I spend all of the past week at SHOT Show 2023, and had a thoroughly exhausting time. I got a whole lot done though, including locking in about $60,000 in sponsorships for the Midnight Brutality prize table - we are going to have an amazing experience for our competitors! Anyway, a few of the highlights of the other things I found around the show are:
- SIG Romeo M17
- Carbon Resear...
2023-01-22 23:53:21 +0000 UTC View Post
When I decided that I wanted to try out hunting as a way to source my own meat and enjoy the outdoors in a new way, I really didn't know where to start. I didn't have any family who hunted when I was growing up, and I don't live in an area where hunting is a common activity. Through some fri...
2023-01-21 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Tony Neophytou developed this for Denel Land Systems, which has completely fallen apart as a company and left it now as his own independent design, with no manufacturer. I filmed this video in 2018, to show the prototype version of the Strike, which has since been improved and further developed. Perhaps some day it can find a manufacturer?
2023-01-20 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Croatian engineer Marko Vukovic first developed his P38-based pistol in the late 1980s for the Yugoslav Peoples' Army. It was left unadopted at that time, but when Croatia declared independence in 1991 the gun found a new life. The newly formed Croatian armed forces needed quite a lot of small arms. Vukovic brought his pistol design back off the shelf and presented it to the Croatian authoritie...
2023-01-18 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The DWM company in Germany had a license on the Maxim gun design prior to World War One. They produced the rather old-fashioned MG08 for the German army, but also wanted to have a modernized type of gun for commercial sales. This was the Model 1913 Parabellum, with the design improved by Karl Heinemann. Like the Vickers, Heinemann's improvement included inverting the lock to reduce the size of ...
2023-01-16 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
From my Las Vegas hotel room, it's time for SHOT Show 2023! Hopefully I will find a couple neat guns and not come home with more than one or two infectious diseases.
2023-01-16 00:37:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The simple truth is that short rifles and short shotguns were never a problem, and continue to not be a problem today. The 1934 National Firearms Act originally wanted to restrict handgun ownership, and the clauses relating to SBRs and SBSs were simply to close the loophole of a person cutting down a rifle or shotgun to get around a handgun prohibition. That handgun (effective) prohibition was ...
2023-01-15 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostToday's Q&A is from Tim on Patreon:
"The great nation of Elbonia is looking to spin up a sniper program. But they know better than to adopt ZF41 scopes. What rifles do you attempt to sell them?"
After some consideration, I would try to sabotage the Elbonian Sniper Corps by supplying them with equipment that would allow their training to take as many shortcuts as possible. True l...
2023-01-14 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's Q&A is from Tim on Patreon:
"The great nation of Elbonia is looking to spin up a sniper program. But they know better than to adopt ZF41 scopes. What rifles do you attempt to sell them?"
After some consideration, I would try to sabotage the Elbonian Sniper Corps by supplying them with equipment that would allow their training to take as many shortcuts as possible. True l...
2023-01-14 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Interested in Chinese Warlord-Era pistols? My new book on the subject is now available at:
https://www.headstamppublishing.com/chinese-pistols
It was no secret in the international arms market that Mauser was doing a tremendous business selling C96 pistols into Warlord-era China i...
2023-01-13 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we continue our series on the development of Croatian pistols towards the XD line. Last week we saw Marko Vukovic's first design, and today we are looking at his second. This was the V.M.18, a step towards a more proven system instead of the really unusual flapper locking of the Kordun. The VM18 was heavily based on the Walther P38, but with a double-stack, double-feed magazine that held ...
2023-01-11 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the late video here...I had a long medical class ending Sunday that made me forget to film this. Anyway...
- Working on sponsor companies for Midnight Brutality; very happy to have The Night Vision Company on board already.
- Finnish M28/76 original scope acquired!
- Lots of prep work for SHOT Show...
- First livestream Q&A...
2023-01-10 19:46:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Recorded live January 9th.
If you have critiques or suggestions for next month's live Q&A, please let me know!
