Surplus Remington R4 upper: Colt 6920 SOCOM for half the cost
It’s a truism that has rang true since even before the days of the Great Coof-ening of 2020: the salad days of military surplus are well behind us. Sure, there are some noble holdouts...
Tagged: milsurp
Restoring Milsurps: A viable endeavor in the 2020s?
The moment that solidified my hobby of collecting and shooting military firearms occurred on a rainy afternoon in 2009. My dad and I aimlessly meandered into our local gun store and I began looking...
Metacamouflage
Not much changed in the first hundred years of military camouflage. For most of the 20th century there had been a unifying goal: prevent your people and things from being seen by the enemy....
A Visual Expedition Into DPM Variants
This is a journey into the many different variants of the Disruptive Pattern Material, also known as DPM. I am only showing patterns I have in my collection. There are many many more. First,...
The Rise and Fall of the Ubiquitous Mosin Nagant
In 2008, my father took me down to Keene’s Smoked Ham Depot to buy me my first firearm. Upon walking in the door, he gave me three choices: a Gewehr 98 that looked as...
