Ian McCollum | Forgotten Weapons & Reviewing Niche Historical Firearms

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[@NoNo_IStay]

Ian is a treasure chest of knowledge. I could listen to him for hrs

[@Aaron-fh6hd]

I honestly think Ian should have his own podcast.

[@SNOUPS4]

I listen to him for days, years, decades

[@farklestaxbaum4945]

The basic history of the Chinese Civil war is probably not known by 99% of the American public, but most of Ian's viewers would love a 30-60 minute summary video on it.

[@joezierden4164]

I love Ian's immense intelligence and humility. He knows allot and doesn't need to remind anyone that he does.

[@jpettit27]

Ian is great. A good host doesn’t interrupt their guest when he’s telling an interesting story.

[@Relayzy1]

Yeah really annoying.

[@aethelstanaegen36]

"That's so cool, man"

[@petesheppard1709]

Ian always makes me think more of an Old West gentleman gambler. 😎 I think what really makes his content so enjoyable is not only the vast knowledge, but his amiable and lighthearted demeanor. It is HARD to even think about disliking him!

[@sethy5136]

Funny thing is Ian looks EXACTLY like Sheriff Brady of the Lincoln County War. Look it up, theres one picture youd swear he time-traveled

[@SuperMarshall2009]

Companies in decay will often forget about reference library items and lost to the sands of time. I worked for a company that was teearing down a research building from the 1800s and they had some display pieces they left in it - including an experimental Thomas Edison x-ray tube he brought to George Eastman. literally hauled off as rubble.

[@tych88]

Ian is a saint. We must protect him at costs

[@alfredgallo4639]

Ian McCollum is my hero. He can relay such amazing information in an easy to view/listen manner. It’d be great to have Ian visit the Warehouse to comment on classic mil-surps. Well done Clint and Kaya.

[@VonRammsteyn]

Ian has a way of telling the story of guns that is so awesome that its like You are hearing a good friend. Maybe that's the thing with his channel that sets him apart from others guys that do the same... I coul listen Ian for years!

[@MaxMinXX]

Good grief, not only he's a machinist, but he is also a historian. Ian should do the next commercial for "The Most Interesting Man" Dos XX commercial.

[@ericbergfield6451]

First time ever seeing Ian in 4K resolution

[@menachem2521]

Lol, I keep on commenting on his videos that he should invest more in a camera and especially sound.

[@cundan0484]

37:50 Listening to this part i instanly remembered the rifle Ian showed long ago. It was a burnt Arisaka that had a handprint where the Japanese soldier gripped the rifle when he died from a flamethrower blast

[@BingBongFYaLife]

A great video of a decent main host with some prep of the guest, a cohost who didn’t prep at all, and a guest who’s very nice and patient

[@terry7907]

Too much of the host talking, and not enough of the guest talking.

[@howlingcommando9400]

Probably my favorite podcast from yall so far, thank you.

[@rockerwola]

The amount of knowledge this wonderful man has in his head, which he is able to share and transmit to all interested parties, is stunning. I adore him.

[@markmiller9894]

CLASSIC FIREARMS SUCKS!!!!!!!! sold me a pistol that looked nothing like the photo in their ad. Clearly damaged, customer service told me well they all look like that. I told them the photo in their ad didn't have the damage the one they sent me did. Ian your great !

[@Ben.....]

Lol

[@niekbeentjes8849]

The contrast between Ian and especially the turkish guy is so obvious. Love how humble Ian is.

[@jmmartin7766]

When I'm "researching" firearms-related material, the two resources I begin with are Ian's "Forgotten Weapons" and Chris of "Small Arms Solutions" - Both men have encyclopedic information in their heads, alone... Side note: I think Ian looks like a younger "Bill Cody," but that time he "used his 'Gun Jesus' powers" to stop the rain for "9-Hole Reviews" was just hilarious! 😆

[@Amil.C]

Ian is the only reason I'm here

[@DestindKnee]

Not a fan of male ponytails 😒

[@damien1090]

More of Ian please!

