Aircraft MGs
Vintage Saturday: Salvage
Finnish troops salvaging Maxim guns from a downed Russian Polikarpov R5 bomber shot down near Suistamo, Finland.
Russia
Artillery
Russian RG-6 Grenade Launcher and German Repair Depot Footage
Something new and something old today… From long-time contributor Hrachya, we have a Russian manual for the RG-6 grenade launcher. This is a pretty recent design, having gone into production in the 1990s. It fires […]
General Purpose MGs
PPS-43 Development Memo
Today, I’m swiping another document from the cool-but-stagnant Soviet Gun Archives. This time, it’s a memo requesting the development of what would become the PPS-43: As I haven’t had time to learn Russian yet, I […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Mosin-Nagant 91/30 PU Sniper (Video)
The Soviet Union produced more sniper rifles during WWII than any other country, and was one of very few to have a well-developed sniper program in place before the war began. Starting in the early […]
Select-fire Rifles
AVT-40 Testing Report
While poking around at Soviet Gun Archives (a very cool site which I wish was updated more often), I noticed this two-page memo reporting the results of an experiment modifying SVT-40 rifles to full-auto capability. […]
Prototype
Mayn Experimental Carbine
To the left there is a Soviet memo on the subject of the experimental carbine designed by a Colonel P.I. Mayn. The memo reads: To the chief of the Red Army GAU, General-Lieutenant-Colonel comrade Yakovlev […]
Manuals
Margolin Target Pistols (Video)
Video Manuals
Bolt Action Rifles
Gun Deductions
One thing I particularly enjoy doing is taking a firearm and trying to figure out as much about it as I can, based on the appearance, markings, modifications, etc. It’s the details and the stories […]
Medium MGs
Vintage Saturday: Not for Squeamish Collectors
Russian Colt 1895 machine gun destroyed on the Eastern front, WWI.
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: What Would Roosevelt Shoot?
Not the cool Roosevelt – we know he liked his .405-caliber Big Medicine. I’m talking about the other one: Leszek found this on eBay (you can buy it if you want; I have no connection […]