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Category: Other Gear & Gadgets
Blow gun knife.
Being sold by Swords, Knifes and Daggers for $15. Ninja blowgun and Pocket knife combo. 5″ closed and has a 3 1/2″ 440 stainless steel blade. Includes 2 pieces of black tubing to make your pocket knife blowgun. Also includes 3 darts and a nylon pouch Hat [Read More…]
Anyone watch Nat Geo: Guns in America?
Worth watching or not?
Wooden Knives
Cowtown Cop has been making some very nice looking wooden knives for kids. Read about them here.
TFB Poll: I own a firearm manufactured in …
Its time for another poll. In this poll tick a box if you own one or more firearms manufactured in that country. For example a Browning .22 rifle designed in the USA but manufactured in Japan would mean ticking the “Japan” box, not the “USA” box [Read More…]
Anti-RPG technology detonates grenade electronically.
Greek company Soukos Robots S.A. have began to export their anti-RPG technology to Raytheon for use by the the US Army. From ΕΦΗΜΕΡΙΔΑ (Translated by enallos at MP.net): In the context of a December 2006 deal, valued at 330 million USD with the US company [Read More…]
40mm M320 grenade launcher will be replace M203 next year
The Army Times reports that the H&K developed M320 will being replacing the M203 in February next year. The Army plans to begin fielding the first of 71,600 new replacement launchers in February for a cost of about $3,500 each, Audette said. Fielding of the M320 [Read More…]
IDF Sniper Training
DoubleTapper continues his series on snipers. IDF Snipers are indoctrinated in one of three courses: 1. Four week basic snipers course for infantry units. 2. Three week basic snipers course for Special Forces units’ personal. 3. .50 caliber shooting course. What is [Read More…]
History of gun laws in India
Quite a while ago I came across Abhijeet Singh’s webpage discussing the history of Indian gun laws since when India was a British colony. I meant to blog it but forgot about it until I was reminded of it by the recent Mumbai attacks. This changed towards the mid [Read More…]
External ballistics calculator for iPhone: iSnipe
iSnipe is a very polished looking external ballistics calculator for iPhone / iPod Touch created by a Canadian firm. Created with ease of use in mind, iSnipe is the perfect companion for any gun aficionado, competition shooter, or even law-enforcement officer… [Read More…]
Blog back online
Been having some server downtime. Everything is back up and running.
New Bushnell BackTrack GPS
Bushnell have announced an ultra-compact GPS device called the BackTrack. It is designed to find your way back to your car/home/hotel/camp site. Camo or Pink, take your pick. This could be very useful as a backup GPS unit. When it come to GPS systems I consider myself [Read More…]
60mm Mortar Fired From The Hip
Even Hollywood has not gone this far! Major Robert Henry Cain VC did this at Arnhem. From Dickiebo: When Cain joined the battle the Staffords were under heavy attack by tank and heavy guns. By firing mortars at almost point blank range towards the Germans, the British [Read More…]
List of possible M4 replacements
MilitaryTimes has listed the contenders for the M4 replacement. They are: AR-15 Platform (Direct Gas Impingement): * Colt ACC Monolithic * Troy Industries M7A1 (can use either DI or piston system) * Sabre Defense Industries M5 * S&W MP-4 * Precision Reflex PRI [Read More…]
Wearable gun shot locators
Defense update has an interesting article about the wearable Boomerang Warrior acoustic shooter detection system. Part of the wearable system. Photo from Defense Update. If the entire system was ever made small enough to fit into a wristwatch I think it would become an [Read More…]
Update on AUG SA pricing
A pre-order website lists it as $2295.00, see the update.
RPG-30 unveiled: The latest in RPG technology
The Russian State Research and Production Enterprise (SPE) have unveiled the latest RPG, the RPG-30. The system has been designed with one purpose: to bypass Western (and no doubt Chinese) active protection systems and possibly reactive armor. Cut-away RPG-30. Photo [Read More…]
Gun photos in the Life magazine Google archive
Google is hosting a huge archive of millions of Life magazine images since 1750. I thought I would see what interesting gun photos I could find. Winchester 1890 pump action rifle. © Time Inc. Actress Donna Drake taking aim with a rifle on the balcony of her home, [Read More…]
The AR-15 has some competition
N.U.G.U.N made me laugh
How not to shoot a Humvee
An insurgent in Iraq attempts to destroy a Humvee with an RPG. This video is the insurgent equivalent of the famously stupid “Girl Shoots Herself in the face” video (youtube has taken it offline). Hat Tip: Charlie @ Ammo, Guns and War
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Thank you for your service and sacrifice.
Gun Songs
Ed Friedman @ Tell Me Why? has compiled a list of his favorite gun songs. I looked through my music and found very little that had anything to do with or even mention guns. If you have any favorites post them in comments at his blog.
Gold plated “Special Forces” Mac 10
I saw this Хроники безумного Макса, the blog of Max Popenker who also runs the famous world.guns.ru. The inscription says “U.S Army Special Forces Commemorative(?) Mac 10”. Click to expand I actually think it looks pretty classy, like [Read More…]
Very intense A-10 video
This video is very intense. The beeping you hear is the ground proximity warning (under 1000 ft). The video player incorrectly states the length, it is only 5 minutes long. There is a discussion about the video at MP.net
Sebastian, you have my respect
For those of you who don’t know Sebastian of Snow Flakes In Hell has been campaigning against Dan Cooper and even got a mention in USA Today. Since then he has been getting a lot of hate mail. I know this blog is not political, but I want to congratulate Sebastian [Read More…]
50 Foot Snowball Launcher
Sold by Hammacher Schlemmer This toy blaster makes and launches softball-sized snowballs up to 50′, allowing rapid, long-range assaults during neighborhood snowball confrontations. Simply place snow in the forming chamber and close the lid, and it packs three [Read More…]
Russian sniper handbook
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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How to butcher deer
Sean @ Everything Hunting has written detail instructions on how to butcher deer yourself. The price of butchering a deer ranges from $75-150. I don’t know about you, but that is a little much when you can butcher your own for free in about 4 hours. If you are [Read More…]