Recent content by lysanderxiii

Sorry, but there is a lot wrong here. First, the Army did not have a fixation on KDR, the post-war Army was the one that initiated the research what would evolve into TRAINFIRE. This research was done with multiple parallel tracks, "What is the most likely range a combat engagement will take...

Just to play nitpick-nazi here, but none of the listed ammunitions are "interchangeable." Interchangeability – Items possessing similar functional and physical characteristics that are equal in performance, and capable of being exchanged one for the other without alteration. .38 Special and...

Soft ejector/slide lock. It has worn and needs replacing. Pretty soon it won't hold the slide back after the last round.

People seem to forget that there are more things on the battlefield that need shooting than just soft squishy people, even in 1943.* The U.S. Army required full power cartridges because they wanted an AP projectile that could penetrate the (then current) Soviet APC, the BTR-152, of which there...

The progression of 30 round magazine followers is : 1) Dark (or emerald) green (1967) 2) Black (1970s) 3) Light green (officially release for production in 1993, but by 2000 it was still not common.) 4) Tan (officially approved 2008) 5) Blue (only fits the Tan-brown EPM) The original USGI 20...

Elbow® Grease . . .

In 2017, Johnson County, Wyoming had a sheriff, one lieutenant, one sergeant, and 12 deputies . . . and 15 detention officers with a single Captain. The nearest Reservation is still 3 counties away. It's fiction, ergo, it cannot be "wrong."

The diameter of an HP barrel is 0.500" -.0015" for the first 3/4 inch and 0.500 -.003" for the remainder of the cylindrical section.

Yes. There is no Absaroka County in Wyoming, nor is there a Cheyenne reservation in that State. The average size of a Wyoming county is nearly 4,000 square miles, there is no way only a sheriff and two deputies could cover that much territory from one office. And, the Sheriff's Department...

Believe it, or not, Marine MPs in Shanghai carried their M1911s in Condition 3 . . . . . . . .until they got to their assigned patrol area, Then they unholstered the pistol and placed their left hand on the slide and carried the pistol tucked against their belt buckle, held with both hands...

PASS -or- FAIL

The Army has played with variations on the flash hole, several times in the past, size, shape, off-center, burrs, etc, it really doesn't make any difference. Except Berdan primers, on average, they might be more consistent in terms of pressure and velocity. . . EDIT: Oh, and on a related, but...

Yes and no. The ones with an intact chrysanthemum are worth more, but it does not automatically mean that it was a battlefield pick-up. The systemized defacing of the chrysanthemum was not universal, there were a good number of rifles surrendered before the Japanese got organized enough to...

I think you mean M8 and M8A1 scabbard. The main difference between the M8 and M8A1 was the addition of the wire double hook so it could hang on the belt as well as slip over it. The metal reinforcing tip was a late addition, happening sometime in 1960. (The M8A1 scabbard is a reproduction.)

In 1871, the Army concluded that the era of the bayonet charge was largely over, and a far more useful item for the infantryman would be a shovel. Enter the Rice Trowel Bayonet: 500 trowel bayonets were produced and sent to several western outposts for user trials. Most of the units...