Tag Archives: shooting

National Matches underway!

A good report on them at SI.com .

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Building a Williams Gun

The story is here . The Williams Gun was a Confederate creation. It was a rapid firing, carriage mounted, rifled gun of 1.5″ bore.

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If you’re in Washington State

I wouldn’t know anything of Washington judges, but I rec’d an email from Alan Gottlieb endorsing Richard Sanders. His webpage is here . Alan notes that Sanders voted, prior to Chicago, in favor of the 2A being incorporated

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History Channel’s "Top Shot"

It premieres this Sunday evening: here’s its webpage .

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New record sniper shot

A British sniper in Afghanistan has scored two one-shot kills at 1.54 miles , on a pair of Taliban machinegunners. (The reference in the article to an 8.59 mm bullet is actually a reference to the .338 Lapua Magnum version of the British L115A1 rifle

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Those were the days!

From The American Rifleman, April 1928: “‘U.S.

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Chicago’s Superintendent of Police Bugs Out

Story here . Apparently he was giving a video interview on problems in a high crime area when gunshots were heard nearly, he said “I’ve gotta run,” and vanished. Officers at the scene of the shooting say wherever he ran to, it wasn’t their crime scene

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Mixed news

Good news: the Taliban are lousy shots . Bad news: the M4 has major reliability problems in dust

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