Bella Ciao, now with greater range

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Oleg Volk

I am continuing to have fun with the new rimfire STG44.

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Daily work example

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Oleg Volk

X5L on a Taurus 24-7.

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Shotgun training needed in Chattanooga, TN

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Oleg Volk

A friend just got volunteered to represent her company in a clay shooting tournament August 17. She’s shot rifle and handgun before but not shotgun.

Who could assist her with learning the basics of shotgun on moving targets — in time for the tournament?

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Almost like cheating.

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Oleg Volk

Savage MKII-SR with Primary Arms 4-16x scope and Gemtech Alpine sound suppressor. Very much hearing safe. Finally zeroed it yesterday, with much running avoided by the use of the newly acquired spotting scope. 48x max magnification and clear optics meant being able to see .22 holes at a hundred yards.

From a steady position, shooting match ammo out of a very accurate rifle with parallax-adjustable optics, felt almost like cheating. Missing any target larger than a golfball would have required being pretty sloppy. Tirzah was definitely not sloppy in her aim.

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Gunfire and wildflowers

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Oleg Volk

Sig 522 with AAC Prodigy suppressor and a TruGlo red dot.

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Tess likes knives.

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Oleg Volk

She’s more proficient with rifles.

Tactical Solutions upper, Superior Arms lower, Tactical Innovations suppressor, Primary Arms red dot, Cavalry Manufacturing furinture.

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Details of yesterday’s photos: holstered PF9

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Oleg Volk

One advantage of IWB holsters: they do not require a very sturdy belt.

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The Guns of August

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Oleg Volk

The most famous gun of August was a 1910 Browning. The less famous gun of April — the girl in the photo — is an 1896 Mauser.

Though less well known than Gavrilo, I think she’s cuter…and easier on visiting dignitaries.

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Calling all local reenactors

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Oleg Volk

If you are a WW2 reenactor in or near Nashville, please chime in. I need help with a project requiring American and German characters.

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SU16A light rifle

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Oleg Volk

Light weight, long sight radius, clean piston action, folds up for transport — looks like a useful walk-about carbine. Keltec site still has the old photo showing a plastic front sight, but the rifle has been upgraded since.

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Hovering

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Oleg Volk

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Sturmgewehr

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Oleg Volk

Had Brady Campaign and their ethically deficient ilk been around during WW2, they would have pushed for the disarmament of the guerrillas and other civilians…while turning a blind eye to massacres perpetrated by government troops and their pet paramilitaries.

STG44, the original “assault rifle”,  was used for evil, indifferent and good ends alike — the rifle being no more endowed with morality than an entrenching tool or a coil of rope. Every firearm and other weapon is like that. Gun control — the effort to disarm almost everyone — necessarily assumes that our guns would be used mainly for evil. A psychologist would call that projection — a very reasonable view, considering that politicians use the guns of the state to threaten and coerce innocent people daily. Giving up our arms while they retain theirs…would not be prudent.

The rifle above is a GSG STG44 in .22LR — it looks and feels just like the original, but is cheaper to feed and doesn’t heat up uncomfortably at the forend like the 7.92x33mm version did. It will be available at the end of August.

(Make-up for the photo by Tirzah Julius)

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The best 1927 Thompson movie scene

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Oleg Volk

Miller’s Crossing has one of the best choreographed Thompson submachine gun scenes. I just have still photos of the 1927-A1 semi-auto carbine with a 100-round “pizza platter” drum.

“Flash mob coming, you say? I should have enough for everybody.”

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One possible fighting rifle configuration

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Oleg Volk

Friend’s Bulgarian AK with Aimpoint Hunter red dot on an Ultimak rail, Ace stock. The red dot looks big — as it should for the wide field of view — but it is very light and the rifle as shown has excellent balance.

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Some of my favorite films are now on Youtube

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Oleg Volk

Three Seasons Free

Pharaoh’s Army Free

City of Life and Death is $4 and well worth it.

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Barrett M98B .338 Lapua Magnum

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Oleg Volk

223Rem, 308Win, 338 Lapua Mag

338 Lapua Magnum is a punchy round — 250gr bullet nominally leaves the muzzle at 3000fps, 300gr at 2700fps. My friends’ actual chronograph results are 2900fps with 300gr. In any case, it flies fast, flat and completely scrambles blocks of ordnance gelatin. 0.3-0.4MOA is typical of the rifles in this caliber. Unlike 50BMG, the rifles remain easily man-portable.

I borrowed this particular rifle from G4P for use as a photo prop.

This one comes with a very nice 6-24×50 Viper scope.

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44Mag in long guns

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Oleg Volk

Hickok45 just posted an informative video about muzzle differences from 3″ revolver to 8″ revolver to 20″ carbine. He got minimal difference between 3″ and 8″ but 33% to 50% increase from revolvers to the carbine! For the fans of random calculations, that’s about twice the energy. The carbine produced much less muzzle blast than the revolvers. Can’t wait to get my Henry out to the range with a chronograph.

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A friend of a friend

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Oleg Volk

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About that “military-style” buzzword

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Oleg Volk

Erin Palette wrote an excellent explanation of the anti-gunner’s favorite scaredy-word, “military-style”. The effort isn’t even limited to firearms — just trying carrying a sword or a sabre in Japan, England or many US states!

Perhaps the only firearms that don’t look like military…actually, I can’t think of a single exception. Even Olympic air guns share construction features with military air guns of the 18th century, and their pellets are made of scary lead. Even Airsoft “guns” — toys projecting harmless plastic pellets — are banned in many countries, such as China.

So anyone speaking of banning some subset of firearms only wants to rape your rights “a little”…an inch at a time. Don’t even try to negotiate with people are outright evil.

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Red dress, black rifle

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Oleg Volk

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