Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2019 i Shooting Times

I enjoyed the “Peacemaker of the British Empire” column by Terry Wieland in the February issue. Many of these robust handguns were offered for sale on the military surplus arms market in the 1960s at bargain-basement prices. In 1960, with the approval of our parents, my twin brother and I each ordered Webley Mark VI revolvers by mail-order from a gun dealer in Chicago for about $16 each. The revolvers arrived by railway express a few weeks later. They both had the cylinders modified to accept .45 ACP cartridges with halfmoon clips. The revolvers were in very good to mint condition and were fun to shoot. I still have mine that was made in 1926. Gil Martin Schnecksville, PA Making a Point Which is faster, revolvers or autoloaders? Here is…

AT CORE BASICALLY A MAUSER K98K BUILT IN Slavic regions, the M24/47 is a post-World War II update of the earlier M24. It is a Mauser 98 knockoff, if you will, that was manufactured at the Kragujevac Arsenal in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia and now Serbia) beginning in 1924. After World War II, many existing M24s were rebuilt with new 23.4-inch barrels and stocks of walnut, teak, or other available hardwood. Since the project kicked off in 1947, the rebuilds were dubbed M24/47s. A lot of these rifles were churned out of the Kragujevac Arsenal—now renamed “Zastava”—continuing into the early ’50s. However, as the newer standard-issue Mauser M48 became readily available, most of the reconfigured M24/47 battle rifles saw little use. As a result, M24/47s…

THE LAST TIME SHOOTING TIMES REPORTED ON A STOEGER handgun was 10 years ago. Sure, we’ve reviewed many of Stoeger’s shotguns and an airgun or two since then because the company has a well-earned reputation for building reliable long guns. Now the company has entered the striker-fired semiautomatic pistol arena. Called the STR-9, Stoeger’s new pistol is made in Turkey. It has a polymer frame with interchangeable backstraps, a 4.17-inch barrel, and three-dot sights. Chambered for the 9mm Luger round, the STR-9 currently comes three ways. You can get it with standard sights, one backstrap, and one magazine for an MSRP of $329. You can get it with standard sights, three backstraps, and three magazines for $389. And you can get it with tritium night sights, three backstraps, and three…

BORN IN INDIAN TERRITORY NEAR WHAT WOULD later become Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, on December 2, 1873, Henry Starr was a horse thief, a train robber, a bank robber, and a convicted murderer. Interestingly, he wrote an autobiography and also starred in the silent film that was made from his memoirs. Henry Starr was destined to become a criminal. His grandfather, Tom Starr, was known as “the Devil’s own,” and his father, George “Hop” Starr, was a bandit in his own right. Henry’s uncle, Sam Starr, also was an outlaw and was married to the infamous Belle Starr. Henry was part Cherokee and grew up in Indian Territory near the Arkansas border. By age 16, he had been arrested for bringing whiskey into Indian Territory, reportedly in a stolen wagon. He…

LYMAN NOW OFFERS AN ALL-STEEL NO. 2 folding tang sight for Henry lever-action rifles. The sight features elevation-locking sleeves and both hunting- and target-style apertures. It fits Henry Big Boy, Big Boy Carbine, Big Boy Silver, All-Weather 30-30, All-Weather 45-70, Big Boy All Weather, Big Boy Steel, and the Lever Action 410 Shotgun. The sight folds flat for easy storage in a scabbard, is elevation adjustable, and increases sight radius for improved accuracy. Drilling and tapping tang screw holes is required, so the company suggests having it installed by a professional gunsmith. MSRP: $102.50 lymanproducts.com DoubleStar ZERO Carbine DoubleStar’s new direct-impingement ZERO Carbine features a premium, stainless-steel, 16-inch, 1:8 twist Wilson Air Gauged heavy barrel; an Alpha AR compensator; a Cloak M-LOK aluminum handguard; a rubber overmold ERGO Ambi Suregrip;…

AT THE DALLAS CRIME LAB WE WERE CONSTANTLY testing new ammunition for law enforcement. We occasionally wandered into queries of how specific firearm types affected terminal performance. One of these was a classic revolver versus a semiauto showdown. Sturm, Ruger & Co. and Smith & Wesson both introduced 9mm Luger revolvers in the 1980s. One of my co-workers bought an S&W Model 547 9mm Luger revolver with a 3.0-inch barrel; we insisted he hand it over for testing, and he acquiesced. We .45 Auto fans offered dire predictions about 9mm revolver performance because of the 3.0-inch barrel, the barrel/ cylinder gap, and a rifling pattern that should present more resistance to the bullet than that in most 9mm semiauto pistols. We were certain that these factors would reduce 9mm Luger…

