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A STEAMPUNK Bullpup? It’s the Thorneycroft Carbine, Old Chap!
Looking like the bizarre lovechild of a bolt-action rifle, a boat oar, and those weird prop rifles from the original Planet of the Apes movie, the Thorneycroft Carbine is one of the unsung “firsts” of...
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NEW Double Tap BINARY Trigger for Brugger & Thomet Firearms
Double Tap Arms has released a new version of their binary trigger for a number of Brugger & Thomet firearms including the APC9, APC45, P26, GHM9 pistol caliber carbines and APC223 rifle. The...
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M855A1 EPR Officially Adopted By US Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps has finally officially announced its adoption of the 5.56mm M855A1 EPR round, developed in the late 2000s by the US Army, marking an important step towards ammunition...
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Fire Control Group Manufacturing SK-17 Rifle
SK-17 (Semiautomatic Kalashnikov 2017) is a custom AKM-based rifle built by a company called Fire Control Group Manufacturing. Besides being a custom made rifle, it has several design changes which are...
View ArticleThe Two Way Range Part Two: Returning Fire
In an earlier TFB TV episode, we covered some of the experiences that combat veterans have gone through while under fire. We continue that discussion in this final episode, going into much more detail...
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The Round That Killed JFK
In March of 1963, a man named Lee Harvey Oswald purchased an M38 Carcano rifle and some quantity of ammunition from Klein’s Sporting Goods in Chicago. Oswald would later use this rifle and ammunition...
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New 300 BLK Upper for Pistols, SBRs
Axelson Tactical announced it was now selling an AR upper chambered for the 300 BLK cartridge with a 10.5″ barrel. The new AXE CQB upper is a nearly complete assembly minus the charging handle and bolt...
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Weird Competition Rifle Based on VEPR Super 223
A Russian YouTube gun channel called “practical shooting” has released a video showing an extremely unusual competition rifle. As you can see, it is not just a heavily modded rifle but has a totally...
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7.62x39mm CZ 807s in use by Egyptian Security Forces, Possible option to...
Photographs of Egyptian Security Forces armed with 7.62x39mm CZ 807s have recently surfaced, thanks to the efforts of Egypt Defense Review and Mahmoud Gamal, both in-depth analysts of Egyptian defense...
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Nightforce Introduces NX8 1-8x Variable Power Rifle Optic
The day many tactical optic enthusiasts have been whispering about over the past year is finally here: Nightforce has just announced their long-rumored 1-8 power tactical scope, called the NX8....
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Phoenix Weaponry Christine Rifle Chambered in NEW .45-70 Auto
Phoenix Weaponry has announced the launch of their new AR-10 pattern rifle chambered in a new cartridge called .45-70 Auto. The new cartridge duplicates the .45-70 Government performance in an AR-10...
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Sharps Rifle Company Loses Lawsuit Against Founder
Broadsword Group, LLC, the owners of Sharps Rifle Company (makers of the Relia-Bolt and .25-45 Sharps upper receivers for the AR-15), has been ordered to pay nearly three quarters of a million dollars...
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Limited Edition Savage A22
About a year ago, Savage Arms launched a new line of rimfire rifles called the A22. From the information I’ve received, the guns seem to be selling well. Well enough, it would appear, for the company...
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Pakistani Punjab Police to Rearm: Submachines, M4s, Precision Rifles
Government officials from the Pakistani province of Punjab Province (capital, Lahore) have recently announced through local television outlets and in the Pakistani newspaper Dawn that a small arms...
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Kalashnikov: Around the World. Hungarian AKs (Part 1)
Kalashnikov Media has started a video series called “Kalashnikov: Around the World”. The purpose of these videos is to tell about the Kalashnikov rifles made in different countries of the world. This...
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TFB’s Big Freakin’ Cartridge Test! Introduction
Through the Modern Calibers series of posts, we’ve covered 40 different rifle and pistol calibers, ranging from the diminutive .22 Winchester Magnum to full power calibers like the 7.62x51mm NATO. The...
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BIG Freakin’ Cartridge Test 001: IMI 77gr Razor Core 5.56x45mm, 14.5″ Barrel,...
The first round up for the Big Freakin’ Cartridge Test is IMI’s take on the Black Hill’s classic heavy precision load, Mk. 262. Branded as “77gr Razor Core”, IMI’s version sports annealed 5.56mm NATO...
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.224 Valkyrie AR-15 Introduced by Savage
The .224 Valkyrie may be the most interesting AR-15 round to come out in years, but the question many have been asking in my comments section is: Cool, but where are the rifles? Approaching the 2018...
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Eugene Stoner and His Wondrous AR-10 – RESTORED 1958 Armalite Promotional Video
The Armalite AR-10 is the original lightweight 7.62mm combat rifle – a space-age amalgam of aluminum, steel, and advanced plastics capable of a rate of fire of 800 rounds per minute and weighing just a...
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Google Confuses Rifles with Helicopters, and Turtles as Rifles
Researchers from MIT have recently found a way to trick Google’s image search engines and identifiers into confusing a popular photograph on the internet of three M16s (and one M4) representing...
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