Here's an interesting story: Marine scount snipers killed an insurgent and recovered an M40A1 sniper rifle. This rifle was taken by insurgents when 4 Marines were killed in an ambush in June, 2004.
Full story here:
http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/200662233458
My father-in-law brought over a .22 rifle that he had as a kid. There weren't many markings on it, but after googling around some I think that I've determined it's a Savage/Stevens model 52 A/B or a 53 A/B
The stock is in pretty good shape, but the action has seen better days. It's covered...
I was watching the tail-end of their show tonight and they were revisiting a myth about tracer fire blowing up the gas tank of a car.
According to their explanation, the colored tip of the tracer bullet was actually a coating of phosphorus. Upon firing the fiction of the bullet cutting...
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