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SHOTGUNNER • HOLT BODINSON • ITHACA’S ON A ROLL The Model 37 is a petite 28-gauge gun. n the hands and in the hunting yarns of M
lightandlively,Ithaca’snew28-gaugeisa delightfuluplandgamegun. can be replaced in a New York minute. The new line-up of Model 37
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The thickness of the 20-gauge receiver measures 1.34" and the 28-gauge, only 1.20". Fourteen thousandths of steel may not seem l
RANGING SHOTS • HEIDI & CLINT SMITH • GIRL STUFF You guys might learn something, too. his month’s column is a joint effort like
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HANDLOADING • JOHN BARSNESS • HANDLOADING TO CHANGE SHOTGUN PATTERNS Change patterns at the breech end. any shotgunners apparent
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OPTICS • JACOB GOTTFREDSON • CAN YOU SEE IT? Resolving power matters. question often asked by A competitors and long range shoot
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• JOHN TAFFIN • PARA-USA .45 ACP GI ExPERT Easy on the wallet, heavy on performance. o handgun has ever been subject to more mod
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• Jeff John • I found a small two-barrel gun in my grandfather’s home after he passed away. I wasn’t even aware he had it, much
Remington’s 870 sPs is a significant slug gun advancement. n some states slug guns and muzzleloaders are the only option hunters
Eddie Stevenson of Remington (far left) and Richard Mann (near left) both took nice Alberta bears with the SuperSlug and Remingt
The SuperSlug is not a small gun and creates quite an ominous profile. However, the ShurShot stock makes offhand shooting comfor
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y desk drawer Webster’s Dictionary M defines “innovate” as “to make change by introducing something new.” When it comes John Taf
The PT 845 has a generous ejection port. Functioning with a wide variety of ammo was flawless. up to full size .45s. A half-cent
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Taffin’s grandson Brian Panzella helped John in the shooting of the Taurus PT 845. Loading hi-cap magazines can be a pain. Squee
The Taurus PT 845 (above) performed well and shot accurately with a variety of ammunition. Twelve rounds, seven yards with the n
ast winter at a gun show a friend came over to me toting a Colt L SAA .44-40. It was a parts gun with 1890s-vintage frame, a new
early 1980s to a gunsmith (no longer engaged in doing such work) to have it converted to .38 Long Colt. In the 1870s Colt did so
Despite having put together an extensive collection of World War II military rifles, the only two that really speak to him are a
S mokeless powder brought forth the jacketed bullet. No matter how hard the alloy, lead bullets wouldn’t hold up in the bore at
W.D.M. Bell favored fully-jacketed roundnose bullets (above, left) for all game shooting with his 7x57, but modern expanding bul
newer premium bullets simply weren’t that thickness. killing deer as quickly as older, simpler Similar variations are built into
new ones appear every other Tuesday). All have worked really well on game bigger than deer, and 95 percent of the time one will
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a HalF century WitH sixguns The .44 Magnum. he year was 1955. Ike was in the White House, Elvis was in T Heartbreak Hotel, and I