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The German MP5SD is so quiet all you hear is action
Machine Gun Mike breaks out a select-fire, suppressed HK MP5SD built by Urbach Precision and shows you why it’s so muffly. It’s got all the goodies, being a suppressed SBR with both three-round burst...
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Every Marine a Rifleman (and some even more so)
The Civilian Marksmanship Program’s National Trophy Rifle Team Match at Camp Perry goes back to 1903 and was commissioned by Congress and President Teddy Roosevelt back when the CMP was part of the...
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Charles N. Daly was not a man to be trifled with
The man pictured from these scans of Firearms Curiosa (Lewis Winant, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955) is antiquarian Capt. Charles Noe Daly. The book ( pg. 12) states that the armor was “found in...
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Ensign John H. Wesson’s family hookup
This immaculate Smith & Wesson Corp. Model 1917 Revolver was once used to shoot flying fish off the fantail of a destroyer during WWII by its owner, then LCDR Joseph Hawes Wesson II (NSN:...
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One stop box set fit for a Napoleonic gentleman
Here is a matching exhibition quality gold inlaid and engraved cased four gun garniture by renowned French gunsmith Nicolas Noel Boutet (you do know Boutet, don’t you?) of Versailles including 12mm...
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If Dead Pool had a Colt New Agent, it likely would look something like this
The guys down at Whiskey Tango Firearms in Sarasota, Florida are apparently big fans of the Merc with the Mouth. A manufacturing FFL, WTF came up with this Colt New Agent 1911 in a battle-worn...
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PFC Anderson lives on
YouTube gun reviewer Mr.Guns N Gear visited the mecca of full-auto publicly accessible weapons at Battlefield Vegas (if you are ever in Vegas, check it out, I go there every time I am in town) and came...
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Sometimes you have to break a few eggs
Bjorn Sibbern was born May 18, 1916 in Soro, Denmark and by 1940 was a Danish police officer. When the Germans invaded he remained at his day job– which he as a cover to investigate those suspected of...
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Admiral Arleigh Burke’s Deep Dive Diploma
U.S.S. Robert E. Lee (SSBN 601) Pax Deterrendo Deep Dive Diploma Be it known among all ye landlubbers and topside sailors that on 15 Nov 60 I was visited in the depths of my domain by the U.S.S....
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Hunter S. Thompson’s widow returns antlers stolen from Hemingway’s home
After the death of “Papa” Hemingway, then-budding journalist Hunter S. Thompson swiped a pair of elk antlers while visiting the author’s home in Idaho in 1964. Now, Thompson’s widow has returned them....
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Getting out of a jam at 58 below
Click to big-up The B-17s plastering Hitler’s Europe flew at 25,000 feet on average, and it gets kinda cold up there, especially in an unpressurized aircraft with open gun ports in the belly. How cold?...
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A 16-year old lion from Luxembourg
Caption: Members of the 108th company of the FTP (Francs-tireurs et partisans français), the communist resistance group pose with their weapons at a mountain base. Photo: United States Holocaust...
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The Cobra in the Clouds
Captain Robert L. Faurot with his P-38F Lightning 42-12623 Nose 16 parked at 14 Mile Drome (Schwimmer) Credit: US Army Signal Corps, NARA SC-168885 Date: January 20, 1943. He was killed in action just...
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Keep the Artilleryman in mind, and in your bookcase
I subscribe to a number of rather eclectic military history publications to include Warship International (which I plug on Warship Wednesday) as well as Military Historian and Collector (the journal of...
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Zapping Lionfish via suppressed Glocks
One of the most controversial fish in the waters around Florida these days is the invasive lionfish. Released by aquarium owners and others who didn’t want them anymore, they can lay millions of eggs...
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I don’t always hunt monsters; but when I do, I do it underwater with a...
Official caption: Diver James P. Bodor, 23, finds a shotgun after he and officers dragged the bottom of the Cal-Sag canal at 107th Street and Archer Avenue looking for evidence in the Brink’s Express...
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Finders Keepers
Here we see a well-traveled M1911A1 .45ACP Government Issue long slide. It’s a mismatch gun that likely became such in some long forgotten Army armory, with a (likely Great War era) Colt-marked slide...
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Three pipehitters from the Corvin Passage, 60 years ago this month
The below image by Peter Dennis via MHE shows off a motley group of three freedom fighters in the Hungarian Revolution of October-November 1956 against the Soviets and the country’s puppet regime who...
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A Gurkha and his most dangerous weapon
Photo via LIFE archives, originally black & white, cleaned up & colourised by Paul Reynolds A Naik (corporal) of either the 7th or 9th Gurkha Rifles, part of the 4th Indian Division of the...
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The last hurrah
My potted pepper plants, despite the plummeting nighttime temps and being moved repeatedly, are still kicking out the sweetest little guys. I truly believe a man should be able to both field strip...
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