The engineers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana, have developed a new takedown system for precision rifles that does not require re-zeroing after disassembly and assembly. NSWC Crane built a prototype of the design using a modified Mk 13 precision [Read More…]
Legacy Sports International, the US importer of Howa rifles, has a new firearm for the precision minded hunter. Howa is glad to introduce their newest offering to shooters with the H-S Precision rifle. This rifle, like many Howa rifles, comes with their sub-MOA accuracy [Read More…]
Expand Your Mind, Extend Your Range Learning about shooting disciplines should always be an ongoing experience. Even those of us with hundreds or thousands of hours of training time can find value in absorbing the shared expertise of others. One book that I have [Read More…]
Medwell Precision Rifles (MPR) a British company, has used the IWA Outdoor Classic International Trade Fair in Nuremberg, Germany to introduce their two new high performance precision rifles, the Vanquish and Wraith. MPR boasts that the Vanquish and Wraith rifles are [Read More…]
At the 2018 SHOT Show, Kinetic Research Group – known for their high quality chassis for Remington 700 and Tikka T3 rifles – displayed something totally new: A complete precision bolt action rifle they called the “SOTIC”, after the Special [Read More…]
At the 2018 SHOT Show Industry Day at the Range, Tikka brought out a surprising new product: The company’s first rimfire bolt action rifle. The T1x, as it’s called, is based in part on the successful T3 and T3x centerfire rifles, but with a redesigned action [Read More…]
Cool promotional video aside, how does the Christensen Arms MPR handle? One of my must-see booths at SHOT in recent years is Christensen Arms. I have really liked seeing their innovations and implementations as a company, and seeing them progress from the bowels of the Sands convention center [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV’s Range Day Coverage of SHOT 2018, James visits CMMG to have a look at their new Mk4 Precision Rifle in .224 Valkirie and the new 9mm Guard AR15, which is Glock mag compatible. From CMMG’s press releases: *CMMG Mk4 .224 Valkyrie* The new CMMG Mk4 rifle in 224 [Read More…]
Christensen Arms, like many manufacturers, will be attacking the precision or long-range shooting market in 2018. Modular and tactical-style stocks are all the rave currently and a company known for pushing the envelope with carbon fiber barrels is not going to miss out [Read More…]
A new Rifle Chassis from Magpul will make this year’s spring warmer and more welcome than ever. The name is Magpul Pro 700 Rifle Chassis and it’s based on a full billet aluminum skeleton clad in polymer. The idea was to make chassis full of features, as [Read More…]
There are lots of timeless firearm debates to throw all of your shooting friends in a frenzy. They are sometimes more dangerous than talking about politics at Thanksgiving dinner. 9mm vs. .40 S&W… Glock vs. 1911… Black vs. Flat Dark Earth… Keymod [Read More…]
Along with the recent defense deal that the United States is in with Ukraine over Javelin anti-tank missiles, is the news that the State Department just approved an export license for Barrett Firearms to sell M107A1s to Ukraine. The Ukranian military has had a constant [Read More…]
Government officials from the Pakistani province of Punjab Province (capital, Lahore) have recently announced through local television outlets and in the Pakistani newspaper Dawn that a small arms procurement program for the provincial law enforcement forces is [Read More…]
There is something very satisfying about a precision rimfire rifle. Especially one that is suppressed with a capable silencer. A company called Vudoo Gunworks is producing a line of rimfire guns with some impressive specifications (and prices to match). Sporting [Read More…]
Vertebrae is a small European company based in Bergen, Norway. They are specialized in designing long-range shooting products. They design products both for their own brand and for other companies in the industry. We have earlier wrote about the bipod this company [Read More…]
The bloody battle for the Syrian city of Raqqa has been since been won by the Kurdish Peshmerga with U.S. support. But while it was raging, we wrote about the Polish volunteer fighting with the Peshmerga with a public name and Facebook book title of Archer. After [Read More…]
Kimber Mfg. announced a pair of new precision bolt action rifles. One is the Advanced Tactical SOC II and the other is the Advanced Tactical SRC II. All versions of these guns offer a sub 0.5 MOA guarantee. According to the company, the Advanced Tactical SOC II is a [Read More…]
From the Ukrainian company Xados that brought us the MG34 lookalike .50 BMG Rhino Hunter, now comes a 14.5x144mm anti-material rifle, recently at Arms and Security 2017 held in Kiev. The rifle manually loaded with each round by inserting a round into an open chamber, [Read More…]
The shooting world has become completely infatuated with 6.5mm calibers over the last couple of years. Hornady may have ignited an avalanche of support when they introduced the 6.5 Creedmoor and now they have another trick up their engineering sleeves. Originally [Read More…]
As a professional (fine, amateur) It is important to realize and understand your limitations. For example, as someone who is inexperienced in long range shooting, I can explain minute of angle (MOA) to the uninitiated using a ruler and a crayon, but that’s the extent [Read More…]
The Russian Federal Protective Service ( FSO, a rough equivalent of the U.S. Secret Service), Federal Security Service (FSB, a rough equivalent of the U.S. FBI) and the National Guard have adopted a rifle from the Russian company TsNIITochMash, which produces a bolt [Read More…]
The Northumbria Police serves a population of around 1.5 million people and covers an area of more than 2,000 square miles in the North East of England. Here you can see one of their “Firearms Officers” with a sniper rifle, over watching the runners on Tyne [Read More…]
Competing elements of the Ukrainian Special Operations Command came together recently to participate in a skill of arms testing precision rifle capabilities, teamwork, handgun marksmanship, care under fire, among numerous other skill sets often required by sniper teams [Read More…]
Lobaev Arms is a precision rifle company that produces high power precision rifles in calibers ranging from 6.5mm to .408 Chay Tac. The company is mostly focused on the civilian competition market, although the founder said in an interview to the Russian press that [Read More…]
There is a ton of really great reasons to buy a Ruger Precision Rifle, but Patrick tends to think that the rifle might be too good. So good in fact that it could have possibly damaged the precision rifle market …. or did it? Patrick talks about 5 reasons that the Ruger Precision Rifle has [Read More…]
Ruger (NYSE-RGR) has issued a safety bulletin for Ruger Precision Rifles in a specified serial number range. Please note that this is NOT a recall, but a safety bulletin that only affects SOME Ruger Precision Rifles. Rifles that have a polymer bolt shroud are not [Read More…]
I know I have been guilty of wondering why the heck a rifle that I KNOW shoots well is doing poorly and have suspected everything from action screws, environmental factors and even blamed myself for poor performance on a rifle. Never would I have suspected that I [Read More…]
Ashbury Precision Ordnance Mfg recently announced a new rifle called the Saber M700. As the name suggests, the gun is built on the company’s Saber modular rifle chassis and uses a Remington M700 barreled action. These specific guns are built on the company’s [Read More…]
The Ritter & Stark SLX precision rifle was rolled out at IWA just recently, but no one outside of Ritter & Stark has had the chance to take the rifle out to the range to get an idea what the prototype will do. In this episode of TFBTV, Patrick is still at the Ritter & […] Read [Read More…]
Aybars is a Turkish Twitter analyst who very recently has been sharing a number of very detailed photographs concerning precision rifles among Turkish security forces. Primarily these are from the infantry deployed in Syria, however, he has also focused on Special [Read More…]
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