Indholdsfortegnelse for January 2021 i Gun Digest

When’s the last time you sent a .22 LR bullet downrange? Seriously. Ease your finger off the 9mm, .5.56 NATO or .30-06 trigger for just a moment and think about that question. Has it been a while? I presume I’m in the majority that, when I have the itch to shoot a few rounds at the range, I grab my concealed-carry 9mm gun, my .270 Winchester hunting rifle or a 5.56-chambered AR-15 to do the scratching. Why? Because those are the guns with which I want to always be proficient in case there’s work to be done. And with those three guns, I can do darn near anything that needs doing. But those three firearms are also extremely difficult to feed right now. With the current ammunition climate becoming more…

Back when I was in martial arts, we worked hard to improve hand strength. Knuckle push-ups, fingertip push-ups and tossing bags of sand back and forth were standard practice, and we were dedicated. Not everyone can do that, and not everyone has the option of increasing hand strength. For a lot of people, what they have is what they have. And if that isn’t enough to reliably cycle the slide on a pistol, they have a problem. Well, there’s a solution. Handi-Racker to the rescue. The idea is simple: The Handi-Racker, which comes in three sizes to match your pistol, acts as a third hand. There’s a slot in the bottom edge with a pinched-in middle. The two ends are different widths, so you can match pretty much any slide…

I look at my rifles like a 350 Chevy—tons of aft ermarket parts and the ability to modify it to my heart’s content. I have no problem replacing, modifying and adjusting the weapon system to meet my personal needs. After all, everyone is different; our needs change, so adjusting the rifle to fit the mission is essential in my mind. I have a lot of videos on YouTube that demonstrate this very fact. If you look at the comment section, you’d think nobody every burned out a barrel or decided to change a factory stock. Sure, I tend to modify the rifles all at once versus over time. But I have the luxury of access (getting parts for me is very easy). I’m not saying you have to change everything…

The .17 HM2, or 17 Mach 2, was a joint venture between Hornady and CCI in 2003. A CCI Stinger case, which measures 0.100-inch longer than a standard .22 LR case, was necked down to take a 17-grain, 0.172-inch-diameter bullet. The result was a .17 that fit in a .22 LR action and magazines—the only change in most cases being a barrel—but with effectively double the velocity of a match-speed .22. At 2,100 fps, that little bullet ran flat. Run the numbers, and you see the .17 HM2 rises and falls 2 inches to 137 yards or so. Hornady and CCI unveiled the round at SHOT Show 2004 hot on the heels of the previous .17 HMR launch. The HMR was a wild success, and much of the industry wasn’t…

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HISTORICAL NOTES Winchester Ammunition, in conjunction with Savage, introduced the .17 Winchester Super Magnum rimfire rifle cartridge at the 2013 SHOT Show. A Winchester Ammunition announcement called this “the most revolutionary rimfire cartridge in the company’s almost 150-year history.” Further, the company said, “The .17 Win Super Mag. offers the downrange performance of a centerfire cartridge at only a fraction of the cost. For the first time in history, hunters can expect pinpoint accuracy and devastating performance from a rimfire cartridge, at ranges well past 200 yards.” .17 WINCHESTER SUPER MAGNUM FACTORY BALLISTICS One of Winchester’s goals with the new .17 was to keep it affordable. A box of 50 should retail for about $15, which is much cheaper than almost any centerfire varmint load. “Our engineers have been developing…

01 Nelson Precision 44X Aluminum Slide for Glock 44 Pistols A longtime coming, the Glock 44 was one of the Austrian gunmaker’s most significant releases in recent years. Though, even among diehard fans, the .22 LR pistols did have nits to pick, primarily with the hybrid polymer-steel slide (done for proper weight in the blowback pistol). Rejoice! There’s hope in rectifying this with parts manufacturer Nelson Precision introducing an aluminum slide upgrade. Milled to proper weight specs, it runs like a dream on the Glock 44, while creating a more rugged and versatile pistol—the slide is optic-ready, compatible with Trijicon RMR and SRO red-dot sights. Playing nice with OEM G44 slide parts, this is an upgrade you don’t want to miss for your G44. MSRP: $220 02 Beretta Model 21A…

