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Marine Shoots 3Gun In A Wheelchair
Christian Brown is a wounded Marine Veteran who lost his legs in Afghanistan. He still likes to shoot and he shot a 3Gun match with the help of a friend.
Archive: February, 2016
Shooting While Injured
Jessica Nietzel was participating in a 3Gun match. She ran her AR perfectly. Dumped it and drew her pistol to finish the remaining steel poppers. She got the first two and ran back to the other side of the stage to engage the last two steel targets. The box shaped areas [Read More…]
Action Match With M1 Garand
This is how you run and gun with a M1 Garand USPSA style. John Z has been using his M1 Garand at the Sir Walter Gun Club for a couple years. Watch him run through these stages engaging targets and reloading his M1 on the run. Looks like fun and some good training for a [Read More…]
Army Extends Modular Handgun System Deadline To Feb. 12
Standard-issue pistol-making hopefuls have an extended deadline for their submissions to the future US Army handgun competition, the Modular Handgun System. The program, which will choose a new handgun to be the “M17 Modular Handgun System”, originally had a [Read More…]
POTD: Using A Disability To Your Advantage
J. Allen Enterprises, US Optics, and Surgeon Rifles had a Rifle Giveaway on Facebook. Corey Garmon won with his submission above. Here is a photo taken back in 2013 at the FNH USA 3Gun Championship. The stage was designed like a baseball diamond. Shooters must go to [Read More…]
[SHOT 2016] Most innovative products for SHOT 2016
SHOT 2016 was an amazing experience. Below are some pictures I took during SHOT show. This picture set will feature the most innovative products that I PERSONALLY saw. This will be my last SHOT related article. Going back to gear and gun reviews for the rest of the [Read More…]
[SHOT 2016] Concealed Carry Troy PDW
High Threat Concealment (HTC) collaborated with Troy Industries to make a conceal carry rig for the Troy PDW. If you look closely, the M7A1 stock is attached to a sling that runs under the shirt. The HTC rig holds the AR magazine. The design of the M7A1 stock allows the [Read More…]
Knight’s Armament Stoner LMG (Finally) Enters Production
The KAC Light Machine Gun is a weapon that appears in media often, but has so far existed in the real world as a prototype only. Knight’s Armament Company announced at the 2016 SHOT Show that the thirty-year development of the weapon was nearing its conclusion and [Read More…]
GatCrank 15 AR-15 Trigger Actuator
The AR-15 world has a vast selection of aftermarket parts from various companies, some of them are useful and actually improve your AR’s performance and some just make your credit card debt increase. There’s a segment of the aftermarket that certainly makes [Read More…]
Ralston Scavenger 6 Multi-Caliber Rifle
At SHOT Show 2016 I stumbled upon the Scavenger 6 Multi-Caliber Rifle from Tim Ralston. It’s a survival rifle that can shoot up to 21 different calibers. If you don’t remember Tim Ralston is the guy who shot himself in the thumb on the Nat Geo show [Read More…]
Review: CrossBreed Freedom Carry IWB Holster
The Crossbreed Freedom Carry Holster I have recently “commandeered” my wife’s Glock 19 and have been carrying it pretty regularly in my Alien Gear Cloak Tuck IWB. I’d heard a number of good things about CrossBreed, but had never bought one, so I was definitely [Read More…]
SHOT Show 2016: EAA Concealed Carry Holster
When I stopped by the European American Armory (EAA) booth at SHOT there were quite a few things to see starting with their 1911s, but there was more of interest than just the guns this year. The rep I spoke to gave me a demo of a holster he was wearing attached to his [Read More…]
Industry Day at the Range 2016 Hits the Mark with Another Record Breaking Day
Industry Day at the Range 2016 at the range this year was an awesome experience for the TFB & TFBTV. TFB was an official sponsor of the day and that sponsorship came with advanced access on Sunday, the day before the actual event. Our advanced access was how we [Read More…]
Top 5 Short Barrel Rifles/Shotguns (and What You Need to Know about ATF 41P Executive Order NOW)
In this episode of TFBTV, James and Army Ranger Jacque B. (Ret.) present James’ picks for the Top 5 Short Barreled Rifles/Shotguns (SBR/SBS) that you can own. The main factors considered are “QVC”, or Quality, Versatility, and Cost. While quality and cost speak for themselves, [Read More…]
Hand drawn firearms art
An artist by the name of Lorin Michki has been making pen drawings of firearms for some years now, to combine his passion of shooting with his passion of art, and expressing the two together. I first heard of him through the various Facebook groups I’m apart of [Read More…]
