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Picking A Truck Gun
When I was a boy, every truck you saw in Texas (even in urban areas) seemed to have a gun rack in the back window with two or three different long guns proudly displayed on it. A rifle or two and a shotgun were not at all uncommon to see inside vehicle windows, but that […]
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The New Black AUSTEYER EF88
Bob sent in this photo he saw on the Australian Army Facebook page. The soldier pictured is from the 3rd Brigade of the Royal Australian Regiment and is using the new Thales AUSTEYER EF88 which has many improvements over the old Steyr AUG. These includes rails, removal of the old 1.5x built-in scope, less weight and more reliable internals. The NZ […]
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Tactical Lamp: Gun Storage at Home
If you own a gun, odds are fairly good you use it for home defense. Although not everyone concealed carries, an impressive number of those who buy guns do so for the purpose of protecting their castle. Yes, there are some hunters out there who do not worry about defense, home or otherwise, but they […]
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Just Right Carbines Expands Offerings
Just Right Carbines manufactures a number of pistol caliber carbines that have an AR-style appearance (and partial compatibility) and use popular handgun magazines from Glock and Smith & Wesson. Two new models have been shown at the recent National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers show. One was the rifle chambered in .357 SIG that was […]
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Winchester to Introduce SXP Universal Hunter
Winchester Repeating Arms is set to launch a new line of SXP shotguns called the Universal Hunter. The new Universal Hunter joins other SXP hunting shotguns such as the Waterfowl Hunter and the Turkey Hunter. The new smooth bore guns will come in both 12- and 20-gauge models. The 12-gauge models will be available with […]
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Winchester Expands XPR Hunter Line
Winchester Repeating Arms announced an expansion of the company’s XPR Hunter line of rifles at the National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers (NASGW) in October. The new caliber offerings will be listed in the 2016 catalog and should be available to purchase after the first of the year. The new calibers for the XPR Hunter […]
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3D Printing 9mm Bullets: Subsonic and Supersonic Loads
A TFB reader recently 3D Printed 9mm caliber bullets and loaded them 9mm Luger/Parabellum cases with subsonic and supersonic loads. The bullets were printed with PLA, a bio-plastic made from corn starch in the USA or sugar cane elsewhere in the world. PLA is commonly used in 3D printers as an alternative to ABS plastic (think lego bricks). It […]
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New SIG Sauer Hunting Optics
Hunters have their own specific set of needs when it comes to optics, and SIG Sauer is responding to those needs with their new Electro Optics line. For the hunters out there they’ve added the WHISKEY series to that line. SIG is calling the new line “revolutionary” and lists the hunting riflescope line as one […]
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MAS 49/56 Run and Gun (the one where everything goes wrong)
The French MAS 49/56 is perhaps one of the most underrated rifles of all time. It is brutally simple, accurate, reliable, and a joy to shoot. It functions via direct impingement in its true form, unlike an AR, and field strips into just a few parts. So after two range trips and burning through a […]
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Tactical Lamp from TacticalWalls
Yes, yes, yes, I know. Tactical is probably the most overused word in the gun industry. But it sells. That said, there is a current proliferation of home concealment options for your toys, and they do provide you a tactical advantage in some cases. A Lamp? TacticalWalls has added a new option to their growing […]
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Corbon 9mm Urban Defense Ammunition
In a fairly quiet manner, Corbon introduced a new 9mm cartridge earlier this year. Part of the company’s small Urban Response line, the new load is the first handgun caliber to be added to the group. The Urban Response 9mm uses a light for caliber bullet moving at pretty fast speeds: 100 grains @ 1,475 […]
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POTD: Squib Round Stuck in Polish P-64 Pistol!
Serellan writes about a recent squib incident he experienced. A squib is when a bullet does not have enough powder to exit the barrel. It is exceptionally dangerous because if you don’t realize the bullet is stuck in the barrel, and then fire another, you could easily a serious KABOOM. He writes … Squib fire with Hornady Critical […]
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Armasight Predator
Armasight introduced a new thermal imaging rifle scope called the Predator. These thermal imaging rifle scopes are designed to be lightweight and compact in addition to being the “most technologically advanced.” At the center of the technology is a FLIR Tau 2 V0x microbolometer core with a pixel array of 336×256 and no need for […]
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CrossBreed Freedom Carry
CrossBreed Holsters announced the addition of a new carry rig to the company catalog. Called the Freedom Carry, it is an inside the waistband holster that uses a combination of materials including a leather backer and polymer shell. CrossBreed Holsters designed this product to work in a variety of carry positions including the appendix position. […]
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Mosin Nagant Golf Ball Launcher
Over Thanksgiving Break I went down to Arizona and got to see some of the new and interesting things that Jeremiah Cohn of Kalashnicohn LLC is coming out with these days (this is the maker of some interesting pistol caliber AKs we blogged about earlier). There will be a full interview with him up here […]
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CZ Scorpion Evo3 Carbine
Colion Noir got his hands on two new Scorpion rifles. They will come in two versions. A muzzle comped version and one with a faux suppressor made by Silencer Co. According to Colion, the rifles variants of the Scorpion Evo3 MSRP price is near $1000. When you factor the stock 922R kit, for the […]
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Magpul PMAG D-60 Now Shipping
Earlier this year we posted about Magpul’s new D-60 PMAG which was supposed to release this summer. Well, better late than never… They are finally shipping just in time for the holidays. The PMAG D-60 is a durable, lightweight, highly reliable 60-round 5.56×45 NATO/.223 Remington polymer magazine for AR15/M4 compatible weapons. With a larger capacity than previous […]
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Review: POF-USA Renegade+
I’ve had a little over a decade of experience with the M-16/AR-15 platform. My first introduction to the platform was a heavily beat-up M16A2 with a bent front sight post that I was unfortunate enough to draw from an armory. From there, my first AR-15 I ever purchased for myself had one of POF-USA’s […]
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863 meter shot with stock Mosin Nagant, vapor trails
Or 944 yards in ‘Merican” if that is how you roll. This video came out in April last year, and for some reason we haven’t covered it yet on TFB. But news aside, with a completely stock, surplus Mosin Nagant, this guy makes a couple of successful shots at an extreme range. We all know […]
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3D Printed Revolver
3D printed firearms have faced much stigma since designers and engineers have began dabbling with different design concepts, and halfway 3D firearms in the case of 3D printed AR15 lowers. However from various conversations with law enforcement, it seems that the general professional consensus is that they are not up to the standard that they […]
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