Germany, Poland, the UK, and the USSR all developed anti-tank rifles and used them with mixed results (the Germans, in World War I, then all of them, in the early years of World War II) Other nations including Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Finland and Japan built anti-tank rifles, essentially huge rifles that fired a kinetic penetrator meant to kill …
This week’s Tour d’Horizon is upon us. Too many tabs, too little time. UPDATE Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. Colt Super-Sizes the Competition Pistol That would be .38 Super-sizes a pistol made for modern power-factored accuracy games. The blue grips are an acquired taste, kind of like goth girls with blue-koolaid hair. The …
If you go to a Civil War reenactment, you will see a remarkable thing: thousands of volunteers taking great pains to portray (and many of them, to experience, down to the taste of hard tack) the lives of the troops of the War Between the States. They have an eye for accuracy that stops just …
For many years after World War II, the aircraft of the war were just, “old.” In the heady Jet Age, wartime transports still had economical utility, but the combat types were quickly left behind. They were relegated to duties as instructional airframes for novice mechanics (“learn riveting on this, it’ll never fly again so you can’t screw …
Booooring, you say. Cheap copies of crummy comblock stuff, made by starving slave labor. Interesting only because of its sheer quantity. Soon to be the world’s first radioactive parts kits, imported by Century International, if Kim Fat Kid starts something. Not exactly. Sure, the Norks have copied all the usual stuff from their former Soviet and Chinese …
If you want to see inability to decide on a pistol, or maybe it’s just general inability to pour piss out of a boot, you really can’t beat the Pennsylvania State police. They’ve been through three official sidearms in four years, and it’s their own fault. This Pistol OCD has tripped the PSP through pistols so …
In 99 repeating 9% of gun barrels, the caliber is what it is, and the bullet that comes out of the barrel is the same diameter it always was, just marked by the rifling. Likewise, the rifling twist is what it is, and from the point where is picks up in the leade (forward of the chamber) …
Do you want to make custom ammo for your next trip to the shooting range? If so, you need to know just how much gunpowder you need to make a bullet. So, how many grains of gunpowder is there in 1 pound? One pound of gunpowder has 7,000 grains of powder no matter which type …
Despite sharing the .38 name and looking similar, the 38 S&W and the 38 Special are two different ammo cartridges with several differences between them. 38 S&W vs 38 Special The .38 Special and the .38 Smith and Wesson are not interchangeable. The .38 Smith and Wesson is larger in diameter than the .38 Special. …
The Winchester Model 1894, also called the Winchester 94, is one of the most popular and classic American lever-action repeating rifles. While it was once a staple of hunting firearms in the country, it has since been replaced by a variety of other, more modern firearms. Yet despite its age, the Winchester 94 is still …