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Great looking Mauser. I have a 1943 manufactured K98k service rifle made by Steyr Works of Austria with all nazi markings, and a post-WWII commercial Mauser 98 in 30-06. The latter is like-new. Both are tough and accurate. I missed out on the new or like-new Turkish Mausers from the Great War...

Outstanding performance. They were not the "all-star cast" then we would later know them in later years, but somebody sure knew how to cast. I had it on video -- need it on DVD now.

The Sig 229 was a good choice. There are a lot of good 9mm including Glock, H&K, FNH and many others, but Sig has a longer military and police record in Europe and the U.S. I had hoped for a Sig M11 when I went to Iraq as an armed DOD civilian, but was issued and trained with a standard Beretta...

Great Video. I never fired a Glock 21, but I once train LEOs on the .40 G22 and 23. The Glock is not a as fun to shoot as a 1911-type, but it is definitely an easy gun to teach, very reliable and just as accurate as any out there. I currently carry either a Colt Officer's ACP or a full size 1911 ...

I taught the Glock (G23/23) for many years at an academy range for law enforcement personnel. It is a fine gun to shoot and teach, but I still feel that the best combat handgun is the 1911-series. I have a .45 Springfield Armory M1911A1 and a .45 Colt Officer's ACP. I will carry either in conce...

Great service revolver. I picked up an excellent Smith & Wesson "Brazilian contract" version of the U.S. Model 1917 for $200 about 25 years ago. It has a beautiful precision trigger pill. It shoots great and it is one of the most accurate handguns that I own. I heard that is is best to shoot ...

Even after the Japanese conquest of Manila and coastal regions, the Filipino resistence continued in the interior of the country until the return of the U.S. forces in late 1944. Read the biography of Colonel Fertig who was a witness and participant of that resistence.

Thanks Hickoc45 for the M1A demo. You're right, the Navy still stocks M-14s in armories aboard ship -- in large numbers along with a myriad of newer weapons like the M16A2, M16A4, M4, M-249 SAW, and others. I served aboard a submarine 30+ years ago and we had M-14 service rifles, M1A1 Thompson ...

@BenAliGtor, very well put. The entire mini-series including The Winds of War and the followup, War and Remembrance were very well written in a manner that a World War II novice could glean enough actual history from the background of the story to have some understanding of the war. Similar nov...

My Mini-14 is definitely a tough field rife with "good enough" accuracy which is more accurate then my also tough AK-47. Just like any self loader though, they need constant attention and cleaning -- yes, even the AK needs cleaning sometimes. I like them both but I lean a bit more in the direct...

We had Ruger Mini-14s in our state's Department of Corrections. I qualified with it and ultimately taught other officer's with it at our state academy. They were early-80s manufactured, accurate and fun. Each correctional institution armory in the state had about a dozen of them, but they were ...

Great musical score. Great movie too. It should have been on the "big screen" to enhance effect. Same with other great TV mini-series presentations of the day like "Lonesome Dove" and others, but the mini-series went through a more profitable phase in the mid-late 80s.

@ViccardXViccc I think you're right. The original "Gettysburg" was a classic and I have that one. This indeed looks like an upgrade and I guess I'll have to get it too. It should be available online. It will have to be reasonably priced though.

No time for tickets. Just time for a quick hand shake -- and a hidi-ho and away we go. The Gov had to hurry and get to the Appalachian Trail. Oh ... a governor's work is never done.

Thank you for this video from me and my wife -- both veterans, Navy and Air Force respectively. I wish my World War II Army veteran father was still alive. I would send it to him. We will forward it to my father-in-law, retired from the US Public Health Service with active duty call-up service...

A great American epic deserving of an all star cast. North & South's only problem was that it wasn't shown on the big screen in movie theaters.

@6digit, look for a new motion picture "They Fought Alone" written by John Keats (1963). It is still under development. It happened at the time of the Japanese attack on the Philippines and includes many American and Filipino POWs who escaped the camps and joined in the resistence.

@Nanjing03 Continued>> In conclusion, I cannot take away their bravery in battle. They fought well, as did the other fighting men of both Mexico and the United States despite the less than honorable leadership from Washington and Mexico City. As a veteran of war myself, I can say that warriors ul...

