The hand stop or indexer is a popular aftermarket piece that many AR-15 users choose to run for one reason or another. I have recently used several of them to serve as a direct indexing point so that my light and IR illuminator combo is always where I expect them to be. [Read More…]
WOOX have introduced some interesting hybrid stocks over the last year or so that bring modularity and style by combining modern features with traditional wooden stocks and chassis. Now they’ve introduced some new wooden rail covers for M-LOK and KeyMod forends. [Read More…]
Strike Industries has released their new LINK Tripod Adapter, which is intended to assist shooters with another firing position. This offering from Strike Industries aimed to attach to nearly all camera tripod connectors by mounting directly to a rifle equipped with [Read More…]
AimShot has introduced a new line of quick release mounts that are compatible with M-LOK or KeyMod. This family of mounts includes Picatinny rails of different sizes, as well as bipod and flashlight specific mounts. There are built-in buttons on either side of these [Read More…]
Around these introducing words, you can see a zoomed-in version from one of the pictures from the Concamo photoshoot. Yes, that is a Heckler & Koch 417P and that’s at least the first time I’ve ever seen or heard about it. In fact, there’s only [Read More…]
Daniel Defense has announced that the M-LOK and KeyMod versions of their Omega Rail are now available for order. This rail is a drop in part allowing to have a free floated barrel on your basic pattern AR-15 rifles that originally came with polymer handguards retained [Read More…]
In 2017, at the French exhibition Milipol, TFB told you about and showed you pictures of FN Herstal’s SCAR-SC with 300 BLK in development. Time flies, and as Enforce Tac 2019 open 6 – 7 March 2019 in Nuremberg (Germany), TFB will be there to examine the real [Read More…]
Grovtec, the American manufacturer of firearm accessories, is stepping into 2019 with a host of new products! There is often beauty in simplicity and they have a lot of small accessories that will hopefully make your hunt or day at the range a lot easier. They have 3 [Read More…]
Earlier this year, Leapers, Inc. introduced the UTG Recon Flex Bipod, which consists of two separate legs that are mounted to each side of a rifle that has either Keymod or M-lok mounting points. The legs can be adjusted from 8 to 11.8 inches and can also be adjusted at [Read More…]
Gregor, aka @Scaarat on Instagram shot this awesome photo of his MP5 and collection of MP5 accessories. His photo reminds me of that iconic M4 Carbine Accessories photo. Gregor’s photo has some interesting accessories. The one that stands out the most for me are [Read More…]
There are lots of timeless firearm debates to throw all of your shooting friends in a frenzy. They are sometimes more dangerous than talking about politics at Thanksgiving dinner. 9mm vs. .40 S&W… Glock vs. 1911… Black vs. Flat Dark Earth… Keymod [Read More…]
Krebs Custom has introduced a new AK handguard set with M-LOK accessory attachment slots. We are used to seeing this company’s rails with KeyMod. In order to find out whether this new model means a launch of an entire line of M-LOK handguards or is it going to [Read More…]
While being in Moscow and attending Arms & Hunting 2017 and Interpolitex 2017 exhibitions, TFB was invited by the Sureshot Armament Group to visit their factory and try some of their products in the range. In this article, we’ll tell about our trip to SAG [Read More…]
How low can the AR market go? Pretty darn low, apparently. A recent sale at Ground Zero Precision brought the price of their TAC-15M rifle down below $400 – Well below. You’re seeing that right – knock a hundred dollars off as part of an early [Read More…]
After being cancelled in mid-2016, could the M4 Carbine upgrade program still be alive? That is the suggestion from a line in the US Army’s justification for its research budget in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, which references an “M4A2 Plus [Read More…]
It was just weeks ago one of our own writers told you why “Keymod Sucks,” but that does not mean the industry has fallen flat and given up on Keymod. It is true that M-LOK is much more popular than Keymod for several reasons outlined in the TFBTV video [Read More…]
KeyMod sucks and now there is proof thanks to the folks over at NSWC-Crane. In this episode of TFBTV, Patrick breaks down the recently released data compiled during tests performed at Crane at the request of USSOCOM that proves that MLOK is superior to KeyMod in just about every measurable way once [Read More…]
MLOK is better. We can say it with conviction now that NSWC-Crane has released a slideshow that details the processes they used to conduct the testing and the results of said testing. With no appreciable difference in cost to the consumer and MLOK being [Read More…]
You can now get more modern with your HK91, HK33, and clones of those rifles with M-LOK and KEYMOD handguards. Whether you have GI variants, carbine length, or rifle length, there are now handguards out there that open up a Pandora’s box of accessories to you. The [Read More…]
At Industry Range Day I got a chance, like many others, to get some trigger time and check out the production version of the Maxim 9. For those who have not heard of this and have been living with out internet for the past couple years or perhaps you woke up from a [Read More…]
I have rather enjoyed watching M-LOK & KeyMod proliferate throughout the market with the various accessory manufacturers embracing the specification. The specs, while fantastic, do have potential issues with purely round or octagonal handguard systems. Simply put, [Read More…]
“Needs” and “wants” are frequently interchanged by consumers in the firearms industry. As in “do I really need another pistol?” For the majority of us, I am going to postulate that the ‘wants’ outweigh the [Read More…]
VZ Grips are well known for their pistol grips and knife scales. They are made of laminated G10. For those not familiar with G10 here is a detailed explanation from knifeart.com. G-10 is the designation for a glass-based epoxy resin laminate. What that means is that you [Read More…]
ADEX is the Azerbaijan International Defense Exhibition held in the capitol of Baku, Azerbaijan. The Azeris began work on a 14.5mm and 12.7mm anti-material rifle back in 2008 and having it enter service in 2009. This was the Istigal 14.5 and 12.7mm semi-automatic [Read More…]
If you have an A2 style front sight base on your AR, but no rail coverage between it and the birdcage, I’ve found the product for you: the KeyMod Forward Rail (KFR) from Ergo Grips. This rail system bolts down to the front sight base and adds a few extra inches of [Read More…]
The Strike Industries Redline products have become rather popular with competition shooters thanks to the striking red anodizing and good value for the money. Strike just announced that they have made the excellent Mega Fins Xl free float handguard available in the [Read More…]
The US Army’s plan to wrap new technologies and commercial off the shelf (COTS) improvements into the M4A1 rifle has apparently been canned. The program, called M4A1+, was originally intended to upgrade the M4A1 fleet with new COTS rails, back up sights, flash [Read More…]
Zev Custom made cuts into the slide of this Glock for weight saving purposes. They decided to make them look like Keymod pattern. From my understanding this was done for laughs rather than actually mounting any Keymod accessories to the pistol. As you can see in [Read More…]
ARs are not just popular, they’ve become the basis for an entire culture within the firearms world. Because of that there are also quite a few aftermarket products available which makes it possible for gun owners to customize their basic black rifles to impressive [Read More…]
Our friends over at Strike Industries were nice enough to ship us one of the SI LINK Curved ForeGrips for evaluation. The folks over at SI have set their version of the angled foregrip apart from the competition by including their innovative SI LINK mounting system. [Read More…]