Submachine Guns
Vintage Saturday: Child Labor
PPD-40 submachine guns being assembled by young girls.
Russia
Light MGs
Vintage Saturday: Yer Doin’ It Rong
Waffen SS soldiers investigating a captured (and disassembled) DP-28 LMG pan magazine.
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.
Bolt Action Rifles
2-Gun Action Match: Mosin & Nagant vs Trapdoor & SAA
No vintage photo today – instead I have a vintage rifle match! I’ve had had a bunch of people asking to see a Mosin-Nagant in one of these matches, and decided to oblige – but […]
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, […]
General Purpose MGs
Slow Motion: PKM Machine Gun
The PKM is not exactly a forgotten weapon, but it is a very cool one, and I had the chance to do some 2000 fps video footage of one not long ago:
Bolt Action Rifles
East German Mosins – or not…
One of the things that makes Mosin Nagant rifles particularly interesting to a lot of folks (myself included) is their tendentcy to appear in a vast number of conflicts all across the globe. Guns originally […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: A Rifle for Cold Weather
German sentry in Russia with a captured Mosin-Nagant M91 rifle, WWI. Note the sling swivel on the front of the magazine, and the lack of sling slots in the stock – this is a pre-1908 […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: Finn Capture
Note the Mosin Nagant PE sniper on the wall, and the AVS-36 machine rifle peeking out from behind the man on the right in addition to the DP-28 LMG on the table.