Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2021 i Shooting Times

REGARDING THE RECENT “THE SHOOTIST” COLUMN ON THE PUMP-ACTION Rossi Model 62 SAC, good advice was given on emptying the little rimfire carbine. It is very common to have a shell in the feed mechanism that can’t be seen, so cycling the action a few times is good. Keeping the rifle pointed downrange when doing so is also good advice. Readers may be interested to know that the action can be cycled without lowering the hammer by depressing the firing pin with your fingernail. The rifle will not fire, but the slide will be released so that it can be cycled safely. I hope the author’s son enjoys his new rifle. Kristi Edwards San Augustine Gun Shop Via email .300 Wby. Brings Happiness I enjoyed reading Allan Jones’s recent “The…

TRUGLO’S NEW TRU•TEC MICRO RED-DOT SIGHTS ARE compatible with optics-ready pistols and, as demonstrated in my gun review of the Winchester Wildcat SR .22 rimfire rifle elsewhere in this issue of the magazine, are perfect for .22 rimfire rifles and other carbines as well. The windage- and elevation-adjustable TRU•TEC Micro I used has a Trijicon RMR footprint, so it fits RMR-style mounts, and it also came with a Picatinny style base. Obviously, that made it very easy to install on the Wildcat’s top rail. My TRU•TEC Micro has a 3-MOA red dot, but it’s also offered with a green dot for shooters who prefer that color. It has 10 push-button brightness settings, and the sight is powered by one CR2032 battery. The sight is machined from aircraft-grade aluminum, provides unlimited…

HAVING STUDIED ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY and ecology as a college student years ago, I became familiar with Aldo Leopold through what is perhaps his most famous book, A Sand County Almanac. The book has sold more than two million copies and outlines Aldo’s concept of a responsible relationship that exists between people and the land they inhabit. It has been translated into 14 languages. What I didn’t know then but have come to learn is Aldo was once a government hunter in Arizona and New Mexico—hunting bears, wolves, and mountain lions—and throughout his life he was an avid grouse hunter. Born in Burlington, Iowa, on January 11, 1887, Rand Aldo Leopold grew up outdoors in the woods and along the rivers of his native Iowa as well as on Marquette Island,…

WHEN SIG SAUER INTRODUCED THE BDX SYSTEM IN 2018, SHOOTING Times writer Joseph von Benedikt wrote, “Designed to simplify practical long-range shooting in field conditions, SIG SAUER’s BDX system uses Bluetooth to pair the company’s rangefinder with a ballistic app on your smartphone and a BDX riflescope. The three work in concert to provide a ballistic solution and an easy holdover point. No turret dialing, no counting reticle hash marks. Just range, aim, and squeeze. When in use, the rangefinder determines the distance, references wind direction and strength you’ve manually input via the smartphone app, and wirelessly communicates a ballistic solution to the scope. In fractions of a second, an orange holdover dot appears on the crosshair’s vertical stadia and—if applicable—a wind hold dot on the horizontal crosswire.” That still…

OKAY, I ADMIT IT. I BORROWED THE HEADLINE from Winchester’s promo materials. But I think it is just right because the newest version of the Wildcat has a threaded barrel that’s ready for a suppressor. Shooting Times reported on the Winchester Wildcat .22 LR autoloader when it was first introduced in 2018, referring to it as “unquestionably the most ingeniously designed gun” the writer had seen in quite a while. The new Wildcat SR has all of the innovative features of the original, plus, as I just mentioned, it has a threaded muzzle. Let’s review those fine features. Cool Components The carbine’s molded synthetic stock has a black matte, textured finish and a large cutout in the buttstock. The skeletonized buttstock helps reduce weight; the carbine weighs in at 4.0…

I LIKE TO HUNT WITH MY MODEL 1911S, AND I’VE FOUND another great holster for these pursuits. I’m referring to the DeSantis Wild Hog Hybrid belt holster. According to DeSantis, the Wild Hog Hybrid is the latest rendition of the company’s very successful original Hunter from the 1970s. The current Wild Hog Hybrid is made of 1060D Senior Ballistic Nylon with a smooth pack-cloth lining and a core of closed-cell foam. The upper portion is premium saddle leather. The holster is ambidextrous without any adjustments for hand preference, and it’s offered for most 4.0-inch-barreled and 6.0-inch-barreled hunting revolvers as well as standard 5.0-inch-barreled Model 1911s with or without frame rails. Because I’ve been in a small-game-hunting state of mind lately, I’ve been using the Wild Hog Hybrid holster with my…

Q: WHAT IS THAT ANIMAL LYING UNDER THE HAT AND THE RIFLE ON pages 42 and 43 of the “Sweet Swede” article in the February issue? I cannot identify it. Mitchel Davis Via email A That hide under Joseph’s custom 6.5 Swede Ruger Hawkeye Afri- : can rifle is a warthog. While on assignment in Mozambique, he shot several warthogs and reedbucks for leopard live-trapping bait. In each case, the Hornady 129-grain InterBond bullet resulted in clean, fast, one-shot kills. Joel J. Hutchcroft Model 9422 Clarification? Q: I’m a little confused. In the July installment of “The Shootist,” Joseph von Benedikt stated that the Winchester Model 9422 “...was Winchester’s first angle-eject lever gun...” and was introduced in 1972. My Winchester Model 250 is a .22 lever gun, is side eject,…

THE RISE AND CONTINUATION OF Mossberg represents a typical American success story of old. Oscar Frederick Mossberg emigrated from his native Sweden to the United States in 1886. He had two sons, Iver (named after his friend and fellow gunmaker Iver Johnson) and Harold. The company they formed in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1919, is called O.F. Mossberg & Sons. Today, the firm still has its headquarters in Connecticut, but it has added an ultra-modern facility in Eagle Pass, Texas, where about 90 percent of its guns are now made. Mossberg is still a family affair and is the largest family-owned firearms manufacturer in the United States. Mossberg makes a wide variety of firearms, including bolt-action rifles and pump-action, semiautomatic, and over-under shotguns. Most are “ruggedly built, proudly American,” as…

IF FORCED TO CHOOSE, IT IS MY OPINION THAT riflemen are the strangest of all gun owners—capable of embarking on projects that make no sense to anyone else, then or ever. You will notice I said rifle- men. Why? No rifle women I’ve ever met, and there have been a few, regards her rifle as anything but a tool, on a par with a garden spade. But I digress. Shotgunners and pistoleers can certainly contrive some oddball guns, but by and large, they are limited to things like restocking or shortening barrels. A rifleman, however, can start with an arcane action and build a rifle from there, even to the point of designing his own cartridge. He can specify any barrel length or weight, any caliber, whittle a stock out…