Light MGs
Vintage Saturday: Kiwi Rambo
Since we were just looking at Bren drums yesterday, here’s a New Zealand trooper in the desert somewhere with a pair of them…
Light MGs
Accessories
Shooting a Bren 100-Round Drum
A friend of mine went to a local machine gun shoot recently, and came back with some footage of a pair of Bren guns being fired with a 100-round drum magazine. These drums were designed […]
Light MGs
Dutch Bren Manual
Dutch forces during and well after World War II used the excellent Bren LMG (and the Dutch Artillerie-Inrichtingen factory at Hembrug made Bren parts as well). So, it should come as no surprise that they would […]
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Vintage Saturday: Maritime Gunnery
Sailor mounting an antiaircraft Hotchkiss Portative machine gun on the Canadian corvette Trillium.
Book review
Book Review: Testing the War Weapons
I was pretty excited to dig into Tim Mullin’s Testing The War Weapons when I first got a copy of it, having already read his book on SMGs, shotguns, and machine pistols cover to cover. I […]
Competition
2-Gun Match: Chinese 7.62x39mm Bren
Thanks to the folks at SMG Guns in Texas, I just got my completed semiauto Bren gun in 7.62x39mm. What the best way to break it in? Take it to a run-n-gun match, of course! […]
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M1918 BAR – First Variant Photos
The Browning Automatic Rifle, or BAR, was a staple of American infantry forces through WWII and the Korean War, and has an outstanding reputation today. The gun was originally developed in 1917 and first fielded […]
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Vintage Saturday: Desert Watch
British soldiers manning a post somewhere in Palestine. The Lewis gunner is adjusting his sights, while his A-gunner is ready with a new magazine. Three men in the background looking at something else, and using […]
Light MGs
John Inglis and Bren Production
If I say “John Inglis”, the first two things that probably come to mind for a gunnie are High Powers and Bren guns. Inglis was a Canadian company that made a huge proportion of the […]
Book review
Book Review: Honour Bound – The Chauchat Machine Rifle
I’ve discussed the much-maligned CSRG machine rifle (the Chauchat) previously – it was not the utter disaster that common knowledge would lead you to believe. You won’t find much literature on the Chauchat, but fortunately […]