Look closely, and you can see the paraphernalia of Trapdoor Springfield rifles – cartridge belts full of .45-70, and socket bayonets on the belts as well.
Vintage Saturday: A Gattling Gun Crew
Aircraft MGs
British .303 Browning Mk II* Aircraft Machine Gun
Britain began the process of replacing its Vickers aircraft machine guns with a new Colt/Browning design in 1935, with its adoption of the Colt MG40. This was essentially John Browning’s air cooled M1919 machine gun […]
Gunsmithing
RIA Feb 2020 Special: Sporterized M1 Carbine
Our final quick video from RIA this weekend is a look at a sporterized M1 Carbine – but one that was actually done quite nicely! I would never suggest that someone cut up an intact […]
Semiauto pistol
AJ Ordnance “Thomas” – A .45 Locked by Grip Alone
Designed by one Frank Thomas Jr. in the 1970s, this pistol was produced by the AJ Ordnance company of Covina California, and named after its creator. It was designed to be a concealed carry pistol […]
You do have to wonder how difficult it was to keep the brass polished on a black-powder firing Gatling gun. That’s a task the modern day soldier should thank his lucky stars he doesn’t have to do on every piece of equipment he has.