I don’t envy that kid having to fire that M38…
Vintage Saturday – Russian Partisans with a Maxim
General Purpose MGs
DS-39: The Failed Soviet Machine Gun of World War Two
The Soviet Union recognized the need for a modernized machine gun to replace the Maxim, and in the late 1920s Degtyarev began work on a “universal” type of gun. This would be air cooled, use […]
Machine pistol
Stechkin Automatic Pistol
The Stechkin automatic pistol was adopted by the Soviet military in 1951, alongside the Makarov pistol. Both are chambered bot the 9x18mm Russian cartridge, and both use simple blowback mechanisms. The Stechkin is a heavier […]
Aircraft MGs
Russian ShKAS Aerial Gun
The Russian ShKAS (Shpitalny-Komaritsky Aircraft High-Speed Machine Gun) is a machine gun design form the 1930s that doesn’t receive nearly enough attention. It was the result of a need by the Soviet air force for […]
Could you post me anything you have on the welrod please
We will be getting some more Welrod info in the next couple months, if things go as planned.
Feh!!! I shoot my M-38 all the time!! The muzzle blast is kind of fierce. You get a basketball sized sphere of flame, but the recoil isn’t bad at all!!! No worse that any .30 Cal hunting rifle I’ve ever owned, and FAR less than my Fiancee’s SVD!!!
Sure, but you and I are a bit bigger than that kid.
My M44 actually knocked one of my skinny friends down once…..