One of my personal favorite firearms manufacturers, Volquartsen, has a great .22LR rifle specifically aimed at the limited class of steel challenge shooters. The Open Sight Volquartsen 22LR rifle is nearly as simple as it gets for a .22LR rifle – it has open [Read More…]
Muzzle brakes are quite useful out on the flat range during a competition or just casual shooting for making faster follow-up shots but they don’t often make you any friends on the firing line. Lantac is proud to introduce their latest addition to the Dragon [Read More…]
Austrian hunting arms manufacturer Strasser has introduced a new bipod called BONE. According to the company, the BONE bipod was developed by combining the best existing design solutions with new innovative ideas, with the goal of creating the most universal bipod. [Read More…]
Firearms policy just to our north isn’t as friendly as it is down here in the States. It is no secret that Canada’s gun culture is constantly under threat from multiple angles, so today we have a bit of good news as well as news that might bode well for the [Read More…]
Savage Arms have announced the addition of half a dozen new products to their line including a left-handed version of their 110 Ultralite and a new defensive semi-auto shotgun – the Renegauge Security. The B-Series Precision Lite, which has an MDT chassis, will [Read More…]
Savage Arms recently partnered with the Big Game Brew small-batch coffee company to feature their Renegauge shotguns and their Backcountry Xtreme rifle series. The Big Game Brew company donate a portion of their sales to conservation efforts around the country to [Read More…]
Hello and welcome back to another edition of The Rimfire Report! This ongoing series is all about the rimfire firearm world. I’ve recently started watching a series put on by National Geographic called Life Below Zero which details the lives of several [Read More…]
3d Printed Bionic Biathlon New from Anschütz is the Bionic, a Fortner 1827 F action based rifle mated to a lightweight, fully adjustable biathlon stock. Anschütz is the de facto biathlon rifle, with “95% of athletes utilizing Anschütz rifles”. The 1827 [Read More…]
Hello and welcome back to another edition of The Rimfire Report! In this weekly series we discuss, explore, and review various firearms, ammunition, and trends within the rimfire firearm world. This week we’re going to take a gaze into the past and look up 5 of [Read More…]
I consider myself quite lucky to either have hands-on experience with a few uncommon firearms or at the very least talk with people who own them. From a one-off tool-shop prototype of a spring-assisted straight-pull bolt-action Lithgow L1A1 to a very recognizable [Read More…]
Good afternoon dear readers and Happy Independence Day for all our fellow Americans. Welcome back to another edition of TFB’s Silencer Saturday brought to you by our friends at Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturer’s of the eagerly anticipated YHM R9 suppressor. Last [Read More…]
I’ll save you all my standard rant about how awesome rimfire cartridges are and jump right into Tactical Solutions’ latest release. The TacSol Owyhee is a bolt action .22LR rifle built on a takedown platform that utilizes a custom Magpul X-22 Backpacker furniture [Read More…]
We saw already a few items from EDIC Caracal at IDEX back in February, and again the UAE based company plays at home in ADIHEX. In this hunting oriented event, the German subsidiary Merkel was part of the Caracal booth as well, with some high-end models. While Merkel [Read More…]
ADIHEX, the Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition, is an annual event towards the end of the, scorching hot, summer in Abu Dhabi, UAE. As the name implies, this is not firearms dedicated show, but the “hunting guns” area alone is usually [Read More…]
Back in June Enoch Industries announced their 10/22 Odin Chassis. I was excited and a little annoyed at the same time because I had just bought a PMACA chassis for my Ruger Charger. Well, an opportunity arrived and we got the Odin Chassis in for a review. Chassis All [Read More…]
Snipex, a Ukrainian company specialized in manufacturing of anti-materiel rifles, has announced a new rifle called Snipex T-Rex. The new gun is chambered in 14.5x114mm. The model name is given because of the very powerful cartridge and the distinctive shape of the rear [Read More…]
Strike Industries keeps releasing the products that they teased at SHOT Show 2019. Past Friday, they officially launched the Collar Adjustable Gas Block (CAGB) for AR-15 rifles. This device allows to select one of the five gas port size options or even completely close [Read More…]
So, apparently taking my adapted rifle from me is going to stop criminals shooting people with pistols – Lever Release and MARS Rifles officially banned today RIP to my gallery rifle and me taking part in competitions, so much for supporting people with [Read More…]
During the days of IWA 2019, the French manufacturer Chapuis Armes revealed on their Facebook page that Beretta Holding Group had just become their majority shareholder. Below is the full press release. Beretta Holding SA take a majority stake in the French company [Read More…]
I recently came across the work of Marcel Thalmann, a Swiss gunsmith, who has been crafting pistols from worn out K31 rifles. As many readers will know the K31 has a reputation for being a beautifully made service rifle used in Swiss service for over 40 years. The K31 [Read More…]
The catalog of the upcoming Rock Island December 2018 Premiere Firearms Auction includes a lot of incredibly interesting and rare firearms. Fellow TFB writer Matthew Moss has already written an article about some of the coolest guns of this auction. In this article, [Read More…]
Franklin Armory is well known for pushing the envelope and creating some outside the box products that skirt the law to some degree. Take their Reformation. It looks like a short barreled rifle but since it does not have spiral rifling, it is not a rifle. Their most [Read More…]
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ADAR is one of the relatively new Russian firearm brands. We’ve earlier reported about the AR-15 and new straight pull rifle made by this company. During the Arms & Hunting 2018 exhibition, we had a chance to take a closer look at these guns and talk to [Read More…]
Thanks to a friend of mine for alerting me to an issue concerning Safety Harbor Firearms and other manufacturers of .50 cal uppers. These manufacturers received a letter from the ATF. The letter claims that bolt action .50 cal AR uppers can possibly be considered [Read More…]
JL Billet has developed an AR-15 charging handle that turns the semi-auto AR-15 pattern rifles into a straight pull bolt action rifles. This accessory is called Kali-Key. It is primarily designed for the states with restrictive gun laws. According to the company, use of [Read More…]
About a week ago, JMac Customs has published a video where they were shooting a suppressed AK chambered in 5.45x39mm. The standard supersonic ammunition performed as expected, decreasing the sound to a hearing safe level. However, they were also shooting Detroit Ammo [Read More…]
Last week we reported about the Russian ADAR company’s Ladoga straight pull bolt action rifle. Earlier, this company has been publishing images of an AR-15 pattern rifle called ADAR 2-15 that they were preparing to manufacture. And recently, the company announced [Read More…]
As predicted by many Russian experts, the .366 TKM and 9.6x53mm Lancaster cartridges quickly became highly popular in Russian civilian market. This success led Russian companies to develop new guns chambered in these calibers. In this article, we will take a look at [Read More…]
ArmHiTec 2018 arms exhibition was held on March 29-31 in Yerevan, Armenia. There were both local Armenian manufacturers and companies from Russia, China, India and several other countries. In this article, we will take a look at the companies who brought small arms [Read More…]
Normally when you think about a European triple barrel break action hunting firearm you most likely depict a drilling with a triangular orientation of barrels. Karl Hauptmann, a company located in Ferlach, makes triple barrel rifles and shotguns with horizontal [Read More…]
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