Cirillo’s “Guns, Bullets and Gunfights” Jim Cirillo was probably the last real gunfighter in America. Without a doubt the combat arms fellas in our military are gunfighters, but they ply their trade overseas. Jim did it at home, in the grim streets of New York city. He was a member of the city’s Stake…
Category: Arms and Ammo
Old School Pistolcraft: Mastering Jim Cirillo’s Technique For Coarse-Aim Shooting
Mastering Jim Cirillo’s Technique For Coarse-Aim Shooting (From the Tactical Hermit: This is one of the early uses of the “Metal on Meat” technique. Field Proven!!) Lethal-force events can happen in a split second, you need the capability to respond in kind. Here’s how law-enforcement legend Jim Cirillo got the drop on the…
Armed Citizen Corner: Rifles vs. Pistols – The Basics of Terminal Ballistics
Rifles vs. Pistols: The Basics of Terminal Ballistics For the last 100+ years, a great deal of the effort expended in ammo technology has gone toward trying to make pistol bullets act more like rifle bullets. Every few years, a new cartridge or bullet design arrives on the scene, claiming to have gotten us…
Know Your Weapons: Browning’s Hammerless 1911
John Browning’s Hammerless 1911 Last year I had the opportunity to visit the John M. Browning Museum in Ogden, Utah and I was thrilled to see Browning’s hammerless 1911 prototype on display. Very little has been written about the development of this particular pistol. The pistol is briefly mentioned in John Browning and Curt Gentry’s 1964 biography of John…
Homemade Gun Horror
Via Impro Guns Considering the overall design (or lack thereof) of this accident waiting to happen, (check out the barrel) I would name this one the “Ecuadorian Wrist and Face Massage with a very likely chance of being Permanently Blinded” Gun. 😂 Another fun wrist breaker and Face Smasher…
The Gilboa Snake Double-Barreled AR-15 Rifle
H/T WRSA Gilboa Snake Double Barreled AR-15 Rifle Sometimes in his life a Man just has to purchase something based on Principle rather than Utility. This my friends is one of those times. Call it an Investment in the Future. I will take two.
Myanmar Guerillas Using Homemade Weaponry
H/T Impro Guns Another video of PDF fighters taking shots at Junta forces from an entrenched position. Pictures and videos have previously surfaced of bolt action .223 rifles which appear to be the same featured. At least one appears to be a bolt action 12 gauge shotgun. Guerilla forces have also been known to…
Curio and Relic Corner: The Zastava M48 Mauser
Zastava M48 Mauser: Milsurp Gem It’s articles like these that make me want to get my C&R FFL03 License renewed so I can have that Big Brown truck of Joy deliver mil-surp weapons direct to my doorstep but I know I will never again see the glory days of ample supplies of Yugo Mausers,…
AK Corner: Romanian AK’s – The Best Among the Worst
Romanian AKs: The Best Among The Worst, The Worst Among The Best As a long time AK disciple I can say without reservation the Romanian variant is my LEAST favorite of the AK Family. If we were doing family analogies, the Romanian variant could be likened to that flaky Drunk Uncle that only shows…
Tradecraft: How to Spot a Concealed Weapon
How to Spot a Concealed Weapon – Fast Around the U.S. and the world, people carry guns. If they are not working in an overt context, whether legal or not, they will endeavor to conceal the gun, usually a handgun. They could be another armed citizen going about their day, possibly like you, an…