Bullet Points:
** After careful consideration, I have decided not to give up my firearms and ammunition to people who want me dead.
** The Pope of Rome is criticizing the compensation of corporate execs in the US. The Pope, possibly the wealthiest man in the world, has little room to talk. Generally, people are paid what they’re worth (to somebody). They may not be worth it to YOU, but the subjective and objective numbers are always different.
** Financial Times: “Chinese export restrictions on germanium, a metal crucial for the defense industry, have created a ‘desperate’ supply crunch and pushed prices to their highest level in at least 14 years, traders say. Germanium is essential to the production of thermal imaging systems used in military equipment, including fighter jets. But China heavily dominates its production, and companies do not typically hold large stockpiles. China said in 2023 that it would halt the export of germanium, gallium, and antimony following restrictions by the US and the Netherlands on advanced chips and chipmaking equipment. However, traders and analysts said exports started to nosedive in earnest from the end of 2024 onwards. Terence Bell, of minor metals trader Strategic Metal Investments, said he had been unable to buy germanium for at least six months, with shipments from China having “completely dried up”. “I spent my whole summer taking 2-3 [enquiries] a day from companies looking for germanium,” he said. “It’s desperate out there.”
** More on germanium – The vast majority of the world’s germanium is sourced as a byproduct of zinc refining or from coal fly ash, primarily from countries like China and Russia. It is not extracted from dedicated germanium mines.
** Charlie Kirk didn’t use hate speech. He used speech they hated.
** Robert Redford died at his home in Utah at 89. He was a leftist, but most actors are. That notwithstanding, I thought that even though he played “Robert Redford” in everything he did, he was entertaining. The problem always comes when we take actors seriously apart from what we pay them to do, which is to recite the words others write, entertainingly.
** In 2023, Memphis suffered a homicide rate of 48 per 100,000 people—50% higher than dangerous. Memphis has a homicide rate higher than all but 29 cities on Earth, and most of them are shitholes in the Third World. The city is 64% black, so it stands to reason.
** Islamist Adeeb Nasir, 58, and Adil Ahmed Nasir, 31, have just been arrested for placing a bomb on a FOX News van in Utah.
Mainstream Media?
** Comments from sources involved in ongoing Syria-Israel security negotiations indicate that a security agreement between the two countries is currently very unlikely, despite US pressure. Reuters reported on September 16 that the United States is pressuring the Syrian transitional government to accelerate negotiations with Israel for a limited security pact ahead of the United Nations General Assembly on September 23.
** Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani met with senior Saudi officials in Riyadh on September 16, likely as part of a broader Iranian effort to dissuade Gulf states from cooperating with the United States or Israel following Israel’s September 9 strike in Doha. Larijani met with Saudi officials, including Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, to discuss the “future of the region” and economic and defense cooperation. Iran is offering wider discounts on its oil exports to China to counter US sanctions and in reaction to demand drivers in the Chinese oil market.
** The Israel Defense Forces Air Force struck Houthi shipping infrastructure at Hudaydah Port on September 16, which the Houthis had repaired since the IDF’s last strikes on the port in July 2025. A Yemen analyst reported that Israel struck three recently repaired piers at the port.
Responding to a Question of Culture
I have heard repeatedly that “only a trained sniper” could have accurately placed the shot that killed Charlie Kirk. Thus, they go off on CIA or Mossad tangents. Let me state for the historical record that I grew up in the Southwest, and almost every young man I knew could place one-minute-of-angle shots on target with a bolt-action Mauser with a scope, prone, from 200 yards. Which is to say that anything the size of a quarter dollar at two hundred yards would be dead meat. Two to three-inch groups at that range would be considered barely acceptable if you’re firing prone. Offhand (standing hunting shot), a two-inch group would be adequate. As a young boy growing up (no internet, no games, no basement to hide in), I shot every weekend. Oftentimes, I shot during the week, reloading my own. I could reliably hit a running jackrabbit at 50 yards, dodging here and there with one shot from a .22LR, snapshot, offhand. So could my friends and even my grandma. I shot the heads off prairie dogs at 100 yards for fun. My father once made a standing shot on a running buck deer at 650 yards and called the placement of the shot. A remarkable bit of marksmanship. One shot, one kill. He hit it exactly where he said he’d hit it.
