Innehållsförteckning för August 2016 från Gun Digest

I recently had the opportunity to join Mossberg at the Gunsite Academy near Paulden, Arizona, for the second ever Scout Rifle Conference. To say it was an historic event—bringing together students, gun writers and scout rifle enthusiasts of all stripes—would be an understatement. The scout rifle itself was conceptualized by Gunsite founder Col. Jeff Cooper, who also had a profound impact on defensive handgun training as we know it today. Cooper envisioned for his scout concept a rifle less than 40 inches in length, typically chambered in.308 Win., just under 7 pounds, and featuring both iron sights and a low-mounted, long eye relief scope positioned near the front of the action. While there are many components that make up a great scout rifle, one of the most immediately obvious is…

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Sometimes, speed matters. Whether your life is on the line or you simply like finding your target quickly and efficiently, you need a sight that finds the mark in an instant, every time. The good news is that you have lots of options. The bad news? There isn’t any. Reflex sights and red dots alike are ideal choices for personal protection and competitive shooting, as well as military and law enforcement applications. They range in size and price, but make no mistake: They’ll all do what you ask them to when you need them most. 1 SIG SAUER ROMEO4B SIG builds sights the same way it makes firearms: quality at a reasonable price. The ROMEO4B red dot not only gives you rapid target acquisition through Spectracoat lenses that reduce glare…

Optics have become standard equipment for modern hunters and shooters, whether you’re dialing in to make a half-mile shot in competition or scanning a coulee for a big mule deer buck. Optics revolutionized the way we hunt and shoot; not so long ago almost every hunting rifle wore iron sights—at least as back-up—and almost every scope you purchased shared the same duplex reticle design. Today it’s far more rare to find a new hunting rifle with iron sights than without, and much of the technology that has helped spur the recent long-range hunting and shooting craze was made available through optics manufacturers. Today’s scope reticles are likely to be filled with stadia lines and holdover points and front focal plane designs have helped average shooters perform accurate range estimations out…

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Winchester introduced the .243 Winchester in 1955 for its Model 70 bolt-action and Model 88 lever-action rifles. Savage quickly adopted it for its Model 99 lever- and Model 110 bolt-action rifles. The .243 (6mm) Winchester is simply the.308 Winchester case necked down. Original development and publicity was due largely to one gun writer, the late Warren Page, who, along with other wildcatters, worked out a similar version before Winchester. The .243 is probably chambered in more different rifles than any other cartridge, except possibly the .30-06 Springfield. All other manufacturers of rifles offer this caliber. The .243 Winchester represents a successful effort to develop a light deer rifle caliber that could hold its own with the high-velocity.22s for long-range use on small targets and still be adequate for larger animals.…

Many years ago I began hunting with a TruGlo bow sight, which was my first introduction to the company. Like many people, I’d come to know TruGlo as a manufacturer of tremendously bright fiber optic bow sights that would perform even in the toughest light conditions, especially when a trophy animal was on the line. And, as many others have discovered, a luminescent sight, whether on a handgun or a bow sight, aids tremendously in rapid target acquisition and accuracy. The company still makes fiber optic bow sights, of course, but it’s come a long way since its inception over two decades ago. Not only has it added quivers and releases to its archery repertoire, TruGlo has also carved out a niche in the firearms community. On the one hand,…