[@RonJohn63]

If the word "cool" was suddenly banished from the world, half of Clint's word count would vanish.

[@powerg3824]

Cool and dude

[@MexicanMilitaryFirearms]

Indeed, Ian is a living treasure. It was a great pleasure submitting some material for his Mendoza gun video back in Aug 2022.

[@instantdebris]

They switched the Mauser to Wumbo!

[@gunfighterman1-5]

Ian is a national treasure, just a wealth of knowledge. Period.

[@darklyripley6138]

Not really. A lot of videos he does is stuff he doesn’t actually know. Especially his older stuff. It used to be where he would just see something interesting, someone would explain the brief history of it, and he would parrot it on video. He’s also really disrespectful in person.

[@gunfighterman1-5]

@@darklyripley6138 BS. I've met him in person and he is a VERY humble man with a depth of knowledge in firearms history. STOP RUNNING YOUR PIE HOLE unless YOU KNOW WTF YOUR TALKING ABOUT. PERIOD. YOUR so full of SHIT.

[@darklyripley6138]

@@gunfighterman1-5 The fact you had such an emotional reaction says you’re lying. I have met him before, and he was rude and ignored people every single time. People were coming up to him, trying to talk to him and he acted like he didn’t even want to be there. He also made fun of a few people while they were doing their runs(this was at a comp). As for his knowledge. He certainly knows a lot. But anyone in the know will tell you that Ian is not as knowledgeable as people think. A lot of his older stuff was him parroting what other people told him 15 minutes prior. This isn’t a secret either.

[@gunfighterman1-5]

@@darklyripley6138 again, your full of shit AND yourself. How do you know who know who've I met and haven't Mr. Knowitall ? The eve I met him he was VERY receptive to not only me but to others. YES I get emotional when people feed a bunch of BS on social media especially when they don't know what they're talking about. And DO NOT call me a liar behind a damn screen keyboard commando. Say it to my face so we can "discuss" it like REAL MEN would do.

[@gunfighterman1-5]

@@darklyripley6138 get over yourself

[@SconedColdSober]

Ian has been 40 years old for 20 years

[@spokanesurvivaltrainingand5797]

This is my favorite podcast you have ever done. There is only 5 podcasts that Ian has done that I'm aware of on Spotify and this one is better

[@feldweible]

Ian is certainly one of the "Gun Tubers" that I trust implicitly. A veritable BOOTH of information!

[@Scott079]

Clint needs to have Mishaco on the podcast, between him and Ian, they are literally the encyclopedia of guns

[@24kachina]

Clint is an ignoramus.

[@fattywithafirearm]

Several years ago. I bought a chinese warlord 1900 from Cabelas for 100. So when Ian McCollum came out with his boom I bought it and the book Arming the Dragon

[@smokaFnJ]

What a smart & decent guy! I enjoyed this vid- thanks again fellas!

[@stevenbarnes3116]

What a legend ❤

[@quattroconcept4]

Gun Jesus himself just blessed this two gentlemen with his mere presence.

[@MikeNepo]

