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3 days ago | 
shootingtimes.com | Joseph von Benedikt
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. For more than a half-century Ed Brown has been making some of the finest 1911-type pistols in the world. Now, in partnership with Springfield Armory, the skilled pistolsmiths at Ed Brown Products are applying their legendary custom parts and their craftsmanship to a line of Springfield pistols.
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3 weeks ago | 
shootingtimes.com | Joseph von Benedikt
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. When Smith & Wesson came out with its Model 1854 lever-action rifle in 2024, it raised a flag to the past, present, and future. Past, in acknowledging its roots in the Volcanic lever gun that spawned many of Winchester’s successful designs. Present, in recognizing how trendy lever actions are among current shooters.
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1 month ago | 
shootingtimes.com | Joseph von Benedikt
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. Grizzly. Kodiak. The names are evocative of danger, of adventure, and of brute strength. Colt’s new revolvers are themed after Alaska’s rugged terrain and gnarliest bears, and they are built to suit. Colt’s classic double-action wheelguns were traditionally named after dangerous snakes.
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1 month ago | 
shootingtimes.com | Joseph von Benedikt
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. Introduced in 1956 as a low-cost answer to the expensive British Nitro Express dangerous-game cartridges, the .458 Winchester Magnum quickly gained a reputation for getting people killed. By elephants, generally. Why? Initial velocities advertised with 510-grain bullets were quite impressive—2,150 fps out of a 26-inch rifle barrel.
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1 month ago | 
shootingtimes.com | Joseph von Benedikt
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. German engineering took Walther in a new direction when the company designed a .22 Magnum pistol. Rather than building a lightweight, super-capacity pistol that holds 30 rounds and weighs barely more than a pound—like its competitors in the .22 Mag. pistol department—Walther chose to make a .22 Magnum sidearm that holds “just” 15 rounds and weighs 1.75 pounds. Why?
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
rifleshootermag.com | Joseph von Benedikt
Rock River Arms announced its move into the bolt-action rifle world at the 2024 SHOT show. Long a potent force in the AR-15 and AR-10 semiautomatic market, Rock River earned its reputation by building super-accurate rifles and best-value National Match two-stage trigger groups for ARs.The new XM24 bolt action carries on the accuracy legacy. The .308 Win. version sent to RifleShooter for testing shot absurdly well. The XM24 is fed by a detachable box magazine.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
shootingtimes.com | Joseph von Benedikt
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. Located in an out-of-the-way town in Brazos County, Texas, Horizon Firearms is known as the force that brought the 22 Creedmoor to legitimacy. I reported on that fantastic varmint cartridge in the June 2024 issue of Shooting Times. A sister company with Stiller Actions, Iota Stocks, and TX Ammo (under the Kaspar Outdoors umbrella), Horizon is also known for building super rifles.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
petersenshunting.com | Joseph von Benedikt
Federal’s new 7mm Backcountry cartridge provides unprecedented performance. By utilizing cases made of high-grade “Peak Alloy” steel, the cartridge safely contains 80,000 psi. That’s 20 percent more pressure than traditional magnums, which top out at about 65,000 psi. These high-performance pressures are achieved using gunpowders with a burn rate that’s faster than usual for the internal capacity. As a result, the 7mm Backcountry provides a significant increase in muzzle velocity.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
shootingtimes.com | Joseph von Benedikt
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases.asdfSpringfield’s new lightweight bolt action is one of the most honest precision hunting rifles I’ve shot. It not only meets the company’s 0.75-MOA accuracy guarantee, but it does so with eight of the 10 factory loads I tested in it. This rifle is the epitome of the modern hunting instrument. It’s designed for precision, yet it’s built to be light enough to pack into the mountains.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
shootingtimes.com | Joseph von Benedikt
The Savage Super Sporter had dual, opposing locking lugs, but they were located amidships on the bolt, rather than at the front end like most Mauser, Springfield, Winchester, Remington, and other bolt-action designs. Super Sporters came in two variations. A plain-Jane model was dubbed the Model 40, and a slightly fancier version with checkering on the grip and fore-end and a factory-mounted peep sight was named the Model 45.
