Artillery
Maxim PomPom 37mm Machine Gun
“Pom-Pom” was the name given to the 37mm Maxim gun by the Boers of South Africa, based on the gun’s sound. It was a Maxim machine gun scaled up to the quite impressive 37mm caliber, […]
United Kingdom
Revolver
Vintage Saturday: Send a Gun to Defend a British Home!
“When the ships from America approached our shores with their priceless arms special trains were waiting in all the ports to receive their cargoes,” Churchill recalled. “The Home Guard in every county, in every town, […]
Revolver
British Pistol Use During WWI
Here’s an interesting piece of research, done in 2010 by one David Thomas as part of a degree in British First World War Studies: The Pistol in British Military Service During the Great War (pdf) This […]
Semiauto Rifles
Vintage Saturday: Sniper Troubles
Hard to use those face shields and still get a sight picture…
Accessories
Book Review: SOE Equipment Air Dropped in Europe 1940-1945
A while back I posted a review of a great little paperback account of Winston Churchill’s Toyshop – the development of clandestine warfare gear for use by saboteurs and resistance movements in occupied Europe during […]
Accessories
World War One Soldiers’ Loadouts
A reader sent me a link to a pretty cool image gallery showing the basic clothing and equipment of five different major combatant powers from mid-WWI. I have re-uploaded the individual photos in case the […]
Semiauto pistol
RIA: Webley 1905 Pocket Automatic
William Whiting was an engineer who spent his entire adult career with the Webley company, and was responsible for all of their in-house self-loading pistol designs. This work initially focused on a behemoth of a […]
Commentary
Trench Warfare Notes, 1915
I have a really neat document to share today, generously sent to me by a reader named Chris in the United Kingdom. These are the notes from a 1915 course on trench warfare as recorded by […]
Competition
Greener MkIII Police in a 2-Gun Shotgun Match (Video)
Every few years, there is a special 2-Gun match at my local club, using shotgun and pistol instead of rifle and pistol. The rules of this match are a bit different than most multigun competition […]
Prototype
BSA 1926 & 1929 Thompson SMGs
In the early days of the Thompson Submachine Gun, the Auto-Ordnance Company was looking for customers globally. General John Thompson had personally run a demonstration of the gun in England in June of 1921, which […]