Ex-Arctic Ranger. Competitive practical shooter and hunter with a European focus. Always ready to increase my collection of modern semi-automatics, optics, thermals and suppressors. TCCC Certified. Occasionaly seen in a 6×6 Bug Out Vehicle, always with a big smile.
Photo Of The Day – Secondary sights – We are looking through a Trijicon MRO with the Blitzkrieg AR-15 Spike Front Sight Post / White Stripe. The light is an Arisaka 600 Series IR Light on their Picatinny Offset Mount, mounted on a Centurion Arms CMR MLOK [Read More…]
It probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone that the decision on which supplier that will deliver the next standard assault rifle for the German Army has reportedly been delayed once again. According to several German news outlets the program has once again [Read More…]
The Finnish Reservists are getting a new rifle. The rifle is a semi-automatic AK-clone made by Dasan Machineries of South Korea. The design of the MPK rifle is made to resemble the Rk series (rynnäkkökivääri or “assault rifle”) of rifles. MPK is The [Read More…]
Evelyn Ernest Owen (15 May 1915 – 1 April 1949) designed the Owen machine carbine or Owen Gun in 1939. This is the topic of our Photo Of The Day. TFB wrote about it already in 2013, in the article: Made In Australia: The Owen Submachine Gun. As I’m sure [Read More…]
My current binoculars are 8 power, and sometimes that is less magnification than I wish I had. The Vortex Viper HD Ranging Reticle Eyepiece is one option, but typically it is too much to carry such a system around. The new Vortex Diamondback HD 15×56 binoculars [Read More…]
The new Schmidt Bender 3-21×50 EXOS riflescope is mainly aimed at customer’s looking for a great hunting riflescope. The model is now available with a new illuminated LRH-MOA (Long-Range Hunting) reticle. The LRH-MOA reticle is in the second focal plane (SFP = [Read More…]
Today the photographer really nailed it! We’re looking at a Thompson M1A1 submachine gun as Special Forces students assigned to the U. S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School take a class in the open air. It looks like the student above wears a [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and yet another great photo by Hille James Combat Photographer. Today we’re looking at a Dutch sniper of the Korps Commandotroepen (KCT) in Afghanistan. The sniper has a Suppressed Heckler & Koch HK417 with, most likely, a Schmidt & [Read More…]
“The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat”. Is this old warrior mantra correct? Most possibly so, and the U.S. Army Green Berets in our Photo Of The Day certainly seems to think so as they perform Close Quarter Battle (CQB) training during [Read More…]
VHS could be short for Video Home System, but in this Photo Of The Day, we’re looking at the Višenamjenska Hrvatska Strojnica (“multifunctional Croatian machine gun”). On this occasion, the HS Produkt VHS and some other firearms are used by Croatian [Read More…]
Zib Militaria in Hamburg, Germany – When TFB’s Nicholas C visited them two years ago he came back with a story called A Veritable Machine Gun Cave Of Wonders. Just remember that Zib is not a place that you can visit, walk around and browse like a normal shop. [Read More…]
Another day, another Photo. TFB’s Photo Of The Day is relentless and keeps on delivering high-quality photos from the World of Firearms and Defense from all around the World. Today offers a Norwegian Guard soldier in the quick reaction force. As you can see, she [Read More…]
“The Ulfhednar (pronounced Ulf-heth-nar) were a group of Viking warriors. They wore wolf skin, and their own skin was black-died. Like the Berserkers, they preformed chants and ritual prior to battle to get in a “Berserker Rage”. Through adrenaline they became [Read More…]
At first glimpse it may look like the German MG5, but we’re in fact looking at the brand new variant of the Heckler & Koch MG4, the MG4 A3 version. The Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (In German, Bundesamt [Read More…]
The Swedish company Saab (no, not the cars) has just received orders from both the Latvian and the Estonian Armed Forces for deliveries of Carl-Gustaf M4 portable anti-tank weapon system. The producer, Saab, calls the Carl Gustaf a “man-portable multi-role weapon [Read More…]
The Browning Bar Match/FN FNAR is a fairly popular semi-automatic hunting rifle in some countries where hunting with AR10s may be forbidden. I happen to own one, and I swear every time I have to clean and take it apart as it’s a pretty complicated and [Read More…]
In our Photo Of The Day, we’re going to take a look at suppressors from A-TEC in Norway. There may be some Heckler & Koch content here as well. The A-TEC company was founded in 1999, in a garage as many other start-ups. The mission was to make better [Read More…]
The market for chassis systems keeps on growing. I can understand why, as I can’t remember the last time I saw an un-modified rifle at a Precision Rifle Competition. If you own a Remington 700, a Savage or a Tikka T3 the new Generation of the TAC21 chassis from [Read More…]
Have you ever seen a Suppressor for the .50 BMG in real life? I did the other week, and they are much larger than I anticipated. Then again, the mighty .50 BMG is a large round with a lot of gas to take care of once fired. The new Surefire SOCOM 50 SPS Suppressor is [Read More…]
You don’t have to join the Army to visit a lot of strange and interesting places. As long as you follow TFB’s Photo Of The Day, you’re sure to experience the Globe and the World of firearms safely from behind your screen. Above you’re looking at [Read More…]
After years of waiting, the JP Rifles M-LOK Series Slim Profile Hand Guards are finally here! The models are available in 9.25″, 12.5″ and 15.5″ overall length options. The handguards are machined from 6061-T6 aluminum and offer full M-LOK accessory [Read More…]
We don’t visit the Dominican Republic too often here at The Firearm Blog, yet here we are in Santo Domingo looking at snipers doing their best to avoid us. Above you see a Belizean sniper as he aims downrange to acquire a target. He was taking part in a Sniper [Read More…]
With so many daily news around it’s easy to forget that at the beginning of the year it was announced that France had selected the Glock 17 as their new service pistol. This Photo Of The Day serves a reminder of this but also shows the pistol it replaces, the MAC [Read More…]
The Latin motto DVC which stands for Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas (Accuracy, Power and Speed) was not known to the Vikings. DVC is the somewhat more modern motto from Jeff Cooper to define the essential elements of shooting. That didn’t stop MP Customs to make [Read More…]
The Firearm Blog probably has one of the most extensive online coverage available on the French Heckler & Koch HK416s, as well as their new SCAR-H PR, S&B Scope and Night/Thermal Vision. It’s therefore nice to be able to share some more wonderful pictures [Read More…]
Gray Ops CNC are very busy with the R&D to bring new interesting products and concepts to the (long range) shooting community. TFB recently wrote about the Spuhr Ring Turret Guards from them, and it’s now time to introduce the Mini Plate PRO. I have a plate [Read More…]
If you haven’t discovered the Arca Swiss Rail system yet, you should take a serious look at it. For long-range shooters, there are several advantages with the Arca rail system, which is one of the reasons why you have seen and will see more articles here on TFB [Read More…]
Above we can see a U.S. Marines with the 3rd Battalion 8th Marine Regiment as he fires the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle (based on the H&K HK416) during a live-fire weapons exercise at range F-18 on Camp Lejeune, N.C. That’s the subject for this Photo Of The [Read More…]
It’s not common for any product to be available for retail sale on the same day as the launch, but the new FX Wildcat MkIII from FX Airguns is a nice exception. The new model has many improvements over the previous models of Wildcats and comes in two versions: [Read More…]
Black is fine, but FDE is betterer? The color of a firearm means a lot to some people, and if you happen to like both FDE and Heckler & Koch at the same time, here’s your chance to own a limited production run of the MR556A1 in FDE. Exactly how limited this [Read More…]
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