Innehållsförteckning för September 2024 från Shooting Times

DR. BRAD MILLER’S FINE ARTICLES ON .38 SPECIAL AND 9MM BARRELS and bullets were super in my book. My background gives me an appreciation and knowledge of manufacturing techniques, tolerances, etc., and I’ve always loved numbers, partly because as we know, numbers don’t lie. Sometimes we make assumptions that aren’t exactly accurate, as is pointed out via his articles. A lot of tedious measuring was necessary to undertake these pieces. There are all kinds of factors that influence accuracy, and most of your readers can name these with ease. Long ago, in an inquiry I made to P.O. Ackley about a load, part of his response was, “….nothing matters more in terms of accuracy than the bullet.” My own experience with handguns and rifles agrees. I once owned a Llama…

COLT’S NEW FRONTIER WAS THE SECOND GEN eration of the company’s single-action rimfire revolvers and is arguably the finest rimfire handgun Colt ever produced. Some might say that it’s the finest single-action .22 ever made by any company (excluding custom and semi-custom revolvers, such as those made by Freedom Arms). The New Frontier’s ancestral model—the Frontier Scout—was introduced in 1957 as a rebuttal to Ruger’s Single-Six .22 revolver, which had launched in 1953 and was soaring in popularity. To Colt’s credit, the Frontier Scout actually cost less, retailing at $49.50 as opposed to the Ruger’s $57.50. The Frontier Scout was a success and over the years was made in myriad variations, most designated by a letter; the Q-series, followed by the F, K, P, and so on. Some had interchangeable…

SPRINGFIELD INTRODUCED THE RIMFIRE VERSION OF ITS MODEL 2020 bolt-action rifle in two basic versions last year, and now the company has two new color variants for the well-designed Target model. The new colors are Coyote with black webbing and OD Green with black webbing. Features of the Model 2020 Rimfire Target rifle include a reinforced polymer stock, dual sling swivels, a rubber recoil pad, 13.45-inch length of pull, a hard chrome bolt, an interrupted Picatinny rail, a 10-round rotary magazine, an adjustable trigger, and a free-floated 20-inch heavy barrel. MSRP: $499 springfield-armory.com Real Avid Critical Carry EDC Knives Real Avid has jumped into the folding knife market with its new RAV series knives. The series includes seven models that feature nylon, aluminum, aluminum/stainless steel, glass-filled nylon, aluminum/carbon fiber,…

FOR DECADES, .35-CALIBER CARTRIDGES were plentiful for hunting the woods of North America. They may be on the rise again due to proven performance and help from some changes in state game laws. Let’s establish a baseline “woods” cartridge, then review design and ballistic factors of two .35-caliber newcomers. The archetypal .35-caliber woods cartridge has to be the .35 Remington from 1906. In terms of longevity and rifles sold, it has no competition in its niche. Almost every action type was at one time chambered for it. Rifles were still available when I profiled that cartridge in the pages of Shooting Times in 2019. Factory .35 Rem. ammo is loaded to a very “soft” 33,500 psi yet pushes a 200-grain bullet to an advertised velocity between 2,020 and 2,080 fps;…

ONCE YOU TAKE UP THE SPORT OF LONG- range shooting, you’ll notice that your range bag seems to be a bit more crowded than usual. While clever packing can make it easier to navigate, nothing takes up less space than equipment that simply isn’t there. Choosing gear that serves multiple purposes is a natural way to cut bulk, shave weight, and even put a few dollars back into your pocket. Leupold’s new BX-4 Range HD TBR/W binocular will appeal to outdoorsmen trying to simplify their load-out, as it fills the roles of at least three devices. If we allow the alphabet soup to settle, we find the string of letters stands for High-Definition True Ballistic Range (with) Wind. In essence, this tool combines a pair of Leupold’s exceptional optical technologies…

