When the Stemple STG-76 was designed, it used internal parts from the Finnish kp/31 Suomi submachine gun. Since the whole point of the Stemple was to have a modular and interchangeable gun, it would make sense for BRP to make a version that duplicated the Suomi as closely as possible. This is especially true given that the original Suomi is an excellent SMG with readily available magazines, but very rare to find in the US today.
Bolt Action Rifles
Finnish Brutality 2021: Winter War 2-Gun with a Finnish M39 Mosin
Brought to you by Varusteleka and Sako, Finnish Brutality 2021 was run as a much-reduced private event to meet Finnish Covid-19 event size regulations. We only had three stages and 7 shooters, but the full […]
Semiauto Rifles
Demro XF-7 Wasp – An Open Bolt Semiauto From the 70s
The carbine in this video is selling at auction here. Designed by Gerry Fox in the early 1970s, this carbine saw production sequentially as the Fox Carbine, the TAC-1, and the XF-7 Wasp, as it […]
Aircraft MGs
Savage M1918 Aircraft Lewis Gun
As an open-bolt machine gun, the Lewis was not well suited to synchronization on WW1 aircraft – but it was an ideal gun for flexible mounting. To suit this use, a series of aircraft-specific Lewis variations were […]
French or Finnish, Ian is your man. Wouldn’t be surprised if he buys one of these.
I got Vietnamese CC for this video. Now I confused, as I was not excepting combining Finnish flag and U.S. flag to yield Vietnamese. Is this some elaborate allusion to Lauri Törn https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_T%C3%B6rni
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Laurie Törni lived quite a life and well worth reading about. From the Winter War to MAC SOG-V.
Taco Bell/K-car theory of design. Take a few basic ingredients and mix them up in a bunch of different ways to get different outcomes.
Now I want Tacos,
Are we sure that the bolt travel is longer in the STG? The STG plug seems to be thick enough compared to the Suomi plug to negate any advantage from the longer receiver (and possibly more than negate).