Ah, the Sokolov mount. Designed, I have no doubt, when the leading medical studies urged you to lift with your back instead of your legs.
Vintage Saturday: Russian 1910 Maxim
Light MGs
LAD: The Soviet Pistol-Caliber SAW that Could Have Been
This guest article written by Andrey Ulanov. In 1942, the Red Army was experiencing big problems with machine guns. Before the war, great hopes were pinned on Dyagterev’s brand new DS-39 heavy machine gun. But […]
Light MGs
Stalin’s Record Player: The DP-27 Light Machine Gun
Despite having early experience with the Madsen LMG prior to World War One, the Soviet military opted to follow the German path of machine gun development after the war. Valuing the sustained firepower of belt-fed […]
Lever Action Rifles
Russian Winchester 1895 (Video)
By the 1890s, Winchester had established an extremely successful business in lever-action rifles. John Browning’s designs for the 1886, 1892, and 1894 models had proven very popular, and so Winchester (seeing the potential of the […]
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