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Articles by Rusty
Recoil, also referred to as kick or kickback, is the result of Newtonian physics applying itself to your firearm. When the bullet is fired, it is pushed out of the gun at high speed. However, for every action, there is an equal yet opposite reaction. When the bullet is pushed out, it pushes back...
Okay, so we've danced all around this topic for literally months now. We've covered various aspects of firearms, from myths to components to how to select the right one, and it's about time we walk through how to make your own submission.
Let me start off with a shameless plug: though there are...
No other weapon on the face of the planet is as poorly understood by outsiders as the shotgun.
Thanks in large part to videogames and movies, the shotgun comes across as this mythical weapon of unstoppable force that can send enemies flying, blast holes through armor, and turn the side of a...
Been a while since I've done one of these things, but some stuff has happened in real life, so I'm in a contemplative mood.
One of the most difficult things to get right about writing soldiers is the thought process. What makes them tick? How do they feel? These are the sorts of questions that...
My how time flies. It seems like just last week I did episode 19 of the gun show, and now I'm on 20. Funny how that works.
Anyway, the topic for today is gunfights, and how to survive them. The following is a semi-humorous and by no means comprehensive list of rules that should see you through...
Alright, so this entry is only vaguely firearm related, but relevant none the less.
The phrase "war crimes" has been bandied about a lot over the last day or so, with varying degrees of comprehension. It's become clear that there are some folks on here who have no idea what the hell that even...
I like first person shooter games. For the most part, they're simple, uncomplicated affairs that prioritize tactical prowess over the ability to reason out arcane puzzles or hunt for trinkets. The emergence of PUBG and Fortnite notwithstanding, and with the rather public struggles of the Star...
Given that it's my chosen profession, it struck me as odd that I've not done a write-up on artillery before. I mean, it's literally my job. I'm a POC chief in the North Carolina Army National Guard, and I have been for the last decade. It's sort of my thing.
However, that oversight on my part...
Waiting for a new NIN album is a bit like waiting for a post from Andy: years of nothing, followed by more nothing, then teases of something until finally, you get it. Only, unlike Andy, Trent Rezner's main squeeze usually delivers in a satisfying way. Also like Andy, when you get two in the...
The Electromagnetic Pulse, or EMP, has something of a mythical status in science fiction as the all powerful killer of anything and everything electronic.
Like most myths, however, a grain of truth has been buried under heaping mounds of horse crap.
To understand exactly what an EMP does, we...
If there's one thing that movies and TV shows consistently get wrong about the military, it's radio chatter. This is annoying for a great many reasons, not in the least because I spend way too much time trying to break dumbass privates away from the bad habits they picked up playing Call of Duty...
I'm not going to try to start a debate here over whether or not anime is art. I can almost here the breathless panting of weebs the world over trying to shout over the tired, disinterested "meh" from folks who don't sleep with waifu body pillows. Whether or not anime counts as art depends...
Yeah, I'm full of these things this week. Sue me.
It is impossible to have an effective fighting force without discipline.
Actually, scratch that.
It is impossible to have an effective fighting force that's not a scourge on the land without discipline. You can throw together a band of...