History of the Trapdoor Rifle

My passion has been collecting and acquiring representative United States Service rifles. That includes items like the 1898 Krag-Jorgensen, 1903 Springfield (and its variants), the M1 Garand and the M1 Carbine. However, one of my favorites in that collection is the Spring...

By Cory Ross

USS Saratoga: WWII Carrier Sunk by an Atom Bomb

The USS Saratoga (CV-3) was one of just three United States Navy aircraft carriers—along with USS Ranger (CV-4) and USS Enterprise (CV-6)—to survive the entirety of the Second World War. Although outdated by 1943, as the newer and more capable Essex-cla...

By Peter Suciu

A Grizzly Charged a Father and His Young Son. He Stopped It at 5 Yards.

ASHTON, ID — A father and his young son were sitting at the edge of a meadow on the evening of May 16, hunting black bears, when a grizzly stepped out and changed everything. The bear started across the meadow and picked up their scent. According to Idaho Fish and Game, it turned and headed [&#...

By Luke McCoy

TFB Weekly Web Deals 187: Deals for Memorial Day

Welcome to TFB Weekly Web Deals 187 and Happy Memorial Day! We’re back with more deals on guns, gear, ammunition, and accessories from some of our most frequented online retailers like 5.11 Tactical, Primary Arms, Natchez Shooters Supply, Palmetto State Armory, Brownells, and more. Whether ...

By Luke C.

Inside the AK-100 Series

The AK-100 series was developed during one of the hardest periods in modern Russian history, in the years after the Soviet Union collapsed and the country was dealing with a deep economic crisis. In that environment in the early 1990s, Izhmash made the ambitious decision to create a new family of...

By Lynndon Schooler

PROOF Research Launches PXT Rifling Tech & 2 FDX Rifle Platforms

PROOF Research is announcing something that does not come along often in barrel technology: a fundamental redesign of how a bullet engages rifling. The new PROOF Exponential Twist system, or PXT, is a progressive twist rifling profile that replaces the conventional constant-twist approach that ha...

By Sam.S
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