Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2019 i Guns & Ammo

1) Publication Title Guns & Ammo 2) Publication Number 0017-5684 3) Filing Date 10/01/19 4) Issue Frequency Monthly 5) Number of Issues Published Annually 12 6) Annual Subscription Price $19.94 7) Complete Mailing Address of Known Office of Publication Outdoor Sportsman Group David Madrid 1040 6th Avenue, 12th Floor New York, NY 10018-3703, 323-791-7190 8) Complete Mailing Address of Headquarters or General Business Office of Publisher Outdoor Sportsman Group 1040 6th Avenue, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10018-3703 9) Full Names and Complete Mailing Addresses of Publisher, Editor, and Production Director Publisher: Mike Schoby, 2 News Plaza, Peoria, IL 61614 Editor: Eric Poole, 2 News Plaza, Peoria, IL 61614 Production Director: Connie Mendoza, 2 News Plaza, Peoria, IL 61614 10) Owner Outdoor Sportsman Group, 1040 6th Avenue, 12th Floor, New…

“ I have a soft spot for early High Standard auto pistols, as a Model G-B, which I still have and also obtained from my father.” EARLY 1894 WINCHESTER Q: I have a Winchester Model 1894. I believe it was made in 1902. The serial number is 253XXX. It is marked “.30 WCF”, which I understand in more modern rifles to be the same as .30-30 Winchester. I have attached several pictures of this rifle and its 25-inch barrel. The action works flawlessly, and the bore is clear and clean. There is a small crack on the right side of the stock, just under the hammer, and a worn spot just behind the hammer. Otherwise, it is in pretty good condition. What can you tell me about this rifle? Would…

IN THEORY, sighting in a rifle is a simple process, but in reality it can be both frustrating and time consuming. As a police firearms instructor and gun writer, I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve spent zeroing rifles. While sighting in a rifle is a necessity, it can eat up time better spent shooting or training. Knowing this, the engineers at Axeon Optic Solutions (axeonoptics.com) developed the Axeon Absolute Zero. Saving time, money and ammunition was the goal. To achieve this, the Absolute Zero attaches to your mounted optic’s 1 inch or 30mm scope’s maintube. Change the mount, and it can be attached to a Picatinny rail. Absolute Zero is compatible with centerfire and rim-fire rifles in most calibers and is based on the Hancosky Method invented by…

SPRINGFIELD ARMORY is shaking up the concealed carry market by one-upping SIG Sauer’s P365 with its new Hellcat 3 9mm semiautomatic. Like the P365, the Hellcat is striker fired, which means we benefit from the same trigger pull at the first round to the last fired. With the trigger pull equal shot-to-shot, a striker-fired pistol offers better accuracy potential, consistency and enables a faster response to make that first round count. Two Models Springfield introduced two versions of the Hellcat at the launch: The Standard and the OSP. The Standard Hellcat features metallic sights and retails for $569 —$31 less than SIG Sauer’s P365. To add, Springfield Armory requires no additional charge for the larger 13-round magazine; It’s included. Both Hellcat models sport Pro-Glo sights, too. The front is dovetailed…

I’VE HEARD A FAIR BIT of conjecture over the years about what happens when a bullet flies through the rain. Speculation varies from nothing to maybe something. Until now, all I’ve had is an opinion. After conducting tests at EMRTC (New Mexico Tech) (emrtc.nmt.edu) for Guns & Ammo TV, observed by a team of ballisticians, I can honestly answer, “A lot more than you think.” The most common speculation I’ve heard is that a pressure wave forms on the supersonic bullet’s nose and pushes anything out of the way — and water never touches the bullet. I’ve also heard that even if water hits the bullet, it moves too fast and has enough mass that a drop has no effect. Both hypotheses are false. The impetus for this test was…

LET’S TAKE A STEP BACK. We don’t need to spend a lot of money to own a firearm, to enjoy sport shooting or to hunt. A number of guns fill my safe, but in this job, unfortunately, I end up becoming more of a collector. Once I take on a new assignment, I tend to forget to enjoy what I last acquired. I’ll purchase something that I think I can’t live without, and then it sits. Where I live, dove season kicks off the fall hunting season, and every year I find myself scrambling to dig out a shotgun that’s up to the immediate task. At other times, I’m looking for a gun to take on an early morning deer hunt or chase after pheasant. Unfortunately, I seem to have…

“The Alamo” (1960), Nock Volley Gun Seldom has a firearm used in a film caught the public fancy as much as the seven-barreled “Nock Volley Gun” carried by Richard Widmark as “Jim Bowie” for the 1960 movie “The Alamo.” This unusual flintlock arm was originally contrived by British designer James Wilson in 1770 and built by gunmaker Henry Nock for the Royal Navy as a gun to be employed during close-in melees. Recoil was horrendous, and the fear of catching lines and sails on fire due to the tremendous blast from the septet of short barrels caused it to be retired after only about 20 years of limited usage. It has since become a prime collector’s piece. The one we’re looking at here came to the National Firearms Museum in…

MANY OF US HAVE INHERITED an old lever-action rifle, bought one from a gun shop or online, or have one of the many reproductions available today. The tendency for many of us is to look past them or hang them up as a mantle’s decoration. However, many lever guns are still in very good condition and worthy of being brought back to life. I have spent many years collecting, shooting and hunting with lever rifles, some original and others being reproductions. Working for Hornady, I spent decades developing projectiles and ammunition, and shooting at extreme ranges. It is a personal thing, but taking any game with a scoped, flat-shooting rifle at 400 to 800 yards is not satisfying or challenging to me. Taking an antelope at 100 yards with a…

GUNS & AMMO EDITORS, contributors and staff are set to proclaim the firearms, optic, ammunition, suppressor, and inovation award recipients for 2019. Only products made commercially available since the fourth quarter of 2018 (and were not considered for last year’s awards) qualified for nomination. Products were evaluated and discussed by G&A during the Outdoor Sportsman Group’s annual Roundtable and several individual events held throughout the country within the last 12 months. Nominees developed from the ground up, as well as those possessing the greatest potential impact to the greatest number of readers were given additional value when scored. When having to decide between two otherwise equally important new products, the more affordable choice broke the ties in our voting. G&A acquired several samples of each nominee throughout 2019 to achieve…

SO MANY STORIES are making news headlines that I’ve decided to use this opportunity to call attention to several topics in the brief style that Col. Jeff Cooper did on this page until his passing in 2006. Gun Grabbing Politicians have danced around the issue of gun confiscation. Rarely are explicit public statements in support of the attempt ever made. During the last Democratic presidential primary debate in September, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke told the crowd, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15 and your AK-47.” At least he’s being honest about his aims; Other candidates are hiding behind the vague and misleading terms while making “gun safety proposals.” When Texas Rep. Briscoe Cain responded, “My AR is ready for you Robert Francis,” O’Rourke’s given name. O’Rourke doubled-down and…