Photo Of The Day – We’re off to Germany and the Grafenwoehr Training Area. You’re looking at U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) as they execute a live fire exercise. Please note that some of the photos have been altered [Read More…]
Welcome everyone to the 41st 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 or unusual firearms that are actually for sale and ask the question – is this [Read More…]
While it may not be the sexiest topic, the way you manipulate and move with your firearm are huge tells of your experience level. It all comes down to what Varg Freeborn refers to as advanced safety. This is more than simply keeping your finger off the trigger and not [Read More…]
It’s been a while since Vorn Defence got mentioned here at TFB. The Vorn Equipment Fast Access Rifle Backpack written by Nicholas C was the last time, and I really like their quick-release system. If you carry longer and larger rifles and firearms from time to [Read More…]
Gray Ops was created by the professional shooter David Preston. In 2015 he won the National Championship. The name behind the company came after his son, Gray Preston. I have a few of their products for my PRS rifle(s), and I’ve been happy with the overall look, [Read More…]
See the entire history of the Colt Single Action Army (S.A.A.) pistol in one man’s collection! From the earliest models that were issued to the United States cavalry, to $20,000 pistols with engraving and pearl grips, and S.A.A’s that were owned by celebrities, this is an incredible [Read More…]
Full Conceal has just introduced their M3D-S6 BARE Frame Folding kit, that allows customers to build a folding Glock 19 if they have the slide assembly and frame internal parts. The BARE Frame Folding kit includes all of the necessary components for assembling a fully [Read More…]
A ROLLSIZER is a case resizer that removes any bulges that might be created by some chambers with brass expanding during firing and returns it a true concentrical state very close to original specs. It does this by passing it by a cam-like mechanism as the casing [Read More…]
I feel terrible when I see these pictures, it’s almost like a funeral but I guess it had to be done. What we’re looking at today is an Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) Marine conducting four controlled detonations to dispose of a large quantity of [Read More…]
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Yevgeny Dragunov’s birthday, Kalashnikov Media published a series of videos and articles about this ingenious designer’s life and career. In this installment of The Rimfire Report, we’ll take a look at one [Read More…]
Spuhr of Sweden has had quite some success with various stocks for various Heckler & Koch rifles like the G3 and the MP5. For instance the Swedish and Portuguese G3 upgrade orders as well as the large MP5 upgrade order from the German Bundespolizei. Spuhr now has [Read More…]
The innovative company from Switzerland, B&T, continue their success with chassis for various handguns. Previously they released the B&T USW-G17 Conversion kit for the Glock 17s & 19s. B&T also have chassis for the Glock 40/20/21, Walther PPQ and the [Read More…]
One of the most convenient and compact pocket lights out there, in my opinion, is the Streamlight Stylus Pro series. The first iteration of the Stylus Pro ran on two AAA sized batteries and had a battery life of about 8 hours at 100 lumens maximum output. The output [Read More…]
Following the postponement of the 2020 IWA OutdoorClassics and Enforcetac trade shows, due to fears surrounding the Coronavirus outbreaks, the shows’ organisers have announced the rescheduling of the show for September 2020. Originally due to be held through the [Read More…]
As the exhibitions Enforce Tac and IWA in Germany got postponed until further notice, we’re now seeing companies releasing their news directly online instead. If you check on a regular basis here at TFB we promise to keep you covered. One of the first press [Read More…]
Each day TFB publishes one or more photographs from our fascinating World of Firearms. Along with this comes a brief explanation. February 29, this is probably TFB’s first leap day POTD. Above you can see the Sturmgewehr 77 (or Stg 77 for short) and a soldier that is [Read More…]
Good afternoon everyone and welcome back to another edition of TFB’s Silencer Saturday brought to you by my friends at Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturers of the new Resonator K 7.62 suppressor. We continue last week’s rimfire suppressor host journey with a look at [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, James Reeves follows up on his prior video, “The Best Guns for the Apocalypse: Boogaloadouts Vol. I”, and talks about the 5 WORST loadouts for TEOTWAWKI. TFBTV viewers made suggestions in response to the first video, and James went through each and every one [Read More…]
Just before last SHOT Show, fellow TFB writer Austin mentioned that he was going to bring a post sample M16 for us to play with. Check out Luke’s article about that. Well, I talked to Austin and he agreed to make a second post sample lower so we could use it with [Read More…]
POTD – Photo Of The Day and we’re looking at a Polish Soldier with a PK Machine Gun on full-auto. Introduced in 1961 the PKM is a 7.62×54mmR General-Purpose Machine Gun. However, since this is a Polish version, their PK/PKSs were modified to feed the [Read More…]
Hey, folks welcome back to another Featured Deals of the Week. One of these days Grammarly is going to stop assuming that “another Featured Deals” should be “another Featured Deal” or “other Featured deals”, but it is not this day. [Read More…]
It is nice to see the rifles for target shooting develop, as the interest for diopter target shooting is on the decrease as other more modern firearms, optics and other target shooting sports evolve. The 200 PHOENIX from SIG SAUER GmbH (the European arm of SIG Sauer) [Read More…]
In October of last year, TFB posted these great pictures taken through the reticle of the Schmidt & Bender 3-21×50 EXOS, a rifle scope focused on hunting. It is now time for a new interesting feature to enter the arena and enhance the performance of this [Read More…]
The Shot Indicating Resetting Trigger (or SIRT) Training Pistol from Next Level Training has a strong fanbase. Their 110 and 107 models, respectively analogous to the Glock 17/22 and Smith & Wesson M&P, have been widely lauded by many professional instructors [Read More…]
Swarovski Optik from the Austrian Tyrol area has released some interesting news: the product is called dG 8×25 (short for Digital Guide). They claim it’s the first long-range optical device that allows you to identify and document your sightings. With the [Read More…]
Diamondback Firearms, out of Cocoa, Florida, announced their latest product earlier this year, a new 5.7 pistol with an 8-inch barrel. 2020 seems to be the year of 5.7x28mm, with a resurgence which has seen multiple products chambering the spitzer pistol calibre round. [Read More…]
Finding a good bag for everyday use as well as range use can be difficult, to say the least. In an effort to find the mythical “do all” bag, I’ve decided to purchase a few different bags with my own money in the name of science and product testing. [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day – Today we’re aboard USS Frank Cable which is a submarine tender. The location is the Pacific Ocean in December 2019, and we’re watching sailors as they fire a .50 caliber machine gun. It’s a pretty cool image taken [Read More…]
When thinking about carrying a concealed firearm, it’s easy to focus on one specific item rather than the overall big picture. It’s important to look at different aspects as a bigger picture rather than only worrying about just what knife you carry or what [Read More…]
Back in March 2019, US SOCOM selected the Barrett MRAD to fulfill their requirement for an Advanced Sniper Rifle (ASR). At the end of last year, Nighforce’s MIL-SPEC ATACR 5-25×56 Dayscope and their MIL-SPEC ATACR 7-35×56 Long Range Dayscope l were selected [Read More…]