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Masterpiece Arms Teases MPA 308BA AR-Style Bolt Action Rifle
Hot on the heels of their purchase of custom rifle and barrel maker Spencer Arms, Masterpiece Arms are teasing a AR-15 style precision bolt action rifle they are calling the MPA 308BA. We don’t know...
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H&K HK416A5 Photos
The folks at 762PR Defence PR Marketing sent us some photos of the H&K HK416A5. The A5 model was unveiled late last year and incorporates some of the features H&K developed for the H&K G28...
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Ruger American Rimfire: .22 LR and .22 Magnum 10/22 Style A Bolt Action Rifle
Ruger has just announced the Ruger American Rimfire, a bolt-action rimfire rifle that uses the Ruger 10/22 magazine. As much as I love the .22 cartridge, feeding it is a problem in many guns. I...
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Gun Review: CVA Optima V2 Muzzleloader
This review was written by Dr. Jim and Mary Clary. The CVA Optima V2 was introduced at the 2013 SHOT Show in Las Vegas. Although it has the same name as previous Optima muzzleloaders and the stock and...
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Blue Force Sling Sleeve
This new product from Blue Force Gear looks as useful as it is simple. The Blue Force Sling Sleeve is just an elastic tube that you can thread thought sling through. When putting your gun away in the...
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Building a VSS Vintorez in the USA
A group of netizens from the weapon forum /k/ have bandied together to build a clone of the infamous Russian VSS Vintorez suppressed rifle. A (original) VSS Vintorez. Photo by Vitaly V. Kuzmin They...
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Beretta/Sako TRG M10 Spotted In The Wild
Swedish website Expressen.se published photos of Swedish National Response Team (NI) snipers setting up on someones roof prior to Obama’s arrival in the country. This is the first time I have been the...
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Interesting DIY M1 Carbine Stock
Since August the Royal Malaysian Police have been running ’Ops Cantas’ (Operation Cutover), a nationwide crackdown on organized crime specifically targeting illegally acquired and manufactured...
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Cadex Defence Strike Dual Rifle Chassis Now In … Pink
Quebec firearm accessory maker Cadex Defence was displaying their new pink colored Strike Dual Rifle Chassis at DSEi ’13 in London today. This high-end stock sells for just under $2,400. The new color...
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Exclusive: First Look At The New Beretta ARX-160A3
We have received our first photos of the brand new Beretta ARX-160 A3 which has just been unveiled at DSEi in London. I have not seen a specification sheet for this rifle so I do now know what the...
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DSEi 13: Range Master .50 & .338 Lightweight Tripod
UK firm Range Master Precision Arms unveiled a new tripod that is light and packs down into a small bag, but is sturdy enough to use with heavy .50 BMG and .338 LM rifles. Its carry mag is about the...
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Kurdish Sniper Battery In Syria
There is an interesting video on LiveLeak (embedded below) showing Kurdish snipers in North Syria clearing out an al-Qaeda-linked rebel group from a Kurdish village. The four snipers are using...
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DSEi 13: AEI Twin Magazine Suppressed .50 Rifle
British firm AEI Systems Ltd make everything from 30mm aircraft cannons to bolt action 7.62mm rifles. At DSEi 13 they had a new prototype .50 caliber anti-material rifle on display. The gun has a long...
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Saddam Hussein’s Personal Ruger M77 Sold For $48,875.00
When I wrote about the auction of Saddam Hussein’s Ruger M77 last month I said the estimate sale price of $7,000 – $15,000 was to low. At the low end of that estimate even I was considering bidding on...
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Putin Inspects Kalashnikov AK-12, Transparent Russian AK Magazines, Latest...
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Kalashnikov factory and inspected the new AK-12, AS-1 and the latest version of the AK-74M. What is really interesting is that Kalashnikov appear to be...
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The Romanian Army 5.56x45mm Rifle
The Romanian Army has publicly unveiled the prototype of their new 5.56x45mm service rifle at the Expomil 2013 military exhibition in Bucharest. The rifle does not yet have an official name and is just...
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Degtyaryov DP28 – Semi-Auto Versions For Sale in US
Semi-automatic versions of the Degtyaryov DP28 machine gun are being sold in the United States through AIM Surplus. The DP28 MG was used by the Soviet Union during World War II and beyond. It used...
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The Humble Trapdoor
The Trapdoor rifle design is not one you hear about often. It was a breach-loading stopgap between the end of the muzzleloading era and the emergence of bolt actions. Most of the world went straight...
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Carving in Silence: Obligatory Pumpkin Carving Video
Stag Arms has partnered with TFB to give you the opportunity to win a Model 1 rifle! Enter here.
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Tula ADS Underwater Rifle: A Closer Look
My Russian friend and military photographer extraordinaire Vitaly V. Kuzmin sent us high resolution photos of the new Tula ADS Underwater rifle. It is quite an elegant design when viewed up close...
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