You’re watching and reading TFB’s Photo Of The Day with some nice images from the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. Eventually, the 3rd Special Forces Group ended up in the first place in the 2024 USASOC International Best Sniper [Read More…]
The Photo Of The Day can be chosen for a variety of reasons, but any photos taken by K. Kassens are usually some of the best. Above you see a competitor in the United States Army Special Operations Command International Sniper Competition, as he fires a suppressed JP [Read More…]
The title of this Photo Of The Day kind of sums up what it’s all about. While your eyes are on the Heckler & Koch HK M110A1, you’re missing a lot of interesting details. Note that H&K calls it a “variant“, and although it’s [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we go for another of the U.K. Ministry Of Defense’s Best of Defence Imagery 2023. It’s difficult to see, but I presume this British sniper is working behind the L115A3 sniper rifle. Do you see the thermal front attachment he’s [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we have some really cool images from the 2023 Menton Sniper Competition. Zero Compromise Optics (ZCO) is a company that specializes in the manufacturing of high-end optics, particularly rifle scopes. The company is known for its commitment to [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we go for another of U.K. Ministry Of Defense’s Best of Defence Imagery 2023. We’re looking at a spotter and a sniper from The Royal Gurkha Rifles, during the “golden hour” of photography. There’s a reason why this image [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – the best place to view the coolest images of firearms. Today the time has come to admire the MRGG-S, Geissele Automatics‘ Mid Range Gas Gun – Sniper. Did you know that you can order almost the same rifle, Geissele Mid-Range Gas Gun, [Read More…]
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At SHOT Show 2024, Cadex Defense, the Canadian company renowned for manufacturing precision rifles and weapon upgrades presented their innovative CDX-X145 sniper rifle. The CDX-X145 is a long-range anti-materiel bolt action rifle chambered in 14.5×114mm cartridge. [Read More…]
United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) just announced they are looking for a new ELR-SR (Extreme Long Range – Sniper Rifle) to replace their older anti-materiel and anti-personnel rifles such as the M107 and MK15 and will have a precision fire [Read More…]
The Civilian Marksmanship Program has teased some of the upcoming 2024 rule changes. One of the biggest changes is a category of newer rifles in the Vintage Sniper Match. Let’s speculate on what those might be. More Competition Shooting @ TFB: CMP Adds Mid-Range [Read More…]
Did you know that TFB has a very large collection of images of snipers from all around the world? Just click on the tag “snipers” to see the collection. In this Photo Of The Day, we add a few more from the recent Häyha Sniper Competition which consisted of [Read More…]
Welcome to TFB’s Photo Of The Day! Today’s selection features the art of soldiering as a sniper and a spotter. Above you see a pair working together, both with the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment “Red Currahee,” 1st Infantry Brigade Combat [Read More…]
Our Photo Of The Day is more than a bunch of photos thrown together. Ever been gassed out like in the image above? Here we see a sniper as he patrols through a gas-filled trench during the U.S. Army Europe and Africa Best Sniper Team Competition. The location was the [Read More…]
Welcome to TFB’s Photo Of The Day! Today’s selection features the art of sniping. We get to follow the 10th Mountain Division Soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 2-22 Infantry Battalion, as they compete in the Häyha Sniper Competition, Finland, August [Read More…]
Welcome to our Photo Of The Day! Each day, we feature a stunning photograph that captures the beauty and diversity of our world. These snipers went a long way to conceal themselves. How would you rate their ambition and success? I think these soldiers might be difficult [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – Today we are off to a pretty sandy and warm place, the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Mohamed Naguib Military Base. These images are from the exercise Bright Star 23, and all we’re missing are some Pyramids in the background. There are [Read More…]
Hello and welcome back to another edition of The Rimfire Report! This ongoing series is all about the rimfire world and its many different types of firearms, ammunition, shooting sports, and history! Last week we talked a bit about the new TacSol Owyhee Takedown in 22 [Read More…]
The hungriest beast of them all on TFB is our Photo Of The Day. It consumes hundreds of images every month, and it has been starving for over 9 years. Sometimes these images find themselves, and sometimes we have to dig them out, but we hope they give you a diverse [Read More…]
Welcome everyone to the 207th edition of ‘Hot Gat or Fudd Crap?’, one of our many series here on TFB. If you’re new to the series, this is where we look at the most obscure firearms that are actually for sale and ask the question – is this Gat a [Read More…]
Manufactured by O.F. Mossberg & Sons, the Mossberg 590 is a popular pump-action shotgun. It’s used by the military as well as in law enforcement applications, but it’s also popular for home defense and sporting purposes. I’m sure that more than a [Read More…]
James Reeves reviews the Serbian M91 Sniper Rifle. This modernized version of Zastava’s designated marksman rifle (DMR) shares some similarities with the famous SVD Dragunov but is actually a very different gun, even if it uses the same barrel length and caliber as the SVD. Is this gun still [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Defensie Caribisch Gebied, also known as the Caribbean Netherlands Command, refers to the military command responsible for the defense and security of the Caribbean territories of the Netherlands. They are a part of the Royal Netherlands Navy and [Read More…]
Welcome to TFB’s Photo Of The Day! Today we have images from the Best Sniper Competition at Fort Carson (2022). Above you see one competitor observing another as he shoots. Below: Sgt. David Johnson, assigned to 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade [Read More…]
Multinational Sniper Competition – it’s pretty difficult to identify all of the sniper rifles in this Photo Of The Day. I think the rifle above is some kind of DMR version of the Heckler & Koch G36. Some may laugh, but I don’t think its lethality [Read More…]
Welcome to another Photo Of The Day! Today’s selection features a Honduras special operations team member as he spots a target at the sniper event during Fuerzas Comando 23 at Sierra Prieta, Dominican Republic, June 2023. Twenty-two countries competed in Fuerzas [Read More…]
Welcome to our Photo Of The Day! It’s always a pleasure to present wonderful images like these. Above you see a competitor in the United States Army Special Operations Command International Sniper Competition as he engages long-distance targets at Fort Bragg, [Read More…]
The world is hungry for visual storytelling, and TFB’s Photo Of The Day does its best to keep the feed live. Above you see a U.S. Marine with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, as he aims at simulated enemy boats during a simulated strait transit part of Composite [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – above and below you see U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Mario Barletta, a team leader assigned to Scout Sniper Platoon, 1st Battalion, 23D Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, as he chambers a round at Range 205, Marine Corps [Read More…]
The hungriest beast of them all on this blog is our Photo Of The Day. It consumes hundreds of images every month, and it has been doing so for the past 9 years. A rifle not seen too often, here’s the Colt Canada C20 DMR. These rifles use the Schmidt & Bender [Read More…]
The hungriest beast of them all on this blog is our Photo Of The Day. It consumes hundreds of images every month, and it has been doing so for over 9 years. Here we see U.S. Army Spc. Jackson Shlef, a sniper assigned to the East Africa Response Force (EARF), as he [Read More…]
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