Manuals
Winchester .224 E2 manual
Today, we have for you an original manual for the Winchester Light Rifle in .224 Winchester E2. This was a rifle in competition with the early AR-15 to replace the M-14 in US military service. […]
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Johnston D-1918 machine gun
I don’t know much about this beyond the name. We have four photographs from the US Ordnance Department dated from 1937 identifying this as a Johnston (not Johnson – note the “t”) Model D-1918 machine […]
Manuals
DTM Manual
Continuing in our series of Soviet weapons manuals, today we have added a 1962 DTM manual to the Original Manuals page of the Vault. The DTM was the tank variant of the modernized Degtyarev (DP) […]
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Family photo!
So, who can tell me what all of these weapons are? And what they have in common? Continue on for details…
Semiauto Rifles
Howa Type 89
Not all interesting and obscure guns are a century old – there are plenty of guns in common use today that are not well known. One such gun is the Howa Type 89. It is […]
Semiauto Rifles
Howell Automatic Rifle
So, let us pretend we are 1940s British ordnance officers, and we need more automatic rifles. What are we to do? There is so much war material that needs to be produced, and we have […]
Manuals
Bang rifle manual
Today’s update is the original manual for the Bang automatic rifle – the gun that was the basis for the original Garand rifle design. The Bang rifle impressed US ordnance officers when it was first […]
German
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Chinese Thompson
I don’t have much background information on this piece, but it is a Chinese Thompson submachine gun in 7.62 x 25 caliber, using what appear to be PPS43 magazines. If anyone has information about these […]
Belt-fed
RD-46 Manual and Photos
The Soviet standard light machine gun, the DP/DPM, was getting obsolete by the end of World War II. A mobile belt-fed gun was needed, and so the DP was adapted to that purpose. A top […]