Innehållsförteckning för June 2020 från Guns & Ammo

Winchester Custom Shop Left-Hand Model 70 Featherweight This desirable .30-’06 left-hand Winchester Model 70 Featherweight sold for a reasonable $7,500 at a January 24, 2020, Sportsman’s Legacy sale. The rifle is the premier post-’64 left-hand Model 70 manufactured. It was unfired. Built by the Winchester Custom Shop, it is also the first left-hand Model 70 control-round-feed (CRF) rifle built, even considering prototypes. Although a Sporter stock was specified, a Featherweight stock was delivered. Thus, it is also one of only two left-hand Model 70 Featherweight CRF rifles ever made with a long action, including production. Both the bolt body and follower are jeweled. The barrel is 22 inches long and overall condition is about 99 percent. This rifle originates from a left-hand battery of 11 Winchester Custom Shop Model 70…

“IT STARTED OUT as a passion project for us,” said Alejandro Toussieh, chief operating officer at 1791 Gun-leather. In 2014, Toussieh and his lifelong friend CEO Ramiro “Rambo” Romani came across a friend who was boasting about how his leather holsters were better than anything he could purchase in a store. They challenged him to prove it, and he returned with the company’s original 4-Way Multifit holster and the BH1 holster for a Model 1911. They were taken back by the quality and design only to learn that he was a fourth-generation leather artisan. “There was no grand plan,” as the partners said, but the product spoke for itself. So, the friends went door to door to get holsters in as many gun stores and pawn shops as possible. With…

Type: Bolt action; short (tested) or long Caliber: 6mm Creedmoor (tested) Capacity: 5, 10 rds. Barrel: 24 in., 1:8-in. twist; stainless steel Overall Length: 42.75 in. Weight: 8 lbs., 15 oz. Stock: Carbon fiber, aluminum Grips: Magpul MOE-K Length of Pull: 12.5 in. to 14.5 in. Finish: Nitride (stainless steel); anodized (aluminum) Trigger: TriggerTech; adj. 1 lb., 8 oz. to 4 lbs. Sights: None MSRP: $1,795 Manufacturer: Christensen Arms, 888-517-8855, christensenarms.com…

Type: Blowback operated, semiautomatic Cartridge: 9mm (tested); .40 S&W or .45 ACP Capacity: 30 rds. Barrel: 5.4 in., 1/2x28 threaded with 3-lug suppressor adapter Overall Length: 22 in. (extended); 13.5 in. (folded) Weight: 5 lbs., 15 oz. (tested) Brace: SB Tactical arm brace, folding Grip: B&T (AR-15 pattern) Length of Pull: 13.38 in. (extended) Finish: Nitride (steel) Trigger: 4 lbs., 13.7 oz. (tested) Sights: Folding, elevation adj. post (front); folding dual aperture, windage adj. (rear) Safety: Two position, ambidextrous lever MSRP: $2,450 Manufacturer: B&T, 813-653-1200, bt-arms.com…

“HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ONE OF THESE?” Bob Hunnicutt asked me. “It was my grandfather’s. I’d like to get it shooting again, but it’s missing the flat trigger spring, bolt handle and cocking piece.” With a look of curious skepticism, he added, “Know where I can get any parts?” Seeing the fancy triggerguard gripped in his hand conjured a memory of one in a mix of forgotten firearms handed down by my dad just prior to his passing. “As a matter of fact, I think I do have one,” I replied. “If I remember correctly, it’s a parts gun, too, with a cut-down stock. I bet that we could combine the two and get yours shooting again.” The rifles are Winchester’s Model 1904 single-shot bolt-action. These rimfires were not serialized,…

The Springfield Model 1873 “Trapdoor” rifle in .45-70 Government was a godsend to Hollywood filmmakers. Its generic lines and ease of operation allowed it to be wielded, unaltered, in various Civil War dramas, battle epics and Westerns. Creative Hollywood armorers also used the readily available arm as a basis for everything from pirate pistols to Arab jezails. This example was made for the 1936 film “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1936). The screenplay was loosely based on ill-fated action during the Crimean War in 1854. Rather than using a standard Trapdoor carbine, it was decided to Anglicize the Yankee piece into a rifle that vaguely resembles a proper British-period-issue Pattern 1851 Victoria carbine. Rifles were shortened, brass nose cap added, sights removed and sling swivels affixed to the left…

