A Retrospective: The Colt 633 “DOE”
Intro It’s likely the same stupidity that led me to purchase a V8 sedan the same year a Democratic president took office that convinced me now was the time to build a PCC in...
Category: History
The Daewoo K2: South Korea’s Pride
The AK Wishes They Were This Cool Many of us in the gun community all have our own flavor of bang-stick that we gravitate towards. The pistol side of things has such a wide...
The MSA Phalanx
The MSA Phalanx is a really strange mask. There exists a pretty solid demand for these, despite the lack of filters. For quite a long time, the only people I knew collecting these generally...
Soldier of Fortune Magazine: /k/ before the Internet
To be honest, I hadn’t discovered Soldier of Fortune until I first visited /k/, and even then didn’t know anything about SOF in earnest until I reached enough time on the image board for...
FireForce Ventures Podcast – Men Among Men Stories
Bindu and Hank’s two-part deep dive into Chris Cocks’ “Fireforce”, first published in 1988. “Fireforce” details Chris Cocks’ experiences as a front line commando with “The Lovers”, 3 Commando, Rhodesian Light Infantry.
The South Dakota Air & Space Museum’s Outdoor Aircraft Exhibits
In the Black Hills of South Dakota just outside Ellsworth AFB sits the small but extraordinary South Dakota Air and Space Museum. It’s easy to miss if you don’t know about it or aren’t...
Japanese Hobbyist Reenactments of Historical Wars
November 10, 2020 – The day is cold, frosty, and muddy. The squad leader halts the group, and motions myself, the marksman, and another rifleman to look beyond the hill into the small valley...
The Dan Wesson 15-2: The Forgotten Fourth Child of American Revolvery
When it comes to revolvers in the US, the “Big Three” of Colt, Smith and Wesson, and Ruger remain strong. But in the 1970’s a new company emerged and attempted to challenge these three...
This Week In History – January 6th – 12th
History is made every day, and can be anything from a source of knowledge to simple entertainment. Today, we’ll take a look at seven events that happened this week, as well as a deeper...
Metacamouflage
Not much changed in the first hundred years of military camouflage. For most of the 20th century there had been a unifying goal: prevent your people and things from being seen by the enemy....
