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Home2018October

Month: October 2018

Light MGs

August Coenders’ 9x19mm Belt-Fed MG

October 31, 2018 Ian McCollum 38

August Coenders was an independent arms designer in Germany. During the 1930s he spent several years working in England and at the French Puteaux Arsenal, which contributed to a general lack of trust and interest […]

Museum Review

Romagne 14-18 Museum Tour

October 30, 2018 Ian McCollum 5

Jean-Paul de Vries runs a very interesting private World War One museum in the village of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon in the Meuse region of northeastern France – the Romagne ’14-’18 Museum (in France, World War One is […]

Book review

Book Review: Desert Sniper, by Ed Nash

October 30, 2018 Ian McCollum 9

“Desert Sniper” is an autobiographical account of Ed Nash’s time fighting as a volunteer with Kurdish forces against ISIS in Syria in 2015 and 2016. Nash had been working as a volunteer with the Free […]

Artillery

Swiss Tankbuchse 41 Semiauto Antitank Rifle

October 29, 2018 Ian McCollum 30

This TB-41 antitank gun is being sold at Morphys on October 30, 2018. Originally developed for use in light tanks purchased from Czechoslovakia, the Tankbuchse 41 was a 24x139mm semiautomatic rifle designed by Adolph Furrer […]

Conversion

Schwarzlose HMG Converted to 8x57mm by Romania

October 28, 2018 Ian McCollum 32

This transferrable Schwarzlose HMG is being sold at Morphys on October 30, 2018. The Schwarzlose 07/12 was made through the wolf of World War One as the standard heavy machine gun of the Austro-Hungarian armed […]

Flintlock

Durs Egg Ferguson – A Trials Breechloader From 1776

October 27, 2018 Ian McCollum 7

This Ferguson rifle sold for $96,000. Captain Patrick Ferguson was a British officer who designed and patented a breechloading rifle in 1776, which would actually see service in the American Revolution at the Battle of […]

Submachine Guns

Ingram Model 6: Like A Thompson Without the Price Tag (Sort Of)

October 26, 2018 Ian McCollum 22

This transferrable Model 6 SMG is being sold at Morphys on October 30, 2018. Before he made a big success with the M10 (MAC-10) submachine gun, Gordon Ingram designed a couple other guns. His initial […]

Conversion

The MG 08/15 Updated Between the Wars

October 25, 2018 Ian McCollum 14

This MG08/15 is being sold by Morphys on October 30, 2018. In the aftermath of World War One, the Treaty of Versailles strictly limited the number of machine guns that the German military could keep […]

Select-fire Rifles

Colt Model 639: MACVSOG’s Vietnam Carbine

October 24, 2018 Ian McCollum 21

This two-stamp transferrable Colt 639 is being sold at Morphys on October 30, 2018. The Colt Model 639 was the export version of the Colt Model 629, which was type classified by the US military […]

Light MGs

M1909 Benet Mercie – American’s First LMG

October 23, 2018 Ian McCollum 35

This Benet-Mercie is being sold by Morphys on October 30, 2018. The first light machine gun adopted by the United States was the M1909 Benet-Mercie, made by the Hotchkiss company in France. The gun was […]

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