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Winchester and the .222 In the July/August issue, Layne Simpson wrote that the Winchester Model 70 was never available in .222. Should this have read “The Winchester Model 70 pre-’64 was never available in .222 Rem.”? Fred Perry, Malta, MT That’s correct. In the article I mentioned having a Model 70 in .22 Hornet that had been rechambered to .222 Rem., and it is a pre-’64 rifle.—Layne Leupold Mark 5HD Gets Army Nod The U.S. Army’s Precision Sniper Rifle program has chosen Leupold’s Mark 5HD as its daytime optic. The contract scope is a 5-25x56mm with a flat dark earth finish and the Army’s Mil-Grid reticle. It will be paired with the Mk22 Mod 0, a Barrett-based multi-caliber bolt action. Chamberings include 7.62x51, .300 Norma Mag. and .338 Norma Mag.…
SEPTEMBER 7th 2020 We checkout the Springfield Armory Ronin .45 ACP At The Range. We examine the .350 legend A3 Upper Receiver Assembly in the new Midway USA AR Stoner line. In our Small Arms of WW1 series we take look at straight poles. SEPTEMBER 14th 2020 We checkout the Springfield Armory XDM-Elite in 9mm At The Range. We examine the .300 Blackout Upper Receiver Assembly in the new Midway USA AR Stoner line. In our Small Arms of WW1 series we take look at frontline German handguns. SEPTEMBER 21st 2020 We checkout the 6 in. Colt Python in .357 At The Range. We examine the 7.62x39 Upper Receiver Assembly in the new Midway USA AR Stoner line. In our Small Arms of WW1 series we take look at the…
One of the last creatures you might expect to find in the dry deserts of Arizona is a grizzly, but that is exactly what was bearing down on me in the rifle bay at Gunsite Academy. It wasn’t a real grizzly, of course, but a fearsome and quite lifelike interpretation of an irate Ursidae moving in my direction at an unnervingly rapid pace thanks to a motorized torso. I held my ground as its gears whined and it closed the gap in my direction. I hope I never have to shoot a charging bear in real life, because Robobear taught me a valuable lesson that day: Simply knowing how to shoot a rifle at a target and actually placing your bullet in the vitals of a bouncing, rolling creature that’s…
Set in the beautiful Texas Hill Country, the Sportsman’s All-Weather All-Terrain Marksmanship school at FTW Ranch (FTWsaam.com) is designed to give you an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals of field marksmanship as well as to get you to know your equipment better than ever before. I’ve been there numerous times over the years for a variety of instruction, and every time I leave a better shooter. In the classroom, SAAM instructors dive deep into external ballistics and their applications: bullet drop, wind drift, mils/m.o.a., atmospherics, line of sight/shot angle and more. Some of the sessions really had me scratching my head, but in time, thanks to the instructors’ experience and patience, I grasped the concepts. This knowledge has paid off for me numerous times in the field. SAAM reinforces these…
The .300 Win. Mag. debuted way back in 1963 and was an immediate success. Based on a shortened .300 H&H Mag. case, the .300 Win. Mag. offered better ballistics than the H&H from lighter, standard-length actions. To improve performance from the Win. Mag.’s shorter 2.62-inch belted case, engineers removed most of the parent cartridge’s body taper and increased case capacity. The .300 Win. Mag.’s popularity continued to grow. By the 1990s it surpassed the .30-06 as the cartridge that had collected the most Boone & Crockett record-book animals. Over the decades other hot .30s have challenged the .300 Win. Mag. for its crown, but none has done serious damage to its appeal. But in 2018 Hornady came out with a totally different fast .30. Known as the .300 PRC (Precision…
Leupold was quick to embrace the .350 Legend cartridge. The company’s VX-Freedom 3-9x40mm for the .350 Legend ($365) takes its CDS system and matches it to the round’s ballistics—specifically a 150-grain bullet running at 2,325 fps, which is what Winchester’s 150-grain Deer Season XP load does. Say you’re sitting in a stand, watching a woodlot, and your rifle is zeroed for 100 yards because you expect deer to move through the woodlot. But then, of course, you spot a deer across a field 200 yards away. You could hold over, sure. But depending on the deer’s position, you might need to be more precise. With the VX-Freedom Legend scope, you simply adjust the knob to the “2” on the upper portion of the turret and you’ve just applied the right…
