Kevin O’Brien … we personally would reach for something with a little more range and a simpler point-and-click interface than the Wusthofs in the kitchen. And once the guy bugs out (assuming we uncharacteristically missed all three shots on Mozambique-drilling him), we’d let him keep bugging. In our house, burglars go to the drawer at the county …
Sorry about that. Day-long briefing, this’ll be fun… not. In the meantime we recommend you go to one of these excellent sites: The Gun Wire for news headlines, Drudge style. Forgotten Weapons for in-depth looks at oddities, also-rans and the occult history of firearms (don’t miss the related site GunLab, with even more tech, but …
There was no Sunday Post …this week. This one was added Monday afternoon through the magic of backdating. This entry was posted in Administrivia on October 28, 2012 by Hognose. About Hognose Former Special Forces 11B2S, later 18B, weapons man. (Also served in intelligence and operations jobs in SF). View all posts by Hognose → …
HMS Bounty Makes History Again… On a better day — sunlight, calm seas, blue skies, full sails. She went down in the dark, visibility low in swirling precipitation, clouds and rain with reefed sails. RIP. …and this time, again, in a negative way. A replica of the 18thCentury ship, made for a 1962 Marlon Brando …
A Special Forces sniper engages a target during the night stress event at the 2010 USASOC Sniper Competition at Fort Bragg. US Army photo. For the last 100 years, until quite recently, the range and striking power of small units’ individual and crew-served weapons hasn’t changed much even as the weapons have been revolutionized in …
The Atlantic’s Brian Fung picked up an amazing photo essay by Jason Lee of Reuters. Lee apparently visited a Chinese theme park that puts the attendees in the role of Mao Tse-Tung’s (we use Wade-Giles here, as used in Free China, so sue us) 8th Route Army during the Japanese occupation. Or, for some of …
There’s few things more entertaining for a troop than laughing at the dysfunction of the institutional Army that the amazingly functional sharp-end troopies always seem to route around in order to accomplish the mission. And there’s few things that get our dander up (as longtime readers have noticed) than negligent discharges. Awareness of muzzle and …
You probably know Geissele as a maker of really good triggers for AR-15 and M16 series rifles, but the Norristown, Pennsylvania firm been expanding their product line, and they’ve created a gunsmiths’ tool that is a must have for anyone that does mid-range work on AR-type weapons, especially work that involves removing and replacing barrels. We’ve lost count of …
The Answer is Obvious As graduates of Benning School for Boys, we were interested to see this. Mike Crumbley of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources says feral hogs are a major problem at Fort Benning. He says they’re also encroaching into Columbus. …but a little mystified that they’re having a hard time imagining a …
The various pistol, rifle, and multi-gun competitions are often billed as good training for self-defense and even for police and military operations, but they aren’t for a number of reasons: Too much emphasis on the quick draw Perhaps the generations of Hollywood westerns that dominated the American cultural mindscape from circa 1950 to 1970 are …