Light MGs - Forgotten Weapons

Vintage Saturday: Shooting Rest

August 16, 2014 Ian McCollum 20

MG-30

August 12, 2014 Ian McCollum 51

by Tom Laemlein Lost in the shuffle of Germany’s automatic weapons of the World War II era is the Louis Stange-designed MG 30. Rejected by the Reichswehr, the MG 30 ended up in licensed production […]

Beardmore-Farquhar Photos

August 5, 2014 Ian McCollum 12

Courtesy of the UK Ministry of Defense, we have a bunch of photos of a 1920 model Beardmore-Farquhar light machine gun:

Type 11 Nambu LMG Disassembly (Video)

August 4, 2014 Ian McCollum 25

Thanks to the hospitality of the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, we had a chance to examine and disassemble a Japanese Type 11 light machine gun. This is, of course, the very unusual hopper-fed […]

Vintage Saturday: Cold

July 26, 2014 Ian McCollum 16

Finnish soldier with an LS-26 light machine gun, 1940.

Ohio Ordnance M1918A3 Semiauto BAR (Video)

July 14, 2014 Ian McCollum 20

I’ve written a fair amount about the BAR, so I won’t belabor the point here – if you would like more to read, check out my general history of the BAR and comparison between the […]

Vintage Saturday: Deadly Beard

June 7, 2014 Ian McCollum 29

Momčilo Đujić, Chetnik commander during WWII – armed with a Yugoslav-contract ZB-30J light machine gun. (photo from Last Stand on Zombie Island)

Chain Mail for Machine Gunners

June 4, 2014 Ian McCollum 21

Chain mail appeared in a couple different forms during World War I – the most well-known is probably the mail facemasks developed for tank crews. These were intended to protect crew members from steel shards […]

BAR Comparison: M1918 vs M1918A2

June 3, 2014 Ian McCollum 87

I was doing some reading up on the BAR, and some shooting with a semiauto Ohio Ordnance Works A3 model BAR recently, in addition to the recent 2-gun match we did with it. I got […]

Vintage Saturday: Far From Home II

May 31, 2014 Ian McCollum 46

Senegalese Free French soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, armed with a British Bren and an American 1903 Springfield. The helmets are American ones, emblazoned with the anchor emblem of the French […]