POTD: The Mk 11 and Close-Quarters Combat In King Crab Competition

Every August, the Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal community assembles for King Crab, a multi-day gauntlet that separates the elite from the merely excellent. This year's third iteration brought two-person teams from across the force to a California training site, where they faced a r...

By Eric B

Angler Reels In One of the Largest Tripletail Ever Caught in the Gulf

Some fish are just plain strange-looking, and the tripletail is one of them. This odd fish gets its name from the way its dorsal and anal fins stretch back near the tail, giving the appearance of three tails instead of one. Tripletails are known for floating on their sides near the surface of the...

By AllOutdoor Staff

What Was the Best Sniper Rifle of WWII?

Editor’s Note: Especially adapted for The Armory Life from The Matchless Enfield .303 No. 4 Mk I (T) Sniper and Britain’s Elite Scout/Snipers Who Dominated WWII Battlefields Book No. 2 Mk II revised and expanded by Jeff John. Available at Amazon.com. I’ve long believed the En...

By Jeff John

Fudd Friday: Building A BLR Into A Better Fudd Rifle

There is nothing more inherently Fudd-coded than a lever-action rifle. Lever guns bring to mind images of post-war deer camps, or classic ammunition advertisements of broadbrim-hatted shootists facing down grizzlies, or bagging a ram across a rocky canyon. Of course, the classic lever guns in tho...

By Zac K