TFB Review: Schmidt & Bender 3-18x42 META FFP SBX Reticle

The Schmidt & Bender 3-18x42 Meta FFP with the SBX reticle is a compact first focal plane riflescope for hunters and practical precision shooters. After about a year of testing, training and timed DMR-style matches, my verdict is simple: it handles like a small scope, performs optically like ...

By Eric B •

POTD: Four Eyes and a Red Window

Four glass eyes, a crimson visor and a hose snaking back to the pack. Whatever this operator is hunting probably should not exist. The kit comes from Shaw Concepts , the Alabama gear maker a Force Recon Marine started in 2019 after learning that a sewing machine cost about the same as one custom ...

By Eric B •

Wilson Combat Starts Making Remington 700 Barrels

Barrel announcements are usually where one stops scrolling. But this one is worth a minute, because the details Wilson Combat  chose to publish say something about how the barrels are made, and barrel making is one of those processes where the unglamorous steps decide everything.

By Eric B •

Leonardo DRS Wins $63 Million Order for FWS-I Thermal Sights

Leonardo DRS has received a $63 million production order from the U.S. Army for its next-generation family of Weapon Sights, Individual, better known as FWS-I. The order sits under the Army's existing indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for advanced, battlefield-proven thermal ...

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Copper & Blue PVD Slides For The Ruger RXM

Ruger has worked through the grip colours on the RXM. Black, Stealth Gray, Flat Dark Earth, OD Green. When you run out of frame colours, there is only one place left to go, and Ruger has gone there: six new RXM models with PVD-coated slides in copper and blue are here.

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