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Vintage Saturday: Shivering with an AVS-36
Invading Russian never goes well, for any of the parties involved. These two certainly don’t look they’re having such a good time.
Germany
Submachine Guns
MGD / Erma PM9
The PM9 was an interesting an unique submachine gun designed by Louis Debuit for the French firm Merlin and Gerin (hence the MGD name – Merlin, Gerin, Debuit) in the late 1940s and early 50s. […]
Manuals
German Infantry Weapons (World War II)
A little while back, we posted a US military booklet on Japanese Infantry Weapons from WWII, and today we have a similar booklet on German Infantry Weapons of WWII (also thanks to our friend Hrachya). […]
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Vintage Saturday: Dreyse MG13 machine guns on cars!
Achtung! Ze Germanz are coming! Want more info on the guns? We have a Spanish manual for the MG13 in the Vault…
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Vintage Saturday: AA Gunnery in Gas Masks
Either shooting down aircraft or auditioning for a SyFy original…who can say? I think the gun is an early Oerlikon, but I can’t say for sure…
Handgun
Mauser HSc
The HSc was Mauser’s attempt to compete with the highly successful Walther PP design. Development began in 1934, and was ready for mass production in 1938. The German Arms Bureau did not allow production to […]
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Vintage Saturday – C96 Mauser in the field
Also note the extra-tactical single point sling.
Video
Mauser Showdown at the Range – C96, Carbine, and Schnellfeuer
I’ve been promising this range video for a while now, and here it is. We took all three configurations of the C96 Broomhandle Mauser – a pistol, a carbine, and a machine pistol – out […]
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Semiauto Rifles
Mauser Selbstlader manual
We recently added a much better writeup on the early Mauser semiauto rifle designs, and while searching through some material I realized that we have a copy of an original Mauser Selbstlader manual. The Mauser […]