Did you know that in 1971, it was the first time that a human being drove a vehicle somewhere other than Earth? It was the Lunar Roving Vehicle built by Boeing. I guess it’s still there if you want to test drive it. To my knowledge, the astronauts weren’t armed, but the Curtis Custom Axiom build here would be a perfect fit for the Moon Buggy.

Photo Of The Day: What do you think about shooting groups? Do you get stressed out or is it more like yoga? Here is a .3″ group with 3 shots at 100 yards. The rifle is a Springfield Waypoint 308, mounted in an MDT Chassis. The riflescope is a Vortex Razor 3-18x in a Spuhr mount. Rex Silentium manufactured the suppressor, and the specific model is called MG10. Bipod support from B&T Atlas.

Photo Of The Day: We all want what we cannot have. The Heckler & Koch G36 is one of many such things for anyone enthusiastic about modern firearms. The next best thing – at least on the European market – is the Heckler & Koch HK243. Here you can see part of a project initiated by

SA80 is the designation for a revolutionary family of assault weapons. On its introduction, it proved so accurate that the Army marksmanship tests had to be redesigned.

Photo Of The Day: When I shot the SCAR 17 for the first time I was surprised how light it was for a major caliber. According to the specifications, the weight is 8 pounds or 3.6 kg, with the 16.25″ barrel. SCAR stands for Special Operations Combat Assault Rifle. This one is upgraded with a lower from Handl Defense.

Our Photo Of The Day article series brings together some of the most eye catching and visually appealing images. You won’t find a lot of pictures of sunsets, flowers or touristic landmarks here, instead, the photo selection spans from soldiering, firearms, special units, snipers and the odd knife or two. Other sharp objects are fine too, especially with the right background, and today we’re on the subject of Battle Axes. This Battle Axe is made by Halfbreed Blades from down-under, Australia. The photos are taken by the talented Sully.photo, a product and composite photographer for the firearms Industry. 

Our Photo Of The Day articles bring together some of the most eye-catching and visually appealing images. You won’t find a lot of pictures of sunsets, flowers or touristic landmarks here, instead, the photo selection spans from soldiering, firearms, special units, snipers and the odd knife or two. Today we have images of Glock pistols modified by  Sonoran Defense Technologies (AZ, USA). The images are from Offensive Marketing Group.

Last time we had a look at Tactical Imports Corp. (Ontario, Canada) we enjoyed a Type 81 LMG. In this Photo Of The Day, we’re going bullpup AND shotgun at the same time. Here we have the HG-105 shotgun. The manufacturer is Tracker Arms and this is a Non-Restricted Firearm in Canada.

Elliott Erwitt, a French-born American photographer, once said that “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” While we understand what he means, it’s not that easy. Here at TFB we like to add a story and a background – a so-called context. In our Photo Of The Day, we’re looking at dozens of brand new Škorpion vz. 61 SMGs. It’s pretty amazing to find boxes full of these legends and we thank Iron Works from Czechoslovakia for sharing these images.

Our readers are screaming! We haven’t seen a Heckler & Koch for so long, please post more images of them! For a photographer to stand out in this digital age, where everyone has the means to take photographs on them at all times, they need to have a strong style to cut through the noise. Jeremy Tremp’s pictures of the Heckler & Koch MR556A1 in FDE are a great example of just that, and a great contribution to TFB’s Photo Of The Day.

The hungriest beast 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’re on the subject of firearm safety, a very important subject for anyone who owns or handles firearms.

In our Photo Of The Day we visit the Coast Guard Base in Honolulu to take a closer look at the SIG Sauer P229R DAK pistol in action. DAK stands for Double Action Kellerman and according to Wikipedia, the Kellerman action is “a variant of traditional double-action used on certain SIG Sauer semi-automatic pistols. DAK triggers have a long stroke with 29 N (6.5 lbf) pull. However, if a user shooting under stress short-strokes the trigger by only releasing it halfway, the trigger will reset, but with a 38 N (8.5 lbf) pull. This temporary increased trigger pull is intended to prevent negligent discharges.” ( Source)

For today’s Photo Of The Day, we have Armenian snipers preparing for the Sniper Frontier 2022 competition. These pictures are from the military base of the Southern Military District (SMD), and there are more Dragunov sniper rifles than sunshine.

Photo Of The Day and we’re reporting from the Republic of Belarus, the Brestsky training ground in fact. The first stage of the international competition Sniper Frontier has started, a competition where teams from 21 countries take part. In the individual standings, the Russian team was the first with the teams of Kyrgyzstan, Venezuela, Azerbaijan and Sri Lanka following.

“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” That’s probably the most common mistake in photo taking, but in this case, I think the photographers did an excellent job. Just imagine the blast from what the Austrian Army calls the Überschweres Maschinengewehr M2, or üsMG M2 for short. The rest of the world calls it the Browning Machine Gun M2, in caliber .50 BMG.

