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Fixing the 1919A6 barrel

This is kind of an after action report on the 1919A6 barrel that was involved in the accident. The last post on the damage to the 1919A4 due to some Turkish ammo showed a barrel that had a case stuck in it that the base was sheared off.

With the cost of everything these days […]

April 7th, 2016 | Category: 1919 Browning, Gun Lab, Gunsmithing, Historic weapons, Parts | Leave a comment

Fun at the machine gun shoot

This last weekend was our semi annual when we get around to it kind of twice a year maybe only once a year machine gun shoot. It is nothing great or grand. There are no fees, no explosives, no sales tables, no flying targets and no spectators. Just a boring time of a bunch of […]

March 31st, 2016 | Category: 1919 Browning, artillery, British weapons., German weapons, grat 06H, Gun Lab, Historic weapons, Hotchkiss, machine gun shoot, MG-42, pinnacle studio, STG-45, weekend update | 4 comments

Repairing broken equipment after the shoot

The machine gun shoot went great. I had a great deal of fun and actually relaxed for the weekend. When I got back home and unloaded the vehicle I noticed that my wooden ammo box had been broken. So to go along with unloading, cleaning the guns and gear, putting everything away I also had […]

March 30th, 2016 | Category: 1919 Browning, British weapons., equipment repair, Hotchkiss | Leave a comment

Goofed off this weekend and went shooting

I took off a few personal days and went to out local machine gun shoot. There will be a few posts about that over the next few days as soon as I get the videos sorted out. I had an opportunity to examine a serious failure. A friend of mine was shooting his 1919 browning […]

March 29th, 2016 | Category: 1919 Browning, Historic weapons, machine gun shoot | 2 comments