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| Kirsten Joy Weiss and her gun |
Splitting the playing card with her rifle!
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Kirsten Joy Weiss' "Annie Oakley" Trick Shot
Splitting the playing card with her rifle!
Monday, October 6, 2014
Defense Distributed $1200 Home-CNC Unit Sells out in 24 Hours!
While huge amounts of main-stream editorial labor has been invested in concerns about a 3-D Printer's ability to empower nerds to create firearms with inferior materials, many old-school gunsmiths seemed flabbergasted by the new-found media fascination with 3-D printing while machining, especially with a CNC mill, produces a superior product.
Many have thought about the ability to make a low-cost or entry-level CNC machine capable of making a specific component, such as the AR-15 lower receiver.
Apparently a Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed felt that way as well and has designed a $1,200 CNC mill-in-a-box that is capable of machining AR-15 lower receivers.
We are pretty sure this is going to generate a lot of buzz and a lot of legal entanglements so we'll be watching this story closely.
Many have thought about the ability to make a low-cost or entry-level CNC machine capable of making a specific component, such as the AR-15 lower receiver.
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| Defense Distributed Desktop CNC for AR-15 Lower Receivers |
Apparently a Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed felt that way as well and has designed a $1,200 CNC mill-in-a-box that is capable of machining AR-15 lower receivers.
We are pretty sure this is going to generate a lot of buzz and a lot of legal entanglements so we'll be watching this story closely.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Friday, August 15, 2014
Slow Motion 308 Tumbling after Impacting Target (Video)
I am not sure what the value of the target (peanut butter and jelly?) is but the amazing part of this video is the way the FMJ 'tumbles' after passing through the targets.
The sound of a suppressed .308 is also pretty cool, see for yourself:
The sound of a suppressed .308 is also pretty cool, see for yourself:
How to Clean a Rusted Black Powder Rifle Barrel..
Ugh...
I just started trying to rehabilitate an old Kentucky style blackpowder but the more I work on it the more I wonder if I am going to be able to get it back in shooting order as the barrel is severely rusted and quite possibly damaged.
We have all bought an old black powder rifle for an 'unbelievable' price only to find that the previous owner shot it then just let it rust. Is it safe to shoot a black powder rifle if there's rust in the rifling? Can the barrel be cleaned without a gunsmith?
After tons of oils, rigorous brushing, and even a few hundred strokes with bundles of steel wool (based on some Brownells advice) twisted on to a ball-puller and I don't seem to be making any progress.
We found a few competing solutions while looking for next steps - Please feel free to leave comments with advice or link to videos you think might be helpful to anyone half-way through a project like this.
DoubleTap on TheFiringLine has the method we're working on next:
"ya don't need no powder solvent. Take a brass brush to that rusty barrel with some Breakfree CLP(walmart) and scrub the devil out of it. Then take a piece of 3M green scrubbie(Pan scrubbers from the supermarket) and scrub it well again. Then dry it out with patches.
Take as many patches as it takes till they come out clean.(a little gray don't hurt.)
Then rinse the barrel again with hot water and a swab stroking up and down with the water in the barrel. I put my barrel in the oven with the door open on 210 for about 15 minutes.
Then take a patch with bore butterand coat the inside of the barrel. When you're ready to shoot, run a couple dry patches in it before loading.
Hope this helps. [sic]"
I am actually thinking about getting a test on with "Evaporust" - Does anyone have any experience with this?
Once we get this thing back in shooting order, we're going to leave the high tech tricks behind and go 100% traditional which will protect and prevent this from happening again.
I just started trying to rehabilitate an old Kentucky style blackpowder but the more I work on it the more I wonder if I am going to be able to get it back in shooting order as the barrel is severely rusted and quite possibly damaged.
We have all bought an old black powder rifle for an 'unbelievable' price only to find that the previous owner shot it then just let it rust. Is it safe to shoot a black powder rifle if there's rust in the rifling? Can the barrel be cleaned without a gunsmith?
After tons of oils, rigorous brushing, and even a few hundred strokes with bundles of steel wool (based on some Brownells advice) twisted on to a ball-puller and I don't seem to be making any progress.
We found a few competing solutions while looking for next steps - Please feel free to leave comments with advice or link to videos you think might be helpful to anyone half-way through a project like this.
DoubleTap on TheFiringLine has the method we're working on next:
"ya don't need no powder solvent. Take a brass brush to that rusty barrel with some Breakfree CLP(walmart) and scrub the devil out of it. Then take a piece of 3M green scrubbie(Pan scrubbers from the supermarket) and scrub it well again. Then dry it out with patches.
Take as many patches as it takes till they come out clean.(a little gray don't hurt.)
Then rinse the barrel again with hot water and a swab stroking up and down with the water in the barrel. I put my barrel in the oven with the door open on 210 for about 15 minutes.
Then take a patch with bore butterand coat the inside of the barrel. When you're ready to shoot, run a couple dry patches in it before loading.
Hope this helps. [sic]"
I am actually thinking about getting a test on with "Evaporust" - Does anyone have any experience with this?
Once we get this thing back in shooting order, we're going to leave the high tech tricks behind and go 100% traditional which will protect and prevent this from happening again.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Hitler's #1 P-38 Pistol is for sale for an estimated $48,000,000!
Every gun collector's dream is to get a garage-sale basket-case project and find out it's worth more than he paid for it.
In this case, a $300 garage sale find is turning out to be worth millions, bidding expected to start at 25 million in fact during an auction at RareP38.com.
The working P-38, complete with 24 karat gold and blood stains on the holster, was liberated by a soldier from the 101st Airborne, Easy Company.
KNWA was able to get an interview with the local man willing to sell it:
While the story will inevitably revolved around the collector who found it and the price of the gun, it's important to know a little bit about the men (plural) who originally liberated Hitler's gun during the war -
Well done men!
Earl McClung
Bill O'Laine
Frank Griffin
Bob Noody
Les Hegland
You can read more about them at Cost of Freedom Veteran's Museum HERE
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| Hitler's P-38 for sale |
In this case, a $300 garage sale find is turning out to be worth millions, bidding expected to start at 25 million in fact during an auction at RareP38.com.
The working P-38, complete with 24 karat gold and blood stains on the holster, was liberated by a soldier from the 101st Airborne, Easy Company.
KNWA was able to get an interview with the local man willing to sell it:
While the story will inevitably revolved around the collector who found it and the price of the gun, it's important to know a little bit about the men (plural) who originally liberated Hitler's gun during the war -
Well done men!
Earl McClung
Bill O'Laine
Frank Griffin
Bob Noody
Les Hegland
You can read more about them at Cost of Freedom Veteran's Museum HERE
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