Bolt Action Rifles
Book Review: Rifles of the Snow
Today’s book is really more of a pamphlet than a proper book, but it still serves well given its purpose. It is Rifles of the Snow by Doug Bowser and Powers Dunaway, and it is […]
Finland
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: You Sent Us What?
Italy sent a bunch of surplus 7.35mm Carcano carbines to Finland as military aid against the USSR – these Finns are pulling them right out of the shipping crates (note the “KAL 7/35” on the […]
Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: Rank Hath its Privileges
A Soviet M1910 Maxim (early version, without the snow cap) on the Mannerheim Line, 1940.
Submachine Guns
Vintage Saturday: Tacticool Suomi
Finnish soldiers, photo found by Leszek at the Finnish Winter War Archive. The fellow on the left has a holstered Lahti L35 pistol, while the gent on the right has an early Suomi m/31 SMG.
Commentary
What Are Your Favorite Gunmaking Countries?
If you had to pick three countries to focus your gun collection on, which would they be? Yeah, this is the sort of thing I think about when I’m waiting in line or otherwise unoccupied. […]
Submachine Guns
Finnish Jatimatic SMG
The Jatimatic was a Finnish submachine gun intended for bodyguards and private security forces. It was designed in the 1980s, and never achieved much success despite having some interesting and clever features. The bolt is […]
Semiauto Rifles
Pelo Rifle
Captain Carl Pelo (retired) of the Finnish Army was involved in arms design for twenty or thirty years (including a stint as technical manager of the Sako factory in the 1930s), and produced several prototype […]