Innehållsförteckning för September 2025 från Shooting Times

I READ THE ARTICLE ON THE 7MM BACKCOUNTRY IN THE MAY ISSUE. Wouldn’t that make a great Scout Rifle, per Jeff Cooper’s concept? Owen Camp Via email .22 Hornet Correction I read with some interest the .22 Hornet article by Steve Gash on the Shooting Times website (it also appeared in the September 2024 print issue of the magazine), and it was an informative read as I really like the .22 Hornet. However, I noticed a slight problem with the reported first dates of rifles introduced in .22 Hornet. Specifically, the Winchester company introduced the .22 Hornet in the Model 70 bolt action in 1937 not 1946 as the article mentions. That’s not a big deal as there are only a few of these fine old Model 70s left in…

MOST RIFLE AFICIONADOS KNOW THE STORY OF the so-called demise of the original Winchester Model 70. (I’ve mentioned it in this column several times.) In the early 1960s, skilled craftsmen trained before and during the world wars were retiring out of the gunmaker’s realm. Remington’s then-new Model 700 was threatening sales. Production cost of the original Mauser-based Model 70 loomed nearly as high as value, reducing profit margins to an unsustainable level. The “Rifleman’s Rifle” was in peril. Winchester hired a top executive from Ford to turn the company around. Complex actions were redesigned. Machined parts were replaced with stamped parts wherever possible. Hand-fitting was abandoned. Savants of the early Winchesters saw the shift as a cheapening of the brand. Quality, some purists claim, plummeted. Probably, they’re right. To a…

WHEN ENGINEERING ITS NEW COVERT Double Stack (CDS9) 9mm semiautomatic pistol, Kimber started with the company’s popular single-stack Micro 9, and when they were finished, all that was left was some springs and a few screws. At least that’s according to Kimber Senior Product Design Engineer Aaron Alexander Sr., as reported by my colleague David Faubion, editor of our special publications division, in his recent article for Red Dot (available on newsstands and online at osgnewsstand.com). The new CDS9 may have its roots in the popular Micro 9, but it’s definitely a whole new cat. After spending quite a bit of time handling and shooting our sample, I can say it is a real humdinger. Details Perhaps the best way to show and tell readers about the new CDS9 is…

I THOROUGHLY ENJOY WRITING THIS COLUMN IN Shooting Times because it gives me the chance to put my master’s degree in history to good use researching some very interesting historical events. Being from Illinois (a.k.a. the Prairie State), I am especially interested in Illinois history, and this month I learned about a band of outlaws that plagued northern Illinois from about 1835 until 1841. These bandits aren’t as famous as say, the James-Younger Gang, the Dalton Gang, and the Wild Bunch, but the manner in which they were brought to justice is no less interesting, at least to me. The Banditti of the Prairie, as they were known, were a loose-knit bunch of gangs who terrorized northern Illinois, Ohio, and Iowa until they were thwarted by vigilante groups. In Ogle County,…

SPRINGFIELD’S NEW KUNA 9MM PISTOL IS A PRECISION-MANUFACTURED PDW designed for personal protection. Developed in partnership with HS Produkt, the Kuna employs a unique roller-delayed operating system, a monolithic aluminum upper, a 6.0-inch threaded barrel, a multi-port muzzle brake, fully ambidextrous controls, and adjustable hybrid flip-up metal sights. It comes with two 30-round detachable magazines. Two versions are being offered. One has an integrated Picatinny rail on the end plate. The other features a Strike Industries FSA single-side folding brace fitted out on the Picatinny rail end plate. It weighs 4 pounds, 10 ounces. The upper has a black Type III hardcoat anodized finish. MSRP: $999 and $1,149 depending on configuration springfield-armory.com Barnes Harvest Collection The new Harvest Collection ammunition from Barnes is engineered specifically for hunting whitetails and…

IN READING JACK O’CONNOR ARTICLES during my youth, I realized that some cartridges loaded in the U.S. were well under pressure or velocity specs of the identical cartridges loaded elsewhere, especially Europe. Later I learned some are loaded far under their SAAMI maximum average pressure (MAP) assignments. Let’s look at some examples. 7mm Mauser (SAAMI MAP: 46,000 CUP crusher; 51,000 psi transducer) Differences in sensor type and placement make a direct correlation of SAAMI to European (CIP) pressure standards difficult, but we can roughly approximate Euro standards for 7mm Mauser (7x57mm) as equivalent to our 58,000 psi. The reason commonly cited is the lack of the third “safety” locking lug in pre-Model 98 Mauser bolt-action rifles. Most surplus 7x57mm Mausers in the U.S. were two-lug models, but those who live…

IN THE JUNE 2025 ISSUE THERE WAS AN INTERESTING “ASK THE Q. Experts” Q&A comparing .22 WMR velocities in handguns to .22 LR velocities in rifles. While the table of results was nice, a comparison of energy for the loadings would have added impact information to the answer. How do those energies compare? Roger Cox Via email A. Thank you for your question, sir. You are correct in that the energy information would have been helpful. Here is the velocity chart with the energy data, as calculated through an online bullet energy web tool that uses bullet weight in grains and velocity in feet per second to determine the energy in foot-pounds. Joel J. Hutchcroft Small-Game Handloads for the .223 Remington? Q. I want to use my .223 Remington bolt-action…

CCI RECENTLY ADDED FOUR NEW PRODUCTS to their popular Blazer centerfire pistol ammunition portfolio. Until now, most Blazer ammo has featured copper-plated, full metal jacket bullets. The new-for-2025 Blazer Brass 9mm, .40 S&W, 10mm Auto, and .45 ACP factory loads are all topped with conventional cup-and-core, jacketed hollowpoint bullets, they are loaded into reloadable brass cases, and they feature Boxer primers. Blazer ammunition is available in 14 different calibers, from .25 Auto to .45 Colt, and there are more than 30 different loads. Several items are assembled in aluminum cartridge cases and should not be reloaded, while others—including these latest JHP loads—use brass cases that are fully reloadable. I obtained samples of the new factory-loaded ammo for T&E, and of course, I also handloaded the fired brass to compare ballistic…

WHEN I WAS 13, I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO MOVE to the country. I went to work on a farm that year, and by the age of 16 I was a hardened groundhog hunter. My rifle was a single-shot, bolt-action Cooey .22 my father bought in the 1930s. At the time, I didn’t think of groundhogs as anything other than pests that dug burrows that toppled tractors and dulled the blades of hay mowers, and while I knew I could thin their ranks more effectively with a .220 Swift, such an esoteric rifle was way beyond my means. And anyway, my immediate aspirations were deer hunting and a new Marlin 336 in .35 Remington. It was only much later that I came to appreciate the joys of hunting, and eating,…