The assassin who killed Charlie Kirk was a 22-year-old son of a Washington County deputy sheriff. I’m sure he was a deer hunter and likely a varmint hunter. His marksmanship is par for the culture and the area. A miss at that range would have been unlikely. We are taught to breathe and to stroke the trigger properly so that we won’t miss. The shot was well made, which is unsurprising given the marksmanship culture.
The fact that he was sexually involved with a tranny did not reflect on his ability to put ordnance on target downrange.
I shot my first deer when I was 7 1/2 years of age in the White Mountains of Arizona. (right) That’s a pistol scope on a .22LR with a cut-off bull barrel and a shortened stock for a small boy. I had been shooting since I was five years of age. By the time I was 18 years old, I’d been shooting, running game, and paper targets continually for 12 or 13 years. And I was not the exception. There wasn’t much for kids to do when I was young, and it wasn’t the season to dock cattle or sheep or haul hay. I could dismount my horse (trained to stand still), slipping the rifle from the scabbard as I moved, ground my feet, aim, and fire like blue-chained lightning. But we all could. I’m sure that Texas boys were every bit as good as I was. I’m not claiming to be better. The military and shooting 100,000+ rounds in the kill house at La Posta, at Niland, and elsewhere did make me a better shot and taught me new techniques, but I came to the game prepared.
People in the West are almost all conservative and law-abiding, but mistaking kindness for weakness is not a smart move. Religion doesn’t play into it. Whether you’re a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Catholic, Jewish, or a Baptist, the shooting culture is something that runs through your body like a high-voltage cable. Best to leave all those people alone.
City people disregard shooting culture and fly-over country, but fire discipline (one shot for one target), trigger discipline – no flinching, and breathing discipline create human machines that can perform well in stressful situations. By the time you’re 22 years old, you’re a gunslinger.
Archery
Medieval archers were trained from a young age to master the longbow, a weapon with draw weights often exceeding 100 pounds. This wasn’t just a skill; it was a lifelong physical commitment. Boys were required by law to practice archery regularly, and as they grew, they graduated to heavier bows. The constant repetition of drawing and releasing such forceful weapons shaped their bodies in profound ways, especially during their formative years.
Archaeological studies of their skeletons reveal striking adaptations. The bones of the shoulder, upper arm, and back were often enlarged and asymmetrical, reflecting the intense muscular development needed to wield war bows effectively. These changes weren’t just cosmetic; they were structural. The stress of pulling such powerful bows caused the bones to grow thicker and more robust to support the surrounding muscle mass, a phenomenon known as Wolff’s Law, where bone adapts to the load under which it is placed.
Interestingly, these skeletal traits allow modern researchers to identify archers among medieval remains with surprising accuracy. Their physical build was more akin to elite athletes or manual laborers than the slender, graceful figures often portrayed in fiction. Far from being delicate marksmen, longbowmen were some of the strongest soldiers on the battlefield, capable of firing up to ten arrows per minute with deadly precision and endurance.
Identify the Aircraft
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Before you jump the gun on this one, it was not built by North American Aviation…
Hint: The aircraft flew with the 67th Observation Group. The Group was activated on 1 September 1941. Flew antisubmarine patrols along the east coast of the US after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Began training in Jan 1942 for duty overseas. Moved to the European theatre, Aug-Oct 1942. Assigned first to Eighth and later (Oct 1943) to Ninth AF. Re-designated 67th Reconnaissance Group in May 1943, 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group in Nov 1943, and 67th Reconnaissance Group in Jun 1945.
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Today, we know that the first jet aircraft to fly was the German Heinkel He 178, which achieved this feat on August 27, 1939. However, because Heinkel kept it a secret— even from the German authorities —this aircraft stood on the podium, albeit briefly.
Identify the Armor
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E-Z, but here it is.
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Culture – on a few occasions my dad would scoff at the “Attempted Murder” charges seen in fly-over country when the range was less than long. His comment, “If the shooter had wanted the guy dead, he would be dead.” My grandmother could drive nails with her .22 rifle.
That’s just how it is.
Yes , I agree , and thought the very same thing (your comments on shooting accuracy , in this instance , and in general , with rural living folks , and the same was true in my family ) . My Uncle tagged many of his with those he wanted to hand down to relatives by name as he got older , mine was a beautiful Remington 541T , never made it to my possession , hear that Cousin R?
