Book Recommendation: Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA

Billy Waugh is the poster boy for Special Forces. He was there in the beginning and survived 50 plus years doing various missions up to 2001 Enduring Freedom at the age of 71.

He has more than nine lives at least according to this book of his.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and learning the different aspects of various missions he had to endure.

His harrowing experience surviving a brutal NVA attack is worth the price of the book alone.

Longest AK Magazine.

Now that's a magazine!

Shotgun Canes

Some interesting canes of the 1930s.

Single shot shotgun canes. These would pack quite a punch!

Find your "inner cowboy"

Some Mainers are using pistols to find their 'inner cowboy'

“This sport is actually safer than competitive chess,”

Nice!

Book Recommendation: In the Company of Heros

Just finished this book and found it very good, it definitely is a page turner.

The book is about Michael Durant's time as a POW in Somali in 1992 during the U.N. peacekeeping effort. He was part of the "Black Hawk Down" Operation Just Cause. During the operation his Black Hawk was shot down and he was captured.

I found it interesting that the SNA (Somali National Alliance) lead by Mohamed Farrah Aidid at the time had a son that was a U.S. Marine and was operating as a translator during Operation Just Cause. He was the only U.S. Marine that could speak Somali.

I wonder if that fact has anything to do with increasing M.J. Durant's chances of survival?

Anyways, pick it up if you have a chance. He also talks about his involvement with other missions involving the "Night Stalkers".

Man replaces underwear with gun!

This just in!

Donte, a 25-year-old security guard, "You got underwear on every day, I got this every day... you know," he said pointing to his gun.

Full story found here:

Pistols, Tasers, assault rifles sell fast at US show

At the end of the article the throw this zinger out there:

Meanwhile, 30,000 people a year are killed by gunfire in the United States.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

How many people a year are killed by automobiles? Talk about an unqualified statement.

Interesting Colt 6920 failure.

Found this on a forum and I thought was interesting. Even Colts fail!

I attended a firearms training course (Magpul Dynamics Dynamic Carbine 1 & 2) for the first time in 15 years from November 6th through the 8th.

... That leads us to the most dramatic Gear failure of all. Once I had determined that I would need to move the ACOG on my SIG (and therefore would need to re-zero it) I decided that I would mount it on my much lighter Colt 6920. The SIG556 was heavier by nearly four pounds than the 6920, so I decide to give the Colt a go. I switched the ACOG to the Colt and got on the firing line. The drill was firing from the urban prone, weapon side position. We loaded and made ready and I waited for the threat command. When the threat command came I went into the urban prone position and fired. On the second round the upper receiver blew apart. It took a few seconds for me to get oriented and realize what had just happened. I checked to see that there wasn’t another round in the chamber and raised my hand to let Travis know there was a problem. Travis was already on the way as he said that he thought that I was on fire from all of the smoke that was rising from me. There was a medic who checked me out real good to ensure that some shrapnel hadn’t penetrated my skin anywhere without my being aware of it. I sustained only minor injuries (a bruise on the left forearm and some flash burn to the face). After the medic gave me the green light I went to my Pathfinder and got my SIG556 back out. I put the ACOG back on it and got back on the firing line.

The 6920 is on its way to Colt Manufacturing for analysis as of this posting. I will certainly post the results of the analysis as well as the resolution when that information is available. I would appreciate it if the wild guesses as to the cause of this failure were withheld until Colt Manufacturing has had a chance to check it out. I will give a few facts that will help to keep the conjecture to a minimum. The barrel was clear before and after the event and the ammo used was factory XM193. I don't know if the brass was ejected, it appeared to be, however, there could have been part of the brass case left in the chamber, I was too busy trying to get back to training to check, then the gun went via FEDEX to Colt before I had the chance to check because I was trying to catch up on all of the work I had neglected while out running and gunning.