In an effort to further simplify the design of the cartridge feeding mechanism, Mannlicher decided to use gravity to feed cartridges and designed a magazine located above the bolt, for which...

Over the course of many years of service, legendary rifles of the 20th century often went through various alterations and modernizations, sometimes quite unusual. And in this article we will look at the history of one of the most unusual...

The very first Mannlicher rifles were not accepted for service and did not go into mass production, but their design speaks of the remarkable intelligence of this designer and...

It often happened that the development of firearms and, in particular, the same rifles, was influenced by factors of a natural geographical nature. For example, the so-called Little Ice Age...

Russian snipers participating in the Special Operation actively use Lobaev Arms rifles. Weapons of several models allow them to hit various targets with high accuracy in a wide range...

Since last year, the Moscow Arms Company has been producing high-precision sniper systems in the Raptor line. Several rifles of this family were previously presented, and recently...

A thing created by a talented person, made skillfully and even with love, but for certain tasks and conditions, finding itself in radically different, specific circumstances, behaves...

It just so happened that in Belgium no one produced weapons. In Liege there were entire streets of gunsmiths. Moreover, some specialized only in locks, others made only barrels, and still others...

The Russian army has begun to receive serial microwave sniper rifles. It is expected that such weapons in the future will replace the well-deserved, but old SVD, and will also give our snipers new opportunities....

In the English army, equipped with the Brown Bess musket, and then in others, it became fashionable to drive the bullet into the barrel by hitting the butt on the ground, without using a cleaning rod. However, this method was not suitable for...

The Kalashnikov Concern begins supplying the latest microwave sniper rifles. The first batch of mass-produced products has been accepted by the customer and will soon be delivered to Russian army units....

Our story will be about the rarities of the era of cartridges, when gunsmith designers tried with all their might to make a pistol shoot not just once, but... many, just like a revolver!...

The desire of designers to create a portable weapon capable of firing several times in a row and at the same time devoid of a protruding magazine in the form of a rotating drum was already embodied in the 50s of the XIX century...

In the middle of the XNUMXth century, weapons produced at Czechoslovak factories could rightly be considered among the most advanced models in the whole world...

We have two letters H and J up next, and for each of them there is something to show. Although even Belgian weapons historians know nothing about some samples. But then there are the revolvers and pistols themselves....

The influence of the StG 44 on post-war armament was quite varied, as evidenced by Mikhail Kalashnikov's AK-47 and later Eugene Stoner's M16 and their variants. The main borrowing was not...

This interesting pistol design is often erroneously referred to as the "Manlicher Model 1903" as this is the year it was introduced to the European gun market....

The recent scandal “general of the Russian Guard against tuning” was perceived differently by many. Some thought that this was simply a requirement to hand over standard weapons to the armory at the point of permanent deployment in that...

By 1941, it became clear to the Germans that it was necessary to act more actively towards the creation of new weapons. Although by this time various experimental...

At the end of the XNUMXth and beginning of the XNUMXth centuries in different countries, many different designers worked tirelessly, trying to create “the best pistol in the world,” and each of them solved this problem in their own way....

SIA Mod. The 1918 was the first Italian air-cooled light machine gun. Developed at the end of the First World War, it was used in limited numbers during the final months of combat...

In the US at the end of the war the StG 44 was derided as "mediocre", "cumbersome" and "inconvenient". It was argued that it was not capable of conducting continuous automatic fire because it was prone to jamming,...

The rivalry between two well-known American companies: Colt and Savage in their attempt to create an automatic pistol for the army...

Today we will tell you about ultra-expensive weapons that were sold to amateur collectors by the Rock Island Auction in Illinois in the USA....