Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2021 i Shooting Times

I REALLY ENJOYED THE ARTICLE BY JOSEPH VON BENEDIKT, THE ONE ABOUT building a new .25-06 on a Kimber Classic action. I’m on my third Kimber (two Montanas and one Classic). My first was a .30-06 that burned along with my home in a forest fire. The second two have been acquired since, and the stunningly beautiful Classic is now a .338-06 Ackley Improved. Kimbers have beautiful, svelte little actions, and they fit me so well, but the factory barrels can be very finicky, in my experience. Some can be made to shoot and some maybe not. They are so finicky that my wife even named her whiny little cat Kimber. In any case, I tamed all three—but not the cat. I have loved all my Kimbers (yes, even the…

NOTES: Accuracy is the average of three, three-shot groups fired from a benchrest. Velocity is the average of nine rounds measured 10 feet from the gun’s muzzle. Nosler cases and Winchester Large Rifle Magnum primers were used for all handloads. All load data should be used with caution. Since Shooting Times has no control over your choice of components, guns, or actual loadings, neither Shooting Times nor the various firearms and components manufacturers assume any responsibility for the use of this data.…

TWO MONTHS AGO I MENTIONED ALLIANT RELODER TS 15 5 powder in the context of powder burn rates and how this new propellant was developed to fit certain applications between Alliant Reloder 15 and Reloder 16. Since then, I’ve used the new TS 15 5 powder for putting together and testing handloads in several cartridges. Here are the results of that exercise. Hercules Powder Co. introduced the first three Reloder smokeless propellants in 1965. Designated as Reloder 7, 11, and 21, the ascending numbers indicated successively slower burn rates. Alliant Techsystems later acquired Hercules, and along with other popular Hercules propellants like Bullseye, Unique, Blue Dot, Green Dot, Red Dot, etc., rebranded them as Alliant products. Alliant is now a division of Vista Outdoor Inc. The original Reloder products were…

SCCY’S NEW DVG-1 9MM SEMIAUTOMATIC MICRO-SIZED pistols are offered with and without a red-dot reflex sight installed. The pistols have 3.11-inch barrels, 10-round magazines, straight triggers, and white-dot front sights. The version with the factory-installed red-dot sight comes with a Crimson Trace CTS-1500 sight that has a 3.5-MOA dot and a built-in backup rear sight. MSRP: $299.99 (iron sights only), $399.99 (CTS-1500) sccy.com Ruger 10/22 Takedown Ruger’s popular .22 LR 10/22 Takedown semiautomatic carbine is available with a Magpul X22 Backpacker stock that has a built-in, hinged storage compartment for up to three extra magazines, and the 16.4-inch barrel attaches to the buttstock for transport. The barrel’s muzzle is threaded 1/2-28 for a suppressor, and the carbine comes with four 10-round magazines, fiber-optic sights, and a combination scope base adapter…

IN 1966, EIGHT YEARS AFTER RUGER ANNOUNCED the compact Bearcat .22 six-shooter, the mother of a young high school graduate in southeastern Idaho handed him $40. It was a graduation gift. “Take that into town,” she suggested, “and buy yourself a new suit.” Instead, the young man, whom we’ll just call “Sam,” found his way to the local hardware store. The shop had a brand-spanking-new Bearcat, and the price was $39.50. It would be another two years before the Gun Control Act of 1968 regulated the sale of handguns to individuals 21 and older, and Sam walked out of the store the proud owner of the Bearcat. Loosely based on Remington’s single-action revolvers, the Bearcat was designed as a trail gun or kit gun for trappers, hunters, and their ilk.…

