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THREE OF MY FAMILY MEMBERS, INCLUDING MYSELF, HUNT EVERY WIS-consin deer gun season with Savage Super Sporter rifles. My grandfather acquired one in .30-30 in 1933 or 1934. That was the start of the Savage Super Sporter in my family. That gun was handed down to my father and from there to my niece. She killed her first buck with it when she was 16 and has hunted with it for the last 26 years. Also, one of my brothers and I had hunted with it. Now I own five Savage Super Sporters, my brother owns three, and a brother-in-law owns one. I have hunted with one for the last 35+ years. My other brother owns three and hunts with two of them every year. I have all four calibers…

LAST YEAR, I HAD THE PLEASURE OF REVIEWING an 1891 Argentine Mauser that had been elegantly sporterized and rechambered to .30-06. Here is another version of the Mauser Modelo Argentino 1891 that’s properly chambered for the 7.65x53 cartridge. As noted in my column last year, the 1891 replaced Argentina’s Remington Rolling Block military long guns in the late 19th century and remained in service in one guise or another into the 1960s. The version shown here appears to have been made in 1893 and was originally a rifle-length model. As with most rifle-length 1891s released for civilian sale, the national crest atop the front receiver ring was ground off. At some point a previous owner—presumably N.E. Cole, as scratched into the wood stock—had the barrel cut down to 24 inches,…

SOME OF SMITH & WESSON’S MOST POPULAR revolvers are the small J-Frame guns. They fit the role of personal defender, plinker, and kit gun. They’ve been made in every cartridge from .22 LR to .357 Magnum. In .38 Special and .357 Magnum, they hold just five rounds. These revolvers have three different hammer designs: A traditional exposed hammer for single- and double-action firing; the Bodyguard model has a shrouded hammer, but the hammer-spur is accessible, which allows single- and double-action firing; and the Centennial model has an enclosed (internal) hammer that makes it double action only. It is the subject of this report. The Centennial model was introduced in 1952 chambered in .38 Special on the round-butt steel frame of the Chiefs Special. It had a “lemon squeezer” grip safety…

NOW HERE’S AN ODD THING: LIKE MOST PEOPLE, I began my shooting career in my teens, with a single-shot bolt-action .22 rimfire. The rifle was made by Cooey, a Canadian company later acquired by Winchester, and my father bought the rifle in the 1930s. It was a solid gun, with an action and barrel of machined steel and a stock of black walnut. Naturally, as a teenage devotee of Outdoor Life and Shooting Times (yes, Shooting Times, way back then), I wanted a hot centerfire, squinting down the sights at a Dall sheep or a Cape buffalo. In the course of events, that pretty much all came to pass. As I passed the half-century mark, however, I found myself with a strange yearning. I desperately wanted a .22 rimfire rifle…

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BULLET IN BORE (BIB) IS A COMPLEX ISSUE that has, in seconds, reclassified firearms from “new in box” to “for parts only.” To most, “stuck bullet” correctly suggests “too little propellant.” That’s the most common cause—not enough gas generated to push a bullet out of the barrel. But not always. You can get a BIB from a partial propellant burn because of contamination. Revolvers struggle more because of the unavoidable barrel-cylinder (b-c) gap. Sometimes a dimensional misfit can stick a bullet. In the photo for this column, the century-old revolver was designed when .38 Special ammo was loaded only with soft lead bullets, but the owner fired modern jacketed-bullet ammo. The barrel diameter for that model tended to be 0.354 inch to 0.355 inch, but the cylinder’s chamber throats were…

IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT GETTING READY FOR A big-game hunting trip is almost as much fun as the actual hunt. That very well could be, and I, myself, thoroughly enjoy prepping for my big-game hunts. I also relish gearing up for squirrel and rabbit hunting. For me, everything has to be just right. Squirrel season is a ways off while I write this article, but it’s never too early to start getting ready. And besides, gearing up for hunting with a favorite rimfire rifle is pure joy no matter what time of year. I came to enjoy squirrel hunting quite naturally. My dad’s dad was an inveterate squirrel hunter, who hunted with a Winchester Model 42 .410 Bore pump shotgun with a 28-inch, Full-choke barrel, and I often tagged…

