Competition at its best! At last year’s IWA, Ziess presented their V8 model with 8 power zoom, giving the Swarovski Z6i some competition at last. This year it was Swarovski Optik’s turn to show their masterpiece, the Z8i. The brand new Z8i rifle scope [Read More…]
Silencers in the last 5 years have gained significant popularity with what is now 42 of 50 states having them legalized for purchase. The most common pathway people are taking to buy them is with a trust. If you want to buy a silencer, you must simply submit a copy of [Read More…]
In this hypothetical situation, what if you were limited to three firearms? What would you choose to optimize your ability to accomplish what you personally need to with firearms? In this video, we give a rundown of what we would pick. Full transcript … – [Voiceover] What if you could [Read More…]
It’s an argument that’s been knocked back and forth at more than one 3-gun event or hunting cabin: does the shooter make the gun, or does the gun make the shooter? Or, in other words, can a subpar or average shooter be made into a superstar with the [Read More…]
The M1895 Lee Navy rifle was a gun that was truly ahead of its time. It’s 6mm caliber and the rapidity with which the user could operate it were both great assets to the user, but why then did they serve for so short a time? Why are they so scarce? Well, in this video […] Read More [Read More…]
Now that I have started getting interested in precision long range shooting, I’m actively hunting for gear. While I have come to believe (and have been so instructed) that learning to manually range find is one of the core skills that all shooters should have [Read More…]
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is opening up a musket range to the public in Williamsburg, Virginia, on March 19th and 20th. That’s right, if you are visiting the Revolutionary War re-enactor/museum complex in Williamsburg, you can attend the public range, [Read More…]
Before 1989, the marketplace for semi-automatic rifles in the USA was much broader and offered consumers many interesting choices. Some 25 years later things have recovered a bit, but still there are many designs from abroad that enthusiasts in the USA simply cannot get ahold of due to arbitrary [Read More…]
It’s a sentence I hear on each and every hunting trip taken for work: “Do you have a flashlight?” Then comes the debate regarding which flashlights are better, which ones last the longest, which shine the brightest beams, and which provide the best [Read More…]
Winchester Ammunition announced an expansion of Deer Season. Well, the Deer Season XP line of hunting ammunition anyway. For 2016, the company added three new loads to the line. The new offerings are in 7mm-08, .30-30 Win and 300 BLK. Deer Season XP loads use a polymer [Read More…]
Hunting can be a lot of fun, but just like fishing there can be hours and hours of waiting for absolutely nothing. Then suddenly there’s more adrenaline (and possibly danger depending on what you’re hunting) that you can dream of. All over in a split [Read More…]
Good news if you live in Germany, and some other European countries. If you live in the US I suppose these will continue to be made in unobtanium, but you’re always welcome to comment below how much you would like them. As I approached the H&K stand at IWA [Read More…]
TriStar, known for their imported Turkish-made shotguns, has announced the expansion of their Over/Under shotgun line with offerings for smaller gauges. Originally released only in 12 Gauge, the Setter brand of shotguns is now available in both .410 and 28 Gauge. The [Read More…]
GA Precision offers some of the most accurate rifles and actions available. Of course, with the amount of work that goes into each rifle, the end result costs as much or more than very high-end optics. Their rifles have proven to be accurate, well built, and [Read More…]
For decades now, companies have tried to release firearms to dethrone the mighty M16/AR15 rifle. While some attempts have been more successful than others (some enjoying even moderate success), all the ones on this list have fizzled out or seem to be losing most, if not all factory support. While [Read More…]
Donald, a very creative TFB reader, emailed us photos of these little laser-cut dinosaurs hunting parties complete with Velociraptors and a rifle-toting T-Rex. The T-Rex looks to be carrying a FN SCAR 17 and a Dragunov. I have a small laser cutter and I am far more [Read More…]
As we all know, the AR15 system is perhaps the most prolific gun platform of all time, with a seemingly infinite number of combinations of barrels, uppers, handguards, optics, and so on. But many of us also live in “ban states,” or those states that have enacted some variation of the [Read More…]
The Automag was originally coming back to market in 2010 after a hiatus from 1982, by a company called Auto Mag Company in Alaska. They were going to come out with a Polished Stainless and a Parkerized version, using the original design. However, that company has since [Read More…]
In recent years .22 trainers like the Smith and Wesson M&P 15-22, the Colt M4 .22, or the HK 416 .22 have taken a bit of focus away from the ever popular Ruger 10/22. I have a strong feeling that has a lot to do with the Ruger looking more like a hunting rifle and [Read More…]
In the comments section of my 6.8mm SPC article last year, I was asked what I thought about future infantry small arms. This is a subject that has dominated my thinking over the past several years, and much of the historical research I have undertaken has been in [Read More…]
Lever-action rifles are fantastic guns whether you’re interested in a walk down Wild West memory lane, looking for a new hunting rifle, or just want a good gun for target practice. Of course, they can also be harder to outfit when it comes to after-market parts, [Read More…]
Wow… Wow… At last – Nirvana, Valhalla, HEAVEN! And no, I have not found Religion, I have found shotgun slug ACCURACY! For more than 8 months now, I had been champing at the bit, and foaming at the mouth to go up north to the middle part of Nigeria, where I [Read More…]
The 6.8 SPC is a relatively young cartridge with a bit over a decade under its belt – or its case, as the case may be. But it’s seen a recent spike in use both among sport shooters and hunters, so it only makes sense manufacturers would continue to expand [Read More…]
Remington announced the brand new V3 shotgun in December and the company has finally (officially) announced the full line specifications. They are already shipping to dealers. What is the Remington V3 you ask? It’s essentially a mid-range priced version of the [Read More…]
The Zeiss Conquest DL series is an update of the Zeiss Duralyt series that was released a few years ago. Scopes of both series are made for the hunting and sporting market. The optical design remained largely unchanged other than the addition of newer lens coatings on [Read More…]
C.G. Haenel GmbH in Germany is most famous for their hunting rifles. However they have now been chosen to supply their RS9 sniper rifle to the German Army, and gone from hunting-boring to tacti-cool in an instant. The German Bundeswehr designation is “G29”, [Read More…]
Burris Optics has announced some new products, in the form of turret adjustment knobs. This system is known as the Modular Adjustment Dial (M.A.D) System and is now currently for sale. Essentially it allows owners of select XTR II™ and Veracity® Burris scopes to [Read More…]
There is some shooting gear that just doesn’t receive the attention and press it deserves, and the shooting mat is one such product. It may not be exciting but it’s extremely useful; if you have ever found yourself without one when one was needed then you [Read More…]
Thompson/Center recently introduced a new centerfire rifle called the Compass. The Compass is a bolt-action rifle that was created “for serious hunters on a budget.” The line consists of ten different calibers. Action The Compass rifle uses a three lug bolt [Read More…]
It’s a frequent argument, one prone to sparking tempers in person and on social media – pretty much any time it comes up. Is shot placement truly everything and if it is, does that mean it doesn’t really matter what caliber of handgun you conceal [Read More…]
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