Ya that is one of the main problems with the Russian tubes and earlier gens. If you had a good source of IR light it would help as well and still not be visible to the naked eye. You are still be...
I intended to run a MAWL, but it did not arrive in time for the course. I used a full power DBAL A3 for this course.
TNVC actually offers rental gear for their courses for those who need it. It gives a great opportunity to try before you buy. They will also apply the rental fee towards your purchase if you deci...
Small arms are important for small wars; as long as your artillery and air power are up to date, you can win big wars with bolt action rifles.
Safety obsession does work, though. Why do you think the majority of the videos of people getting electrocuted, splattered on the road or getting taken out final destination style take place in c...
I'll pirate it. I don't adhere to intellectual property laws;-)
Dude, when you retire you MUST write a memoir! At the very least, me, Nathaniel, Matthew, and Ostariusalpha will buy it.
The idea of loading lighter just to drag down recoil for comps is exactly what gave us those ridiculous target pistols that you could never employ in real life. Something about doing that bugs me...
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/22/22-squibs-one-barrel-new-record/#comment-2328392
Being a ceramic isn't most, if not all, TC sintered?
Indeed it is currently unregulated. In time regulation and stability will come, and then you will have what is called the "stablecoin" which will have a corresponding value to everyday items year...
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/22/citibank-gun-sales/#comment-2328388
"Just like the FDE model, we listened to what everyone has been asking for, and we're happy to announce that we're producing exactly 1000 of them. That way, one THOUSAND lucky customers get exact...
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/23/new-aimpoint-micro-orange/#comment-2328386
The one thing I was surprised about was that he didn't seem to rock back or even jerk/twitch, which means that the plate must have really dissipated the energy of the round. Also, what the other'...
It's nice to see something chosen besides the HK416 which is what all of the Kewl Kids are buying now
You use MMGs
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/21/british-army-drop-light-machine-guns/#comment-2328382
Don't forget the A-10s that showed up just to go BRAAAAAAAAP. The F-22s basically did networking and flybies for BDA.. which wasn't much to discern as anything living was basically a pink mist.
Where was his helmet? Doesnt he know that a meteor could fall out of the sky and hit him in the head? Somebody needs to pass a law...
Pretty much what I said...
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/21/british-army-drop-light-machine-guns/#comment-2328374
This makes sense on a less than lethal type weapon but for hunting it just seems pretentious.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/23/new-aimpoint-micro-orange/#comment-2328370
Overmatch!
My device of similar action saved me once, so it works. Though girls in trouble in another country is still not a great topic for jokes.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/22/piexon-jpx6-less-lethal-weapon/#comment-2328368
Do the militaries of the EU have the same problem we have in the US, where less than 20 percent of the youth are capable of serving, with the majority of those unable to serve medically disqualif...
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/21/british-army-drop-light-machine-guns/#comment-2328366
Yeah, the numbers explain. Makes this 1,5 m "safety" range reasonable. Thanks for the other comment's info about the Pioner, btw!
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/22/piexon-jpx6-less-lethal-weapon/#comment-2328362
That would look pretty nice on a Nerf gun! I dunno, it seems you could blaze orange yourself and leave your gun black or camouflage, unless some law required it. Even so, changing out some furnit...
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/23/new-aimpoint-micro-orange/#comment-2328364
If only SCOTUS would start hearing 2A cases I would be optimistic.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/17/nfa-tax/#comment-2328360
He is, that's why this is happening. It's all Bloomberg. He is singlehandedly forcing his personal obsession with gun control on the rest of the country.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/22/citibank-gun-sales/#comment-2328358
Apartheid for gun owners. Force the banks to make it impossible to do business. Force FedEx to make it impossible to move guns. Force the tech companies to make it impossible to talk about guns. ...
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/22/citibank-gun-sales/#comment-2328356
Strictly speaking, this is a "demo" and not a "test". "Test" at least implies that failure is an option. Demos can fail too, though, and often do during new product intros at tech trade shows.
That's why I figure the new rounds should be fairly cheap to produce. Technically, the only difficult portion to manufacture is the tungsten carbide instead of the steel core. Sintering should dr...
Don't forget how much of that per round cost is profit for ATK.
I seem to recall that M993 cores are made via abrasive machining, as they have older-designed tungsten carbide cores. Sintering should reduce that cost on the XM1158. https://uploads.disquscdn.co...
