According to TubeMogul we’ve got 1,000,000 views since we’ve been online (or more, look at the badge above). It’s been a bit of a hard slog for the past two years, but we’ve got a consistent audience that seems to find the stuff we do interesting [...]
Saw a post for a new Zombie Tools company today via BoingBoing. I’m not sure if the recent US financial problems is one of the signs of the apocalypse, but if so, apparently you can order the tools to prepare yourself over the web.
Of course all the classic literature (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection [...]
Saw this via BoingBoing today:
It’s on preorder though, so it’ll be a bit (if ever) before you can actually test one of these out. You’d think that a bunch of the pistol rounds would make better cubes though. I mean, wouldn’t you rather have your Whisky Sour with a couple of .45 LC cubes?
Pretty interesting read over at Defense Tech today covering the changes to snipers from
the current Iraq / Afghanistan conflicts.
Here’s some of the problems they address.
Problem: Inadequate/outdated doctrine.
Problem: Inadequate equipment.
Problem: Inadequate optical sights.
Problem: A shortage of snipers and precision weapons.
Problem: Modernization of existing SWS (Sniper Weapons Systems.)
Problem: Rate of fire.
Problem: Weight and the inability to engage [...]
I’ve been working my way through Lonesome Dove and I’m really kicking myself for not having read this years ago. I just got through the section where Gus goes off to get Lorena back from Blue Duck and had his shootout with the renegades. Given he’s armed with a pistol and rifle, I got to [...]
I’m just working through the manufacturers as I get new info, and finally added in Henry last night. They’re also listed in the standard set of gun reviews we’re working on right now.
I’ve got the initial gun review sections added for Browning and BondArms. The Browning section only includes their shotguns (which is a large number to begin with), but I’ll get over to their rifles eventually. BondArms as an interesting company based out of Texas, selling derringers that seem pretty neat and available in a wide [...]
As I’ve mentioned recently, we’ve been working on adding in gun reviews to the stoppingpower.info web site during the last month. A lot of work has been in figuring out how to get it to flow correctly with mediawiki, and a lot of it has been figuring out how to populate into the wiki correctly. [...]
Apparently H&K looked into a new assualt rifle design right before the wall came down in Germany, and came up with the G11 design.
The key things I’d like to point out in the defensetech.org article are:
4.73×33 mm bullet
caseless
cyclic Rate of Fire at 2,000 RPM in 3-shot burst mode
Read the original article at defensetech.org
And if you [...]
Freakanomics covers the report “Who Serves in the U.S. Military? The Demographics of Enlisted Troops and Officers” by Shanea J. Watkins and James Sherk from the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis.
1. “American soldiers are more educated than their peers. A little more than 1 percent of enlisted personnel lack a high-school degree, compared to [...]
