Semiauto pistol
KrauseWerke .45ACP Luger at RIA
The story of the .45ACP Lugers is a bit complex, and widely misunderstood. What most people believe is that two such guns were made for US military testing, one was lost, and the other is […]
Germany
Light MGs
Maxim 08/15 Bipod Positions
I got an email from a reader named Philip who is a fan and collector of Maxim guns, who put together an interesting video on the use of the bipod on the MG08/15. From his […]
Competition
2-Gun Action Match: Gewehr 41
I recently picked up a Walther G41 rifle (1943 production) and have been excited to have a chance to put it through a 2-Gun match. This particular rifle has clearly led an interesting life – […]
Movie review
Film Review: Generation War (Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter)
Generation War originally came out two years ago as a three-part German television miniseries, and I only found out about it recently. It has been described as a German Band of Brothers, but that misses […]
Prototype
Walther Volkspistole at James D Julia
As the Second World War started to really take a toll on German industrial production, several companies started to work on alternatives to the P38 handgun in an effort to reduce production cost and time. […]
Prototype
Nickl Prototype M1916/22 Pistol at James D Julia
Josef Nickl was one of the chief R&D designers at Mauser after the Federle brothers, and one of his pet projects was a rotating barrel military pistol developed from the Steyr-Hahn M1912 pistol. He built […]
Prototype
Experimental “Joint Safety” C96 Mauser at James D Julia
This particular 1902-made example of the C96 Mauser incorporates several experimental features of the design that would never go into mass production. It was an effort to make a version of the C96 that would […]
Prototype
Mauser 1912/14 Experimental .45ACP Pistol at James D Julia
Before World War One, the Mauser company tried to make a follow-up automatic pistol to replace its famous C96 “Broomhandle” design with something more modern. The result was a very successful pocket pistol in .25ACP […]
Semiauto pistol
20-Shot C96 “Broomhandle” Mauser at James D Julia
Early in the production of the C96 Mauser, the company tried a variety of different configurations of the pistol, to see what would be popular and sell well. Most of these were abandoned by about […]
Needlefire
Dreyse/Kufahl Needlefire Revolver at James D Julia
Needlefire rifles were developed in the 1830s and represented and early effective type of breechloading rifle. As such, they were adopted by both German and French armies – but only in rifle form. Needlefire handguns […]