T WAS WHILE IMMERSED IN JOHN TAYLOR’S AFRICAN Rifles And Cartridges that I first became aware that a bullet’s design could define whether the hunter lived or died. I read accounts of solid dangerous-game bullets bending on contact with elephant skull bone and slewing sideways rather than driving through to the brain and of softnose bullets pancaking or separating and failing to penetrate adequately. Those accounts and others of well-documented bullet failures left an understanding of the importance of bullet design. I’ve been a disciple ever since. The culmination of several tried-and-true design elements, Hornady’s DGX Bonded is the kind of dangerous-game bullet that helps you live. Dangerous-game bullets are divided into two distinct types: non-expanding “solids” designed for ultimate penetration and controlled-expansion “softs” designed to provide massive wound channels…

The Mossberg Patriot Revere rifle I used on the hog hunt is a worthy addition to the Patriot line. With its oil-finished Grade 2 European walnut stock and perfect checkering, it’s a real looker. The fore-end tip and pistol grip are made of rosewood, and both have maple accent spacers. The metal is nicely polished and has a slightly subdued glossy blue finish. The stock has a raised cheekpiece, but no Monte Carlo, and the effect is elegant. The Patriot Revere’s push-feed bolt action works as effortlessly as any action I’ve ever tried. In fact, about the only effort you’ll notice is opening the bolt after firing and cocking the action. Otherwise, it glides back and forth smooth as silk. And since it has two lugs, the bolt opens a…

YOU MIGHT SAY THIS IS THE YEAR OF COMPACT MODEL 1911 S. A BUNCH of major manufacturers have added the easily concealed Officer’s-size 1911s, and Ruger is the latest. Here’s a detailed look at Ruger’s short and sweet model. Ruger began offering its new Officer’s-size models in .45 ACP and 9mm a few months ago, and the company calls its short-form 1911 the SR1911 Officer-Style. Shooting Times received an early-production model chambered for .45 ACP, and it features a 3.6-inch barrel, a stainless-steel slide, a stainless-steel frame, and textured G10 grip panels. The 9mm SR1911 Officer-Style has a two-tone finish, with the slide being low-glare stainless and the frame being black anodized aluminum, but with its stainless-steel frame and slide, the .45 ACP Officer-Style’s finish is low-glare stainless, except for…

JUST A FEW ISSUES BACK, I reported on teaching a reloading class sponsored by a local gun-shop to a half-dozen shooters. A few months later, a young man, Dustin, from my church got married. He was an enthusiastic hunter and had visited my shop several times but hadn’t shown much interest in reloading. He and his new bride, Sydnee, stopped by our home one afternoon, and he asked if they could check out the shop. During that short visit, I learned she had hunted a few times with her dad and had taken a deer with his .243 Winchester rifle. I asked, “Sydnee, don’t you think you need your own deer rifle?” Not knowing me from Adam’s house cat, she stammered a weak, “I guess so, sir.” I opened the…

LOYAL READERS OF SHOOTING TIMES HAVE BEEN READING ABOUT DANIEL DEFENSE’S excellent AR-type guns—both rifles and pistols—in these pages for several years, so you probably already associate great quality and precision accuracy with the company’s name. Well, now that reputation can be transferred to the world of bolt-action rifles because Daniel Defense’s new bolt-action Delta 5 rifle is impressive. The Delta 5 combines an all-new action designed by Daniel Defense with an aluminum mini chassis, an adjustable buttstock, a detachable magazine, a Timney Elite Hunter trigger, and a cold-hammer-forged barrel. The rifle also has several unique characteristics, so let’s get into the nitty-gritty. The Barrel The Delta 5 is chambered for 6.5 Creedmoor, 7mm-08, and .308 Winchester. Interestingly, the rifle is a switch-barrel design, so you can order a complete…

IT’S GETTING MORE AND MORE DIFFICULT TO remember just how much magic was radiated by the word “magnum” back in the magnum-mad 1960s. It meant big belted cases, blinding speed, and vaporized animals at impossible distances. How, then, did the diminutive, mild-mannered .256 Winchester Magnum ever come by the name? Let’s be realistic: A 60-grain bullet at 2,750 fps is not exactly traveling at the speed of light—and that’s what you get on a good day. Of its more famous .25-caliber brethren—Savage, Roberts, Weatherby—it shades only the .25-20 WCF, and that certainly is not setting the bar very high. Usually, the magnum name was attached to cartridges that were a more powerful version of a cartridge that already existed. The .44 Magnum, for example, is simply a longer, more powerful…