Loose Rounds
PDN: Concrete Bullet Ricochet Video
Rob Pincus made this great little video showing rounds being deflected when hitting a hard surface. Filed under: Scattered Shots Tagged: Rob Pincus, Training, Video
Broken AR15 gas ring.
A while back I picked up a used old Colt AR15 upper. After I received it, when I first cleaned it I considered replacing the gas rings and extractor spring due to the clear fact that this upper had been used a good deal. I talked to Shawn about this, and he suggested since it wasn’t […]
A little different take on the gun safety ad. [NSFW]
Filed under: Misfires & Squibs Tagged: Humor, Video
German Infantry Squad Tactics in WWII
The machine gun has been a major force multiplier in infantry combat. Unfortunately many unit leaders do not know how to employ assets like Snipers, Machine Guns, and Indirect fire effectively. The rise of portable belt fed machine guns pretty much eliminated the tactic of the mass human wave attack. This also allowed for smaller […]
Movie Marksmanship
Filed under: Misfires & Squibs
Vega Force Company– The GBBR MP7 by Ivan Lam
We have a guest review from Ivan Lam, from Hong Kong for something new today. We have many readers from Asian countries among other, who can not own real firearms. We appreciate all of our readers, so we are going to post reviews of some of the airsoft guns that those who can not have […]
Childrens School Book Bag Protection from Gunfire
It is a dangerous world out there, and as uncomfortable as it is to think about, the current state of the country means not every one is armed to step up to defend the most helpless among us. With that in mind and the recent atrocities, we decided to do some testing on something often […]
Eyes, Hands, and Handguns.
Article submitted by Mark Hatfield. Eyes, Hands, and Handguns. This could be about shooters with poor uncorrected eyesight, it’s not. It could be about shooters who are cross-eye dominant, it’s not, though it will touch on both of those concerns. If you shoot only for sport, competition, hunting, or fun, then you don’t need to […]
Battle of the Concealed Carry Compacts, Smith & Wesson is Winning
Glock and Smith & Wesson have been going toe to toe for several years in the Law Enforcement market. While Glock has slowly been screwing up their reputation, by fielding pistols with MIM parts, reliability issues from those parts and single stack 380′s that no one has asked for, Smith & Wesson has introduced an […]
First Focal Plane vs. Second Focal Plane
Often I have had to explain to people the difference between the first and second focal plane scopes. Now Primal Rights has a nice article explaining the difference between the two. The article can be found here. Personally I prefer first focal plane as my reticle and my target will always stay the same proportions […]
Earth tones
I’ve heard it said more than once that coyote brown/flat dark earth type colors are not a good choice for the greener areas of the eastern US. I’m no expert, but it seems to blend pretty well to me. Just sayin’… Filed under: Scattered Shots Tagged: Blue Force Gear, blue force gear ten-speed, mav, tactical […]
D-Day 70 Year Anniversary A Micro Gimpse Onto Omaha Beach
“O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honor the charge they made!” An important anniversary is coming this year. It is not only an important day for our country, but the entire world. On June 6 1944 the fate of not only the USA , but the rest […]
UZI
From watching them pop out of Secret Service brief cases during the assassination attempt on Pres. Reagan, to reading stories of Israeli conflicts and African bush wars on the pages of Soldier of Fortune Magazine, to hearing Arnold Schanzegger ask for a “UZI nine millah meetah” in the first Terminator film I think few could […]
Video: Larry Vickers on SOCOM weapon clones.
Larry Vickers posted up a nifty eight minute video about some of the copies of US SOCOM firearms available. Unfortatly he only covers some of the ones made by High Caliber Sales(HCS). I purchased a HCS MK12MOD1 upper and had to return it due to the multiple issues it had. Also they have started using […]
Murica!
Filed under: Shutter Shots
How to install a KAC M4 or M5 RAS.
The U.S. Military uses the Knights Armament Corp.’s M4 and M5 rail systems on the M4 and M16 respectively. These rails are good heavy duty products. That said, they are an aging design and there are newer lighter cheaper nicer designs. MSRP on the M4 and M5 RAS run about 320 dollars which is rather […]
First impressions of the Colt AR15A4
I carried a FN M16A4 while I was in Iraq. When I heard that FN was going to see FN AR15s, I planned to get one. However after looking into the options, I choose to get the Colt instead of the FN. My local dealer received this Colt AR15A4 from […]
Thermal optics and glass.
Infrared Training has posted this short video which has a great demonstration of glass placed in front of a thermal optic. Thermal gives amazing spotting capability in low light/no light situations. However it is inferior for night vision for navigation, and unsuitable for spotting people through windows.Filed under: Scattered Shots Tagged: Night Vision, Optics, Thermal […]
Accurate Armory’s Serious Fighting “M4″ Carbine
A few weeks ago a local Kentucky MFG of fine firearms was gracious enough to provide us with a carbine to test and write about. The name of the company is Accurate Armory/ Accurate Tool, and they have an excellent reputation here that I know about first hand. I had been very exited about trying […]
Logic Me Not
Originally posted on Chief Weems' Blog:
Regardless of where you come down on private citizens carrying firearms in public, and no matter what your views are concerning Georgia’s House Bill 60, the complete failure of logic occurring among the governing authorities of some Georgia counties and municipalities is astounding. Under current state law, it is…
Regardless of where you come down on private citizens carrying firearms in public, and no matter what your views are concerning Georgia’s House Bill 60, the complete failure of logic occurring among the governing authorities of some Georgia counties and municipalities is astounding. Under current state law, it is…