Attaching your smartphone to your gun is nothing new, Inteliscope has their pretty cool system and app that they released a few years back, there was also the MeoPix for spotting scopes. I ran into iScope at the SHOT Show and they had a very interesting adapter. [Read More…]
Ballistic App This past March I bought the Ballistic app for my iPad and played a little with it. A number of you readers jumped in with comments, and the general consensus is that the app was great, but the interface was complicated and documentation was sparse. My [Read More…]
Earlier this year we wrote about a British teenager whose life was apparently saved by an Apple iPhone 5C. We were skeptical so I asked James to test how plausible this was. In this TFBTV video, James tests two iPhone 5Cs and an iPhone 4 at point-blank range, using everyday items like duct tape, [Read More…]
Miles Vining Time on Target App ReviewIn this video, Miles Vining takes a look at a recent App store app that has been released and is designed to help shooters work on various training drills either in a group or alone by the use of their iPhones. The drills are based on realistic [Read More…]
If you’d like to use your iPhone 6 to record images obtained through the lens of your Swarovski scope, well, now you can. Swarovski is now making a PA-i6 Adapter, which turns long-range optics into the equivalent of a telephoto lens. Simply attach the adapter [Read More…]
Remember that iPhone in the UK that saved a man from a shotgun blast? Here’s a bunch of different generation iPhones and a Samsung Galaxy vs an AK-74 shooting a steel core round, I’m guessing it has a tad more penetration than birdshot from a shotgun. Guess [Read More…]
A buddy of mine that is into precision shooting (and who has been pestering me to get into it also) swears by an app “Ballistic” (by Peak Studios, LLC). They just released their 6th Edition a few weeks ago, so I finally bit and decided to download the iPad [Read More…]
We saw Flir bring out the Flir One, a thermal imager for the iPhone. Well now MSM Labs is making the NVC case for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. NVC stands for Night Vision Camera. The NVC case also acts as a battery backup and has a microSD card slot for storing the images [Read More…]
Thanks to Almon Benton for sending this into us here at TFB. He got a new iPhone 6 and tested out the slow motion feature of the video camera. He was able to capture an impressive fireball out of his AR pistol.
A neat object but probably not a good idea with how the public views anything remotely firearm shaped. The original design was a 3D Printed case for the iPhone. Then Chinese companies latched onto it and offered a similar design using traditional manufacturing [Read More…]
Thanks to ENDO for this gem. There are just some things not conducive to the “app” experience, and this is one of them. Awkwardly holding the phone like a gun, sliding the index finger across the smooth screen where the picture of the trigger is, banging the [Read More…]
FLIR, the largest manufacturer of thermal technologies, and the original inventor of Forward Looking Infra-Red, surprised everyone at CES this year by announcing a compact and affordable thermal imager that fits on an iPhone. This thermal unit acts as a case for the [Read More…]
Most of us at TFB, with a couple of exceptions, are Android fans, so we are pleased to see Magpul is now making Field Cases for the Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung Galaxy S4, as well as the iPad Mini (non Retina version). The S4 and S3 cases will cost $16.95 and the iPad [Read More…]
Carry Alerts is a new iPhone app that runs in the background and will alert you when you are near a local, state or federal gun free zone as well as reminding you to do what you need to do when you get close to an international border. The app is designed with conceal [Read More…]
The National Shooting Sports Foundation have published a free app called Where To Shoot that locates shooting ranges near you in the US and Canada. It is is available for iOS and Android. The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®) has released an [Read More…]
Magpul’s iPhone cases are now avalible in Red, Light Blue, Clear, Gray, Dark Blue, Teal, and Yellow. The MSRP remains the same at $12.95. On a related note, I was on Strike Industries Facebook page yesterday, looking at their new muzzle brakes, and saw a post [Read More…]
Night Optics USA, a Bushnell company, is now selling night vision adaptor kits for the iPhone 4/4s/5. The new kits allow a user to use the video recording capabilities of the iPhone through a variety of night vision weapon sights and vision systems. MSRP on the kits [Read More…]
The Inteliscope is a picatinny mount for the iPhone which unlike, other phone picatinny mounts which we have blogged about before that mount a smartphone for use as a ballistic heads up display, allows the phone to be used as a digital scope. An app for the phone [Read More…]
Gun blogger (and TFB guest blogger) Olav has updated his Gun Spot iPhone app. The new Gun Spot 2.0 features … Updated the FFL data to include January 2013… ✓ FFL Holders Records updated: 12,700+ ✓ FFL Holders Records added: 6,700+ ✓ FFL Holders [Read More…]
US Night Vision manufacture a range of adapters to attached smartphones (Samsung Galaxy SIII, Motorola Bionic, iPhone) and iPads to rifle scopes, night vision systems or spotting scopes. An device adapter plugs into a scope adapter which then attaches to the optic. [Read More…]
As a gunsmith I sometimes find myself squinting at poorly scanned schematics of rare guns. Stumped halfway through a project, I scratch my head trying to figure out how the doohickey is held in place by the whatsit and what the doohickey’s function actually is in [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. ]
The developers of the Real Strike, an “3D Augmented Reality FPS Gun App”, sent us an email asking to have their app reviewed. I was intrigued so I paid the $2.99 it cost and downloaded the app. The app displays video from the iPhone/iPod/iPad rear camera and [Read More…]
A Japanese company claims one of their iPhone cases, which is made from steel, can withstand a .50 BMG bullet. I would love to see a video of a .50 BMG round being fired into it. I would be surprised if the iPhone survived the shock of the impact. [Hat Tip: TechCrunch ] [Read More…]
Strike Industries make a cool iPhone case that features a quick pull loop (for those quick reloads) and an optional kevlar insert (for fun, not function) 🙂 It retails for just under $12.
The iPhone 4′s fancy microphones prevent shot timer software from working.
Olav, who blogs at Firearms and Training, has developed a nifty iPhone application which allows you to find nearby gun stores and FFLs. With over 60,000 records kept up-to-date from data provided directly from the ATF, this is the most comprehensive easy-to-use [Read More…]
Wes decided to shoot and burn his old iPhone. For the record, I would prefer you gave me your old iPhone rather than burning it 😉
From their website … Mil-Dot Rangefinder for the iPhone takes the math out of ranging targets using a mil-dot scope. Real-time calculations provide instant range measurements in both yards and meters. The simple interface allows for one handed operation and [Read More…]
[ Many thanks to Tyler for emailing me the link. ] [Hat Tip: MacWorld]
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