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Vintage Saturday: Russian 1910 Maxim

May 5, 2012 Ian McCollum 0

Ah, the Sokolov mount. Designed, I have no doubt, when the leading medical studies urged you to lift with your back instead of your legs.

Vintage Saturday: A 1914 Hotchkiss

April 28, 2012 Ian McCollum 10

Not sure where these poilu are fighting, but the fellow in the back appears to have swapped his regulation Kepi for a bowler and shaved off his moustache.

Vintage Saturday: French AA Gunners with a 1907 St Etienne

April 21, 2012 Ian McCollum 2

I don’t think that’s a standard-issue tripod – more like something built for an 8-foot-tall surveyor. Also, note the feed strip box on the ground below the gunner.

Vintage Saturday: A View of No-Man’s-Land

April 7, 2012 Ian McCollum 15

I’m hard-pressed to think of anything humorous to say about this snapshot – World War I does not lend itself well to glorification or joviality. I suppose it’s simply worth considering that if you think […]

Vintage Saturday: Type 11 Nambu

March 31, 2012 Ian McCollum 2

That contemplative stare is him trying to figure out how to fire the gun, hold the hopper cover open, and load clips into the gun simultaneously with only two hands.

Vintage Saturday: A Gattling Gun Crew

March 24, 2012 Ian McCollum 1

Look closely, and you can see the paraphernalia of Trapdoor Springfield rifles – cartridge belts full of .45-70, and socket bayonets on the belts as well.

Vintage Saturday: Dreyse MG13 machine guns on cars!

March 17, 2012 Ian McCollum 7

Achtung! Ze Germanz are coming! Want more info on the guns? We have a Spanish manual for the MG13 in the Vault…

Vintage Saturday – Russian Partisans with a Maxim

March 10, 2012 Ian McCollum 5

I don’t envy that kid having to fire that M38…

Vintage Saturday: Downing Panes with a Potato Digger

March 3, 2012 Ian McCollum 9

Well, it’s more effective than trying to hit ’em with a Hotchkiss Portative…but I bet they wish they had a proper anti-aircraft mount!

Vintage Saturday: An American Mosin in Paris…or Somewhere

February 25, 2012 Ian McCollum 7

Yup, the aftermath of the Gun Industry Bailout of 1918, when the Feds bought a bunch of Mosins they didn’t like to save Remington and Westinghouse when those pesky Bolsheviks refused to pay up. On […]