#VictrixArmaments

You’re watching and reading TFB’s Photo Of The Day. It’s very unusual to see such a short sniper rifle as this Victrix Armaments Pugio V. The caliber is .308 Win and the barrel length is only 16″. Pugio seems to mean a dagger, especially the kind used by the Ancient Romans, which makes sense with regard to the compact size.

Photo Of The Day and we are looking at a Victrix Corvo V, a sniper rifle in 50 BMG with a convenient carrying handle underneath. Note that there is a spotter in front of the sniper, they blend in as one person.

Have you taken your vitamins today? As you know vitamins have several important functions for your body. Some say vitamins are almost as important as a daily dose of TFB’s Photo Of The Day, and we agree of course. Today we recommend the blue pill. So here’s today’s dose of pictures, but instead of magnesium, iron, calcium and Omega 3, there’s a stunningly beautiful rimfire rifle from the Italian company Victrix Armaments. The rifle is called Venus V Small Bore, here in Orobic-blue.

The number of internet users worldwide will soon reach reach the 5-billion mark. Our world has never been so connected. Great photos can spread like wildfire, but the story and the necessary context sometimes gets left behind. But not in TFB’s  Photo Of The Day. We will always accompany the images with some kind of background and credits where due. Today’s image is from Victrix Armaments and their mighty Gladio V long-range bolt-action rifle. Here’s how they described it:

Photo Of The Day is TFB’s place where you can unwind and just enjoy interesting pictures for a while. While the rest of this blog is stacked with new releases, information and reviews, you can just enjoy the tranquility and beautiful pictures here. We’ve been doing it since 2014 and keep on going, every day of the year. Today we have an Extreme Long Range Rifle from Victrix Armaments in Italy, with a Steiner riflescope sitting firmly in a ROME mount.

We know Victrix Armaments as a young Italian “boutique” manufacturer of precision rifles which was briefly part of the Beretta Group. With those ties gone, the company needed for a different gateway to the American market and it looks like they found a great fit with ZRODelta.

Victrix Armaments, an Italian brand of precision long-range rifles, has announced on their social media pages that another Italian company called  Rottigni Officina MEccanica (ROME) bought the Victrix brand from Beretta. The Victrix Armaments brand used to belong to ROME and was sold to Beretta in 2016. The sum of the deal is not disclosed.

In 2017 Beretta acquired the Victrix Armaments brand from the Italian firm Rottigni.

Over at the BDT booth, I got to check out the new SAKO TRG22 A1.  This iteration updates the venerable TRG22 with the same innovations and features found on the TRG M10, minus the caliber-swapping ability.    The stock folds and adjusts the same as the M10, and the TRG22 A1 now comes with an m-lok fore-end, full aluminum middle chassis, and a bolt with dual ejectors.  The model I got to handle was in 6.5 creedmoor, and the TRG22 A1 also comes in .260rem and .308.  The TRG42 A1 has all the same updated feature sets, but comes in .300win mag and .338 lapua mag.  Another cool feature that I noticed was a notch cut on the front of the barrel for attachment of the same iron sight that comes on the Tikka T3X Arctic.  BDT’s Finnish rep explained that this was included at the request of numerous militaries that have an iron back-up sight requirement for their sniper rifles.  Be ready to pay dearly if you want one, however:  commercial models run around $6000.00.

Italian rifle maker Victrix Armaments has announced that they have been acquired by Beretta Fabbrica D’Armi in a move to bring Italian-made precision rifles to the Beretta line up. Honestly, I can’t remember researching Victrix Armaments in the past, so I’m going to call on our Eurozone readers to chime in down in the comments section with some additional real-world information.