The TKX22 Light Rifle is TANDEMKROSS's first complete rifle, and since its SHOT Show announcement, most of the conversation about it has centered on its $1,449.99 price. Back in April, TK brought a handful of us out to Gunsite Academy in Arizona for the rifle's launch, where we sh...
Surely a highlight of a long, frenetic, and eclectic career in an out of uniform was the work I did on HBO’s “Band of Brothers.” That epic miniseries is passing a milestone 25th Anniversary this year, causing me to review how we managed to capture lightning in a bottle and turn it into the ...
Muskies feed hardest in the weeks before a lake locks up, and if you want the biggest fish of your life, this is the window to target. The reason is biological: muskies carry an innate urgency to feed heavily and store body fat to survive winter, and that drive often overrides their usual caution...
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday, brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturer of the new Victra 20-gauge shotgun suppressor . This week we are taking a first look at a new silencer for review: the PTR Vent 1 . The silencer made quite a splas...
There is a comfortable lie sold by war movies and video games that a tank survives incoming fire simply by being an absurdly thick wall of solid steel. You take a hit, the hull rings like a church bell, sparks fly into the dirt, and the crew rolls forward without spilling their coffee. Anyone who...
Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is a gear week, and the topic is K9 patrol equipment: the gear that keeps both the handler and the dog alive and working across a career, not a demo. Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers , whose support keeps this column going ever...
A legally armed citizen fought back against an armed criminal at a Baltimore youth football game. The accused attacker had been released from prison just eight days earlier, and a new indictment reveals how the lawful gun owner defended himself as a 12-year-old girl was killed.
If you have never shot .22 LR suppressed, you have missed one of the best experiences in shooting. A subsonic rimfire behind a can is genuinely quiet, the whole thing costs very little per round, and new shooters who flinch at a centerfire rifle will happily shoot a suppressed .22 all afternoon. ...
A lot of hunters use the now almost retro AR-15 or AR-10 with an optic or light that depends on CR123 or AA batteries. The spares usually end up loose in a pack or a truck console. Magpul’s new DT-S Carbine Stock gives them a spot on the rifle. The stock has two parallel storage […] The p...