WATCH: M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer Firing
M18 Hellcat Firing I didn’t have the opportunity to do a full video with the folks who own this M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer, but I did get some footage of it firing. Enjoy!
Weaponry
WATCH: Heavy Machine Guns of the Great War
I have been really enjoying The Great War series, so I figured I ought to take advantage of an opportunity to look at several WWI heavy machine guns side by side. This is a video to give some historical context to the guns, and not a technical breakdown of exactly how they work (that will …
WATCH: FG42 vs M1 Garand: 2-Gun Action Match
For this month’s 2-Gun Action Challenge Match, we had a loaner .308 FG42 from SMG Guns, which I handed off to my friend Karl to shoot. I went up against him with an M1 Garand, to see if e could get an idea of how these two rifles would have fared against each other in …
WATCH: Panzerbüchse 39 German Anti-Tank Rifle
Panzerbüchse 39 Most countries still had anti-tank rifles in their military inventory at the beginning of WWII – the Solothurn S18-100, the Lahti L39, the Boys AT Rifle, the PTRD and PTRS, and so on. For Germany, this role was fulfilled by the Panzerbüchse 39, a single-shot falling block rifle firing a high velocity 8mm …
WATCH: Firing a German Pak 40 75mm AT Gun
While we normally stick to small arms here, this beast of a gun was just way too impressive for me to not pay attention to. I was at a cannon and machine gun shoot just recently where some folks brought out what is (I believe) the only functional Pak 40 in the United States. And …
WATCH: Shooting a MG34 and MG42
Firing a MG34 & MG42 Watch Ian McCollum from ForgottenWeapons shoot a MG-34 and MG-42 and explain how to load, unload and operate them (including how to change the barrel on the MG42). Posted with permission from Ian McCollum. Watch also: Firing a Pak 40, Ian McCollum fires a German Pak 40 75mm AT Gun Panzerbüchse 39, a German …
