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Can I Shoot 1 MOA All Day? (Bloke/Polenar Challenge Accepted!) (Ad-free)

Posting this early for all of you guys...

Bloke and Žiga have challenged us - and you! - to shoot a 1 MOA group on demand, with a non-benchrest sort of rifle. The idea is that a whole lot of...

AK-63F: Hungary's Last Military Kalashnikov (Ad-free)

Join our Kickstarter for "Rifles On The Danube" today and get your copy of the best book on Hungarian AKs!

2024-05-11 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Romania Copies the Jericho: Cugir Models 95 & 98 (Ad-free)

By the end of communism in Romania in 1989, the standard service pistols for the army and police were still the old Tokarevs and the Cugir Model 74 "Carpați" Walther PP copy. These were obviously ...

Hungarian Blast Machine: AMD-65 at the Range (Ad-free)

"Rifles on the Danube" Kickstarter is live!

Today I took my AMD-65 out to the range. I've shot regular AKMs with AMD muzzle brakes, but never had the chance to try the AMD-65 in...

Tanegashima: Guns of the Samurai (Ad-free)

The first Japanese exposure to firearms came from Portuguese traders in 1534, as the southern Japanese island of Tanegashima. They received a matchlock, and quickly recognized its utility and poten...

ATF Update: More Transferrable MGs and One-Week NFA Transfers (Ad-free)

Two pieces of surprisingly good news regarding the NFA :

First, ATF has recognized that about 4,000 machine guns imported prior to 1986 for police agencies were mis-classified as dealer samp...

Researching Hungarian Kalashnikovs: Interview with László Becz (Ad-free)

Rifles on the Danube: Hungarian Kalashnikov Firearms 1959-2002 is available now on Kickstarter:

2024-05-07 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

MG08: The Devil's Paintbrush

The MG08 was the German Army standard Maxim gun in World War One. The Germany Navy adopted the Maxim first in 1894, followed by the Army in 1899, then a new pattern in 1901, and finally the MG08 in...

Rupertus Pepperbox: A Sophisticated 8-Shot Rimfire Pocket Gun (Ad-free)

The Rupertus Patent Pistol Manufacturing Company was founded in Philadelphia by Bavarian-born Jacob Rupertus. The company made a variety of derringers, pepperboxes, and revolvers and today we are l...

.30-06 M1918 American Chauchat - Doughboys Go to France (Ad-free)

When the US entered World War One, the country had a grand total of 1,453 machine guns, split between 4 different models. This was not a useful inventory to equip even a single division headed for ...

AMD-65: The Specialist's AK Turns Standard-Issue (Ad-free)

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Rifles on the Danube: Hungarian Kalashnikovs - Headstamp's New Book!

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Madsen M50: From the Korean War to Star Trek (Ad-free)

During World War Two, Madsen (DISA) manufactured a licensed copy of the Finnish Suomi (see: https://youtu.be/hjs1uiAIpNQ). Whe...

Clockwork Basilisk - The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler (Ad-free)

Available now at:

http://www.headstamppublishing.com/collier-book

Clockwork Basilisk: The ...

How to Avoid the Legal Pitfalls of a Transferrable H&K Auto Sear (Ad-free)

One of the particularly popular transferrable machine guns out there is the H&K auto sear. Since H&K grip and trigger assemblies are interchangeable between 9mm, 5.56mm, and 7.62x51mm guns ...

M1 Thompson: Savage Simplifies the SMG (Ad-free)

The Thompson submachine gun struggled to find a market when it was originally produced, with the first batch of 15,000 Colt-made guns not finally all selling until the late 1930s. By that time, the...

Daly Arms "Tom Thumb" - A Tiny Ring-Trigger Revolver (Ad-free)

The "Tom Thumb" is a tiny .22 rimfire revolver made in Belgium by an unknown shop and imported into the US to be sold by the Daly Arms Company of New York. These are antique guns, probably made in ...

Colt Automatic Machine Rifle Model 1919: the First Commercial BAR (Ad-free)

Several patents were taken out on the BAR during World War One, but they were all kept unpublished and secret during the war. Just days after the Armistice, Colt patent attorney CJ Ehbets wrote to ...

Maxims in the Skies: the German LMG 08/15 (Ad-free)

As soon as the MG08/15 "light" machine gun was adopted by Germany, it was recognized as an ideal basis for an aircraft gun. Weight was of the essence for WW1 aircraft, and a lightened Maxim was jus...

The Rarest 1911: North American Arms Co (Ad-free)

In the summer of 1918, the US government wanted to increase production of M1911 pistols, but all current manufacturers were working at capacity. So they looked to issue new contracts, and someone r...

What is the Best Maxim Gun? (with John Keene) (Ad-free)

Today, Ian is talking to John Keene, NFA specialist for Morphy Auctions. The question is, what is the best model of Maxim gun? Whether it's for a recreation shooter or a historical enthusiast, ther...

'Murican 2-Gun: M1918A3 BAR and M1911A1 (Ad-free)

Today I'm taking a brand new Ohio Ordnance M1918A3 semiauto BAR to the 2-gun match, along with a Tisas M1911A1 clone. The BAR is the WW2 configuration, but I followed the footsteps of many a US GI ...

MG11: The Magnificent Swiss Maxim Gun (Ad-Free)

The Swiss were one of the first countries to test Hiram Maxim’s new automatic machine gun in 1887, and they found it far superior to their just-recently-purchased Gardner guns. The first Swiss ma...

Type 100 / 44 (Late Pattern) Japanese SMG (Ad-free)

The Japanese never really embraced submachine guns during and before World War Two. A series of development programs in the 1920s and 30s led nowhere, and there never really seems to have been much...

M14: America’s Worst Service Rifle - What Went Wrong? (Ad-free)

While the US never adopted a significant variation of the M1 Garand (excluding sniper models), testing continued on new iterations and features throughout the war. By the time the war ended, the US...

A Guns to Save Lives: Winchester 1886 Line Thrower (Ad-free)

Line-throwing devices have long been an important part of maritime safety, and many different have been guns adapted to launch ropes from shore to ship or ship to ship. Usually they are inexpensive...

Lugers in Thailand: The Siamese Artillery Luger (Ad-Free)

In 1936 and 1937, Siam purchased a batch of several hundred new Luger pistols for the Bangkok Police, including 100 long-barreled lP08 Artillery Lugers. These were new production gun, but made with...

Chinese Type 50 PPSh: Founding “Gun City” in Manchuria (Ad-free)

One of the first new weapons adapted and used by the Chinese Peoples’ Liberation Army after the Communist victory in the Chinese civil war was the Type 50, a copy of the Soviet PPSh-41. The story...

What is a "Battle Rifle"?

"Battle rifle" is not a formally recognized term like "assault rifle", but it is widely used, and I think it has a lot of utility. It is intended to differentiate between intermediate-caliber and f...

Colt Viper: A Rare Snake and a Great Revolver (Ad-free)

Colt has released seven different revolvers named after snakes, and they have become a popular niche collection for many people. The Python is by far the best known, but several others are very rar...