I just learned from a mutual friend that an old friend recently passed away. Cliff was a great guy and a good friend. We met in 1999 at a gun store and became close friends pretty quick. Many days spent driving around for hours to every local gun store within 100 miles. Cliff was always lookingContinue reading “LEFT THE RANGE- Clifford Marenko”
Category Archives: Thoughts
Custom Colt From Pistol_Purview
From pistol_purview Last year my friend @texaspatriotarms posted a Colt built by Mike Padgett (MP Customs out of Linton Indiana) and I swore right then and there I was going to buy it. Well, he wouldn’t sell it. This was curious to me. After all, he’s a high end 1911 dealer—selling 1911s is his business.Continue reading “Custom Colt From Pistol_Purview”
MASTERS OF THE AIR Reviewed
The long-awaited mini-series Masters Of The Air, about the air war In Europe during The Last Gentile Uprising (just kidding), has finally started to air over at Apple TV. Not HBO this time for some reason that has to do with money. It has some pretty big shoes to fill. Band of Brothers was aContinue reading “MASTERS OF THE AIR Reviewed”
Repro ARVN Tiger Stripe Uniform Store
My friends have a dedicated website now (https://arvnuniforms.com/), You can go there and get about anything you want in any cut of most of the uniforms. You have seen me wearing the ARVN “seawave” tigerstripe many times in hunting photos and have asked about it. These guys make very affordable repros that look legit. You canContinue reading “Repro ARVN Tiger Stripe Uniform Store”
Blued Python Review
Justin walks us through the new blued python.
KGB Offering 2nd Hand Custom Pistols
You know all those really nice used and slightly custom pistols you see from Karl? He now has a section on his website where you can go to buy them if one tickles your fancy. A New section on our website http://www.kgbcustom.com for offering some fine customs that come in second hand, as always forContinue reading “KGB Offering 2nd Hand Custom Pistols”
Craig Explains Exposives
Shared from a FB friend People have asked me: “Why did you join the Army/” I replied: “To learn a skill.” Here’s a synopsis – I finally began my demolition training 0n 11 December. My mathematics skills came in handy. It was easy to think that one needed only place a stick of dynamite orContinue reading “Craig Explains Exposives”
Ted Hatate Bullseye Colt
From Pistol_purview Colt bullseye 1911 by Ted Hatate out of Hollywood CA. This absolutely beautiful gun is wrapped in (out of this world) orthopedic target grips, hand crafted by Lew Sanderson. I don’t know much about old Ted, but I’m probably gonna wear this hat all summer on the golf course. My @lukevolkmann hat isContinue reading “Ted Hatate Bullseye Colt”
Sniping With The M16A1
Early efforts to use the M16 for sniping
Kevin vs. Cujo
From PTMN Kevin’s fellow Green Beret and friend who you all know as PTMN in the comments shares this story about Kevin. Here’s a pic of Kevin Obrien’s blood thirsty and vicious sparring mate on the ridgeline above Firebase Romero. In the pic, the dog doesn’t look vicious at all, in fact he looks prettyContinue reading “Kevin vs. Cujo”
Scattered Shots 