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2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
rifleshootermag.com | Joseph von Benedikt
“Try Reloder 19,” the ballistician told the range tech who had just fired a 1.5-inch 100-yard group with my semi-custom 7mm WSM. Clearly, the initial charge of H4831sc didn’t produce good accuracy with the Barnes 145-grain LRX, but switching powders after just one three-shot test group seemed a bit extreme to me. The tech charged three of the short magnum cases with a starting load of Reloder 19. He fired a shot, then another.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
shootingtimes.com | Joseph von Benedikt
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. Springfield’s new Hellion bullpup is a compact rifle with distinct advantages for close-quarters battle (CQB). It’s as short as most short-barrel rifles (SBR) but has a proper 16-inch barrel that provides muzzle velocity and terminal performance no SBR can match. The Hellion is a refined version of the VHS 2 Bullpup used by the Croatian armed forces.
