The BAR M1918A3 by Ohio Ordnance - Shooting and Mechanism
At The Range
•
24m
Today we're looking at one of Ohio Ordnance's semiauto M1918A3 BARs - how it shoots, how it works, and what the pros and cons of the military BAR variants were in World War I and World War II.
Up Next in At The Range
-
Spanish JoLoAr pistol in .380 caliber
The JoLoAr pistol was a combination of a poor-selling and unremarkable Spanish blowback semiauto pistol called the Sharpshooter and an idea by a man named Jose Lopez Arnaiz (whose name is the source of the pistol's name). Arnaiz conceived the idea of mounting a lever (palanca in Spanish) onto a p...
-
Shooting a Krausewerke .45ACP Luger
The story of the .45ACP Lugers is a bit complex, and widely misunderstood. What most people believe is that two such guns were made for US military testing, one was lost, and the other is worth a million dollars. Well, that's virtually all incorrect. In actuality, probably about a half dozen were...
-
Beretta 38/44 and MP41 Comparison
We had the chance to shoot a couple of the lesser-known submachine guns used in World War II, a German MP41 and an Italian Beretta 38/44. Both are pretty typically submachine guns, firing 9mm Luger from open bolts with fixed firing pins and simple blowback actions. They both have solid wood stock...