KILLING POWER BY ROY E. WEATHERBY “In Africa we learned that if we used smaller-caliber, high-velocity bullets, the animal had to be close enough so that the bullet would not lose enough velocity to keep it from disintegrating inside the animal’s body … but if you can get that small caliber to disintegrate inside the animal, it will kill anything on the face of the Earth.” The question of lightweight, high-velocityL bullets versus large-bore, heavy-weight, slower-moving bullets has been the subject of conversation and controversy for many years. And where experts disagree, it is very difficult for the layman to shed much light on this subject. It has been instilled in the mind of man that the heavy bullet does the killing. When a man walks into a sporting goods…

Instructors have been preaching it for years, and in my 2013 book, Handgun Training for Personal Protection, I called it “the secret.” The single, most important skill you must master with a handgun is the ability to operate the trigger—make the handgun fire—without disturbing the sight picture. As simple as it sounds, this single task is the most difficult part of becoming proficient with a defensive handgun. It’s the foundation which must be laid before any other skills can be built. Anything you build on a foundation that’s not up to par is doomed; at some point, you’ll add something to this—less-than-ideal—foundation, which will cause it to collapse. It might be stress, unique positions, low light or a host of other circumstances through which you must perform. Sight alignment and…

A couple decades ago, I bought a rifle which would become—and remain—my dedicated varmint rifle. It’s a Ruger Model 77 MKII in .22-250 Remington, with a sporter-weight 22-inch barrel, a Hogue over-molded stock and Timney trigger. While the accuracy wasn’t terrible with factory ammunition—though the factory trigger was a different story—I wasn’t getting exactly what I wanted from handloads, predominately using IMR4064 and IMR4320. Both of those powders were chosen because I had them on hand from years of loading for my .308 Winchester and because they sat in the middle of the burn rate choices for the .22-250 case. Speaking to some guys who I knew were serious about the .22-250 as a target cartridge, they enlightened me. “Look no further than Hodgdon H380; anything else and you’re wasting…

With regard to the terminal performance of centerfire rifle and handgun ammunition, the written word has probably used up enough paper to deforest a national park. Not only is it a favorite topic for gun writers to pontificate on, it fuels a lot of gun counter conversations and campfire arguments. Why isn’t there the same interest in the terminal performance of rimfire ammunition? I think this is partly because a lot of critters shot with rimfire ammunition are relatively small, not life threatening or not considered a trophy, at least in the same sense a mature mule deer buck might be. Proportionally and for what it’s worth, the power-to-game-weight ratio is very similar between centerfire and rimfire cartridges, with a maximum practical limit of about 2 to 2.5 ft-lb of…

I shot my first IPSC match in the fall of 1977. I won it, and that was that; I was hooked. By 1986, I had been on a roll for a few years. I attended three U.S. IPSC Nationals and had a slot for a fourth. I shot in local matches in two states and the Second Chance Combat Match. I suddenly had an invitation to the inaugural Masters in my mailbox. Woo-hoo! But I needed a rimfire pistol. As luck would have it, I had just acquired an S&W M-41. I proceeded to the gun club with my also-new Ransom rest and proceeded to make myself crazy. Nothing would shoot well enough for the match, and nothing shot as well as the pistol or the ammo makers promised. Even…

The term “retro” is all the rage lately, with some gun companies making “retro” versions of their most popular models. The term also has different meanings for everyone. For me, it means something that’s modern yet brings back memories of yesteryear. With the popularity of the “retro” style in the firearms industry, I was pleasantly surprised when Glock presented their Limited Edition P80 Pistol. The Limited-Edition Glock P80 is a very close reproduction of the original “Glock Pistole 80,” which eventually became the popular Glock 17. The original Glock Pistole 80 was the pistol that Gaston Glock submitted in the early ’80s to the Austrian Army. This recreation of the Glock P80 is not an exact replica of the 1980s Pistole 80 or the Glock 17 Gen 1, but it’s…