I don’t envy that kid having to fire that M38…
Vintage Saturday – Russian Partisans with a Maxim
Semiauto pistol
Russian World War 1 Contract Colt 1911
During World War One, the Russian Government purchased some 51,000 Colt 1911 pistols. These were standard commercial production guns, chambered for .45 ACP, and were shipped in 1916 and 1917, with JP Morgan acting as […]
Interview
Developmental History of the AK with Max Popenker
I am very happy to be joined today via Skype by Russian small arms researcher Max Popenker. You may know Max from his nearly 20 years publishing Modern Firearms, one of the original small arms […]
Artillery
Soviet World War Two 50mm Light Mortars (RM-39 & RM-40)
The Soviet Union decided to adopt a 50mm light mortar in 1937 as a company-level armament. The first such weapon they used was the RM-38, introduced in 1938. It was a complex design, with a […]
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…..