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 …
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 → …
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 …
… 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 …
It took the advice of a more experienced blogger and two plug-ins, but looks like thousands of attempts to spam the comments are being defeated, and legit comments are being allowed. The good news is: less time filtering through hundreds of daily spams to find our actual commenters. The bad news: we’re missing the insincere …
We mean, really advanced. Not many collectors have a 75mm AT/multipurpose gun. Much less, mounted in an iconic and exotically rare armored vehicle with combat provenance. German Stug IV ( Sturmgeschütz IV ), WW2. in Military Vehicles | eBay Motors. There are a few problems with this wonder weapon. For one, they want a hell of a …
Detective John Roe started off as a police trainee and it took him two years — from 1968 to 1970 — to become a sworn police officer. Now, a mandatory retirement age (63, which he reaches October 31) will send him home, retired. His last day is October 26th, and he doesn’t quite know what …
Well, that’s the prediction, as we set this up. It’s been cool and rainy all week, and last night was wet. So we’re expecting rain. May the sun shine on you and yours today — figuratively, if necessary. This entry was posted in Administrivia on September 30, 2012 by Hognose. About Hognose Former Special Forces …
.. one of the conventional Army’s funniest cartoonists. As the runner strode up to him, the stealthy ninja felt like the King of the Universe. He was camoflauge incarnate. To borrow a phrase from my appalachian herititage, if Patrick had “been a snake, he could have bit ‘em.” He was close enough to feel the …
Wednesday Weapons Website of the Week: The Gun Wire Almost didn’t get a W4 to you all this week, but we’ve been meaning to share this one. This site is simple, clear, and does just one thing: the last 24 hours of gun news headlines. TV stations, newspapers, blogs, they’ve got it. Gun industry, gun …