Vintage Saturday – German Maxims on the Line
Accessories
Testing Reproduction WWI German Trench Armor
You may recall that a week or two back I posted a video on some German trench armor at RIA. Reading up on that set of armor led me to International Military Antiques, who sells […]
Select-fire Rifles
HK XM-8: What Was it and Why? (With Larry Vickers)
Larry Vickers has the closest thing most any of us will ever have to a true XM-8 rifle, and has more than a little trigger time on the original XM-8 rifles. So, I asked him […]
Aircraft MGs
MG-17 German Aircraft Machine Gun
The MG-17 is a belt-fed 8mm machine gun that was used on a large number of Luftwaffe aircraft early in World War II. The gun was developed by Rheinmetall through its subsidiary in Solothurn, Switzerland […]
Awesome. I just started watching a show called “Sons of Guns” and they build all sorts of guns and gun systems. They are usually not vintage like this, but they sometimes build/rebuild weapons from WWII.
Keep up the great blogging!
But what a juicy, scrunched up target for an opposing artillery battery.