Medium MGs
Experimental Fiat-Revelli Magazine
Apologies; we have a pretty brief post today. I’ve been moving into a new house and things got a bit hectic. At any rate, I did happen to notice this photo from Max Popenker of […]
Month: May 2015
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: Trench Armor
Interestingly, one of the German troops in the front row is wearing grabenpanzer steel armor. This was reportedly used primarily for machine gun crews and sharpshooters – soldiers whose jobs were particularly heavy on staying […]
Tour
A Brief Tour of the Rock Island Auction Company
I have been spending this past week at the Rock Island Auction Company, making a series of videos on guns that will be in their upcoming regional auction (they will start running on the site […]
Semiauto pistol
Slow Motion: Mauser 1914 Pocket Pistol
Mauser’s classic early pocket pistol began as the model 1910, in .25 ACP caliber (6.35mm). It was then re-engineered for the larger .32 ACP (7.65mm) cartridge in 1914, and a final set of modifications too […]
Semiauto Rifles
History of the Designated Marksman’s Rifle (Video)
Today Karl and I are looking at the history and evolution of the DMR concept. This is the idea of a squad force-multiplier in the form of a rifle with greater precision capability than the […]
Semiauto Rifles
The SVT-40 and Soviet Tactics
I have an SVT-40, but haven’t had a chance to really put it through the paces and do a video on it yet. So I was interested to watch when I saw that Balázs Németh […]
Flintlock
Ferguson Breechloading Flintlock (Video)
Patrick Ferguson was a British inventor and Army officer who developed a breechloading flintlock rifle in the 1770s (his patent was granted in 1776). He impressed British Army ordnance officials with a remarkable demonstration of […]
General Purpose MGs
Vintge Saturday: Holding Things Down
German soldier using his body weight to stabilize an MG34 on an anti-aircraft tripod.
garand development
Rheinmetall Model 1928
The Rheinmetall model 1928 (designed by one Karl Heinemann and made in Switzerland) was one of the rifles tested by US Ordnance in trials that eventually settled on the Garand and Pedersen designs (and ultimately […]
Semiauto pistol
Slow Motion: Interesting Extractor Problem (Schwarzlose 1898)
Many people don’t realize that an extractor is not strictly necessary in many types of pistols – several early blowback models (notably the Bergmann 1896, as well as some later Spanish pistols) did not even […]