Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2025 i Gun Digest

Even as I type this, it’s hard for me to believe that I’m going to tell this story publicly, because I’m not sure that I’ve ever admitted it to anyone. But, it’s been a very long time, more than a few things have changed … and this seems like the perfect spot to come clean. So, aside from a little Daisy pellet gun my dad bought me when I was 7 years old or so, my early firearms education came from cutting my teeth on learning to accurately launch shotgun slugs from a Remington 870 Express. And I mean that literally: I don’t recall ever cutting my forehead from getting scoped, but I certainly cut my teeth lobbing those 1-ounce slugs at local whitetails. And I got pretty good at…

01 Stoeger P3000 Tactical Shotgun Stoeger Industries expands its pump-action lineup with the new P3000 Tactical shotgun, designed for home defense and security. Chambered in 12-gauge, the P3000 Tactical handles both 2¾- and 3-inch shells, with a four-round magazine and an enlarged, beveled loading port for quick reloads. It features new hybrid polymer furniture blending a fixed stock and pistol grip, plus QD swivel studs and M-Lok slots for sling and accessory use. Optics-ready, the receiver sports a Picatinny rail and is cut for RMR and RMSc red-dot plates. Finished in OD Green Cerakote, the P3000 Tactical balances practicality, durability and affordability.  MSRP: $449 02 C&H ERD-2 Red-Dot Optic C&H Precision unveils the ERD-2, a rugged, enclosed-emitter 22mm red-dot sight built for shotguns, rifles and PCCs. Featuring a 3-MOA red…

Roy E. Weatherby started his firearms company in 1945. He was a handloader and rifle shooter, who enjoyed creating his own cartridges. Weatherby built their first rifles on Mauser, Springfield and Winchester actions, and chambered them for high-velocity magnum rifle cartridges Roy developed and championed throughout his lifetime. These and later Weatherby rifles built on the famous Mark V action (1958) were gorgeously stocked with fancy wood and pronounced Monte Carlo combs and grips. But that was a long time ago, and during the next half-century, things changed. Weatherby still offers the elegant Mark V rifle, but the wants of modern hunters—combined with modern manufacturing techniques—have evolved. Two of the newest rifles from Weatherby offer a stark comparison of the company’s history. One is a throwback to the type of…

FROM GUN DIGEST’S CARTRIDGES OF THE WORLD. ORDER AT GUNDIGESTSTORE.COM. HISTORICAL NOTES The .17 Remington was introduced in 1971 as a new chambering for Remington’s 700 series bolt-action rifles. The case is based on the .223 Remington necked-down to .17 caliber, with the shoulder moved back .087 inch to lengthen the neck while retaining the same shoulder angle. The .17 Remington is similar but not identical to the .17-223 wildcat developed about 1965. Experiments with .17-caliber rifles go back to 1944, when P.O. Ackley, the well-known gunsmith and experimenter, developed the .17 Ackley Bee based on necking down the Improved .218 Bee case. There are a number of other .17-caliber wildcat cartridges made by necking down .22-caliber centerfire cases, such as the .221 Remington Fireball, .222 Remington and more. Remington,…

Done any low-light training? Competed in a night match? I’ve done both—a bunch of times. Strike Industries now offers an LED-equipped baseplate for your Glock magazines: the EMP with LED. When I saw that, my reaction was, “I’ve gotta try one of those.” Strike Industries was happy to send some and the rep mentioned off-hand, “We’ve gotten some flak on these.” I looked into it, and the flak can be summed up as: “Why would I give away my position with a light on my mag?” I was stunned speechless—and those who know me know how rare that is. Really? Position? Were they not paying attention to the need for safety in training or competition? That’s the intended use of the LED baseplate. Anyone who thinks it’s a tactical tool…

If you really want to put the hurt on something, like a big critter, a 12-gauge slug does that. And here I will be speaking only of the 12-gauge variety, because while the 20 can come close, the rest … meh. The 16-gauge is so rare that it might not even exist, and 28 and .410 slugs are pointless. First, what’s a slug? Simply put: a single projectile, not a payload of shot or buckshot. And the shotgun slug goes back a long way. In fact, until the advent of the Minie ball, you could say that everyone fought wars with shotguns and slugs. Really. The near-ubiquitous Brown Bess—the British Army standard from its finalization in 1716 or so until it was replaced by a rifled musket in 1867—was what…

Every few years we see a technological leap in optics, even though these feats aren’t always immediately obvious to the non-nerds among us. Sometimes these take place in the form of advanced coatings or novel approaches to increasing contrast or reducing optic aberrations, but occasionally it’s much more conspicuous … or maybe not so much. In fact, if you don’t know what you’re looking at here you might mistake it for a large dot optic or perhaps a prismatic. But no, there’s a whole 3 to 9 power variable optic under that hood. Let’s talk about this new Vudu. The range and ratio aren’t going to bust down doors; 3x9 might be the most classic variable scope range ever. It’s not the 1:3 magnification ratio either. Hell, EOTech themselves manufactures…

It should not be news to any reader that the British and European gun trades were highly active in cartridge conceptualization and design from the advent of the 20th century to the outbreak of World War II. Cartridge designs rode a near-permanent wave during this period, but not all progressed beyond the experimental or proposition stage. This article is about a few of those obscure bolt-action cartridge concepts of which we are aware. There are many more that are not covered here and even more that have disappeared in the fog of time, about which we will probably never know anything. An entire book could be written about them. If I were a man of means, I would, just for the hell of it, have built a collection of British-style…