Colt Autos

 Coltautos.com is the website for all collectors of Colt Automatic Pistols. This site has served collectors since 1996 and includes both general and specific information on most pre-WWII Colt Automatic Firearms Models. Here you will find Photos and identification, historical information, firearms serial number and date of production information along with disassembly instructions, parts diagrams and original factory instruction sheets for these pistols.

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Forgotten Weapons

The Forgotten Weapons team is a small group of self-described gun nuts. We are passionate about firearm design, manufacture, and history. We travel the world studying rare firearms, and we would like to share our passion with anyone else who shares it.

We believe that one of the best things that can be done to improve the community of technical firearms enthusiasts is to make information as freely available as possible. Most information about firearms development remains on paper and microfilm in inaccessible collections. We want to publish as much as we can, to prevent this information from being lost forever. So, we created this site to be a repository for everything we can unearth – trials reports, details photographs, original manuals, and more. It is all available completely free of charge, and will always remain that way.

While information is valuable for its own sake, we at Forgotten Weapons are more than archivists. We are also manufacturers, and we build new museum-quality replicas of the weapons we research. Our passion is for the guns themselves, not mass production – so we only produce limited numbers of each item. In addition to complete guns, we also have various unique reproduction parts available in our store. We want to be able to own and shoot some of these lost treasures, and we offer that possibility to you too.

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Nylon Rifles

Nylon Guns
Several years ago Mac66 set out to find information about the Remington Nylon Rifles on the web. Since he happened to acquire several of these guns and was intrigued by their design and history he wanted to get as much info as he could as far as how to care for them, repairs and any other tips and tricks that would help with these plastic guns. What he found was a very scattered hodge-podge of information that many times seemed to counterdict itself. As Mac66 dug deeper he discovered that there were many other collectors and enthusiasts out there that were also searching for details on these rifles.
In August of 2001, Mac66 set up the NylonRifles group on Yahoo Groups  to collect and share information about these Remington Nylons with others. Over the nearly 6 years and several hundred members the group collected a great amount of information including articles, literature, repair guides, service manuals and photos. The discussions there benefitted the whole Nylon Rifle community and the sharing of stories and knowledge helped to gain a better appreciation for these plastic guns and better understanding of the history behind them. With this vast amount of information and the limitations of the Yahoo groups it became apparent that the Nylon Rifle and the community that had been built around it needed a proper home on the web.
In April of 2007 Mac66 enlisted the help of LouieMacGoo to help develop a website that would properly host the NylonRifle community as well as provide a place that the information that had been collected could be stored and be easily searchable On May 1, 2007 we opened up the forums on this website followed shortly after by the articles and other parts of the site.
Since both Mac66 and LouieMacGoo are just hobbiests and not professional web designers the site has been relatively small. But we are commited to supporting the community that we have formed here and continuing to gather and provide information about these fine Rifles.
The best and most active part of the site for getting information and sharing is the forum and we encourage you to join and share your stories about these fine rifles.

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Equipped to Survive

Equipped to Survive  is the go-to place for information on survival equipment & supplies, outdoors & camping gear & survival techniques and skills - aviation, marine, wilderness, SAR, EMT, water & urban survival.

It bills itself as "The Definitive Source for Independent Reviews & Information
on Outdoors Gear and Survival Equipment and Techniques" and I have no reason to doubt it. It is very comprehensive.

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Toolguyd: that's what it is!

Toolguyd is a tool blog that focuses on new tool previews, hands-on reviews, industry news, tool guides and occasional DIY projects. There are a lot of things relevant to survival and every day carry (EDC) items, and a lot of general tool and usage information.

There is an RSS feed if you want to keep up with thing automatically.


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Resilience

Resilience.org is both an information clearinghouse and a network of action-oriented groups. It has roots in systems theory, and it has a variety of interpretations and applications including for ecosystems management, disaster preparedness, and even community planning Our focus is on building community resilience in a world of multiple emerging challenges: the decline of cheap energy, the depletion of critical resources like water, complex environmental crises like climate change and biodiversity loss, and the social and economic issues which are linked to these. We like to think of the site as a community library with space to read and think, but also as a vibrant café in which to meet people, discuss ideas and projects, and pick up and share tips on how to build the resilience of your community, your household, or yourself.

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Vintage Wodworking Machinery

Vintage Wodworking Machinery was founded as a public service to amateurs and professionals who enjoy using and/or restoring vintage machinery. Our main mission is to provide information about vintage machinery that is generally difficult to locate. This is accomplished primarily through contributions of the users of this site.  Many people have graciously contributed documentation of old woodworking machinery that is in their personal collections to this site so that others can share in its use.

It has a large database of manuals and photos of old machines. Chances are, if your machine is from a well known manufacturer or even a lesser known extinct manufacturer , you’ll be able to find the manual for it there. They have a very active discussion forum full of people who love nothing more than their old tools and helping people get these machines going. The archive has 10 years of collected wisdom, and if you can't find what you need, just ask.. You’ll probably get a quick answer. 

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The Homestead Survival

The Homestead Survival Has a lot of excellent articles and some well-chosen things for sale. They have only been around a few years but thier sire is worth visiting and they will send you a daily email with all the newest articles if you want to sign up.

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Four Thousand Free Survival Books

4,000 FREE how-to survival books, sorted and categorized, PDF format.

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The National Firearms Museum

The Nation Firearms Museum is home to the finest firearms collection in the world. Through 15 galleries spanning more than six centuries, this spectacular showcase offers the unique opportunity to view some of America's most significant firearm treasures.

The 2,700 guns displayed here are either on exhibit at the NRA National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia, or at the NRA National Sporting Arms Museum in Springfield, Missouri. Simply click through the galleries and cases or search the database to find a specific firearm. Selecting one will bring up multiple views of the gun, along with information such as make, model, caliber, action type, ignition and era. Related content, such as videos or articles, are also featured as available.

This website is designed with gun collectors, enthusiasts and scholars in mind - a powerful research tool with an extensive, searchable database.

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