I can’t remember when I started shooting. High School years was weekly coed NRA Junior Rifleman. My Dad was the best shot, at game, I ever saw. After he stopped guiding, a box of shells lasted him years. All my uncles, my cousins, my aunts, and my mother were good shots. Every pickup parked at high school had a rifle rack in the rear window and in use. I preferred a scabbard behind the seat. The first rifle I ever bought was a .30-.40 Kraig. That rifle is still floating around the clan, and still taking game.
What people who never grew up in a gun culture can’t comprehend is a fire arm is a tool. The satisfaction is in using the tool to perfection.
I’ve been shooting since I was 11 or 12. I grew up in Utah. In Junior High, Thursdays were hunter safety class in the cafeteria from 2 to 4 PM. Once you completed that, you could get a hunting license, but I believe you still probably needed your parent to sign. On Thursday, you could bring your long gun with you on the bus, but it had to be unloaded and in a case, or as most of us did, wrapped up in an army surplus blanket. Once you got to school, you took it straight to the Principal’s office and he kept it and then took it to the cafeteria for the class. After the class, you rode the late bus home.
About 20 years ago, I bought a lightly used .30-06 rifle from a guy working at a gun shop. The scope is only fair, and the rifle is a Montgomery Ward’s branded rifle that was probably made by Savage or Marlin. It’s still a very useful weapon and there’s very little chance of a miss at up to 200 yards on a target that’s not moving. I’ve thought of upgrading to a 7mm mag, but I don’t really have a need. The guys I grew up with spent more time holding guitars than rifles and everyone of them were more than capable shooters. There’s so much shooting ignorance out there.
There are whole programs on the TV dealing with outdoorsmen and ‘mountain men’ and these guys are taking their daughters elk and deer hunting out west and the teen-age ladies are getting sheep, elk, deer and other things from 500 to 1000 yards. So there, internet pundits who said it hat to be a trained SEAL operator or Delta smelt or something.
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As to the choice of a gun, well, the US Army designed the .30-06 as a long range animal and man killer, easily killing horses at 1,500 yards and men at 1,000 yards with the iron sights of an M1903 Springfield. So, gee, with a scope at 200? I also read some internet rando’s blog today that said the scope on Douchenozzle’s rifle was mounted too far to the rear so it had to be a fake gun setup. Gahhh, teh stupid, it’s out there.
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Another website that I used to respect believes that it has to be a conspiracy because the text messages were grammatically correct and only weirdos would do that in these modern times. Yeah, weirdos like trannies and tranny lovers who live on the edge of society.
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“It must be (insert Feds, MAGA, White Christian Heterosexual Nationalists, people who bake their own bread, someone/someones not on the Left side of the Matrix) because REASONS!!! Don’t believe me and my conspiracies and you must be FedBoi!!!!”
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Seriously, a nutjob with a gun from 200 yards away? What next, someone shooting at 100 yards into a slowly moving vehicle with a gun designed to kill at 400+ yards? Must be Fedboi trained sniperdude working for CIA!!!! What next, someone in a clock tower shooting people up to 200 yards away with a Remington 700 (probably in .30-06 or .270Win)? Nah, must be CIA trained sniperdude…
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People (not here) just really piss me off.
The .30-06 is a proven cartridge (ask Sgt. Alvin York) at military ranges. To remind the blog readers, as a corporal in the 82nd Division during WW1, York led a small patrol that was ambushed, leaving him to face an entire German machine-gun battalion alone with his .30-06. York was a country boy who learned to shoot as a kid. He single-handedly killed at least 25 enemy soldiers, captured 132 prisoners, and took control of 35 machine guns, ensuring the destruction of the enemy’s position.
I’ve also been shooting since 10~12 years old. The first firearm I shot was my Dad’s 1911 that had been all through the Pacific with him in WWII. I Got a Crossman “V350” BB gun at 10, and “Nylon 66” for my 12th birthday. I could easily hit rabbits, squirrels, and rats at 50+ yards. Our in-laws here are amazed I can shoot so well for a “city kid”. Well, the “city” stopped two blocks away, and we had fields and woods to practice in all Summer long….
Yep. Sgt. York (who would only allow Gary Cooper to play him) was an excellent example of the powers of the .30-06. So were all the ImpJaps on Guadalcanal who were mightily impressed by the range and accuracy of the US Marines firing the Springfield.
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Saw a WWII training film where the question of how thick a wall would it take to stop said .30-06. So, of course, mannequins with Stahlheims and various thicknesses of stone and brick and bang, dead kraut, thicker wall, bang, dead kraut. At various distances, too. Which made many a WWII movie very wrong as the .30-06 Ball fired from the M1 Garand could penetrate quite a bit.
