Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. with vastly improved bullet performance. Mike shoots ammo from Black Hills, CorBon, Remington and Speer in his evaluation. Bill Dermody of Savage sent one of the new heavy barreled Model 12F rifles chambered for the cultish 6.5x284. The big rifle is designed for Open F-Class Benchrest shooting. Doesn’t everyone know you aren’t competitive in any form of Benchrest Shooting until you’ve spent $4,000 to $5,000 on your rifle? Writer Jacob Gottfredson found out. Coaching his friend, Gary Chaney, the Savage 6.5x284 topped with a Sightron 36X BR scope won the 600-yard match and Gary placed 3rd overall in his first registered F-Class match. First and second place were won by other shooters shooting — you guessed it — Savage F-Class rifles. ® Shooting For The Future Earlier this month, at the NASGW Expo in Atlanta, we presented a $16,500 check to the NSSF for its continuing efforts of attracting new shooters through the Step Outside program. The money was raised during our raffle at this year’s Shooting Industry Masters three-gun competition in July. We again thank our event sponsors and those who donated products for the raffle. Step Outside is a program that works, and the new shooters translate to new customers for the industry. We return to the Hartford Gun Club in East Granby, Conn., for the 2009 match, July 24 and 25. Now’s the time to put together your company’s team. Visit www.shootingindustry.com for more information, or contact Elizabeth Jarrell O’Neil at (800) 537-3006; e-mail: elizabeth@shootingindustry.com. Russ Thurman From the Editor: Launch 2009 With FMG Yes, it’s November, but we at FMG are well into 2009 as we prepare our mega issues to launch the new business year. The December and January issues of Shooting Industry magazine are packed with 2009 new product information. These two issues are valuable tools for dealers in developing their buying strategies for 2009. Academy Of Excellence Mark your calendars — Feb. 16, 2009 is the deadline to submit entries for the 2009 Shooting Industry Academy of Excellence awards. Academy officials have made changes to the award categories for 2009 as a way of “ensuring the awards change with the everychanging marketplace.” See the December issue of Shooting Industry for full details. SPECIAL EDITIONS Fr Sammy Reese om the Editor: Wowing Readers October’s issue of Shooting Industry magazine was our first all-digital edition and the readers gave it high “wow” endorsements. “This is so cool. Wow!” said Miles Hall, owner of H&H Gun Range in Oklahoma City, Okla. “This makes it so easy for all my sales guys to get information they need to know.” The digital editions feature turn-page technology, zoom-in/out viewing, and the issues can be e-mail to others, with the digital magazine “open” to the “viewed” pages. There are hundreds of Internet hot links in each issue, permitting readers to quickly access company Web sites, and then return to the pages of the magazine. The all-digital edition of the November issue is now available on www.shootingindustry.com. Click on the turning pages of the magazine in the upper right-hand corner of the home page. Also, be sure to sign-up to be notified of when the next issue — the mega December edition — will be available. To do that, click on the “Click to view the Digital Edition” just above the page-turning magazine. While our first all-digital editions are “cool,” there are more “wow” features on the way as we enhance the value of our publications for our readers. They’re Tools Not Clutter November — it was just August a few minutes ago. Where has the time gone? At FMG we have been going full speed ahead with the SHOT Show in our sights and planning for the biggest Industry Masters yet. Make sure you stop by our booth and get your registration in for the Masters. You don’t want me to have Russ call you do you? The Special Editions are taking on a new look. Starting with the Combat Special we are going full color. No more black and white to contend with. Andy Loy, my art director, took on the case of convincing the brass that full color was the way to go. He pitched it — they bought it — now were doing it. Also new in the Combat Special is the “Kit Up” section. I will be able to evaluate new products and go deeper than the new product spotlights. Our industry produces so many different types of gear. Being a gear geek I feel it’s my duty to make sure all our readers get to see more gear so they can buy it. My wife thinks my mission is to have other guys clutter up their wife’s houses with stuff. Silly girl! Coming up quickly is the Personal Safety Special Edition. The focus is a common sense approach to protecting yourself and your family in a sometimes not so friendly world. Semper-Fi. • • 5 • • Gary Chaney kneels in front of his first 600-yard match target, shot in very tricky winds. To this point he had shot two matches and won both. There is no longer any question of, “Is the Savage F-Class rifle up to the task?” S&W is back in the shotgun market in a big way and writer Mark Hanten took one hunting pheasants in the Dakotas. The new Model 1012 performed well and brought home plenty of big tasty birds. Had Mark been able to go after goose or ducks, he wouldn’t have been undergunned. The new S&W shotguns handle heavy 3-1/2” shells and do it all for less than $900, making these self loaders a true bargain in today’s hunting shotgun arena. GUNS would like to welcome John Barsness to our pages. John is well known in the shooting and hunting fraternity and will become our handloading editor. He’ll help round out our already well-balanced stable of quality writers. We welcome his participation. In his first handloading column, John discovers new powders for the venerable .30-06 from accurate arms, Hodgdon, Western, Norma, IMR and vihtavuori powders.