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Vintage Saturday: Child Labor

January 3, 2015 Ian McCollum 45
PPD-40 submachine guns being assembled by young girls.
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Light MGs

Slow Motion: .303 Lewis Gun

January 2, 2015 Ian McCollum 30
A Lewis Gun, in .303 British, at 2000 frames per second: The Lewis Gun was developed by American Isaac Newton Lewis shortly before WWI, but the US military was not interested in it (in part […]
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Light MGs

Vintage Saturday: Yer Doin’ It Rong

December 27, 2014 Ian McCollum 12
Waffen SS soldiers investigating a captured (and disassembled) DP-28 LMG pan magazine.
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Aircraft MGs

Luftgekühltes Maschinen Gewehr 08/15 (Video)

December 22, 2014 Ian McCollum 22
I recently had a chance to do some shooting with a friend’s luftgekühltes maschinen gewehr 08/15 – the air cooled, lightened version of the German MG08 Maxim gun. These were one of the standard armaments […]
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Heavy MGs

Vintage Saturday: Legs and Wheels

December 13, 2014 Ian McCollum 18
Imperial Russian gun crew with a 1905 Maxim on an early Sokolov tripod mount.
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Aircraft MGs

Slow Motion: lMG 08/15 Maxim

December 11, 2014 Ian McCollum 16
Today we’re looking at a luftgekühlt maschinengewehr 08/15 in slow motion – a lightened and mair-cooled version of the Maxim used on German WWI aircraft. This particular example is set up as a Zeppelin gun, […]
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Manual machine guns

Reproduction Nordenfelt Gun

December 5, 2014 Ian McCollum 21
A few days ago I was at a small machine gun shoot (which wound up being a bit larger than I’d expected), and was happily surprised to discover that one of the attendees had brought […]
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Heavy MGs

Vintage Saturday: Crew-Served

November 8, 2014 Ian McCollum 35
German WWI Landwehr unit posing with an MG08.
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Light MGs

Online-Only Auction at RIA

November 7, 2014 Ian McCollum 17
It is worth pointing out the RIA has added a third type of auction in the last year or so; online-only. The idea is to have a lower-overhead way to sell some of the things […]
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General Purpose MGs

Reptilicus: Danish MGs in Action

October 19, 2014 Ian McCollum 25
Want to see more Danish machine guns (mostly Madsen LMGs, but also a couple Madsen-Saetters) in one place than you’ve ever seen before? Well, try the 1961 Danish monster flick “Reptilicus”. It’ a pretty terrible […]

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