Bang rifle manual

January 17, 2011 Ian McCollum 0

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 […]

Gerat 06H

January 14, 2011 Ian McCollum 0

If you look at a Gerat 06H and squint really hard, you can almost see and HK91. Ok, only if you have some imagination – but the two are intimately related. The Gerat (“Device”) 06H […]

Chinese Thompson

January 12, 2011 Ian McCollum 4

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 […]

RD-46 Manual and Photos

January 10, 2011 Ian McCollum 1

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 […]

Chauchat LMG manuals

January 7, 2011 Ian McCollum 6

So, do you know how to keep your 1915 Chauchat LMG running in case of German poison gas attack? What is the proper ammo loadout for your assistant gunner? Well, I hope you’ve found us […]

More Breda PG photos

January 5, 2011 Ian McCollum 0

The Breda PG was one of the first rifles we had in the Vault, but now we’ve found some much better pictures of one. Instead of vintage black-and-white, we now have color! You can find […]

US Arisaka manual

January 3, 2011 Ian McCollum 2

During the Korean War, the US military converted thousands of captured Japanese Type 99 rifles to .30-06 caliber for use by South Korean forces. They also wrote a technical manual on the converted rifles, which […]

Harrington & Richardson Light Rifle

December 31, 2010 Ian McCollum 1

One of the first things we put in the Vault some time ago were photos of many of the M1 Carbine development program prototype designs. Well, there were a couple guns missing, and I’ve got […]

Mannlicher 1910 automatic pistol

December 29, 2010 Ian McCollum 2

We have another addition to the pistol section for you today – the Mannlicher 1910 automatic pistol. I don’t have much other information for you, but this is an interesting and lesser-known contemporary of the […]

Bergmann Simplex automatic pistol

December 27, 2010 Ian McCollum 0

We’ve had the most common Bergmann pistol – the M1910/21 – in the Vault for some time now, and today it is joined by another of Theodore Bergmann’s pistols. The Simplex was a refinement of […]