Innehållsförteckning för May 2022 från Gun Digest

Everyone who loves guns, loves big guns. Don’t believe me? Pull out a .44 Rem. Mag. at your range and watch everyone flock. Uncase a .500 S&W Magnum and a couple bystanders might even work up enough courage to ask if they can pull the trigger a time or two. The same gravitational pull applies to long-guns, too. Shooters will stop and stare for a bit at a $15K Perazzi, but when the .50 BMG lays down at the line, everyone drops what they’re doing to take in the experience. Aesthetically, this makes sense, right? Big guns are generally beautiful: A large hunk of metal crafted into a high-functioning piece of working art. Even an X-Frame revolver is stunning through its polished simplicity. But I believe it’s the power that…

In 2018, I reviewed the Sig Sauer P365 for this magazine. In that review, I wrote that the P365 wasn’t the easiest gun I’ve ever carried concealed, but that it was the easiest-to-carry 10-shot 9mm I’ve came across. That opinion hasn’t changed. What did change was my opinion on how the P365 fits my hand. During the test for that review, I fired a little more than 500 rounds, and the pistol and I got along great. Since then—three years and several hundred more rounds later—I’d fallen somewhat out of love with the P365. It just seemed to not fit my hand as well as I’d initially thought. This happens with guns sometimes, just as it happens with boots and people. After you put some miles on footwear, you discover…

There’s a marked change in progress in the rifle bullet industry, and one that’s not going away. Our bullets are growing longer, ogives are flattening out, and the notable shift away from lead-core designs has our traditional bullet weights growing in length. The higher ballistic coefficient of the longer bullet is so important to long-range shooters that entire families of cartridges have been designed around the bullet instead of vice versa. For the reloader, all of this can pose some issues, in both the practical application of these bullets as well as the choice of bullet weight/type for your given cartridge. The bearing surface of these longer bullets can often generate problems and challenges for the reloader, so let’s look at some issues and some fixes when it comes to…

There’s no other cartridge I love—and hate—more than the .450 Bushmaster. On the positive side, it has been an extremely reliable hunting round. That said, I’ve longed to never fire the round again. My relationship with this cartridge is solely based on regional hunting necessity. Here’s what was done right—and wrong—with the King of the Midwest. A MARGINAL SOLUTION Last fall, I began a discussion with the Michigan Department of National Resources (DNR) that resulted in an appearance in the state capitol to give comment on repealing the straight-wall case rules we must abide by for deer. The state is divided into several regions around which hunting regulations are crafted, most notably the “rifle line.” North of it, you can use what you like; below it, you must use straight-walled-cased…

Quick question: Which do you favor—kinetic energy or momentum? If you favor KE, then a 9mm +P+ with 115-grain JHPs is your measure, your option. But if you favor momentum, then something chambered in .45 is what you want. Like a .45 ACP with a 230-grain bullet at 850 fps, or a .45 Colt with a 255 grainer at 750 fps. We’re talking the equivalent of high-compression small engines versus big-block V-8s. (We won’t speak of alcohol-burning race engines at 12,000 rpm.) But what if you want even more momentum? How about we halve the 9mm+P+ velocity and more than double the 9mm weight? Or even exceed the .45 weight? A 300-grain JHP at 700 fps should be just the ticket. How do you get that? Here comes Guncrafter Industries…

The Hellcat has been one of the most popular concealed carry pistols on the market since its introduction, and Springfield recently announced the release of a new model in the family. The Springfield Hellcat Pro will come with an optics-ready slide, a longer barrel and an increased magazine capacity over standard Hellcat models. Springfield is boasting that the biggest advantage of the new Hellcat Pro is its large magazine capacity—despite the gun’s small size. The pistol retains the slim and concealable 1-inch width from previous Hellcat models, but it now has a larger grip that’s more comfortable to hold, and it uses new, 15-round flush-fit magazines. The Hellcat Pro also features a longer barrel and proportionally longer slide, providing fired projectiles with greater velocity and the shooter with a longer…

HISTORICAL NOTES Originated by the British firm Holland & Holland in 1912, this is one of the original belted, rimless, magnum-type cartridges. It has been used as the basis for numerous wildcats and most of the Weatherby cartridges. Holland & Holland furnished it in a magnum Mauser action, and Griffin & Howe chambered rifles for it, beginning about 1926. The Western Cartridge Co. first offered it in 1925. At present, Federal, Remington and Winchester load the .375, in addition to a few others. The first commercial rifle of American make to chamber the round was the Model 70 Winchester, in 1937. Weatherby rifles were at one time available in .375 H&H, as was the Remington Model 725 Kodiak. At present, several American manufacturers list the .375 H&H as standard including…

