The Abode of McThag

The M1916 flap holster for the 1911 is far less universal than the M7 tanker holster. Just the Astra, and Browning fit from the previous lis...

Can't live pain free...  To social media! I'm reading a thread where someone asks:  "If you add 500 thousand pounds of crabs to...

You know you're tinkering too much when you need a log book to keep track of what parts from whom are in which gun. It's not a log...

When you're expecting something you're excited about... Click - No change in status. Wait, at most, an hour... Click - No chan...

I often label myself an autodidactic polymath; but my first formal higher education was in mechanical drafting, which is engineering lite.  ...

Perhaps it's from being a draftsman.  Perhaps its from doing some technical writing. Getting the terms right is essential. Otherwise...

Sight Unit Infantry, Trilux L2A2. I have one. While it was great for the L1A1 I used to have, the sights on a metric FAL are too low to ...

Sabrina is a semi-auto short barrel rifle clone of an XM177E2 submachine gun. I originally became interested in the XM177E2 because of ...

I was looking through my old records and found my arms-room cards. DA Form 3479, Jan 82. There are three of them; M1911A1 Cal .45 Pis...

You'd think with all the acrimony about the whole clip vs magazine issue that gun rags would be a little more careful about terms. Mr ...

Watching a show on Israeli Commandos and they have the inventor of Krav Maga showing us how to get a gun away from someone who's put the...