Irons in the Fire

in all its new, black, oily glory.

and this one I decided to parkerize. Which, if you're not familiar with it, is a phosphate coating chemically deposited on the metal sur...

you do not want it to look anything like this

Last fall I wrote of finally finding a MkVI Webley, a big, ugly .455-caliber revolver. It had none of the original finish left, so I decid...

Decided to try it on another couple of pieces the other day. Pretty simple, put the salts & solution in the pot, water in the rinse pot...

take a look : * 4003 B.C.: Earth still largely molten , Adam and Eve cover their shame with asbestos waders * 3...

A couple of years ago Kim started the Walter & Adam fund to provide equipment for some guys in a sniper unit. Now he and the Mrs. have s...

these people are freakin' insane. Home Office statistics suggest that there are 12 such murders each year. However, according to researc...

from Dad, stuff he'd picked up/found/been given over the years. Some I recognize, some I have no idea what they are. I'm going thr...

from a guy named George Jonas up in Canada. Couple of good bits: Guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens pose little danger to public saf...

and yell at the screen. Other night had the chance to see an episode where they tried some firearms stories and a 'can hammers break ...

at least in part, when stuff like this happens. In the past 48 hours 19 Palestinians have been killed, tossed from rooftops, executed at po...

(Disgusting-NV) is a sorry, worthless, walking piece of crap . Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoin...

is the way vets tend to be treated. In this case, the son of a friend, a Marine just back from his second tour in Iraq. Couple of days ago...

but it's definitely ' Stop trying to save us! ". Couple of years ago Kim wrote Let Africa Sink , his thoughts on what might sav...

is when A: it's their southern border and people are sneaking in and B: it's their northern border and they're blaming us for t...

Yesterday while packing up to head out in the field again. They've been training hard(as they should) and spending a lot of time out in...

in a traffic stop is the subject of this post over at Kim's. Read it, and then read the comments. All 122 of them that got in before h...

I'd read years ago that to increase lethality, the Brits had started putting an aluminum insert into the nose of the jacket to move the ...

and was wrong on the other. I looked at the parts of the pistol, sitting there all oily and disassembled, and I just couldn't wait. So ...