Hi Y’all, Thanks for your kind words, I am feeling a bit better and I plan to be back blogging on Tuesday. But … I have amassed hundreds of emails in my inbox. I estimate is would take many hours to reply to them all. It would mean another whole week of no [Read More…]
Sorry guys, I have been sick during the past week so been unable to blog as much. I should be better in a few days.
From the NYT … As envisioned, the teams will work like American politicians who campaign door to door and learn what voters care about. A team is to arrive in a village, get permission from the male elder to speak with the women, settle into a compound, hand out [Read More…]
The photo was taken by Daniel Garcia in Talcahunao, Chile on March 1, 2010. Those shipping containers are scattered amongst peoples homes! The high resolution version of this photo can be see at the Big Picture Blog. More photos of the man guarding his house can be seen [Read More…]
Dr. Jim Clary has written about his recent hunting trip.
New Zealand blogger WhaleOil emailed me a link to these photos of New Zealand SAS taken after a firefight in Kabul, Afghanistan. What is odd about the photos is that the elite SAS troops appear to have tied their magazines to the trigger guard with cord … ?!?! The [Read More…]
Cars, snow and a machine gun … what is not to like? From the British Top Gear TV show … *[ Many thanks to the readers who told me about this video ]
Sorry, no posts today.
James shares his recent adventure.
Solider Systems reports … LTC Cummings of the Army Public Affairs Office has confirmed that the Secretary of the Army, the Honorable John McHugh approved a plan today to begin the fielding of MultiCam uniforms and individual equipment as soon as possible
A set of cool gun pics can be seen over at Swiss Gun Blog.
This US Navy training video at GENE SLOVERS US NAVY PAGES website shows how the 1950s mechanical fire control computers worked. It is explained simply enough for a layman to understand. I found it fascinating to watch. It is crazy to think that the ballistic software on [Read More…]
These advertisements appeared in issues of Guns Magazine in 1959. The following advertisement for Norma ammunition surprised me because it is so modern looking in contrast the above ads. Compare it with the cover of Hornady’s Handbook of Cartridge Reloading [Read More…]
I recently exchanged a few emails with a Japanese guy who makes blank firing replica guns. Apparently building replicas is a popular hobby over there. Their guns are pretty amazing. Someone needs to give these guys a greencard, machine shop and a gun range. I am sure [Read More…]
You all may as well get a laugh out of the top three stupid things I did at SHOT Show … At Media Day I was having a great time shooting offhand with a Ruger No. 1 chambered in .300 H&H Magnum. A poor cheek weld on one of the shots left me with a […] [Read More…]
As many of you saw, I had to resort to public begging to get into the Advance Armament Corporation party aka. BIG BANG 2010. Fortunately Cara Brittingham took pity on me and hooked me up with tickets not only for myself but also for my talented photographers Bryan and [Read More…]
I admit to being one of those smart-asses you find lurking in gun shops who insist on using the correct pronunciation for the names of foreign guns 😉 Laurent was kind enough to record an MP3 for us which demonstrates the pronunciation of French firearms and [Read More…]
Many of you know but I’m not a big fan of the bug-out survival strategy. In a nutshell you’re voluntarily becoming, a refugee, but looking at the recent disasters in New Orleans and Haiti it is obvious that some sort of bug-out bagbug-out bag and strategy is [Read More…]
For less-lethal hunting? I am confused as you are. The most likely explanation is that it is simply another color designed to appeal to hunters. I would still make a stylish sidearm for hunters on less-lethal lion hunts in Africa ( in Southern Africa some private game [Read More…]
I am impressed with the answers to yesterdays guess-the-gun. I thought I had made it to hard but many of you got very close. Both sadlerbw and Advocate were right on with their answers. With no further ado …
To the concerned reader who took the time to email me and tell me I am lazy: no I am not, just tired. I have HORDES of fascinating gun stuff to blog and will start again tomorrow. Until then, lets see if anyone can correctly guess what each of these guns are … You [Read More…]
At the request of a friend, this is what SHOT ’10 looks like. These photos are from the official SHOT Show flickr photostream … The place is packed with humanity. Many, I hope, are like me and are lost. The convention center is a maze.
Advanced Armament Corp does not wait for SHOT to announce new products, so there was nothing on display that we did not already know about. They did have lots of large caliber machine guns fitted with suppressors on display. I will blog about the AAC party as soon as I [Read More…]
If you did, please send them through to me!
In the interests of full disclosure, these were the free gifts given to me at Media Day (the industry shoot before SHOW Show starts). What you have there is four caps, one notebook, eye and ear protection (not really a gift), a backpack and a Otis cleaning kit-in-a-can [Read More…]
Last year I blogged about NASA’s incredibly powerful hybrid/air gun used for simulating impacts from meteor and space debris. Quicklaunch is taking the concept even further. PopSci reports on their proposed cannon which could be used to launch fuel, supplies and [Read More…]
Hey y’all, I have been traveling extensively over the past couple of weeks and spending very little time in one place. Until SHOT Show I will be moving around a lot! I am blogging as much as I can! My mail box has 173 emails which need a reply! I promise to read [Read More…]
Ed Friedman, Associate Editor of the NRA’s Shooting Illustrated magazine and gun blogger, was kind enough to organize for me a tour of the NRA. I had the pleasure of meeting most the editors for the Shooting Illustrated, American Hunter, American Rifleman and [Read More…]
I don’t think I know anyone who currently works at Advanced Armament Corporation. So if anyone here works at AAC or knows somebody ( who knows somebody …) who works at AAC and can hook me up with some tickets to the AAC SHOT Show party, please let them know [Read More…]
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