Tag: early breechloaders

POTD: Poppenburg’s Horizontal Sliding Action Breechloader

Posted February 12, 2019 in Photo Of The Day by Matthew Moss with No Comments

Back in the mid-1860s most of the world’s militaries began to clamber to adopt breech-loading systems following the success of the Prussian Dreyse Needle Rifle during the Prussian-Danish War. The Dreyse breechloader had given the Prussians a tactical advantage [Read More…]

Vienna Museum

Posted February 18, 2015 in Guns & Gear, Other Gear & Gadgets, Pistols, Rifles by Nathaniel F with 20 Comments

Blogger oper-1974 recently covered a trip he made to the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military History Museum) in Vienna, Austria. In the museum are many artifacts from Austria’s rich military history, most dating from periods outside my expertise, and thus [Read More…]