The US Army has been testing its new precision rifles, the Squad Designated Marksman Rifle and the Compact Semi-Automatic Sniper Rifle and the first feedback from troops is coming in. Last year TFB reported the adoption of the two new rifles, which are both based on [Read More…]
You just bought a Glock, and let’s face it, those plastic factory Glock sights are flat out embarrassing. Plastic sights on a metal slide just don’t make a whole lot of sense, and they are definitely nothing to write home about. When it comes time to upgrade [Read More…]
Arriving in the mail for review today was SIG Sauer MCX Rattler Canebrake. Thanks to SIG’s fantastic customer service team, I was able to get this gun promptly and I can’t thank them enough. Now, let’s take a closer look at the newest addition to the MCX [Read More…]
Reptilia Corp was founded by some guys who used to work at Magpul. One of them went onto AXTS and helped them re-brand into Radian Weapons before starting Reptilia Corp. Well now they have started their own company to make the products they wanted to make but were [Read More…]
Tom Bostic of TommyBuilt Tactical is a legend in gun building (and other stuff), specifically when it comes to Heckler & Koch. TFB’s Nicholas C wrote this story about the G36 last year. Here we’re going to look at an HK SL8 into HK XM8 build, inspired [Read More…]
Craig “Sawman” Sawyer, a former USMC sniper and Navy SEAL Sniper Instructor, has announced that he teamed up with Shepherd Scopes to create a series of high-end long range scopes that will match his requirements. Having used sniper scopes in [Read More…]
Because I know all of my readers are just dying to have this question answered, yes, I did sit and write this deal post on Valentine’s day. keep it simple stupid (K.I.S.S.) “Not a Glock” – $439.99 What the deal is: The K.I.S.S. 80PBuild kit is [Read More…]
Aridus Industries makes some of the best accessories for shotguns. The QDC and CROM have proven to be the best setups to run on a Beretta 1301. My Magpul Edition 870 has all the Aridus goodies on it. The CROM was designed to allow an Aimpoint T1 or T2 to cowitness the [Read More…]
Austrian optics manufacturer Kahles has released a new red dot sight called Helia RD. This is a non-magnified micro reflex sight with a 28mm width which makes it suitable to mount on handgun slides. Let’s take a brief look at the specs of this new sight. Kahles [Read More…]
The US Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiments (AEWE) facebook page has shared some interesting photos from a range session at their annual technologies event. The photos, posted on 11 February, show a new prototype suppressed Personal Defense Weapon from SIG Sauer. [Read More…]
Falke and Schmeisser are sister companies and that is the reason why they were exhibiting in the same booth at SHOT Show 2019. This German optics manufacturer brought to the show their new Falke LE Gen 2 reflex sight. Let’s see what features it has. The Falke LE [Read More…]
With a new year upon us and SHOT Show in the rearview mirror, many companies have positioned themselves for what is hopefully their best year yet! You can add to that list Meprolight because they have been making strategic moves of their own. In a recent Press Release, [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV’s SHOT Show 2019 coverage, Brannon LeBouef speaks with Daniel of HOLOSUN about some new titanium optics, new green reticles in optics, and some brand new offerings in the magnification and red doc realm. ««« PATREON GIVEAWAYS »»» Go to http://tfbtv.gun.team for [Read More…]
Zero Compromise Optic as a company is brand new to optics world, their owner and employees, however, are not. With lineage from both Nightforce and Kahles, the minds behind Zcomp have a lot of real-world experience. When I released one of their first product [Read More…]
Every SHOT SHOW you talk to fellow gunwriters and ask them the same question: “Have you seen anything really new and interesting?”. Most of the time an answer is quite vague: “Well, you know, this and that, it depends on you definition of “new [Read More…]
Nightforce brought in a new reticule configuration for their first focal plane scopes, called the MIL-XT. Essentially the reticule was built from much feedback from numerous long-range shooters who required a very precise ranging and stadia line system with which to make quick follow up shots while [Read More…]
So far this is The Bible on the Sako TRG A1, with almost 3 000 words of cleaning, shooting, testing and wisdom from Finland. This review and videos are taken from FinnAccuracy with permission. FinnAccuracy is a Finnish company concentrating on premium optics and [Read More…]
Thanks to my friend for alerting me to this hidden gem at SHOT Show 2019. Steiner is the maker of many night vision and laser devices. They make the PVS21 night vision goggles and DBAL weapon laser. Well at SHOT Show they have a new thermal weapon sight that is the [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV’s SHOT Show 2019 coverage, Brannon LeBouef talks with Shannon at FLIR about their new line of dedicated thermal rifle scopes called the Thermosight Pro PTS Series. They come in 19mm, 50mm, and 75mm lens. ««« PATREON GIVEAWAYS »»» Go to http://tfbtv.gun.team for [Read More…]
Schmidt & Bender is a family-run manufacturer of high-end rifles scopes since over 60 years. Located in Germany they have been supplying the Special Forces of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines with high quality optics since 2011, since they won the Precision [Read More…]
On the 21 December, the US Army Contracting Command released a special notice for a ‘Squad Fire Control’ optic to be used in conjunction with the Army’s Next Generation Weapons. With the effective range of the Army’s new weapons expected to far [Read More…]
If you own a Hensoldt SPOTTER 45/60 this should catch your interest. If you don’t own one yet, it is probably time to get one. If you don’t know the Hensoldy Spotter you can check it out here. As you can see it’s just dying to get a lot of rails [Read More…]
On the Sunday before this year’s SHOT Show, TFB and TFBTV were invited to attend the Sig Sauer Range Day at the Clark County Shooting Complex about 30 minutes outside of Las Vegas. The complex itself was incredible, with bays that catered to every type of shooter [Read More…]
When we first wrote about the ANVL UKON for the Trijicon RMR with backup iron sights (BUIS), the comments section had its share of critics, many revolving around a short sight radius. But here’s the thing about judging a book solely by its cover: you may not get the [Read More…]
Crimson Trace brought an absolute haul of goods to SHOT Show’s “Industry Day at the Range” because they could be found in multiple shooting bays and on other firearm manufacturer’s products. This covered everything from their NEW Lasersaddle made [Read More…]
The idea of putting a red dot sight on an pistol is nothing new. IPSC shooters started doing it in the 80s, and recently pistol red dots gained a lot of popularity with certain military units, law enforcement and armed citizens who want to get more performance out of [Read More…]
There are few people in the firearms industry who do not know about the Aimpoint. Some might say their products are too expensive. Other will say that Aimpoint is very slow with bringing new products to the market, but the truth is – their quality remains to be a [Read More…]
TFB recently did a factory visit to Spuhr, an article which will be published in the near future. Spuhr is a relatively small company, but we witnessed a state-of-the-art manufacturing site with CNC-machines and robots combined with a quality system (Spuhr received [Read More…]
Last year, Bushnell came out with their Forge line of optics. The Bushnell Forge optics boast better lens coatings and higher magnification over their Nitro line. I opted to check out their 4.5-27×50 scope and see how it works for long range shooting. Bushnell [Read More…]
Crimson Trace produce over 350 different laser sights and 2019 means the addition of a few more models as well as 11 new custom-designed riflescopes that range from a 1-4X24mm up to a long-range 5-25X56mm. The line also includes a 3-9X40mm riflescope with an illuminated [Read More…]
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