rifle

How important is full auto for an rifle? Russian troops train a lot for full auto while US troops rarely use burst or full auto even in room clearing. I do believe back in Korea US troops demanded a full auto option for the M1 carbine.

My nephew has a 1952 Polish M44 Carbine rifle. He also has one from Romania and Yugoslavia, circa 1950s. It is a single bolt and holds five rounds. I am not real knowledgeable when it comes to weapons. I read somewhere this was the standard issue for the Satellite states of the Soviet Union. The...

In the second world war Japan was famous for producing a very unique weapon that was built like a mortar and can fire grenades called the type 89 grenade discharger often called the knee mortar. How did it compare to the rifle grenades of its day like the m7 rifle grenade launcher the US was using?

I got a case with some authentic civil war bullets in it, and they’re labeled on the back. It looks exactly like this: Union - Musket Ball - Sharps. Obviously, the last two are from a musket and a sharps rifle, but what is the one labeled union? What kind of gun was that from? It looks like a...

I came across a youtube video with this rifle being the talked about gun. It's a channel called forgotten weapons... Interesting content on there. According to the channel and comments on the video, The Whitworth Rifle wreaked quite the havoc on union troops. Even though there were not allot of...

I have recently started researching the 2nd Boer War, and being a reenactor/living historian, I thought it might be possible to tweak my Victorian gentleman impression to a Boer impression. I also have a rifle that was around during the Boer War, but I am not sure if any actually ended up in the...

Came across this and intrigued. Anyone known anything about this rifle and it's effectiveness? 20 shots , high rate of fire, no smoke. bUt what was it's hitting power? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girandoni_air_rifle Apparently used by Lewis and Clarke expedition as well.

Which modern sniper rifle do you consider is the best one overall?

With the coming of the Civil war why would the Union War department prefer the musket over the 2 repeating rifles, The Spencer and the Henry?

We are restoring a house built in 1911 that has been the dumping place for a few hoarders over they last 5 years. We have found some interesting artifacts and a few valuable items! If you have any help identifying this rifle and helping us figure out what to do with it that would be great! The...

Which was, in your opinion, the best infantry rifle of WWII era?

Having just read through Earl J. Hess' "The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth", I felt the subject matter to be an interesting discussion topic to put forward. In it Hess puts forth the idea that the impact the rifle musket had on civil war combat was very minimal. This is the...

Having just read through Earl J. Hess' "The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth", I felt the subject matter to be an interesting discussion topic to put forward. In it Hess puts forth the idea that the impact the rifle musket had on civil war combat was very minimal. This is the...

here are images of the rifle disassembled and pictures taken of all markings on it, I am wondering if anyone can help me understand what all the markings mean or at me of them and maybe learn a little bit about the rifle itself.

The German army has decided to scrap the G36 rifle due to overheating problems on its effect on accuracy. Since the frame and receiver are all aligned and plastic, it holds the metal barrel on through plastic. Once hot, this melts, making it unaligned effecting accuracy. I read one report that...

Which rifle was best for sniping in WWII?

Which is the best intermediate cartrige? So intermediate means shrunk down cartrige first made by the Germans in WWII with their Sturmgewher. So no 30-06, 7.62x54 or 7.62x51.

Title. I would go with the American 7.62x51 NATO or the Soviet 7.62x54R

Which DMR is the best?

Which is the Best Battle Rifle? That means they are automatic rifles that fire full powered rifle cartriges longer than 50mm. So no M16s or AKs.