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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.

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.

2 weeks ago | shootingtimes.com | Layne Simpson

Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. One of the first firearms chambered by Ruger for the FN 5.7x28mm cartridge was the semiautomatic LC Carbine. The .45 ACP was added to the Carbine during early 2024, and a few months later the 10mm Auto joined it. I received one of the 10mm LC Carbines not long after its announcement and put it through a thorough review. My digital postal scale indicated a weight of 7.5 pounds for the 10mm gun.

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.

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?