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Nowadays, just finding a reliable gun shop where you can find 20 gauge shells or .22 rimfire ammo seems like a challenge. Back in the day these were a dime a dozen and the bare minimum qualifier for a reputable gun shop. Still, that is basically the bare minimum for what qualifies the usefulness of a gun shop. When you need something basic you can shop for it at a big box retailer or sporting goods shop. The reason you need a good gun shop is for the experience of the owners and the ability t...
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Posted November 24, 2020 at 11:37 PM
The Lee Enfield Rifle and variants might very well be called the British Land Pattern Musket, otherwise known as the beloved Brown Bess, of the early part of the 20th century. That is to say, it is not a musket or even a smoothbore, and it certainly isn’t a muzzleloader, but it did find itself in the hands of an overwhelming number of British troops, including colonial regiments around the empire in the first half of the 1900s. Reliable, dependable, rugged, and just all-around an attractive r...
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Posted September 17, 2020 at 02:50 AM
The SKS rifle has developed a loyal following in many circles for a number of reasons. There are those who don’t appreciate some of the limits of wooden stock and other elements of the older platform, but for a number of reasons the SKS rifle is just a service rifle that refuses to go away. There are those who can’t get enough of that fact that it has seen so much widespread military service around the world. Although it was developed too late in the Second World War to see any practica...
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Posted September 03, 2020 at 03:13 AM
The M1911 is probably the most significant handgun platform that has ever been developed. There are a number of reasons for its popularity - so many that it can be hard to start somewhere. Suffice it to say that it was an instant success in engagements when it was released to U.S. troops at the beginning of the 1900s, and it has spread like wildfire in shooting circles throughout the world in the years that have followed. Because it has been widely used - and for many purposes - there are a n...
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Posted May 21, 2020 at 11:13 PM
The M1911 which was originally chambered in .45 ACP solved a bunch of problems for the soldiers who were carrying it. It was built around an all metal frame that was slim and highly ergonomic. The action was reliable and the trigger was crisp and predictable. Most importantly, the .45 ACP cartridge around which the original 1911s were built offering significantly more stopping power than the .38 caliber rounds of the revolvers of the day. Today, the M1911 is as popular as ever and perhaps mor...
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Posted May 06, 2020 at 05:24 AM
Located in Springfield, Massachusetts, the Springfield Armory was the primary center of manufacture for firearms used by the US military from 1777, a year after the advent of the revolutionary, until 1968, when it shuttered during the Vietnam conflict. Springfield was the first federal armory, and one of the first factories in the US dedicated to the manufacture of weapons. Today, the armory is preserved as a national historic site, which features the world’s largest collection of historic Am...
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Posted April 17, 2020 at 08:22 PM
The need for a reliable semi-automatic pistol originated in the Phillipine-American war. The islands’ jungle terrain was unsuited to the current range of US military pistols, which included the Colt M1892 revolver, and the .38 Long Colt. The M1911 was entered into preliminary military trials in 1906, where it competed against six other pistols. A series of field tests was held between 1907 and 1911 to determine which design was best, and to allow the designers to refine their weapons over tim...
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Posted April 16, 2020 at 01:33 AM
Helmets became an important part of armed forces’ body armor during World War I when heavy artillery emerged as a staple of military strategy. Artillery softened positions along the front with rolling barrages of flame and iron, bits of shrapnel bursting forth from the impact points. Because they could not protect their soldiers with suits of steel, saving their wrists and ankles from bullets, German, French, and British army commands developed separately the Stahlhelm, Adrian, and Brodie, wh...
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Posted February 05, 2020 at 03:56 AM
Springfield Armory’s M1903 is a seriously legendary piece of equipment and is about as steeped in history as any firearm you could find. It needs no introduction but is worth repeating that the M1903 saw widespread service alongside American troops throughout The Great War and the Second World War, and survived through the Korean War and into the Vietnam War. Much equipment survives through course of necessity, but the M1903’s rock solid action, dependable performance and powerful, widespread...
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Posted January 17, 2020 at 02:30 AM
The Star Model BM, produced by Star Bonifacio Echeverria, a Spanish manufacturer of small arms from 1905 to 1997, is a single-action, semi-automatic pistol. Single-action” means that the trigger performs only a single action: releasing the hammer to discharge the sidearm each time the trigger is pulled. It does not perform the secondary action of cocking the hammer. “Semi-automatic” means that energy of a shot bullet is re-used by the weapon to chamber the next bullet. After a round is fired,...
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Posted January 06, 2020 at 03:11 AM