Accessories
Suomi Noisemaker Training Magazine
No blank-firing adapter? No money for practice ammo? What you need is a wooden clicky-clacky noisemaker that locks into your Suomi!
Year: 2024
Light MGs
DSA’s Modernized Mini-RPD at the Range
Full video available at all of these sites: History of Weapons & War Patreon Playeur Floatplane Today I am at the range with one of DSA’s mini-RPDs. The RPD is a nearly 80-year-old design (doesn’t […]
Gunsmithing
Ultra-Premium S&W Performance Center Model 3566
When Smith & Wesson introduced their Model 3566 pistol for USPSA use, the company shooting team needed six of them for use at the 1994 USPSA Nationals. The Performance Center made these six guns, and […]
Uncategorized
Update: Clockwork Basilisk Books on the Way!
Want to help us cover our extra shipping costs? All of Headstamp Publishing’s books are available at: https://www.headstamppublishing.com If you have changed addresses since ordering Clockwork Basilisk, please head over to Backerkit now to update […]
Commentary
Everything Wrong with the Sniper Rifles in “Enemy at the Gates”
One of the very few blockbuster American movies about the Eastern Front in World War Two is Enemy at the Gates, a film about the Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev. The movie is based around a […]
Prototype
PT83: The Sneaky Silenced Version of Poland’s P83 Pistol
When the P-83 pistol went into production, the Polish military decided that it wanted a dedicated suppressed version of the gun, and the result was the PT-83. Thw P-83 was a 9x18mm pistol with a […]
Museum Review
Tour: Croatian Homeland War Museum Vehicle & Artillery Park
While in Croatia for filming, we stopped in at the Homeland War Museum (Muzej Domovinskog Rata) in Karlovac. Built in the preserved ruins of the “Hotel California”, it houses a small but pretty comprehensive collection […]
Artillery
Fiji in World War Two: the Momi Bay Gun Battery
When the clouds of World War Two began to loom in the 1930s, Britain decided to begin securing some of its more distant colonial outposts – places that might be of strategic importance in a […]
Single Shot Rifles
Whitneyville Rolling Block for the Montreal Riot Squad
In 1875 the Montreal City Police decided that they wanted to equip a riot squad in case of public disturbance. They initially requested funds for 50 revolvers, but this changed to 60 carbines instead, and […]
Prototype
Prototype French MAS-49 SMG in .45ACP
In the late 1940s the French developed a new suite of small arms, including a competition to replace the 7.65mm MAS-38 submachine gun with a new 9x19mm SMG. The eventual winner of this program was […]