Recent content by GEM

One thing Mas (and others stress) is that you need realistic training with the gun. We know that most carriers do not do this. Then practice - perhaps not of just shooting groups at the square rang. We ask about EDC and get lists of guns. A proportion are more COSplay and not optimal. Folks...

Glock Gen 4 G17. Lots of 'A' hits. Time stinks as knees preclude the track meet aspect of USPSA. Love that gun. For me the grip angle complaint is BS.

I think any quality semi would do. The hand held light is a good idea. For me, a G17 and Surefire is a winning combo. I can't see significant advantages to other quality guns. They are all pretty much the same in practical usage. Bearcreek is extremely right on about training over hardware...

I I imagine if you put it in your ear, that would do the job. Terrible thing to contemplate. I also read that MacArthur carried one when he went ashore in the Philippines in the rare chance that the Japanese captured him. Is that true? Who knows?

We keep our rifles in soft cases in the four wheel collapsible carts. Our local rules are that you bring the case up to the line and get the rifle out. Some folks do have golf car like carts with holders for the rifle. They said they cost a good buck. The collapsible carts are cheap. I also use...

The idea was that you couldn't get out of a major turret. Also, the story said it was in footwear or socks against the leg. If this is true - I dunno.

Slamfire - the derringer was for when the turret was on fire or you are underwater, waiting to drown. Thus, the risk of accidental explosion really didn't manner. It was to chose a less awful death.

I read somewhere that crew members in battleship turrets might carry a Remington 2 barrel 41 caliber revolver in case they were stuck in a turret and unable to get out in a burning or sinking ship. Ouch! Big naval guns are done for. Their range is too short and coming close to shore makes you...

At the last match, a guy had one of those two wheel fancy rigs - fitted for his guns, etc. Then he had asked somebody else to bring a few boxes of bullets for him. Heavy. So he asked me if he could put them in my 4 wheel Academy cart for the walk back to the parking lot. I didn't charge him.

https://d74722.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-05-RFTS-Newsletter.pdf From Tom Givens - a well known trainer, one of the best: In this discussion, what's your predicted usage, stakes vs. the risks. Some points, some already made - 1. Is the gun COSplay - I get that...

At around the holidays, USNI has a great half price sale on their books. Worth waiting for. I've a shelf full of them. I got interested in naval history as a kid when I read a kid's book by Fletcher Pratt on the Monitor and Merricmac - Virginia. I gave it to my nephew many years ago. Then...

Caliber is trick question when it comes to naval rifles. It is a great site though. If a battleship had a 45 caliber gun, what did that mean?

I just remembered this. A relative of mine (yes, he was a young substantial man) was walking with his phone. Two guys stopped him and said to give them his phone. He gave the phone with vigor into the nose of of one of them. They fled.

I confess to a similar load out. Yes, I have a specific pen. I also have a small Surefire which I have gotten much use out of. An OC. A Spyderco - which I get much use out of with attacking Amazon packges. A semi OWB and an extra mag. Guess what in a back pocket a SWAT-T tourniquet. Sometimes...

There is a classic horrible case. Daughter is supposed to be away. She comes home early. She decides to 'scare' Dad by jumping out and saying BOO. Dad arrives, sees the front door open. He decides to 'clear' the house. He enters, she jumps out. He hits her COM with a 357 - she dies saying: Daddy...