Often at the range I have had to explain to people what Minute of Angle (MOA), and Milradians mean. Today I was reading about the Nemo .300 Win Mag ARs and I found they had a nice explaination of the two in their rifle’s manual. Quoting from the Nemo manual: Mils and MOA differ fromContinue reading “MOA and Mils Summed UP”
Monthly Archives: August 2025
Sok it to me, Baby! The weird and wonderful Sokolovsky Automaster
By Kevin O’Brien The Sokolovsky Automaster was promoted, shortly before its entry into production, as the “Rolls Royce of .45 Auto Pistols.” The pistol was starkly beautiful in an angular, Modernist way. Indeed, the design might be called Brutalist, although we don’t think the Brutalists ever escaped from architecture into industrial design, did they? AndContinue reading “Sok it to me, Baby! The weird and wonderful Sokolovsky Automaster”
The American Cal. .60 Anti-Tank Rifle, T1 & T1E1
By Kevin O’Brien Germany, Poland, the UK, and the USSR all developed anti-tank rifles and used them with mixed results (the Germans, in World War I, then all of them, in the early years of World War II) Other nations including Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Finland and Japan built anti-tank rifles, essentially huge rifles that fired a kinetic penetratorContinue reading “The American Cal. .60 Anti-Tank Rifle, T1 & T1E1”
Sky King Richard Russell 8-10-2018
Its that time of year again. The day I like to remember the bitter sweet day in 2018 when Richard Russell swiped a plane from a Seattle airport and lived the free life he longed for a short while. He died that day after he had his fun and became immortal. SkyKing didn’t hurt anyoneContinue reading “Sky King Richard Russell 8-10-2018”
Jim Boland Custom 1911
From 1911_purview I post a lot of esoteric gunsmiths, but it is time to get back to the masters. This is a “space gun” in .45 ACP by Jim Boland —the most innovative 1911 pistolsmith, maybe ever. Through the 1980’s and early 1990’s Boland was among the early pioneers of 1911 customization. He used his expansiveContinue reading “Jim Boland Custom 1911”
Friday Fun
A Look Back at Pre-Y2K Survival Gear and Conventional Wisdom
By Luis Vakdes As a child in the 1980s who came of age in the 1990s. I lived through an odd era of the gun culture. With the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, a lot of survivalists and those preparing for WWIII suddenly had less to worry about…untilContinue reading “A Look Back at Pre-Y2K Survival Gear and Conventional Wisdom”
The Korean War Week 59 – Who’s Really Running the Korean War? – August 5, 1951
Buying A Used Smith & Wesson Revolver; What To Check & Look For With Nelson Ford The Gunsmith Inc.
Gerald Bull Project Babylon
Remember the Canadian engineer Gerald Bull who designed giant super canons? From March of 1988 until the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Iraq contracted with Gerard Bull to build three superguns: two full sized ‘Project Babylon’ 1000 mm guns and one ‘Baby Babylon’ 350 mm prototype. Nine tonnes of special supergun propellant could fire aContinue reading “Gerald Bull Project Babylon”
Scattered Shots 