FN’s 5.7x28mm was designed for a late-Cold-War problem: compact weapons that could outperform 9mm where armor, range, and controllability mattered. It never replaced 9mm, but NATO standardization proved the cartridge was more than a failed experiment.
The Springfield Armory Echelon has been the darling of Geneseo, Illinois ever since its inception for innumerable reasons. The supremely-clever optics mounting system, texturing/stippling that borders on coming from a Custom Shop, a chassis design for ultimate modularity, and flat out performance...
In today’s article, Joe Kurtenbach reviews the Fiocchi Hyperformance SBR Enhanced ammunition. The tested load, the .223 Rem. 77-gr. hollow-point boat tail (HPBT), was provided by the company for this review. “It’s about the most accurate AR ammo I’ve ever tested,” I said to Matt Gan...
I will start with an example of that: a weapon that I had plenty of experience with - MGPK, a combination of German MG 34 and Soviet PKM. It was created for the largest Soviet movie film studio called Mosfilm.
I’m the guy who, once I find a good piece of gear, I’ll probably only use that one thing for the next year as much as possible. Back in 2024, I reviewed the WorkSharp Precision Adjust knife sharpener and it quickly became my go-to for maintaining edges on everything from kitchen blad...
You will find Kings Camo/XKG in Lindon, Utah and they are a hunting apparel brand that has been around since 2002. The two brothers who put the company on the map back then were the ones to debut their terrain-specific camo patterns. A change of guard came in 2013 with Ryan Foutz, Jed Nelson and ...
Between travel for TFBTV filming trips, Daily Life, and trying to keep my iPad charged before flying the helicopter, I’m always hunting for chargers that actually pull their weight. Most either take up too much space in my bag, don’t deliver enough power when I need it, or overheat and thrott...
In the summer of 1918, a new fighter ascended in the German Air Combat Forces, or Luftstreitkräfte, boasting a level of performance that would outpace any of Anthony Fokkers’ famous designs. The Fokker E.V parasol monoplane, eventually known as the Fokker D.VIII, demonstrated tremendous combat...
I have spent plenty of weekends on the clock in all sorts of competitions and classes, including Rimfire PRS , along with a handful of smaller regional and private precision matches, but until this year I had never shot in an NRL Hunter match , and I had never so much as watched its parent discip...
A proposal published on the Democratic Socialists of America’s website would replace the Second Amendment with a constitutional ban covering virtually every repeating firearm owned by American citizens.