2023-01-10 15:30:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the link for tonight's livestream - we are doing this on YouTube this month so people on all three supporter platforms can tune in. This is specifically for you folks who support than channel (thank you!). I will be posting the video after we are finished, but only for you, and not the general public.
I am going to be answering a bunch of questions from the recent Q&A question ...
2023-01-09 17:53:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Patented in Germany as System Schätzle, the L26 was a departure from the copies of the Russian wipe-based silencer designs. The L26 used a set of six identical cone-shaped metal baffles inside a simple tube. It attached to a rifle by clamping around the front sight, just like the rifle grenade launcher developed for the K98k.
The basic design was used for several different models;...
2023-01-09 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The Battle of Alligator Creek (aka Battle of the Tenaru) was a formative moment in the American World War Two psyche. After making an unopposed landing on Guadalcanal and taking its mostly-completed airfield at minimal cost, the US Marines had to defend their permitter on the night of August 21st, 1942.
Colonel Kiyonoa Ichiki was sent from the Japanese base at Truk with about 900 tough ve...
2023-01-07 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Scheduled for January 28. What do you think of some additional dynamic, fun sort of footage instead of just sitting at a table for the occasional video?
2023-01-07 01:18:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Scheduled for January 20. Been waiting 5 years to post this video!
2023-01-07 01:15:16 +0000 UTC View PostI'll post the link on Monday when we are closer to the start time, but if you want to join the Q&A live, mark it on your calendar! We will probably go about an hour, answering questions from the recent batch you guys gave me plus some from the audience live.
2023-01-06 23:08:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Finland used a variety of FN pistols prior to WW2, and had already evaluated the High Power when Russian invaded and the Winter War began. With an urgent need for more arms, Finland ordered a batch of High Power pistols, which FN was happy to include with the other arms orders already being delivered to Finland. In total, the Finns bought 2,400 of them, with 900 delivered in February 1940 and 1...
2023-01-06 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI'm going to be at SHOT Show all week wandering the floor, and what better place to do a Patreon meetup? I figure Monday night is least likely to interfere with other events, so I will be at the Electra Bar in the Venetian from 7pm to about 9pm. Stop by and say hello!
If you are going to be at SHOT but can't make the meetup, please do introduce yourself if you see me around the show - I a...
2023-01-05 19:54:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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What is Midnight Brutality? Basically, it's a brutality match being held completely in the dark, designed for NVGs and thermal optics - and also open to white-light setups. It's a rifle/PCC-only match, six stages,...
2023-01-05 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The “Kordun” (named after a region in Croatia) was the first pistol design from Marko Vukovic, lead designer for IM Metal and later HS Produkt. It was made in 1985 for the Yugoslav Peoples’ Army, with the goal of being a softer-shooting and higher capacity sidearm than the then-standard M57 Tokarev. The Cordon is unusual in being a short recoil, flapper-locked pistol. It is chambered for ...
2023-01-04 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhat questions would you like me to answer? I will be covering a couple as full-length videos on the public channel, and others in shorter format in a livestream Q&A next week open only to you folks (detail to be announced).
2023-01-02 21:58:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-01-02 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Year - I hope you all have an auspicious start to 2023! A couple highlights for the past week here:
- Picked up a surplus Yugo M57 Tokarev and original trigger
- Finished the first draft of the Maxim chapter for the upcoming book on silencers
- Found a lot of state legal prohibitions on silencers well before 1934
- Workin...
2023-01-01 23:41:11 +0000 UTC View Post
For my main run through Desert Brutality this year, I decided to have fun with a full historical load out - or at least a mostly-historical load out. I used a Valmet M62/S (the semiauto version of the Finnish Rk62 military rifle) and a Lahti L-35 (Finland's domestic military pistol). To go along with this, I had a set of Finnish M91 camouflage generously gifted to me by one of the Finnish Bruta...
2022-12-31 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Type 94 was the standard infantry antitank gun of the Japanese Army during World Ware Two. It was developed in the early 1930s as tensions with the Soviet Union rose; there had not been much need for Japanese antitank weapons in China. However, high explosive ammunition was also made for the gun, and it was used in an infantry support role with HE in China as well as in the Pacific.
T...
2022-12-30 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post