Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hkbJYn The Kar98k, the Wehrmacht's backbone in WW2. With it's origins tracing back to Paul Mauser's Model 1898 rifle, there is an estimate of somewhere between 90mi to 125mil units produced, making t...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hkbJYn [or] slateblackindustries (dot) com 👉 Newsletter Every year during hunting season, men sit around campfires and talk about how far they can hit a deer with their hunting rifle. Well... what is...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hkbJYn [or] slateblackindustries (dot) com 👉 Newsletter In the 1960's, Swiss competition shooters took the military K31 and put diopter sights on them for their fixed range match shooting. This unlea...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack The Accuracy International AE Mk I is a Law Enforcement version of the famed Arctic Warfare with changes to the chassis, threaded barrel, and removed ...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hkbJYn [or] slateblackindustries (dot) com 👉 Newsletter The WW2 Kar98k Sniper (Scharfschützengewehr) was a formidable enemy to allied soldiers, and rightfully so. The 4x (sometimes 6x) ZF39 scope was...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hkbJYn [or] slateblackindustries (dot) com 👉 Newsletter Henry takes us on a deep dive into the WW2 Kar98k Sniper Rifle (Scharfschützengewehr) and the snipers behind it. What made it different from th...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hkbJYn [or] slateblackindustries (dot) com 👉 Newsletter *The Finnish Veterans Day/ kansallinen veteraanipäivä is April 27th, let us learn about the Finnish soldier in remembrance of the tales told!* ...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack In 1939, the Germany Army realized that they wanted an aiming device better than the standard Kar98k iron sights. In 1941, the Wehrmacht rolled out th...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter 🗞️https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack The U.S. M1903A3 was an improvement over the M1903 rifle with a rear aperture sight that was faster to produce during wartime. The "re-chambered Maus...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hkbJYn [or] slateblackindustries (dot) com 👉 Newsletter Before it was popularized in the motion picture, "Enemy at the Gates", the Mosin Nagant M91/30 PU rifle had a very real presence in the Soviet ...

In 1955, the Swiss launched their new sniper rifle, the Zf. Kar. 55; a K31 styled straight pull rifle that had next to zero interchangeable parts with the K31. Since there were only around 4,150 rifles produced, these are quite rare worldwide, but regardless, we dissect the intricacies of the Swi...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter 🗞️ https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack While many who get into Long Range shooting hit the ground running on the "peak rifle setup", military snipers and professional shooters have long s...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter 🗞️https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack The Arisaka Type 99 short rifle is often attributed with one of the strongest actions, with some of the best mitigating gas escapes to deal with an o...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter 🗞️https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack 🎯 Long distance reached (1,000y+) for iron sight service rifle The Swedish Mauser 🇸🇪 family is most know for the Gevär M/96 long rifle, chambered in ...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter 🗞️ https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack The Lee Enfield No.4 (T) Sniper was amongst one of the best sniper variants devised during World War 2. The highly efficient 10 round capacity of th...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter 🗞️ https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack The Delta 5 Pro was Daniel Defense's first push towards the bolt-action precision rifle market. As a [traditionally] AR15 manufacturer, Daniel Defen...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter 🗞️ https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack The @Steyrmannlicher-rifles SSG 69 was an early trend-setting sniper rifle in many different ways. While not all design elements were copied for l...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter 🗞️https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack The Remington M24 SWS came into U.S. Army service in 1988 and has served with sniper teams around the world since then. While the system was clearly ...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter 🗞️https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack The M24 SWS is an icon for the U.S. Army sniper during the GWOT era, and while it's touted for it's accuracy and dependability, the long action rifle...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack The FR F1 is one of the least understood sniper variants in the U.S. due to it's rarity, but the rifle has been the champion for French soldiers using...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter 🗞️https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack The French FR-F2 sniper rifle was a further advancement of the FR-F1 sniper rifle. Much like it's predecessor, the FR-F2 was incredibly well-balanced...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter 🗞️https://tinyurl.com/9HoleReviews or https://tinyurl.com/SlateBlack The FR F2 is unlike any bolt-action sniper rifle of it's era. Capable of shooting from a multitude of complex terrain and equipped with a fast cyclin...

In 1949, Israel was still fighting its was of independence, and purchasing arms internationally was difficult to do. The recently-formalized IDF wanted sniper rifles, and looked to Hammerli in Switzerland for a variant of the K-31 straight-pull bolt action action. Two different models were purcha...

This week Jonathan examines two rifles instrumental in the early development of the concept which would eventually become the famous Lee Enfield. Despite both weapons not progressing past the experimental stage, their early adoption of a bolt-action firing mechanism coupled with a fixed magazine ...