Blues sent me the following video recently:

Got an email from Kahr Arms recently announcing their new kahrtalk.com forum to discuss Kahr and Auto-Ordance firearms. It’s nice to see a company actively engaging their users in this way.  I know of a good number of ruger forums, but not many(any?) that seem to come from Ruger itself.

There is a dedicated forum for each model Kahr pistol, and for each model Auto-Ordnance pistol or rifle.  There are also discussion areas for holsters and gear, ammunition, competitions, gunsmithing, firearms for sale, and much much more.  This is your one stop shop for everything related to Kahr and Auto-Ordnance firearms.

The forums themselves look like they’re actually starting to get some traction, with over 100 posts already logged in the “general discussion” section.

Make had an interesting post yesterday covering a ping-pong cannon built by some fellows up in Colorado.  Of course here’s the vid:

Their description is telling, as the water surely added the “pow” to the gun.

It runs off of a compressed air line and a standard wall outlet. After firing a few “dry” rounds, he proceeded to shoot off a few (ok a LOT) of ping pong balls filled with water. These things might not weight a lot, but they are moving FAST. A sheet of drywall was no match for them, and even particle board failed spectacularly when faced by a 1″ sphere of water.

For comparison, here’s the type of hole we produced when we fired a 12 gauge shotgun slug through the same particle board (OSB) walls.

Sig Sauer is running a “cash for clunkers” deal, giving you $200 for your “klunker” gun.

They define klunker as:

KLUNKER refers to a handgun from any manufacturer that you wish to trade in for the $200.00 payment. Gun must be operational and free from cracks in frame or other key components. KLUNKER must be a semi-auto pistol 9mm or larger, or revolver of .38 caliber or larger. SIG SAUER reserves the right to reject any firearm submitted as a KLUNKER that does not meet our criteria. Rejected firearms will be returned to sender. Please allow six (6) to eight (8) weeks for delivery of your check. This offer cannot be combined with any other program or offer.

Wouldn’t be worth it to me, and I’d have to wonder how much it’d be worth it to anyone in general.  Frankly, all my guns (which span lifetimes from a couple of years to about 40 years) are in good condition.  That’s what taking care of your gun actually means!  Of course maybe there’s a huge amount of .38 Specials out there based on the fact that I still can’t find any ammo for my GP 100.

Offer ends December 4, 2009.

Interesting article over at DangerRoom this morning discussing the Taliban’s preferred rifle of choice right now — the AK-74.  I became more interested when they point to a Japanese video showing the different effects of the two rounds in wood.

Here’s an example of .223 vs a Bullet Test Tube

Check out the rest of our shooting videos an easy comparison of round effects vs different targets…