You priced any of them *trounds* lately? Now that 13mm Gyrojet rocket projector has some fun possibilities. I knew a feller with one built into his swagger stick....
Posted on 08/18/2008 3:36:33 AM PDT by sig226
Here's a little retro firearms prognostication for Monday.
Click Guns of the Future under the Military bookmark to get to the page.
The author, Lt. Colonel Robert B. Rigg, got a lot of it right. He wrote about sound guns, ray guns, and baby missile launchers. Okay, no ray guns as yet, and the baby missile launcher existed in World War II, but he also predicted individual night vision.
He included the Armalite AR-10, which, of course, morphed into the M-16 rifle and M-4 carbine. The AR-10 in the illustration is a flat top, A-3 type. The M1 Carbine in a photograph has an infrared spotlight on it. Now we have IR bulbs for SureFire lights, and the light mounts on one of several positions on the rifle to work with the night vision optical sight.
The sound gun might get a test run in Denver this month.
Enjoy.
Ping
When my son was a baby, he launched a few missiles...
BTTT
1958? That’s about the time someone was dreaming up my first nylon model 66.
Excellent post!!!
I got my first .22 in ‘58.
I wonder if anybody was thinking about the Crap Cannon in ‘58.
I gotta get me one of those Dardick guns with the triangular bullets.
Thanks, for the walk down memory lane.
Thanks for that. Takes me way back.
I know the dollar was probably worth 10x as much then, but I would still pay $750 in today's dollars for the super-fancy, ultra-rare Circassian walnut stock blanks.
Looking from 1958 to today, they could comprehend the mechanical part of "modern" weapons (other than why the US abandoned the M1911). Modern sights and night vision would be mind-blowing, due to advances in computers, electronics, and optics.
And, of course, there are far more computerized machines making weapons today, and fewer human craftsmen.
I was told I did a lot of projectile vomit as a baby...
What fun going through that 1958 Gun magazine.
Thanks!
You priced any of them *trounds* lately? Now that 13mm Gyrojet rocket projector has some fun possibilities. I knew a feller with one built into his swagger stick....
That's about the time the first M14 rifles were turning up in the hands of U.S. military units. The M60 LMG came along shortly thereafter.
Remington Arms Company brought out the .22 LR caliber Nylon 66 rifle in 1959. I got my first one in 1960 or '61.
Holy cow. Ya got me on that one. I had no idea those “trounds” ever made it off the drawing board.
The cartridges were trianglular. The bullets were not. Picture a conventional bullet inside a triangular case.
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