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28 .22 Hornet A Triad of Small Game Rifles Stan Trzoniec

36 Scope-Mounting Tools Simple New Gear that Works John Barsness

42 Kimber Talkeetna .375 H&H Magnum A Medium Bore for Large and Dangerous Game Brian Pearce

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18 Rebarreling a Rimfire Favorite Light Gunsmithing - Gil Sengel

24 Winchester’s Levergun Cartridges Down Range - Mike Venturino

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54 “Unbare” Essentials Ten Tools a Rifleman Can’t Do Without Terry Wieland

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Between 1866 and 1895,Winchester introduced

seven distinctively differ-ent models of lever-actu-ated firearms, all of whichin turn were produced inrifle, carbine and even mil-itary-style musket configu-rations. Total sales rangedfrom slightly fewer than64,000 for the Model 1876to millions of Model 1894s.Perhaps this information is not exceptionally star-tling, but maybe this is:Using World War II as anarbitrary cut-off date, thoseseven levergun models werechambered for 36 differentcartridges!

The first was the .44 HenryRimfire in a Winchesterlevergun in 1866, althoughit was chambered in theWinchester forefather, theHenry, as early as 1862.The last pre-World War IIWinchester chambering wasthe .218 Bee developed in 1938and used briefly in some Model92s. (I’m not going to get to devel-opments, such as the Models 53,63, 65 and 71. They deserve cover-age of their own.)

Another interesting, if not ac -tually startling, fact is that of thoseseven levergun models cham-bered for three dozen differentcartridges, only three were sold intwo different models: the .44, .38

and .32 WCFs, all intro-duced in the Model 1873but carried over again inthe Model 1892. Everyother Winchester leveraction had its own spe-cific array of cartridges.The Model 1866 cham-bered the fewest withtwo. As said, there wasthe .44 Henry Rimfire,but toward the end ofproduction a .44 HenryCenterfire version of theModel 1866 was made.The Model 1866 was not the only Winchesterlevergun chambered forboth rimfire and center-fire rounds, however. TheModel 1873 was made for the rimfire .22 Long,along with the three above-mentioned WCFs.

The model offered inthe most chamberings wasthe 1886. It was made for10 different rounds if one

considers the .50-110-300 and .50-100-450 as different. Both used thesame 2.40-inch case and could befired in rifles marked for eitherone. However, the rifling twistrates of .50-caliber rifles differed

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Between 1866 and 1895, Winchester introduced seven dis-tinctly different models of leverguns: (1) Model 1866 saddlering carbine (Uberti replica), (2) Model 1873 round-barreledrifle, (3) Model 1876 round-barreled rifle, (4) Model 1886octagonal-barreled rifle, (5) Model 1892 round-barreled rifle, (6) Model 1894 octagonal-barreled rifle and (7) 1895takedown rifle.

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by the specific round for whichthey were intended. Such specifi-cations are hard to pin down, butto the best of my knowledge the.50 caliber with 300-grain bulletshad barrels cut with one-in-60-inchrifling, while the other round car-ried 450-grain bullets and used aone-in-54-inch twist. I’ve neverseen an original .50-100-450 Model1886. Only a few hundred weremade, so I don’t know for surehow they were caliber stamped. Ido know from owning a .50-110-300 that it was marked “.50 Ex.”

Of those 36 different leverguncartridges, by my count 25 wereWinchester developments and car-ried such names as .30 WCF, mean-ing .30 Winchester Center Fire.

Later “centerfire” was droppedand they became simply .35 Win-chester or .405 Winchester. Exceptfor the .22 Long, all chamberingsof the Models 1866, 1873 and 1876were by Winchester. Starting withthe Model 1886 Winchester, engi-neers borrowed from other organ-izations for some of the company’scartridges – sometimes puttingthem under Winchester’s nameand sometimes not. An example isthe .45-70 Government. Winches-ter didn’t try to claim it. It did seefit to put its name on the .40-65WCF, which was identical to the.40-60 Marlin used in the Model1881 five years before it became aWinchester offering. Marlin’s .40-60 should not be confused withthe .40-60 WCF. The two were/arenot interchangeable.