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People today, especially those in the eneMedia, have no concept of the true power of firearms. 200 yards, from a rooftop? That’s within easy killing range of an 1861 Springfield Rifle-Musket. Heck, a good Kentucky long-rifle has the range and accuracy to do that shot. .45-70, easy. 6mm Lee Navy, easy, as some recounts of the Defense of the Legate during the Boxer Rebellion had killings from far longer range than that. .30-40 Krag, easy. Friggin M1 Carbine, easy (and it’s a good woods and truck gun, too.) Seriously, it’s like the US Army and Navy thought 200 yards was close easy range for whatever the standard caliber was. Find any US service rifle and all of them reach out and accurately touch someone at far more than 200 piddly yards.
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Yet even People of the Gun are vacillating about how difficult 200 yards is with a rifle. Completely ignoring all the people sniping animals with a .22LR at 150yards just fine.
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As to what DrJim said, I haven’t been shooting all my life. But I’ve been told from a good friend, now sadly passed, one to two weekends of intensive firing training and I could easily hit targets at 400-600 yards with iron sights (before my eyes decided to get stupid.)
Late to the party here. Still—
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In my younger days, my game was NRA Highpower Rifle. At a full yardage range, the firing stages START at 200 yards, standing and sitting rapid fire.
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Standing. 20 minutes for 20 shots.
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Sitting rapid fire. 10 rounds. Time begins when targets appear out of the pits. You start standing with your rifle loaded. Gain your sitting position. If shooting a bolt action, fire first five rounds. Reload second five with stripper clip and fire those. Total time limit–60 seconds.
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Next is prone rapid fire at 300 yards. 70 seconds.
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Last is prone slow fire at 500 yards. 20 minutes for 20 shots.
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Earned my Master card in 1990. And yeah, sucks when your eyes start to show their age. And the scale lies. The guns are heavier than they used to be.
(1) ?
(2) Caproni-Campini N1.
(3) Type 95 Ha-Go.
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(1) Later Spitfire, maybe?
– Kle.
…but that doesn’t fit the history.
1 – F6A – Allison powered early Mustang – I thought they were mfd. by North American for the British
2 – Italian Caproni Campini N.1
3 – Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go
Well done. They were manufactured by Boeing.
I have never seen nor can I find anything on Boeing building any P51’s and have always thought that it was solely a North American product.
They were initially manufactured in Inglewood California and later also in Dallas to meet USAAC demand. There were a few built and shipped to Australia and assembled under license late in the war,
I know the P51 was designed for the Brit’s when they asked North American Aviation to tool up and build Curtiss P-40 Warhawks but NAA stated they could design and tool up to build a better fighter in the same time frame. Hence the birth of the P51. Initially with an non-supercharged V12 Allison. They changed to a Supercharges Merlin in 1942 and then with the P51D a supercharged Packard engine.
Any information you might have on them being built by anyone else would be much appreciated sir.
As I understand it the early recon variant was licensed to Boeing – under that designation. Now, I could also be wrong.
Rush: “The only time I was mistaken was when I thought I was wrong.” Heh
The Boeing connection
While the F-6A was built by North American Aviation, not Boeing, there is a legitimate connection through corporate mergers.
That was google. I was curious.
I checked myself, and I honestly don’t know. The P-51A, modified, was transferred to the British as the F-6A. I always thought that the P-51s were all made by NAA. Then I came across a claim by Boeing, and upon reviewing the information, I now believe that Boeing modified the P-51A under contract to make it into a reconnaissance aircraft. But I can STILL be wrong. Mia Culpa from now until the heat death of the universe if I’m wrong.
Thank yo for the additional info
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Supermarine Spitfire Mk V
2. Caproni Campini N.1
Identify the Armor:
3. Type 95 Ha-Go light tank
ML Thomas nailed #1.
Left out of commentary was the fact reported of grandpa’s $2,000 scope. I demonstrated what that would look like to my wife last night. easy peasy for someone familiar with weapons.
Yeah, I wish commentators would STFU if they don’t know what
they are talking about.
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I’m a city boy, and nothing special with a rifle, and I’d feel confident
shooting at a standing man-sized target at 200 yards with iron
sights, much less a scope. Hell, when I was young and in practice,
I’d have taken that shot with a decent recurve bow.
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I’ve scolded a number of commenters on Facebook who talk about the difficulty of that shot and the conspiracy it took.
