This is Part 3 and the last series of pictures from Europe’s Best Sniper Team Competition 2018. You can find Part 1 and Part 2 here, as well as a photo of two Dutch snipers involved in a pretty strange shooting position. Part 3 – The winners The winning sniper [Read More…]
Shootmore Sweden tested the .308 Win product line of the Lithuanian ammunition manufacturer GGG at an outdoor shooting range.They had some challenges with mirage and wind, but you can find some conclusions in the pictures of the 5 shot groups below. Facts about [Read More…]
Federal Premium has managed to secure a 5 year long contract with three National Police Agencies over three Nordic countries. The contract includes both the 5,56×45 mm Tactical Bonded and the .308 Win Tactical Bonded ammunition. Read the full press release below: [Read More…]
In some areas of the World, there are serious restrictions on what you are allowed to hunt with. There are restrictions on the action of the rifle, the barrel length, how the stocks are designed, magazine capacity when the rifle was designed and so on. Troy of USA have [Read More…]
In some countries, the Police will not allow a firearms license for a “military looking” rifle on a hunting permit, and sometimes not even on a target shooting permit. One of the examples, but there are more, is in Sweden. Attributes like pistol grips, [Read More…]
Aimpoint at SHOT Show – so what’s the big news? Not much really in terms of big news – but the small news there was seem to have escaped the World unnoticed. Until now that is. As you can see in the pictures there is a new Aimpoint T2 in Ceracote Flat [Read More…]
In 2008, some people on chainsaw training in Sweden cut down a tree. The tree came down, but so did also a Carl Gustaf Kpist M/45 submachine gun. The tree had grown for years and years and had started to consume the M/45 bit by bit. It had become a part of the tree and [Read More…]
U.S. Marines have participated in the Swedish Basic Winter Warfare Course. These pictures were taken by Staff Sgt. Marcin Platek in January 2018, located in the North of Sweden. The location more exactly is Arvidsjaur, Sweden, where a lot of car manufacturers torture [Read More…]
A man in Sweden has been prosecuted for 3D printing illegal firearms With a help of a 3D printer, he manufactured two illegal firearms and accessories in plastic. In July 2017, the Police did a house search based on that there should be illegal firearms at the [Read More…]
I absolutely love this picture! I’m not a boat guy and you might ask what is this photo doing on a Firearms’s Blog? In case you didn’t see it yet, there’s a machine gun in the front, sorry, bow. The boat is a Smuggler 28 Patrol at Base East [Read More…]
During September 2017 there is a large Military exercise in Sweden called Aurora 17. It’s the largest Swedish military exercise in over 20 years, and there are a lot of awesome photos and videos in the media stream. Almost 20 000 soldiers from the Swedish Armed [Read More…]
Every other year the Swedish company Aimpoint invites Police officers and Military soldiers from multiple countries to demonstrate their products. The location is the military shooting range in Ravlunda close to Malmoe in the Southern part of Sweden. B&T and [Read More…]
The firearms dealer GP Rifle posted a really interesting hunting rifle, developed for the driven hunt. The basis of this rifle is a Tikka T3 Super Varmint with a fluted bolt and parts in titanium and carbon fiber. The chassis is a XLR Carbon chassis with a pistol grip [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day is Short Action Precision’s Two Round Holders. I waited a long time to get these. A friend bought them for me, forgot them, forgot them again and time went past. To be honest I probably don’t need them. But I buy a lot [Read More…]
The Swedish Championships with Carl Gustav M/45 was held on August 25 at the Shooting Range Spillepengen in Malmoe, Southern Sweden. The competitors shooting fully automatic Carl Gustav m/45 sub-machine guns are probably the least tactical people you will find. And I [Read More…]
Make sure you watch the first 20-30 seconds of this video from Aimpoint – it’s full of action! It features real in-competition clips from IPSC Practical Shooting with handgun, rifle and shotgun by some of the World’s Best Shooters. I spot at least [Read More…]
Four armed and masked robbers were hunted by the Swedish SWAT in Gothenburg. They managed to hunt and locate three robbers. After some more searching they managed to find the fourth robber in the vicinity. The SWAT Team were seen carrying LWRCI IC-Enhanced (IC-E) [Read More…]
Mike takes a look at another early Euro semiautomatic pistol, with which he has a bit of a love-hate relationship: the FN 1903, more specifically the Husqvarna m/07, which is the Swedish version used by their army as late as the 1980’s together with its oddball 9x20SR ammunition. Possibly the [Read More…]
Kalix Teknik is a Swedish company manufacturing adjustable cheek rests for classic/hunting style rifle stocks. They have solutions both for composite and wood stocks. The cheek riser model for the polymer stocks is called CR 1. It is compatible with over 90 rifle [Read More…]
Below you will find details of the different LWRC International (LWRC or LWRCI used as short) rifles used by the Swedish Military and Police, as well as accessories and optics. Behind this article lies literally months of scouting from several people and sources and we [Read More…]
In what appears to be LWRC cornering the Swedish special operations and SWAT issue rifle market, we have yet more evidence of LWRC’s piston operated IC-A5 rifles in usage by the Särskilda operationsgruppen (SOG, Military SOF), the Förstärkt Regional [Read More…]
The long awaited Spuhr stock assembly for the G3/MP5/HK33/53 is now finally available. I tried a fully working prototype during the summer, mounted to the AK4 (HK G3), including the Spuhr hand guard and an Aimpoint. It made the G3 very controllable. The part number is [Read More…]
In an American gun-lover’s dream world, the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934 and the Firearms Owners Protection Act (FOPA) of 1986 would be repealed. Among other regulations, both laws control and restrict the transfer and making of fully automatic firearms. [Read More…]
Almost one month ago TFB, together with the blog Cornucopia, were the first to report that the Swedish SOG and Special Police Units were to get rifles from LWRCI. It’s always risky to be the first, because you may be proven wrong as the story develops. It was [Read More…]
Winter is coming! The Mountain Platoon from the Swedish Arctic Rangers shows off by fighting from snowmobiles. This is a live fire exercise from a moving platform and looks like a lot of fun. The snowmobiles seem to be BRP Lynx. I think the version is called Lynx 800 [Read More…]
There are several independent rumors that LWRC International LLC (USA) has a contract with some of the Swedish Police Units called Reinforced Regional Task Force (Piketen), and most likely other military (SOG) and police units, to replace their aging and somewhat [Read More…]
According to several sources, the Police in Hamburg (Germany), are getting new body armor, helmets, armored cars and HK MP5s and Haenel CR223s. The real news here is the issuing of the Haenel CR223, which is a piston driven AR15 style rifle. Hamburger Mobile [Read More…]
The Sig Sauer STRs and SSG 3000s may not be the coolest looking rifle on the Planet, but they shoot rather accurately to say the least. By the looks of the design and functions, here’s an invention from LRD in Sweden to take the rifle long into the [Read More…]
Swedish Dynamite is a YouTube channel, which had a lot of success lately and spreading. It’s run by “Dynamite Erik” who apart from running his farm is a professional dynamite expert in the northern part of Sweden. History tells us that Alfred Bernhard [Read More…]
MKE – Makina ve Kimya Endüstrisi Kurumu – from Ankara in Turkey has roots going back to the 15:th century. Turkey has a massive army, the Armed Forces number more than 600.000 active people. MKE is one of the main suppliers to the Turkish Armed Forces, but [Read More…]