Something else worthy of note isthat Winchester seemed to try notto carry over black-powder termi-nology into the smokeless era.Whereas the company usually didlabel rifles meant specifically forblack powder with the dual set ofdigits, such as .45-60 or .38-55, ittried to desist from the habit in thesmokeless era. For example, whatwe all call .30-30 today was markedon Winchester leverguns “.30 WCF.”

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There was also the .32 WinchesterSpecial, which was caliber stamped“.32 W.S.” The sole smokeless pow-der exception of which I am awareis the .25-35. Of course, most, ifnot all, the rounds for which Win-chester chambered Models 1886,1892, 1894 and 1895 made thetransition to smokeless.

The Winchester levergun thatused the fewest rounds labeled“Winchester” was the Model 1895.It was offered for nine cartridges,of which only four were engineeredby the company. Of those, the .40-72 and .38-72 started with blackpowder and lead bullets. Theother two were smokeless-pow-der, jacketed-bullet rounds fromthe beginning. Those were .35 and.405 Winchesters. All five of theothers were developed for militaryuse by the United States, Britainor Russia. Today we call them .30-40 Krag, .30-03, .30-06, .303 Britishand 7.62x54mm Russian.

Of the 36 Winchester leverguncartridges chambered by the com-pany prior to 1941, all but the tworimfires were reloadable. Of those34, I’ve had handloading experi-ence with 27, ranging from a fewdozen .40-70 rounds for a friend’sModel 1886 to many thousand forthe various 1873s and 1892s I’veowned over the decades. I evenborrowed a centerfire Model 1866and by tinkering with cases andbullets got it to feed and functionwith 200-grain, .44-40 bullets in .44Russian cases. Of course, blackpowder was the propellant.

Upon selling off many of my Win-chester leverguns, I kept thosechambered for the following car-tridges: .44 WCF (Models 1873 and1892), .38 WCF (Models 1873 and1892), .45-60 (Model 1876), .40-82(Model 1886), .32-40 (Model 1894saddle ring carbine), .38-55 (Model1894 rifle) and .405 Winchester(Model 1895). Those are the onesI’ve come to appreciate most. If I could only have one, it wouldprobably be the .38-55 Model 1894.It was my first, and it has consis-tently delivered the best accuracyover the years. R

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Scope-Mount ing ToolsSimple New Gear that Works

John Barsness

Fifty years ago most of ushunted happily with 4x scopes,and just about anybody couldsit at the kitchen table and

attach a scope to a new rifle with noth-ing more than a screwdriver. Thoserelatively low-powered scopes hadplenty of adjustment, so hunters rarelyencountered any problem when sight-ing in.Skip forward to the twenty-first century, and the typ-ical 3-9x scope is considered an absolute minimum bymost deer hunters and on the small side by varmintshooters, with many using much more magnification.Many centerfire rifles have short actions with lessspace between the scope rings, accentuating anyslight error in alignment.

As a result, the guy who mounts a scope at thekitchen table (or the workbench in his man-cave)often finds his scope running out of adjustment afterdriving 57 miles to sight in at the nearest range. Thisusually elicits exotic words directed at the rifle man-ufacturer that (the shooter assumes) drilled the scope-mount holes off-line. While some factory rifles do createscope-mounting problems, the main culprit usuallyisn’t rifles but scopes with far less adjustment rangethan the scopes our grandfathers used.

In addition, today there are two primary subspeciesof rifle shooter, average and loony. Average shooterswant to sight in their rifles and have it go bang everytime, while loonies want everything to be “just so.”Fifty years ago, rifle loonies obsessed over nice wal-nut, fine checkering and beautiful bluing. Today manyloonies shoot rifles with all the exterior charm ofkitchen gadgets. Instead of exterior aesthetics, theirowners are obsessed with interior mechanics. The riflescope “discovery period” has gone through severaldistinct phases during this period.

