Welcome everyone to the 218th 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 firearms that are actually for sale and ask the question – is this Gat a [Read More…]
Remember the old ALOFS system? It was made in 1924 by Herman Alofs. It was a magazine tube autoloader that you can bolt onto a single-shot break action shotgun. Well a company in Turkey, Sulun Arms, is making modern versions called Auslof, and Canada is importing them. [Read More…]
Welcome everyone to the 159th 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 firearms that are actually for sale and ask the question – is this Gat a [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: The Derya MK-12 semi-automatic shotgun from Turkey has become increasingly popular in sports and target shooting. They now just released a new drum magazine which is worth sharing some pictures of. While forbidden in some competitions like IPSC Shotgun [Read More…]
NEMO Arms, a company primarily known for manufacturing AR-pattern rifles and their recoil-reducing BCG/buffer system, has entered the market of double-barreled shotguns. According to the company, their new line of Over & Under shotguns “will tie in nostalgic [Read More…]
Welcome everyone to the 50th edition of ‘Hot Gat or Fudd Crap?’! HGFC is one of our many series here on TFB and today is our 50th instalment. What a wild ride it has been. If, somehow, you’re new to the series, you’ve missed out! This is where we [Read More…]
Welcome everyone to the 47th edition of ‘Hot Gat or Fudd Crap?’, one of our many fantabulous series here on TFB. If you’re new to the series, this is where we look at the most obscure firearms that are actually for sale and ask the question – is this [Read More…]
Federal’s line of Top Gun sporting ammunition has been a popular choice amongst sport shotgun shooters for years. Two new higher velocity offerings are now available at 1,300 fps in both 1-ounce, 12 -gauge 2 ¾-inch loads in either 7.5 or number 8 shot sizes. Two [Read More…]
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The latest addition to the Black Aces Tactical shotgun line is called The Bullpup Pump – a fairly self-explanatory name. This 12 gauge shotgun is based on a Turkish magazine-fed bullpup semi-auto shotgun converted by Black Aces Tactical into a spring-assisted [Read More…]
IWI Tavor TS12: The Spacegun Shotgun Making a big splash at SHOT Show 2018, the IWI Tavor TS12 shotgun was impossible to walk by without noticing. Even at early hours, there was a line to pick up and handle this thing. This author was expecting a lot more heft, but [Read More…]
So since I posted my last Pawn Shop Finds article, I have been hitting even more gun shops around the state of Michigan. I’ve been looking for unique guns that catch my eye, but the only requirement is they have to be dirt cheap. I love roaming from various pawn [Read More…]
You’ve heard the old saying “everything old is new again”. Well, that applies to the tried and true Remington 870 shotgun. The 870 is probably the most popular police shotgun ever. Remington has given the 870 a facelift with several new magazine fed [Read More…]
In celebration of the company’s 60th anniversary, Italian firearms manufacturer Perazzi has released a limited edition version of their High Tech over and under shotguns. This anniversary shotgun features a high-polished blued finish and markings plated with [Read More…]
What usually makes it difficult to write about rare and obscure firearms is the absence of any visual content (photos, videos etc.) of reasonable quality. If you write about any particular firearm or mechanism and have the description only or a couple of poor images [Read More…]
The 3D printing of various guns, accessories, and parts is probably one of those topics that we’ll be talking about more and more frequently. With the 3D printers becoming more affordable and the technologies and materials improving, more people will definitely [Read More…]
Ballistic Machinist (formerly known as Tactical G-Code) has been designing, machining and testing all kinds of unusual shotgun slugs. You might have seen some of his designs on his YouTube channel or TAOFLEDERMAUS channel. Recently, he announced that he will start [Read More…]
The process of making Link’s slugs is so labor intensive and complicated that it is nothing short of being a true manufacturing process. It is not made by casting which is normally the way most of the lead shotgun slugs are made. TAOFLEDERMAUS You Tube channel has [Read More…]
Benelli has announced that they will be offering a Limited Edition M1014 semi-auto 12 gauge shotguns. The guns will be available for purchase starting from June 2017. These limited edition guns will have a US flag engraved on the receiver to honor the U.S. Marine [Read More…]
Practical or not, short-barreled sawed off shotguns are nothing if not cool. Two short, big bores on a frame with nothing but a pistol grip says “bad***” like little else. Well, they are cool, except when they’re not! So runs the gag in the 2012 crime [Read More…]
Smart Rounds Technologies has designed non-lethal, non-impact smart shotgun projectiles called SmartRounds. These rounds are capable of detecting the proximity to the target and deploy the non-lethal payload right before the impact. The SmartRounds projectiles have two [Read More…]
Thanks to Adam Scepaniak for sharing this. One of my employee’s (the same one with the Tacti-COOL belt-fed 9mm AR) solicited the Hornady Reloading Custom Shop to make him a 12 Gauge Brass Shotshell Die and just received it. Hornady had never made one of these ever [Read More…]
Edward O wrote a review of the QBZ style bullpup shotgun on Outdoorhub.com. The LA-K12 Puma was imported last year into Canada. It is a Chinese made bullpup 12 Ga magazine fed shotgun. According to Edward, the Puma is a collaboration between Lever Arms and the private [Read More…]
Here is a video my friend Brian Miller shared with me. He is testing out a new muzzle brake, he made for his Vepr 12. Check out the second shot. A sizable fireball come out of the ejection port. Is the bolt opening too soon and unburnt powder is escaping out of the [Read More…]
I know, I have a bit of a fanboy problem, but when you are as good and thorough as ShootingTheBull410, its hard not to be. Latest in his everlasting lexicon of ammunition tests is now my personal favorite; testing two types of segmented slugs. The first is the venerable [Read More…]
Ian of Forgotten Weapons and RIA shows us a rather rare shotgun by Andrew Burgess. It is a 12Ga shotgun that folds for concealment. On top of that he designed it to be a pump action. Due to patents on existing pump actions, Burgess designed his pump action around the [Read More…]
Ok so the premise of the video is misleading. They are not shooting desserts with bullets but rather using a 12 Ga shotgun and shooting what appears to be bird shot. There are four desserts/targets up on the line: Whipped Cream Ice Cream Chocolate Syrup British Custard [Read More…]
Silencerco and Crye Precision collaborated to make a SIX12 with a 6 inch Salvo 12 suppressor. Crye Precision integrated the Salvo 12 into the handguard. Still no price or ETA on the release of the Six 12. All the display models at Crye and this one at the Silencerco [Read More…]
Last year we reported that Mossberg will be selling their shotguns in Kyptek Camo. I finally saw one in the wild, so to speak. My local gun shop got at Mossberg 930 in Krytpek Yeti. It stands out amongst the other shotguns. I had the store employee take some pics with [Read More…]
Royal Nonesuch was asked to try shooting CO2 cartridges out of his home made shotgun. The results were rather interesting.
I am not sure if this is real life imitating art, however there does exist a gold cerakoted KSG. This was a limited run, from what I was told by the owner. The pictures does not do the paint job justice. In person, the paint has almost a pearlescent luster to it. The [Read More…]
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