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, […]
United Kingdom
Bolt Action Rifles
Lee-Speed Military Model (Video)
In 1892, just a few years after the British military adopted the Lee-Metford rifle, the BSA and LSA factories began offering several configurations on the civilian/commercial market. They would produce them all the way into […]
Single Shot Rifles
Afghan Martini Carbines: The Kabul Arsenal (Video)
In the late 1880 or early 1890s, a British engineer and adventurer settled himself in Kabul, Afghanistan and at the request of Emir Abdul Rahman organized and build a rifle factory for the Afghan government. […]
Bolt Action Rifles
RIC (Royal Irish Constabulary) Enfield Carbine
Enfield carbines are marvelous little guns, in my opinion, and just ooze history. This particular one is a Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) carbine, 10,000 of which were converted from obsolete British military Lee Enfield and […]
Light MGs
Vintage Saturday: Anti-Aircraft Lewis
The wheel is for fast and easy traverse. The Lewis gun adapter allows it to be mounted on a Vickers tripod, and it’s mounted backwards to allow flexible elevation (you could do that with the […]
Select-fire Rifles
Enfield L85A1 (Video)
The L85A1 (part of the SA80 small arms family) was adopted by the British military in 1985 as a new generation of small arms to replace the L1A1 FAL (one quick note, where “A1” indicates […]
Handgun
Welrod Mk IIA (Video)
The Welrod is a nearly completely silent bolt action pistol designed by SOE Section 9 for covert operation and assassination use during WW2. Chambered for the .32ACP cartridge (which is subsonic to begin with), the […]
Manual machine guns
Puckle Gun (Video)
The Puckle Gun is probably best known as that thing that had round bullets for Christians and square bullets for Turks, but there is much more to it than just that (and in addition, the […]
Heavy MGs
Vickers Heavy Machine Gun (Video)
The Vickers is quite simply the best heavy machine gun ever made.
Accessories
Pritchard Bayonet for the Webley Revolver (Video)
The Pritchard bayonet for the Webley revolver is one of the more photogenic and less truly practical weapons to come out of the Great War. Designed by one Captain Pritchard after he spent a year […]