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Our partnership with Strike Industries was an amazing experience from the very beginning of SHOT Show 2019. We hosted them at our range day booth and they brought one of those high-speed low drag Phantom cameras. Anyone at the range could walk into our booth, shoot a [Read More…]
The death of the shotgun as being a viable defensive tool has been greatly exaggerated. Sure, ammunition capacity is not exactly in the 30 round magazine territory, but the short range power that comes from some of today’s modern shot shells will protect Saint Nick [Read More…]
Keith Garcia is a phenomenal 3Gun competitor. My friend Brian M. mentioned that Keith Garcia has lighting fast hands when it comes to 3Gun. “He can reload a tube fed shotgun probably faster than I can reload my Vepr12” and Brian is no slouch in 3Gun. Just [Read More…]
Finally, we have reached the 12th and final day of the TFB Christmas series. As I stated from day one, very few of the the guns and gear listed over the last week and a half were new or previously unseen. My goals were simple: lay out presents that are fun to both give [Read More…]
If you’re like me and enjoy having various accessories for your shotguns, you might be interested in the newest addition from Mesa Tactical. Their new item is called the SureShell Shotshell Carrier and is just what it sounds like, a holder for shotshells on your [Read More…]
My friend Adam Roth of Aridus Industries asked me to help him test his Quick Detach Carriers aka QDC as a competitive shooter. It started with the Remington 870 QDC Adapter. These prototype carriers are made of machined delrin and an aluminum back plate. The [Read More…]
Keith Garcia posted this video on July 21. He is practicing with his Benelli M2 which has been modified by Taran Tactical. He loads 8 and shoots 8 shots in 4.92 secs. I just received a new Benelli M2 from Taran Butler at TTI. He did his quad load package on it and [Read More…]
RCI is the maker of the XRAIL. An auto indexing loader that holds and feeds a shotgun 23 rounds. Give or take a round or two depending on your shotgun setup. Well they have been modifying shotguns as well. They have a modified Benelli M2 with an integrated [Read More…]
SilencerCo has released a full technical video on the new Salvo 12, revealing more information on the system. The video breaks down the entire suppressor, giving shooters a peek inside and if you watch carefully, it answers a few burning questions. Key take-aways: The [Read More…]
For the aspiring 3-gun shooter, the market used to be pretty sparse for out of the box competition ready guns. Shooters looking for a new scattergun were basically forced to purchase a stock autoloader and then spend nearly the cost of the gun over to again on modifications and kit to extend the [Read More…]
Based out of Arizona, GG&G makes all of their products in America, which is up front and center on their website. They make a number of shotgun sling attachment points, from fixed attachments, to QD (quick detach), to looped. Below are some technical specs: Benelli [Read More…]
If you spend a lot of time on a sporting clays range, at 3-gun matches, or anywhere where moving long guns is something you need to do, Rugged Gear produces really nice gun carts for this purpose. Rugged Gear has multiple models which can hold 2, 3, or even 4 guns on a [Read More…]
I was cleaning my guns the other day and came to the end where I was packing away my tools, and throwing away dirty patches. When I was folding up my cleaning pad, to my dismay I saw a tiny spring and had no idea which gun it came from. A felt a small sinking […] [Read More…]
For years, my friends and I have sent what must be thousands of emails to each other about a single issue: If you were going to be displaced or circumstances were altered to a degree that you would have to rely on only three weapons, which do you choose? [Read More…]
In between the NRA Annual Meeting in Houston, to shooting with our U.S. Olympic Shotgun team in Fort Benning, Georgia, I made a pit stop in Hoover, Alabama to do something really fun — Basketball trickshots using a shotgun. Let me back up a second. The Legendary [Read More…]
All American, versatile, hard-hitting and definitely deserving of praise. The first time I heard of a Henry rifle was on a Louis L’amour book on tape probably 25 years ago, while my family and I were on a road trip. A character in the book was meting out frontier [Read More…]
You know when you see a marketing claim and you’re curious to see how well it holds up? That happened to me when I saw an ESS claim in their 2013 brochure. Here’s the claim: If you aren’t familiar with ESS, a subsidiary of Oakley, they make eyewear for [Read More…]
We learned in TFB’s Adobe Shooter’s League post that there are tech companies who pay for their employees’ shooting hobby. TFB sat down with Rachel Scott, Marketing Manager for Quick Left out of Boulder, Colorado to learn about another tech [Read More…]
In competition shooting, seconds count. When looking specifically at 3-gun competitions where a shotgun is involved, seconds are usually gained or lost during reloads. Here we’ll be taking a look at the Carbon Arms TWinS (TWo in Shotgun) system. The TWinS system [Read More…]
As I navigate through a new industry and career, I have been meeting a lot of fantastic people. Many of the folks I’ve met are humble, caring, and excited to help their fellow shooters. An example of this humility- while I was waiting my turn on a stage, a gentleman [Read More…]
The RCI XRAIL (Roth Auto Index Loader) is a auto index loader magazine extension that can expand a tubular shotgun magazine to hold up either 14 rounds (compact version) or 23 rounds (full version). This video shows the XRAIL mounted on a Benelli M2 Tactical. The [Read More…]
Strike Industries is proud to introduce its latest stylized aftermarket upgrade to its customers with the new 12-gauge spiral fluted magazine follower for 12 gauge shotguns. Strike Industries claims that the follower is not only self-cleaning, but also enhances the [Read More…]
Beretta have unveiled their newest pistol, the APX A1 FS, evolving their APX platform and making some important improvements including new slide serrations, new trigger and springs, an MRDS optics cut and improved ergonomics. The APX A1 full size follows the APX A1 [Read More…]
Battlefield 2042 has just been announced as the sixth instalment of the extremely popular Battlefield multiplayer first-person shooter video game. Each instalment of the game has featured a slightly different theme from the last with the previous [Read More…]
A recent bit of local Massachusetts news has revealed that the Cambridge, MA police department may be reducing its weapon inventory by up to 20% as well as making a few other changes to its equipment roster. According to news source Wicked Local, the push to reduce the [Read More…]
Since the dawn of firearms, mankind has always sought to reduce the weight of the load on the bearer of the weapon. Caseless ammunition was a major step in this direction beginning in 1848 by Walter Hunt and his “Rocket Ball” ammo. Jonathan at Wild Arms [Read More…]
Believe it or not, but we have been doing the Reader’s Choice Awards for an entire year with input from all of you! If it were not for our vocal readers like you reading this, this segment would not be the success it has been for the past 12 months! So for that, [Read More…]
For the last couple of years, I have been buying rifles and building mostly rifles and pistols when coming up with projects. I have a few pump action shotguns, but I don’t have anything when it comes to semi-automatic tactical shotguns. A few months back, I [Read More…]
Location: Löddeköping, South of Sweden. I guess you haven’t been there and wasn’t planning to go there either? That’s fine, to be honest, neither was I until I got an invitation for a Factory Visit to Spuhr, makers of rifle scope mounts and other [Read More…]
The Finns have some of the best competition shooters around. Strange, as there are only around 5.5 million Finns around, and it’s dark most of the year. In some way they still manage to become World Champions in many of the practical shooting divisions. TFB has [Read More…]
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