9 Great “Forgotten Weapons” Videos

Some of our favorite “Forgotten Weapons” videos. We think you’ll love them too.

Nomar M1911 Magazine-Stock

A huge, heavy, high-cap 1911 magazine that acts as a stabilizing brace? Yes, please.

A Most Unusual Over/Under Shotgun

This French scattergun loads from the side and has a two-piece forend that doesn’t cover the bottom of the bottom barrel and a butt stock that comes right off.

A 6-Chamber Revolver That Fires 12 Times

You can stoke this wheel gun once, then fire it a dozen times before you have to start over. But be careful.

1908 Italian Bolt-to-Semi-Auto Conversion on M91 Carcano

Oh, just an experimental conversion that turned a bolt-action rifle into a semi-auto. Sweet!

Semi-Auto “Mystery Pistol”

A 32 ACP “rocking block” pistol that’s like nothing else you’ve ever seen.

It’s a Pistol, it’s a Key

For opening a lock or trying to stop a belligerent prisoner, I guess.

Norwegian 1846 Postførerverge Knife-Pistol?

A double-barreled muzzleloading pistol with one hell of a knife blade between the barrels.

44 Caliber Hump-Back Zig-Zag Revolver

Exceedingly funky and completely unmarked, as if its inventor was embarrassed to have made it.

Super-Powerful Mars Pistols From the Early 1900s

“A phenomenally powerful and ridiculously complex handgun.”

Russ Chastain

Editor & Contributing Writer Russ Chastain is a lifelong hunter and shooter who has spent his life learning about hunting, shooting, guns, ammunition, gunsmithing, reloading, and bullet casting. He started toting his own gun in the woods at age nine and he's pursued deer with rifles since 1982, so his hunting knowledge has been growing for more than three and a half decades. His desire and ability to share this knowledge with others has also grown, and Russ has been professionally writing and editing original hunting & shooting content since 1998. Russ Chastain has a passion for sharing accurate, honest, interesting hunting & shooting knowledge and stories with people of all skill levels.