Light MGs
Shooting the Negev LMG
After yesterday’s look at the history and mechanical details of the Israeli Negev LMG, today we are taking it out the the range. It certainly is a very pleasant experience to shoot! The recoil is […]
Israel
Light MGs
Negev LMG: The Israeli Take on the SAW
When the Israeli Defense Forces tested the FN Minimi, they found it to be lacking in a few areas, and decided that they could develop a better SAW domestically. Developed in the 1980s, the result […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Israeli SP66: A Modern Mauser Sniper
This rifle is lot #2172 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction. Around 1980, Israeli purchased a batch of modern Mauser SP66 precision rifles to supplement or replace their stocks of M14 and Mauser K98k sniper rifles. […]
Semiauto Rifles
Israeli Light-Barrel FAL (from DS Arms)
Israel was one of the very First Nations to adopt the FN FAL rifle – after Canada but before many actual NATO nations. Israel made its first purchases of the rifles in 1955, and delayed […]
Semiauto Rifles
The Israeli Galil
These rifles are selling at Rock Island on November 30 and December 1, 2018 – the 5.56mm Model 392 brought $4,600 and 7.62mm Model 323S brought $3,738. The Galil was the result of a program to […]
Select-fire Rifles
South African Galils: The R4, R5, R6, and LM Series
When South Africa decided to replace the R1 rifle (a metric FAL), they chose to adopt the Israeli Galil. Both nations had similar environmental issues with blowing sand (in northwestern South Africa particularly), and Israel […]
Conversion
Israeli M1919 Brownings and the US Semiauto Market
In the world of converted semiautomatic “machine guns,” the Browning 1919 is a happy example of one of the most iconic and historically important US machine guns and also one of the cheapest semiautomatic belt […]
Slow motion
The Uzi Submachine Gun: Excellent or Overrated?
The Israeli Uzi has become a truly iconic submachine gun through both its military use and its Hollywood stunts – but how effective is it really? I found this fully automatic Uzi Model A to […]
Semiauto Rifles
Action Arms Semiauto Uzi Carbines (Model A and Model B)
Guns in this video: Folding stock Model A Folding stock Model B Wood stock Model B Although it was adopted by the Israeli military in the 1950s, the Uzi submachien gun did not generate much […]
Book review
Book Review: The Uzi Submachine Gun Examined, by David Gaboury
“The UZI Submachine Gun: Examined” is a newly published book this year by David Gaboury – long time owner and operator of the uzitalk.com forum. Until now there has not really been any substantive written […]