Hello and welcome to TFB Podcast Roundup 76. Quite a long time ago, I’m not sure how long ago exactly YouTube personality Brandon Hererra, who got his start in YouTube building out AK rifles, started the infamous AK-50 project. Since then the project has seen many [Read More…]
TFB friend Brandon Herrera, aka The AK Guy, started several years ago the “crazy” project of manufacturing a .50 BMG AK-based rifle, the AK-50. The project is still ongoing and, with Brandon’s internet fame, more and more people started questioning if [Read More…]
We have been following the AK-50 project (AK chambered in .50 BMG) pretty much since its very beginning. Brandon Herrera (a.k.a. The AK Guy), the founder of AKG Industries, had started the project about two and a half years ago and ever since he has been continuously [Read More…]
John Moses Browning gifted upon the world a large variety of firearms gifts. From the still-in-service 1911 handgun, to the BAR, and the venerable M2 or “Ma-Duece” machine gun, his designs have persisted and even thrived over the last century. Calibers he [Read More…]
It’s been about three years since Brandon Herrera, also known as The AK Guy, came up with the idea of designing a scaled up AK-47 chambered in .50 BMG. He has recently finished some initial assembly of the AK-50. The gun was assembled just enough to see whether it [Read More…]
Is it a unicorn? Some thought so. Brandon Herrera, TheAKGuy, may have cracked the code on a really cool innovation–a .50BMG AK. When you think of innovation, there are things like the Cobalt Kinetics BAMF (note that I am not including the idea of a new [Read More…]
Hello and welcome to TFB Podcast Roundup 79. I hope everyone had a great St. Patrick’s Day weekend, is well rested, and is being highly productive back at work today. I’m sure bright lights and loud noises are probably two of your least favorite things today [Read More…]
Welcome to TFB Podcast Roundup 78. Spring is pretty much here and that means all sorts of hunts are coming! Turkey, hogs, spring bear, prairie dogs, and all sorts of predator hunts open up starting in spring and that’s when you’ll see a lot of great podcast [Read More…]
Hello and welcome to TFB Podcast Roundup 77! This week we’ll be hearing from some brand-new podcasts as well as our old favorites. Some of the podcasts today cover pretty cool stories from US warfighters as well as some timely coverage on the nature of [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…]
Brandon Herrera started The AK Guy several years ago and embarked upon a crazy idea, that of making a .50 BMG Kalashnikov rifle. The AK50 is still yet to come to fruition but what is really fascinating is the journey that Brandon took and all the trials and errors that happened along the way. [Read More…]
Earlier, Brandon Herrera, also known as “The AK Guy“, announced that he had established a company to start offering AK products and to introduce the AK-50. The company is called AKG Industries. Several days ago, Brandon announced the launch of the first [Read More…]
Brandon from The AK Guy was out at SHOT with his design for his AK50, a Kalashnikov inspired .50 BMG rifle. He only came out with it on the second day of SHOT, because he ran into some trouble with the regulations, but not the law. The hotel he was in has rules about [Read More…]
Perhaps 2016 is going to be the year of the “fifty” caliber toys and mods. Anything, really, to distract us from new colors… 🙂 Beck Sports LLC (out of Fort Worth) is playing around with a “new” round they are calling the “.510 [Read More…]