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Week In Review:
Ryan: -Not too much, sick earlier in the week but doing better. Cooking another whole chicken tonight!
-First big snowstorm of the year, the 35 year old Ariens snowblower started up FIRST pull like always!! Sore as hell afterward though.
-Got the Home Casino game kit; had a great time playing roulette and blackjack with Sarah & the boys!
–Mossberg gets a new contract for US Army M590A1 Shotguns! (This is for Weerd)
Weerd:
Oddball:
Xander:
Winterizing equipment, replaced water heater
Drink Segment:
Kirkland Tennessee Whiskey By Tennessee Distilling Company
Main Topic: Glock Gen 6 & Listener Emails!
-Built in beavertail
-Different Grip Texture
-Slide Serrations deeper
-Flared magwell
-Redesigned trigger; flat faced with the traditional Glock Safe Action System.
-Undercut Triggerguard
-Cut for optics
Listener Chuck:
Subject: wwi loadout, wwii loadout, whatif alt. history.
World War, round one. I want to live through this. If I can’t be the
guy behind the machine gun, let’s see. Rifle. BAR’s too heavy. SMLE.
ten rounds trumps five, and can be, with practice, fired fast. Sights
not as good as the Mk IV, but by the time we get to wwii, there are
other options. Hand gun: good old 1911. Subgun — was the Thompson
available yet? Shotgun: not expert at all, but a 12 gauge pump with a
big bayonet seems like a good thing to have on hand. Trench Broom. I
think I’d also want a big old Bowie style knife as well.
World War, round two, the rematch. handgun. More good options by then,
but I think I’ll stick with the 1911, this time in A1 configuration.
Rifle, Garand, seeing as I probably couldn’t get a Sturmgewehr.
Subgun — “Grease Gun” .45. Shotgun — whatever 12 gauge pump is
available, bayonet not needed, as we’re not doing trench warfare. Big
Bowie knife again — too useful, less likely to be used in combat.
Alternate history what if: What if low residue smokeless powder had
been developed and introduced 50 years earlier, in the 1840s instead of
the 1890s. Would we have seen early introduction of auto loading
firearms, or would revolvers and manual repeaters continue to dominate
into the 20th century? I suspect “yes, eventually, but not an immediate
slamdunk.” It would have made the US Civil War interesting.
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Listener Russell:
Hi gents,
There is one movie where the gun mistakes bother me so badly. It’s the movie Standoff staring Laurence Fishburne and Thomas Jane. There is a scene where they discuss the attributes of each other’s weapon. Fishburne’s character brags about being armed with a 45. The gun is a Beretta 92! Jane’s character is armed with a single shot shotgun in 20ga. Which Fishburne’s character says isn’t very powerful and has no range. Funny… The majority of the movie takes place in a house. Even worse this “20ga” is being loaded with RED shells. This scene ruined the entire movie for me. If they would have left out or changed the dialogue about the guns. Would have been a totally decent enough movie.
Keep the shows coming,
Russell
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Listener Keith:
Was watching The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Takes place in the Civil War. Lots of metallic cartridge guns. Not even hiding it. Tuco shoots from the bathtub. Not going to do that with black powder. Also, Blondie unloaded Tuco’s gun before the showdown. The Army has Gatling guns. I think they were 45/70s.
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Listener David:
WW1 Loadout:
I figure the best way is to split these over multiple emails. So sorry if that makes for a ton of reading! I am assuming logistics for all the crazy calibers are all solved.
My main rifle is an M1917 Enfield, officially the “United States Rifle, cal .30, Model of 1917”. Guess the guys got paid by the character to name stuff back then. For a carbine-ish choice, I am picking the Short Magazine fed Lee Enfield Mark 3. That just seems like a super handy gun to have inside cramped trenches. My shotgun is an M1897 trench gun with a sword bayonet. If the buckshot doesn’t do the trick, I get spear practice (you know, as a little treat.)
The machine gun splits into light and heavy. For light, I am picking the Madsen light machine gun and the Gatling gun gets the nod for heavy work. My pistol choice is nothing fancy, the P08 Luger,
WW2 Loadout:
Here is my idea for the WW2 load out.Same as before, magic logistics mean plenty of parts and ammo.
My WW2 rifle is the M1941 Johnson rifle. Mainly because the Garand is too heavy for anyone to choose on purpose to schlep around. I am swapping a submachine gun for the carbine. That would be the PPSh-41 because I am achieving peace through overwhelming rate of fire. My shotgun is the Browning Auto 5. It’s WW2, why are we racking slides like unwashed peasants? Machine gun again gets split into light and heavy. Light this time is the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, Heavy duty goes to the venerable M2 Browning because to Hell with you and whatever you are hiding behind! My sidearm choice is the Roth-Steyr M1907. It has more rounds than the 1911 and P38, it gets bonus points for looking weird also!
(We have the rest of your emails David, but we want to save them for a future show when we have more entries!)
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Xander– WWII loadout: USS Nimitz (in honor of December 7)
Or: Liberator pistol, Mauser C96 pistol, Mauser Karabiner rifle
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Xander:
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