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The Outer Banks, via 47 foot MLB
The Coast Guard’s 47 foot Motor Life Boat, introduced years ago, is much more advanced than the 41 and 30 foot motor life boats, is still a wild ride. (And show up on the surplus market from time to...
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The Last of the Lincolns: Delmer Berg Dies at age 100
(Image from the Modesto Bee) Among many accomplishments in life, Mr. Einsley Delmer Berg was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, an all-volunteer group that went to Spain during the Spanish Civil...
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Vale, SOF
The last time you’ll see this on the newsstand is this month… I’ve met and spoken at length with “The Colonel” so this came as a blow of sorts. Long the beacon in the newsstand for those who yearned to...
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‘If the Punisher shows up, then something has gone horribly wrong’
Task and Purpose has a good article up where they try to decipher what makes Punisher iconography so attractive to those being sent down range. Its popped up increasingly in the past couple of decades...
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Re-purposing
As I constantly seem to have an inordinate amount of “extra” books around due to 2-3 coming in for review from publishers per week, picking up used books at sales, acquiring old tomes for research on...
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Get some, and have a jolly good time doing so
Photo source © IWM A 6312 taken by Lt. L C Priest. Colourised by Joshua Barrett from the UK. Commander Lionel James Spencer Ede DSO RN, Commander of Minesweeping and Patrol, Dover, testing a rarely...
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Glock perfection
Greg Ellifritz over at Active Response Training has a good piece up about the most commonly broken parts on your typical Glock. It’s good stuff as I can vouch as being an agency and later company...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of RV Pitchforth
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sundays (when I feel like working), I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like...
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Ah those long range shooting positons
The crack shots, in position: Dollymount, Creedmoor and Wimbledon. Currier & Ives, 1875 I dig the Highland Fling, personally. Photo by MCNY LOC has a bigger, though B&W version Of course, they...
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Dinklebergs!
“Why don’t you try shooting something besides bird shot, you Asshole!”, says Hunter S. Thompson using an Artillery Luger while having a shootout with his neighbor. Don’t try this at home, kids. Oh...
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Of suppressor deregulation and upcoming ATF changes
At SHOT Show this year I had a chance to throw some knives and hawks on range day and did so like shit. They were SOGs and, while I can make the excuse I wasn’t used to them and prefer my own edged...
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Last Naval Aviator with an air-to-air kill leaves the service
On Jan. 17, 1991, LCDR Mark I. Fox was flying an F/A-18 Hornet with Strike Fighter Squadron 81 (VFA-81, “Sunliners”) off USS Saratoga (CV-60). On that day, Fox shot down an Iraqi MiG-21. Fox and his...
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The very sinkable Thomas Oliver Selfridge
Nice spyglass, Captain There stands in U.S. Naval History an officer who drew the black bean not once, or twice, but well…let us just get into it. Born 6 February 1836 in old Charlestown, Massachusetts...
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Wallhanger time
You know you want one…after you get your tetanus shot The Kingdom of Nepal was isolated and in some very real struggles with its neighbors in the 19th Century. Bumping against the East India Company...
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Meet Len LeSchack: Spy, scientist, Navy officer and explorer
Seven Days in the Arctic by Keith Woodcock, Oil on Canvas, 2007, CIA collection A true Renaissance man, Leonard A. LeSchack in 1962 jumped out of a perfectly good (CIA-flown) converted B-17 bomber over...
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Warship Wednesday May 18, 2016: Spanish gunboats a-go-go
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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Moscow meets Utah
So SilencerCo dropped a new collaboration between Jim Fuller of Rifle Dynamics (perhaps the best AKs made in this Hemisphere) in which they take a RD501 5.45mm AK74 clone (semi, due to the Hughes...
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The originator of Zulu Time, as verified by the BBC everyday
Sir Frank Watson Dyson KBE, FRS (8th January 1868 – 25th May 1939). On this day in 1939, Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS, aged 71, died while traveling from Australia to England in 1939 and was...
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Jack Cornwell, the heroic gunner of Jutland, 100 years ago this week
Jack as a 15 year old Boy assigned to the training ship, the old armored cruiser H.M.S. Lancaster which was based at Chatam during WWI to train gunnery crews. Born 8th January 1900 in Essex, John...
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Rod Serling always was the understated master
I remember watching Twilight Zone and Night Gallery reruns as a kid and thinking to myself of host Rod Serling, as he quietly smoked his cigarette in his MIB style suit, thin tie peaking out of his...
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