Here’s another set of Maxim photos, this time of an 1899 pattern gun made at Enfield. Photos courtesy of the UK MoD.
Enfield 1899 Maxim Photos
Revolver
Major Fosbery’s Automatic Revolver: History and Mechanics
George Fosbery, V.C., was a decorated British officer with substantial combat experience in India when he decided to design a better sidearm in 1895. True semiautomatic handguns were in their very early stages of development […]
Book review
Announcing: Thorneycroft to SA80: British Bullpup Firearms 1901-2020
Sorry for the poor audio quality – today I am back at the Cody Firearms Museum talking to Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries in the UK. Jonathan has written […]
Bolt Action Rifles
L118A2: Accuracy International Arctic Warfare
After the British adoption of the Accuracy International PM as the L96A1 sniper rifle, other nations began to give a very serious look at the company and its rifles. One of the first was Sweden, […]
That’s a bonnie gun, I like all the brass.
Bronze, lovely. Durable, robust, self lubricating Wonder why it is used to rarely in weapons where weight is not an issue?
What a thing of beauty!
Damn, those guys just loved British military bronze casting, epitome of the era; what a charmer!