I cannot believe I missed out on this little gem at SHOT Show. Luckily Taylor W, an industrial designer at Magpul, gave me the low down on this innocuous little bag at the Great American Outdoor Show. At first clance it looks like a burlap pouch with two buttons. The [Read More…]
Well the day is here. In this video all the fans from The firearms Blog can now see Claymore as he really looks with no masking. I found this after it was sitting in my closet for years and remembered that Steve was getting into posting firearms videos and thought I [Read More…]
TFB writer and adventurer Claymore sent us this photo taken of him in the late 1970s … This was taking during my try out for our SWAT team way back in early 1979. It was a Colt SP-1 very early AR-15 as you can see from the open prong flash hider. If you look [Read More…]
Claymore found a photo of the Browning BDA-380 he carried during “Danny’s first day“. Claymore wrote … This is my Browning BDA-380 that I was carrying in the story posted as “Danny’s first day. I bought it in late 1984 and if I [Read More…]
TFB’s resident adventurer Claymore sent me this photo from his archives. This maybe the MOST “exclusive” photo ever on TFB! I was looking up a photo of my 762 gear for somebody and saw this. It is a photo on me receiving my “adviser [Read More…]
TFB’s serial adventurer Claymore sent me this photo of the M16A1 Carbine he purchased in the early 1980s. Claymore writes … This was one of the first NFA firearms I bought after getting my S.O.T. Had to be about 1983 or so. At that time dealers could get one [Read More…]
Editor’s note: This article was written by Claymore. His previous blog posts can be read here. A while back I was talking with a friend who was employed by one of our government’s many “agencies”. As usual we eventually got around to discussing [Read More…]
Editor’s note: This article was written by Claymore. His previous blog posts can be read here. Steve has given his blessing to this article on one of my “adventures” this time in the good old USA. It has some advice on the use of an ankle holster but I [Read More…]
First, a little background for you guys that weren't around for the last part of the Vietnam war and the first war in Afghanistan. The use of some type of chemical weapon by the soviets during the later part of the Vietnam on indigenous troops (there was no use on [Read More…]
Back more than a few years ago I was with my usual partner in Thal Pakistan where Ho Chi Lynn had built an inclosed area for training of our Afghan Muji fighters. I learnt a lesson about firing old AK rifles that I have never forgotten.
Editor’s note: Claymore’s career took many interesting twists and turn through some of the worlds most notorious regions. His first article for TFB, about the rare AK rifles he discovered deep in the jungle, can be read here. His second article about the [Read More…]
[ This is the third article written by Claymore on the guns he encountered during his varied and colorful career. His first article is here, the second is here. ] While I was looking around for weapons while I was with the Hmong I would record the selector markings to [Read More…]
One time when I was off training duty, while my friend took over teaching for an hour, I was walking the area scoping out any and all firearms I came across when this beauty caught my eye as it was the only "American type" weapon we had seen other than a few M1 [Read More…]
This article was written by Claymore. Hold onto your seats TFB readers you are about to see something that I’m 99.9% sure has NEVER been seen before. Like most people interested in firearms I was working under the incorrect impression that the first AK-47s came [Read More…]
War games just got more fun. Raytheon has applied for a patent on a simulated M18 Claymore Anti-Personal Mine for the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) training system. The patent describes a device that looks like a claymore but instead of hundreds of [Read More…]
Deminer posted scanned images from a Russian sniper handbook. The picture below is interesting. It shows how to setup MON-50 (claymore like) mines so that a cluster can be set off by a sniper. More images here.
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