Aren’t they all? Expect no new posts today. WeaponsMan.com will be back with new content Monday morning! This entry was posted in Administrivia on October 27, 2013 by Hognose. About Hognose Former Special Forces 11B2S, later 18B, weapons man. (Also served in intelligence and operations jobs in SF).
This is a late, and retro post (meaning we’re posting it Thursday, and backdating it to Wednesday. But a retro post is appropriate here because the Wednesday Weapons Website of the Week is John Thomas’s Retro Arms Works. We’ve never met John in person, but we “know” him through the Retro Forum at AR15.com. And …
The future of the USMC: there’s a lot of ‘crushing’ coming We’re not Marines so we will not have the take on this that other Marines past and present will. These are the briefing slides the Commandant of the Marine Corps, James Amos, used recently at the Marine General Officers School. This is, then, …
The term HP needs some explanation. It’s not “Hewlett Packard” or “High Performance” or “Horsepower,” or even [Browning] “High Power.” (Which is GP anyway, in its native Walloon: “Grande Puissance” — and sounds way sexier). It goes back to Norway, and SF guys’ love for spicy food. And the love for spices comes, at least …
We may not have time to cover this in detail, but the Castle Rock, Colorado, PD says that random spray-and-pray from an AR at a moving car full of burglars is a “reasonable” police technique, and the officer who missed the burglars and hit a passersby’s car ought to be commended. The Douglas County, CO, …
Watch out for the one with your name on it. Actually, if what the kid said about the guy is true, we kind of can’t blame her for going… wait for it… bats. (When the groaning stops, the meat of the story is below). Thirty-year-old Forsythia Eliese Owen of Englewood told police she killed Denzel Rainey because …
We’re even behind around here. But they’re now up and backdated to: 1400 Saturday: Saturday Matinee 2013 39: The Beast (1988) reviews the best Afghan-Soviet War movie set in a T-55 tank. Of course, it’s the only Afghan-Soviet War movie set in a T-55 tank, and almost the only Afghan-Soviet War movie. (Well, there’s 9 Rota and Rambo III, but that kind …
OLate, late, late. Sometimes we feel like the White Rabbit around here. We’ll back date this post to maintain the pleasant fiction that we post a TW3 and Matinee every Saturday. (Would you believe, Sunday night?) We do what we can. The links are all live. The Boring Statistics This week saw a return to …
Summer is over, with cool days and cooler nights hinting at a coming frost. The hydrangea is among the fabled 5% that does not get the word, still flowering defiantly even as oak and maple leaves — not changing color yet — have begin to fall. We’ll have to cut the hydrangea back rather a …
Afghanistan, 1980-something. A Soviet tank unit visits a brutal reprisal on a Pashtun mountain village north and east of Kandahar. It’s a scene of casual barbarity and calculating murder. The villagers fight back with rifles — mostly old Lee-Enfields — grenades and a single recoilless rifle. One resister is made an example of, crushed under …