A reader (who did not leave a name) sent in this photo of a post apocalyptic style shotgun he made from a broken and rusted $30 Rossi single shot … This started out as a thirty dollar broken Rossi single shot that I bought from a pawn shop. After a little bit of [Read More…]
Pete sent us photos of this beautiful custom short barrel shotgun be built. He has named it “The Woodsman”. It started life as, circa. 2000, as a Remington 870 Police Magnum. Rose Action Sports cut the barrel, crowned it and threaded it for choke tubes. [Read More…]
At the 2014 NASGW show, Adaptive Tactical announced the new 10 round detachable, box magazine conversion kits for Mossberg shotguns. Previously, the company offered 10 round rotary magazines. Responding to consumer demand, the company is now offering the same capacity [Read More…]
American Tactical Imports (ATI) was showing a pair of new shotguns at the recent NASGW show in Little Rock, Arkansas. The new Alpha shotguns are semi-auto guns that use an inertia recoil system. Two models will be offered initially. The Sport model has a polymer stock [Read More…]
Expected to be ready for the 2015 SHOT Show, the prototype of the American Tactical Imports (ATI) Double Trouble was on display at the recent NASGW show in Little Rock, Arkansas. The gun is an over/under shotgun with a polymer pistol grip stock and fore arm. Due to [Read More…]
California Waterfowl (CWA) recently had a fantastic fundraiser dinner at the Pacific Rod & Gun Club here in San Francisco. James Beard Award winning Chef Hank Shaw was the lead attraction and his thing is that everything he eats is either hunted, fished, foraged, or [Read More…]
In the competition and tactical shotgun worlds, speed loading is quite the interesting topic. The traditional weak/strong hand “load 2” and “load 4” techniques seen many years ago in Europe and have since made their way to the U.S. have inspired [Read More…]
Recently, World Conflict Films promoted some combat footage from a Ukrainian infantry battalion named the “Donbass Battalion” in action against rebels in the Ukraine. Some of the Youtube movie is very revealing as to what the Ukrainan forces are actually [Read More…]
Firearms Ignorance of the masses… In Most of Africa, and in some other parts of the world, the superstition and mysticism perceived as behind the use and effect of firearms is more prevalent than common sense or science. Most people around here, even the educated [Read More…]
Wembley is an area within the London borough of Brent, on the far western side of the city. Beginning in the 1950s, large numbers of immigrants from the Asian subcontinent began migrating to England and thus it is rich with the Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi [Read More…]
Royal Nonesuch, made his own .410 revolver carbine out of some scrap metal. It is a four shot revolver and even though it is rough looking, it seems to shoot rather well. Later in the video he shows how dangerous this gun build is, with regards to the [Read More…]
Savage Arms announced the release of a new over and under shotgun called the 555. The shotguns were first shown at the 2014 NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits, and are now part of the company’s line-up. The shotguns can be had in 12- and 20-gauge, and will [Read More…]
Kalashnikov manufactured Saiga 12 and VEPR shotguns will be fast running out of stock, if they haven’t already. Atlantic Arms, a well known retailer of Russian and Eastern European firearms, ran out of all Saiga 12 shotguns on 17 July (VEPR shotguns are still [Read More…]
Over at All Outdoor Oleg Volk shoots the VEPR 12 shotgun and he likes it…. The shotgun comes equipped with RPK light machine gun open sights. At first, I was confused by the decision to make 1,000-meter adjustable sight with fairly short radius on a shotgun, but [Read More…]
UPDATE: Chris Cheng was at the event and has posted up live pictures of the new suppressor mounted to various Mossberg, Remington, and Benelli weapon systems. I’ve been hearing rumors of new 12-gauge suppressors from a few manufacturers for awhile, but [Read More…]
In Fremont Township, MI, a woman was “trying to make a point” and to help illustrate this point, she grabs a shotgun and slams the butt of the shotgun onto the ground. The shotgun fires and the blast catches her in the face.The woman was taken to St. [Read More…]
TriStar arms is adding to their affordable line of semiautomatic 12-gauge shotguns. With a MSRP of just $609 for a 30″ shotgun with interchangeable chokes, its priced right for those on a budget. For 2014, TriStar Arms has expanded the Viper G2 semi-automatic [Read More…]
Advanced Technology International announced four additions to the company’s Raven line of adjustable shotgun buttstocks. The new models cover the following shotguns: Mossberg 930 Benelli Supernova Remington 1100 Remington 1187 The stocks should ship by the end [Read More…]
Lage Manufacturing have uploaded new videos of their long-in-development-not-for-sale prototype machine gun / shotgun patterned after the famous M-41A Pulse Rifle (from the Aliens movies). The MAX-41A incorporates an unmodified M-11/9 lower receiver (registered [Read More…]
The famous curse of the breaking plastic safety buttons on Mossberg pump-action shotguns has finally hit me. My tang broke (Sounds like the punch-line of a dirty joke!) and I FIXED it, like a boss! I fabricated a new tang from a bit of aluminum, dremelled it into shape/ [Read More…]
So this picture was on social media. Shooting Illustrated posted this on their Facebook page and it looks like it was spotted at the NRA show. From the picture it looks like a modified Kel-Tec Shotgun. I am not really seeing the benefit to a double barreled pump [Read More…]
Dupleks, a Latvian ammunition company was show-casing their environmentally friends (and what looks to be highly effective) steel ammunition. They have multiple options including a similar segmenting slug design to the recently reviewed G2 R.I.P. Up first are two [Read More…]
When I founded TFB back in 2007 the gun market was very different. AR-15s were very popular, but they had not permeated all the way through gun culture (best exemplified by Outdoor Channel personality Jim Zumbo’s Terrorist Rifle blog post/rant). Meanwhile [Read More…]
TriStar arms has released a shotgun specifically for turkey hunters. Made in Mossy Oak Break Up, and has a 3″ chamber and 24″ barrel. For a MSRP of $489, there are several upgrades that you get with this shotgun including a picatinny rail, ghost rings [Read More…]
Having shot the TrAAcker wad for 12 guage that Winchester came out with just over a month ago at SHOT, I can say that them offering it in 20 gauge will be nice for sportsman looking to maximize their hits with their shotgun. Not being a huge wing or clay shooter [Read More…]
Strangely enough, the state of Nebraska has a surprisingly in-depth and comprehensive history of the shotshell hosted on its Game & Parks Commission website. According to this amusingly well-researched compendium, the inventor of the first shotshell is unknown, [Read More…]
Tactical gear manufacturer Crye Precision debuted their first firearm at SHOT Show. Instead of entering the firearm industry the easy way with a branded AR-15 they enlisted the skilled gun designer Eric Burt, who has previously worked on the AAC Honey Badger and Magpul [Read More…]
Safety Harbor Firearms manufacture the Kompact Entry Gun (KEG) short barrel pistol-gripped shotguns build upon Mossberg 500 and Remington 870 receivers. Their guns are classed as AOW (All Other Weapons) and so do not carry the hefty $200 stamp required to purchase [Read More…]
TriStar Arms introduced a new tactical shotgun at the SHOT Show called the Cobra Marine. The shotgun has an 18.5″ barrel and is finished in brushed nickel. It has a synthetic stock. The forearm has a Picatinny rail allowing for the addition of a white light [Read More…]
Winchester Repeating Arms is introducing two new shotgun variants at the SHOT Show. The first is a Super X3 variant and the second is a Super X Pump model. The new Super X3 is called the Long Beard. It is designed for turkey hunting and takes 3 1/2″, 12 gauge [Read More…]
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