German
G41(M) manual
The G41 was the first semiauto rifle adopted by the German military, and it was not particularly successful. The Mauser version in particular was really a failure – only a few thousand were produced before […]
Manuals
Manuals
Madsen M50 manual
The Danish Madsen firm (Dansk Industri Syndikat) just never quite hit the big-time. They built lots of interesting, good firearms, but never quite came up with something that became really iconic. The M/50 is a […]
Manuals
PPSh Technical Manual
It’s a bit of a slow day here today – but we do have a new manual for you. It’s a 1956 edition of the Soviet armorer’s manual for the PPSh-41 and PPS-43. Everything you […]
garand development
Czech ZH29
The Czech ZH29 is a meticulously made example of early semiautomatic rifle design. Made in the era before WWII when great care was taken in making arms, the only stamped parts on it are the […]
bullpup
EM-1 Manual
After World War II, the British began serious development of a replacement for the Sten and Enfield. A selfloading rifle was an obvious necessity, and they British took a lesson from German arms development and […]
Manuals
M1895 Lee handbook
It was only fairly recently that all the branches of the US armed forces began standardizing their weapons and equipment. It used to be that each branch would adopt whatever firearms it found most useful […]
Manuals
Villar Perosa manual
The Villar Perosa was a rather odd weapon developed by noted designer Revelli in Italy in 1914 and adopted into service in 1915. It was a pair of open-bolt submachine guns (predating shoulder-fired submachine gun […]
Manuals
More Russian Manuals
I have a couple more French guns queued up for next week, but it’s been a few days since I added a manual to the library. I was going to post a DsHK 38 manual, […]
Manuals
Fedorov manual
Ok, just one more Fedorov post before we turn to other things. Thanks to the generosity of Max Popenker, we have a copy of a 1928 original Fedorov manual for you. It’s in Russian, of […]
Manuals
Winchester .224 E2 manual
Today, we have for you an original manual for the Winchester Light Rifle in .224 Winchester E2. This was a rifle in competition with the early AR-15 to replace the M-14 in US military service. […]