WAY BACK IN THE DIM DISTANT, I BOUGHT AN old farmhouse far from town. It had a cornfield on one side, an apple orchard on the other, and raccoons in between. There was a ramshackle garage stuffed with junk and old lumber, and the raccoons made it their HQ. One night, awakened by the noise and prodded by a spouse who went to work early, I headed out to the garage with my trusty Smith & Wesson Mountain Gun. Most would agree that a .44 Magnum is somewhat overkill for a raccoon, but it’s what I had at hand and, being a rather devoted IPSC shooter, figured it would work as well as anything in a confined space. Well, it did. Several shots were fired. One missed the raccoon, went…

Q. IN LANE PEARCE’S RECENT COLUMN ON THE .300 Savage, he mentioned having several rifles chambered for the classic round. The hand-load shooting results chart accompanying that column showed the results for the Savage Model 99 and the Remington Model 760 but not for the Model 722. Can Lane share those results, too? Mark LopezVia email A. We sure can share those results. Unfortunately, when the original column was published, we did not have enough space to include them, but we are happy to do so here. (See the chart below.) Joel J. Hutchcroft Is a Hammer-Forged Barrel Smoother? Q. A barrel question nags me. Is a hammer-forged barrel inherently smoother than one where lands and grooves are cut, which can, from a quality standpoint, vary given the age and…

SHOOTING TIMES READER MICHAEL WARNER posed a reloading situation and asked for recommendations. He listed an assortment of firearms that he plans to reload for but didn’t want to stock a lot of different propellants. These include the .44 Magnum (both handgun and rifle), .45 ACP, .30-06, .308 Winchester, .222 Remington, and .32 Winchester Special. He asked that I recommend no more than a couple of choices for reloading the handguns and a similar number for the rifles. I quickly realized that it wasn’t practical to select just four different propellants that could adequately satisfy his needs. I started with reviewing the latest Hodgdon reloading manual. Not knowing if Michael would be loading cast or jacketed bullets for the two handgun rounds, I looked at the .45 ACP data for bullet…

A LOT OF THE PEOPLE I SOCIALIZE WITH ARE BIG-game hunters. Whenever they are around, they are excited to show photos of the game they have taken most recently. I enjoy seeing their prized game animals and hearing about their adventures. I, too, have been on many memorable big-game hunts. In fact, I’ve hunted big game on four continents. But I must confess that deep down I’m a varmint hunter. And where I live, coyotes are the top of the varmint chain, so I’ve sort of always thought of myself as a coyote hunter. I’ve never been on the same scale as my friend and former Shooting Times writer Rick Jamison, but I’m not ashamed to say that I sometimes daydream about hunting coyotes. I’ve tried a lot of cartridges…

BECAUSE OF THE NATURE AND PRODUCTION SCHEDULE OF PRE- paring a print magazine, you are reading this September 2024 issue in or around the month of July. That means you are probably enjoying the great outdoors in a lot of ways, including heading to the shooting range for some quality practice and fun shooting. And you also may be getting in a little fishing at your favorite fishin’ hole. If that’s the case, and you haven’t already discovered it, MyOutdoorTV has a ton of fishing content. For a limited time, use the promo code SHOOTING30 and get a 30-day free trial of MyOutdoorTV. Cannot be combined with other offers. You can watch all the shows you want during your 30-day free trial, and you can cancel at any time. You…

LAST MONTH I WROTE ABOUT BRITISH SERGEANT Instructor Frank Snoxell, who set an amazing shooting record by firing 38 shots from a bolt-action .303 British Lee-Enfield S.M.L.E. in one minute and placing all those shots on a target set at 300 yards. That demonstration was fired during what was known as the Mad Minute. The previous record for the Mad Minute was 36 shots in a minute, with all shots hitting the target at 300 yards. The shooter was Jesse A. Wallingford, and he was popularly known as the Prince of Riflemen, the Best Shot in the British Army, the Human Machine Gun, and the Hero of ANZAC. If you read last month’s column, then you already know about the Mad Minute, so I’m not going to repeat that information…