Heavy MGs
Browning M2HB .50 BMG at the Range
The Browning M2 heavy machine gun is one of the longest serving firearms in US military service, and still going strong. Let’s take this one out to the range and find out why!
Heavy MGs
Heavy MGs
Ma Deuce: The Venerable Browning M2 .50 Caliber HMG
The M2 Browning machine gun was first conceived in 1918, as a request by General John Pershing of the AEF for a large-caliber antiaircraft and antitank machine gun. John Browning scaled his M1917 water-cooled .30 […]
Heavy MGs
Italy’s WW1 Heavy Machine Gun: FIAT-Revelli Modello 1914
Italy was the first major adopter of the Maxim heavy machine gun and had several hundred by 1914 – but wanted to have a domestic design in production as well. The Italian government and military […]
Accessories
Hotchkiss 1914 Cow-Catcher Muzzle Device
I’m working on getting a Hotchkiss 1914 heavy machine gun up and running for some long range accuracy testing. It’s not quite ready yet, but I saw a very interesting effect of the WW1 muzzle […]
Artillery
All the Guns on an M4 Sherman Tank (with Nicholas Moran, the Chieftain)
Try out World of Tanks with a special bonus tank using this link! Today Nicholas Moran (the Chieftain) and I are at DriveTanks.com courtesy of Wargaming.net, to show you around a World War Two Sherman […]
Flintlock
Chambers Flintlock Machine Gun from the 1700s
Joseph Chambers invented a repeating flintlock weapon in the 1790s, and I think it is appropriate to consider it a “machine gun”. The design used a series of superposed charges in one or more barrels, […]
Conversion
Turkish Vickers: A Gun With All the Widgets!
This is Lot 1127 in the upcoming October 2019 Morphys Extraordinary auction. During World War One, the Ottoman Empire would join the war on the side of the Central Powers, in part because of a […]
Heavy MGs
John Browning vs Hiram Maxim: Patent Fight!
When John Browning designed his Model 1895 machine gun with it’s rotary-lever gas operation system, Hiram Maxim filed suit claiming patent infringement. Maxim had filed quite broad patents covering gas pistons operation, but specifically in […]
Heavy MGs
Maxim “Prototype”: The First Practical Machine Gun
Hiram Maxim was the first person to create a truly practical and functional machine gun, based on a patent he filed in 1883. He pioneered the recoil operating system – the concept of harnessing the […]
Conversion
German-Capture 1910 Russian Maxim in 8×57
This is a very interesting WW1 heavy machine gun. It is a Russian M1910 Maxim that was repaired at some point using the brass jacket from a 1905 Russian Maxim. This may have been done […]