good resource
One of the authors of The Gun Zone left a comment here the other day. So, I’ve been perusing the site, including yesterday’s link to that nifty history of the 5.56 Nato cartridge. Today’s read is the 5.56mm FAQ v1.14. Good stuff.
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June 25th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Thanks again for the link.
The Gun Zone website belongs to former gunwriter Dean Speir. As such, the vast majority of the content is his own. However, he has graciously hosted articles by other authors such as myself. If he had not published the original version of my 5.56mm Timeline, it would have never grown to its current length.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Not bad. I wonder if Daniel happened to read my post on the subject:
http://anarchangel.blogspot.com/2007/02/okay-so-why-did-we-choose-556.html
June 26th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Chris: Actually, I had not seen your blog until you linked it. The 5.56mm Timeline started out as a post in 1998, and wasn’t published on The Gun Zone until 2001 or 2002. This pushed me to expand it further. The current version online is pushing close to 600 pages in MS Word, and will be closer to 700 pages once I get time to finish my next major update.
By using a timeline format, I am able to maintain the relationship between multiple events that don’t lend themselves to a narrative structure. I’d have to cut a lot of stuff out if I wanted a sequential narrative that flowed in a readable fashion.