The goal of TFB’s Photo Of The Day is to give your eyes something worth watching, and your brain something to think about every day. Over the years we have shown firearms from North to South, East to West in almost any imaginable situation and climate. Today [Read More…]
Hello and welcome back to another edition of The Rimfire Report! This ongoing series is all about the rimfire firearm world and its various sports, guns, ammunition, and trends! This week we’re coming back to one of my favorite 22LR pistols of all time – [Read More…]
Rimfire PRS is a rapidly growing sport in the United States and organizations like the Mid Atlantic Rimfire Series are also feeling the accelerated growth. A while back you guys will remember that I wrote a Rimfire Report article on the eastern-coast-based competition [Read More…]
Rimfire Steel Challenge has been of my favorite firearms sporting events over the last 10 years. I attended my first Steel Challenge completion back in 2012 and since then, I’ve come to not only love the sport for its fast-paced shooting style, but also for how [Read More…]
The 2022 Winter Olympics kicked off at the beginning of February and with the start of this huge event came one of my favorite Winter Olympic sports of all time – the Biathlon. For those that don’t know, the Biathlon is a tandem event that combines [Read More…]
TFB has been running our very special Photo Of The Day for years, sharing great photos from around the world and the world of firearms. The subject of today’s photos is the German TopShot Competition Shooting Team and the Haenel CR223s they use for IPSC shooting [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: The new Australian Navy Nordic Skiing and Biathlon Associations (NNSBA) ECOAims laser biathlon rifles are here! Above you can see Lieutenant Commander Heather Bundy shooting from the standing supported position. I think it’s interesting to study [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day loves sniper competitions and we hope they love us back. If you’re not busy doing something else in the beginning of March next year, you may gather your team and join the Best Sniper Winter 2022 competition. Above you have a great [Read More…]
POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, is TFB’s daily article series where we try to find pictures that will entertain you. Did you know that credit for the first-ever color photograph taken goes to the mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell? At a lecture in 1861 he [Read More…]
I’ve been shooting competitively for a couple years now. I haven’t taken it too seriously and the number of matches I’ve attended is still in the single digits. In all of those competitions, I’ve shot my mostly stock third-generation Glock 19. [Read More…]
Double stack 1911-style pistols are huge in competitive shooting. They combine the benefits of large magazines with the sweet, glass rod break of a 1911 trigger. Also, to scoot just into Major Power Factor, many shooters opt for the .40 S&W cartridge. Travis [Read More…]
Federal Ammunition has introduced a new line of shotshell loads on the heels of this year’s Olympics. The new High Over All (HOA) shotshell loads are intended for competitive use and offer shooters better reloadability and more consistent shot patterns. Federal [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day is where you discover the world of firearms through a camera lens. Every day we run a new theme, a few selected pictures with a short story and credit to the person behind the story. Today we have a unicorn alert with the HK200 Biathlon Rifle. [Read More…]
The world of ELR, or “Extreme Long Range” shooting is all about pushing the envelope. The competitive shooters involved in this discipline are continually seeking ever greater levels of distance, accuracy, or both. Where most other shooting disciplines [Read More…]
Those interested in Precision Rifle Shooting will be happy to hear that Vortex Optics has begun a new show recently with the introduction of their “Go Long-Range” series. The show focuses on Mark and Jimmy as they embark on their first Precision Rifle Series [Read More…]
Last week we had a look at the results from the first shooting competitions at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Now we can wrap up this overview with 25m Pistol, 50m Rifle 3 Positions, and Trap. Olympic Games @ TFB: USA Olympic Shooting Team to Use Federal [Read More…]
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, or NSSF, is the firearm industry’s principal trade association in the US. Founded in 1961, the organization exists to help promote, protect, and advocate for shooting sports, as well as the various companies and other [Read More…]
Last week, with one full year of pandemic-induced delay over the original plans, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games finally started. Shooting competitions already offered us finals in the Air Rifle and Air Pistol categories and in Skeet. Here we’ll have a brief look at [Read More…]
From time to time it happens. We got a fan mail and a private contribution to our Photo Of The Day. Attached was an image taken at this year’s USASOC Sniper Competition at Fort Bragg. This competition happened a few months ago, and the image shows one of the Special [Read More…]
Welcome to the TFB Podcast Roundup 1! With the amount of gun-related podcasts currently out there, it can be quite overwhelming trying to pick out what to listen to. With this weekly series, we aim to give you the bullet points of a few choice podcasts from within the [Read More…]
Each day a different image from the World of firearms. We call this POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, and it’s our daily article series where we go to great lengths trying to find the most interesting pictures and stories for you out there. The topic of [Read More…]
Federal shotshells will be the official ammunition used by the United States Olympic Shooting team for shotgun events. Due to extremely strict regulations surrounding ammunition and firearms possession in Japan, competitors will have to have ammunition shipped to them [Read More…]
Rifle Dynamics has been hosting their Red Oktober Kalashnikov Competition (ROKC) since 2016. Sadly last year’s ROKC was cancelled due to COVID. Recently Rifle Dynamics announced that the premier US AK competition is back on, ROKC21 is coming this October 23-24. [Read More…]
Heckler & Koch have introduced a new competition pistol, the HK SFP9 Match OR, in Europe. The latest member of the SFP9 family is optics ready and features a 5.5″ match barrel, scalloped slide and a 20 round magazine. Heckler & Koch describe the pistol [Read More…]
Aaron Miesse, also known as “Chamberbrake” in the ELR (Extreme Long Range) world, is an impressive shooter. He can boast a number of serious shooting accomplishments, including some 2,780 yard impacts with a 375 CheyTac in competition, 10 for 10 in a [Read More…]
Recently we showed some pretty unique pictures of the new Accuracy International sniper/competition rifle in the USASOC International Sniper Competition. I personally love these types of pictures, and it seems like I am not alone. In our Photo Of The Day, we look at [Read More…]
In virtually any hobby, competition format, or other human endeavors, there will always be an element of participants and enthusiasts who look to push the limits. Shooting is no different. Speed, accuracy, scoring, distance, volume, and more – shooters are [Read More…]
In pretty much any circumstances or shooting discipline, scoring a 10-round group all in the center ring is something to be striven for and proud of, for virtually any shooter. The vast majority of shooters out there today would struggle to make those consistent hits. [Read More…]
New USPSA Rule Changes were recently announced by the USPSA headquarters which in some cases significantly change the way competitors organize themselves as far as divisions go. In the press release on the USPSA website, it was announced that every day carry holster [Read More…]
Finnish Brutality 2021 – Winter War was all set to go from February 20th thru the 21st but due to COVID restrictions in the area where the event was supposed to take place it was canceled. Finnish Brutality is a competition that was put together by InRange TV and [Read More…]