The world of ELR, or “Extreme Long Range” shooting is all about pushing the envelope. The competitive shooters involved in this discipline are continually seeking ever greater levels of distance, accuracy, or both. Where most other shooting disciplines [Read More…]
In pretty much any circumstances or shooting discipline, scoring a 10-round group all in the center ring is something to be striven for and proud of, for virtually any shooter. The vast majority of shooters out there today would struggle to make those consistent hits. [Read More…]
Over the past several years, Raniero Testa, an Italian athlete sponsored by Winchester, has set multiple world records of shooting airborne clay targets. A little over a year ago, he set a record of breaking 14 clays pigeons in mid-air which earned him a [Read More…]
TFB readers may remember when Raniero Testa managed to hit 13 clay targets in 1.6 seconds in 2017. In the meantime, the Winchester sponsored pro-shooter was able to best himself, hitting 14 hand-thrown clay targets before they reached the ground. Not one who sits on [Read More…]
In 2017, TFB reported that a new world record shot of 5,000 Yards (2.84 Miles) had been set by former Navy Seal Sniper Charlie Melton. Using a wildcat cartridge called “408 Tejas”, he was able to break the previous record of 4,604 Yards (2.61 Miles). Only a few [Read More…]
Gould Brothers have published a new video of another unbelievable trick shot and world record. We’ve already seen them setting new world records such as shooting 8 clay targets in the air with the shotgun held upside down over the shooter’s head or an even [Read More…]
Every now and then you hear about a new long-range world record set at unbelievably long distances. However, often times you find out that the shots were fired on quite a large target and only one of many fired rounds hit the target. Should we really count such hits as [Read More…]
I was going to write another overview of the most expensive firearms sold at recently ended Rock Island April 2018 Premiere Firearms auction in the same fashion that I have been doing it before. However, this time the auction was quite different – it set 10 world [Read More…]
FJ Feddersen has been in the barrel manufacturing business for almost 40 years. Located in East Tennessee since 2000, the manufacturing facility features top-of-the-line machinery. Mills, lathes, CNC machines, heat-treating ovens, and more fill the 17,500 square foot [Read More…]
Continuing our series of articles telling about the most expensive firearms sold in the major US auction houses, today we’ll take a look at the ten most expensive firearms sold in December 2017 Rock Island Premiere Auction. This time there are also two world [Read More…]
Gould Brothers, well known in the shooting community for shotgun exhibition shooting, have set an incredible new world record. One of the brothers managed to shoot 8 clay targets in the air holding the gun upside down, over his head! Let’s watch the video of that [Read More…]
According to Lobaev Arms, they have set a new world record of sniper rifle shooting. They managed to hit a 1×1 meter square target at a distance of 4,210 meters (4,604 yards). They used a Lobaev SVLK-14 Sumrak (Twilight) bolt action rifle shown in the top image. [Read More…]
Six 8″ plate targets, from draw and 7 meters, in less then 10 seconds with a 9 mm handgun was the mission. Doesn’t sound too hard, even for me! But Max Michel – IPSC Handgun World Champion – had a much lower time in mind. His target was below 2.5 [Read More…]
With SHOT getting closer and closer the amount of excitement grows as well as the size of my e-mail inbox. Press releases are plentiful, I assure you. That is OK though because this particular press release caught my attention. It appears that good ol’ Jerry is [Read More…]
IPSC – International Practical Shooting Confederation – have a list of World Record holders in shooting. The World records are based on the number of points actually achieved by a competitor at an IPSC Handgun World Shoot, then multiplied by 100 and divided [Read More…]
Deuce Stevens is an accomplished Single Action Shooting Society competitor and has a number of videos out online of him accomplishing what seem to be insane rates of fire for lever action rifles, single action revolvers, and break open shotguns. Some of his videos [Read More…]
Using an off the shelf K31 Swiss rifle (albeit, with hand-loads), Ernie Jimenez reaches out and touches a pink bison target at 2240 yards. Now, there was only four hits in over 80 shots, but the fact that most shots were very near the target is a testament to the [Read More…]
Dave Miller, a competitive sporting clays shooter for CZ- USA was inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records for the most sporting clays broken in one hour at 3,653 at the Heartland Trap and Wobble Skeet club in Missouri. The previous holder was a shooter named [Read More…]
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