Pointless Post
The Ridiculous Remington 11 Shotgun
Why yes that is a Remington 11 with a SUIT Trilux attached to it.
King 5 and Northwest Cable News
I had the pleasure of getting the nickel tour at my regional news giant, King 5 (and it’s affiliate, Northwest Cable News). Took a few photos, acted like a jerk. Check it out.
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Lightweight Integrated Stock Platform Trials
The LISP before the Shot Show
Paramount Studios, Teaser
Meeting with Fauxbama. (It's not every day you get to pose with the wax version of the president; unless you work with a very waxy version of Mr. Obama.)
Repurposed Mystery Optic
While tooling around in my extensive pile of “stuff” I found an old optic I picked up years ago from (somewhere? gunshow?). I vaugely remember the optic being described as an anti-aircraft optic which would seem more plausible if the reticule had some sort of lead adjustment, grid, or range finder. Instead the optic has a reticule that strongly (precisely) resembles that of the PU Sniper optic (That’s the same reticule Vasily Zaytsev, hero of the Soviet Union, used during the Great Patriotic War/World War Two). › Continue reading
War Department Shot Glasses
WD = British, NZ = New Zealand, DD = Australia, C = Canada
As I’m sure many (I have readers?) of you have realized that I’m a bit of a geek when it comes to old military stuff. I really enjoy reading about military practices and markings from times that have come and gone; particularly European militaries. The British Empire had one of the greatest militaries of the 19th and 20th centuries. They had adopted the broad arrow as the marking for all of the property belonging to the crown but over time the mark became used mostly to denote property of the various war departments and colonial defense ministries. As many of you anglophiles might know these property marks (broad arrows) were often specialized or accompanied with letters to signify the colony that issued, or manufactured a good so it would be known who originally owned it should some property book officer be bothered to find out. They also signified that whatever good that was stamped was ready for service at the time of it’s acceptance and that it was the property of the British commonwealth and not a private individual.
By the end of the Cold War the major assets of the British Commonwealth were granted their independence and like the British Empire the use of the Broad Arrow has waned. Unfortunately I do not know what (if anything) has come to replace it in the British military but I would hazard a guess that it, like the counterpart in the United States, the Flaming Ordnance Corps Bomb has become mostly abandoned from regular use.
This abandoning of their ordnance marking has made them a perfect candidates for etching onto my set of double shot glasses. I had Kitsch Stickers make up some custom vinyl masks so I could get perfectly symmetrical broad arrows and crisp, uniform text. Of course she held up her end of the bargain and you can see for yourself how well it came out.
For more useful information about broad arrows, check out Wikipedia, and if you see any discrepancies in my post please send me an e-mail or leave a comment.
The Arrogant Bastard
The Arrogant Bastard prototype.
It’s a remote controlled airsoft tank with a 2.4GHz wireless camera on it. What more do you need to know? Oh, you want to know why it’s called the Arrogant Bastard? How much more bastardly can you get with a Remote Controlled Airsoft tank with a freaking camera? That’s just plain mean.
The 11th Street Bridge
Sidewalk Safe. Keep On.
Pacific Northwest BMWCCA E30 Meet, 2009
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