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Teaser Pictures in Leiu of Real Content
Sorry guys – I’m sorting myself out after a week on the road and I don’t have a real post lined up for today. Instead, I will just tease you with some of the videos […]
Year: 2015
Flintlock
Firing a 10-Bore Flintlock Rifle (Video)
A while back I had the opportunity to hit the range with Mike Carrick, Q&A Editor for Arms Heritage Magazine (a very cool magazine, by the way). The main purpose of the trip was to work […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: Mr. Lee Goes to China
Note the bandoliers of individual cartridges – these Lee-Metfords predate the adoption of charger clips, and would have been reloading one round at a time.
Conversion
Beretta M1918 SMG Photos
The Beretta M1918 was one of two simultaneous efforts to turn the M1915 Villar-Perosa machine gun into a more practical weapon. The Officine Villar Perosa (who had manufactured the 1915 gun in the first place) […]
Semiauto pistol
Slow Motion: Egyptian Helwan (Video)
The Helwan is a licensed copy of the Beretta 1951, made in Egypt. It is a single-stack, single-action 9mm pistol using the same basic locking system as the German P38. This design would later be […]
Bolt Action Rifles
System Luger 1892/6 Bolt Action
Georg Luger is known today for just one firearm: the Luger pistol. However, he actually spent significantly more time during his career working on rifles than he did on that iconic handgun. One project in […]
bullpup
High Standard 10B (Video)
The High Standard Model 10A and 10B were a pair of bullpup police shotguns produced for about 10 years in the late 1960s and 1970s. They were built around a regular High Standard semiautomatic shotgun […]
Handgun
Vintage Saturday: Liberator
Photo taken by John Brunner outside OSS headquarters in Kunming, 1945.
Light MGs
Mendoza RM-2 LMG Photos
The RM-2 was the last in a series of light machine guns designed by long-time Mexican arm inventor Rafael Mendoza (also responsible for, among other things, the very unusual Fusil Mexico). The first of his […]
garand development
Slow Motion: .276 Pedersen Rifle (Video)
I have assembled all the slow motion footage from my Pedersen shooting session into its own standalone video, for the folks who are interested. This does also include a malfunction that we caught on camera […]