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Bangsticks: ‘Primitive’ tools for primitive predators | laststandonzombieisland
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Weapons, Wars, Preparation and Security from a recovering gun nut turned bad writer. July 22, 2013. Bangsticks: ‘Primitive’ tools for primitive predators. Here at Guns.com we are well aware of thousands of different types of ‘boomsticks’, but we aren’t talking about those right now. No the ones on the table today are sticks that go bang. Read on and get in touch with that most peculiar and perhaps specialized of firearms: the bangstick. Read the rest in my column at GUNS.com. Laquo; Previous post. Thank ...
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US Army | laststandonzombieisland
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Weapons, Wars, Preparation and Security from a recovering gun nut turned bad writer. RSS for this section. August 26, 2016. Blades, blades, everywhere there’s blades. The Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne helicopter gunship featured a four-blade rigid main rotor, a four-blade anti-torque tail rotor, and a three-bladed pusher propeller. Powered by a 3,925 hp General Electric T64 engine, the Cheyenne had a top speed of 253 mph. At sea level, which is blistering for a chopper of any make. Top speed of the AH-64?
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weapons | laststandonzombieisland
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Weapons, Wars, Preparation and Security from a recovering gun nut turned bad writer. RSS for this section. August 27, 2016. Protecting HMs frontiers, via Vickers. While the sun may have never set on the British Empire (until 1956, anyway), the Brits were big fans of using technology to their advantage to allow units with small footprints to control large areas. When using plunging fire, especially when sited from elevated positions, the Vickers could reach out and produce a beaten zone over 4,000 yards a...
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Georgia cannons multiplying | laststandonzombieisland
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Weapons, Wars, Preparation and Security from a recovering gun nut turned bad writer. August 8, 2015. Navy divers from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 6 have so far recovered the four cannon located from the hardluck ironclad CSS Georgia. These included a 6 pdr brought up on 15 July, a massive 9-inch Dahlgren smoothebore and 6.4-inch Brooke Banded rifle on 21 July, and a final Brooke the next day. Her prop broke the surface on July 25. Laquo; Previous post.
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USA 1SHOT: The NFA-compliant Glock stock that is not (a stock) | laststandonzombieisland
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Weapons, Wars, Preparation and Security from a recovering gun nut turned bad writer. August 10, 2015. USA 1SHOT: The NFA-compliant Glock stock that is not (a stock). In the past few years, gun makers (Sig anyone? Have been all aglow about making shooting braces that fit the rear of AR and AK pistols that don’t need a tax stamp. Now it seems a maker has come up with a similar solution to help turn your average Glock into an NFA-compliant SBR that technically isn’t an SBR. The USA 1-Shot APS. You are comme...
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war | laststandonzombieisland
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Weapons, Wars, Preparation and Security from a recovering gun nut turned bad writer. RSS for this section. August 28, 2016. In Combat Gallery Sunday. Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Emil Hünten. 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, photographers and the like. Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Emil Hünten. Ecole des Beaux Arts. Hunten’...
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Newest 418 is commisoned | laststandonzombieisland
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Weapons, Wars, Preparation and Security from a recovering gun nut turned bad writer. August 10, 2015. Newest 418 is commisoned. Coast Guard Cutter James. A 418-ft National Security Cutter, entered into active service on August 8, 2015 at U.S. Coast Guard Base Boston. The cutter will be homeported in Charleston, South Carolina. The latest addition to the Atlantic cutter fleet is named after Capt. Joshua James, USLSS,. Greater love hath no man than this — that a man lay down his life for his friends. Proce...
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military history | laststandonzombieisland
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Weapons, Wars, Preparation and Security from a recovering gun nut turned bad writer. RSS for this section. August 28, 2016. In Combat Gallery Sunday. Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Emil Hünten. 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, photographers and the like. Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Emil Hünten. Ecole des Beaux Arts. Hunten’...
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World War One | laststandonzombieisland
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Weapons, Wars, Preparation and Security from a recovering gun nut turned bad writer. Archive World War One. RSS for this section. August 27, 2016. Protecting HMs frontiers, via Vickers. While the sun may have never set on the British Empire (until 1956, anyway), the Brits were big fans of using technology to their advantage to allow units with small footprints to control large areas. When using plunging fire, especially when sited from elevated positions, the Vickers could reach out and produce a beaten ...
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World War Two | laststandonzombieisland
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Weapons, Wars, Preparation and Security from a recovering gun nut turned bad writer. Archive World War Two. RSS for this section. August 27, 2016. Protecting HMs frontiers, via Vickers. While the sun may have never set on the British Empire (until 1956, anyway), the Brits were big fans of using technology to their advantage to allow units with small footprints to control large areas. When using plunging fire, especially when sited from elevated positions, the Vickers could reach out and produce a beaten ...