Featured Ex Historiam – M1 Garand: “The Greatest Battle Implement Ever Devised” Peter Suciu August 9, 2016 In the annals of military history many weapons of war have been called revolutionary. Many…
Guns Ex Historiam: The M60 Machine Gun Recoil Staff February 17, 2016 This installment of Ex Historiam is an early educational film discussing the earliest incarnations of the…
Gear Ex Historiam: Night Vision Recoil Staff February 10, 2016 “Throughout the history of warfare, the cover of darkness has provided a tactical advantage to…
Guns Ex Historiam: Range Safety for Firearms Instructors Recoil Staff November 25, 2015 Nothing in here about addressing range artificialities, but then hopefully we’ve learned a few things…
Defense Ex Historiam – Shotgun or Sidearm? Recoil Staff October 28, 2015 Here’s a blast from the past for you. Probably not surprising that shotgun related arguments…
Featured Ex Historiam: the birth of .40 Caliber David Reeder October 21, 2015 “We need a compromise between the magazine capacity of the 9mm and the stopping power…
Guns Ex Historiam: Remington Arms, “One at a Time” Recoil Staff October 14, 2015 Here’s an interesting video from back in the day. In it you’ll hear how Remington…
Guns Ex Historiam: LA County Sheriff’s Department Range Time 1938 Recoil Staff May 10, 2013 The LA County Sheriffs Department was founded in April of 1850; the first Sheriff was…
Featured The SVT-40 – the First Soviet Semi-Automatic Rifle Peter Suciu December 18, 2016 A common saying during World War II was that the British paid in time, the…
Featured WWII Lanchester – The other Brit Subgun Peter Suciu September 25, 2016 We’ve talked before about the $10 weapon that helped save the western world, but the…
Editorial $10 STEN: The Weapon That Saved the British Peter Suciu August 21, 2016 Ex Historiam: The Sten Gun Necessity being the mother of invention, many fine weapons came…
Featured PPSh-41 – the Gun That Saved Mother Russia Peter Suciu July 24, 2016 When you conjure up the image of a Soviet soldier during World War II, chances…
