Saturday, February 05, 2011

SONS of GUNS

SONS OF GUNS


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? 


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 this, 'specially you Marines. 

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

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?

Guess I need to watch the shoe to find out.

Brigadier Major Mike

Anonymous said...

Make that "show" rather than "shoe", the fine motor skills required for typing are rapidly disappearing.

Brigadier Major Mike

MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...

Personally, I liked the skeleton key. The Confederate bell cannon was awesome, too.

Kristophr said...

Flamethrowers are completely unregulated at the federal level.

Only state laws apply.

In Oregon, you have to have permission from the property owner to use one.

Anonymous said...

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.

The 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

Rodger the Real King of France said...

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.

Anonymous said...

What, you don't have one yet?
Flame throwers; better than machine guns and legal almost everywhere.
RAK

DougM said...

Yep.
As a graduate gunsmith, I ...
well, just "yep."

Rodger the Real King of France said...

I just watched the Ma-Deuce episode. I had no idea what's involved in putting a virgin Browning 50 cal together. Wow.

Doug M, is there no end to your talent? Srsly.

Anonymous said...

One of the military shows showed that the flamethrowers were only good for seconds of use!
Lugging 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

Anonymous said...

If using shoe for show was good enough for Ed Sullivan,,well then the shoe must go on.....

Bryan said...

My 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.

Yat

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