Photo Of The Day: For those civilians who want a Heckler & Koch rifle in their collection there are a few options. In Germany, the home market for Heckler & Koch, and Europe the options are generally the MR223 or MR308. By some strange logic, the models are [Read More…]
Those who have been around TFB for a few years will surely remember the G29 Viper project from German GunWorks. They made an exceptional Haenel RS9 in .338 LM. German GunWorks has its roots in various conversions of firearms, which formed the basis of the company even [Read More…]
Plinking steel with a Heckler & Koch MR223 and the new Aimpoint CompM5s is a dream – both eyes open of course! That’s the topic in our Photo Of The Day. Launched in 2019 the CompM5s is one of the newer red dots from Aimpoint, but has been difficult to [Read More…]
Mekanix, a company based in Mølnbukt, Norway, have developed a handguard and a gas block that fits the Heckler & Koch`s MR223/HK416/MR556 rifles. They seem to have a lot of time at hand to develop new and clever solutions. The handguard has been developed by [Read More…]
The Firearm Blog is on a mission to review as many of the Schmidt & Bender PM II Riflescopes as we can. In case you didn’t know PM is short for Police & Military. Previously we had a look at the classic S&B 5-25×56 PM II with the LRR-Mil reticle, [Read More…]
One of the goals of attending IWA, for me, was to find products or vendors that were not at SHOT Show last January. While Heckler and Koch were at SHOT Show, they had some guns at IWA that were not brought to Vegas. Check out their .308 DMR dubbed the G28Z. H&K G28Z [Read More…]
The French importer of Heckler & Koch in France, RUAG Defence, have announced that they are going to sell two civilian versions of the HK416F. They have been named MR223 F-S (14.5″ Standard version) and MR223 F-C (11″ Short version). I guess that [Read More…]
Heckler & Koch 416 “assault rifle lower receivers” are for sale in Germany. Just beware, as so called “free parts” might not be so free in your country or state. In fact they might be highly illegal. Where I live at the moment, lowers are [Read More…]
Good news if you live in Germany, and some other European countries. If you live in the US I suppose these will continue to be made in unobtanium, but you’re always welcome to comment below how much you would like them. As I approached the H&K stand at IWA [Read More…]
Yes, I know, I am the last gun blogger to blog about this! From HKPRO.com While sources in the U.S. report that the civilian 416/417 will not be ready for SHOT Show 2008, it might possibly be by NRA show, with an estimated preparedness for production in Q3, 2008. One [Read More…]
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