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Hotchkiss Portative tri-pod ideas

I own a Hotchkiss portative machine gun and with it now fully operational it has become one of my favorites to take to the shoot.

My biggest complaint with it is that I just don’t like getting down into the dirt to shoot it. The butt stock is uncomfortable to use and the little […]

March 22nd, 2016 | Category: British weapons., Gun Lab, Historic weapons, Hotchkiss, Maxim machine gun, Tri-pods | 2 comments

My favorite Maxim machine guns

There has been a number of articles and write ups on the Maxim gun lately so I thought I would add my 2 cents in. I have owned a number of Maxim guns over the years. An 08, 08/15 and a Chinese type 24 and well as a number of kits. However, my favorite Maxim […]

January 12th, 2016 | Category: Gun Lab, Historic weapons, Maxim machine gun, Parts, Weapons Design | 2 comments

Library Thursday

First off you can see that we changed the title for the Thursday post from book review to library. This was done because I wanted to add more then just book reviews. I wanted to add information to the Gun Lab library that I thought would be useful to you.

So this first post is […]

August 28th, 2014 | Category: Brass, Gardner gun, library, Library Thursday, Maxim machine gun, metal casting, metalurgy, Nordenfelt, Uncategorized | 2 comments