Machine Guns - Forgotten Weapons

How to Set Up Your Vickers Gun

November 29, 2013 Ian McCollum 6

Some archived footage here, of the Manchester Regiment showing us how to properly set up a Vickers gun…and how not to! The clip comes from the Museum of the Manchester Regisment, in Ashton-under-Lyne east of […]

Vintage Saturday: Night Vision

November 23, 2013 Ian McCollum 38

German SdKfz 251 “Falke” with an MG42 machine gun and IR scope and spotlight.

Vintage Saturday: Maritime Gunnery

November 16, 2013 Ian McCollum 35

Sailor mounting an antiaircraft Hotchkiss Portative machine gun on the Canadian corvette Trillium.

Vintage Saturday: Checkpoint Tommy

November 2, 2013 Ian McCollum 33

British soldier with a fancy new (unloaded) Sterling submachine gun manning a checkpoint in post-war occupied Germany.

Czech vz.61 Photos and Catalog

October 9, 2013 Ian McCollum 25

Thanks to reader Denny, we have some more information on the Czech vz.61 “Skorpion” PDW, including pages from a CZ catalog advertising three different versions of the gun for sale. These three variants are: vz.61 […]

Book Review: Testing the War Weapons

October 4, 2013 Ian McCollum 11

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 […]

Finnish M1932 Maxim Manual

September 27, 2013 Ian McCollum 13

Allow me to put on my Tikkakoski Company Sales Rep hat for a moment, and explain to you why as a modern military force (in 1933) the obvious choice in support machine guns is the […]

2-Gun Match: Chinese 7.62x39mm Bren

September 24, 2013 Ian McCollum 32

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! […]

FIAT Model 1924 Manual

September 20, 2013 Ian McCollum 13

My knowledge of Italian machine guns is rather lacking, so I was pretty excited when I received a copy of a FIAt Model 1924 manual from our friend Hrachya. However, it has really created more […]

Vintage Saturday: Join the Army, See the World

September 14, 2013 Ian McCollum 27

German soldier carrying a captured DS-39 machine gun and tripod over a pretty bleak steppe.