First we discovered our scope mounts didn’t quite


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line up with each other. This, wewere told, could result in a slightlybent scope tube, throwing the del-icate internal mechanisms off-kil-ter or marring the pristine surfaceof our Star-Gazer 6.5-32x. We startedlapping or reaming the insides ofour rings, so they wouldn’t stressour scope. Our intent was admi -rable, but modifying the rings of-ten caused other problems. First,the average obsessive-compulsivehuman tends to overdo everything:If lapping scope rings helps, thenextra lapping or even reamingshould help even more. In reality,overdoing either lapping or ream-ing can result in rings too loose tohold a scope reliably. Consequently,we often had to really reef on thering screws, which did stress ourscope.

Along with lapping bars and ring

reamers, many rifle loonies startedusing alignment rods to make surerings lined up correctly. Unfortu-nately, the first (and still mostcommon) were a pair of rods withone end of each rod tapered in aprecise cone shape. These wereprimarily designed for aligning whatare today called “Leupold”-stylescope mounts, the front ring witha dovetail rotating into the frontbase and the rear ring held betweena pair of large windage screws.

This mount was actually first de-vised by the Redfield company almost a century ago, when fewscopes had internal adjustments,and those that did only had an ele-vation adjustment. Windage changeswere made with the rear mount.The Redfield system was particu-larly handy when older rifles (fac-tory or “sporterized” military) were

drilled and tapped by garage gun-smiths. The scope-mounting holesdidn’t always align precisely, somost shooters were familiar withusing the opposing screws in therear base to align the scope.

Consequently, the Redfield/Leu-pold system became quite popular.However, the turnable front ringdidn’t always align precisely withthe rear ring. The first alignmentbars were supposed to cure this: Ifthe points of the two cones met,then the rings were aligned. Justbecause two dogs touch nosesdoesn’t mean their bodies line up,however. Cone-type alignment rodscan work but only if a straight-edge is placed alongside both rods– or the rods are turned around sotheir flat ends butt against eachother.

A single rod spanning both ringsis better yet, and if we’re going thatfar, why not make the rod longenough to help line up the ringswith the barrel? This is exactly the reasoning behind the Scope-Tru Alignment Bar (www.parabola-llc.com) designed by Montana hunterand shooter Jerry Schmidt. The barcomes in either one inch or 30mmdiameter and is 18 inches longwith a point at one end. It’s reallyeasy to use: Mount the bar firmlyin Leupold/Redfield-type rings withthe pointed end forward, then usethe windage screws on the rearmount until the point is centeredabove the barrel. Not only are therings lined up with each other, butthey’re lined up with the bore.

After developing the alignmentbar, Schmidt designed the Reticle-Tru Alignment Device. Many peo-ple have a hard time squaring scopereticles. A tilted reticle causes therifle to be canted slightly whenaimed, causing shots to go increas-ingly wide at longer ranges. TheReticle-Tru fits over the ocular(rear) bell of the scope. Like theScope-Tru, it has a little point, thistime on the bottom, that is alignedwith the center of the rifle’s action.


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is an unevenly polished action,causing one or both scope mountsto tilt slightly. Tilting can alsooccur when a base is tighteneddown slightly to one side of thecenterline of the action.

These days quite a few popularscope-mounting systems featurebases with at least one screw oneither side of the rings, includingTalley Lightweights (where thebase also forms the bottom half ofthe ring) and Leupold Dual Dove-tails, where both front and rearrings feature a dovetail that turnsinto a slot in the base. Both arevery strong mounts, in fact muchstronger than the standard Red-field/Leupold system, but any littlemisalignment can make it tough to

sight in some high-magnificationscopes. Almost all riflescope ringsend up between 3 and 6 inchesapart. A misalignment of .02 inch(about the thickness of the aver-age human fingernail) results in afoot of scope adjustment at 100yards with a ring spacing of 6inches and 2 feet with a 3-inch ringspacing.

Here’s where the mount align-ment bar designed by custom rifle-smith D’Arcy Echols comes inhandy. Like the Scope-Tru bar, itcomes in both one inch and 30mmdiameters, but instead of beinglong and pointed, it’s a little longerthan the typical scope tube with apair of lengthwise slots milled allthe way through the bar, so thebase screws can be tightened withscope rings mounted on the bar.Echols designed the tube for usewith his own very stout scopemounts, but the bar also reallyhelps when attaching some mountsto factory rifles.

