I don’t envy that kid having to fire that M38…
Vintage Saturday – Russian Partisans with a Maxim
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: Strange Bedfellows
Soviet troops with M38 Mosin carbines and Breda Model 37 heavy machine guns (presumably captured from the ill-fated Italian ARMIR expedition in 1942/43). Thanks to Leszek for finding the photo at Waralbum.ru!
Heavy MGs
The Drama and Mystery of the Goryunov Machine Gun
This guest post authored by Andrey Ulanov. In the minds of Western people, the inhabitants of the USSR may sometime look like ants; a large mass working towards one great goal without personal ambition. This, of […]
Heavy MGs
Goryunov SG43: Russia Replaces the Maxim
The Russian M1910 Maxim was clearly obsolete in the 1930s, and the Soviet military developed a replacement for it – the Degtyarev DS-39. These performed well in testing, but several major flaws were revealed when […]
Could you post me anything you have on the welrod please
We will be getting some more Welrod info in the next couple months, if things go as planned.
Feh!!! I shoot my M-38 all the time!! The muzzle blast is kind of fierce. You get a basketball sized sphere of flame, but the recoil isn’t bad at all!!! No worse that any .30 Cal hunting rifle I’ve ever owned, and FAR less than my Fiancee’s SVD!!!
Sure, but you and I are a bit bigger than that kid.
My M44 actually knocked one of my skinny friends down once…..