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Strasser Method On the Strasser straight pull, did you test the accuracy after taking it down in the same caliber configuration and then reassembling a couple of times to see how it travels? M.C. McClintock, North Carolina I shot a round, disassembled the rifle, reassembled it and fired another round to test its return to point of impact but did not take the gun apart in-between or in the middle of shooting three-shot groups. That said, I had the barrel off and on a half-dozen times and never detected a shift in point of impact.—Keith Wood Turning Left Really loved reading Craig’s “Feeling Left Out” article (November/December). As a southpaw myself, I can relate to much of what he says on the subject. I am to the point now that…
Federal ammunition celebrates 100 years in business in 2022, but if it weren’t for a forward-thinking Minneapolis businessman named Charles Horn, Federal Ammo might be nothing more than a footnote in Anoka, Minnesota’s history. Founded in 1916 by brothers Lewis and Harry Sherman, the original Federal factory—known then as the Federal Cartridge and Machine Company—opened with a goal of producing 175,000 shotshells a week and capturing lucrative government contracts. None of those contracts materialized, and only a handful of shotgun shells were produced by the time the factory was shuttered in 1920. Two years later, Charles Horn of the American Ball Company in nearby Minneapolis was looking for a company to manufacture paper tubes to hold air rifle ammo when he came upon the remains of the defunct Federal Cartridge…
The 6.5 Creedmoor was developed in 2007 by Hornady’s Dave Emary and Dennis DeMille and has created a stir in the centerfire rifle cartridge market unlike anything in living memory. It has a neck design that handles high ballistic coefficient bullets without robbing case capacity and an overall length that works in short-action bolt guns and AR-10 rifles. In 2010 John Snow of Outdoor Life set out to build a custom precision rifle chambered for a wildcat cartridge. He enlisted the help of George Gardner at GA Precision, and the 6mm Creed-moor was born by necking down the 6.5 Creedmoor. Soon the round became extremely popular with competitive shooters, eclipsing its parent cartridge as the most popular in PRS. To compare ballistic coefficients with Hornady loads, in the 6.5 you…
Binoculars with a built-in laser rangefinder are super-handy tools whether you’re a hunter or unknown-distance target shooter, enabling you to find, identify and range the target with a single unit. New on the scene is the Meopta Optika LR, a reasonably priced pair at $1,500 for the 10x42mm model and $1,875 for the 8x50mm. They promise accurate ranging out to 2,600 and 2,950 yards respectively. I borrowed the 10x42mm to test. Some ranging binoculars can be complex to set up, but the Meoptas are easy to program. Make your selections for units (English versus metric), type of ranging (auto, near, far), incline data (angle in degrees, shooting distance, height difference, off) and display brightness via the button on the left. The button on the right does the ranging. A single…
Not only do the AmpPods protect your hearing from gunshots, they’re also tuned to pick up the sounds of game. The version I tried was the Multi-Pursuit ($1,499, TETRAHEARING.COM ) D60, which helps you hear elk, deer and turkeys. There are also game-specific AmpPods for $699. They’re powered by No. 10 hearing aid batteries, and they have a cool “tap” feature that lets you change programs easily. The D60 offers three programs: deer/elk/turkey; magnum deer/elk/turkey; and ClearComm, which is tuned to human voices for general hunting and conversation. I wore them last year on an elk hunt. On opening day they enabled me to hear cows chirping somewhere down the ridge. When I called one in, my wife was sitting close at hand, and the blast from her ’06 was…
Mossberg MVP Patrol .300 BLK A new chambering comes to the MVP Patrol lineup, innovative bolt-action rifles that feed reliably from AR-15, AR-10 and M1A/M14 magazines. In the case of the new .300 BLK version, it feeds from AR-15 mags. The rifle has a 16.25-inch medium bull barrel with an A2-style muzzle brake, and the barreled action is pillar-bedded into a black synthetic stock. Mossberg’s LBA trigger, one of the best out there, comes standard, and the rifle has an adjustable rear sight and fiber-optic front in addition to a Picatinny rail. Overall length is 36.5 inches, and weight is seven pounds. >> $613, MOSSBERG.COM Remington Core-Lokt Tipped The Core-Lokt doesn’t need any introduction, as it’s been a popular, tried-and-true big game bullet for decades. Now it’s available with a…
