An archive of Kevin O’Brien’s posts from the original WeaponsMan website he created in 2011.
Please excuse any typos and issues resulting from scraping the old site. Posts might be out of chronological order.
Just a few relatively simple pieces. Nothing to it, right? … Er, wrong. Click on through to the video to get an idea of the thorny details of realizing these parts. Image: Forgotten Weapons.com Ian has a great video post at GunLab on how what looked like a simple project to make a simple add-on, …
Another day, another bozo writes an inept column about firearms technology. This could become as boring a subject as wannabees. In this case, a writer named Mark Gibbs at Forbes has his panties in a bunch over the Have Blue 3R AR-15 we’ve previously covered. Here’s a taste of his sky-is-falling Luddism: I’m in favor …
The Revolutionary War is very important in Special Forces history. It is, in fact, a classical insurgency whether you analyze it as a military or political historian, in view of SF seven-stages-of-GW theory, or in Maoist three-phases theory. Weapons were a key component of Colonial Era logistics — the British tried to seize or collect …
Last time we spent any time on phony SF / Ranger / HE-ro / Legend-in-his-own-mind John Giduck, we were having a belly laugh at his pathetic display of “authentic Spetsnaz shovel fighting” on YouTube. Now, a shovel has been used as an infantry combat weapon (we once knew a man who’d won the Medal of …
Swords and sword-fighting are a long time issue of ours, and once we’ve gotten past our amusement with the Russian and Russophile fascination with shovel fighting, we know that the art of sword fighting was once the peak of combat effect, and it seems obvious that the best guides to that art would be found …
This clown suit is a typical store-bought ghillie suit. It’s made for a lazy hunter who does not plan to low crawl. Or a Sasquatch wannabe. Starting in the 1980s, Ghillie Suits (named for the Scottish word for gamekeeper, as Scots gamekeepers presumably invented the thing) have been trendy for military snipers. Especially the Hollywood …
Susan Fleming wasn’t happy when her boyfriend brought his shotgun to their home. Somewhat the worse for drink, she taught him a gun safety lesson — by blowing a hole in the wall of their house. From the local boob-tube station (emphasis ours, though): Officials say Susan Fleming argued with her 55-year-old boyfriend Friday night …
Wednesday Weapons Website of the Week is: Steve’s Pages cartridge information: diagrams and dimensons. We might have cited Steve Ricciardelli’s website before, but we’re pointing you at one page today: Steve’s Cartridge Dimension Page. The need came up when we were recently handed an ancient Winchester Model 70 with an aftermarket barrel and an unusual …
Thug (Henderson, r.) menaces patrons (l.) Williams is behind the man in white at upper right center. This is a good shoot: Williams was seated toward the back of the cafe dressed in a white shirt, shorts and baseball cap. One of the masked men, identified as Duwayne Henderson, 19, comes in pointing a handgun …
Now that’s a freefall: 3 min 48 seconds Congratulations to Felix Baumgartner for a new personal best: a jump from 96,640 feet. As fans and former pracritionares of parachuting, we’ve covered Felix’s previous jumps before. Felix ran into a few glitches this time, including the complete lack of aerodynamic stability near 100,000 feet. (Spacecraft and …