It’s not often that we pen a sentence like the headline (Pen? -Ed. Well, what are we going to say? “not often that we WordPress a sentence?” Get real! OK, go with “pen.” -Ed.). But we have to do just that in response to a decision by the producers and staff of CBS’s 60 minutes. When word of …
At some time the title phrase must have crossed the mind, if not the lips, of a Secret Service slacker who did his or her business in the restroom on presidential candidate Mitt romney’s chartered Campaign jet -and departed, leaving his or her gun behind. The weapon, presumably left behind in the bathroom by accident, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …