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This
is my new favorite television show, and I can't imagine that most
of you won't feel the same. Sons of Guns is kind of the Pawn
Stars of
gun smithing. Will Hayden is the owner of Red Jacket. His
daughter Stephanie, whom he dotes on, runs the business end. But this
show is dominated by Will, whose style is a mixture of John
Wayne,
Chuck Yeager, and Kim duToit. He could probably sidle
into movie
stardom just by just playing himself. The first episode I watched
began with a guy walking into Red Jacket looking for a shotgun
suppressor, a.k.a. silencer. Will says:
You saw that movie didn't you?
No
Country for Old Men?
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Indeed
he had. Will tells him that lots of people have tried to build
one - and failed, but he decides to give it a go if the guy is willing
to pay $2500 for a finished product, gun included (top clip). He
is.
Immensely entertaining.
The good news is you can watch the four or so episodes already
aired HERE.
Last night Will meets Medal of Honor recipient Woody Williams
(bio and History Channel episode) . Mr Woody is one of just two
surviving WWII recipients; he's 89 years old and could prolly still
get laid every night if he wanted. He has a
flame thrower like he used at Iwo Jima (clip at right), and it needs
fixing. You will not want to miss
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Wow! As much as I admire this stuff, what are the Federal laws governing flamethrowers? I know you need special permits for full-auto firearms and sound suppressors, so how does Will's customers manage their way through the maze of BATF bureaucracy?
ReplyDeleteGuess I need to watch the shoe to find out.
Brigadier Major Mike
Make that "show" rather than "shoe", the fine motor skills required for typing are rapidly disappearing.
ReplyDeleteBrigadier Major Mike
Personally, I liked the skeleton key. The Confederate bell cannon was awesome, too.
ReplyDeleteFlamethrowers are completely unregulated at the federal level.
ReplyDeleteOnly state laws apply.
In Oregon, you have to have permission from the property owner to use one.
That flame thrower weighs almost 70 pounds full. It has two gas tanks @ 2 gallons each. Imagine staggering up the side of Mount Suribachi with that thing on your back and hundreds of Nips trying to put a hot round in you and those gas tanks.
ReplyDeleteThe bio states Mr Woody was also carrying demo charges along with the flame thrower!
He deserves all the medals he can carry and all the pussy he can handle.
Boneshaker
The flamethrower guy was the A-1 priority target by the nips as well. I think the average life span of a FTG in combat was 7 minutes, or something ridiculous like that.
ReplyDeleteWhat, you don't have one yet?
ReplyDeleteFlame throwers; better than machine guns and legal almost everywhere.
RAK
Yep.
ReplyDeleteAs a graduate gunsmith, I ...
well, just "yep."
I just watched the Ma-Deuce episode. I had no idea what's involved in putting a virgin Browning 50 cal together. Wow.
ReplyDeleteDoug M, is there no end to your talent? Srsly.
One of the military shows showed that the flamethrowers were only good for seconds of use!
ReplyDeleteLugging that heavy load, shoot it off in no time, and then having to go back for a refilled/new on. Amazing what people will do in combat.
Kelly
If using shoe for show was good enough for Ed Sullivan,,well then the shoe must go on.....
ReplyDeleteMy dad carried a flame thrower on Iwo Jima. Disadvantages being the large guy in a patrol. He nearly drowned leaving the landing craft that didn't quite make the beach landing as planned. Supposedly they assigned a rifleman to work as cover for him but they eventually separated and he was on his own. At some point he abandoned the flame thrower and picked up a BAR. Eventually he was evacuated wounded from IJ and spent the rest of the war in a hospital stateside.
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