Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2017 i Gun Digest

The thing about ARs is they pretty much all look alike. If you want to stand out, or blend in, a paint job is the way to go. You can get a professional to do it, but using spray paints is also an easy D.I.Y. project. With a little time, effort and creativity, you can create a professional-looking paint job. And, the same techniques can be used with any of your gear. The materials you need are simple. (This varies some depending on what method you’re using.) For a camo job, use “flat” paint that doesn’t have a shiny finish. I use Aervoe-Pacific camo paint from Brownells. It comes in a variety of colors, covers extremely well and dries quickly. You’ll want a mask, to prevent inhaling fumes and overspray,…

It’s safe to say that I go back a ways with chassis rifles and Howa firearms manufacturing. I’ve hauled around my personal Weatherby Vanguard Back Country in .257 Weatherby Magnum for many years, and because the folks at Howa manufacture the Vanguard action and barrel, I feel pretty safe in saying that the Howa is a top-end barreled action, and well worthy of respect among serious shooters. I’m also no stranger to chassis-style rifles. I’ve published three books on the subject of long-range high-performance rifles, and am in the process of writing a fourth, and in the course of researching and testing rifles for those projects, I’ve come across many different chassis rifle designs. In the past 7 years or so, the topic of chassis rifles has figured prominently in…

A spotting scope moves things. It pulls things tiny with distance right into your hand. But the “Big Eye” is cumbersome too. On a hunt, you must weigh the benefits of detailed looks at distance against the various costs of making them. Spotting scopes date way back. In 1608, Dutch spectacle maker Hans Lippershay lined up a pair of lenses on a distant weathercock. A huge chicken appeared, as if by magic! A year later, Galileo Galilei built his first telescope. With it and later versions, he discovered four of the moons orbiting Jupiter and distinguished individual stars in the Milky Way. Galileo’s first telescopes had a convex objective lens and a concave ocular lens, so the focal point of the front lens lay behind the rear lens. Johannes Kepler…

Bushnell’s new Engage rifle-scopes are built to be affordable while offering ample features. Designed for hunters and new long-range shooters, the Engage line is meant to be versatile and right at home when hunting or shooting at long range. The line is a direct response to demand. Long-range shooters have always wanted optics that perform well during low light. Shooters always seek higher performance but are often put off by high price tags. This is not the case with the Engage line. These riflescopes use the new Deploy MOA reticle with 1-MOA windage and elevation hashmarks. Bushnell wanted the Deploy MOA to be clean and easy to use. Elevation hashmarks are at 1 MOA down to 30, and every fifth one is slightly longer, letting you count by 5s. Windage…

NUMBER YOUR MAGAZINES The No. 1 cause of stoppages with semi-automatic handguns is faulty magazines. Either defective from the manufacturer or damaged through use, magazines can and do cause many of the feeding issues shooters experience. Unlike your handgun, a magazine is not a tool that will potentially last you the rest of your life. Many shooters forget this and do not take the necessary steps to circumvent potential problems. • The first thing you should do is purchase high-quality magazines; the device that feeds ammunition to your pistol is not the place to be skimping. • Secondly, you should take care of those magazines; after every range session or use, take the time to inspect and clean them. • And finally, number your magazines. This is something competitive shooters…

The sleek and streamlined Savage Model 1895 looked like something out of the future when it appeared in the last decade of the 19th century. It was the first firearm produced by the Savage Repeating Arms Company, and its slim, flat, hammerless design was in sharp contrast to the popular, visible-hammer models available from Winchester and Marlin since the 1860s. The rounded profile let shooters know that something new in hunting rifles had arrived. The 1895 was unique in many respects. Its internal rotary magazine was the first of its type and was designed for cartridges with pointed bullets, unlike the tubular-fed Winchesters and Marlins that were limited to round-nose bullets. The Savage was also the first lever action with a coil mainspring, an improvement over the leaf springs on…

New rifle cartridges come along all the time, but relatively few manage to stand the test of time. The 6.5 Creedmoor is a notable exception to this rule. The brainchild of ever-innovative Hornady engineers, the 6.5 Creed-moor has been with us for about a decade now. The cartridge was intended to be an off-the-shelf competitive match cartridge, and it might have remained in that narrow niche had it not been for the explosive rise in popularity of long-range shooting and hunting in recent years. Seducing shooters with the virtues of minimal elevation drop and wind drift at long range, the cartridge employs long and relatively heavy, high-ballistic-coefficient bullets. It has proven to be an inherently accurate cartridge, and it produces less recoil than the venerable .308 Win. Loaded with proper…