The Fabrique Nationale Fusil Automatique Leger (Light Automatic Rifle), or FN FAL as it is more commonly known, began life in 1946 when FN and Great Britain created a piston operated prototype rifle that utilized the German intermediate 7.92x33mm cartridge. This new round was a first attempt at a cartridge that could do the job […]
Battle Rifle
PTR-91: A .308 Battle Rifle For Everyone
The PTR91 GI Model is a true Battle Rifle in every bit of the definition. It is durable, it has little recoil, it has great accuracy at range, and it is even modular. PTR really makes a winner with this model. This rifle has a long history before PTR got their hands on the blueprints and started […]
Watch: Clint Emerson weighs in on the new Sig Sauer MCX
I grew up shooting Sig Sauer in the SEAL Teams – the P226 handguns were my preferred secondary gun and for low-vis operation, the P239 was my primary… I had the opportunity to shoot some of Sig Sauer’s latest handguns and rifles at the Shot Show 2018 – here is a sneak peek at the […]
Best Modern Sporting Rifle: AR vs AK
One of the fiercest, and longest running, debates within the firearms community is this: which is the better “battle rifle:” the AR or the AK. The topic has been done to death, so I thought I’d feature the two rifles in a different setting: working together. The video embedded above features an AR-15 and an AK-74. […]
Hunt-Ready AK: The K-VAR VEPR Rifle in .308 Win
A firearm design’s true test of time is reflected in how often it is copied, and perhaps no other design has been copied as much as the AK-47. There are dozens of rifles, pistols and shotguns based on the AK-47, but the VEPR series of rifles ranks among the best made of the progeny. Rifles in […]
Don’t Call it a Comeback: Army Said to be Mulling the Return of the 7.62 Battle Rifle
Courtesy of our friends over at Tactical Life Get ready for the return of the battle rifle. Temporarily, that is. According to a story published on Soldier Systems, the U.S. Army is considering fielding a 7.62 NATO rifle in an interim capacity until it switches to one of the 6.5mm family of intermediate calibers sometime in the 2020s. The reason […]