Watching Jen make op cans dance at 50 yards standing is always fun. And it’s a lot easier to get correctly posed photos if the model isn’t just pretending competency.
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Another custom rifle by Fighting Sheepdog
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A modern viking
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Lacey’s new rifle
Lacey is a singer and a song writer. She’s now also a competitive shooter. Here’s her new rifle, built with some assistance from UM Tactical.
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Rhonda Ezell
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Time machine of sorts
A couple of friends came by during their honeymoon back in 2004, and this was one of the photos made. I just edited it. It’s interesting to see how people evolve…and the photos provide a reference for how they once were.
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Two new articles on AllOutdoor
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Big 3 East portrait series
One of several portraits made during Big 3 East trade show, of a representative from Tactical RX. The company makes shot-resistant glasses (plain or with corrective lenses) that can stop steel shot at ten feet. This girl can shoot, too.
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Rice Paddy Squat firing position
Advantages:
- Stable
- Keep the shooter out of the mud
- Easy to assume and to break he position
Disadvantage: requires the ability to squat flat footed. In the absence of nearby dividers or roof, low cut shirt isn’t a brass magnet. Indoors, that would change.
The gun is a Troy SOCC carbine with a Leupold LCO red dot.
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RDB-S prototype
16″ barrel, 26.1″ overall length with the stock extended — same length as M4 carbine collapsed, and with the same iron sight radius. Good trigger, not much felt recoil, weight 5.7lbs.The current version achieving 1.5MOA with 69gr match or 2MOA with 55gr and 62gr hunting loads is considered not good enough by the designer, so the production barrel will be better. Bottom ejection, most controls ambidextrous, charging handle quick-swappable from side to side. For reference, the model is 5 feet tall. Availability expected Q1 of 2018.
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Two new articles on AllOutdoor
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More factual arguments for RDB-S carbine
It’s lightweight and can be controlled with one hand.
Collapsed, it can be comfortably fired by a 5 foot tall shooter.
The strong hand grip is right around the boreline, so it’s easy to point accurately.
It’s about the same length as MP5K PDW submachine gun, while much more powerful, accurate and slightly lighter. It’s also completely ambidextrous. Recoil impulse is similar to the 9mm MP5.
A user who might prefer a pistol grip configuration can swap furniture in a minute, it’s all cross compatible. The main down sides are also functions of the design:
- Checking of the chamber status is slower than on a conventional rifle.
- Downward ejection can be a problem if shooting sitting in shorts or prone with short sleeves. A clip-on brass catcher fixes that.
The pluses are more numerous:
- Empty casings don’t end up in the faces of people next to the shooter, or bounce off barricade or wall into the shooter’s face or arms.
- Five pounds is easier to carry or hold up than six to seven pounds typical of competing designs. You can have an RDB-S with a red dot, a sound suppressor and a full magazine for what a bare-bones Sig 556 weighs.
- Felt recoil is more like 22WMR than 5.56.
- Gas system can be tuned to work with any load, and also for sound suppressors. Minimal gas blowback.
- Very slim form, especially with a flush-fitting 10-round magazine.
- 16.1″ barrel compared to 8″ of a similar length AR15.
- Variable length of pull with adjustable stock, uncommon for bullpups.
- Folding iron sights of good quality.
- Very high grip keeps the rifle from rolling even if a relatively heavy optic is mounted. Also keeps muzzle from flipping up on firing.
- Simple, easy to maintain design. If you look at the parts diagram in the instruction manual, you will see that most of the parts by numbers are screws and nuts, while the actual mechanism is very simple.
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Keltec RDB-S: new on AllOutdoor
What that rifle is, really.
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Two articles in March ’18 Blue Press
My reviews of M+M 10x and Keltec RDB-S are up in Dillon Blue Press.
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ATV Riders
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Modernized FAMAS: new on AllOutdoor
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A good birthday party
One of my longtime friends just turned 18. One advantage of dealing with well-raised home-schooled kids — they act like mature humans a lot sooner than most, so Grace and I have worked together since she was 12.
Thanks to various industry friends (Windham, Hi-Lux, Federal, others), her birthday was a little better equipped than most. This photo was made for the upcoming article illustrating how conservatives’ war on women is progressing…so far, they seem to be doing it all wrong. At least the tendency to get arms and training for young women appears counterproductive to the task of properly subjugating them.
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Catching up on last year’s photos
I met Angel by chance late 2015, and we did the first photo shoot Spring of 2016.
Fast-forwarding to October 2017…she made pretty good progress with weaponcraft.
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RDB-S Review: new on Shooting Illustrated
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Today’s photos, the first two edits.
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Modernized FAMAS: new on AllOutdoor
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