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Great New FW Merch from Varusteleka
I’m really excited to have this merchandise available from my friends at Varusteleka – check it out!
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CETME-L Handguards: The Poor Early Model and the Later Better One
The early production CETME-L (and CETME-LC) rifles used a thin, fragile, full-length handguard. It was redesigned fairly early in production with a much more durable version that provided better hand insulation. The Spanish Army updated […]
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Germany Copies the Soviets: L23 & L27 Silencers
The German L23 silencer was essentially a copy of captured Soviet Bramit silencers, complete with the attachment system locking around a rifle front sight. Two hundred of these made for the K98k rifle for German […]
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Scrome J8 Commercial Production Update (For the FR-F2)
Scrome, the original maker of the J8 scope used by the French Army on the FR-F2 sniper rifle, is making a commercial run of J8 scopes for collectors who have the recently-released surplus FR-F2 rifles. […]
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HK Ziel Punkt Projektor: A Flashlight For Aiming
In the late 1970s, H&K partnered with Hensoldt to create the ZP/AP (Ziel/Aiming; Projektor/Projector) and then ZPP/APP (Ziel/Aiming; Punkt/Point; Projektor/Projector). This was essentially a calibrated flashlight with an aiming point and pressure switch. It projected […]
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M43 Salakari: A Dynamic Assault Mount for the Finnish Maxim
The Finnish military depended heavily on Maxim machine guns until the 1960s, first using ones captured from the Russians and later starting production at Tikkakoski in the 1930s. One of the difficulties of the Maxim, […]
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Parker-Hale .303-.22 Conversion Kits for the Enfield, Lewis, and Vickers
In July of 1918, the British military formally adopted a Parker-Hale system of adapting .303-caliber arms to .22 rimfire for short range training. The system involved lining standard barrels with .22 caliber blanks that were […]
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Deckungszielgerät – Germany’s WW2 Trench Rifle System
When the German attack into Russia stagnated in late 1942, some areas of the front returned to a trench-and-sniper sort of warfare that was reminiscent of World War One. The German military actually went so […]
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Scattergun Science! Testing Diverter and Duckbill Chokes
Matt Haught joins me one more time to try out some practical testing of the Diverter and Duckbill shotgun chokes. We are using a 2-liter bottles of seltzer water on strings at 10 yards, and […]
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Very Rare and Mostly Pointless: the Bren Fixed Line Sight
The very early production MkI Bren light machine guns were made with two dovetail brackets on the left side of the receiver. The rear one was for the standard rear sight, and the front one […]