I can’t ever recall hearing the term “pumpkin balls” before to describe a type of shotgun load, despite being a big fan of the TV drama The Wire. James discusses the concept over at Hell In A Handbasket … The inspiration is supplied by the [Read More…]
Destin and his team from Smarter Every Day took Dragon’s Breath into the woods and videoed it with a variety of cameras. Apparently Dragons Breath is loaded with particulated Zirconium, which is easily ignited. Zirconium has a wide variety of uses, including the [Read More…]
A TFB reader tested the penetration of the Winchester PDX1 .410 shotshell round in 10% ballistic gelatin. The PDX1, which consists of three 000 Buckshot sized discs backed by twelve BB-sized pellets, performs better than I expected. 1 PDX round fired from a Taurus [Read More…]
Mossberg teamed up with Clint Smith, the President of the Thunder Ranch training facility in Oregon, to design the Mossberg 500 Thunder Ranch Shotgun. Unlike many other special editions guns, a lot of thought appears to have gone into this shotgun. It features a [Read More…]
Beretta has a new premium model in their flagship A400 Unico shotgun line, the Beretta A400 Xtreme Unico, which includes an updated hydraulic system called Kick-Off Mega. Beretta’s Kick-Off system employs, amongst other things, a hydraulic recoil reduction1 [Read More…]
ATI is now selling an adapter to mount an AR-15-compatible stock on a 12 gauge Mossberg (500, 535, 590, and 835), Remington (870) and Winchester (1200 and 1300) shotguns. The Talon mounting system, including the pistol grip, has a low MSRP of MSRP of $44.99. With the [Read More…]
Later this year Remington will be launching a tactical version of the Versa Max shotgun, which was originally introduced last year. This tactical model has many features desired by home defense, law enforcement, competition and military shooters which are lacking from [Read More…]
BigDaddyHoffman tests the effectiveness of the Mossberg 500 Chainsaw on zombie pumpkins. [ Many thanks to jdun1911 for emailing me the link. ]
Kel-Tec recently released several updates on the production of the highly-anticipated KSG shotgun. At this point, Kel-Tec has made several small runs of the shotgun, and those units have shipped to various people for testing and evaluation. Additionally, Kel-Tec is [Read More…]
NOTE: This product review was made possible by GunsForSale.com. To get up-to-date information on where to find Stoeger shotguns for sale, please visit GunsForSale.com. A large number of us have a love of old cowboy guns. The short double barrel shotgun is right up [Read More…]
The UTAS UTS-15 shotgun holds 14 rounds in two side-by-side 7 round magazines. Unlike the Kel-Tec KSG, the shotgun is capable of feeding continuously from both magazines without manual intervention. The below video shows a 14 round magazine dump. Turkish firearms design [Read More…]
Benelli manufactures most of their firearm components at their factory, but sources some others from outside companies. As an example, all Benelli rifle and shotgun barrels are made by Beretta. Wood stocks come from a variety of sources, as do some polymer parts. Mauro [Read More…]
Our first factory tour in Europe was the Beretta Armi factory in Gardone, Val Trompia, Italy. I came away very impressed with pretty much every facet of their operations, and this opinion didn’t change as we visited other manufacturers. The video you see below has [Read More…]
An example of how the latest in technology has found its way into the firearm industry is Benelli’s design bureau. The engineers there utilize various CAD software programs, as well as a high speed camera capable of taking 1 million frames per second, to design, [Read More…]
Tyler Kreis got his hands on the Kel-Tec KSG and demonstrates how the magazine switch works in the video below … The video writeup is here.
Danger Room has published a fascinating article by David Axe about a farming community who have organized themselves into a militia to defend themselves from the marauding remnants of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group … But the men of Obo knew they needed [Read More…]
Okki, a reader of TFB, discovered a primitive blackpowder shotgun in use by locals at the Uros floating islands on Lake Titicaca, Peru. Okki said … I was on vacation in Peru this month and while visiting the Uros floating islands on Lake Titicaca I noticed one of [Read More…]
Beretta semi-auto shotguns are prized in the competition world, but don’t have the same presence in the “tactical shotgun” world alongside weapons such as the Remington 870 Police and Benelli’s Tactical series. Beretta is hoping to change that [Read More…]
Benelli is a relatively new firearm manufacturer, especially in European terms, having been established in 1967. It’s grown to be a respected force in the shotgun business, and especially since becoming part of the Beretta Group, it’s adopted many new [Read More…]
Mossberg put together a one-off special edition of the Mossberg 500 SPX engraved with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) logo. The gun is being donated to a fundraiser to support their fallen agents
Photo by Oleg Volk …
Stoeger’s Model 2000 is a very popular shotgun. It uses the same inertia operated semi-auto action as the Benelli shotguns, but at a much lower price. Earlier this year, Stoeger introduced the Model 3500 at SHOT Show, a 12 gauge 3.5″ magnum version of the [Read More…]
[ This guest post was written by James. ] I think every house should have a shotgun. But you don’t need a “shoulder thing that goes up”, a potentially expensive pistol grip stock, a shell carrier on the receiver or stock, and you probably shouldn’t even install [Read More…]
LaserLyte has developed a Quad Rail for double barrel shotguns. I think this product is an excellent idea. Double barrel shotguns are excellent defensive weapons, and being able to add a light and/or laser will only improve their utility in the home. The LaserLyte [Read More…]
Yesterday day I reported that StrategyPage.com said that the shotgun was out of favor with the Chinese military. This is not entirely correct. It is true that the the pump-action Type 97-1 is no longer in fashion, but instead of discarding the shotgun the Chinese have [Read More…]
While being light on details, Strategy Page reports that the Chinese PLA has decided not to expand its arsenal of shotguns, considering them a riot control weapon rather than a combat weapon. The Chinese police and army shotgun is the Norinco / Hawk Industries [Read More…]
AutoWeapons.com is selling a AOW gun, called the CSG Companion, that chambers a single .410 shot gun shell and functions as a flashlight. It is selling for $895. The gun is branded as CSG. I can find no information on this firm other than their FFL details. The gun is [Read More…]
Andrew discovered that the Italian-made Valtro PM5 12 magazine-fed 12 gauge shotguns are once again going to be imported into the US. The Valtro PM5 was last imported about 10 years ago. They are, as Andrew says, basic. No fibre optic sights, fancy stocks or picatinny [Read More…]
This monster punt gun, dating back to the 1870s, weighs about 100 pounds and is 6ft. and 4 inches long. It has a bore size of 1.5″, which puts it somewhere between 1.5 Bore (1.459″) and 1 Bore (1.669″) in size. More information about it at The [Read More…]
The three-barreled Toz TP-82 was carried into space by Soviet and Russian cosmonauts until 2006 when the ammunition expired and it was replaced with a regular semi-automatic pistol. The top two barrels chambered 12.5x70mm (about 40 gauge) shotshells and the lower barrel [Read More…]
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