Commentary
Paean to the Vickers Gun
I may be a bit biased here by my ownership of one, but I believe that the Vickers gun is one of the best all-around firearms ever made. It was designed during an era of […]
Machine Guns
Light MGs
Vintage Saturday: Death in the Long Grass
That’s a Dutch Madsen peeking out above the grass, there. Specifically designed with long bipod legs for this sort of terrain in the East Indies. I believe the photo dates to 1941.
Medium MGs
The Best Pedal-Powered Vehicle Ever
This really has to be the most awesome pedal-powered vehicle ever built: I don’t know the background on the tricycle, but the Maxim guns are very rare air-cooled lightweight models. Like this one: Ultimately they […]
Heavy MGs
Medium MGs
Dead End: MG 39 Rh
or Louis Stange’s Forgotten Machine Gun by Leszek Erenfeicht and Jan Skramoušský The museum at the Military Historical Institute of Prague in Czech Republic has got a great many unique and experimental firearms, both of […]
Light MGs
Flapper Locking video
By request, today we’re going to look at one of the less common locking systems used in firearms design: flapper locking. The idea was first patented by a Swede named Friberg in 1870, but a […]
Heavy MGs
General Purpose MGs
Pulemet Kalashnikova
Shortly after the stamped-receiver AKM rifles went into mass production, Mikhail Kalashnikov and his bureau of technicians and engineers produced what is arguably best general-purpose machine gun in use today. It was adopted into service […]
Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: The Female of the Species
When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man, He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can. But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail. […]
Submachine Guns
Experimental Thompson Stock
Sorry, things are a bit light this week – more good stuff coming next week. For today, I have an interesting Aberdeen Proving Grounds catalog photo of an experimental stock for the Thompson SMG. Presumably […]