Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Timing is Everything, HundK Ed.

Ian McCollum, aka Gun Jesus, looks at the HK G11:


The workings of the rifle itself are insanely complicated, in traditional Swiss/German tradition. I saw a few reports on this rifle back in the day; cooking off of chambered rounds was a noted problem.

2 comments:

Tod Germanica said...

I'd vaguely heard of these, nice overview. Big naval rifles are caseless, wonder how they handled the obturation problem.
When he said 1990 I thought, no need for new rifles boys, you just lost the Soviet Union as enemy and inherited millions of AK-74s.
That mechanism reminds me of the wheelock for the 20th century, for sure not field stripable nor serviceable, depot repair only.
I think the silly, sexy Star Ship Troopers movie used the HK G11 as a model.

Comrade Misfit said...

The big naval rifles used interrupted-thread screw breeches.