Anti Drone device uses rifle, but no ammunition
This odd contraption had a video released about it in October last year. It is a mechanical device that attaches to the picatinny rails of a firearm, that when aimed at a commercial drone, it sends out a radio pulse in that direction via a sort of electromagnetic wave, [Read More…]
Gun Review: TriStar T-120
TriStar 120 One of the things I really appreciate about being a writer for The Firearm Blog is being exposed to platforms and weapons I would otherwise not have access to, or go out of my way to try. At SHOT 2015 I had been scheduled for a review of the TriStar T-120, [Read More…]
POTD: AR Pistol Back/Shoulder Holster
Sometimes, just because you can does not mean you should. With great kydex comes great responsibility. Ok so let us take a look at what is going on with this picture. This guy had a custom kydex holster made for his AR Pistol. I have seen some Kydex holsters for ARs and [Read More…]
DRD Tactical Rifles offers NiB-Battle Worn Finish
DRD Tactical recently started offering a battle worn finish over the standard nickel boron finish. I’m sure this will appeal to those who like the overall look of a well used and worn rifle. Check the DRD Tactical website for pricing. TFB has posted many articles [Read More…]
$18 Muzzle Brake – From AR Pros
It just goes to show that often in this industry that price of an item can have little relevance to its function, AR Pros has an $18 Muzzle Brake available through Amazon.com. The company touts the brake as its “short competition” model “with upgraded [Read More…]
Kruger Optical Dual Tactical Sight Carbon Fiber Optic
Kruger Optical has been busy in the shadows of the market working to create a line of carbon fiber housed optics. The first of which is their Dual Tactical Sight 1-8×40 which features an innovative fusion of a 1x red-dot optic or a 2-8×40 zoom scope scope. [Read More…]
Safety Harbor Firearms SHTF .50 BMG AR Upper
While the Serbu break-action .50 cal rifle (in collaboration with Royal Nonesuch) is putting .50 BMG sub $1000, I think Safety Harbor Firearms has taken the right approach with their SHTF .50 BMG upper receivers for an AR-15. The bolt-action upper receivers are offered [Read More…]
Matt “Axe” Axelson AR-15 Tribute Raffle
When you hear about SHOT Show, you may think it’s just about the new guns and gear coming out for the year. However, it’s also about the people that make our community and industry strong. TFB was at the Brownell’s SHOT press event where they along [Read More…]
Hoptic USA “Quiver” for .308 Rifles
Hoptic USA, a small up-start has released a product they call the “Quiver”. The Quiver is an obvious play on words to our fine bow and arrow shooting compatriots that is designed to accomplish nearly the same thing for precision rifles. The Quiver holds two [Read More…]
Facebook To Prohibit Private Firearm Transactions
Just last Friday, Yahoo News posted an article about Facebook’s new policy to prohibit firearm transactions that circumvent background checks. All of the Facebook groups I am a member of have posted warnings regarding this policy change. From this moment forward, [Read More…]
Shot Show Optics: DI Optical EG1 and DCL-120
DI Optical is a relatively new name at the Shot Show and the US commercial market. However, the South Korea based optic maker have been building military optics for machine gun, automatic grenade launcher and large caliber auto-canon for 25 years. All branches of the [Read More…]
H&K UMP .45 Run and Gun (USC Conversion)
The H&K UMP series of submachineguns are a family of polymer blowback firearms designed as a more cost effective alternative to the MP5. While both remain in production however, the MP5 still outsells the much younger UMP and it is quite easy to understand why: it isn’t as good. But how [Read More…]
Hands On with Fab Defense 10/22 Stock: Rimfire SBR
This summer I realized there wasn’t a single rimfire firearm in my safe, and set out to fix that. The end result was an 11 inch SBR settled nicely into a Fab Defense 10/22 chassis. Take a look: One of the things I really like about this stock is that it’s [Read More…]
Shot Show Optics: Aimpoint’s new 3X and 6X magnifiers
Aimpoint, a maker of red-dot sights for the US military, updated their magnifier lineup during Shot Show 2016. Aimpoint was the first optic company that developed a magnifier to use with their red-dot sight. The original Aimpoint 3XMag, a 3x magnifier, was released [Read More…]
Troy Responder
Troy announced a new Responder semi-automatic rifle that is designed to meet the needs of law enforcement and military personnel. The rifle is shipped as a complete “turnkey weapon system” and not as a base rifle that would need additional outfitting to be [Read More…]