Also note the extra-tactical single point sling.
General Purpose MGs
H&K MG4: Germany’s New 5.56mm Squad Machine Gun
Full video including range footage is available on the History of Weapons & War streaming app: https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/mg4-4k Heckler & Koch released the MG4, a new 5.56mm squad machine gun in 2001. It was adopted by […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: Second-Rate Spoils
German troops with captured Mosin Nagant rifles (and one SVT-40).
Commentary
Schwarzlose Followup – and the More Things Change…
When we went to the range to do our video on the Schwarzlose 1908 that you saw yesterday, we didn’t have our slow-motion-capable camera along. I knew it would be great to get some slow […]
The height of tacticool, circa 1916?
Great photo! Thanks for posting. This is first time I see a picture of a C96 being carried in this manner. It must have been taken early in the war (at least before February 1916 and the adoption of the stahlhelm), as the soldier in the background is still wearing a Pickelhaube (the spike is obscured by the shadow), complete with its fabric cover. The officer with the C96, strangely enough, seems to have a striking facial resemblance to actor Yul Brynner…
Cocked and (presumably) locked.
Now you know who invented Condition 1.