Forgotten Weapons

Forgotten Weapons
Genre Firearms/weapons
Created by Ian McCollum
Presented by Ian McCollum
Original language(s) English
Production
Production location(s) Arizona, United States
Running time ~10-20 minutes
Release
Original network YouTube
Full30
Picture format 1080p, 720p
Original release May 13, 2011 (2011-05-13) – present
External links
Website

Forgotten Weapons is a popular website and YouTube channel that covers the history of antique, obscure and historically important[1] firearms. Presenter Ian McCollum also airs on other popular YouTube channels, including Full30 and co-hosting InRangeTV, where he competes in two gun shooting matches and talks about history with Karl Kasarda, a veteran of shooting sports.

Videos

Forgotten Weapons is pitched to feature unusual, rare, odd, experimental or one-off firearms, such as a paratroop version of the Arisaka Type 99 rifle featuring a folding stock attached to a cabinet hinge.[2] McCollum covers the history of such firearms and explains how important certain firearms were to the history of warfare.[3] He often disassembles the firearms to show how they operate and live fires them when possible.

Associations

In many of his Forgotten Weapons episodes, McCollum presents firearms at the Rock Island and James D. Julia (now renamed since its merger with Morphy) auction houses.[4] Occasionally, he visits other firearms related locations such as the Cody Firearms Museum in Cody, Wyoming, Armament Research Services (ARES), the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, UK, and the Beretta company's collection in Italy, or private collections around the world.[5] Both Forgotten Weapons and its sister youtube channel InRangeTV are now supported by the Finnish military surplus store Varusteleka, who are in turn promoted primarily by InRangeTV, usually in promoting various interesting products which Varusteleka may have to offer.

See also

References

  1. ↑ McCollum, Ian. "Forgotten Weapons: The Vickers Gun Is One of the Best Firearms Ever Made". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  2. ↑ McCollum, Ian. "Forgotten Weapons: Japan's WWII Paratrooping Rifle Was Not the Best Idea". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Gault, Matthew (October 15, 2015). "How this pre-World War One weapon changed the world". Reuters. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  4. ↑ Stakes, Justin (July 6, 2015). "Bids in Surprising Places". Ammoland Shooting Sports News. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  5. ↑ McCollum, Ian. "Forgotten Weapons". YouTube. Forgotten Weapons. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
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