When Kevlar vests were first hitting the scene, the developer went into a police meeting and pulled out his sidearm and immediately shot himself in the chest with said vest on. The officers lined...
In the 1995 movie it was a 2006M that he used, but in Stand Alone Complex while did have a 2006M in a few episodes, his primary gun was a fictional 2008M (the one in the picture).
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/22/iwa-2018-mateba-still-making-6-unica/#comment-2328344
We already do....it's called M855A1 and it's around $.35 a cartridge.
M993 is still $2 a round and we have a metric ton of that stuff.
I have noticed that the Leupold quest is shaped and configured identically to the seek brand flashlight/thermal camera with very similar specs. I did notice a price difference, though. Anyone kno...
Do. Not. Want.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/23/new-aimpoint-micro-orange/#comment-2328334
CSA Milley: Issue everyone a $4,000 battle rifle, fed from a 20 round box mag that uses $6 rounds! Each magazine will be $130 expended! It's genious I say! GENIOUS!!!! Much Russia, Much Cold War ...
Davis also went into cardiac arrest once after one of his demos. Also, let's not forget the number of cops who died or were wounded when their Second Chance vest failed because Davis knowingly so...
Bloomberg again.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/22/citibank-gun-sales/#comment-2328330
Well, those are certainly a bit easier to make, looser tolerances, voids are acceptable, that sort of thing. Still, good observation - twice the tungsten, and still only a dollar and a half buyin...
See, that's what I thought... of course, that would be my initial thought for any large-scale state-on-state conflict. Artillery has historically been the big killer for a very long time, not sma...
I have seen that scenario played out numerous times in contact, neither LMGs or MMGs nor for that matter HMGs are effective at suppressing fire from unobserved locations. HE and or WP is one of t...
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/21/british-army-drop-light-machine-guns/#comment-2328322
As an American, I have to agree with you. We trust complete strangers with our lives everyday as we fly by each other on 2 lane roads at 70 miles per hour without giving it a second thought, yet ...
Turn every rifleman into a grenadier, and overmatch enemy armor with explossive power
I know, right? So much paranoia. Go watch Demo Ranch put armor to the test. Unless they are using AP rounds, it's pretty much safe to say this is going to stop it. Or a Garand. That old school wa...
"because otherwise the gun is pretty similar to the older M2006." Not really, the trigger and lockwork are basically a new design on the Rhino, the only thing it has in common with the 200...
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/22/iwa-2018-mateba-still-making-6-unica/#comment-2328314
Not after we realized the best way to deal with Russians is copious amount of artillery and airstrike, supported by F-22s
I agree, the price has to come down. If you look at Tungsten Fishing weights, which are also bullet shaped, a 7 gram / 108gr weight retails for $1.49. And that's retail, buying a single unit.
dude... russia killing defectors all around the world right now... always worry about the russians.
I thought the current fad in worrying was about Chinese armor? Are we still on the Russian thing?
5.56x45mm tungsten carbine AP ammo - not only UNDERMATCH! (I jest) but also expensive initially. Truly, don't think that production costs will remain high. If produced in any real amounts,...
Still cheap when it comes to soldiers lives. If they really want to save money they should close down expensive overseas bases and conflicts.
It's 6 Unica, not Unica 6; otherwise the pun doesn't make any sense. Noob knows what gun he is showing, he's playing off ProLiberty82's reference to the 2006M.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/22/iwa-2018-mateba-still-making-6-unica/#comment-2328300
Why... why tungsten... I mean, I know why, but it's a poor choice to design this around a material we generally source from China, when so many future scenarios center around a conflict ...
Sure it is less common today now that armor is more accepted, but it isn't that unusual. The founder of Second Chance (now Armor Express, which was the company that made body armor mainstream for...
Or they simply used a round that the armor was specifically designed to defeat that was first tested extensively without a man in the armor.
The laugh at the end was great! I am so tired of safety Nazis. No joke, Google saftey obsession. As a society, as a whole we are dangerously obsessed with safety. In the past few years alone many...
If you understand markets and risk, you'd keep the cash you rely on to operate your business very far away from an unstable, largely unregulated market. The cryptocurrency market in its current f...
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/03/22/citibank-gun-sales/#comment-2328292
I expect my tax dollars to be spent poorly and still they find ways to shock and disgust me.
We're going to make the best bullets. Really, the best. You know, I talk to people all the time about our bullets, and they just tell me how great they are. Expensive? Yes, I know, but they're tr...