After 10 years of owning my mp43/1 I finally managed to get 2 mags for my rifle , I got extremely lucky and bought them both for 100$. 1 of them is an original ww2 production and the other is an East German one.

I found a dozen odd magazines in a filing cabinet filled with other gun parts. Not sure what they belong to so if anyone can identify them that'd be a charm. I emailed lan McCollum and he reckoned they were a rare WW1 extended mag for a SMLE and asked to buy one. This was an incorrect guess however as they do not fit any

Enfield I tried.

The curve indicates a rim cartridge. I managed to fit 12 x .303 in one. But they could also be for 7.62R or 7.62 x 39.

I found 12 of them so it's not a Frankenstein mag.

There's no manufacturer markings, but there are numbers stamped on the heel of the mag ranking from 2 to 24.

I haven't found anything it fits in, no it's not for a Bren or a Lee Enfield.

At the ADIHEX exhibition in Abu Dhabi

I found this gun from a testing report talking about other guns as a replacement to the Thompson and or comparing them to the M1928a1 Thompson.

This gun was weird because there's info on the gun, but all of it contradicts the info on this gun is there a book that talks about this gun specifically? Any more information like what it magazine looks like what it's dissembled gun looks like bayonet design and ect ect.

All I can find is three sources talking about the gun all basically parroting from eachother

https://archive.org/details/DevelopmentalAndExperimentalOrdinanceVolume17Submachinegun/page/n24/mode/1up

Here's where I found it

The BA-100 is a DMR version of a Burmese G3 clone. The 60mm shells are either rifle grenades or mortar shells, but I do not think it is normal to equip a soldier with a rifle without conventional ammunition (even if they are a grenadier/artilleryman and factoring that live rounds can't be used with a mounted rifle grenade).

Also, for those who don't know, MA-5 is a Browning Hi-Power clone; the rest are Galil clones. The other rounds range from 24 9mm rounds to 240 5.56 rounds. Finally, a 12-volt battery is counted as a weapon for some reason.

First I will say it’s not necessary of course. The design whilst very advanced for its time, and perhaps with updates could sit quite comfortably with modern pistols. It doesn’t offer much in the way of benefits, atleast in calibers like 9mm. However, I feel the pistol in a higher power caliber could definitely benefit from its robust rotating bolt design. Perhaps something like 7.5 FK. Could of course go bigger like 50AE, 429 DE, 44 automag, etc. However, those calibers make it far too niche in my opinion. The 7.5 FK really fits a happy medium of being very powerful whilst also not being crazy and also having very decent capacity. Also, perhaps the rotating bolt design by would make it that much softer in simple 9mm to shoot, hard to say.

Anyway, the picture I use is supposed to illustrate my idea of the best way to update the pistol. And thats the way the gun unlocks. The 1898 uses a rotating bolt, but the way it operates whilst simple in theory, is quite complicated to manufacture and from a modern standpoint makes quite a few compromises. The whole slide of the gun rotates as opposed to just the bolt. That’s the main issue. It makes charging it difficult as well as making it unable to have sights on the slide. My main idea is to basically design the slide much like an AK bolt and BCG. The gun under short recoil stays locked into the barrels bolt lugs and then the barrel assembly hits a lug in the frame like the 1898 to stop the barrel and begin the unlocking. Using the energy of the short recoil, the slide with its cam groove acts on the cam pin of the bolt and unlocks it. You could have dual recoil springs on each side of the frame like a P38 and an internal or external hammer.

Is there something wrong with this principle? Because I’ve seen gun designs that came close to doing this but simply not doing it like the wildey pistol, desert eagle and the automag. More specifically the automag since it’s short recoil. I wonder why it wasn’t made more simple. Perhaps the designer wasn’t aware of more simplified rotating bolt designs. But then again, the garand works on a very similar principle to the AK and would have been very easy for him to study at the time. The main issue from what I’ve seen with designs like the automag is that they lack slide mass compared to the barrel assembly. They rely way too much on just simple spring pressure to make it work reliably. The 1898 seemed to operate reliably and had a happy medium of ample slide mass for reliable operation.

But I guess I am just confused as to why this hasn’t really been done before in this way. It reduces complexity compared to the 1898 and certainly the automag. Is there any problems with my engineering logic? Is there a reason this wouldn’t work?

Another question is why I am interested in the 1898. Well, it’s a neat pistol mechanically. And it was one of the first as well as one of the best at the time. And the rotating bolt does put it on a small list of other rotating bolt pistols. I also like pistols where the barrel is naked as it were. Guns like the Luger, 1898, C96, automag, etc. It just looks prettier generally to me and from a modern perspective it allows ease of porting anywhere and everywhere on the barrel if you so choose as well as ease of attaching compensators.

My updates would give the slide more cycling mass, greatly reduce its complexity and allow the slide to be used like a conventional slide and allow the sights to be mounted to it is as well. And of course when it comes to updates, I would give the gun a proper slide release, magazine release, double stack magazine, etc. Also, I use the AK as a popular example of the principle I am conveying. The bolt need not be a direct copy and have the cam lug/pin be affixed directly to the bolt. I think I would prefer the Sig 550s design for the purposes of this pistol idea.

Anyway, tell me what yall think

i could only find a few mentions of it on a couple of russian forums but nothing beyond that, along with a boosty blog but that requires an account to view