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1 week ago | 
shootingtimes.com | Joel J Hutchcroft
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. Our friends at Springfield Armory tell us that one of their most significant introductions for 2025 is the new Echelon 4.0C 9mm, modular, striker-fired, polymer-frame, semiautomatic pistol. With this version, the company has firmly cemented the Echelon as not just one pistol but as an expanding platform. Here’s a look at the newest addition to the growing family.
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1 month ago | 
shootingtimes.com | Joel J Hutchcroft
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. Hands down, Kimber’s new full-size 2K11 double-stack Model 1911 is très chic. It has all the bells and whistles that have come to be required on a high-end 1911, and it also has a few new features that make this pistol very classy.
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1 month ago | 
shootingtimes.com | Joel J Hutchcroft
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. Alittle over four years ago, Shooting Times writer Layne Simpson penned an opus entitled “Bolt-Action Beauties” in which he described several of his favorite bolt-action rimfire rifles. Now, Layne has been shooting rimfires for a long time and is well versed in classic rifles and handguns chambered for the .22 LR as well as other rimfire cartridges.
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1 month ago | 
shootingtimes.com | Joel J Hutchcroft
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. The original double-action Colt Python revolver was introduced to the world in 1955. A period advertisement for it I recently came across prominently displayed these words: “A finer gun than you actually need.” I’d say that’s a pretty unusual marketing slogan.
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2 months ago | 
shootingtimes.com | Joel J Hutchcroft
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. If you’re scratching your head after reading the headline for this report as pertaining to the “AOS” reference, let me explain. AOS stands for Agency Optic System, and as it relates to Springfield’s Model 1911-style pistols, it means the Emissary, the Operator, and the Ronin 1911 lines now come with slides that are set up for the Agency Optic System for easy installation of a red-dot reflex-type optic.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
shootingtimes.com | Joel J Hutchcroft
Earlier this year, Shooting Times reported on the Redline version of Springfield’s Model 2020 bolt-action rifle, and the author of that report (Joseph von Benedikt) said the Redline was the best of the Model 2020 lot. At the time, that may well have been true. Since then, the company has brought out the Boundary version, and in my opinion, it is the best Model 2020 yet. Here’s why. I say the new 2020 Boundary is expertly crafted, and what I most like about it is its more classic design.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
shootingtimes.com | Joel J Hutchcroft
It’s not often that we here at Shooting Times get to report on a brand-new gun from a brand-new company, so I’m especially excited about this project. The gun is the RM1C, and the company is Rost Martin. Rost Martin is based in Texas, and the principals are Chris and Stefany Toomer. Chris served five years as an infantry officer in the United States Marines, deploying with the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, before going to business school. Stefany is the daughter of Springfield Armory CEO Dennis Reese.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
shootingtimes.com | Joel J Hutchcroft
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. Springfield Armory says the Tactical Response Pistol (TRP) Model 1911s are perhaps the most “well-known” and “celebrated” family of the company’s many 1911s because they are inspired by the Professional 1911 that was used by the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team. For 2024 the TRP line has been updated with new features and new finishes, and these pistols are now offered in full-size and Commander-size versions.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
shootingtimes.com | Joel J Hutchcroft
Champion has done it again. The company has updated its popular Wheelybird auto-feed trap. The new Wheelybird 3.0 features a removable stack holder that holds 60 clay pigeons at a time, a more rapid 1.5-second cycle time, angle adjustments of 0 to 30 degrees, and a throwing range of 75 yards. It has a 25-foot-long foot pedal release and is compatible with the Wheelybird Wireless Remote (sold separately) that allows the shooter or a companion to launch clays with a click of a button.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
shootingtimes.com | Joel J Hutchcroft
When Shooting Times reported for the first time on CZ’s new Model 600 bolt-action rifle in 2022, the writer (Joseph von Benedikt) said the Alpha version was “exquisitely engineered,” “fascinating,” “compelling,” and “savvy.” When he reviewed the Trail version in 2023, he said it offers “discrete capability.” Well, now CZ has introduced a brand-new version of the Model 600 called the American.