For those interested, Ian's big tangent about the multi-barrel and flechette guns was a decades-lasting (arguably still ongoing) series of US projects known as the Special Purpose Individual Weapon. 1:07:45 He's referring to the Olin/Winchester SALVO Rifle Prototype, it is literally two T48s (American produced FAL) welded together, with opposite facing ejection ports and charging handles. SALVO also included a .22 LR minigun IIRC. 1:08:46 As far as Duplex/Triplex, the most obvious case I know of is the absolutely WILD 1964 entry by H&R into project NIBLICK, the next iteration of SALVO which also incorporated multi-shot grenade launchers on each design (yes that is absolutely insane and yes each entry weighed a ton). The rifle was designed by David Dardick, who invented the first polymer-cased cartridge that was a rounded triangle in shape, so it was known as the Dardick Tround. It used a gear mechanism powered by the gas of the cartridge (see his commercial "revolver" designs to open up that can of worms) which would cycle the trounds using the teeth of the gear. Well, NIBLICK wanted fire rates over 1000 RPM (again, yes, the ordnance dept was absolutely fucking insane) and the design seemed to only fire at about 400 RPM. So what did they do? They put 3 flechettes in one tround, and now this 25 lb behemoth of 1960s plastic and metal (including using blue painters tape as a belt for the trounds and a charging handle that was literally a black painted wooden dowel rod, I shit you not) had 3 barrels and a removable, under barrel, 3-shot 40mm launcher. Turns out, in order to feed the trounds, the rifle had an open chamber. Well, a few shots into testing the ordinance dept declared it unsafe. Not sure exactly what happened, but it clearly scared the absolute shit out of them, and I totally understand. I handled one (I know it's not the ONLY one, as it had a serial number of 4 and there's at least one other example at the Springfield Armory Museum which is missing its charging handle) at the West Point Museum, at it will 100% be the coolest gun I will ever handle ever. I hope Ian gets to cover it one day, because holy hell, it was just unbelievably bizarre. The second, much less insane example I know of is the Colt entry to the Adaptive Combat Rifle program, which was essentially the late 80s follow up to NIBLICK and the Future Weapons program of the 60s. It was ostensibly an M16 that fired 2 5.56s at a time, operating just like Ian said at 1:08:42. As far as just general flechettes, many examples were spread across all the projects. The most notable examples I haven't mentioned yet were the original 12 gauge and .308 flechette rounds (no special gun designs for them) that started off SALVO, Springfield Armory (a really neat little bullpup rifle that had a rotary, 4-position dial selector that I also got to handle) and Winchester's NIBLICK prototypes (got to handle what I'm pretty sure is the same one Ian covered in his video), the multiple iterations of AAI's Future Weapons Program rifles, and both AAI and Steyr's prototypes for the ACR program. While the likes of SALVO, NIBLICK, the Future Weapons Program were pretty insane, they had a surprisingly lasting impact. SALVO actually got the AR-15 adopted, as the more controllable, lightweight rifle was definitely giving a higher hit probability over the M14. The US Army worked with H&K in the late 90s/early 2000s to develop the XM-29 OICW (oh yeah BTW the G11 was tested in the ACR program too). Daewoo would make a copy of it with the K11, and H&K would end up splitting the rifle into the XM-8 and XM-25. It's also pretty funny to mention that Textron's (AAI) recent NGSW rifle entry was essentially an un-bullpupped Steyr ACR on the inside. AAI, you think we didn't notice you copying your competitor's early 90s homework, but we did. Rant over, I just adore the entire goofy saga that was the SPIWs. Really hope Ian gets to cover more of them in the future.

[@MrSabram07]

Gun Jesus, I have been watching this guy since before I could remember

[@richardgordon2581]

Ian is awesome! I've watched several episodes of Forgotten Weapons...very cool and informative.

[@ianray8823]

OH YEAHHH WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE

[@Relayzy1]

OMG 😂 i love Ian's sense of humor

[@sandgroper1970]

I have watched Ian’s channel Forgotten Weapons for several years now. I have found it interesting, and learned a lot.

[@Anonymous-ks8el]

The SAR-21 video released in January 2013, in October 2013 Battlefield 4 released, it had the SAR-21 and it's kind of popular in the game Definitely contributed to that video spiking up in views

[@Rileysworld727]

I loved this podcast yall were trying so hard not to completely fan girl during the whole interview.

[@BillDay]

Brilliant interview. I really appreciated the discussion on Chinese warlord pistols, I’ve looked at that book online but not “gotten it” until he explained it here. Now I need a copy!

[@coreycarou812]

Great interview!

[@TimRobertsen]

Ian is so chill

[@wittsullivan8130]

Back in the day, the Russians got ahold of various electronic devices, like calculators, that had Texas Instruments chips. They did their best to copy the chips as much as they could, but Russian chip manufacturing being what it was, the chips were three times larger, including the TI logo and model numbers stamped on the chip. They thought the markings had something to do with the chips' performance.

