Vaporware from the Armorer...

By The Armorer on January 30, 2006 | | Comments (19)

...just to annoy Ry. Something else that will appear. Whenever I finish it.

Brothers in arms - the unlikely story of two pistols during WWII

But hopefully this week. A wholly unverifiable, but interesting, war story.

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By ry on January 30, 2006 7:51 AM
What, you expect me to be Donald Duck or something? Exposes of the Fiddly Bits are interesting(heh, who ever thought you could learn how to disassemble a firearm on the internet?) and informative, but I'm still waiting for end of the series that's more history than armory.
 
By cw4(ret)billt on January 30, 2006 7:54 AM
Translation from collitch kid tawk: He wants to see more of the *Castle* Collection.
 
By John of Argghhh! on January 30, 2006 8:23 AM
I've been getting pinged about the history of ammo, too. Problem is - this place consumes resources, and doesn't produce any of the variety that would buy the time it takes to do those bits. The longer I try to manage this place the greater understanding I have for people who write books in their spare time (vice the authors who are good/popular enough) that all they have to do is write. If all I had to do was write... but, I don't think I can turn this thing into a paying proposition that I can stop doing that old day job thing.
 
By John of Argghhh! on January 30, 2006 8:29 AM
And Ry - that bit of vaporware *will* be what you're after - more history than Armory. But remember - I generally eschew the weapons that were built and put into storage, so that they are all pretty and pristine. I want ones that have seen use. It may be squandering Prodigal Son's Patrimony by not buying *Investment Quality* arms - but screw that, I want weapons with some history to 'em. And these do. The background photo is a hint. One that I'm sure CAPT H can figure out. Besides, I'm getting better with Photoshop. Note I used a relative term, not an absolute.
 
By cw4(ret)billt on January 30, 2006 10:35 AM
Captain H was at Dieppe?
 
By ry on January 30, 2006 10:46 AM
Holly Crap. How can you tell that those are Canadian troops and that that's Dieppe(damn Mountbatten)? Shiite, I don't wanna hear The Chief complain about his vision no more. Make him stop John.
 
By John of Argghhh! on January 30, 2006 10:59 AM
Heh. Ry, When yer as old as me, much less Bill, and had any interest in milhist (especially disasters) you'd recognize the photo. Don't be too hard on Mountbatten. It's all easy when you look back at it - and the hard lessons learned at Dieppe were put to use in Normandy. Still, expensive in terms of good troops, especially for the Canadians.
 
By cw4(ret)billt on January 30, 2006 11:29 AM
Dingblasted server ate my first comment... Ry - 1. The architecture's Atlantic coastal French and the buildings are intact (no bombing or shelling--so not Dunkirk), 2. the Wermacht troops are too relaxed to be near an ongoing fight, 3. the POWs look too fresh to have been chased all over France for a month and they still have their tin hats. Ergo, Dieppe.
 
By cw4(ret)billt on January 30, 2006 11:54 AM
Heh. I got my AARP card--I can complain about my vision all I want. It used to was 20/15 about twenty years ago and now it's 20/23. Drat. At this rate, I'm gonna have to get bifocals in another fifteen years or so...
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on January 30, 2006 1:27 PM
Wait till you go 20/250 and 20/400, and do IA stuff for a living ... I am definitely not in that photo. Cheers JMH
 
By jim b on January 30, 2006 2:09 PM
Hot Fudge Holy Moly it's bout danged time. The .45 is comin back. The M9 is on the way out. http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htweap/articles/20060127.aspx Now if we can just get rid of that Poodle Shooter.
 
By cw4(ret)billt on January 30, 2006 3:20 PM
Jim - Never tried shooting poodles. Just out of curiosity, how far *will* an M-16 lob a Standard as opposed to a Toy?
 
By jim b on January 30, 2006 3:44 PM
Well it's a matter of how old and large the standard is. A full sized average standard it kinda just tips over. (Visual of cow tipping here) A toy is another matter. If it is battery powered, you get one distance. If it is an old fashioned cogs and wheels wind up one, it's another. The average for a battery powered one is about three revolutions. (Visualize three tocas over tea kettle tumbles here) The old cog and wheels model will make an average of 7 tumbles iffen you hit a gear. Jeez I gotta splain everything here.
 
By cw4(ret)billt on January 30, 2006 3:55 PM
Hmmm. Doesn't sound like you'd get much of anything out of it... Didja ever try using a shih-tzu for something other than a bore cleaner?
 
By jim b on January 30, 2006 3:59 PM
You gotta be shih-tzn me now. Everyone knows that the only thing a shih-tzu is good for is disturbing dust under a bed. Unless of course you have them bronzed, then they will loosen up powder lead and copper, with the proper bore cleaner of course.
 
By homebru on January 30, 2006 5:07 PM
Who has the odds sheet on the "objects" in the Myrtle Hill Cemetery? Might be the rumored Noble Brothers cannons but I'm betting on cast-iron coffins.
 
By cw4(ret)billt on January 30, 2006 9:44 PM
ROME, Ga. - University of Georgia archaeologists have been puzzling over finding an apparent manmade object buried in a historic Civil War cemetery. Sign that writer up as a captioneer on AKO.
 
By ry on January 31, 2006 4:25 AM
"Don't be too hard on Mountbatten. It's all easy when you look back at it - and the hard lessons learned at Dieppe were put to use in Normandy." Yeah, I've heard this before. But, if you send troops into an op where you know they're going to get creamed because somebody talked about it, and you know it's been leaked, aren't you failing them somehow? The lessons could've been, and were, learned elsewhere. Nobody in the European theatre seems to have talked to the Marines and Army in the Pac Theatre who had lots of experience with Amphib Ops by that time. Dieppe was a waste of good troops for knowledge that was in hand elsewhere, in my totally amateur opinion. Though Mountbatten does get props for greenlighting the Cockleshell missions, he's still on the hook for what he did to the Canucks at Dieppe. (Christ, Bills vision is several orders of magnitude better than mine. This sucks. (whine) I don't want to see JMH's prescription(shudder--since that's what lays in my future)).
 
By John of Argghhh! on January 31, 2006 5:40 AM
Allright Ry, you win. Mountbatten was an incompetent asshole. Where was the IRA when they were needed?