Several times in the last year TFB has reported on serious accidents involving bullpups mainly the Kel-Tec KSG. Now some may say it’s the gun and a bad design. I have to take issue with this. The first time I handled a KSG the thought of a possible hand injury [Read More…]
Winchester Repeating Arms announced the availability of the 20 gauge SXP pump shotguns. These are the same shotguns I talked about from the NASGW show in the fall of 2014. One of the key features of these new guns is that they are built on a true 20-gauge receiver [Read More…]
Dave Miller, a competitive sporting clays shooter for CZ- USA was inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records for the most sporting clays broken in one hour at 3,653 at the Heartland Trap and Wobble Skeet club in Missouri. The previous holder was a shooter named [Read More…]
Did you watch the film Kingsman: The Secret Service? In the film, the Kingsman Agents use a modified Russian Tokarev TT-30 pistol. The prop master added a shotgun barrel. It was never used in the film but it was explained that it can shoot shotgun shells. Do you think [Read More…]
For those who don’t shoot action shotgun or 3gun matches, you may not have seen the latest shell manipulation that has taken off for fast loading of a shotgun. The fastest reloading methods are of course magazine fed shotguns, speed loaders like Jerry Miculek, and [Read More…]
Our good friend Andrew at GY6vids loaded .223 Remington cases into 12 gauge shotgun shells and fired them into ballistic gel. When he told me about the test I was skeptical that there would be much penetration at all. I thought a lot of gas would leak when they are [Read More…]
Teaching new shooters is one of the best things we can do to expand firearm appreciation. Often times, busting clays can be an exhilarating, fun way to get a new shooter into the sport. If the shooter is light of build or small of stature, however, a heavy shotgun [Read More…]
Cam wrote .. Shooting hand thrown clay pigeons with a Mossberg 500 crown grade on BLM land near the Mexican border in San Diego county. How many folks prefer hand throwing rather than using a hand launcher? I find using a decent launcher, like the WIng One I reviewed [Read More…]
To follow up with their brief commentary on the Benelli M1 shotgun, Alex and Patrick hit the range to evaluate these famous and well renowned shotguns. Yesterday we posted our Benelli M1 discussion video. If you missed that you can watch it here. Please don’t forget to subscribe to TFBTV. We [Read More…]
As a prelude to an upcoming shooting video featuring the Benelli M1 shotgun, Alex and Patrick discuss this famous scattergun before putting it to the test! Part 2, where we take the Benelli shooting, will be posted tomorrow. **Correction: The Benelli M3 is not a gas breather, it is also an inertia [Read More…]
I was surprised to see that TFB has never run a review of the Akdal Mka 1919 shotgun. After all, I’ve had one in my safe for over a year now, and they had been around in the US for years before that. But they’re not a gun in the limelight. Originating in [Read More…]
The terrain where I usually shoot clays is not suited to automobiles. The land is muddy, marshy and without trees to attach a winch. Having gotten stuck there a couple of times in the past I now leave the vehicles at a safe spot and go on by foot. Once loaded up with [Read More…]
This video was published online in 2010, I’ve got no idea on when exactly it was taken, but it seems to be making its way around social media. When these dangerous instructing videos come out, sometimes they have the smallest portion of merit in the most abstract [Read More…]
Rock Island Auction company has slowly but steadily gained an overwhelming presence in the shooting industry since the company’s start in the 1990s. For their most recent premiere auction, TFB went to check them out and see what we could find out about the company [Read More…]
I was on the Royal Princess Cruise ship going around the British Isles. The ship has a firearm simulator that they call the Bullseye Shooting Simulator. The Bullseye Shooting Simulator is only open 1 hour each day. The downside, is that it is often open while I was out [Read More…]
Kade sent us this is a fantastic photo taken at the preciously the right moment to show both shells ejected high into the air. The shotgun in the photo is a Browning Citori over/under double barreled shotgun. He shoots with the top barrel fitted with a modified choke [Read More…]
This set of cutaway renderings is really well done with some really nice highlighting of the lines. If these were prints, I’d probably pick up a couple for my work room. Which one is your favorite? Hilariously bad translation (Bing, you’re clearly [Read More…]
TFB has covered a product update by Beretta, the GunPod2, which is essentially an electronic box that’s installed inside a shotgun stock. It can track your hunting path, shots taken, and store all that information in the cloud. The internet has responded to gun [Read More…]
While I was in London, last Saturday, I was doing the touristy thing by going to see the changing of the guard. A tourguide had recommended that I go to St. James Palace to see the guards up close. As I was walking to St. James Palace I stumbled across the Beretta [Read More…]
A 25 year old man in the UK was shot in the chest by a teenager using a sawn off double barrel shotgun. The incident took place when the victim approached a group of teenagers who had turned of the water supply to the block of flats where he lived. During a [Read More…]
Shotguns have long been favored by many gun owners for home defense and are also used by the military and law enforcement for tactical purposes. After all it isn’t just about the shotgun’s ability to punch a massive hole in its target, they’re also [Read More…]
Its a sad day when a collection goes up for sale, especially when it is not because of an owner’s death. In this case, some poor soul is getting divorced and its obvious that someone is getting half (or more!). While we get these tips from readers on a fairly [Read More…]
I know, I have a bit of a fanboy problem, but when you are as good and thorough as ShootingTheBull410, its hard not to be. Latest in his everlasting lexicon of ammunition tests is now my personal favorite; testing two types of segmented slugs. The first is the venerable [Read More…]
Ten years ago, I would have said this was a product searching for a problem, but now shooting competitively with shotguns of various kinds, I love the idea. This Black Canyon Labs SGS3 Shotgun Safety-Selector uses an AR-style stroke to turn the safety on and off. As [Read More…]
I recently did a TFB write-up on the inner working of the Chinese QBZ-95 bullpup. That piece plus my RS Regulate AK optic mounts and the new QBZ-95 optic articles got translated into Chinese and posted in some Mainland website as soon as they were up on TFB. That [Read More…]
I’ve never really been one for competitions. Not because I am particularly terrible. It is just not really my thing. I’m fine competing with myself, and working on self-improvement but that is generally the extent of my competitive nature. Even when I do [Read More…]
Ian of Forgotten Weapons and RIA shows us a rather rare shotgun by Andrew Burgess. It is a 12Ga shotgun that folds for concealment. On top of that he designed it to be a pump action. Due to patents on existing pump actions, Burgess designed his pump action around the [Read More…]
I am an unabashed bullpup rifle afficianado. While I shoot an AR/ARAK in competition, I am constant pulled back to bullpups as a solution to many problems, especially home defense. Hank Strange gets his strange on shooting the two side-by-side. I have had the liberty [Read More…]
Black Aces Tactical (BAT) announced the release of a new 12 gauge shotgun that features an 8.5″ barrel and is fed by a detachable box magazine. According to BAT, the shotgun is classified as a standard firearm by the ATF and is not an AOW or short-barrel [Read More…]
We all know that shooting darts from firearms is a bad idea, but Jeff aka. TAOFLEDERMAUS specializes in bad ideas (including, but not limited to, cooking eggs with mercury) so he obtained a number of shotgun dart slugs made from a variety of materials
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