Recent content by ridurall

If you ever heard the story about the fat guy that got shot with a 50 BMG primer. Well I'm the guy. I had a little side line business going selling 50 BMG bottle openers and man I screwed up. It happened about 3 years ago and it was raining and has been raining for several days so I didn't go...

I'm a flashlight nut and much prefer the brighter the better. What I use the most are the ===fire or Ultrafire ect. type Chinese 900 lumen flashlight with the Cree type led bulb. Most of them have the 18650 Lithium Ion batteries and wow are they bright. I don't mess with anything with an...

When I was a kid growing up in Colorado we had a cabin in the mountains and I used to skin dive in our private pond. I made my own Hawaiian sling from a ski pole and braised a tri-point 12 tip on the end of it. I then attached rubber tubing to the end and held the pole in my hand instead of...

For 18 of my 20 years in the Air Force I worked in and then ended up as NCOIC of the Entomology Shop. When it comes to war fighting in winter, conditions are a bigger opponent that enemy forces. You are right rodieger but there is something that needs to be added to it. It time of war or...

I put my Kimber on in the morning on a good belt under my bib overalls and take it off when I get home and put it in a finger vault next to my chair if I'm relaxing. The only other times I take it off are for going to the doctor office where I can't carry, City Hall or my son's school. Whoops...

My father had some tough stories about the battle of the Bulge and Battle of the Hurtgen Forest. He found a young American GI about 16 years young that was gut shot and dead with 4" whore frost on his face where he slowly died after leaving a mark in the snow where he trashed in pain. Kind of...

Many years ago when I was stationed in Germany my Father went elk hunting in Colorado. It was the later cold season and he being a WWII veteran seemed to always use his old GI lubes. He was carrying my Parker Hale 12000 Mauser action 30-06 and when he got back to camp he proceeded to unload...

I purchased a NRA membership for one of my anti-gun liberal cousins several years ago. It back fired when he purchased a membership for me to the ACLU. It took years and a change of email addresses to get off all the kill the babies, save the whales, bunny huggers and send money to help the...

I have a Beeman 3 or 4 power air rifle scope that cost around $300 back in the 1980's when I worked part time at Cumberland Knife and Gun in Fayetteville NC. I was stationed at Pope AFB. That Beeman scope has been on my Model 48 then on my Diana 52 and killed thousands of pigeons in the...

For 18 of my 20 years in the Air Force I worked in the Entomology shop (Pest Control) in Civil Engineering. We had a lot of trouble with pigeons in the hangers. Something about their crap is very hard on the aluminum in air craft. The Air Force would supply us with cheap Crossman pump up...

I'm retired Air Force and I don't even go back on base to get my prescriptions filled. I retired during the Clinton years when he banned anyone from bringing guns on the base. I used to go though the gate with my personal pick up full of M-16s, a couple of M-60s and a M-16 with a 203 grenade...

From what I've learned there were several types of Gunto blades. There were a few "high end family" blades that were hidden and then recovered with the 1934 pattern accoutrements put on a traditionally forged blade. Then there were blades that were forged from Manchurian railroad track steel...

I use that oil that comes in those Katana kits. I have several high end swords like Angus Trim, Del Tin and a not so high end cold steel Katana that took me several months to sharpen. I've never had any rust though as I take care of them like I do my guns and knives.

Several years ago I picked up a sword cane for my aging father and later replaced it with a Cold Steel Blackthorn Replica made from some kind of polymer that is as tough as you can get. While I carry my .45 everywhere I can the Blackthorn cane is now mine since my father passed away at age 91...

Several years ago while killing bugs in a customers house I saw a Gunto in the corner and asked the owner about it. Her father brought it home from the war and that was all she knew. A couple of years later she called me wanting to know if I would give her credit on the sword to kill fleas and...