This video advertising Cabela’s Shooting Star Exploding Targets is awesome. Glitchy dubstep and slow motion explosions go together so well. Do yourself a favour and watch the video in 720p HD on Youtube itself. Cabela’s Star Exploding Targets are available [Read More…]
I blogged about the bulletproof iPhone case earlier this year. Richard Ryan put it to the test. [ Many thanks to Jac for the tip. ]
Remington is recalling certain lots of 250 Grain Remington 338 Lapua Magnum Scenar Match Ammunition. Product Safety Recall Notice Warning – Do Not Use Remington 338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain Scenar Match Ammunition Lot Nos. L13SA29L, L13SA29R, L13SB29L, or L13SB29R [Read More…]
CJ Chivers reports that the Syrian government has been distributing explosive rigged ammunition to rebel fighters … “When they do this, you will lose both the man and the rifle,” said Ghadir Hammoush, the commander of a fighting group in Idlib Province who [Read More…]
This contraption is a Belgian Percussion Eprouvette. Back in the days when blackpowder was of dubious quality, devices like these were used to test the potency of the powder at hand. The barrel plug is attached to a V shaped spring. When fired the spring compresses [Read More…]
A Russian inventor emailed me photos of his patent-pending bullet design. These bullets are loaded in 12.7×108mm cases. The inventor did not explain to me how this design is beneficial but according to a study done by the US Military in the 1950s (PDF Link), the center [Read More…]
AR-15.com reports … The shading was done by pouring gunpowder on the brass and lighting it up, with the darker areas being flashed subsequent times. The art is incredibly well done and the idea is pretty cool, but $40K cool? A bit about the artist who live is [Read More…]
Less Lethal Africa has developed a conversion kit to allow AR-15 rifles to cycle their 5.56LLAx45 less lethal round. The 5.56LLAx45 rounds can be fired one round at a time or fully automatic. This video demonstrates it in action … In recent years rubber bullets [Read More…]
The Para GI Expert is a well made entry level 1911. Nothing fancy here this is a working gun. It has all the desirable features to get the job done and that’s the most important consideration. There are more and more of these entry level pistols being offered from [Read More…]
Nifty. The poster is being sold for $35.
As older green tipped 5.56mm supplies are dwindling, the Army has begun to use the new brown-tipped M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round for training as well as combat operations where it has been in use for a while. The round was used in the recent Camp Perry competition [Read More…]
A new public hunting area located a few minutes away from ATK’s Federal Premium factory has been named after the company. From the press release … The City of Anoka officially dedicated the property on Friday, August 10 after the City Council recently [Read More…]
RIA Novosti reports on a demonstration of the Yarygin Pistol. This is the first time I have seen it used with the 17 (or 18) round extended magazine. The reporter thinks that the main con of this pistol is that is needs to be “retargeted” when switching [Read More…]
PNW Arms is the latest company to develop a supercaptivating rifle bullet with the ability to deeply penetrate water. See this impressive demonstration … To quote Wikipedia, supercavitation is “is the use of cavitation effects to create a bubble of gas [Read More…]
Y-Man, TFB’s favorite Nigerian shotgunner, needs some help with measurements for his new slug design. Read about Y-Man’s previous adventures here. Y-Man says … I have been a bit slow with my shotgun stuff recently, but have been doing a lot of [Read More…]
A reader was sent this collection of photos said to be of Pakistani gunsmiths and gun dealers. The photos appear to be from different sources and a few look like frames taken from videos. While I would not want to fire these guns, the results they achieve in poorly lit [Read More…]
[ This post was written by Dr. Jim Clary, Mary Clary and Jon Clary. ] Black MZ was introduced at the 2011 National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers (NASGW) in Reno, Nevada in November 2011. As such, it was a bit late for most folks to consider hunting with it [Read More…]
The Army is looking for vendors who can supply alternative cartridge case technologies to reduce the weight of 5.56mm M855A1, 7.62mm M80A1 and .50cal M33 cartridges by 10%. The cartridge cases must be able to be used by the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant. FBO [Read More…]
The cover album of Life Cycles from metalcore band The World Alive shows a medicine tablet bottle containing a small-caliber handgun rounds. I think an oversized faux medicine bottle, or even a tablet box with rounds packaged in aluminum foil blister packs, would make [Read More…]
Has anyone see case failures where the entire case was significantly elongated? (UPDATE: Commenters have pointed out that these are normal-sized cartridges jammed into separated case heads that remained in the front of the chamber when the new round was being chambered) [Read More…]
Olin Corporation (which trades under the Winchester Ammunition brand) has just been granted a patent (#8161886) for a 12 gauge shotshell design that would be used in conjunction with a barrel insert in order to allow the firing of small-caliber bullets through a rifled [Read More…]
From a photo gallery at Wired magazine … [ Many thanks to Jason for emailing us the link. ]
Muzzleloading is by definition reloading. Because modern muzzleloaders are so simple to use, I suspect that many muzzleloader users treat them as regular guns without taking the same precautions as veteran reloaders. This page has extensive safety tips and advice for [Read More…]
Hornady is auctioning a one-off ‘Zombie Max’ Ammo Plant to benefit Shooting USA. It features “green paint and ‘zombified’ graphics”. I think the zombie craze must now be peaking.
Norma USA has announced two new lines of hunting ammunition: Norma African PH and Norma American PH. The American line includes just about every popular hunting round, and some not so popular rounds from .243 Win. to .338 Lapua Mag. The African line includes all the [Read More…]
NOTE: This product review was made possible by GunsForSale.com. To get up-to-date information on where to find cheap firearms & ammunition for sale, please visit GunsForSale.com. Taurus is a company that just keeps on expanding their product line. Not only do they [Read More…]
This YouTuber shows how he recycles .22 LR brass to make .223 jacketed soft nose bullets. Very clever.
Last December Russian finally obtained WTO membership. A reader of TFB explains how this could open the floodgate for Russian arms imports into the USA … First a short backgrounder on why some russian guns and ammo are sold in the US and others are not. Back in [Read More…]
A kid saved up to buy a Garand, was warned by the gun shop employee to only to shoot M2 Ball, but then went to go buy cheap reloaded ammunition from a gun show. The ammunition he used caused a kaboom. The kid was fortunately unhurt.
[ Written by Dr. Jim and Mary Clary ] Yep, this is yet another article on the 30+ caliber cartridges. In this article, we used data obtained from the Nosler Reloading Guide, 5th Edition. To make the comparison as fair as possible, We selected the 180 grain bullet, which [Read More…]
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