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 [Read More…]
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. From NATO‘s Facebook [Read More…]
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. [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day today brings Norwegian CV90 light infantry vehicles in a dry and dusty environment in the Polish Zagan training area during exercise Noble Jump. You can also see the Barrett MRAD (Multi-role Adaptive Design) bolt-action sniper rifle appear below, in [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
PROOF Research announced today that they’ll be providing barrels to the DoD’s extended long range sniper program. These new Barrett MRAD rifles are chambered in Hornady’s new 300 PRC round (that I recently had a chance to try in a different rifle). Here’s [Read More…]
The US Department of Defense has announced that Barrett Firearms Manufacturing has been awarded a near $50 million contract to produce their MRAD sniper rifle to fulfil US Special Operations Command’s requirement for an Advanced Sniper Rifle (ASR). While not [Read More…]
The US Department of Defense has confirmed the procurement of Barrett Firearms Manufacturing’s MRAD precision rifle chambered in .300 PRC from Hornady. The MRAD is currently offered in .338 Lapua Magnum, .300 Winchester Magnum, .308 Winchester, 7mm Remington [Read More…]