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JVCASS 86 responding to our Instagram post asking which of the cartridges above is your favorite. For the whole story, read Craig Boddington’s “Old Warhorses” feature article beginning on page 32 of this issue. “I’m cleaning my .303 Enfield as we speak! Heading to the range tomorrow!” .30-30 Tribute I just read Craig Boddington’s great May/June article in my favorite gun magazine. It was wonderful in every way, paying tribute to possibly America’s favorite centerfire rifle and caliber: the .30-30 Win. Craig only seems to improve with time. Keep up the great work, my friend! Norm Cooter Hodgdon Retires Chris Hodgdon is retiring from day-to-day operations at the company his family founded three generations ago. “One of the first things I noticed about Chris was his passion for reloading and…
“A Christmas Story” is one of my favorite movies because it does a wonderful job of depicting small-town America as it was during my innocent youth. And just like Ralphie in the movie, at a very young age I began subtly pestering my parents for a special Christmas present. Mom never budged but Dad, possibly seeing an eventual hunting buddy in me, placed a Daisy Red Ryder carbine with my name on it beneath our tree. And what a terrific gift it proved to be. During summers, the Red Ryder chalked up long strings of one-shot kills on huge grasshoppers that invaded our farm. Mockingbirds, robins and cardinals were off-limits, but chipmunks digging up the flower garden and pesky English sparrows were fair game. The biggest and most fun quarry…
It’s that time of year when lots of serious rifle shooters turn their attention to shooting varmints and predators—either as a tune-up for fall big game seasons or because it’s their passion. It’s certainly Patrick Meitin’s passion, and over the course of 270-plus pages he dispenses tons of advice based on his experiences. Topics range from setups and calling to species and shooting, and the book is well-illustrated with color photographs. For rifle (and handgun) fans, there’s a wealth of information on firearms, ammunition and optics for everything from prairie dogs to wild hogs. I think RifleShooter readers will especially like the chapter on cartridges, and Meitin expands on this in his chapter on pet loads. He gives recipes for .22 Hornet and K-Hornet, .221 Fireball, .222 Rem., .223 Rem.…
Bill Wilson is a dedicated hunter with a special affinity for hunting hogs. In 2005, he began searching for a competent hunting cartridge for pigs, deer and similar-size game that worked in AR-15 rifles. He tried the .300 Whisper, .30 Rem. AR and .300 BLK, but none suited him. Then he worked with Kurt Buchert to bring Buchert’s 7.62x40 cartridge to market, but Wilson still felt it didn’t improve terminal ballistics as much as he would have liked. So Wilson lengthened the throat by .060 inch, lengthened the case by .040 inch, and saw a 100 fps jump over the 7.62x40. The .300 Ham’r was born, and recently it was SAAMI approved. The .350 Legend debuted a year after the .300 Ham’r, and like the Ham’r, it was designed with…
The genesis of the .26 Macho came during a benchrest match in May 2014. Fellow competitor Steve Grosvenor brought up the idea to build a custom cartridge. I thought the idea was interesting, so together we started planning. The goal was simply to develop an accurate hunting cartridge that would be devastating on deer-size game. We decided to explore the .264/6.5mm caliber, which is known for its inherent accuracy and healthy bullet selection. Steve did a lot of research and decided on the .260 Rem. as the parent case. The .260 has shown it will digest a lot of different powders has decent velocity and low recoil. Most .26 caliber bullets are long, slender, boattails, but I wanted a shorter, flat-base bullet that would not have to be seated deeply…
Thompson/Center Performance Center T/CR22 Featuring a new carbon-fiber barrel and cool thumbhole stock, the Performance Center T/CR22s have style to spare. The barrels are 18.375 inches long and are threaded 1/2x28. They’re fitted to a 6061 machined aluminum receiver with Picatinny rail. A brown laminated thumbhole stock is shown here, and this stock style is also offered in blue and red laminates. T/CR22s have oversize bolt handles and easy-to-operate magazine release levers. The rifle feeds from a 10-round rotary magazine, and it accepts Ruger 10/22 mags and some other 10/22 components. >> $642, TCarms.Com MTM Case-Gard Screw-It Deluxe Bore Guide Kit Bore guides are an integral part of any serious cleaning regimen. The Screw-It kit is designed to work with both bolt actions and ARs, and an AR link and…