Let’s use Talley Lightweights asan example. Instead of screwingthe bottom half of each mount tothe rifle, begin by attaching bothmounts to the bar. The ring screwsshould be just loose enough toallow the rings to slide on the bar. Next, place the bar and ringson top of the action and lightly attach whatever base screws canbe reached with a screwdriver.Sometimes this will only be onescrew on each mount, but thatdoesn’t matter. Next tighten the

The front point of the Scope-Tru Barshould be positioned right over themiddle of the barrel.

Left, the Echols mounting bar allowsbase screws to be tightened while the rings are perfectly aligned with each other, avoiding any misalignment.Above, once the rings are tightened to the action, the bar is removed and the scope mounted.

Probably 90 percent of centerfirerifles sold are bolt actions, and it’sespecially easy to align the pointwith the middle of the bolt, but itcan also be aligned with the ham-mer of a traditional lever action,the rear scope base on a Reming-ton 7600 pump or the tang safetyof a Ruger No. 1. After the Reticle-Tru is aligned, you look through a thin slot at the reticle. If yourscope is mounted squarely, thevertical crosshair will be perfectlylined up with the slot.

I’ve had better luck using theReticle-Tru than any reticle-align-ment device dependent on spiritlevels. These work by first levelingthe rifle in a vise, then placing alevel on the elevation turret andtwisting the scope until it’s alsolevel. This technique assumes, how-ever, that the scope’s reticle issquare with the turret, and that’snot always the case. Consequently,if there’s any slight misalignmentanywhere in the system, the ret -icle ends up canted. Also, somescopes don’t have a flat spot any-where on the elevation turret orits cap. The Reticle-Tru AlignmentDevice bypasses those potentialpitfalls.

Other problems in scope mount-ing can be caused by the impreci-sion of the tops of many rifleactions, plus the slight amount oftolerance between the holes andscrews in scope bases. The mostcommon problem in factory rifles


and the base screws, then smear a very thin layer of epoxy wherethe bases will contact the action.Brownells ACRAGLAS GEL workswell, because it’s thick enough notto drip and flow. Replace the barand rings and lightly tighten thebase screws. After the epoxy cures,the bar and rings can be pulled off,while a thin layer of epoxy re-mains on the bottom of the bases,providing perfect contact with the action. (D’Arcy Echols & Co.,PO Box 421, Millville UT 84326,www.echolsrifles.com)

One last scope mounting toolI’ve tested lately is the WheelerEngineering Laser Bore Sight. Likesome optical collimators, it fastenswith a magnet to a rifle barrel’smuzzle, but instead of featuring acollimator grid, it projects a laserdot. A magnetic attachment is atleast theoretically better than anarbor inserted into the muzzle ofthe barrel, which could possiblydamage the bore, and unlike someother laser bore sighters that fit inside the rifle’s chamber, theWheeler laser can be used on rifles of any caliber, even rifledshotgun barrels.

Many shooters don’t realize boresighting doesn’t guarantee a fire -arm will be close to sighted in, dueto the barrel actually bendingslightly during firing, the reasondifferent loads often shoot to dif-

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to test whether the bases makefull contact with the top of the ac-tion. After mounting the bar, re-move the base screws, leaving therings still firmly attached to thebar. Apply a thin layer of bright lip-stick to the top of the action andreplace the bar and rings with thebase screws just barely tightened,then remove the bar and ringsagain. There’ll be lipstick on thebases anywhere they contact thetop of the action. If the contact isonly partial, the lipsticked areason the bases can be filed slightly.Try the bases again afterward andsee what progress has been made.Eventually, with enough tryingand filing, the bases will makeeven contact with the action, re-moving that potential source ofscope stress and making firmercontact with the action.

