What was “the greatest gun ever”? Ted Nugent says… Love him or not, you can’t ignore Ted Nugent. (Well, you can, and we did, take time getting around to blog one of his columns… this one’s from early July. But you can’t ignore him). The articulate and brash defender of all things gun and hunting put …
It sure looks like the Hudson River ditching and subsequent rescue of all passengers and crew that captivated Americans a few years ago. But the belching smokestacks and polluted sky should be a giveaway — this is an emergency response exercise in Shanghai, China. The plane is a mock-up purpose-built for the exercise Over 150 …
Myers mugshot. Killeen PD via CNN. PFC Patrick Myers had a brilliant idea of how to cure his Army buddy, PFC Isaac Young’s, bad case of the hiccups. Just scare the living daylights out of him with a gun! You know where we’re going with this. Sure enough, Myers ND’d the gun. A single shot …
Yesterday we had a rarity for you — one of the first few AR-15’s off Colt’s production line, probably in 1959. Today we have another piece of arms history, on the front lines of today’s insurgencies. An Associated Press stringer snapped the accompanying photo in Benghazi, Libya, of the bitterly comical sight of a Libyan …
Very well done ad for Glock featuring R. Lee Ermey, a couple other character actors you’ve seen here and there, and very high production values. Not to mention, a moral to the story. We’re not even big Glock fans. This entry was posted in Pistols and Revolvers on September 27, 2012 by Hognose. About Hognose …
The NRA really wants to grow its membership — parrticularly its roster of life members. To do that, it’s offering one heck of a deal — through other Life members. As far as I know this deal is only available to US residents, but it might be open worldwide, and it can’t hurt to ask. …
Gene Thacker at Raeford DZ. Fayetteville Observer photo. Gene P. Thacker, an Army retiree who built the Raeford, NC, drop zone into a skydiving mecca from the 1960s on, passed away last Monday. He was 81 years old. The Fayetteville, NC Observer has more: Mr. Thacker, a skydiving legend who did almost 4,000 jumps, owned …
Remington is always in the news these days, whether because it’s teetering on the brink of leaving its Ilion, New York home where well over a century’s gun history has been made, or shipping new and highly-coveted products. At the NRA annual show this year, Remington showed a silencer-ready version of the R1 .45 Auto, …
The kid’s only three, too young to be absorbing the lessons that could be learned from his school’s actions and reactions lately. He went to preschool, like most kids, not entirely sure what to expect. No matter how he’d been prepared, though, he wouldn’t have been ready for what he ran into from the Grand …
Take a minute in your busy day to have some sympathy for poor Jack Tobin. The newly elected president of the Special Forces Association, the major association of Green Beret veterans, is dealing with a lot of outraged old-timers that are seeing the following story or excerpts therefrom, and haven’t figured out that the Duffel Blog …