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NC Star Tactical Blue Laser
When visiting the NC Star booth at SHOT Show this year the big attraction was the company’s introduction of their new “Tactical Blue Laser” devices . Touted as the “first blue laser technology”, NC Star is hoping to promote blue light lasers over traditional red, or even green lasers. The NC Star “Tactical Blue Laser” comes […]
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TFBTV: Benelli 828U At SHOT Show Range Day
George Thompson of Benelli gives James and Alex the details on the new 828U – Benelli’s first over and under shotgun. MSRP will start at $2,500 for this handsome over-under. Sorry about the ambient range noise, the shotgun line was very active during our interview. Don’t forget to subscribe for new videos!
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Bulletproof Wall Goes Balls Deep
SAAB, yes the Swedish Auto Manufacturer, has a defense division called SAAB Barracuda that develops things like this bullet proof wall. Here is their website. The “Soft Armour” uses Lemonhead candy sized ceramic balls as the bullet proof medium. It sort of works like sandbags on steroids By up scaling sand medium to ceramic balls, […]
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Minox ZP8 1-8x24mm Tactical Scope – SHOT Show Optic Preview
Minox is one of the oldest names in the optic business. At SHOT 2015, Minox USA introduced an entirely new tactical line of scopes, binoculars and spotting scopes. The Minox tactical scopes are built by Optronica in Germany. Optronica was the actual manufacturer of the scopes for the now defunct Primer Reticles. Their 3-15x56mm design was selected […]
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Before #CostaGate2015 There Was Japanese Manga Chris Costa
Before Chris Costa strutted his stuff in Japan, in the now infamous #costagate2015, Chris Costa was already famous in Japan. Back when he was working with Travis Haley at Magpul Dynamics, a Japanese publication company immortalized Costa and Haley in a small Japanese Manga. For those who are not familiar with the art form, “Manga” […]
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Bulletproof Dessert
Ok so the premise of the video is misleading. They are not shooting desserts with bullets but rather using a 12 Ga shotgun and shooting what appears to be bird shot. There are four desserts/targets up on the line: Whipped Cream Ice Cream Chocolate Syrup British Custard aka pudding The results are somewhat surprising.
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1/2 Size .22LR Tommy Gun
I was walking around the SHOT Show floor when something caught my eye, it was what looked to be a Chicago typewriter, a.k.a. a Tommy Gun. It was at the same booth as the company behind the DP-12 Double Barreled Pump Shotgun. There was something different about this Tommy Gun though, it was tiny. It […]
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Archangel AAP10/22 Ruger 10/22 Stock
Archangel debuted their new AAP10/22 Precision Rifle stock for the Ruger 10/22 at the 2015 SHOT Show. Like with their other precision rifle stocks it features a click-adjustable cheek weld and an adjustable length of pull. It also features a flared magwell for easy mag changes as well as a storage compartment in the pistol […]
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Sal Fanelli On Mk. 318, M855, And Future USMC Small Arms Ammunition
SADJ has posted an excellent interview with Donald Roebling Award winner Sal Fanelli, a supervising engineer for Infantry Weapons Systems at MCSC. Fanelli commented on the creation of Mk. 318, its modification into the Mk. 318 Mod. 1 “Silver Bullet”, and even the potential for a new caliber for USMC rifles: Why did the USMC […]
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Royal Arms Firearms Products
Royal Arms was established in 1984 to manufacture specialized equipment for breaching, hostage rescue and CQB. They are known as being the original inventor (and oldest manufacturer) of “Breaching Stand-Off Device”, “12 Gauge Breaching Shotgun” and a ton of other related products. They’ve since taken their experience and applied it to other firearms related products. […]
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Big Bore Guns from Wild West Guns
Has anyone here watched Wild West Alaska? I’ll be honest–I never have (and didn’t even know it was a show). I was running tight on my schedule and didn’t do any research before I hit the booth of Wild West Guns at SHOT. I was surprised at how much traffic was hitting the booth as […]
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Thermal Imaging from Armasight
One of the more interesting technologies available at SHOT was some of the thermal imaging equipment. I had the pleasure of visiting the Armasight booths (they had a couple of locations due to some logistical issues with booth assignment). The main booth had a huge monitor plugged into the “video out” of one of the […]
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Strange Guns: Bullpup Ak5 (FNC)
The Ak5 is the Swedish military’s variant of the FNC carbine. The “C” variant is the short-barreled carbine model, now widely used by the Swedish Army. Shorter still, though, is this bullpup conversion of the Ak5, shown below: The image first appeared online in 2013 on the Swedish message board Klocksnack (though the original image […]
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IWI Galil Ace in 7.62 NATO
IWI US will introduce several versions of the Galil Ace chambered in 7.62 NATO later this year. The new guns will be available as both pistols and rifles. The new guns will use SR-25 pattern magazines, and will ship with 20-round Magpul Pmags. Initial rifle offerings will give purchasers a choice of 16″, 18″ or […]
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ProMag AR15 Rollermag
ProMag debuted their new Rollermag at the 2015 SHOT Show. Their new 30 round Rollermags work with any AR15 pattern firearm and features four wheels on an anti-tilt follower. So instead of sliding up and down inside of the magazine it rolls, which Promag says reduces friction and helps the magazine operate more smoothly. They’re […]
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Gun Review: Mongolian Snaplock Carbine
As we wind down this week, putting behind us all the tactical gadgets, fine craftsmanship, and cutting edge technology of the 2015 SHOT Show, I thought it would be good to take a detour to look at something… A bit different. Sometimes it’s easy to put on the ol’ blinders, focus in on a topic, […]
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Strike Industries Glock Universal Optics Mount
It seems like more and more companies are coming out with optics mounts for pistols these days. There was the ALG Glock Optic Mount that was previewed last week and the new Glock MOS Modular Optic System that debuted at SHOT Show 2015. Well Strike Industries just released their new Glock Universal Optics Mount (G.U.M.) as well. Strike Industries […]
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TFB Field Trip: The John M. Browning Firearms Museum
Excluding the occasional gun hipster who throws out “Maxim!”, most gun hobbyists, when asked who the greatest firearms designer of all time was, will answer without hesitation, and with a tone of almost worshipful reverence “John Moses Browning”. It’s difficult to argue with this. Others designed mechanisms more clever (Pedersen, for example), or laid more […]
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Keep Calm and Carry On: The Ruger No.1 is not going away
A cryptic message on the Ruger website about discontinuing Ruger No.1 calibers, along with the fact that they removed all listings for the rifle with the exception of a Lipsey’s special edition Ruger No.1 in .45-70 lead a number of our readers to jump to the conclusion that the No. 1 had been discontinued. The website, along […]
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TFBTV: Ruger’s New Handguns for 2015
Ruger rep Brandon gives James a quick rundown of Ruger’s new offerings for SHOT Show 2015, including exciting new entries to the 1911, LCR, LCP, LC9, and 10/22 lines of product. James gives the new Ruger Commander-sized Lightweight Aluminum/Titanium/Steel 1911 a spin at the end of the video. Don’t forget to subscribe for new videos!
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