This Photo Of The Day is rather eye-catching, isn’t it? Where are the firearms you may ask? They are located right underneath for your viewing pleasure. Above you see a U.S. Marine with the Force Reconnaissance Platoon, 3rd Marine Division, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. He uses a metal saw to breach a steel plate aboard Expeditionary Mobile Base USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5) during a visit, board, search and seizure exercise in the Philippine Sea, in August 2022.

We have been running our very special Photo Of The Day series for years, sharing great photos from around the world and the world of firearms. Sometimes the selected pictures involve a lot of action and shooting, sometimes there’s another reason behind the choice. Today we’re looking at a .50 caliber machine gun spitting out lead, brass and gunpowder of the Philippine Sea. The man behind the trigger is Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Christian Freda and they’re aboard the USS Frank Cable during a training exercise.

A great photo is often produced by being at the right time and place and using the perfect exposure. Today the photographer really managed to freeze the moment as the grenade exits the tube of the mortar. In today’s Photo Of The Day, we see U.S. Army Spc. Alejandro Ramirez (left) and Spc. Michael Hatzioannou, assigned to the 1st Squadron 91st Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team(Airborne). They’re firing mortar rounds during the U.S. Army Europe and Africa Best Squad Competition at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany. This happened in August 2022.

Photo Of The Day: We’re in Poland looking at troops with the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. Their Bradley fighting vehicle is firing the M242 Bushmaster 25mm autocannon in order to zero the vehicle’s weapons systems at a range.

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It’s time for TFB’s Photo Of The Day where we do our best to display the excellent work done by so many photographers around the world. These images are from Die Bundeswehr in Bayern and show German Snipers in the European Best Sniper Team Competition. There were soldiers from the 231st Mountain Infantry Battalion and the 26th Parachute Regiment competing at the Hohenfels military training area. At the end of the event, the team from Greece won.

Photo Of The Day and we take off to the Combat Training Center, Baturaja, Indonesia. We see soldiers from Australia, Singapore, Indonesia and the United States conducting a multinational field training exercise as part of Exercise Super Garuda Shield.

If you don’t know the distance to your target, it’s not impossible but difficult to hit it in most cases. Above you see U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Robert Rogers, a combat engineer officer with 3rd Maintenance Battalion, 3rd Sustainment Group, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, as he fires an M4 carbine. It’s a pretty cool image with gun smoke and a visible red laser, just the way I think most of our readers like our POTDs to be. The location is Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Aug. 16, 2022.

Is this the perfect wedding ceremony? In this picture, the groom carrying the brand new Voere GGS M1 which is a modular rifle that German Gun Stock is making together with Voere. It’s chambered in .338 Lapua Magnum and has a GGS VelociRaptor stock painted in RAL8000. The bride is showing her Tikka T3 Super Varmint in .300WSM with a GGS Raptor stock in Arctic camouflage. The rifle scopes are Athlon Ares ETR 4.5-30×56.

For today’s Photo Of The Day, we have pictures of the new  Smith & Wesson Model 350 revolver, the first commercially available revolver chambered in .350 Legend. Built on Smith & Wesson’s largest X-Frame, the Model 350 has a 7-round cylinder and utilizes moon clips due to the rimless design of the .350 Legend cartridge case.

In today’s Photo Of The Day, we have pictures of the Blaser F3 Brushed over and under 12 gauge shotgun from the Blaser Custom Shop. Unlike most of the other custom F3 shotguns that have sophisticated engraving motifs, the beauty of F3 Brushed is in the simplicity of engravings and wood carvings executed by Ralph Salzmann.

What time is it? It’s time for TFB’s Photo Of The Day where we do our best to display the excellent work done by so many photographers around the world. This is the first time we have images from the talented photographer Eli Duckworth known as  1776_duck on Instagram. With around 32,000 followers, he’s got a great portfolio, and we encourage you to take a look. Here you’ll see a few photos of an MK-18 Mod 0 inspired SBR that he assembled.

Photo Of The Day: Above you see a Heckler & Koch G28 DMR used by the sniper team from the German Bundeswehr. Note the Terrapin X Laser Range Finder, made by Safran, mounted on top of the Schmidt & Bender rifle scope. What do you think about placing an LRF in this position?

Photo Of The Day: The European Best Sniper Team Competition, hosted by the Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC) at the 7th Army Training Command’s Hohenfels Training Area, Germany. This annual multi-day competition tests multinational sniper squads on land navigation, advanced marksmanship, medical simulations and similar situation.

TFB’s Photo Of The Day tries to push the excellent work done by so many photographers around the world and in the firearms industry. It’s a celebration to those who go in harm’s way trying to catch those special moments, like this MV-22 Osprey taking off during the Koolendong 22 military exercise in Yampi Sound, WA, Australia earlier this year.

