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.
Today we take a look at some Australia’s Special Forces – or is it them looking at you? A fitting topic for our Picture Of The Day, but if their unit is getting 335 million USD over the next four years they’re totally worth it! Our friends over at Overt [Read More…]
Unfortunately, we don’t go “down under” too often in Photo Of The Day, but today we go to Australia for the Joint Warfighter Series which took place in July 2019. This is the end of Battle Group Lion’s four-week Warfighter exercise, that culminated [Read More…]
I am on the lookout for a new competition handgun, and the “new” CZ Shadow 2 for Production/Carry Optics looks like the hottest choice at the moment. As any volume shooter knows, hitting your target consistently is all about having the best grip possible, [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day, and we travel to Mongolia and the long-range sighting-in bay. There are steel targets from 50 meters out to 1,000 meters. Oh! What a dream that would be for me. With Livestock, farm animals, walking around on the shooting area there’s just one [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day, with a history lesson from the Wild West: Microtech Ultratech Knives and the revolver is a Colt Single Action Army .45. The left Ultratech knife has “Aces and Eights” and the right one has “Dead Man’s Hand” written on the [Read More…]
Picture Of The Day – we got to the Republic of Latvia, located in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It’s a small country with only about 2 million inhabitants. Today we listen to Lieutenant General Leonīds Kalniņš (Chief of Defence of Latvia), and [Read More…]
Portable and reusable, and one of the best known and iconic anti-tank (anti-whatever) rocket-propelled grenade launchers ever. That is the subject in TFB’s Photo Of The Day, and above you can see the grenade just leaving the launcher. The RPG-7 (РПГ-7) has been [Read More…]
The Panzerfaust 3 looks like a futuristic, or at least modern, thing. But it was designed and developed by Dynamit Nobel AG in the late 1970s into the mid-1980s, and came into service in 1992. If you’ve seen the Memes you know what it does. It fausts Panzers! [Read More…]
Created in 1953 Ian Fleming’s British Secret Agent James Bond continues to fascinate. In 2017 TFB visited The London Film Museum and the exhibition James Bond in Motion, with a focus on firearms of course. “007 Store” now have a Limited Edition of [Read More…]
KS Arms (Canada) are specialists in precision quality, match-grade rifle products and services including actions and barrels, gunsmithing, and re-barreling. It is a family-owned business based in Edmonton, Canada. What you are looking into is a KS Arms SAR action, in [Read More…]
In this article, we’re taking a closer look at the PMC Ammunition X-TAC .223 Remington 77 gr Sierra. PMC is short for Precision Manufactured Cartridges, and the cartridges are Made in South Korea by Poongsan. They also supply the Republic of Korea Armed Force. The [Read More…]
Today we take look at a Heckler & Koch MP7A2 with an Aimpoint Micro T2, mounted in a Spuhr. But the spotlight goes to the weapon light made by SR Tactical from Germany. This could be the ideal setup for Police intervention forces, that don’t want to carry a [Read More…]
How about a Laser Range Finder with a ballistic “solver” that presents the data to you via an OLED screen? If that sounds interesting you should continue reading and/or make sure you visit FN Herstal at DSEI in London. FN Herstal claims this is the most [Read More…]
Today we look at photos of the Lithuanian Armed Forces and Navy. Above, and the two pictures below show the Lithuanian rotation which takes part in the operation for fighting piracy and armed robbery in the Indian Ocean off the coasts of Somalia from mid-August to the [Read More…]
Faxon Firearms from Cincinnati, Ohio, engineers and manufactures parts for the AR15. The 350 Legend was announced at the 2019 SHOT Show in Las Vegas and is marketed as the “World’s Fastest Straight-Walled Hunting Cartridge“. Winchester’s legendary [Read More…]
You rarely see this many Heckler & Koch MP5s in one picture, and these are all suppressed SD versions. A picture well worthy of becoming Photo Of The Day. I understand that these are Special Forces from Kazakhstan (Possibly “Arystan”). The Night Vision [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – today we look at some amazing magazine-fed Shotguns. Dissident Arms is a manufacturer which specializes in the Molot VEPR-12 shotguns. They make some really cool competition grade Molot Vepr-12 shotguns, among other things. TFB did an interview [Read More…]
In 1965 the Finnish Army adopted the 7.62x39mm Valmet RK62, and it has been produced in volumes over 350,000 by Valmet and Sako in Finland. As with many “modern” firearms, the RK62s have been in need of upgrades and modernization, and after years of planning [Read More…]
In the picture above we can see FN Herstal’s new full range of cartridges in the 5.56x45mm NATO caliber, these will be shown in London, at the Defense and Security Equipment International Exhibition. In total, four new FN Herstal cartridges will be unveiled at the [Read More…]
This Russian Airborne crew seem to have misunderstood the meaning of being an Airborne force. They take their armored vehicles back into the air, going flat out over obstacles. To the best of my knowledge, this is a BMD-2 we see flying above. That’s 11.5 tonnes of [Read More…]
The 2019 European IPSC Handgun Championship (EHC) is about to start. The people in the Pre-Match are busy shooting as this article goes live, and very soon it is time for the Main Match. Hopefully this match will be less wet and muddy than the previous Championships in [Read More…]
Looking a bit like Mjölnir, The Norse God Thor’s Hammer, Battle Arms Development have made a billet AR-rifle display stand. The aluminium stand can be custom painted and/or engraved with text or logotypes, if a dealer wants to have a a customer stand for their [Read More…]
Kestrel Instruments are releasing a Heads-Up Display for their 5 Series of Ballistics Meters. The big question is if this is another gadget that will just leave your long range shooting with even more confusion or the next “must-have-thing” to hit? The [Read More…]
Do you own a Magpul Hunter Stock? Would you like to be able to add a Monopod to the back of your stock? Convex Machine from Burley, Idaho, has the answer with their new spacer. Just replace one of your plastic spacers with theirs made out of aluminum, which also has a [Read More…]
Time for some action in the Indian Ocean in this Photo Of The Day. Here we see U.S Marine Corps Sgt. Christopher Sanders, a squad leader with Kilo Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/5, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), as he posts the rear security during visit, [Read More…]
Unfortunately a disability can prevent you from doing what you love most. If you’re one of our readers it is likely that that hobby is either hunting or shooting in some form or another, or even self-defense. Luckily there are solutions for people in wheelchairs [Read More…]
At Rifle World Shoot 2019, I managed to get a few words with Kim Leppänen and another shooter from Estonia who has started using the 7.62 TKO by Uronen Precision. Kim Leppänen is a member of the Finnish Semi-Auto Open Team (yeah, they won Gold as usual) and below he [Read More…]
Today’s subject here at Photo Of The Day is a Colt M1911 Mk IV Series 80. The perfect EDC for a Sunday! As I am sure you will notice there is also an automatic knife from Microtech knives and a knuckle, all themed up in pearl. There’s a patch too, but [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – Today we are looking at how the Schriever Air Force Base store some of their ammunition. The base is named after General Bernard Adolph Schriever. As you can see there is not a Magpul PMAG in sight, only metal magazines. I am not going to judge, [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day takes us to the Coral Sea as Force Reconnaissance Marines with the Maritime Raid Force provide security while clearing a ship during a visit, board, search and seizure exercise. This took place earlier in 2019 aboard the amphibious dock landing ship [Read More…]
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