An alternative method is to epoxy-bed the bottoms of the bases, verymuch like epoxy-bedding an ac-tion in a stock. Apply an epoxy re-lease agent to the top of the action

ring screws, afterward tighteningthe base screws. This guaranteesthe rings will be aligned with eachother, without having to lap them.Finally, remove the bar and re-place it with a scope.

The Echols bar can also be used


featuring a bore arborisn’t going to be pre-cisely repeatable, de-spite what you mayread about using acollimator to checkthe zero of your rifle.

The best way to test the accu-racy of any bore-sighting device isto attach it to sighted-in firearms.I checked the Wheeler laser on adozen rifles, from rimfires up to a.375 H&H. It proved to be very re-peatable, even when twirled onthe muzzle to see if the dot changedplace relative to the reticle. The directions suggest measuring theheight of the scope above the cen-ter of the bore, then adjusting untilthe laser dot is half that heightbelow point of aim at 25 yards.With most of my sighted-in center-fires, however, the dot was justabout scope height below thepoint of aim at 25. (MidwayUSA,5875 West Van Horn Tavern Road,Columbia MO 65203; 1-800-243-3220; www.midwayusa.com)

ferent places. In bore sighting allwe’re really trying to do is get thesights and bore into reasonablealignment. Also, any collimator

None of these new tools is in -expensive, of course, and if youonly mount a riflescope every year or two, the expense probablywouldn’t be worth it. But if you’relike me, mounting and remount-ing scopes more or less con-stantly, any of them will save timeand even ammunition, and yourscopes will tend to work more reliably as well.

The Reticle-Tru is easily attached to thescope with a rubber band.

Wheeler Engineering’s Laser Bore Sight is the most versatile and

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INDEX to Volume 44

Issue Numbers 260 to 265January 2012 to December 2012

AMMUNITION/CARTRIDGES

Buffalo Bore Ammunition..........................No. 261, p. 50Winchester Rimfire Loads, New................No. 260, p. 54

BOOK REVIEWSColumn

Mauser Military Rifles of the World,Fifth Edition...........................................No. 260, p. 68

SEMPER FI: The Definitive IllustratedHistory of the U.S. Marines ...................No. 264, p. 68

CLASSIC CARTRIDGESColumn

.17 Hornady Mach 2..................................No. 264, p. 12

.17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire...................No. 260, p. 26

.204 Ruger ................................................No. 263, p. 206.5mm Remington Magnum .....................No. 265, p. 16.280 Remington ........................................No. 261, p. 26.300 H&H Improved Magnum Ackley........No. 262, p. 22

CLASSIC RIFLES

Browning High-Power 7mm RemingtonMagnum................................................No. 260, p. 60

Winchester Model 1892 ............................No. 260, p. 30

CUSTOM RIFLES

.30-30 Like No Other, A.............................No. 262, p. 28

DOWN RANGEColumn

Mechanical Zero........................................No. 260, p. 22Montana Vintage Arms B5 Scope..............No. 262, p. 18Rifle Cartridge Reality ...............................No. 264, p. 16Shrapnel’s Sighting-In Day........................No. 263, p. 242012 BPCR Silhouette National

Championships .....................................No. 265, p. 208x57mm Mauser.......................................No. 261, p. 16

GENERAL (History/Firearms/Misc.)

American Connection, The ........................No. 261, p. 64Lessons from the Old School ....................No. 263, p. 28Little Bighorn Battle Rifles and Carbines ...No. 262, p. 42Thread of History, The...............................No. 265, p. 42.375 Is 100!, The.......................................No. 261, p. 56

HUNTING RIFLES/FIELD REPORTS

Hunting Rifle Triggers ...............................No. 263, p. 36

INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

Leupold & Stevens, Inc. ............................No. 260, p. 46Stocky’s AccuBlock Stocks .......................No. 261, p. 36

INSIDE PRODUCT NEWSColumn

Accu-Shot Atlas Bipod ..............................No. 262, p. 69B.A.S.H. Tripod, The..................................No. 265, p. 72Barnes Expands VOR-TX Lineup ...............No. 263, p. 74Birchwood Casey Dirty Bird Targets ..........No. 262, p. 68Boyds’ Walking/Hiking Staff ......................No. 262, p. 71Brite-Strike Blue Dot Flashlights................No. 262, p. 70Brunton Resync ........................................No. 264, p. 70Buck’s Model 141 PakLite Large Skinner ..No. 261, p. 72Bushnell’s Legend Ultra HD Compact