FIRST, LET’S GET THE BIGGEST news about the new LCP MAX out of the way. It has a magazine capacity of 10 rounds, and an optional 12-round magazine is offered as an accessory. That’s twice the capacity of the previous .380 ACP LCP and LCP II pistols, which, by the way, are still in production. Ruger accomplished this increase in firepower by developing a double-stack magazine that is, surprisingly, not much wider than the original single-stack magazine. Fine Features Like the other LCP pistols, the new LCP MAX’s slide has cocking ears, grasping grooves (front and rear), and an external extractor. The top edges and the muzzle end are beveled for concealment and a smooth draw. According to Ruger’s website, the LCP MAX has a 2.8-inch barrel, but according to…

TO WIT: A HANDLOADER OF LIMITED MEANS AND even more limited stockpiles wrote to ask if he can use Small Pistol Magnum primers (which are all he has left) in light .38 Special and .44 Special loads. The immediate answer is, of course, no, since the .44 Special demands Large Pistol primers, which makes me wonder what he’s being doing these past years. He added that the only powders he has left are Winchester 231 and Trail Boss. Having become ever more reluctant to answer such questions off the top of my head, I contacted Ron Reiber, who for many years was Hodgdon’s ballistician and is now retired. Ron’s answer was that for the .38 Special, Magnum primers present no immediate problem as long as you are dealing with light…

Q: PEOPLE IN MY AREA ARE HAVING A hard time getting their 26 Nosler rifles to group. A well-known gunshop told me they couldn’t get them to group either using Barnes or Nosler bullets. Can the experts help us out? I am a faithful Shooting Times reader. Jeff Davis Via email A: No doubt, the 26 Nosler can be finicky. I know because I wrote a handloading article on it for the 2015 edition of the Hodgdon Annual Manual, which the staff of Shooting Times helped put together. (Shooting Times broke the story on the 26 Nosler in the April 2014 issue with an article written by Joseph von Benedikt.) Other handloaders also have found it to be tricky to load; however, I have found a few handloads that worked…

IT’S SAID THAT GOOD JUDGMENT COMES FROM experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. I’ve likely sighted-in a half-dozen revolvers for every rifle I’ve sighted. In my youth, I applied plenty of bad judgment to the task. Fortunately, I learned. Remember, accuracy is the ability of a firearm to put bullets as close as possible to the same point of impact (POI) independent of the shooter. Sighting determines the POI relative to point of aim (POA). It is very shooter-dependent in handguns. All firearms recoil at the moment of firing, producing a quantifiable force rooted in Newtonian physics, but big-bore revolvers throw Professor Newton a rotten apple. The classic recoil concept is, “For every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction.” “Opposite” implies a straight direction. In most rifles…

THE MORE THAN 20 NEW Zeiss Conquest V4 rifle-scopes feature optimized engraving, 10-yards-to-infinity side parallax adjustment, variable step reticle illumination, new reticle designs, and reticle sub-tension indicators at the magnification settings. The 4-16X 44mm version I have comes with the all-new External Locking Windage Turret with windage limiter adjustment, which allows for easy-to-see reference numbers, immediate turret engagement, and confirmed settings. This scope is 14 inches long and weighs 22.6 ounces. It has a 30mm main tube, and it can handle up to 1,500 g-force of recoil. My sample has the second focal plane “Christmas tree-type” ZBi illuminated MOA-based smart reticle. It features reference marks on the main horizontal and vertical lines, and it has 0.12-MOA subtensions, making it applicable for open-terrain hunters and precision shooters. I installed it on…

BORN ON DECEMBER 5, 1912, IN OROVILLE, CALI- fornia, Fred T. Huntington grew up hunting, fishing, and shooting, with shooting being his passion. He got into serious shooting in about 1937, but by the early ’40s he couldn’t get all the ammunition he wanted, so he learned to handload. According to writer Sam Fadala, in 1941, Fred picked up a book by W.F. Vickery entitled Advanced Gunsmithing, and it changed his life. Vickery included an explanation of how to make a press and dies for creating .22-caliber bullet jackets from .22 rimfire cases, and that’s what put Fred on his path to fame and fortune. Upon graduating from high school in Oroville, Fred planned to live in the town for the rest of his life and join his father’s successful…