H/T: Wynn John M. Browning designed the 1911 so that an empty cartridge casing could be used in a pinch if the spring plug was lost.
Category: Weapons & Ammo
The Bad Ass Files: Colonel Charles Askins, US Army (Ret.)
The Legend Of Charley Askins by Skeeter Skelton (As Published in Shooting Times Magazine, May 1972) In The West Wing of a secluded, tile-roofed Spanish home in San Antonio, Texas is a room that is one of my favorite retreats. It’s a large room, carpeted with the rich hides of Polar and…
Situational Pistolcraft
Via: The Tactical Wire Situational Pistolcraft sit·u·a·tion – siCHəˈwāSHən.: a set of circumstances in which one finds oneself; a state of affairs. The location and surroundings of a place. Drawing, shooting and reloading fast are nice skills to have, but I feel it is safe to say they seldom win fights. Having them does…
Armed Citizen Corner: On the Rise
On The Rise The Globo-Homo’s are panicking at how fun and appealing these things are. Bottom line is they are afraid that folks will be reminded that an armed man is a CITIZEN and a unarmed man a SUBJECT!
The Only Kind of Diversity that Matters
3D Guerilla Arms
3D Printed Submachine Gun (Brazil) A modified version of the Hybrid Printed Round Tube SMG (Professor Parabellum) seized by police in the Brazilian state of Santa Caterina. The upper receiver however appears to have also been printed rather than made from steel tubing. Here is another Tek-9 variant: Hybrid 3D Printed Round Tube SMG. Understand the weapon in…
AK Corner: AR-15 vs AK-47 Wood, Concrete, and Steel penetration test
AR-15 vs AK-47 Wood, Concrete, and Steel penetration test The 7.62×39 FMJ chews up most cover. One of the many benefits of having a big and slow .30 caliber round versus a light in the ass but fast .22 Calber round.
NATO Poking the Bear is Not Going to End Well for FUSA
All Because NATO Wants To Expand While the mob is being entertained by two court jesters in a rigged “political debate” the U.S. Military has been green lit to assist Ukrainian Armed Forces in striking into Russia Proper with Drone Strikes on Moscow. If I were you, I would be thinking less about…
Handgun Corner: Jeff Cooper’s First Article from 1946
Jeff Cooper’s First Article Here is a scanned copy of Jeff Cooper’s first published article, from the Marine Corps Gazette, in Sept 1946. Titled “What Good Is A Pistol?”, it discusses pistol training and caliber selection. Highlights: Cooper comments that the semiauto pistol be redesigned to have more slant and a slight curve — essentially…
The Shooting People in the Face Drill, Revisited*
From the Archives, 2018 While training the other day I put in 20 rounds on the tried and true Mozambique or “Failure to Stop” Drill. After I ran through the drill I realized something: I had been training myself to PAUSE between the transition from the two shots to Center of Mass to the…