The reliability requirements for military firearms are perhaps the highest. Ideally, they must be able to perform flawlessly in any climatic condition found on the planet. And that’s why military torture tests are conducted – to ensure particular weapon [Read More…]
In what appears to fly in the face of the Bureau’s prior attitudes towards enforcement of gun laws, a white paper by BATFE Associate Deputy Director Ronald Turk was recently leaked which proposed loosening or modifying gun regulations in sixteen ways, to be [Read More…]
My super hot girlfriend hails from Western New York. (I refuse to say “Upstate New York”) Every time we visit I am reminded that Andrew Cuomo and the “Safe Act” have restricted the gun rights of the citizens of New York State. Rifles with [Read More…]
At the 2017 SHOT Show, Bushnell premiered their new DMR II and DMR II-i rifle scopes. These riflescopes feature a 34mm tube and come in both illuminated and non-illuminated options. These scopes have 10 mils of adjustment per revolution and have Bushnell’s new [Read More…]
Just in the last hour someone leaked an ATF White Paper regarding changes to be potentially made in the ATF. Washington Post posted the file. Read-the-white-paper-on-firearms-regulations <—– Click that to open the document. For those not familiar with a [Read More…]
As Hornady continues to slowly grow their offerings of the ELD-X and ELD Match they are trimming down the A-MAX. The A-MAX for many years proved to be a great bullet for reloaders. Where the A-MAX may have fell short over time is in its polymer tip. Both the ELD-X [Read More…]
Like many CZ-75 fans I have been eagerly awaiting the release of the Sphinx SDP Standard, that was announced at SHOT 2016. Sadly it appears that Sphinx is not going to be releasing the Standard. All is not lost though! They announced at SHOT that they will be [Read More…]
Visiting the Morakniv booth is something I always look forward to at SHOT show. These tough little Swedish made knives have been a mainstay in my outdoor kit for a longtime. This year at the 2017 SHOT Show, Morakniv released the Garberg knife. The Garberg knife, is [Read More…]
Widener’s Reloading and Shooting Supply is a Johnson City, TN based online ammunition company that has pushed a press release out citing a number of alarming panic/bulk buy figures from customers in California. According to the company overall ammunition sales are [Read More…]
SureFire had some new lights at Shot Show 2017. The Firepak has been shelved for this new light. with intellibeam. So the light reflected off the surface will cause the light to auto switch to the flood beam so you are not blinded by the backsplash of light. [Read More…]
Stopping by the Horus Vision booth, I got a chance to look at the new Tremor 4 Reticle, designed by Todd Hodnett. The Tremor 4 is currently available for spotting scopes and blends the elements of the Tremor 3 wind dots and the Horus H59 reticle. This last year, I [Read More…]
4Sevens is starting to get into the weapon light market. They have been quietly making some great handheld lights for over the past 10 years. Their Quark series is rather popular as it is modular so you can choose different heads for different modes of light as well as [Read More…]
Multi-Radial Rifling (MRR) is a special rifling type, which unlike conventional rifling doesn’t have sharp edges. This rifling is described as being made of two different alternating radiuses. Although it is not the polygonal rifling (most notably seen in Glock [Read More…]
Kimber recently introduced a new hunting pistol called the Super Jägare. The new 1911 style pistol is chambered in 10mm making it useful for many small to medium sized game animals. The company equipped the pistol with a number of nice features including a factory [Read More…]
Rumors about the internal workings of Utah-based SilencerCo have bounced around social media for the past 48 hours. And while there has yet to be an official word from the company itself, there are a few industry insiders with a tangential relationship to SiCo that [Read More…]
The Smith & Wesson M&P 1.0 or Classic series was introduced in 2005 with a heavy focus on the military and police market. This episode Patrick takes a look at the pistol that was derived from the “lesser” Sigma and was widely adopted by police all over the United States. The [Read More…]
Russia has adopted a small arms training system called 1U35M (1У35М)․ It is designed by a company called TsNII Toch Mash (ЦНИИ Точ Маш, stands for Central Scientific – Research Institute for Precision Machine Engineering). The system simulates both [Read More…]
During the 2017 SHOT Show I saw very little in the way innovation. One company that had some new innovative products was iota Outdoors. iota Outdoors hails from College Station Texas and had some new products aimed at the precision rifle crowd. Since long range [Read More…]
No, you aren’t looking at a mistake. This was done intentionally. According to MBX, this offset will make a PCC shooter faster since they do not need to waste time getting a proper cheek weld to get their sight picture. In theory that works for strong handed [Read More…]
In before the jokes about “Comiefornia” and whatever else clever jokes you have about the overly regulated state. I feel for our shooting brethren that have to deal with the laws that were recently put in place. As much as I want to scream and yell about the [Read More…]
Legacy Sports International announced that it would now be offering two new calibers in the Howa MiniAction line. The two new calibers are the 7.62×39 and the 6.5 Grendel. These join the .204 Ruger, .222 Remington and .223 Remington that are already available in [Read More…]
It’s not every day you get the privilege to write about a new rifle from Heckler & Koch, but we have the honor to present the brand new HK433. It was shown to a very selected number of people at SHOT Show and Heckler & Koch just ran an ad in the German [Read More…]
This year at Shot Show 2017 Primary Arms showed off its latest offerings in optics. They will be offering some of their scopes in FDE, OD Green and Wolf Gray. You can see in the photo above, their 1-6x and their red dots will be offered in alternate colors. According to [Read More…]
Although KVAR has these new Aresenal models in stock, I did not find them in either of their SHOT Show booths. And while they aren’t drastically different from previous rifle configurations, both guns will appeal to AK lovers. Below are the two new SLR107 and [Read More…]
National defense is serious business. As such, it is important to observe and analyze different country’s training techniques throughout the world in an attempt to learn and better understand our allies and our foes. Late last month, the Saudi Arabian National [Read More…]
Rifles Only had some neat products on display during the 2017 SHOT Show. Rifles Only, based out of Kingsville Texas, is a training facility that offers long range rifle shooting and training. Aside from long range shooting, Rifles Only also offers classes for carbine, [Read More…]
Novel Arms is a Japanese optics manufacturer that is partnering up with LKCI, a Turkish based company that will be importing the companies optics from Japan into the United States. A number of optics companies have used Japanese manufacturing because of the high quality [Read More…]
Melbourne, FL based Fight Lite Industries is the current company that was formally known as Ares Defense until it was renamed. Our own Pete M. published the press release showing the MXR’s introduction before SHOT, and we got a further in-depth look at the MXR [Read More…]
Walking around the SHOT 2017 Range Day, I had the pleasure of getting to talk to the owners of Range Recovery Technologies. Range Recovery Technologies specializes in cleaning up lead from ranges without the use of water or chemicals. Range Recovery Technologies has [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, James installs and tests M*CARBO’s $30 KelTec SUB2000 trigger kit, which is advertised to reduce trigger pull in the SUB2000 by about 3 pounds. While installing the trigger spring kit, James also takes the opportunity to install M*CARBO’s $30 aluminum target [Read More…]
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