Slow motion
All the Blammo: HK51 at the Range
Just how concussive is the HK51? And how hard is it to control? Let’s find out!
Submachine Guns
Conversion
HK51: The SAS’ Full Auto Flashbang Dispenser
The HK51 is not a gun that was ever actually produced by Heckler & Koch. It is instead a variation on the G3/HK91 originally developed by American H&K specialist Bill Fleming. He was contracted by […]
Submachine Guns
Stemple STG-M1A (Thompson) at the Range
The STG-M1A certainly looks and feels like a Thompson, but does it shoot like a Thompson? Let’s find out!
Submachine Guns
Stemple 76/45 + Russian Lend-Lease Thompson Kit = STG-M1A
The modularity and clever design of the Stemple Takedown Gun is perhaps best illustrated by the STG-M1A and STG-1928 (these are the same gun with either a horizontal or vertical front grip). In the early […]
Competition
Full Auto Suomi in the 2021 AZ PCC Championship
The Arizona PCC (Pistol-Caliber Carbine) Championship is a 10-stage competition held every year at the Rio Salado Sportsman’s Club in Mesa, AZ. It is normally only open to semiauto carbines, but I was able to […]
Competition
Suomi vs Stemple-Suomi: How Close Are They?
Yesterday we took a look at the Stemple-Suomi on the bench – today it’s time to find how similar it is in handling to the real thing! I have a Danish M41 Suomi, a Stemple-Suomi, […]
Conversion
BRP Recreates a Classic: the Stemple-Suomi
When the Stemple STG-76 was designed, it used internal parts from the Finnish kp/31 Suomi submachine gun. Since the whole point of the Stemple was to have a modular and interchangeable gun, it would make […]
Submachine Guns
Stemple/BRP STG-76 “Heavy Submachine Gun” at the Range
Having spent quite a long time yesterday exploring the origins of the Stemple/BRP STG-76, I figured I should take it out to the range. So, let’s see what sort of groups I can make with […]
Gunsmithing
Engineer’s Delight: Stemple 76/45 Becomes the Stemple Takedown Gun
The saga of how the original Stemple 76/45 became the Stemple Takedown Gun is a fantastic story of engineering design choices. Essentially, John Stemple began by building a rather crude copy of the Swedish K […]
Conversion
Vietnamese MAT-49 in 7.62mm Tokarev at the Range
While I have filmed a MAT-49, I have not had a chance to actually try one out at the range until today. But today I don’t just have a normal example; I have one rebarreled […]