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Category: Weapons & Ammo
Know Your Weapons: WW1 Night Sights – Gewehr 98 and SMLE
Germany, Britain, and France all introduced luminous night sights for their service rifles in 1916. Today we are looking at a Gewehr 98 and an SMLE that have detachable WW1 night sights fitted (and the SMLE also has a metal muzzle cover device). WW1 Night Sights: Gewehr 98 and SMLE — Forgotten Weapons
Paltik shotgun, Ilocos
Mad Max style Shotgun. Looks like an Orion or Lin 12 Gauge Flare Pistol HEAVILY Modified.👍😜 Think Outside the Box and Stay Armed!
Know Your Weapons: Carl Gustav m/45B (Swedish K)
I remember the first time I heard about this gun was when I read John Plaster’s outstanding book about MAC-V-SOG in Vietnam, Secret Commando’s: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG. If you enjoy Military History, I highly recommend this book. Plaster is the real deal, having written one of the foremost books…
“Absolved” – Reassembled
If you have not read Absolved yet, take the time and read it now and then save it to a keeper drive.
Know Your Weapons: An AK in 8x57mm – The Yugoslav M76 at the Range
Yesterday we looked at the history and mechanics of this Yugoslav M76; today we are taking it out to the range… via An AK in 8x57mm: The Yugoslav M76 at the Range — Forgotten Weapons
Know Your Weapons: 3D Printed Firearms with Deterrence Dispensed
As the technology improves in 3D Printing, the possibilities are exciting and endless. Guerilla Gunsmithing! Learn it, Love it! “3D printed firearms are no longer one shot wonder toys… They are serious weapons that can compete with their manufactured counterparts. Enjoy this in depth discussion with the anonymous heads of the decentralized design group Deterrence…
Know Your Weapons: Soviet WWII Machine Guns
The Soviets were latecomers to machine-gun development generally. Prior to World War I, the czarist army bought machine guns from other countries and manufactured some under license. For this reason, Russian machine-gun development and production had to start virtually from scratch after the Russian Revolution. A top priority was the development of a light machine […]…
Know Your Weapons: The Johnson Rifle
31 Mar 20 Melvin Johnson’s Rifle Sergie Simonov’s SKS Rifle, first adopted by the Soviets in 1945 (replacing Fedor Tokarev’s short-lived SVT), saw service only until 1952, after which it was superceded by Mikhail Kalashnikov’s AK. However, the SKS continued to see second-tier service in the USSR, and continuing first-tier service in the PRC (China),…
Military Organisation of the Holy Roman Empire
Know Your History, it’s Interesting Reading! Although firmly rooted and fairly well developed in the Rhineland, Franconia, Lorraine (the old Lotharingia) and Burgundy, feudalism in its widest sense was never as strong in Germany as in, say, France or England, and true knighthood and the customary granting of fiefs was unknown in Germany until…