hazard? Well, Matt Haught of Sym-Tac consulting and I are at the range today to find out… The post Testing Slamfire: Sneaky Advantage or Useless Hype? first appeared on Forgotten Weapons ..read more

Get Entered to WIN this original 1897 Trench Gun! https://go.getenteredtowin.com/forgottenweapons DEADLINE to ENTER is 09/29/23 @ 11:59pm (PST). Authentic World War One 1897 trench guns will have: Serial number between E613,000 and E705,000 High quality rust blue finish Solid frame 20-inch cylinder bore barrel (with no bead) Muzzle in lone with bayonet lug Handguard with six rows of holes Bayonet lug with a bead sight and either “PAT APPY FOR” on the right or patent dates on the right Stock with a thin wrist, high comb, no fluting, and no stamps Hard plastic commercial buttplate Sling swivel ..read more

The United States was the only country to use shotguns in World War One in a substantial way. It was not the first time the US had used such guns either; shotguns were used in the Philippines against the Moros and on the Mexican Punitive Expedition. For use in the Great War, however, it was deemed necessary to fit bayonets to them. At the request of the War Department, the Winchester company designed a bayonet mounting adapter for their Model 1897 pump-action shotgun, to use the M1917 bayonet that Winchester was also making at the time for the war effort. Guns were first deployed to France in ..read more

All that is tactical is not necessarily new…and this shotgun is a perfect example. It was put together by a Tucson police officer in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and has all the elements of a very modern “tactical” combat shotgun. It is a Remington Model 11 semiauto shotgun (a licensed copy of the Browning Auto-5). It is fitted with a Parsons 2-round magazine extension (for a total of 7+1 capacity), a barrel from a Remington 11R (20″ cylinder choke) and a Nydar Model 47 reflex sight. That Nydar sight is a really cool example of an early optical sight, developed form aircraft gunnery sights ..read more

The Cosmi is a very high-end boutique Italian sporting shotgun. It has all the looks and lines of a single shot break-action gun, but hiding inside is a long recoil self-loading action and 8-round magazine tube. The video I have today is really only half a video – I filmed this footage back in the summer of 2015, anticipating that we would pair it with some footage at the range using the gun. However, when we got out there, we realized that we had the wrong recoil spring for the ammunition on hand, and the gun wouldn’t cycle reliably. I have not had another opportunity to film a Cosmi since ..read more