Following Portuguese Army adoption in 1908, the Portuguese Navy adopted the Luger in 1909 as the m/910. The pattern they chose was a “new model” Luger in 9x19mm, with a 100mm / 4” barrel. A total of 650 were ordered in late 1909 and delivere...
2024-11-02 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The Enfield MkI had only been in service for two years when the MkII was adopted in March 1882 to resolve some of its problems (and reduce its cost). At the same time, a new cartridge was adopted (the MkIII) with a heeled .477” bullet - also in ...
2024-11-01 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeah, I'm a sucker for nice French rifles. So when Old Western Scrounger brought in another batch of them, I offered to do a video. These are rifles taken out of French long-term storage, having been rebuilt at French arsenals to like-new conditio...
2024-10-30 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
B&T owner Karl Brügger is a big fan of 9mm PCCs and SMGs, and decided that his company ought to offer an alternative to the MP5 and this was the Advanced Police Carbine (APC). In order to compete effectively, it needed to be simple to manufac...
2024-10-28 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-10-26 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Semiauto versions of machine guns are a way to have examples of historically significant and mechanically interesting guns without having to wrangle with NFA transfers and the astronomical price of transferrable legal machine guns. However, they a...
2024-10-25 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The South Korean military was using old Colt M1911A1 pistols in the 1980s, and as they became worn out a new pistol was needed. This would be something designed and built domestically, and chambered for 9x19. The small arms division of the massive...
2024-10-23 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Steyr introduced their TMP (Tactical Machine Pistol) and its semiauto SPP counterpart in 1989, but it was never a very popular item. After the company was purchased, the new ownership decided to scrap the TMP (along with other low-performing produ...
2024-10-21 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Czech Combat is a 2-day, 12-stage practical matching using rifle and pistol, sponsored by CZ and Sellier & Bellot. It is not a Brutality match, although it shares a lot of elements with Brutality. There is not as much physical challenge to the...
2024-10-19 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
After World War Two, the Red Army moved from a full power infantry rifle cartridge to an intermediate one, and the 7.62x39mm RPD became the new squad machine gun. At the same time, the heavy Maxims were replaced by the new SG-43 Goryunov. This lef...
2024-10-16 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The Krása project (which translates as "beauty", but is also a shortening of "short assault rifle" - "KRÁtký SAmopal") is a fascinating piece of Czech small arms development. In 1976, the Czechoslovakian military requested development of a comp...
2024-10-14 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
When Estonia regained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, it was initially armed with a wide variety of miscellaneous small arms. They clearly needed a primary standardized rifle for the new armed forces. The one definitive criteria fo...
2024-10-12 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-10-11 21:41:00 +0000 UTC View Post
At the end of Estonia's war of independence in 1920, the new nation's government began working on military infrastructure. One thing it would need was a repair depot to maintain military equipment, everything from barracks furniture to arms and ve...
2024-10-11 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The Degtyarev DP (aka DP-27) was the subject of a bunch of experimentation during the 1930s, but none of the trialed modifications were actually adopted. It was only in 1944, after several years of combat experience, that the design was updated to...
2024-10-09 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-10-08 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
In 1958, Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista ordered some 35,000 FAL rifles from FN, including both regular infantry rifles have heavy-barreled FALO light machine guns. Before any of them could arrive, however, Batista fled the country and his guns w...
2024-10-07 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-10-06 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
After producing the Ero, a nearly exact copy of the Israeli Uzi, the Croatia firm Arma started making some design changes. With the Mini-Ero, they picked a size in between that of the Mini-Uzi and Micro-Uzi, and also used a stock taken from the vz...
2024-10-05 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Romania had more than a million rifles in its inventory after World War One, but they were mused between Mannlicher 88/90, Mannlicher 95, Mosin Nagant, and Berthier patterns - and they were almost all rifles and not carbines. In order to make prac...
2024-10-04 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
When Czechoslovakia began looking for new small arms in the early 1920s, one of the things they were interested in was a "samostřil" - something akin to the automatic rifle in English. A select-fire weapon intended to be fired from the shoulder o...
2024-10-02 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-09-30 12:00:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I decided to do a Gothic Serpent memorial 2-gun match, using my Shughart M14 clone and a surplussed Delta 1911. This was a 5-stage match at the Rio Salado Sportsman's Club, and it was a complete dumpster fire for me. I don't know what change...
2024-09-27 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-09-25 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The S2-200 was developed by Louis Stange at the Rheinmetall company in Germany in the late 1920s. Because Germany was not allowed to be doing this sort of arms development at the time, Rheinmetall bought a controlling stake in the Swiss firm Solot...
2024-09-23 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-09-21 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I'm at B&T in Thun, Switzerland taking a look at the whole history of the company's suppressors. They began back in the 90s when founder Karl Brügger was working as a machinist and had spare time available - so he started making silence...
2024-09-20 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I figured it might be worthwhile to document the process of putting together my clone of Randy Shughart's M14 from 1993 Mogadishu...so here we go.
2024-09-19 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The Ruger P85 - like so many of Ruger's products - is not particularly attractive or exciting. It introduced no particular mechanical innovation besides the casting-based manufacturing that would actually probably be seen as a detriment if it were...
2024-09-18 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-09-17 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post