The largest, and most prestigious, division in IPSC Practical Rifle Shooting is Semi-Auto Open. But there are other divisions as well, like Manual Standard, where you use a bolt-action (or pump for that matter) rifle without a scope. You can’t use a bipod either. [Read More…]
SIG SAUER’s P320 handgun line is the darling of the firearms industry right now. Fresh off of winning the new pistol contract with the US Army, the pistols have garnered a lot of attention from the shooting public lately. One of the newest variations is the P320 [Read More…]
Adams Arms announced the company is now selling its new P Series Micro Block piston systems for AR style rifles and pistols. These kits are designed to replace the typical direct impingement system common to the AR platform with a short stroke piston. Adams Arms has [Read More…]
IWI US just posted this on their Facebook page. I called them to confirm, it is a .308 Tavor. The rifle looks interesting. It is like a hybrid between the SAR and X95. The handguard and mag well are reminiscent of an SAR. Even the bolt release is SAR styled. Yet the [Read More…]
One of these days I am going to ask a company like Cole-Tac to make me a suppressor cover for one of my rimfire silencers – for the mere fact that it just might look tacticool in pictures. If we are talking about rapid fire or precision rifle cans, however, a heat [Read More…]
A cool head under fire was on display in a video released just yesterday, in which a female sniper of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ, a part of the largely Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces narrowly avoided the bullet of an ISIS sniper who had her in his [Read More…]
Since the Government Accountability Office’s decision to reject Glock’s protest of the Modular Handgun System contract award to SIG Sauer, the GAO has released a statement. The 17 page document outlines not only the reason for the GAO’s decision, but [Read More…]
It is the summer of 1989 and I’m a kid on a family vacation traveling through Silverthorne, Colorado. Being huge Indiana Jones fans, we decide to beat the heat and and catch a matinee showing of ‘The Last Crusade’ for a second time. It was that [Read More…]
Aybars is a Turkish Twitter analyst who very recently has been sharing a number of very detailed photographs concerning precision rifles among Turkish security forces. Primarily these are from the infantry deployed in Syria, however, he has also focused on Special [Read More…]
By now you are probably wondering if I get a secret monthly check from Switzerland to promote B&T products. So let me take a moment to set the record straight: I can not confirm or deny any foreign payroll income related to sexy Swiss firearms. But if your reading [Read More…]
Earlier this month, JP Enterprises officially launched the new Enhanced 9mm Silent Captured Spring (Enhanced SCS). This new buffer spring system is based on the original silent captured recoil spring, but with design changes to give it more mass to help with low mass [Read More…]
Remington Arms Company announced another 1911 style handgun. This one is called the Model 1911 R1 Ultralight Commander. According to the company, the gun has an aluminum frame which works out to a 20% weight reduction when compared to a steel framed version of the gun. [Read More…]
B.E. Meyers found this copy of a 1988 promotional video they made for their Dark Invader Night Vision System. This was before they made laser systems. Enjoy the trip back to the 80s. Did you see the female officer take that aggressive stance? LOL Here are the [Read More…]
As we all know the competition between Glock and SIG for the military contract has created a great deal of coverage in recent months. While it may seem the story is over with the award given to SIG there is another side of this story that has not been addressed. [Read More…]
Magpul announced on Facebook today that the long-awaited Magpul PMAG magazine for the 5.45 versions of the Kalashnikov are now shipping. Announced about one year ago, the Mapul PMAG 30 AK74 MOE, as it is officially named, will join the extensive and ever-expanding line [Read More…]
Have you ever wondered what benefit a sawed off shotgun barrel gives you? Does it spread the shot more? Does it remove the need to aim? In this episode of TFBTV, Patrick breaks out his short barrel Remington 870 and tests a barrel sawed to 14″ with a hacksaw against a 20″ barrel with a [Read More…]
The latest regulations are certainly putting the squeeze on California firearms owners. With the new laws requiring nearly wholesale updating to one’s firearms collection (or, you know, registration), owners have been in a bit of a lurch on options. Almost all [Read More…]
Occam Power Solutions, as the name implies, is a typical small company. Offering battery management systems, they have been expanding into the defense market with two products – one fitting their MO (a remote ballistic fuse detonator) and the other product being [Read More…]
SOG has partnered with TFB to give you the opportunity to win an amazing prize package. Included in the giveaway is a Prophet 33, Pent Arc, Power Access, and Dark Energy. The giveaway will run until July 4th 2017. Giveaway Package: Prophet 33: For a pack, the SOG [Read More…]
Todays Photo Of The Day includes some rare carbines. From the most modern to old-school. From top to bottom we have: Swiss B&T APC-9 in 9×19 mm, with collapsible stock and Aimpoint H-2 in a Spuhr mount. This is the most modern design. Turkish MKE T-94 [Read More…]
V7 Weapons Systems, known for their awesome ultra-light weight AR and other components has released their latest ultralight kit for the AR-15. Dubbed the “Ultra-Light Buffer Kit” the kit combines V7’s best-known lightweight parts for the rear of your [Read More…]
The Kalashnikov Museum keeps releasing new videos showing some of the rarest experimental Soviet firearms. These videos provide a good visual reference of the basic mechanical features of these unusual rifles. They also allow writing an article based on them making it [Read More…]
I am not a pistol compensator kind of guy. Either I am shooting suppressed or I am carrying a stock pistol on my hip. And a “Roland Special” is a term that is akin to nails over a chalkboard for me – yes, I know the setup and its usefulness, however I [Read More…]
Daniel Defense recently introduced the DD5V2 at SHOT 2017. That original model came equipped with a 15″ free-float Keymod handguard. The newest installment, the DD5V2 M-LOK, is essentially the same rifle, but now gives the consumer the ever-popular choice of M-LOK [Read More…]
“…Not until they invent handheld laser beams or something” – maybe you’ve heard this tacked on the end of an argument about how small arms are at their peak, and unlikely to change very much anytime soon. Well, the day when Star Wars-style [Read More…]
There’s probably a simple reason why the 900 some-odd Green Underhammer bolt action rifles bought by the U.S. Ordnance Department in the late 1850s/early 1860s weren’t very popular: dumb grunts like me couldn’t figure them out. Okay, maybe that’s [Read More…]
Several years in the making, the new Omni Hybrid 410 is now in production and has been released to the public. The Omni Hybrid 410 is a semi-automatic shotgun chambered for the .410 bore shell and is built on the company’s Omni Hybrid AR lower. It can be [Read More…]
The German Army is acquiring a new suppressor for the currently fielded .338 Lapua G29 precision rifle in use by the infantry’s snipers. The device was produced in a joint collaboration between Brugger and Thomet and the maker of the G29 (civilian RS9) C.G. Haenel [Read More…]
At the end of May, there was an event held in Russia called “Day of Advanced Technologies of Law Enforcement Authorities”. It is officially described as a scientific and technical forum and normally the entry is restricted to law-enforcement officials. During this [Read More…]
According to Russian news agency TASS, the Kalashnikov Concern officials have informed them that the AK-12 has successfully passed all the government tests and trials and it is planned to be adopted by the Russian armed forces. The key phrase is “planned [Read More…]
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