Light MGs
Vintage Saturday: Deadly Beard
Momčilo Đujić, Chetnik commander during WWII – armed with a Yugoslav-contract ZB-30J light machine gun. (photo from Last Stand on Zombie Island)
Year: 2014
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Guns and Motorcycles: A Photo Essay
Presented without comment, because I am traveling today…
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Stories of Interest
I have a number of items of interest that have come in just recently, and figured I’d put them all out today in place of a typical article. So… 1) I joined the Gun Nation […]
Accessories
Chain Mail for Machine Gunners
Chain mail appeared in a couple different forms during World War I – the most well-known is probably the mail facemasks developed for tank crews. These were intended to protect crew members from steel shards […]
Commentary
BAR Comparison: M1918 vs M1918A2
I was doing some reading up on the BAR, and some shooting with a semiauto Ohio Ordnance Works A3 model BAR recently, in addition to the recent 2-gun match we did with it. I got […]
Artillery
M6 Gun Motor Carriage 37mm (Video)
The M6 Gun Motor Carriage was the first American tank destroyer of WWII – a 37mm antitank gun (basically identical to the M3 gun) mounted on the back of a Dodge 3/4 ton weapons carrier. […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: Far From Home II
Senegalese Free French soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, armed with a British Bren and an American 1903 Springfield. The helmets are American ones, emblazoned with the anchor emblem of the French […]
Ammunition
More Ammo Documents
Continuing with the stash of ammunition documents from Robert, we have two more today (this is making me feel a bit like WikiLeaks…). First up is a German pamphlet on WWII airborne weapons ammo. This […]
Commentary
Guns in Ukraine
Most of the guns showing up in the Ukrainian hostilities right now are various flavors of AK – but there are some other less common things coming out of the woodwork as well. I did […]
Prototype
Mayn Experimental Carbine
To the left there is a Soviet memo on the subject of the experimental carbine designed by a Colonel P.I. Mayn. The memo reads: To the chief of the Red Army GAU, General-Lieutenant-Colonel comrade Yakovlev […]