Crude Copies
The Worst AK Build I Have Ever Seen, Bar None
This AK was purchased by someone I know, and it is so utterly awful that I just had to put it on camera. I’m obscured the name of the shop that did the build because […]
Select-fire Rifles
Select-fire Rifles
FAMAS G2: The French Navy Updates its Bullpup
The FAMAS rifle was originally adopted for use with 55 grain ammunition, with a 1:12 inch rifling twist rate and, of course, a proprietary 25-round magazine. This was the F1 pattern. Further development of the […]
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Exploring the Details of an E.M.2 with Jonathan Ferguson
Join the Kickstarter campaign and preorder your copy of Jonathan’s “Thorneycroft to SA80: British Bullpup Firearms 1901 – 2020”! Sorry for the poor audio quality – I am back at the Cody Firearms Museum talking […]
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The EM2 in NATO Trials, with Jonathan Ferguson
Join the Kickstarter campaign and preorder your copy of Jonathan’s “Thorneycroft to SA80: British Bullpup Firearms 1901 – 2020”! Sorry for the poor audio quality – I am back at the Cody Firearms Museum talking […]
Select-fire Rifles
Archival E.M.2 Footage: Slow Motion and Janson Doing Mag Dumps
Thanks to Jonathan Ferguson and Royal Armouries Archivist Philip Abbott, we have a compilation of some archival video of the E.M. 2 testing circa 1951/1952. This is mostly high speed video clips showing reliability testing, […]
Select-fire Rifles
H&K’s Middle Child: The HK33 and HK53 in 5.56mm
Introduced in 1968, the HK33 was Heckler & Koch’s adaptation of their roller-delay operating system to the 5.56mm / .223 Remington cartridge. In addition to the standard full-length rifle (with a 15.35 inch barrel) a […]
Conversion
Forced-Air Cooling in an Experimental Ross Machine Gun
In addition to building three main patterns of straight-pull bolt action rifle for the Canadian military and the commercial market, Sir Charles Ross also experimented with self-loading rifles. Starting with a standard Ross Mk III, […]
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The Prototype .280 FAL from 1950s NATO Trials
After World War Two, the new NATO defense alliance held a series of trials to adopt a standard cartridge and infantry rifle. This would eventually devolve and the goal of a standardized rifle would be […]
Select-fire Rifles
The FAL for British Troop Trials in 1954: X8E1 & X8E2
The NATO rifle trials of the early 1950s eventually chose the 7.62mm x 51mm cartridge, and the British and Belgians agreed on the FAL rifle to shoot it (and they thought the US would as […]
Select-fire Rifles
Beretta 57: Italy Makes a .30 Carbine SMG for Morocco
The Model 57 is a select-fire carbine made by Beretta around the .30 Carbine cartridge. It uses a newly designed magazine much more durable that the American M1/M2 Carbine magazines, and has a tilting bolt […]