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Hooray for the .270 Good article by Craig Boddington about the .270! I have never owned one, but I don’t doubt its effectiveness. I don’t think I would use one for elk, or anything bigger. My own preference in hunting rifles is the .35 Rem. with Remington Core-Lokts for whitetail and hogs out to 150 yards, the 6.5x55 with 140-grain Nosler Partitions for anything up to but not including elk out to 300 yards. And the .35 Whelen with 250-grain Nosler Partitions for elk and anything bigger. Oh, and if I got the chance to hunt the big bears, my .416 Taylor with 400-grain Hornady DGXs would do the job. Clete Davis, Illinois Would You Do This? I operate a small gunshop in central Kentucky, and I’m a fairly active…
Fiocchi ammunition has been around since 1876, and while some shooters are quite familiar with the company, American big game hunters may not be. The company is out to change all that. Fiocchi’s U.S. arm has been in operation since 1983, beginning with a manufacturing facility in Ozark, Missouri. More recently, Fiocchi USA established another plant in Little Rock, Arkansas. Together, the two facilities encompass more than 200,000 square feet and employ more than 300 people. And those statistics don’t even count the just-announced primer plant that will be located at the port of Little Rock and operational by the end of 2024, beginning of 2025. Fiocchi USA builds several lines of centerfire rifle ammunition, including general range ammo, match ammo and the subject of this article, Hyperformance Hunt. “Hyperformance…
A sizeable portion of America’s 15 million or so hunters live in states where they are limited to straight-wall cartridges for big game. And while there have been some new cartridges designed to tap into this market in addition to classics like the .45-70, there’s growing interest in crossover cartridges that allow you to use the same cartridge in both your revolver and rifle. The legendary Elmer Keith was one of the earliest voices calling for a souped-up factory .38 Spl. handgun round. Maj. D.B. Wesson took up the idea, lengthening the .38 case by .135 inch so the new round would not chamber in .38 Spl. revolvers. In 1935 the new hot-rod .38 arrived in factory form as the .357 Mag. While intended as a revolver cartridge, gunsmiths soon…
Hornady’s new 7mm PRC (Precision Rifle Cartridge) is provably the best long-range 7mm cartridge ever introduced. As with all rifle cartridges, handloading tuned ammo for it helps achieve the best it has to offer. The 7mm PRC’s DNA is 100 percent long range. As such, loading highly aerodynamic bullets is recommended. The cartridge doesn’t offer any advantage with light 7mm bullets. As spec’d by SAAMI, the 7mm PRC has a rifling twist rate of 1:8. This enables it to effectively stabilize the long-bodied, streamlined projectiles. Lead-core bullets of 168 grains ranging up to 195 grains and monometal bullets of 160 grains up to 168 grains provide optimal performance in the 7mm PRC. Examples are Barnes 168-grain LRX bullet; Berger 168-grain VLD Hunting, 180-grain VLD Hunting, and 195-grain Extreme Outer Limits…
For most of America’s early history, the United States felt secure from invasion, and it maintained a small, not always well armed army and navy. European countries, on the other hand, constantly armed and rearmed to remain militarily competitive with each other. A turnbolt mechanism in a center-fire cartridge became a staple there early on, but America simply adopted the percussion musket converted to centerfire during the Civil War. However, the value of a repeating rifle had been proven by the the Spencer of that era. Problem was, this rimfire repeater and its short, stubby cartridge just didn’t have the power and range a modern army required, and other repeating mechanisms weren’t capable of handling the greater power required for serious military cartridges. That is, until the International Exhibition of…
If you were to survey several of the top long-range shooters in the country which factory rifle offers the best performance and accuracy, many would likely list Sako’s TRG family of guns. The first TRG bolt-action rifle, which was chambered in .308, appeared in 1989 and was an immediate success. Over the years the TRG family has been refined to meet the changing demands of shooters and make use of new technology, and that refinement has led to the most recent addition to the TRG family, the TRG 22/42 A1. The TRG 22 A1 is chambered for short-action cartridges including the .260 Rem., 6.5 Creedmoor and .308 Win., while the TRG 42 A1’s longer magnum action is chambered in either .300 Win. Mag. or .338 Lapua. Both the 22 A1…
