The latest addition to the line of hunting firearms offered by French small arms manufacturer Verney-Carron is the Linergie straight-pull magazine rifle. The overall shape and some design elements of the Verney-Carron Linergie rifle are very similar to that of their [Read More…]
The Norwegian Armed Forces just awarded FN Herstal with a multi-year contract to supply up to 4,000 FN MINIMI 7.62 Mk3 Light Machine Guns. In association with this order is also a supply of spare parts over a 7-year period and maintenance and support equipment over a [Read More…]
Recoil compensators are nothing new for Hiperfire. Although the company specializes in drop-in aftermarket triggers, they have previously released their popular Generation 1 recoil compensators which rivaled some of the best performing compensators already in the [Read More…]
Steiner Optics is proud to introduce their new Predator series of riflescopes purpose-built with military durability and lightweight design in mind. The Predator series of riflescopes will all feature Steiner’s Predator Diamond Coated lenses, as well as [Read More…]
Welcome to TFB Weekly Amazon Deals 11. This week we’re going to focus on products found on Amazon that can be used to upgrade or maintain your pistols. A lot of the stuff featured in Sam S’s Armorer’s Bench series can be found on Amazon and with the [Read More…]
The European Best Sniper Team Competition is over but continues to deliver amazing photos for TFB’s Photo Of The Day. The videos I’ve seen from this competition show some really difficult and demanding stages, to differentiate the teams from each [Read More…]
Welcome everyone to the TFB Armorer’s Bench! As mentioned in the little blurb, this series will focus on a lot of home armorer and gunsmith activities. In this article sponsored by Wheeler, Tipton, Caldwell, and Frankford Arsenal, we’ll show how to completely [Read More…]
In this Photo Of The Day we have left the cheapest rimfires and dug a bit deeper into the wallet, yet not crazy expensive. We have a Tikka T1x bolt action rifle in .22 LR with GRS Bifrost stock and a Lothar Walther barrel. The scope is a Vortex Eagle Strike [Read More…]
Hello everyone and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday brought to you buy Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturers of the YHM Phantom .22 suppressor. Last week we got a second look at the Elevated Silence Evolution rifle suppressor. This week we get an advanced look at [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, Hop tests the Palmetto State Armory PA-10 Gen 3. This rifle is PSA’s take on the AR-10 or LR-308 platform; available with an 18″ or 20″ barrel, and a variety of trigger and handguard options. The out of the box features of the PA-10 are very basic, making [Read More…]
It hardly seems possible – 20 years have passed since September 11, 2001. The imagery, the anger, the sadness, the loss, the feeling that everything would be different, still lingers to this day. As painful as it is, those memories are an important part of [Read More…]
Growing up in Northern Michigan made it fairly easy to get into hunting. As I became older, I always wanted a Weatherby rifle and when I was in high school that dream became a reality. I ended up being able to buy a .300 Weatherby Magnum Ultralight. Fast forward fifteen [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, August 26, 2021, just a few days before the evacuation ended. You can imagine the pressure of working there, day and night with just a few hours of sleep between the shifts. Above we see a paratrooper [Read More…]
Welcome once again night vision aficionados. Today we take a look at an oldie but goodie, the AN/PVS-5. The PVS-5 was the US Army’s first binocular night vision goggle. They were actually used for the USAF in the 70s. The Friday Night Lights series is brought to [Read More…]
Earlier this summer we were notified that the winner of the first official IPSC Handgun World Champion, Jan Foss from Norway, sadly had passed away at the age of 82 on June 12, 2021. Mr. Foss became the World Champion in practical shooting in 1976 during the IPSC [Read More…]
I am oftentimes both impressed and terrified of the things that I find on Reddit and Ivan the Troll has probably been one of the most frequent users that evokes that feeling of confused amazement in me. About a week ago Ivan dropped one of his newest 3D printed [Read More…]
Mossberg has dropped a new 12-gauge autoloading shotgun for the waterfowl hunting crowd – the 940 Pro Field. The 940 has been very popular with pro-shooters like Jerry Miculek and now the same capabilities that the 940 brings to the competition world can be had [Read More…]
FN Herstal continues to develop their series of less lethal launchers with a compact and modular version of the FN 303 Tactical. The launcher uses a light, durable polymer chassis with a variety of buttstocks and pistol grips that are easily and quickly [Read More…]
The folks at Hogue Grips and SIG SAUER have teamed up to bring you a new folding knife perfect for EDC duty. The new Hogue LEGION K320 is a folding pocket knife designed and produced to match the look and feel of SIG’s P320 XFIVE LEGION pistol. The new K320 knife [Read More…]
Starting with the Sparrow in 2008, SilencerCo has been developing rimfire silencers for over a decade. Recently I had the opportunity to revisit the SilencerCo Batcave and was reminded of just how many rimfire hosts they had in their collection leaving me with the [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Modern history in action as we take a look at Swedish Special Forces (SOG) at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. They are working in collaboration with other nations’ units on the site. The soldiers live inside the [Read More…]
Recently I spent some time with friends out in the Wyoming and Montana area for a get-together trip. One of my buddies was late to the airport because he stumbled on a Glock 20. He kept going on and on about how exciting it was to see one in a gun store finally and how [Read More…]
We are already in the midst of trying times when it comes to ammunition. Not only are things currently hard to come by and overpriced but we now have numerous reports that several nefarious individuals are mimicking real-world ammunition producers and tricking their [Read More…]
While Mossberg is probably best known for their shotguns, this 102-year-old Connecticut-based manufacturer produces a smattering of handgun and rifle options as well. Their MVP series is a collection of bolt-action rifless divided into Long Range, Scout, Precision, and [Read More…]
The Springfield Emissary has received a lot of attention on the site from both those excited for it and those not so impressed with the new production .45 Auto pistol. For those of you who are planning on buying one or have already ordered one, DeSantis has some new [Read More…]
A lot of you out there are fans o the CZ 457 American bolt action rimfire rifle. This popular bolt action rifle is a common first stop for squirrel hunters and Rimfire Precision Rifle Series competitors alike. The rifle has just received some recent attention from [Read More…]
Spuhr Ideal Chassis System (SICS) – from what we can see and read the first chassis from Spuhr is a really sixy product. The Swedish company Spuhr are most known for their excellent riflescope mounts, and with this new product, the company enters a new market. The [Read More…]
There have been a lot of numbers thrown around with regards to the Russian ammo ban. Many of them are unsourced or unattributed, and as near as I can tell, wrong. So what are the actual numbers? What is the actual impact of this ban going to be? How Do Ammo Imports [Read More…]
Welcome back to the Photo Of The Day! Here is the place where we honor outstanding photos and the person behind the camera. Above you’re looking at a German Army Sniper adjusting his scope during morning shooting rehearsals at the International Specialty Training [Read More…]
Along with the Mexican American War and the Crimean War, the United States Civil War was a 19th-century proving ground of myriad new tactics and technologies of warfare, including the revolver. One of the primary debates within Confederate circles was whether to field [Read More…]
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