That Charlie’s security guy gave a hand signal just before the shot. These people miss the real threat. Not a cabal, not a government, but a group of indoctrinated young people who have been turned into puppets of their ideology.
That’s the scary part.
It’s like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Things is, when taking the shot at another human being (altho he never saw Charlie as human due to the deranged aspect), and when not in LE or service to country, I would expect him to have been shaking like a leaf, massively unsteady.
Nope. His mind was fixed.
It was his brain is broke.
Prone position and rested.
** Charlie Kirk didn’t use hate speech. He used speech they hated.**
He used facts, logic and used them in polite discussions. So they shot him.
Exactly…and when he stated truths they didn’t like, especially about a specific event or topic, these same hate-filled creatures would restate them in a completely different manner than the context and words he used –Ex: “Black woman don’t have the mental capacity…blah, blah, blah”. Total fiction.
The real question is, “Who’s ‘they’?”
Last elk I took – .270 Winchester 70 Featherweight, 9 pwr scope – was at right under 400 yards, level…the 200 yard shot with that rifle is not hard for a practiced shooter/hunter, which he apparently was…the neck hit was due to elevated position and 4-6″ drop at that distance (guessing). However, I still stand by “ballistics, not DNA” are the only definitive…yet was the wound downward or upwards? Where’s the bullet (assuming it could be located)? (yes, people said the shot heard was from behind, but this being a sort of amphitheater, surprise sharp sounds can travel from many directions, and witnesses are generally unreliable).
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Those stating ‘factually’ “this is a difficult shot with that rifle” are sitting at a city Starbucks spouting off on things they know little (some, not all for sure…but the latter may be lousy unpracticed shooters). Incidentally, I still believe this was a set up pro-hit/operation in some way and this guy is the patsy…the text exchanges with ‘Lance My Twigg’ loverboi are too clean and lack duress for someone running around on an elevated roof structure after shooting an actual person (not the same as big game), dropping down 12′-15′ (he could have gotten a limp not a stuffed weapon in his pants), then running away trying not to be obvious. Doesn’t scan. Then again, it could be as presented.
a few inconsistencies that may (or may never) be cleared up in the near future; the biggest (in my curiosity) is the round – to be compared with one from “granpa’s rifle”.
He allegedly made the shot with a rifle that was left to him by his grandfather. 30-06 with a Mauser action. Most shooters today don’t shoot the 06.
Locate the round and verify it came from that rifle. Forensics can assist in clearing up who took the shot beyond DNA, ‘touch’ or otherwise.
They do in Michigan.
A lot of older guys are used to it..
But not enough to bring the price down for my Garand.
If grandpa hand-loaded, it makes the forensics more difficult. If grandpa knew what he was doing, he’d load with a lighter bullet (less bullet drop, better for shooting deer/elk larger game) than the hardball military bullets (steel jacket). He could have pulled the military bullet and replaced it (neck resize die, insert a new bullet). Usually you also replace the powder but it’s not necessary. They will be able to identify the powder type (maybe 4350?) both on the bullet and in the bore and will be able to compare it to the other three rounds in the magazine.
Does the wound path line up with the roof where the shot allegedly came from?
WSF, we don’t have access to the forensics, but they’ll be presented in court. My sense is that the wound path will line up with the shooter’s position.
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Check your e-mail in-box for more on that.
You can still get lots of loads, FMJ to soft tip to, well, milsurp of various forms, for the .30-06. It’s not an unknown caliber and Walmart even carries it (or did if they’ve finally gotten rid of it.)
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Seriously, you can still buy .30-40 Krag. 6mm Lee (saw several boxes at the local gun store last time I was there.) .45-70, even.
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It’s almost like people believe calibers and guns disappear magically after they’re 50 years old or something.
A four inch drop at 200 yards is normal for a 30-06 round. The shooters only mistake was his wanted head shot hit Kirk in the neck. It’s an easy shot for even the inexperienced, if the scope is sighted correctly. My only question is where the round went after it passed through Kirk’s neck.
100%. The thing for me is despite being labeled all manner of vileness by the MSM and Left, and coming off Butler, no one thought to secure the rooftop a mere few extension cords away considering the state of the state these days.
It was a Charlie Kirk event.
Who would shoot Charlie?
Sadly, now we know.
Charlie had adequate close protection for the typical kid who gets pushy. The school and the police department/county sheriff did contemplate high ground counter sniper coverage. In the future, that must be part of the calculus.
