Here’s another set of Maxim photos, this time of an 1899 pattern gun made at Enfield. Photos courtesy of the UK MoD.
I am going to start an intermittent series of posts on the various different types of Maxim machine guns over the next few months – there are a whole slew of them, and I have […]
This rifle sold for $31,625 at Rock Island on December 1, 2018. After designing the bolt action rifle that bears his name, Andre Berthier went on to experiment with self-loading designs. He developed a light […]
Needlefire rifles were developed in the 1830s and represented and early effective type of breechloading rifle. As such, they were adopted by both German and French armies – but only in rifle form. Needlefire handguns […]
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That’s a bonnie gun, I like all the brass.
Bronze, lovely. Durable, robust, self lubricating Wonder why it is used to rarely in weapons where weight is not an issue?
What a thing of beauty!
Damn, those guys just loved British military bronze casting, epitome of the era; what a charmer!