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Scope Review: USO-PFI 762C SR-8S

Pride Fowler Industries and US Optics recently teamed up to offer the US Optics Military Spec series of rifle scopes. The US Optics Military Spec rifle scopes mate a PFI Rapid Reticle with a US Optics...

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Review: Carl Zeiss TERRA ED 10×32 Binoculars

10×32 Binoculars Over the past few years I have become increasingly picky about optics, from scopes to binoculars. We had some pretty decent optics in Iraq—at least I would assume they were good. I...

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TFB’s Rifle (And Subgun) Weight Omnibus – How Heavy is Your Rifle? (Part 2 of 3)

(This is Part 2 of the TFB Rifle Weight Omnibus. You can read Part 1 here.) In October, I traveled out to see my co-writer Alex C. to collect data on the weights of different long guns and some of...

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Mepro Sting: Professional Laser Pointer from Meprolight

When hunting the wolves in less than ideal conditions (are there any other kind), the tiniest edge be all the difference in the world.  Meprolight, supplier to the Israeli Defense Forces, now offers US...

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New Leapers UTG Optic

Not everyone can afford to spend $500 on optics.  Fortunately, for those in search of lower priced reflex sights, there is a plethora to choose from.  The challenge is sorting out the quality gear in...

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ATN Introduces the X-Sight Night Sight and BinoX

I think it’s safe to say anyone who loves to shoot also enjoys night vision gear. The only problem up until now has been the sometimes prohibitive cost or if you could afford a night vision rifle scope...

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New Meprolight Weapon Sights

Meprolight announced a pair of new weapon sights at the Milipol 2015 exhibition in Paris, France. The two new electronic sights are updated versions of existing products in the Meprolight line. The...

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Dueck Defense Releases DFR Glock Sights

Dueck Defense, hot on the heels of their expensive RBU (Red Dot Back Up), has released an inexpensive (and arguably more practical) set of iron sights for Glock handguns. The new DFR sights or Dueck...

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Rainier Arms Back-Up Iron Sights

Rainier Arms has been aggressively expanding from being a high-end parts reseller to also selling parts of their own design (though typically made under private label). The latest product to the fore...

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Next Intent Tactical Scope Mount and Gas Block

Next Intent Tactical is a division of Next Intent which is an aerospace company. In fact Next Intent designs and manufactures parts for JPL and NASA. Next Intent built the wheels, forward and aft arms,...

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BREAKING: U.S. Government Sues L3 Com’s (EOTech) For Fraud

L3 Communications, the holding company that owns EOTech, is being sued by the United States Government for fraud. Their products were the subject of a recent SOCOM warning that the EOTech holographic...

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Review:Lights, Sights, Lasers Course Overview

Recently, myself and three friends attended a course taught by Wes Doss called Lights, Sights, and Lasers Tour in Wabash, Indiana. We’ve blogged about the course before on TFB but this will be an in...

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FBI Drops EOTech, Switches To Aimpoint

In what appears to be a direct response to the recent SOCOM-issued warning about EOTech holographic sights, and the US Government’s lawsuits against L3 Communications, the parent company of EOTech, the...

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L-3 Communications to pay out $25.6 million

Well that escalated! Hot on the heels of the U.S. Government suing EOTech for the alleged fraud in their sights, specifically in claiming that their sights could work in certain cold weather and humid...

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Sig Sauer’s Kilo 2000 Rangefinder

I found a little treasure in the pile of press releases that slide across my desk each morning. We haven’t seen much of the optics line since Sig Sauer’s awesomely aggressive “we make it all”...

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Armasight Predator

Armasight introduced a new thermal imaging rifle scope called the Predator. These thermal imaging rifle scopes are designed to be lightweight and compact in addition to being the “most technologically...

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New SIG Sauer Hunting Optics

Hunters have their own specific set of needs when it comes to optics, and SIG Sauer is responding to those needs with their new Electro Optics line. For the hunters out there they’ve added the WHISKEY...

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New Meprolight Sights

For 2016, Meprolight will have a number of new products available to customers in the United States of America. one of these new items is a fiber tritium sight system for Glock and Springfield Armory...

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Weatherby Offers Vanguard Leupold Package

To many firearms aficionados the Weatherby Vanguard isn’t just any rifle, it’s the heart of the company’s long gun line. Weatherby refers to Vanguards as “the flattest, fastest shooting rifles on the...

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.300 Blk For PA Deer Season

My friend Brian Miller sent this to me. Making an Ar-15 legal for Pennsylvania deer season. I have wanted to use my 16″ M4 AR in deer season. Unfortunately in my home state of Pa, in stock...

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