Interview
Optic and Reticle Choices (featuring Mike Branson)
I’m speaking with Mike Branson of Gideon Optics at SHOT Show 2025, and today the topic is scope and reticle choice. What is good, what is bad, and what is best for you?
Month: March 2025
Medium MGs
ZB37: Czechoslovakia’s Super-Heavy Machine Gun
The ZB37 began in 1930 as a design by none other than classic Czech arms designer Vaclav Holek. The Czechoslovakian military was still using the Schwarzlose heavy MG, and wanted something to replace it. To […]
Video
Rifles on the Danube: Hungarian AK-Pattern Firearms – NOW SHIPPING
Now Shipping! Order your copy here: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/danube-book At the end of the Second World War, Hungary was occupied by Soviet troops and soon fell into the Soviet sphere of influence, joining the Warsaw Pact in […]
Machine pistol
Beretta Tries a Machine Pistol: the Model 951A
Beretta’s first machine pistol was actually a full-auto variant of the Model 1923, complete with shoulder stock – but that did not sell well. They tried again in the 1950s with an automatic model of […]
Conversion
Stamm-Zeller 1902: A Swiss Straight-Pull Converted to Semiauto
Today’s rifle was designed by a Swiss inventor named Hans Stamm while working for the Zeller et Cie company in Appenzell Switzerland. The company originally made embroidering machinery, but turned to military rifle parts subcontracting […]
Museum Review
Virtual Tour: Swiss Shooting Museum Bern
Today we are taking a virtual tour of the Swiss Shooting Museum (Schweizer Schützenmuseum Bern) in Bern, Switzerland. The museum has been in this building since just before World War Two, and focusses on the […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Våpensmia NM-149S: Norway’s Sniper Conversion of the Kar 98k
After World War Two, there were a lot of K98k rifles left in Norway. Like, a whole lot of them. So many that even in the 1980s they were still a popular basis for hunting […]
Machine pistol
Glock 18 & 18C Machine Pistols: How Do They Work?
After the success of the Glock 17 in Austrian military trials, the company chose two specific markets to target for expansion. One was competition shooters, for whom the Glock 17L was released. The other was […]
Competition
Molotovs at the Range: Finnish Brutality 2025 Day 2
Varusteleka’s Patrol Coverall that I was using today is available here: https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/sarma-tst-l5-thermal-patrol-coverall/76574 Finnish Brutality 2025 took the standard for practical shooting matches and raised it again – by making it a true winter match. Run […]