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What a great Photo Of The Day! This is from the 2024 International Sniper Competition where Sgt. Paco Casas and Sgt. Benjamin Jean-Jourdaine from France fire their rifles at their assigned targets. This is during the “TI-89” event on the Galloway Range at Fort Moore, Ga., in April 2024. It looks like they’re using firearms from their U.S. friends, with the Barrett MRAD and M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System. The scopes are Mark5 HDs from Leupold but with different magnification ranges.

Welcome to another Photo Of The Day! Today’s selection features a Honduras special operations team member as he spots a target at the sniper event during Fuerzas Comando 23 at Sierra Prieta, Dominican Republic, June 2023. Twenty-two countries competed in Fuerzas Comando (FC23), a special operations force skills competition, to earn the title of the country with the “best special operations force in the Americas” between June 12-22 in the Dominican Republic. The sniper rifle is a Barrett MRAD with a Leupold riflescope.

Welcome to TFB’s Photo Of The Day! Today’s selection features a lot of snow and cold, and a furry beast. In terms of firearms, we have the Heckler & Koch HK416N, the SA80 in full winter camouflage and most likely an M4 carbine.

Photojournalism is the process of telling stories using the medium of photography as your main storytelling device. While a journalist will use their pen and paper to tell stories, a photojournalist will use their camera to capture the visual representation of a story. The photographer Torbjørn Kjosvold from the Norwegian Defence does a great job at this. In this Photo Of The Day, we have snipers from the Norwegian Telemark Battalion during an exercise in Oslo. There isn’t much information about what’s going on, but I think the photos are quite telling anyway?

Photo Of The Day and what a nice place to be! The Norwegian Armed Forces ordered the Barrett MRAD already in 2013, so you can call them early adopters for sure. For the United States Army Precision Sniper Rifle contracts,  Barrett have now made over a thousand MRAD Mk22s. Here we can see Norwegian snipers as they engage targets beyond 2000 meters, while they have instructors observing them. The pictures are from July 2018 during the ISTC Desert Sniper Course and the location was Chinchilla Training Area in Spain. I bet mirage from the heat was an issue.

Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc. has now made one thousand MRAD Mk22 rifles to fulfill the United States Army Precision Sniper Rifle contracts. MRAD is short for Multi-Role Adaptive Design, and it’s designed with a focus on precision and modularity. The upper receiver is machined from 7000-series aluminum, monolithic in design for strength, with a full-length M1913 Picatinny top rail.

The Barrett MRAD (Multi-Role Adaptive Design) with a Schmidt & Bender riflescope is how today’s Photo Of The Day is introduced. The sniper is from Norway and you can see a spent .338 Lapua Magnum being ejected. The Norwegian Armed Forces ordered the MRAD already in 2013 and it’s in use by several ordinary and special units, including the Police. Below you can see them running into position, unfortunately, they did not have a good day in the competition. Note the mirage band on the MRAD. Does anyone know who makers it?

In this episode of TFB TV, James Reeves goes to Surefire’s Precision-a-Palooza at Accuracy 1st in Canadian, Texas. James gets to spend a day behind the Barrett MRAD, the rifle that was just selected by US SOCOM as the new Mk22 sniper rifle. We learn the ropes of shooting through the wind with Todd and Colby Hodnett, and Ray Helms of the X-Ring channel walks us through this outstanding precision rifle. Check Ray’s channel here: https://youtu.be/p_O85-qz70U

The “Cold War” photo below is pretty cool, where we have a Hind Attack Helicopter flying over Norwegian CV90 light infantry vehicles in Poland.

There are very few pictures of the Barrett MRAD and even fewer of them in Norwegian hands. This Photo Of The Day intends to improve this obvious shortage. The Barrett MRAD was ordered by the Norwegian Armed Forces in 2013 and is in use with Norwegian Special Operations Forces since 2015. They use the caliber .338 Lapua Magnum, but they also have the .50 BMG in their Barrett M82 s. The riflescope is a Schmidt & Bender, most likely the 5-25×56 PMII model.

Photo Of The Day – For the first time in a very long time we got a tip from one of our readers “down-under” and quite an interesting one. The picture is from a New Zealand Army sniper course. One of the two soldiers who managed to pass the course is the New Zealand Army’s first female sniper.

Barrett MRAD rifles were introduced to the snipers of New Zealand in 2018 replacing their 7.62mm AI Arctic Warfare sniper rifles. That’s the topic of our Photo Of The Day. New Zealand acquired 42 MRAD sniper rifles. The MRAD has a fully adjustable match-grade 2 stage trigger, adjustable and folding stock and muzzle brake with external threads to mount a suppressor.

POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, is TFB’s recurring articles where we try to find the best pictures out there and look deeper into some of the Dark Ops out there. Today we take a look at Operators from the Norwegian Special Operation Commando (NORSOC) on an industrial area during exercise Oslofjord 2019.

Designed to compete in the 2009  Precision Sniper Rifle (PSR) competition, the Barrett Multi-Role Adaptive Design or MRAD was born.  While it wouldn’t be chosen for the PSR of 2009, it would be selected as the Department of Defense (DoD) newest Advanced Sniper Rifle (ASR) in 2019.

One of the great things about the gun community is the variety of experiences you can have over time. Whether it’s sporting clays or tactical carbine classes there are always new techniques and skills to learn. Shooting drills and doing transitions while using night vision was one of the best experiences I’ve had in a long time. Recently on my trip to Vortex Optics HQ, we did a condensed night vision course and I was able to use a variety of different systems.