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 for us, but also those who stay in the studio working out the perfect lighting and setting hour after hour. Armed with skills, cameras and sometimes a fair bit of editing here is where their hard work ends up.

Sometimes the purpose of TFB’s Photo Of The Day is to share the latest news with our readers, sometimes we present important historic events or firearms from a pre-digital age. Today’s photo is from the Beretta vaults. It’s called mod. 70/78 (1978), but we know very little about it. In fact, we know nothing. Using search engines was of little help. The rifle looks like a work of art and reminds me a little of the Swiss SIG 550. It looks like it has a built-in bipod on the front of the handguard.

Chiappa PAK-9 in 9×19 mm:

Over a century ago there was a growing number of magazines published throughout the world.  There was an increased demand for photographic illustrations for the magazines to be competetive. With time the cameras developed and became lighter, cheaper and easier to use. We all know that was only the beginning, as lenses, motor drives, electronic flash and things like auto-focus developed in the 1960s and into the digital era, with all its potential. Just imagine what the Internet has done to things like deadlines for a photographer. No more time wasted in a dark room full of chemicals, with an uncertain outcome. Fast forward to today and we have another Photo Of The Day, from a remote location in Senegal.

The number of internet users worldwide will soon reach the 5-billion mark. Our world has never been so connected. Great photos can spread like wildfire, but the story and the necessary context sometimes gets left behind. But not in TFB’s  Photo Of The Day, we will always accompany the images with a background and credits to the maker. Above we have a 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment machine gun team that reloads their M240B machine gun during the last battle of Combined Resolve XVI. Combined Resolve XVI was a multinational training exercise conducted at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, in Germany, in December 2021.

The definition of a photograph, photo, exposure or picture is a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on a light-sensitive material. In TFB’s case, this usually means a soldier or a firearm of some sort. This Photo Of The Day goes in black & white and features an Ohio State Highway Patrol officer as he fires his rifle. You can see the ejected brass and smoke from the barrel, and I think the photo works perfectly in this setting.

TFB has been running the  Photo Of The Day 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. Like today where the theme is the Arctic. Are you enjoying the wintertime? German Gun Stock is a small company specializing in the tuning of precision weapons with the main focus on the Tikka T3. They’re located in Mueglitztal, around Dresden, Germany.

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 for us, but also those who stay in the studio working out the perfect lighting and setting hour after hour. Armed with skills, cameras and sometimes a fair bit of editing here is where their hard work ends up. The production of today’s pictures is from Slovenia and involves a lot of fresh air and very little inside studio work.

Photo Of The Day and we’re going to have a look at various pictures from a new company called Silent Steel Suppressors. They’re from Finland and they manufacture suppressors. In Finland and Norway sound suppressors for firearms are license-free, and by the looks of it, Sweden might get similar legislation by this summer.

The world is full of stories and photographs, and in TFB’s Photo Of The Day you can check these stories every day, every minute, all year round. Get to know a subject better or get inspiration. Today we’re looking at a suppressed H&K G28 from an almost dangerous angle.

Here photography and firearms are a true passion so every day we run an article called Photo Of The Day. Today we have a Montenegro Navy soldier looking through the riflescope of the legendary Heckler & Koch MSG90A1. The picture comes from the European Union Naval Force Somalia – Newsfeed. The EU Naval Force Somalia – Operation is the European Union Counter Piracy operation off the coast of Somalia.

Flying rockets, fire and Kalashnikovs – we must be in Russia! TFB has been running the Photo Of The Day for years, sharing great photos from around the world and the world of firearms onto the doorstep of the screen you’re looking at right now, and we hope you enjoy it.

POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, is TFB’s daily article series where we try to find pictures that will entertain and educate you. Did you know that credit for the first-ever color photograph taken goes to the mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell? At a lecture in 1861, he unveiled what is to be considered the first durable color photograph. It certainly sounds like an interesting lecture.

Over the years TFB’s POTD has gathered thousands of interesting images from around the world. If you’re interested in a special subject, you can use our search function. For instance, if you’re looking for photos of snipers just check here. Certain military units can also be searched and found, as well as countries: the Green Berets can be found here and the U.S. Marines here. If you’re obsessed with the Kriss Vector there are loads of images here. Today we have a photo from one of the Top Posts from the 10th Special Forces Group – Airborne. Can you guess what kind of firearms they’re going over the beach with?

One of the purposes of TFB’s  Photo Of The Day is to broaden the audience for the excellent work done by professional photographers of firearms. A perfect picture may take everything between a split second to months of planning, and it would be sad to see that kind of work go unnoticed and disappear. Like this M1C Sniper Garand picture, for instance. Just imagine the history behind it!