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Going through the big D and don’t mean Dallas
So yeah, if you live in Arkansas or have an FFL and feel like spending some scratch, some poor SOB is likely having to give his ex-old lady half of his gun collection in a very liquid manner (or, maybe...
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Warship Wednesday May 20, 2015: The destroyer with the heart of a battleship
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Ten Old Salts
You have to love the bosun’s pipes, spyglass and flatcaps “Ten Old Salts” Photograph taken on board former Warship Wednesday alumni USS Hartford at Hampton Roads, Virginia, winter 1876-77, by order...
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The two-fingered salute from the one-armed ace
Squadron Leader J.A.F. MacLachlan, the one-armed Commanding Officer of No 1 Squadron RAF, standing beside his all-black Hawker Hurricane Mark IIC night fighter, ‘JX-Q’, at Tangmere in West Sussex,...
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Sgt Maj of the Army gives his update on the uniform phase in
As you may know, the Army is moving from UCP/ACU (and the optional OEF-CP/ACU) to the new Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP). However, its a four year phase in and soldiers will not have to wear the...
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Oh sure, but do you have Harrier?
Lt.Col. Art Nalls was a Marine test pilot who spent a lot of time in a number of airframes to include Harriers. Well, after he retired, he went shopping for one of his own and found a pre-owned...
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Inside the Vault
From deep inside Battlefield Vegas’s gun vault. They have some 400~ Title II weapons up for rent. How many can you identify? Dig the Thompsons in both M1923 and M1 variants slumming it with some UZIs,...
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A reader’s experience with setting the mail buoy watch
LSOZI reader Liam weighs in on the traditional blue jacket rite of passage with the great story below: During a winter transit of the North Pacific en route to the Realm of the Golden Dragon (including...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: We have the Mort, Part VI
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
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Why the AK-47 is banned in Canada
My good friend (and a really interesting guy who walks the earth and gets into a lot of adventures) Ben Philippi did this video for Guns.com. Ben, as you may have guessed, is Canadian. 86 different...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Tom W. Freeman
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
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19th Century Desert Eagle: The mighty Howdah pistol of yesteryear
Many of us today think we have cornered the market on large bore pistols designed for the ultimate in self-defense or emergency backup while hunting dangerous game. If you think that’s true, you don’t...
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The sick 40 round M14 mag that held 30 rounds
I saw an AK-47 while in Vietnam and it had a 30 round magazine. So I cut the top and bottom off of a couple of M-14 Magazines and welded them together and made a “40” Round magazine for my M-14. It...
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Of mustaches and PPSh-41s
Click to big up 1133×1705 Portrait of Soviet Guards Sgt. Alexey G. Frolchenko, late of the 325th “Dvina” Rifle Division, carrying his PPSh-41 submachine gun. I say late because the 325th, formed in...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Walter Baumhofer
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
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Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws
Animated Studs Terkel interview with HST on the Hells Angels from 1969
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A 30-foot sandbagger with an interesting past
All images this post are mine and I release them into the public domain. Click to big up in each case. If you want even higher rez, email me and I’ll hook you up (egerwriter at gmail.com) On a trip...
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When President Theodore Rossevelt saw the proposed design for the pigsticker...
Hey, Mack, there is a screwdriver on the end of your Springer there… Roosevelt, a conservationist and big game hunter who settled for being president after stints as New York City police commissioner,...
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Lighting up the sky with the Angry Gun
My friend Ben Phillipi just put this together on his favorite gun, the HK51 ‘Angry Gun’. You do know the HK51 yes? If not, here is a brief primer: These were never made by HK and basically take a G3...
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