Slow motion
Shooting an MP-40 (Video)
Just a bit of shooting with an MP40 at an indoor range, courtesy of Hill & Mac Gunworks.
Machine Guns
Gunsmithing
Vintage Saturday: Machine Tools
Schwarzlose machine gun in the Danish Schutz & Larsen factory, 1941. Known for sporting rifles, S&L also subcontracted for Bergmann making submachine gun and light machine gun parts. This photo suggests that they repaired other […]
Aircraft MGs
Vintage Saturday: Turret Gunner Training
US gunner with a training weapon, a Browning Auto-5 or Remington Model 11 set up to emulate flexible-mount .50 caliber M2 Browning. The rear sight is not visible, but note the elevated front sight, the […]
Light MGs
Vintage Saturday: Anti-Aircraft Lewis
The wheel is for fast and easy traverse. The Lewis gun adapter allows it to be mounted on a Vickers tripod, and it’s mounted backwards to allow flexible elevation (you could do that with the […]
Manual machine guns
Puckle Gun (Video)
The Puckle Gun is probably best known as that thing that had round bullets for Christians and square bullets for Turks, but there is much more to it than just that (and in addition, the […]
Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: Early WWI Machine Gun Emplacement
I don’t have a date or location for this photo, but it is clearly quite early in the Great War. Note the nice pickelhaube covers and the big shields on the MG08s. Those shields would […]
Aircraft MGs
Slow Motion: M134 Minigun (Video)
Following up to yesterday’s look at the history and (partial) disassembly of a GE M134 Minigun, today we will check it out in slow motion. I filmed these high-speed shots, but there was so much […]
Aircraft MGs
M134 Minigun: The Modern Gatling Gun (Video)
The General Electric M134 “Minigun” is essentially an electrically-powered Gatling gun – the conceptual operation of the gun is identical to Dr. Gatling’s original creation. What has changed, however, is the chambering (it’s in 7.62 […]
Heavy MGs
Vickers Heavy Machine Gun (Video)
The Vickers is quite simply the best heavy machine gun ever made.
Semiauto Rifles
Vintage Saturday: More Spoils
German soldiers with captured American small arms, circa 1944. The other guy’s stuff is always better than yours, right? Well, I would rather have an M1 than a K98k, but the Thompsons? No thanks. Interesting […]