From RIA Blog Townsend Whelen loved the outdoors and lived guns. An avid outdoorsman, marksman, hunter, soldier, and author, Whelen wrote for numerous sporting magazines and penned several books on topics ranging from gunsmithing to rifle scopes to big game hunting, shooting, and weapon cleaning. A career U.S. Army officer, he served as the commanderContinue reading “American Original: Townsend Whelen”
Category Archives: Historical
Colt LE901 Sniper Variant
Brent recently got a special variant of the 901 configured as a sniper rifle for some Kalifornia PD. You can see about it in his video below and then sub to his youtube channel.
Post 911 History of M1911A1 in use with U.S. Special Forces
Happy Birthday To Eugene Stoner…Father of the AR-15
Happy Birthday Eugene Stoner!
The Colt AR15 Resource Youtube Channel
Brent, who also writes here on the site has a new youtube channel up for his website, the Colt AR15 Resource. Go sub to him and watch a few of his excellent videos. https://youtube.com/channel/UCyp1pJtv9PdgzJDjYB_EVSw
Colonel William S. Brophy & Sniping In The Korean War
As the Korea war raged in 1952, A captain in IX Corps Ordnance and veteran of infantry combat during WW2 in the Pacific , William S. Brophy recognized a total lack of US Army sniping equipment and marksmanship compared to its current and future needs. In an effort to reverse some of this and educateContinue reading “Colonel William S. Brophy & Sniping In The Korean War”
Vickers Tactical Colt M4A1 Video
Larry Vickers briefly discusses and demonstrates the Colt M4A1 Carbine
The Eugene Stoner Tapes
This post features links to the 8-video series of interviews with Eugene Stoner conducted by Edward Ezell in 1988.
1993 Unertl Optics Price List
Where is my Delorean ?
USMC, We Don’t Manufacture This Product
This memorandum dated May 2nd, 1933 was scanned and posted by the Archival Research Group on their Facebook page on October 28th, 2019.
Scattered Shots 