The Choate Machine and Tool company has released a new shotgun magazine extension tube, named the Night Manager, that doubles as a mounting point for weapon mounted lights and lasers. The installed Night Manager offers an extra two rounds to the shotgun’s [Read More…]
Welcome everyone to the ninth edition of ‘Hot Gat or Fudd Crap?’, one of our many series here on TFB. If you missed any one of our other articles, this is where we look at the most obscure firearms that are actually for sale and ask the question – is [Read More…]
Today’s Picture is a rather odd firearm. It has one of the largest charging handles I’ve ever seen, but there’s a good reason for that as you have to push the shotgun cartridge forward to chamber it. The M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System (MASS) is [Read More…]
Welcome everyone to our second edition of ‘Hot Gat or Fudd Crap?’, our newest series here on TFB. If you missed our first article, this is where we look at the most obscure firearms that are actually for sale and ask the question – is this a good deal [Read More…]
About a week ago we reported about the release of this new semi-auto shotgun and today, at the Range Day of SHOT Show 2019, we had a chance to take a closer look and shoot the Armscor VR80 12 gauge semi-auto AR-style shotgun. The Armscor VR80 shotgun looks and feels [Read More…]
Standard Manufacturing has released the shortest version of their SKO semi-auto shotguns – the SKO Mini. Perhaps the most interesting “feature” of this shotgun is that just like the Remington Tac-14 or Mossberg Shockwave, it is legally considered not [Read More…]
Advanced Armament Corporation has introduced a new shotgun flash hider called Brakeout 2.0 SG12. It is designed for Remington 870, 1100, 11-87, V3 shotguns or any other 12 gauge shotgun that utilizes choke tubes compatible with Rem Choke thread pitch. In the image [Read More…]
Does your rifle’s stock more closely resemble drift wood than walnut? Is your shotgun looking “battle worn” after lending it to someone? While most people make their best efforts to maintain their firearms there is always inevitable wear, tear and aging [Read More…]
Alliant powder has been re-formulating a lot of their reloading powders lately to give shooters more bang for their buck! This has included an over-haul and re-examination of the “Dot” powders that so many target shotgun shooters are fond of. Both Red and [Read More…]
Italian ammunition manufacturer Baschieri & Pellagri has introduced a new 12 gauge slug load which is primarily designed for wild boar hunting. The new ammunition is called White Blackout. This ammunition was designed to provide an off-the-shelf slug load that is [Read More…]
A little over a year ago, we wrote about the YouTube channel called Kjaskaar which host replicated the sawn-off shotgun from the “Killing Them Softly” movie. Kjaskaar calls this firearm “The Littlest Shotgun”. He has recently published a part [Read More…]
It has been awhile since we have done an “Identify My Guns” segment, but we are glad to be back examining odd, reader-submitted firearms! In this article, we examine a breech-loading blackpowder rifle that was converted to shoot centerfire cartridges and [Read More…]
Ballistic Machinist expands the range of his commercially available 12 gauges slugs. The latest addition to his product line are the shotgun shells loaded with slugs called “357 Defender”. Why is a 12 gauge slug named 357? Because it has a .357 caliber [Read More…]
A Danish company called Quickloader makes shotgun ammunition storage system for hunters which provides quick access to pairs of shells thus decreasing the reload time of double-barreled shotguns. The product itself is called … Quickloader. While having an [Read More…]
To start off this segment of TFB’s “Identify My Guns,” we would like to thank TFB reader Gary for offering up his aged, but loved Riverside Arms Co. 12 Gauge Single-Shot Shotgun (***spoiler alert***). We are slightly kidding about the spoiler alert. [Read More…]
Federal Premium has been very busy as of late re-working many of their turkey loads for hunters to be more lethal than ever. This has come through the implementation of their FliteControl Flex Wad and the use of Heavyweight TSS payloads. Now they have a line of shotgun [Read More…]
Many of us at TFB do not just merely write about firearms. We work at retail gun stores, museums, are attorneys, gunsmiths, historical researchers and perform R&D work for firearm manufacturers. We take pride in fully immersing ourselves into the #pewpewlife as [Read More…]
Federal Premium has rolled out a new series of shotgun shells for turkey hunting as much of the US gears up for spring season hunts. The all-new Grand Slam turkey loads are going to be offered in your 3 likely suspects of 10 Gauge, 12 Gauge and 20 Gauge with payloads of [Read More…]
Navy Arms Co makes the SRM1216. It is a semi auto bullpup shotgun that has a 4 tube magazine. At the Great American Outdoor Show, they had their latest version of the SRM shotgun. The SRM1228 is a 12 gauge just like the SRM1216 but it has been modified to shoot 12 gauge [Read More…]
A Lithuanian company called MakSnipe brought to the SHOT Show 2018 their line of 12 gauge slugs which they are going to launch in the US market. The company plans to offer loaded ammunition as well as the slugs separately. Their 12 gauge ammunition comes loaded [Read More…]
During the SHOT Show 2018, Charles Daly has introduced new pump action shotguns called Honcho. One of these shotguns is available in 12 gauge or 20 gauge chamberings. The second one is chambered in .410 bore (see the top image) and it has a spring assisted action. The [Read More…]
A company you may have not heard of, but have absolutely seen their work in numerous films for decades is Independent Studio Services (ISS). This 3rd generation, family business got its start in 1977 by the way of Greg Bilson, Sr and the family business is making [Read More…]
This year marks the 75th Anniversary of World War II and to honor those firearms of old Winchester has some new throwback ammunition. With packaging appropriate for the time period as well as correct grain weights, pressures and components they are now proudly [Read More…]
During the range day of SHOT Show 2018, Hailey Ordnance Company has introduced a new line of ammunition. The company is specialized in making silencers and suppressed weapon systems and the ammunition they are now making is subsonic which, as you know, is more [Read More…]
We at TFB were fortunate enough to get a preemptive sneak peek of a lot of the firearms and sweetness that is present at SHOT Show Industry Range Day. Part of that was seeing in the flesh (err, bare metal) the NEW Tavor TS12 12 Gauge and the Tavor 7 .308 win rifles from [Read More…]
Introduced earlier this year, the SL5 shotgun represents Sauer’s entry into the market of inertia operated semi-auto shotguns. The actual mechanism of this shotgun is designed in cooperation with Italian Breda company. Sauer engineers built the rest of the gun [Read More…]
A company called SlapShot USA has developed quite interesting shotgun slug concept. Their slugs are called Precision Home Defense (PHD) slugs. They are made of a proprietary polymer material and loaded to achieve a quite high muzzle velocity of 3000 fps. Besides being [Read More…]
At the 2017 Association of the United States Army annual meeting, Korean optics maker DI Optical was showing off many of their familiar products, but also had on display an interesting looking rifle attachment from a company called Jammer Korea. The attachment, named [Read More…]
Standard Manufacturing has introduced a compact and stockless version of their SKO 12 gauge semi-automatic shotgun. Despite the name Shorty, it has an 18″ barrel and 26″ overall length which qualifies it as a shotgun according to the US legislation and [Read More…]
Any Other Weapon (AOW) shotgun gauge firearms have never really interested me. If you are going to go through all the time and effort to buy a chopped-down scattergun, spend the extra $195 and go hog wild with a short barreled shotgun (SBS). If you need any more [Read More…]
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