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Full Auto Controllability, Continued: How Do We Define Useful Fully Automatic...
Previously, we talked about the word “controllability”, and what it means in relation to the recoil and ergonomic characteristics of a firearm. If you haven’t already read that article, I recommend you...
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[Red Oktober 2016] Circle 10 AK Compensators
Circle 10 AK showcased their line of muzzle brakes and flash suppressors at Red Oktober this year. In regards to their muzzle brakes, the company makes two thread sizes, 14mm for standard Kalashnikov...
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Will France and Germany Adopt a Unified Weapon? Heckler & Koch Poised to Take...
France has just adopted the HK416 as its new standard infantry rifle, replacing the FAMAS, and Germany is on a path to a new weapon, aiming to divest herself of the controversial G36. This raises the...
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“Tricking your stick with Nate and Trav”– six videos helping set up your AR-15
Haley Strategic Partners has released a series of short videos, where Travis Haley and Nathan LeCompte talk about setting up your AR-15 style rifle. Each of six videos is dedicated to a certain...
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Sneak Peek: Inland T3 Carbine
Inland Manufacturing posted on their Facebook page pictures of their new Inland T3 rifle. It is a reproduction of M1 Carbine with T3 scope mount, also known as T3 Carbine. They’ve developed this rifle...
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Four forgotten firearms designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov
Mikhail Kalashnikov has designed a number of firearms other than AK family of rifles he is famous for. Some of them were experimental, others took part in various trials, but because they lost and were...
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[Red Oktober 2016] Sabrewerks Optic Platforms
Sabrewerks has been making a very indigenous optics mount that replaces the Kalashnikov factory rear sight blocks. The initial unit requires some gunsmithing or least knowledge of complete Kalashnikov...
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[Red Oktober 2016] Dead Air Armament, Rack Grade Ready Cans
Dead Air Armament is a Utah based company that makes a number of suppressors for a variety of platforms to include rifles, handguns, and shotguns. We’re written some posts about the company but haven’t...
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[Red Oktober 2016] A Kalashnikov themed Competition
Red Oktober is an entirely Kalashnikov themed competition that took place at Southern Utah Practical Shooting Range in St. George, Utah. It was primarily by Rifle Dynamics, along with a number of other...
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Hodgdon Announces New Powder for 2017
The Hodgdon Powder Company announced it would introduce a new powder in 2017. This new spherical powder is called CFE BLK, and it was specifically designed for the 300 BLK cartridge. This powder is...
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U.S made Soviet VSS Vintorez suppressed rifle
The Vintorez is a suppressed rifle currently in use by a number of Russian Special Operations units. It was used extensively in the Chechen conflict, in addition to popping up in Syria as well. It...
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Modern Intermediate Calibers: Trade-Offs – Bullet Mass
In the last installment, we talked about the trade-offs involved in increasing or decreasing the projectile’s diameter (and, thereby in convention systems, the bore’s diameter as well). One of the...
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A Trip to the Bundeswehr’s Fantastic Defense Technology Museum in Koblenz,...
The history of modern small arms is in part so fascinating because of how many firearms have been developed even in obscure circumstances, and how many of those obscure small arms still exist in...
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BREAKING: NRA moves High Power Matches to Camp Atterbury
In a move that will most likely resonate deeply around the entire NRA precision and rifle competition folks if fully approved in January of 2017, the NRA sponsored Civilian Marksmanship Program High...
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An Affordable Suppressor from Radical Firearms
Jeremy S. at The Truth About Guns reviews an affordable AR-15 suppressor from Radical Firearms that retails for around $350 and comes with a generous lifetime warranty. Jeremy writes … First, some...
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Iraqi Firearms Engraver Noori Sabeh
Noori Sabeh (نوري النقاش) is a professional engraver in Iraq who has made his presence on social media with some excellent engraving work considering the lack of access to materials and tools otherwise...
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PDQ Ambi Bolt Release Review
I’ve always been an extremely big fan of any AR15 extended right side bolt release, whether it was Magpuls BAD lever, or Knight’s Armament’s integrated design. The sheer simplicity and difference in...
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The Honey Badger Is BACK? Meet the New Honey Badger 2.0, from Q
Honey badger doesn’t give a crap, it gets right back up like nothing happened. Dormant for two years after Remington’s announcement that it would come to market, the Honey Badger has appeared again,...
View ArticleTFBTV: Why We 3 Gun: An Expert and Newbie Discuss The Sport
3 Gun is a practical shooting event where competitors use a combination of rifles, pistols and shotguns. Miles, a 3-Gun newbie, and Nathan, an expert, discuss various aspects of the growing sport of...
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Early Selfloading Rifle Mania Continues: The Chauchat C6 Semiautomatic, with...
The first nation to begin serious work on the problem of an infantry rifle that could load itself between shots was none other than the then-military superpower of France. In 1886, the French...
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