One of TFB’s resident Jarheads, Nathan now works within the firearms industry. A consecutive Marine rifle and pistol expert, he enjoys local 3-gun, NFA, gunsmithing, MSR’s, & high-speed gear. Nathan has traveled to over 30 countries working with US DoD & foreign MoDs.
The above post is my opinion and does not reflect the views of any company or organization.
Perhaps the bane of carrying IWB is the mounting of the holster to the pant/belts. Often, its a hard choice to go with the inconvenience of loops while getting dressed or the option of drop-on clips that can have (a perhaps undeserved) reputation for failing to retain [Read More…]
A simultaneous highly useful vehicle accessory and immediate tacticool billboard, the Molle seat cover has become a must-need accessory for any truly tactically organized video. While eliciting the best insults one can level at tacti-tards, Molle panels are highly [Read More…]
Kinetic Development Group, still at it with their excellent SIDELOK series has seen fit to recognize what seems to be the minority of the AR-15 shooting community. With almost all manufacturers offering lower 1/3 optics mounts, those of us steeped in the classic cheek [Read More…]
In the world of modern optics and the plethora of options available to the shooter, it’s understandable that iron sights have lost design and manufacturing momentum. With Magpul’s and other fully usable, though perhaps a bit flimsy, polymer sight options few [Read More…]
Cleaning the barrel of a rifle is perhaps the most tedious of operations, at least if trying to completely clean out the entirely of fouling carbon and copper. Fortunately, most shooters recognize that this level of cleaning is typically only needed by bench rest [Read More…]
Long-time readers know that I have a distinct love for non 5.56 calibers for the AR-15. I do cede that the 5.56 and its .223 Remington cousin are excellent calibers, but one can always long for a slight bit more range and “oompf”. To that desire, both 6.8 [Read More…]
I’ll make a bold prediction here: The Sig Sauer P320 will supplant the M&P platform as the second most popular handgun in the market here within the next 5 years (in terms of units sold during a calendar year). While that gives the M&P a bit to stay #2 [Read More…]
I, personally, am surprised at the slow integration of electronics and firearms. While understanding that many firearms enthusiasts are untrusting of electronics in guns, their proliferation across all daily life still seems a bit counter to the hesitations. So, [Read More…]
Normally, its all the rage for 1911 companies to expand their SKUs in quick order. With so many 1911 fans and offerings in the market, companies find they often have to expand or die, with sales of the “standard” models being unable to keep companies going. [Read More…]
AR-15 shooters have long had to contend with “receiver wobble.” While never detrimental to the function of the firearm, the wobble has been a constant source of annoyance for AR lovers from the firearms world where solid feel is often put on a pedestal. [Read More…]
Boxer Tactical, known for their President’s awesome Amidst the Noise videos, and simple American innovation, is at it again with yet another simple solution to a problem plaguing shooters everyone – gear organization. Most shooters I know make healthy use of [Read More…]
I truly enjoy level 1 holsters. When properly designed and manufactured like much of the high-end Kydex offerings today, the friction-only retention offers fantastic performance in concealable packages. These holsters and their Q/D systems are equally good in my other [Read More…]
Necessity is the mother of invention, but I will contend that the common-sense with necessity is the father of innovation. Examples are replete across the industry with various non-firearms materials being pressed into service. Perhaps the most common is the usage of [Read More…]
I love it when Ian over at Forgotten Weapons falls off the actual “forgotten” weapons and delves into well-known and respected designs. His brain housing group is replete with an encyclopedia of facts and history on weapons and when applied to even [Read More…]
With the incessant combat and similar propaganda efforts from ISIS, there have certainly been a few interesting videos showing the chaos, chance, depravity, and sometimes humor of troops in combat. In the latter vein with a drop of chance, is one fortunate Iraqi. There [Read More…]
It absolutely kills me every time I opt to pick up a Norgon Ambidextrous Magazine Catch. While a fantastic design, the price relative to the manufacturing cost is arguably absurd from a moral standpoint, though I fully respect one’s right to earn money on a [Read More…]
Honestly, I’m a little tired of seeing the cult of the AR-15 preach its superiority as an “ergonomic” platform. While the AR-15 is an excellent weapon, and lord knows I own many of them, it’s not the superior choice for a weapon platform in a sea [Read More…]
When one brings up the body’s mental and physical response to an altercation, the often used “fight of flight” response is brought up. From an evolutionary or even logical perspective, the body has an excellent response to the potential happenstance of [Read More…]
89% of statistics are made-up, or so the often repeated joke goes. Unfortunately, the tongue-in-cheek remark is all too often true, with various sources making statistics up, changing their meaning, or cherry-picking the data for a personal or political bent. A classic [Read More…]
As many readers here know, I’ve been a long time Glock shooter in competition. My G34 in its various iterations has been showcased on TFB through reviews of various components as companies submit products for testing. That, or I take unilateral action and upgrade [Read More…]
As a gun scribe, I have been blessed with exposure to a large portion of the market. With various shooting events conducted on a regular basis, my itchy trigger finger gets quite the scratching, but often enough its shooting the same platforms with little tweaks. While [Read More…]
If one goes according to legend, the AK-47 would never need fixing. By reputation, the weapon functions under the whole gamut of most unpleasant conditions. Various weapons have been pulled out of mud after decades of submersion to fire again. If that’s the case, [Read More…]
Glock, with its commanding position in the US handgun market, is certainly a large juicy target for lawsuits. Indeed, it has been subjected to many and continues to fight others, but few would have expected that a RICO lawsuit against Glock would be filed by another [Read More…]
While the picatinny rail is a highly versatile mounting system, it is certainly lacking in the svelte department. Where quad rails equipped with the system are affectionately known as “cheese graters” by those who have been equipped with them, you know its [Read More…]
REV Arms, also called Revolution Arms, noted for “selling” (more on the quotes in a second…) sub-MOA guarantee AR-15s is highly likely to be no more. While formal bankruptcy papers have not been filed, the company has gone eerily silent. Numerous [Read More…]
Having already established itself firmly in the battle rifle cartridge sphere, the Ruger Precision Rifle has opted to shrink and take on the intermediate caliber crowd. Ruger has announced the release of a 5.56 version of the platform optimized for the shorter [Read More…]
As weapons technology has progressed through generational leaps, it has bee historically common for notoriously frugal militaries to look to adapting their current standard issue to the new development. Generally speaking, these attempts are disasters as the [Read More…]
The U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, Modle of 1903, commonly called the “Springfield” to this day for its close association with the government arsenal has a long, storied, and well-documented history. The weapon faithfully served through two World Wars and numerous [Read More…]
If one cannot find a minigun to go shoot, a fully-automatic 22LR is a very close second. While the tiny little can-do cartridge can pack a tiny wallop with well-placed shots, there is something to be said to hitting with a swarm of the rimfire rounds. One, perhaps two [Read More…]
While I have certainly enjoyed my various typical gunbelts, they have almost always been a bit like the Goldiloks fairy tale – too tight or too loose, which has not been the belt’s fault. Given that I swap across various jeans, pants, IWB, OWB and other [Read More…]
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