Forum for discussion of SMG’s (Sten, Sterling, Lanchester, Thompson etc.) and LMG/HMG's (MG08/15, Vickers, Lewis, MG34/42, Browning etc.), accessories, ammunition, and accoutrements.
Here's a very large pattern room drawing for the the Vickers Mk1 machine gun, which I thought they might be of some interest to members here. :thup:...
:beerchug: With thanks to member Graeme "broadarrow303" Barber, an excellent new research article about the Lewis Gun has been added to the...
By Peter Laidler With thanks to Vincent from the forum and Brian (at BDL Ltd) So you want or need a new butt for your Mk5 Sten gun do you? ...
With the success of the lewis the Imperial German Army needed an equivalent, and as efficient as ever why not take advantage of existing parts and...
In Europe and Canada there are several fine collections of WWI German MG (with the USA maintaining their live MG shoot capability) so in some...
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US Ordnance started looking for a replacement for the Browning M2 50 cal m/g near the end of the Korean War. By 1959, they had the T175E2 adopted as...
I Ran across this looking for something else. A bit of light reading on the Easter Sunday. Happy Easter to all.. Link to article --> ...
Does anyone know how the German army, during WW2, stored it's 250 round belts, please? Was it one long length of 250 rnds which would seem logical or...
I wondered if anyone else has seen Soviet ammo tins for the 1910 Maxim repaired in a similar manner to this one? Each side of the can has a strip of...
I’m wondering does anyone know of a tripod adaptor for the mg42/mg3 aa tripods that would work with the pkt?
I have an original cutaway Lithgow Vickers that I've been meaning to complete for a few years. Does anyone have or know where in the UK or EU I...
Hello everyone. By way of introduction... what am I? The wife says I'm a gun nut, and she's probably right. I am intrigued by firearms and have been...
Found these this interesting photo of a three barreled assault weapon, chambered for the 7,62x39mm ? cartridge. I would think all three barrels...
I have these 2X mg34/42 belts, which came in the special Israeli mg ammo tins, and these have slightly different starter tabs to normal that are...
We've found some new software that lets us start, stop and annotate on films so we've picked a few period clips of the Vickers machine gun in service...
I doubt there are many of these still around except in the Soviet Union ?
Can anyone tell me about Arol please. I have a Sten mag with their marking on it but I can find no reference to them. Thanks.
This is cross posted on another forum. I put everything else on hold to get this M2HB parts kit from Bowman Arms. Its an AC Spark Plug, Div. of GM....
Found this link on another forum. Dropbox - Sterling MK III User Handbook.pdf
Does anyone know what these are? They look like MP34 magazines to me, don't recognize the pouch though.
Has anybody mated a Sten Mk II/V (probably Mk II) barrel with the B&T QD™ SMG/PDW suppressor, Cal. 9 x 19 mm (SD-988100)? In theory this looks like...
I don’t think this has been mentioned on here before and thought it might be of interest. Someone is making reproductions of the pre-Mk5 type Sten...
Our next #VickersMG gun study where we look closely at one of the guns in the collection. This one is an Australian-made Mark I gun but it didn't...
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