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I attended the U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper Advanced Course where we had to shoot multiple qualification drills out to 1,000 yards. My optical companion for that school was a Leupold Mark 4 LR/T 3.5-10X scope, and I did well with it. I never felt like I lacked magnification at any point. The 3rd Special Forces Group company I belonged to at the time had the mission of hostage rescue, so I also spent a lot of time doing close quarters battle (CQB). The hostage rescue mission was dominated by holographic and red-dot sights because no optic allowed for faster rounds on target than those at 1X. Back then, if anyone would have claimed that one optic could allow me to do both missions, I would have…

Any rifleman that happens to have a stock with adjustable length of pull and an adjustable comb can make the rifle fit them as well as a tailored suit. Doing so makes it easier to spot impacts through the scope and tolerate a longer and more comfortable stay in the prone position or on a shooting bench. The first step to fitting a rifle is to remove the scope and pull the bolt all the way to the rear. For really accurate rifle shooting, move your head around as little as possible once shooting commences. The shooter should keep his cheek on the comb as he cycles the bolt, so having the bolt all the way to the rear prevents him from accidently getting too close to the action. Removing…

“It’s a difficult revolver to evaluate, as the true value would be somewhat regulated by the eye of the beholder.” POST-CIVIL WAR SMITH & WESSON Q: My uncle passed away and none of his family members were gun owners. They found a few firearms while cleaning out his house and wanted them out, so I offered to hold onto them until we could decide what to do with them. This revolver was in a glass case with a brass plaque stating it was owned by an “Ida Davidson” after the Civil War. The glass case was made by a Mr. Davidson, but the store is no longer there, so I don’t know if he was a relative of the original owner. None of my cousins know either. Can you tell…

ONCE UPON A TIME, handguns were something that you had to make do with. Customization was an expensive proposition and slow. Enter the Modular Age, and let’s consider the popular SIG Sauer P320 and X-series pistols. When SIG Sauer introduced the hammer-fired P250 and its unique fire-control chassis system in 2007, few anticipated how disruptive the chassis concept would be. The P250 itself was an OK pistol, but it was a hammer-fired gun introduced into a market dominated by the striker-fired Glock models and Smith & Wesson’s then-new M&P. SIG Sauer continued to develop the chassis system here in the U.S., introducing the striker-fired P320 in 2014. The P320 took the modular, while maintaining the ergonomics of the P250. In fact, the grip modules between the P250 and early P320s…

AFTER CRAWLING INTO PLACE, we adjusted our position as the sun started to rise behind the target. As every hunter knows, you never want to look into the sun. Instead, you want your prey to have that disadvantage. You want the quarry to squint if it looks in your direction. As luck would have it, we can’t always have things go our way. Most places we hunt, be it the elk hunter in the Spanish Peaks of Montana, or the Marine Corps sniper in the mountains of Afghanistan, we cannot predict where our target will show its face every time. That means it’s time to discuss how to fight glare. We need to build a position, limit our movement, bring the scope to bear on our target. How many times…

IN 2019, Virginia held regular elections for its General Assembly, the Commonwealth’s legislative body. This year, though, something was different. Not only were Democrats energized by anti-Trump sentiment, an unprecedented amount of money poured in from interest groups outside of Virginia. Bloomberg’s “Everytown for Gun Safety” and “EMILY’s List” each contributed millions of dollars to state campaigns. This funding, along with the changing demographics of heavily populated northern Virginia, led to Democrats controlling both chambers of the Assembly for the first time since the 1990s. This happened just months after Democrat Governor Ralph Northam convened a special session to enact gun control legislation in June 2019 during the wake of a mass shooting. By the evening of November 5th, it was clear that the Republican majorities that had quickly adjourned…