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Brand New Keystone 722 PT ‘Precision Trainer’ Now Shipping
Back at the 2017 NRA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, we stopped by the Keystone manufacturing booth to check out the upcoming Model 722 PT rifle that they put together with the help of the guys over at...
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AB Arms Now Offering Remington 700 AAC-SD Barreled Actions In .308
Not long ago, the Remington 700 AAC-SD SPS Tactical was sought after by shooters looking for a highly customizable bolt action with a barrel that was factory threaded. Just about every time a shooter...
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NEW: McMillan A5-22 Rimfire Stock For 10/22 Actions
As I continue my parts research for a project I have dubbed “Spark Plug”, I stumbled upon a new stock option from McMillan Fiberglass Stocks. Their A5-22 stock is a rimfire trainer setup that can...
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NEW Piston 5.56/300BLK – Sig Sauer MCX Virtus
Sig Sauer has just released an update to their popular MCX platform. Branded the Virtus, Sig is debuting three of the four new models, leaving one cloaked in secrecy for the time being. Available as a...
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Rio’s Civil Police in Action and Pics
In a previous article (http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/03/03/weapons-rios-crime-war-pmerj-side/), TFB showed some images of PMERJ – Polícia Militar do Estado do Rio de Janeiro in the frontline...
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Portable shooting and training barricades by GTGConsult
GTGConsult is a consultancy and firearms training company based in Denmark. The owner Ebbe Wolff runs various firearms training and is well known as a successful sports shooter. I am sure that most...
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New product: HERA Arms HFGA Multi-position front grip
More companies than Magpul are busy in R&D, and the German engineers at HERA Arms are no exception. HERA Arms just announced a new product to fill up the underside of your Picatinny rail. By the...
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POTD: Full Auto M14 Fired From The Deck Of The USS Nimitz
Photo by Ian M Kinkead PACIFIC OCEAN (June 23, 2017) Senior Chief Gunner’s Mate Matthew J. Rayburn, a native of Beaumont, Texas, shoots an M14 assault rifle aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN...
View ArticleRed Oktober: Kalash Competition
Red Oktober is a competition very unique in the regard that it caters specifically to the Kalashnikov platform. Debuted in 2016 at a range in southern Utah, it attracted a significant number of...
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Suppressed SBR 5.56 Comprehensive Ammo Velocity Test
Where companies and agencies collect this data for a living, few of them will ever share it. Often, especially in the case of companies, the testing is a huge expense and as part of that includes...
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Indian 7.62x51mm Ordnance Factory Board Rifle Fail Trials
The state-owned Ordnance Factory Board’s most recent rifle submission has failed the Indian Army’s initial rifle qualification trials, in the words of the Hindustan Times it “miserably failed”. This...
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FAMAS to H&K 416F Morph
You all know the story about the French Army switching the FAMAS to the Heckler & Koch 416F by now. The first HKs have recently been delivered, and the changing process will continue for several...
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Machine Gun Shoot Ricochet – .950 JDJ Into Man’s Leg
Last weekend, a man attending a machine gun shoot was served up more than just a little belt fed action. Positioned 200 – 300 yards from the targets and backstop, the unlucky onlooker “received” a...
View ArticleTouring Ritter & Stark: High Tech To Achieve High Precision
Ritter & Stark is reasonably new to the market and brings a very young approach to firearms manufacturing. Their SX-1 rifle boasts a .5 MOA guarantee as a result of the precise manufacturing...
View ArticleThe Dust Test: Is the Ruger Mini-14 Unreliable?
In this episode of TFBTV, James responds to comments about the unreliability of the Mini-14. Notably, a number of viewers have mentioned in prior comments that the Mini-14 is especially sensitive to...
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NEW Rifle by Serbian Zastava Arms called MAR (Modular Automatic Rifle)
Serbian Zastava Arms has introduced a new rifle during the “Partner 2017” International Fair of Armaments and Defense Equipment held in Belgrade, Serbia. The rifle is called MAR which stands for...
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New 7.62mm and 5.56mm Rifles Sought by Estonian Center of Defense in $75...
NATO member and ally the Republic of Estonia has released a tender with up to €75 million (roughly $86 million USD) for nearly 20,000 new rifles in both the 5.56mm and 7.62mm calibers, according to...
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New 9mm Carbine: The PRO9V1 from Trojan Firearms
Trojan Firearms announced it was now selling and shipping it’s newest gun: the PRO9V1 9mm carbine. As with many other pistol caliber carbines that have been recently Many people will be happy to hear...
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$52 MILLION Contract Issued to Vista Outdoor for Mk. 311 Ammunition by US Army
Alliant Techsystems’ (ATK) spinoff company Vista Outdoor has won a contract worth $52 million for Mk. 311 Mod 3 frangible ammunition to supply the US Army, with a completion date of June 22, 2022,...
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Dreams Come True (Living Vicariously) – Forgotten Weapons Disassembles the...
Despite using the arguably backward L85A2 (which Ian did a great series on that Nathan S. covered), after World War II, the British were one of the foremost thinkers in terms of individual small arms....
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