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By The Editors
The popular Thompson/Center Dimension rifle now has several accessory options avaliable. Stocks now come in Mossy Oak or RealTree, and Thompson/Center worked with Plano to design a durable carrying case that can hold one receiver, two barrels, cleaning gear, and other accessories. See our review of the Thompson/Center Dimension here. [ Read Full Post ]
By The Editors
This rifle is a new variance on the M&P 10 and its makers say it's designed for hunting (chambered in .308). It's a fully ambidextrous gun with a safety selector and magazine release located on both sides. The gun comes with a Magpul stock and an 18-inch barrel. [ Read Full Post ]
By The Editors
The .17 Win. Super Mag. comes with a workingman’s pedigree. The case is based off a .27--caliber nail-gun blank, which was modified and necked down to take the .17-caliber bullet. (These blanks, which come in three calibers—.22, .25, and .27—are a big business for Winchester, according to Greg Kosteck, the company’s marketing director.) Empty, the case measures 1.200 inches (vs. 1.064 inches for the .17 HMR). And its case walls are about 50 percent thicker than the .17 HMR’s, to handle the higher pressures the round generates (33,000 psi vs. 26,000 psi for the .17 HMR). [ Read Full Post ]
By The Editors
If you haven't looked through a Meopta scope yet, you need to. What's unique about this scope is that it might be the only scope on the market with a 1-inch tube that also has an illuminated reticle. It will retail for about $800 but it's probably $1,000 worth of scope. [ Read Full Post ]
By The Editors
This is a big gun that comes with a relatively small price tag. The rifle is chambered for big calibers like the .375 H&H and the .416 Remington. It features a rugged claw extractor and a walnut stock. It weighs about 9 pounds without a scope, comes with a buckhorn sight, and a bead up front.
In total the gun only costs $1,200. The gun also comes in a synthetic stock and stainless steel model. [ Read Full Post ]
By David E. Petzal
Despite the fact that residents of New York state have just had a loathsome wad of gun restrictions shoved down their collective throat by their satanic governor Andrew Cuomo, and that President Obama is cooking up something equally as wonderful, the SHOT Show seems to have taken little notice that I can detect as I lurch around the floor. The one comment I have heard a good bit is that “Obama thinks he’s emperor, and we’re gonna have to show him what’s what.”
Well, I have news. He is emperor, thanks to a Congress that long ago degenerated into a food fight, one that’s peopled by the most ineffectual group ever assembled on the North American continent. Say “power vacuum.”
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By The Editors
This new rifle from Weatherby weighs in at only 6 3/4 pounds. It was designed, as its name suggests, for long treks in the backcountry. All the metal on the gun is cerakoted. It comes with a 2-stage adjustable trigger and Weatherby guarantees it will shoot sub MOA groups. [ Read Full Post ]
By The Editors
This new shooting system from TrackingPoint takes fighter jet technology and applies it to long-range shooting. Here's how it works. First the shooter tags his target. Then the scope takes a ballistic formula accounting for distance, wind, elevation, temperature and a wide variety of other factors and tracks the target. The system only allows the shooter to fire when the reticle (or in this case an 'x') is in proper position to hit the target. [ Read Full Post ]
By The Editors
ISR stands for Integrally Suppressed Rifle. You guessed it, the gun comes with a can welded and pinned to the barrel. The ISR is chambered in 300 AAC Blackout and features an adjustable stock. Overall, it's a solid, compact rifle. It will retail for about $3,000. [ Read Full Post ]
By The Editors
This new Browning doesn't have a lot in common with previous A-bolts. Besides the shroud and the handle, the bolt is totally different. The trigger is also all-new, and the gun features a drop-out magazine, which is a change from the hinged floorplate magazines in the original A-bolts. The gun has a composite stock and will be available in .223 up to .300 Win. Mag. It will retail for about $600. [ Read Full Post ]
By The Editors
A solid bullet is designed for deep and straight penetration. The tradeoff is that while the bullet penetrates deeply, there's no expansion and a relatively small wound channel. Federal's new Premium Safari Cape-Shok ammo looks to solve this problem by adding a polymer tip to the bullet that falls off when it hits a game animal. [ Read Full Post ]
By The Editors
This stock from Charlie Sisk has an adjustable buttpad, cheek piece, and star joint that allows for rifle cant on the fly. The stock is fairly heavy and retails for about $1,000. Sisk is making the stocks for Remington 700s and Savage long action rifles. You can also get a complete rifle on this platform from Sisk. [ Read Full Post ]
By David E. Petzal
This question came from R. Peterson, and was intended for my new column, but I couldn’t resist, so here goes:
Is there any reason, Mr. Peterson asks, to choose a standard .270 over a .270 WSM? To which I reply, there are a number of them. I’ve used the standard .270 since 1973, and shot and hunted with it about as much as I have with anything. I owned a .270 WSM for 10 years, but I used it a lot.
What you get with the .270 WSM is about 150-200 fps more than you get with the standard cartridge. The velocity increase comes via a powder capacity that is 5 to 6 grains greater. In the older cartridge, you can reach 2,950 fps with a 150-grain bullet, which I consider the most useful weight, while in the .270 WSM you can reach 3,050. I found that the lighter bullet weights give a greater increase in velocities. With 130-grain bullets you can get 3,250 fps, which is really moving.
However, this comes at a price.
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By David E. Petzal
A former editor of Field & Stream once asked me to explain the American system of cartridge designation, and if it was possible for him to familiarize himself with the weird and wonderful assortment of cartridges that we stuff in our firearms.
“You’d do better to try and learn Finnish,” I said. “Unless you start memorizing the lexicon of cartridges before your teens, your brain has already hardened too much to absorb it.” [ Read Full Post ]