Recent content by Nightcrawler

Rest in peace, Byron.

Hell, I can't believe this thread is still going. I wrote this in 2006! Thank you all very much. Larry did some arm-twisting on me. We're currently working on turning this into a trilogy of novels. I'm on active duty now and don't get on the board much, so if it takes me a long time to...

So Brian, you haven't had any trouble with .357 moonclips? That's one of two real sticking points for me about the eight-shooter. If the cartridges flop around, wobble, or wiggle in the moonclip, then they're going to be a pain to use, especially in a hurry. The other sticking point for...

Whichever version of this gun I get a companion Night Guard will have to follow. I oogled all of these at SHOT Show and came away impressed. Why not stick with speedloaders? Well, nobody makes a servicable speedloader for an eight shot .357 Magnum, for one thing. While I've gotten quite...

I haven't been on the board much lately. Been busy. (Hey! I'm an NRA certified handgun/personal defense instructor now!) Going to be busier in the future. But... I'm a revolver fanatic. I've got one semi (a 1911) and four wheelguns (three S&W and a Ruger GP100 that's an absolute tank...

Update Hey everybody. I'm very sorry that I haven't been online to respond myself. I haven't been on THR in weeks and, truth be told, things have been a little frantic for me lately. Anyway...Correia's right. We were probably over 140,000 words into a sequel to the "Welcome Back" story...

I would, and did, get the Comp C3 with the two minute-of-angle reticule. It's bacially the same as the Comp M3, though it's not waterproofed to the same depth (five meters vs. forty-five, I believe). That wasn't an issue for me. For one thing, I live in a desert. For another, I can't...

I happen to have pictures of that very rifle. Correia had me take a bunch today. You do fine, fine work. That Sage Camo pattern really breaks up the image of the rifle. Be hard to spot from any kind of distance. You won't find many High Roaders opposed to gratuitous pictures. :D...

Here we go. Kriss Super-V: The Norinco ("Hawk Industries") bullpup semiauto shotgun would look bad-@$$ on screen also: Here's a picture of the Neostead that I mentioned earlier. It has two six-round magazine tubes above the barrel. It's manually operated, but you pump...

The problem with trying to make gun props is that the annoying gun guys in the audience are going to do the following: "Huh, funny that they're using the FN 2000 in the future. That's a long-lasting design!" This is usually followed by an aloof sniff, and is properly done in the voice of...

On the Five-Seven, the one on the rear is the slide release. The one in the middle is a manual safety. The one up front...dunno. Takedown lever maybe?

That last one? Yeah, that falls into the classic trap of trying to bolt stuff onto a common gun to make it look all science-fiction-ey. :D

I'm going to throw out a wild-assed guess and say lots. They're made in Germany. I read a review of one in SWAT Magazine once, so I guess they are being imported.

I was watching the TV series Firefly and the accompanying movie Serenity on one of my days off recently. The guns in Firefly were a mish-mash of everything, from single actions to modern weapons gussied up to look futuristic. Serenity tried a lot harder to make the guns look different and...

From Bell Charter Oak.