Looking for Firearm Resource

[Confusinator]

Does anyone have a link to an online Firearm Encyclopedia type website? I'm looking for a site that I can search on by year of manufacture (ex. show me pistols made in 1916)

Thanks.

[Lord Liaden]

Hmm... I'm not aware of anything that specific, especially for the pulp era.

Closest I can come is Dany St. Pierre's Hero Pulp website. His links to descriptions, illos and HERO stats for firearms of the pulp era often includes date of manufacture and use.

Hopefully this summer's Pulp HERO genre book will have that kind of information. Tell you what, I'll poke around among the online pulp gaming resources I know of, and see if I can dig up anything.

[Steve Long]

I doubt you'll find anything, LL, though I wish you luck. That sort of information is readily available in reference books, though offhand I'm not even aware of any in my library that list the weapons chronologically the way Confusinator seems to want.

Pulp Hero will definitely include the dates of first availability for the firearms and vehicles listed in Chapter Five, but as with the reference books I mentioned above, it will just be one data point among many -- not an axis on which the data's organized.

[gewing]

The bset chances might be something like the "collectors guide to gun Values" though it won't be chronologically separated, it should have production dates and such.


If there are specific guns you are looking for, maybe if you post them we gun geeks can find data for you.



One of the ones I am interested in for an interwar "pulp" setting is the Avtomat Federyov (sp?) the Russian WWI assault rifle. IIRC they made about 5 thousand of them, but the revolution intervened.

[Confusinator]

You mean this gun?

http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/BeforeWWI...ov/avtomat.jpg

If you brush up on your Russian, that site will probably tell you everything you want to know. I couldn't find much else though.

I was not looking for any specific firearm, I just wanted to update my webpage with an appropriate selection for the period.

[shadowcat1313]

heres a good general reference site, although it may not be exactly what you want
http://world.guns.ru/main-e.htm

[shadowcat1313]

heres another one although this is more for parts and stuff
http://www.e-gunparts.com/

[gewing]

You mean this gun?

http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/BeforeWWI...ov/avtomat.jpg

If you brush up on your Russian, that site will probably tell you everything you want to know. I couldn't find much else though.

I was not looking for any specific firearm, I just wanted to update my webpage with an appropriate selection for the period.

Thats the one. Anthony Williams and Max Popenecker just published a book on the history of the "Assault Rifles" It had some interesting history.

The federov was far in advance of its time, and though heavy would have made the tommy guns of the depression completely lame. As it was, the police and some crooks who were smart preferred the BAR. It did a much better job versus vehicles, and thought the . 45 acp is a decent pistol round, it doesn't hold a candle to the .30-06 in general. The Federov would have weighed about the same as a Tommy gun, iirc, and had FAR more power and range.

[st barbara]

A semi-automatic rifle that might be consideredfor use in a Pulp game (not perhaps well known) is the Mondragon. Invented in Mexico and used by the German aerial observers early in World War 1. Like a lot of early semi automatic rifles it is a bit "delicate" from the reports I read. It was also possible to get shoulder stocks for some semi-auto pistols (the famous 1896 Mauser was one) that could turn them into semi-auto carbines !

[shadowcat1313]

Browning High Power could also be fitted with a shoulder stock

[Egyptoid]

your firearm resource would be Skaramine,
and as soon as they wise up and un-ban him,
you'll know.

[gewing]

your firearm resource would be Skaramine,
and as soon as they wise up and un-ban him,
you'll know.

I believe he will be required to apologize/request unbanning.

[Rage]

what did he do this time?

[Kaeto]

Browning High Power could also be fitted with a shoulder stock

And The Mauser also had a full auto version that had a 20 round magazine.
(I'm not much of a gun geek am I?)

[gewing]

And The Mauser also had a full auto version that had a 20 round magazine.
(I'm not much of a gun geek am I?)

IIRC nicknamed Scnellfeuer

There was also a snail clip for the Luger that held about 20 rds.