Some mistakes you make only once. If you want to practice more, you reload your ammo. If you want the best-possible ammo for a given competition, you reload your ammo. And, sooner or later, when vacuuming up the range, you’ll pick up a piece of brass that won’t chamber after you’ve gone to the trouble of cleaning, sizing, priming and loading it. Usually that happens in a match. Murphy’s Law and such. That night you’ll be searching out case checkers online. Save yourself the match hassle and do it now. Case checkers are simple—a steel or aluminum block with the chamber reamed to absolute minimum chamber dimensions. These are used in rifle reloading to check the “shoulder bump,” the setting back of the shoulder you check so you have a…

01 Springfield Armory XD-M Elite 3.8 Compact OSP .45 ACP Shooters who still swear by the .45 ACP to protect their six should like the news coming out of Springfield Armory. Keeping the big-boy cartridge relevant for self-defense, the company has introduced its XD-M in a pack perfect for EDC. The Elite 3.8-inch Compact OSP in .45 ACP combines big-bore power with cutting-edge performance to provide concealed carry users with an extraordinary option. In addition to 10+1 capacity, ambidextrous controls and top-notch META trigger, the pistol is also optic ready, allowing for the addition of a red-dot sight. In fact, Springfield is even offering a factory package with its HEX Dragonfly 3.5 MOA red-dot optic. Though, you can still buy the gun as a standalone. MSRP: Optic Package, $843 Standalone,…

One of the most intriguing, photogenic and divisive pistols is the Magnum Research Desert Eagle. These large-sized 4-pound handguns chambered in magnum handgun cartridges constantly appear in movies, TV shows and video games … yet many modern shooters treat them with derision and scorn for some reason. Most people who trash the “Deagle” do so because they don’t understand the history behind this pistol and the gun shop myths that surround it. HISTORY According to a U.S. patent search, the initial Desert Eagle design was a joint venture between Bernard White of Magnum Research and Arnold Steinberg of Riga Arms Institute in 1982. The concept was to develop a semi-automatic pistol that could handle .357 Magnum handgun cartridges. After coming up with a very basic design, it was submitted to…

We were preparing for our first Cape buffalo safari—a seven-day jaunt to the famous Selous Reserve of southern Tanzania—busily working up handloads for the rifles. The game plan was that I’d be using my Winchester Model 70 in .416 Remington Magnum, and my father would be borrowing my .375 H&H Magnum. As I pulled up to Ol’ Grumpy Pants’ house, where we have a very convenient 100-yard shooting range, he informed me he’d made a decision. “I’m borrowing a Winchester in .458 Win. Mag.; the components and dies are in the basement. Let me know when you’ve got it grouping.” So began my trials and tribulations with the .458 Winchester Magnum, the first of a number of .45-caliber stopping rifle cartridges that would cross my path during the next 15…

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TriStar Arms: Have you heard of them? If that answer is “no,” you don’t need to start questioning your gun knowledge. The brand has only been around for a short time and, oddly enough, TriStar’s success story was almost never written—until Gus Bader bought the pen in 2005. But his love affair with firearms began long before he bought TriStar. “It was almost purely by accident,” said Bader, president of TriStar. “In my previous life, I worked for Carrier. I was stationed in Greece and had most of Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East as my territory. Growing up in Lebanon, shooting sports were few and far between, but my father introduced me to shotgun shooting, and I was hooked. “I was in the Basque region of Spain for…

The standard gun review usually begins with some history and then transitions to explanations about how the gun works, its features and how it performed. This isn’t a standard gun review because the gun I’m reviewing isn’t really a new gun. Well, that’s only partly true. In some ways it is a new gun, and in some ways it’s not. What’s without question is that this gun is the best shooting lever-action rifle of any brand, style or design, I’ve ever fired. “In some ways it’s a new gun, and in some ways it’s not. What’s without question is that this gun is the best shooting lever-action rifle of any brand, style or design, I’ve ever fired.” I received my sample of the Ruger-owned Marlin 1895 SBL about a month…

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More RECOIL? This article was originally published in Gun Digest’s sister magazine, RECOIL. For more content from those editors, go to GunDigestStore.com and search “Recoil.” For some shooters, long range just doesn’t cut it. There are simply never enough foot-pounds or feet-per-second to satisfy these people. It’s a uniquely American dilemma and we, for one, admire those esoteric shooters and savvy engineers, pushing the very ragged edge of handheld ballistics. But where do you turn when you want something that flies like a fighter jet and hits like a freight train? Two words: Desert Tech (DT). The folks at DT are artisans of the bullpup rifle, particularly those who are intended to shoot far … very far. They’re a relatively young company, less than a decade old, but have excelled…

Bullet technology for handguns these days has become incredibly advanced in theory, but in terms of general performance in the field, not much has changed in the past century. Having been involved in the testing of projectiles for several companies and many small ones, I’ve come to believe that marketing has as much of an influence on which bullets are brought to marked as does the real results of testing. Though it might seem like a controversial opinion, I believe there’s no finer bullet for shooting game than those designed by Elmer Keith nearly 100 years ago. BULLETS IN REALITY In the Gun Digest Buyer’s Guide 2021 (Volume 38, Issue 11), I penned an article titled “Nine, Ten, and Eleven (Point Five),” where I discussed my direct experience with projectile…