Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: More Anti-Aircraft
Soviet snipers train at ranging aircraft with 91/30 PU rifles.
Vintage photo
Semiauto Rifles
Vintage Friday: Russians
Russian troops with SVT-40 rifles in a particularly photogenic framing. My book review planned for today isn’t quite done yet, so I’m changing up the schedule a bit.
Medium MGs
Vintage Saturday: Why They Make Tripods Like That
Waffen-SS soldier manning a Czech ZB-37 machine gun on its tripod. Note that the articulated tripod legs have been put to good use mounting the gun up on a large rock that offers some cover […]
Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: Mitrailleuses
From left to right, a 1914 Hotchkiss, a captured German MG08, and a 1907 St. Etienne.
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: Second-Rate Spoils
German troops with captured Mosin Nagant rifles (and one SVT-40).
Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: Legs and Wheels
Imperial Russian gun crew with a 1905 Maxim on an early Sokolov tripod mount.
Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: Crew-Served
German WWI Landwehr unit posing with an MG08.
Artillery
Vintage Saturday: Fire Support
One of the photos that didn’t make the cut for the 2015 Forgotten Weapons Calendar: US troops demonstrating use of an M1916 37mm gun. Note how the ammo is supplied on a cloth belt – […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: Mujahideen
Mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan during the 1980s. Mostly armed with SMLEs, but I see at least one No4 Enfield in there as well (and the AKM, of course – which appears to have a 40-round […]
Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: Assorted Machine Guns
An assortment of machine guns from the Russian civil war. Pretty much one of everything in there – a Russian 1905 Maxim, German MG08, Austrian Schwarzlose 07/12, Colt 1895 “Potato Digger”, M1915 Chauchat, Madsen LMG, […]