Monocular.............................................No. 265, p. 71CVA ACCURA Mountain Rifle ....................No. 264, p. 72DRT Frangible Ammunition .......................No. 261, p. 72E-Max Electronic Stereo Hearing

Protectors .............................................No. 265, p. 76

Fawnzy Predator Decoy.............................No. 262, p. 68Flitz Gun/Knife Care Kit..............................No. 261, p. 74FrogLube from MidwayUSA ......................No. 264, p. 75FrogWipes – Gun Cleaner in Your

Pocket ...................................................No. 265, p. 75GunCaseBlanket ........................................No. 265, p. 70Hoppe’s Bore Snake Venom ......................No. 261, p. 73Hurricane Bag Targets, Portable................No. 264, p. 73Last .17 HMR Autoloader, The ..................No. 261, p. 75Leica 1600 CRF Rangemaster

Rangefinder...........................................No. 263, p. 75Magnetic Barrel Rest.................................No. 261, p. 78Montie Gear Slingshot...............................No. 263, p. 73Pro Ears ReVO Youth Ear Muffs ................No. 264, p. 76Rossi’s “Do-It-All” Wizard .........................No. 263, p. 72Sentry Solutions Armorer’s Kit Deluxe ......No. 264, p. 70Steiner’s Merlin Pro...................................No. 262, p. 73SureFire G2X Tactical Flashlight ................No. 261, p. 76Wheeler Engineering Professional Laser

Bore Sighter ..........................................No. 265, p. 74Winchester Rimfire Loads.........................No. 261, p. 79

LIGHT GUNSMITHINGColumnInstalling Scopes on Early .22 Rimfires.....No. 262, p. 12Other Part of Bore Cleaning, The...............No. 264, p. 24Protecting Bullet Points in Box

Magazines .............................................No. 261, p. 22Replacement Triggers for Bolt Guns..........No. 263, p. 12Smokeless Powder in Black Powder Era

Cartridge Guns ......................................No. 265, p. 24Unwanted Screw Holes .............................No. 260, p. 16

MILITARY RIFLES/CARTRIDGES

Little Bighorn Battle Rifles and Carbines ...No. 262, p. 42Russian and Finnish Mosin-Nagants.........No. 263, p. 56Three German Sniper Rifles ......................No. 261, p. 42

MOSTLY LONG GUNSColumn

Browning’s Classic .22-CaliberSemiautomatic ......................................No. 262, p. 26

Marlin XT-22 Series...................................No. 265, p. 12Skinner Sights...........................................No. 263, p. 16State of Marlin Firearms, The ....................No. 260, p. 12Swarovski CL 10x30 .................................No. 261, p. 20Winchester Model 53 .25-20 WCF ............No. 264, p. 20

OPTICS

Iron Sights ................................................No. 264, p. 54

PRODUCT TESTSColumn

Smith & Wesson M&P 15-22....................No. 260, p. 70

SPORTING RIFLES

All-American Carbine, The.........................No. 260, p. 38American Connection, The ........................No. 261, p. 64Browning High-Power 7mm Remington

Magnum................................................No. 260, p. 60Creedmoor Sports Model 1941A1.............No. 265, p. 56Custom Barrels .........................................No. 262, p. 62CVA Apex Break-Action Rifle .....................No. 262, p. 48Forbes Rifle Model 24B.............................No. 265, p. 36Lever-Action Carbines ...............................No. 264, p. 38Mossberg Varmint Predator ......................No. 263, p. 50Nosler Varmageddon AR by Noveske........No. 265, p. 64Renaissance Model, The ...........................No. 262, p. 34Rifles That Stuck .......................................No. 264, p. 60Ruger American Rifle ................................No. 264, p. 30Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifle .........................No. 265, p. 50Ruger’s 77/44 and 77/357 Magnum

