Submachine Guns
Stemple STG-M1A (Thompson) at the Range
The STG-M1A certainly looks and feels like a Thompson, but does it shoot like a Thompson? Let’s find out!
Machine Guns
Submachine Guns
Stemple 76/45 + Russian Lend-Lease Thompson Kit = STG-M1A
The modularity and clever design of the Stemple Takedown Gun is perhaps best illustrated by the STG-M1A and STG-1928 (these are the same gun with either a horizontal or vertical front grip). In the early […]
Competition
Full Auto Suomi in the 2021 AZ PCC Championship
The Arizona PCC (Pistol-Caliber Carbine) Championship is a 10-stage competition held every year at the Rio Salado Sportsman’s Club in Mesa, AZ. It is normally only open to semiauto carbines, but I was able to […]
Accessories
M43 Salakari: A Dynamic Assault Mount for the Finnish Maxim
The Finnish military depended heavily on Maxim machine guns until the 1960s, first using ones captured from the Russians and later starting production at Tikkakoski in the 1930s. One of the difficulties of the Maxim, […]
Competition
Suomi vs Stemple-Suomi: How Close Are They?
Yesterday we took a look at the Stemple-Suomi on the bench – today it’s time to find how similar it is in handling to the real thing! I have a Danish M41 Suomi, a Stemple-Suomi, […]
Conversion
BRP Recreates a Classic: the Stemple-Suomi
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 […]
Submachine Guns
Stemple/BRP STG-76 “Heavy Submachine Gun” at the Range
Having spent quite a long time yesterday exploring the origins of the Stemple/BRP STG-76, I figured I should take it out to the range. So, let’s see what sort of groups I can make with […]
Gunsmithing
Engineer’s Delight: Stemple 76/45 Becomes the Stemple Takedown Gun
The saga of how the original Stemple 76/45 became the Stemple Takedown Gun is a fantastic story of engineering design choices. Essentially, John Stemple began by building a rather crude copy of the Swedish K […]
Conversion
Vietnamese MAT-49 in 7.62mm Tokarev at the Range
While I have filmed a MAT-49, I have not had a chance to actually try one out at the range until today. But today I don’t just have a normal example; I have one rebarreled […]
Heavy MGs
Vickers Mk IV .50 Caliber Water-Cooled Tank Gun
Development of the .50 caliber Vickers guns began during World War One, but stagnated after 1918, and was not really completed until the early 1930s. At that point, Vickers produced a series of the guns […]