CZ shooting team at the 2023 IPSC European Handgun Championship in Greece dominated many of the main divisions, winning a total of nine medals – six gold, two silver, and one bronze from the individual competitions and with six European Champion titles and [Read More…]
Are you looking to shoot the IPSC Rifle World Shoot 2024? Or just need some inspiration for your next build? In this Photo Of The Day, you will find a suggestion of ingredients and parts to use. The competition is most likely to be hosted by Finland, in northern Finland [Read More…]
Welcome to our Photo Of The Day! Each day, we feature a few stunning photographs that capture the beauty and diversity from the world of firearms. Today we’re off to the recent Swedish Championships in IPSC PCC, called Ockelbo 300 – SM PCC – Pistol [Read More…]
One of the things I don’t get to do often enough is talk to shooters from other parts of the globe. Miles V (our guest from a couple of weeks ago) who has spent a lot of time in Thailand recently introduced me to Chun who was able to participate in the 2022 IPSC [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we have a bunch of action shots from Bulletstorm II, the first Swedish Championship in IPSC PCC (Pistol Caliber Carbine). A two-day, twelve-stage, level three competition with over 200 competitors and 30 teams. All the team fees were donated to [Read More…]
USPSA and IPSC are both very fun and engaging shooting sports that have a long laundry list of rules, regulations, and approved equipment. Part of this approved equipment also includes very strict criteria for each division that separates competitors to provide a more [Read More…]
In my trips to the range, I have only dabbled in shooting steel. Everyone’s gateway metal target is rimfire spinners or resetting targets and those are really enjoyable. Can shooting a big AR500 silhouette really be any better? I’ll let you know below in my review [Read More…]
I have been competing in IPSC Rifle for about ten years now. I’ve had some success with some medals and places on the podium. For instance at both IPSC Rifle World Shoots in the manual action division, including a Gold Medal for the team win. The importance of a [Read More…]
Anyone involved in competition shooting sports is probably fully aware that the year 2020 will be a year with very few competitions. Also, with a lot of shooting ranges closed the possibilities to do anything than dry training at home are few. One by one everything [Read More…]
Last year TFB published this interview with the multiple-IPSC World Champion Eric Grauffel as he changed brand and joined the CZ Shooting Team. IPSC (International Practical Shooting Confederation) together with CZ firearms have now announced a global partnership in [Read More…]
The ELEY Team from the United Kingdom has a brand new centerfire ammunition offering. The caliber is .38 Super Comp with a 124 gr. bullet weight. I use .38 Super in my Open pistol (Tanfoglio Gold Custom), but most of the factory ammunition available is .38 Super Auto [Read More…]
We should be thankful for the companies that support our interest in shooting and competition, and today TFB can reveal a new partnership that has been formed on a Global basis between IPSC (International Practical Shooting Confederation) and the Austrian company Kahles [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we go back in time almost 18 years, for the one and only Level III IPSC Competition in China. The pictures were posted by Mr. Vince Pinto, who was the Handgun Rules Director (1996-2017) at the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC). [Read More…]
I have a dream! A dream to compete in IPSC Practical Shooting in The Olympics before I die (better hurry!) This dream came one step closer, as The International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) was officially granted observer status by the GAISF Council when it [Read More…]
The International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) of the Czech Republic has announced some exciting news for anyone interested in shooting Pistol Caliber Carbine or Mini Rifle. They have asked to host the First World Championship for Pistol Caliber Carbine and [Read More…]
At the First World Shoot Rifle in Russia there were some interesting firearms, some more unique than others. All these pictures are from the shooting ranges at the Patriot Park, near Moscow. In 2015, at the European Rifle Championship in Hungary, Peter Starley finished [Read More…]
Manual Action Lever Release (MALR) rifles gets a come-back in the new 2019 IPSC Rifle rule book. You may laugh at this division, but remember that some countries have banned semi-automatic firearms. I am thinking of the United Kingdom in particular, but there are a few [Read More…]
A huge market opens as IPSC (International Practical Shooting Confederation) update their rule books in January 2019. I would think the biggest new market is in the IPSC Handgun Competition, as two new divisions (that have been lurking on test) appear. They are IPSC [Read More…]
The European Rifle Championship becomes the IPSC Rifle World Championship 2019. After the devastating forest fires that forced IPSC Sweden to cancel the European Rifle Championship there is now some good news on the horizon. In the recent vote at the IPSC General [Read More…]
The IPSC World Shoot Shotgun 2018 has ended and I hope all competitors are back home safe now. The location was Chateauroux, France, where the French have built an excellent National Shooting Center for all sorts of shooting sports. The Firearm Blog was there of course [Read More…]
The 2017 IPSC Handgun World Shoot XVIII was the 18th Handgun World Shoot held at the new National Shooting Center in Châteauroux, France during the end of August and start of September. There were 30 stages divided into 5 areas, with each area being named after and [Read More…]
USPSA have been doing the provisional “Carry Optics” for a while now. IPSC just decided to let the new Division “Production Optics” have a go as a trial, until the end of December 2020. You can check the IPSC rules in the picture below for [Read More…]
The new Walther PPQ Q4 Tac is ready for the new Provisional IPSC Production Optics Division. As you can spot, it’s also Suppressor ready. TFB will cover more about the new IPSC Production Optics Division (USPSA calls it Carry Optics) in future articles, but in [Read More…]
Today the Main Match for the 2017 IPSC Handgun World Shoot XVIII starts, at the new National Shooting Sport Center (CNTS) in Châteauroux, France. The last IPSC Handgun World Shoot was held in Frostproof (such a cool name!), Florida, United States in 2014. The weather [Read More…]
Our own TFB writer Erik B. is a member and champion IPSC shooter on the Swedish National Team. Erik sent us this photo of the new team jersey with the important sponsors of the Swedish Team. It just so happens that the TFB patch was chosen as one displayed on the [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…]
Teemu Rintala from Finland, one of the World’s best rifle and shotgun shooters. Nordic Champion, and now aiming for World Rifle Shoot in Russia 2017. I really hope the best practical rifle shooters from all around the World will come to this competition, but I [Read More…]
The River Meeting 2016 took place in Trondheim, Norway, last weekend. Of course there were participants from TFB there to document the event. Over 300 competitors traveled far for this competition, which constituted as the Nordic IPSC Rifle Championships for this year. [Read More…]
If I were to mention a long range shooting competition, what would come to mind? A firing line of proned out shooters, underneath a hot sun, with all sorts of specialist equipment like stiff shooting jackets, odd eye pieces, strange rests for rifles, thick gloves for [Read More…]
For the past six months Grizzly Targets have been a valued sponsor of our young but fast growing TFBTV Youtube channel. The sponsorship comes to an end this month and we are very grateful for their support. We have given their targets hell and have no complaints whatsoever. In this episode of [Read More…]
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