Bolt Action Rifles
The Short-Lived No1 Mk6 SMLE at James D Julia
The SMLE No1 Mk3 was the iconic British infantry rifle of World War 1, but not the final evolution of the Lee Enfield design. By World War 2 it had been replaced by the new […]
United Kingdom
Conversion
The Very Steampunk M1915 Howell Automatic Rifle at James D Julia
The M1915 Howell Automatic Rifle is a conversion of a standard No1 MkIII Lee Enfield rifle into a semiautomatic, through the addition of a gas piston onto the right side of the barrel. Despite its […]
Semiauto Rifles
British L129A1 Sharpshooter Rifle
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Prototype
British Submachine Gun Overview: Lanchester, Sten, Sterling, and More!
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Prototype
Maxim Silverman Model 1896 Automatic Pistol (Video)
Hiram Maxim is obviously best known for the Maxim Machine Gun, but he and (most significantly) his assistant Louis Silverman also dabbled in handgun design. It appears that the work was primarily Silverman’s, done with […]
Semiauto Rifles
Farquhar Hill: Britain’s WW1 Semiauto Rifle (Video)
The Farquhar-Hill was a semiauto rifle developed in Britain prior to World War 1. It was the idea of Birmingham gunsmith Arthur Hill, and financed by Aberdeen industrialist Mowbray Farquhar. The design began as a […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Ishapore SMLE MkI** India Pattern (Video)
While many people are familiar with the Ishapore 2A1 rifles chambered in 7.62mm NATO (largely thanks to their importation and sale in the US in large numbers), production of Indian Enfield rifles actually dates back […]
Trainer
Swift Model B: For Training and Pranks (Video)
As World War 2 exploded in Europe, rifle training suddenly because a very important topic in Great Britain. Typical solutions are small bore rimfire training variants of service rifles, but the British also wanted an […]
Artillery
SMLE Rifle Grenade Launcher (Video)
While rifle-launched grenades date back hundreds of years, they first came into widespread use during World War One, on all sides of the conflict. The first years of the war saw the use of rod […]
Accessories
Bonus: Sight Protectors! (Video)
The Lee-Speed rifle we looked at yesterday came with a set of really neat sight protectors, which I think are worth a separate video on their own. Quite a lot of work went into these, […]