Slow motion
ZX-7 American Sterling at the Range
Today we are taking the ZX-7 (essentially a Sterling SMG in .45 ACP) out to the range. It runs rather faster than I initially expected, but isn’t too hard to handle…
United States
Submachine Guns
PAWS ZX-7: An American Sterling in .45 ACP
An American entrepreneur named Bob Imel found the Sterling SMG particularly interesting, and wanted to import them into the United States. He reached out to Sterling in 1967, but was unable to work out a […]
Combination gun
Weirdly Late “Buck-N-Ball” – Standard Arms 50 Caliber “Camp” Gun
Standard Arms was an early (circa 1909) manufacturer of self-loading hunting rifles in the US. The made the Model G, a rifle which could function either as a self-loader or a pump action manual repeater. […]
Slow motion
All the Blammo: HK51 at the Range
Just how concussive is the HK51? And how hard is it to control? Let’s find out!
Conversion
HK51: The SAS’ Full Auto Flashbang Dispenser
The HK51 is not a gun that was ever actually produced by Heckler & Koch. It is instead a variation on the G3/HK91 originally developed by American H&K specialist Bill Fleming. He was contracted by […]
Antiques
Remington’s Revolving Rifle: Not Expensive, but not Successful
While Colt put significant effort into developing a revolving rifle design, Remington chose to simply use their existing New Model revolver architecture. Remington introduced it’s Revolving Rifle (it had no other model name) in 1865, […]
Aircraft MGs
British .303 Browning Mk II* Aircraft Machine Gun
Britain began the process of replacing its Vickers aircraft machine guns with a new Colt/Browning design in 1935, with its adoption of the Colt MG40. This was essentially John Browning’s air cooled M1919 machine gun […]
Antiques
Daniels’ Seven-Shot Smoothbore Turret Musket
There were a surprising number of different revolving rifles produced in the United States in the mid 1800s, including a number of turret rifles like this one. Specifically, we have here a 7-shot, approximately .55 […]
Ian's Customs
Ians Customs: Left-Handed G3
I used to say that one really common and popular rifle that I really didn’t like was the H&K G3. Well, putting together this rifle for myself really changed my opinion. The roller locking system […]
Bolt Action Rifles
American Mausers: The Hopkins & Allen Model 1889 for Belgium
When World War One began, German armies roared through Belgium, occupying all but a small corner of the nation. Belgium still had an army to defend that last bit of territory, but it no longer […]