ORGANIZED BENCHREST COMPETITION with modern rifles got its start in the state of Washington when the Seattle Sniper’s Conference was formed in 1945. Two years later the International Benchrest Shooters (IBS) was formed by a group of New York varmint shooters. There were no limitations on rifle weight, and most were built on 1898 Mauser actions, with the Winchester Model 70 action in a distant second place. A few competitors favored an extremely strong single-shot action built by Wilber Hauck of Arlington, Vermont, which was a spitting image of the Ruger No. 1 action that would come later. Most rifles wore high-magnification scopes made by Lyman and Unertl. The .219 Donaldson was the most popular cartridge, although the .220 Swift, .220 Wilson Arrow, and .22-250 had their share of wins…

CARRYING ON THE RIMFIRE THEME FROM TERRY Wieland’s “Gunsmoke” column, Payton Miller’s feature article on the .22 WMR cartridge, and Steve Gash’s article on getting ready for a rimfire hunt in this issue of Shooting Times, I’m devoting this installment of “Hipshots” to one of the men responsible for producing what is accepted as the first successful fully self-contained cartridge revolver in history, which was chambered for the .22 Short rimfire cartridge. I’m referring to Daniel Baird Wesson, who, along with Horace Smith, produced the Smith & Wesson Model 1 seven-shot revolver beginning in 1857 and the metallic cartridge it fired. Back in 2002, longtime Shooting Times writer Dick Metcalf wrote that the S&W Model 1 was Smith & Wesson’s most important gun, stating, “Smith & Wesson’s first revolver (the…

Q. I’VE HEARD THAT FOR SMALL-GAME HUNTING, SHOOT-ing the .22 WMR out of a handgun generates as much velocity as shooting the .22 LR out of a rifle. Is there any truth to that? Fred McCoyVia email A. Your timing is excellent for this question because the loose theme for this month’s issue of Shooting Times is rimfires. In keeping with that, we present Payton Miller’s full-length feature article on the .22 WMR (a.k.a. .22 Magnum and .22 Mag.) beginning on page 38. We have Steve Gash’s article on getting ready for a rimfire squirrel hunt; it begins on page 32. And we also have Terry Wieland’s “Gunsmoke” column beginning on page 68 that reminds us of the many fine old single-shot .22 rimfire rifles on the used gun market,…

THE 10MM AUTO CARTRIDGE, INTRODUCED IN the early 1980s, was almost a flash in the pan—not because the exemplar Bren Ten pistol design was at fault and not because of the original Norma 10mm Auto factory-loaded ammo’s ballistics (200-grain bullets launched at a velocity of 1,200 fps). The problem was the company making the pistols was almost doomed from the start. The old adage “it takes money to make money” proved out, and the Dornaus & Dixon company made only about 1,500 pistols. Plagued with business troubles, by 1986, the Bren Ten project was dead. Two events revived interest in the 10mm Auto cartridge. The first was a tragic confrontation in Miami between two suspected bank robbers and law enforcement. During a violent shootout, both bad guys were killed but…

LIKE ALL YEARS IN HISTORY’S REARVIEW mirror, 1959 was an eventful one. Here are a few select highlights and lowlights for the tail end of the Nifty Fifties: Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states. Fidel Castro prevailed in the Cuban Revolution. The 1959 Cadillac Eldorado took the “big fin” look to its inevitable extreme. And Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Richie Valens perished in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. But for shooters of the smallbore persuasion, the year 1959 saw the introduction of the .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire (WMR), now generally referred to as .22 Magnum and .22 Mag. The term “magnum” had been a sales buzzword for many decades by then, but in this case, it was certainly deserved—although obviously on a considerably…

WE HAVE JUST RETURNED FROM THE 2025 SHOT SHOW, WHERE WE got an early look at a bunch of new and exciting shooting-related products. Once again, the industry has been busy conjuring up new handguns, rifles, shotguns, ammo, optics, and shooting gear. The MyOutdoorTV crew was there to record and reveal some of the most interesting new products, and you can now find out all about many of these new items by viewing the 2025 SHOT Show New Product Premiere at MyOutdoorTV.com. If you’re interested in the latest guns and gear, you’ll want to check out the innovative features of Streamlight’s ProTac Rail Mount HP-X Pro tactical light, Kimber’s stylish double-stack 2K11 Model 1911 pistol, Browning’s new 825 Citori over-under shotgun and X-Bolt Speed 2 bolt-action rifle, new scope rings…