Rifles.....................................................No. 263, p. 64Savage Long Range Hunter.......................No. 261, p. 30Semprio ....................................................No. 263, p. 44Stock Truths..............................................No. 264, p. 46Winchester Model 1892 ............................No. 260, p. 30Winchester Model 94 Sporter ...................No. 265, p. 30

.375 Is 100!, The.......................................No. 261, p. 56

.50 Alaskan ...............................................No. 262, p. 56

SPOTTING SCOPEColumn

Dogs, Cats, Coyotes and Winchesters.........No. 262, p. 8O’Neill, William “Buckey” ............................No. 264, p. 8Ruger No. 1 .475 Turnbull ...........................No. 260, p. 8Shooting Sticks...........................................No. 265, p. 8Twist and Bullet Weight...............................No. 261, p. 86.5 Creedmoor, The.....................................No. 263, p. 8

STRAIGHT TALKColumnSupporting Shooting to One Degree or

Another .................................................No. 260, p. 20Useless New Cartridges ............................No. 261, p. 12

WALNUT HILLColumn

Customary Concerns.................................No. 261, p. 82Dubious Quest for Cartridge

Efficiency, The .......................................No. 263, p. 82Far Out and Far Fetched ............................No. 262, p. 78Mindless Works ........................................No. 265, p. 82Unanonymous Opinions – So Sue Me.......No. 264, p. 82Unique Rifle for a Unique Force, A ............No. 260, p. 82

AUTHORSBarsness, John – Browning High-Power 7mm Rem-ington Magnum, No. 260, p. 60; The .375 Is 100!, No.261, p. 56; Custom Barrels, No. 262, p. 62; Hunting RifleTriggers, No. 263, p. 36; Rifles That Stuck, No. 264, p. 60;Nosler Varmageddon AR by Noveske, No. 265, p. 64.Eastman, Chub – Semprio, No. 263, p. 44.Haviland, John – New Winchester Rimfire Loads, No.260, p. 54; Stocky’s AccuBlock Stocks, No. 261, p. 36;CVA Apex Break-Action Rifle, No. 262, p. 48; Ruger Amer-ican Rifle, No. 264, p. 30; Forbes Rifle Model 24B, No.265, p. 36. Classic Cartridges appears in issues 260through 265.Pearce, Brian – Leupold & Stevens, Inc. No. 260, p. 46; Buffalo Bore Ammunition, No. 261, p. 50; .50Alaskan, No. 262, p. 56; Ruger’s 77/44 and 77/357 Mag-num Rifles, No. 263, p. 64; Lever-Action Carbines, No.264, p. 38; Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifle, No. 265, p. 50.Mostly Long Guns appears in issues 260 through 265.Petty, Charles E. – Savage Long Range Hunter, No.261, p. 30.Rees, Clair – Inside Product News appears in issues 261through 265.Scovill, Dave – Spotting Scope appears in issues 260through 265.Sengel, Gilbert – Light Gunsmithing appears in issues260 through 265.Spomer, Ron – Straight Talk appears in issues 260 and 261.Trzoniec, Stan – A .30-30 Like No Other, No. 262, p. 28; Mossberg Varmint Predator, No. 263, p. 50; Win-chester Model 94 Sporter, No. 265, p. 30.Venturino, Mike – Winchester Model 1892, No. 260,p. 30; Three German Sniper Rifles, No. 261, p. 42; LittleBighorn Battle Rifles and Carbines, No. 262, p. 42; Russ-ian and Finnish Mosin-Nagants, No. 263, p. 56; IronSights, No. 264, p. 54; Creedmoor Sports Model 1941A1,No. 265, p. 56. Down Range appears in issues 260through 265.Wieland, Terry – The All-American Carbine, No. 260, p. 38; The American Connection, No. 261, p. 64; The Renaissance Model, No. 262, p. 34; Lessons from the Old School, No. 263, p. 28; Stock Truths, No. 264, p. 46; The Thread of History, No. 265, p. 42. Walnut Hillappears in issues 260 through 265.

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