[@darenf973]

I think the way Ian describes guns and their usage in combat is mesmerizing. If I met him as an opponent on the battlefield, he would probably kill me by first describing the weapon he was using, then by knocking me unconscious as I sat Indian-style at his feet, fascinated by his eloquence.

[@desperado8605]

I'm not much for long videos but this was too short lol. I could watch and listen to Ian all day

[@WhatIfBrigade]

Companies with collections of historically interesting things should create an Emeritus position where retirees can research and publish information about old projects. Put it in the marketing budget.

[@texaspatriot9159]

Amazing podcast 👏

[@ibfubar]

A museum near where I live, has mannequins dressed to represent soldiers from different wars. The Span Am soldier is armed with an 03 Springfield. I told them about it and they said they would correct it. Ten years later, it’s still the same.

[@vortimer2351]

The Emperor in the book is basically a Hirohito or Tiberius figure, rather than the Sith mastermind we came to know. The ESB and TROJ novelizations are a good example of how not to write a film of a book! I have a habit of picking up original SW paperbacks when I see them in charity shops; like you, I was a reader kid hungering for SW, and the moment saw my first copy on the church jumble sale table in the late 70's..... Long since fell apart.

[@bobblankenship9544]

Had seen several shows. But since you mentioned his sight on KZbin have been binging.

[@handlesarekindadumb]

Strange that Ian didn’t go into the Pederson device incident that started off forgotten weapons

[@scottphelps1776]

I remember the old Classic firearms with the Roman soldier holding a rifle. What sealed me as a customer was when I ordered USGI M16 mags. The order took a while and I got a call explaining that their stock had gotten wet and they had rusted. The guy took some out of his Personnal collection and shipped them yo me rather than cancelling the order.

[@JR-N-TX]

Who the hell is more dapper than Ian?

[@zac2384]

Nobody

[@lambman1999]

At Cancon they had the carbon research guys there, Clint you would’ve been proud with the 20 minute podcast interview I did with him, I unfortunately didn’t record it lol. The .22 can feels like nothing in hand, also the 9mm can we ran 20 rounds through it and it was warm to the touch - you could hold it after many rounds rapid fire. Also come to CANCON this year! It’s not far from South Carolina

[@briand5170]

Need to see Ian on more podcasts

[@WestSideGorilla1980]

Most guys that I know-knew that are serious collectors about 100 guns is the start of a good collection.

[@CounterT007]

Ian is the Yoda of guns

[@RobertGalin-dw3nj]

Love the one stuff.

[@dylanmaier3055]

Ian was my first foray into firearms.

[@Brass_Monkey]

you got the ZF-44 thing when referring to a rifle because it's a German scope.

[@dalegriffy7300]

Very informative!!

[@SuperVeeZee]

Ian - *Mentions weird Russian bullpup* Me - *Googles TKB-059* Me again - "What in the fuck"

[@ukriroutalempi5124]

Suomi Mainittu!

[@nickkennedy9034]

32:38 Okay so this is going to be a bit of a stretch to explain why a pistol is referred to sometimes as a revolver so bear with me. In European contexts the term pistol can mean two things colloquially 1. self-loading handgun and 2. a pistol grip sword. The word revolver is also just a blanket term to refer to handguns generally. You see this in legal texts like the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Princip's browning 1910 pocket pistol is referred to as a revolver. When English makes its way over to Asia they are more likely to learn English from non-americans and that means that the term revolver would become the blanket term for a handgun. 7.62x25mm Tokarev is within 0.08" of .38 caliber and revolver is already just a blanket term so they probably just had the English placard already made prior to the Tokarev and just put it on it because it was easier than just going to the store and getting a new engraved placard. I am willing to chalk that up to an honest mistake done with good intentions rather than a completely wrong guess at what the handgun was.

[@coolsenjoyer]

I've also seen the revolver thing when reading about the Finnish field marshall Mannerheim. Story about his 1906-1908 expedition to East Asia during his service in the Imperial Russian army has a reference to him meeting the 13th Dala-Lama and teaching him how operate his "Browning revolver"

[@thatdudeinasuit5422]

Stealth Arms Platypus, you say? Anything with an Australia reference is an instant 10/10

[@Fraederichs]

Excellent interview.

