Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter 🗞️https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack The AK12 is the latest standard issued weapon for the Russian armed forces... but is it a step forward? As an AK400 prototype derivative, the current...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter 🗞️https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack Have you ever played a video game or watched someone play a video game (Tarkov) where they kit out the most ridiculous setup that kind of works in th...

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Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hkbJYn 🏅Current record holder - lowest round count for DMR The Knights Armament M110 is a semi-automatic rifle in service with U.S. military, used as a designated marksman rifle and replaced many M21...

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Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack The AK 103 is the last full length 7.62x39 AK 100 series rifle designed by General Kalashnikov himself. While many may contend that the AK103 is just ...

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Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter 🗞️ https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack The AK105 was a part of a larger blueprint of the AK100 family of rifles, based on the improved AK74M, the AK105 was the shortened carbine version o...

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Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hkbJYn [or] slateblackindustries (dot) com 👉 Newsletter The HK 416 was an amalgamation of the M4 and G36 (AR18) gas system. The current standard issue for the Norweigian Armed Forces, and soon to be ...

The US prejudice against the FN FAL (including the inch pattern L1A1 SLR) is that they'll inevitably choke. However, Bloke's legit BSA L1A1 ran like a champ at Finnish Brutality 2023, with only one very minor hiccup at loading on the last rifle stage. Interestingly, the same hiccup that Ian's (Fo...

Everyone talks about sand cuts, and they're supposedly magic. Let's look at the most commonly-known sets of them, on a 7.62mm L1A1 SLR (British inch FN FAL) after being exposed to Finnish moon dust at Finnish Brutality 2023, and a 9mm L2A3 Sterling Mk.4 SMG after having had about 150 rounds throu...

Toni of Ensio Firearms made this unique rifle as his final project at gunsmithing school. It's a scratch-built, one-off 7.62x39 AR-15 type rifle with a 4 lug bolt, annular piston like a Vz.52, and it takes AK47 magazines that just slide in and out of the magazine housing like butter.

Ziga of Polenar Tactical wanted a go on Bloke's British L1A1 SLR (an inch-pattern FN FAL in 7.62 NATO / .308 Win). So we had to oblige!

It turns out that designing a rifle from scratch is hard. Very hard. Which is why most manufacturers don't bother and just make variations on well-established designs like the AR-15, AK, FN FAL or similar.

Ensio Firearms of Finland decided to break the mold and design their own .308 Win / .223 R...

When Armalite designed the AR-180, they needed a factory to produce it, as their own production capacity was limited. Initially a license was granted to How in Japan, but this only lasted a few years before US involvement in the Vietnam War led Japan to cease allowing arms to be shipped to the US...

Today we have both 1st and 2nd pattern semiauto FG-42s from SMG out at the range for some comparative shooting. Which is the better one to get?