@Nanjing03 Continued >>. Further, Mexico is fast approaching the category of a failed state. We already see heavy drug cartel involvement in the government and the Mexican Army which appears to be fighting itself. How long can that go on? Our own Justice Department and CIA were involved in a ...

Those were Model 1862 Sharps rifles like those used by the Union sharpshooters. Colonel Hiram Berden assembled two large regiments of sharpshooters. A member of my wife's family was a Confederate sharpshooter that was issued a captured sample of that rifle. He mentioned it in his letters and c...

What would the so-called Irish Brigade think of how the Republic [?] of Mexico would turn out 150 years later? A brutal junta steeped in corruption, oppression, poverty, hopelessness, drug cartels, gangs and death. Besides, treason is treason. My wife's family are descendents of Irish who sett...

Quite a bit of misinformation here. Enlisted men in the light horse artillery, and the cavalry, and couriers, and command staff personnel in the infantry all rode horses and carried revolvers. The hats that officers and enlisted men wore in the Mexican War were identical and they were called ca...

Indeed sad and tragic. Two friends who had fought in the previous war in Mexico, and soon a war against each other. This is how this great epic, North and South, should have ended. I am afraid the the sequel that followed a year or so later was a hastily made "girl toy" romance for the My Litt...

I will definitely have to purchase the DVD of the entire series. I remember the television mini-series when I was at the University of South Carolina. It was all I had time to watch between term papers and studying. I was born in the South (Virginia), but my family had only arrived in America ...

The M1-series MBT has been provided to our allies throughout the region. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have long had them. Egypt has them too. While they are not as capable as our current M1A2 tanks, they are certainly far far better than the Soviet-era hardware used by Syria and some oth...

@lash1989 you are correct. I took it for granted that it was composed with period tunes like Bonnie Blue Flag, Battle Cry of Freedom and many old hymns that were borrowed and redone with a violin, piano and other common instruments the time. It certainly would have "fit" with the times. Thanks...

I don't know of a better western made. Everyting seems as close to authentic as possible, from the clothing and the guns, even the mannerisms and the speech dialects of the day.

@686204 you might want to research that claim. The colonists in the New England provinces were treated as second class citizens by the Crown and then told that they would have to bankroll all of the previous war against the French and Indians. Remember, most of the fighting and dying done on th...

You really cannot go wrong with any of the compact .45 1911-types out there. I have an older .45 Colt Officer's ACP /Series 80 and it is my carry gun. Also, it is as accurate offhand in standing weaver, kneeling, and prone positions at 12-15 yards as my full size Springfield Armory .45 M1911A1...

@Freedomcostmoney hey, go take a bath there Code Pinko. Thanks for the link rctonemedia and for your service Marine. I was at Al-Anbar with DOD in 2006/07. I used to get my hair cut at the barbershop behind the Jordanian operated store that was licensed by AAFES. There was an MCX/AAFES operat...

@SolidTube911 actually, liberals consider anybody who is not a Euro-Afro-Russo Socialist to be a Fascist. Likewise, they consider Americans who own guns to be a threat to their goal of being an American-Socialist state.

Irritating music -- nice weapons. I wonder how many Russian citizens can own those weapons, and other weapons from around the world, the way we could own them in the United States.

Robert E. Lee was a gentleman in the purest definition, he was also the ultimate soldier of his time. Unfortunately, the American Civil War was the end of his time and the beginning of modern warfare. As a Southerner, what Bill Sherman and other Union Generals did to the people of Georgia and S...

I have a 1990/91 manufactured Parkarized 45 Springfield Armory 1911A1 mil-spec with a few added touches like the mag well bevel, higher profile sights, lowered ejector port, walnut grips, and some blued hex nuts that I used to replace the original grip srews. It came with what I think is an 8-ro...

@BasilFawlty4444 America and Americans supported your war in the Falklands. Likewise, the US/UK partnership in Multi-National Forces in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East, and with NATO in south-Asia is regarded as a successful alliance. As for Hillary Clinton, she does not represent the Amr...