With some [only slight] fear of reprisal for posting this…it’s a probable theory..putting the bullet off to the right side stage somewhere, not behind if it was the rooftop shot. Is Webb a kook or legit? https://georgewebb.substack.com/p/earshot-the-charlie-kirk-murder
…this whole thing smells to high Heaven.
Paul M., Stringshot, who also follows this blog, sent me that video, and it is doctored. I saw the original video of the shot and think that it lines up with the sniper on the rooftop.
Thanks for the followup. Now I really can’t stand those types, misleading on purpose is especially egregious. (Didn’t watch the video, just read the narrative…won’t watch Charlie getting taken out, whether by the lost Robinson or the Deep State, only thing that matters is we lost a good man and prevention of a repeat. But like Dewayne over at Dry Creek Wrangler School said, “this just unleashed 10,000 “Charlie Kirks”” (there was only one…but others can take up the mantle).
Regarding archers, those are English archers firing longbows.
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Not surprising, the French didn’t want their peasants to train to be archers. Too much of a chance of getting shot in the ass for some strange reason. When some French bow corps were stood up, with a steel bow far more easier to draw and more powerful in release than the straight longbow, they did not last long because French nobles, as stated above, did not want to get shot in the ass. Especially since the new French bow was, as stated above, more powerful than the longbow due to it’s fast release (think wheeled bows and how easy they are to draw and how much quicker they release their energy over a straight bow.)
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French did have lots of peasant archers, though. Firing lighter 30-40lb self-bows (a straight armed bow, like a longbow, but shorter. Used to hit less armored personnel and kill horses, but not at long range.) And not nearly as well trained. Instead, for trained bow troops, the French hired Swiss and Italian crossbowmen, who fired heavy crossbows (contrary to what all the pundits say, there is a lot of training needed to use a high-power crossbow and kill someone in armor, something that longbowmen couldn’t do except at close range – the longbow being an anti-horse and anti-semi-armored-personnel weapon effective at long range against horses and unarmored or slightly armored men. The heavy crossbow? Yeah, that shit will punch through armor…)
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The French nobility did not trust their peasants to have distance weapons for too long. Handing them out during a battle and giving some training to hit targets from close range while defending behind walls or wheeled pavases (think sections of fencing, but thick timbers, on wheels, to protect people from being shot…) and that’s okay, as long as the bows are returned after the battle…
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Larry, you did know I was going to riff on this, didn’t you?
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As to crossbows, light ones easily cocked by hand were popular for bird hunting. Medium ones cocked by holding the string and stepping down on a stirrup, or cocked by laying down on one’s back and putting one’s feet against the bow while hauling against the string were popular. Heavier ones, cocked by two people, one pushing with the feet against the bow and one pushing with the feet against the string, were also popular but quickly replaced in Europe by some mechanical version of cranks, either permanently mounted or removable using a variety of pulleys, ropes, claws and cranks or by mechanical geared cranks are the real killers. Curiously, the Vietnamese used teak bowed crossbows cranked using the two-man push-me-pull-you method to fire bamboo darts that could shoot down UH-1 helos if they hit the pilot or the engine. (Friend of mine had one that his father got from the dirty mo-fos that shot at his helo, his father’s guys got the helo to land and they kicked the everloving snot out of a group of bowmen.)
Larry, you did know I was going to riff on this, didn’t you?
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I didn’t “know” but I suspected you might. Thanks for your contribution to the blog.
Hey, Beans….I just bought a Cold Steel “European Boar Spear”, and I need a pole to mount it on. 1-1/4″ socket on it. Should I use wood, or something else like fiberglass?
I’d find some martial arts supply store that sells composite wood staves or staffs. The composite will hold up better than traditional wood. But if you go with just old-fashioned wood, straight ash is very traditional and flexible enough not to snap.
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Plastic composites and fiberglass are great, until they aren’t. It’s the reason SpaceX went from composite construction to stainless steel for its Starship. And my experience with fiberglass ‘spears’ in the SCA (much better and linearly stiffer than 9′ of rattan) is, again, great until they’re not.
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Do not use, for God’s sake, closet rod. That sh…tuff is great for Renn-faire exploding lances but not if your life depends on it.
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Hope this helps.
Thanks, Beans! Yeah, I’d never use a closet pole….reeeeally cheap wood!
But they blow up real nice for faux jousting.
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Glad to have helped.