Our  Photo Of The Day daily article series will take you to some very exciting and unusual places sometimes, not to mention showing you some unusual firearms. In 2015, during a Korean Marine Exchange Program in the Republic of Korea, U.S. Marines were given the unique opportunity to test out the Daewoo K2 assault rifle, the Daewoo K1 submachine gun, the K201 40mm grenade launcher and the Daewoo K14 sniper rifle. Above you can see U.S. Marine Cpl. Richard J. Bennaugh as he fires training rounds from a Daewoo K201 grenade launcher.

TFB’s Photo Of The Day has become an impressive gallery, with an ever-growing number of images of firearms in all sorts of environments. Today we have a Marine with the Republic of Korea Marine Corps (above) as he posts security during an amphibious raid. The photo was taken during the exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022, the world’s largest international maritime exercise. I think the rifle is a Daewoo Precision Industries K1, but feel free to correct me in the comments section.

RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific) is the world’s largest international maritime exercise, and the 2022 edition is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971. Above you can see Australian Army reconnaissance team members moving into their position during an amphibious raid as part of the Rim of the Pacific.

The hungriest beast of them all on this blog is our Photo Of The Day. It consumes hundreds of images every month, and it has been doing so for over 8 years. Today we have the SABR, short for Sniper Assaulter Battle Rifle, made by LWRC International.

We’ve all seen the folding Glocks, but a folding revolver? Well, it’s available from Standard Manufacturing. With a barrel length of .88″ and a capacity of five rounds of .22 Magnum, I think the design is extraordinary and makes much more sense than a collapsible piece of polymer. The Standard Manufacturing Switch Gun is machined from stainless steel and there is also a blued version. It comes with a polymer grip and the trigger is single action.

No Photo Of The Day is the same. Today we have the Heckler & Koch SP5K. Did you know that the P in SP5K stands for “Pug?” It’s true, I read it on the Internet!

One of the purposes of TFB’s Photo Of The Day is to broaden the audience for the excellent work done by professionals from combat photography to still and action photography of firearms. A perfect picture may take everything from a split second to months of planning, and it would be sad to see that kind of work go unnoticed. Considering that these images were taken onboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) in the Atlantic Ocean it makes the challenge to produce high-quality images even harder. Above you can see a really good image of the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle with the Trijicon VCOG 1-8×28 rifle scope. The U.S. Marine is Lance Cpl. Camron Edwards, a rifleman with Golf Company, Battalion Landing Team 2/6, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit.

Photo Of The Day: We’ve rounded up a few of our favorites for your viewing pleasure today. Grab a coffee or a glass of water, sit down, and relax for a while. Above you see a British soldier firing his SA80 during the Vigilant Fox exercise in Finland, with an interesting mix of firearms from around the world.

Photo Of The Day: We have U.S. soldiers on training in Finland. The U.S. unit got to shoot with the Finnish unit’s RK62 rifles and PKM machine guns. The Finnish troops also provided a mobility demonstration with engineers clearing an opening with a Bangalore in an adversary’s imaginary mine obstacle.

Every now and then you see an image of something and it immediately makes you want it. Guess what, the image above is such an example, for me at least. It’s also a clear picture for TFB’s Photo Of The Day. The Wild Hog Field and Range Holster is ambidextrous and can be worn cross draw or with a forward cant. It’s made of top grain and center cut steer hide, and it has an adjustable tension device.
It is available for a large number of SAA revolvers, large frame DA revolvers, and numerous large autoloaders. It can fit belts up to 1 ¾” wide.

We’ve been running our Photo Of The Day article series for almost 10 years, and the archives keep growing every day. Today it’s time for the 7.62 RK 62, made in Finland. This is the second in a series of articles TFB is doing on some of the firearms used by the Finnish Army.

In today’s Photo Of The Day, we have an image called “For the sniper lovers” from the highly talented Hille James Combat Photographer. The soldiers are from the Dutch Korps Commandotroepen. Can you identify the rifle without looking at the tag?

The Slovenian National Police Force’s tactical police unit is known as Specialna Enota Policije (SEP), which translates as “Special Police Unit.” The SEP is used to carry out counterterrorism operations and other risky jobs that are too dangerous or challenging for the ordinary police force. They’re known as the “Red Panthers” and can be seen here using the Heckler & Koch HK416A5, G28 and G28 Patrol. Further down you will also see the rather peculiar FN F2000S.

A sunny trip to Cyprus is what’s on offer in today’s Photo Of The Day. We have soldiers from the RAF Regiment conducting Ground Extraction Force (GEF) exercises as part of an ongoing Joint Personnel Recovery which will continue as they return to the U.K. Whilst deployed, 1 Squadron Force Protection have continued to uphold their regular training, including maintaining their annual competency on the L129A1 Sharpshooter Rifle. The L129A1 is a semi-automatic high-precision designated marksmanship rifle.

Every day we run an article called Photo Of The Day with some of the coolest pictures from the world of firearms. Today we have images from Fuerzas Comando 2022 on offer, with Brazilian snipers.