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The EM2 was a post war 1950s design for a new British service rifle to replace the .303 Lee Enfield but the decision to adopt 7.62 x 54mm as the standard Nato round was the end of that.

The pistol would more likely be early/mid 19th century as a percussion/screw barrel design-the obvious problems with such a design is the hammer catching on any clothing and the 'one shot only (if...

Were the pockets reinforced? 3 loaded 30 round magazines would wear through fabric in no time otherwise. PS The basic background print pattern appears to be the rain type used by GDR troops.

2 of our bayos-parade polished blade with gloss black paint for the RAAF and field service in dark grey parkerisation for the army as delivered by the factory.

I have a British P37 revolver holster that has been extensively modified post war by the Dutch for the Inglis Hi Power automatic-one of the 6 changes/additions was a push stud closure/lift for the...

It's marked 'US' so its a service example, not purely commercial.

Has to be remembered the Argentine army hadn't seen active service against another country for a century or so at the time-many armies tried machete type bayos over the years but they were never very...

I have one of the locally Oz produced spares wallets-green cotton duck rather than webbing material and the stripping and adjustment tool is much simpler than the milled British tool. There are...

Someone inherited it or cleared out the former owner's home and wasn't interested in keeping it-not everyone's interested in the Nazi stuff or militaria in general!

Hello Joe! Good to see you back, and still in the game.

The Finns were never all that big on bayonets as weapons-many were 'lost' by troops in the field during WW2 as being pretty redundant and encumbering for no real use-having a bayo that could double...

Hitler did fly, but again, he was no fan of it-it was just much faster for getting around, especially on the campaign trail in the early 1930s when live rallies were an important part of getting...

does anyone know if hitler had a small yacht? See this

I think the original post pictures are of a river craft donated by party faithful of a town or region on the Rhine river-Hitler had no personal interest in sailing/boating and was seasick...

toot-the Forestry Carbine is a conversion of the long infantry rifle Berthier done by the Turks in the 1940s. The rifles were considered to have no real military value by the Turks as they were non...

Looks about right but the positioning of the WaffenAmt on the front of the flap is strange-usually there would be an ink stamping of the pistol type intended for the holster on the inside of it, but...

That's actually a rear view shot-the Archer was based on a Valentine tank chassis with the 17 pounder gun firing over the rear hull to make it more compact-when fired, the gun breech recoiled almost...

Hard yakka all round!

Hello-a pretty rare Browning FN HP you have there-the Finns were pretty big users of Browning type pistols of various models over the years. This site has a lot of interesting info on various...

Is the knife still serviceable? That model is still issued-the curved spikey thing is for splicing rope ends which very few people can actually do now. The pill tubes could be for quinine, charcoal...

People do some strange things when they're bored-ever fed a whole pencil into an electric sharpener?

The badges weren't polished though-whole point of blackening them for field service was a low profile effect-and damaging HM's property would incur the wrath of the CSM!

Due to the lack of local factories able to weave P37 equipment (same in 1914 for P08 stuff!), P08 was used well into WW2 here along with leather P37 equivalents.

Might have to explain what a cricket stump is to our foreign friends!

Lithgow SAF was forced to make all sorts of products between the wars and after WW2 to keep the workforce employed-ash trays to lawn mowers as well as civilian conversions of the SMLE design as...