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Vintage Saturday: War Photographer
Waffen-SS soldier in Russia with a camera, hand grenade, and captured Russian PPSh submachine gun.
Germany
Select-fire Rifles
Modern Take on the Sturmgewehr, and a Mile Long Shot to Kill
Two things today… First up, I recently had a chance to tinker with a rifle made by Brethren Arms, which is in many ways the modern evolution of the StG-45 that we looked at in […]
Reproduction
Slow Motion: StG-45(M)
The StG-45(M) was developed by engineers at Mauser right at the end of WWII, and its designers went on to form Heckler & Koch and this rifle was their basis for the H&K roller-delayed blowback […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Book Review: The K98k Rifle (Propaganda Photo Series Vol. I)
There is an excellent series of books on German WWII small arms being written and published out of the Netherlands – the Propaganda Photo Series. Today I am specifically looking at Volume I, which covers […]
Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: Mitrailleuses
From left to right, a 1914 Hotchkiss, a captured German MG08, and a 1907 St. Etienne.
Bolt Action Rifles
Assessment of a ZF-41 Optic
The ZF-41 was a tiny 1.5x optic made in large numbers by Germany during WWII. It is a long eye relief design, mounting over the rear sight of a K98k, and allowing unimpeded up for […]
Light MGs
Vintage Saturday: Yer Doin’ It Rong
Waffen SS soldiers investigating a captured (and disassembled) DP-28 LMG pan magazine.
Aircraft MGs
Luftgekühltes Maschinen Gewehr 08/15 (Video)
I recently had a chance to do some shooting with a friend’s luftgekühltes maschinen gewehr 08/15 – the air cooled, lightened version of the German MG08 Maxim gun. These were one of the standard armaments […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: Second-Rate Spoils
German troops with captured Mosin Nagant rifles (and one SVT-40).
Prototype
Slow Motion: VG1-5
This particular rifle is a prototype of the reproduction VG1-5 (or more correctly called the Gustloff MP-507) rifles that are available for sale from Chuck at GunLab.net. I will take some slow motion footage of […]