[@jonnyh5858]

Ian’s about to do the group project himself these two don’t seem to have much to contribute 😂 About to drop $300 on books haha…the publisher Ian worked with also printed a book on UK bullpup rifles by British armory icon Jonathan Ferguson! their books are really high quality, wow

[@d.b.1176]

The Titan Sub of suppressors. Titanium on the ends and a carbon fiber tube.

[@brisbane441]

Clint, did you remember what model that Steyr was you mentioned in the beginning??

[@menachem2521]

It wasn't a Steyr in the end. It was the zk-31 an Israeli varient of the Swiss straight bolt action rifle. (Forgot the name)

[@xgford94]

10:21 “Private Collection” AKA fireplace man

[@buncer]

I’m pretty sure the legend himself has appeared in one of Ian’s videos. Fireplace man will live forever in the memory of Ian’s viewers.

[@chrislarson3206]

It's nice to see the professor taking time to speak with the special needs students.

[@ducksrgud]

Very high caliber guest!

[@Eddy-ml1lb]

What was the name of the surplus dealer they were discussing? I couldn't make out Kaya when he mentioned the name and didn't repeat it

[@nytia117]

Varusteleka in Finland. They have great stuff.

[@Eddy-ml1lb]

Thank you

[@Eddy-ml1lb]

Just wondering if ya'll knew about or have possibly seen the Firearms collection in the Smithsonian American Indian museum

[@jasonneucere8886]

good podcast

[@Terran994]

Probably the ZFK-55

[@distalradius8146]

Thats what I said too. But it was a Mauser 66.

[@timrobinson6573]

Ian is great. It's a shame that the vast majority of the rest of the gun comunity, like this channel, are the same cookie cutter bro douches. Ian not being that is a large part of his success. He doesnt do the same uninspired crap that eveyone else does.

[@davidgraflex2065]

It’s amazing how is able to obtain all that information

[@dirtycarl3461]

"Dude its got a pully in it"

[@PowermadNavigator]

Wait... booths costing 6 or 7 figures? Like... for rent for the duration of Shot Show's editions or as in merchandise latched onto them?

[@seppiya7470]

The game Battlefield 4 featuring the SAR 21 came close to a year after Ian's video on it. I wonder if that had anything to do with the spike.

[@olysean92]

Gun Jesus is a keystone to the community.

[@andrewwelham8633]

Can we get a quarterly podcast with Ian? 4 times a year, we can do this right?

[@pjbarney9580]

very cool

[@jamesbenson1809]

CF should build their own combat course to use in their product highlights 😬

[@peterbrezniak7224]

James please try the carbine at❤ Thunder Ranch

[@Mrgunsngear]

🇺🇸

[@LikeLikeLikeLikeLi]

I’m going to but a house with curtains like that. I’ve always had a crush on Marie Antoinette

[@scottshaw2143]

Nice Vest Ian.

[@thePrussian]

I won’t be able to do Finnish Brutality cuz I gotta save to move. 😢

[@alfredgallo4639]

I won’t be able to do Finnish Brutality because I’m OLD!😆

[@thePrussian]

@@alfredgallo4639 😂 I’m 54 but I won’t let my body slow me down. I’m already falling apart anyways.

[@jamesjams5085]

Dude uses cosmoline for aftershave

[@mjjcuk]

Clint - what watch is that you’re wearing…..? Nice……

[@TheKlamminator]

Gun Jesus, yes!

[@Grooove_e]

So if regular Jesus can walk on a pool of water, does that mean that Gun Jesus can walk on pool of bullets?

[@rosscowell8000]

Would love to see a Sharps as a giveaway

[@Thatisthewayipromiseyou]

Ian is the Doug Demuro of gun KZbin

[@fatguyoncat4826]

Was the rifle he thinking zfk-55?

[@WhatIfBrigade]

On machine tooling, be fair, other countries would still love to get US tooling for military weapons.