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Nov 11, 2024 | 
thegunmag.com | Terry Wieland
By Terry WielandHard Cover 440 pagesAvailable from Rowman & [email protected]$40 +$5 ShippingThe second edition of this book is just coming off the press now but I have to point out a glaring mistake in it that can easily get the reader killed when dealing with dangerous African game. The book lumps the .375 H&H Magnum in with the dangerous game calibers.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
wolfeoutdoorsports.com | Terry Wieland |Layne Simpson
About the Cover... A Springfield Armory Model 2020 Boundary chambered in 7mm of Springfield Armory. Photograph by lacey Polacek.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
shootingtimes.com | Terry Wieland
In its initial factory loading, the .220 Swift launched a 48-grain bullet at a velocity of 4,110 fps and had a trajectory like a stretched banjo string. It was introduced in 1935 by Winchester Repeating Arms, into a world that thought the .219 Zipper was pretty hot stuff. It left them in the dust. If velocity were everything, the Swift’s career would have been stellar. But velocity, it turned out, could take you only so far.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
wolfeoutdoorsports.com | Terry Wieland
On the Cover... A Smith & Wesson Model 1854 Limited Edition leveraction rifle chambered in 44 magnum with a beautiful walnut stock and forend. Photograph courtesy of Smith & Wesson.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
shootingtimes.com | Terry Wieland
There is a lot to be said for magnum handguns that allow you to shoot lower-power loads—the .357 Magnum/.38 Special combination being the obvious one. But there is something to be said against it, too, and that is that dedicated guns, tailored to lower-powered cartridges, can cease to exist. In many situations, for example, a .44 Special in a lightweight, compact gun might be ideal. But where can you get one?
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
wolfeoutdoorsports.com | Brian Pierce |Terry Wieland
On the Cover... A Remington 700 VTR SS in an AG Composites Chalk Branch stock with a Leupold VX-5HD 4-20x 52mm scope and Magnum bipod. Photograph by S. Maroon.
Table of Contents
Column PG 4 Henry Lever Action Octagon Frontier Mostly Long Guns by Brian Pierce
Column PG 8 32-40 Sporting Rifles Down Range by Mike Venturino
Column PG 10 Final Notes on Scope Attachment Light Gunsmithing by Gil Sengel
Column PG 14 GPOTAC Spectra 6x 4.5-27x 50i FFP Riflescope A Rifleman's Optics by S.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
shootingtimes.com | Terry Wieland
Handloading is not supposed to be an adventure. Fascinating? Yes. Illuminating? That, too. It’s also supposed to save money, tailor loads to your needs, and keep old guns shooting when no commercial ammunition is available. What it is not supposed to be is eye-, finger-, gun-, or life-threatening. Having emerged from 60 years of handloading with all body parts intact and no history of unintentional gun damage, I find myself—oddly enough—more fearful, not less, when it comes to crossing the line.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
shootingtimes.com | Terry Wieland
Many years ago, Outdoor Life did a study to determine the relationship between the illustration on the cover and newsstand sales. Among big-game animals, the covers that sold the most were those with pictures of magnificent white-tailed deer. This is further evidence, if any is needed, that the whitetail is the most popular big-game animal in North America—so far ahead it’s not even close.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
shootingtimes.com | Terry Wieland
In truth, quite often, “small-game hunting” is not so much an activity as a reasonably credible excuse to go out and wander the creek bottoms with a rifle under your arm or stalk along a ridge to see what you see. Certainly, one could do those things without a rifle, but having one with you serves the same purpose for modern man as a musketeer’s rapier or a warrior’s bow or a mountain man’s Hawken. Psychologically, at least, your rifle is part of you.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
shootingtimes.com | Terry Wieland
The venerable Pattern 1853 (P-53) Enfield is familiar to every Civil War reenactor, every shooting devotee of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, and every historian or novelist who dwelt in the bloody confines—mentally, at least—of that infamous conflict. The 1853 Enfield rifle-musket was used by troops on both sides in the Civil War and was the most-used firearm after the .58 Springfield.
