Robin Šebo was born in 1988 and has been a sport shooter since 2007. His hometown is Ostrava, Czech Republic. He had quite good success with his competition. In 2008 he started with IPSC and he placed 4:th at the IPSC World Championship in USA. He also runs Sebo [Read More…]
Kalashnikov Concern has released a video of their MP-446C VIKING-M competition pistol in action via their Kalashnikov Media site. The video shows the pistol running some drills and breaks down some of the weapon’s features and attributes. Designed for competition [Read More…]
Vitaly Kryuchin is the president of IPSC Russia. You have probably seen him in videos where he makes music by shooting at different steel targets dual wielding and hip firing two Glock pistols. If you haven’t seen these videos, you can watch them by clicking [Read More…]
Wilson Combat launched a video series on their YouTube channel where Bill Wilson and Ken Hackathorn talk about guns and practical shooting. The series is called Gun Guys. What makes it especially valuable is that they share their experience and tell stories from the [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day is a series of pictures I took a few years ago. I spent a few days with this Italian Ferrari-like beauty, made by Armi Dallera Custom or ADC for short. An European AR15 in full race specification for IPSC or other Practical Shooting [Read More…]
USPSA have been doing the provisional “Carry Optics” for a while now. IPSC just decided to let the new Division “Production Optics” have a go as a trial, until the end of December 2020. You can check the IPSC rules in the picture below for [Read More…]
The new Walther PPQ Q4 Tac is ready for the new Provisional IPSC Production Optics Division. As you can spot, it’s also Suppressor ready. TFB will cover more about the new IPSC Production Optics Division (USPSA calls it Carry Optics) in future articles, but in [Read More…]
The 131:st IOC Session in Lima has decided that Shooting is confirmed on the sports program of the Olympic Games 2024 in Paris, France. For Olympic Shooting Sports we need gun powder, not lasers! Shooting has been parts of the Olympic Games since the beginning, and [Read More…]
Today the Main Match for the 2017 IPSC Handgun World Shoot XVIII starts, at the new National Shooting Sport Center (CNTS) in Châteauroux, France. The last IPSC Handgun World Shoot was held in Frostproof (such a cool name!), Florida, United States in 2014. The weather [Read More…]
When I first had a quick look at the MBX “Fang” I thought it was a monopod, like the Accu-Shot, and thought why didn’t they make it adjustable? How do I go prone with this on my rifle? I continued reading and while I still have a lot of doubts as if my [Read More…]
I know Robert Wright of R and R Targets since the World Shoot Shotgun 2012 (Debrecen, Hungary) where we stayed in the same hotel and competed. For a little more than a week we did our best to smash down steel targets and clays as fast as we could. I remember we had so [Read More…]
Let’s begin with the story behind the invention of this product. As with many other great inventions, it started with restrictions due to legislation. In Germany you’re by law only allowed 10 round magazines, or 20 round magazines limited to 10 rounds. [Read More…]
Russia hosted the first ever Rifle World Championship, practical rifle shooting according to the IPSC rules. TFB flew to Moscow, armed with a Troy rifle and a camera, to document the occasion and to compete in the main match. 30 stages of world class practical shooting [Read More…]
Jerry Miculek, the legend of rapid firing, is in Russia taking part in the practical shooting Rifle World Championship. In the video released by Kalashnikov Concern, Jerry tries the new pump action AK (KSZ-223) and looks like he likes the gun. There is also some footage [Read More…]
Our own TFB writer Erik B. is a member and champion IPSC shooter on the Swedish National Team. Erik sent us this photo of the new team jersey with the important sponsors of the Swedish Team. It just so happens that the TFB patch was chosen as one displayed on the [Read More…]
The first practical shooting Rifle World Championship will take place in “Patriot” park in Russia from May 25 to June 11, 2017. It is going to be a pretty large event with 850 shooters from 45 countries participating. However, some shooters faced a problem [Read More…]
Lately, they’ve been leaked images and videos of the Kalashnikov Concern’s new pump action rifle. We’ve covered all that information previously. Recently, the company has published an official news release and a video announcing the release of the [Read More…]
The first ever IPSC Rifle World Shoot in Russia is less than two months away. This is a prestigious event for Russia, and the shooting range looks absolutely fabulous. As long as all competitors can get themselves and their firearms into Russia (and out!), I am sure the [Read More…]
Russian company “Souz TM” (a.k.a STM Arms) has introduced a new competition pistol called PE-10 (ПЕ-10). It is specially designed for practical shooting competition use – IPSC Standard division (major power factor). The pistol is chambered in .40 [Read More…]
Let’s take “gaming” to a whole new level, shall we. Loke Uei Tan, a self proclaimed geek and USPSA shooter, spent a few months developing a virtual reality shooting simulator for the Oculus Rift. Dubbed the ‘Practisim VR’ the [Read More…]
Plinker is an automated target company that is bringing to market a dual target system that can be swung into place and controlled off a electronic device. It works off of a pneumatic operated canister that propels the target frame into and out of place. The system is [Read More…]
Six 8″ plate targets, from draw and 7 meters, in less then 10 seconds with a 9 mm handgun was the mission. Doesn’t sound too hard, even for me! But Max Michel – IPSC Handgun World Champion – had a much lower time in mind. His target was below 2.5 [Read More…]
We’re a little late for the 2016 season, but we all hope you got a nice Christmas tree for your Holiday. The method practiced by Ms Pia Clerté to get hers is a bit unorthodox, but it seems to get the job done. I’m surprised it only took one shot, trees can [Read More…]
Sultan Muhammad V of Kelantan was crowned Yang di-Pertuan Agong (Monarch and Head of State of Malaysia) December 13th. He is known to enjoy shooting sports. Thanks to Azril for sending us this link and photos. On 15th December 2016. The recently crowned as new [Read More…]
Russia is hosting the first ever Rifle World Championship in IPSC history. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation seems to do everything they can to offer an unforgettable week of rifle shooting. The heart of IPSC rifle competition will be the “Patriot [Read More…]
IPSC – International Practical Shooting Confederation – have a list of World Record holders in shooting. The World records are based on the number of points actually achieved by a competitor at an IPSC Handgun World Shoot, then multiplied by 100 and divided [Read More…]
Uronen Precision from Finland is not unknown to regulars of TFB. Earlier this year we wrote about their new calibre .300 UP. It’s a small family company, but they do a lot of clever R&D and when they’re not busy developing new calibers they from time to [Read More…]
IPSC (International Practical Shooting Confederation) in Russia is a huge success, and is showing tremendous growth with some 30 000 members. I can’t think of any region which could be larger, and there are now regular sponsored events. The Russian World and [Read More…]
Kalashnikov Concern in partnership with “Kontinental Shooting League” (part of IPSC) held a practical pistol shooting competition called “Kalashnikov Cup”. Matches lasted three days (October 20 to 23) and were hosted in “The Object” [Read More…]
Saul Kirsch is the General Manager of Double-Alpha Academy, based in The Netherlands. During the first week of October his company participated in the European Handgun Championships (IPSC) in Hungary, where they also released their new holster: Alpha-X. I had the [Read More…]