While Grazing Old German WW1 Postcards

alanint · 07-11-2013, 09:03 PM

Thanks, Eric!

The version you see with the buttstock and bypod is actually a Maxim 08/15. These were issued with a "drum", which consisted of a "reel" you would wrap the cloth belt around, (not unlike our attempt to mimic the MG34-MG42 with the M1919-A6 in WW2!!).

The Maxim 08/15 was for years, (and still somewhat today) the "entry" gun for the Title 2 collector into the "beltfed" category of medium machineguns.

You could buy one for about $5,000- $6,000 for years when Turkish 8mm ammo was $95 for a 2 spam can crate of 1,875 rounds, delivered. I've watched perhaps millions of rounds run through these guns over the years and they simply soldier on......

07-11-2013, 09:03 PM	#9
alanint User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Marco Island, Florida Posts: 4,867 Thanks: 1,685 Thanked 1,917 Times in 1,193 Posts	Thanks, Eric! The version you see with the buttstock and bypod is actually a Maxim 08/15. These were issued with a "drum", which consisted of a "reel" you would wrap the cloth belt around, (not unlike our attempt to mimic the MG34-MG42 with the M1919-A6 in WW2!!). The Maxim 08/15 was for years, (and still somewhat today) the "entry" gun for the Title 2 collector into the "beltfed" category of medium machineguns. You could buy one for about $5,000- $6,000 for years when Turkish 8mm ammo was $95 for a 2 spam can crate of 1,875 rounds, delivered. I've watched perhaps millions of rounds run through these guns over the years and they simply soldier on......