I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I opened up John Ellis’ The Social History of the Machine Gun – machine guns and social histories of anything don’t really tend to go together. Ellis […]
I recently picked up a very nice looking Gewehr 88 from an online classified ad, and when it arrived I really didn’t know what I had (I’m not an expert on older German bolt actions […]
The Dutch military started looking for semiauto pistols to replace its aging revolvers around 1899. They tested all the early models; the Roth, Borchardt, Mauser and Mannlicher – and then they obtained a Borchardt-Luger (aka, […]
Awesome. I just started watching a show called “Sons of Guns” and they build all sorts of guns and gun systems. They are usually not vintage like this, but they sometimes build/rebuild weapons from WWII.
Awesome. I just started watching a show called “Sons of Guns” and they build all sorts of guns and gun systems. They are usually not vintage like this, but they sometimes build/rebuild weapons from WWII.
Keep up the great blogging!
But what a juicy, scrunched up target for an opposing artillery battery.