WMD GUNS .300 BLACKOUT
The inimitable J.D. Jones while working under S.S.K. Industries (a company he started) invented the .300 Whisper caliber in 1992 as a wildcat cartridge. The parent case that J.D. Jones used to make the .300 Whisper was the .221 Remington Fireball necked up to accept .30 caliber bullets. The end game was to use a heavy bullet traveling at sub-sonic velocities with a silencer. The .221 Remington Fireball is identical to the .223 Remington except [...]
HARD HITTING PRECISION | SIG SAUER’s 716 Designated Marksman Rifle
Labels are important in setting our expectations for a firearm. In U.S. military parlance, DMR stands for Designated Marksman Rifle. We will confine our discussion of DMR concepts and patterns to the U.S. experience. The default chambering of the DMR is .308 Winchester/7.62x51mm NATO. The DMR originated to fill the [...]
BOLT-ACTION THUMPER: .450 Bushmaster Ruger American Ranch Rifle
The .450 Bushmaster is descended from the "Thumper" concept popularized by Jeff Cooper. Cooper was not a fan of the 5.56x45mm NATO round and envisioned a need for a large-bore cartridge
Remington R2Mi .50 BMG
By its own admission, Remington says its new R2Mi .50 BMG bolt-action rifle “is built to shatter all previous expectations for long-range accuracy.” It’s quite a claim, but one look at the specs for the big-bore boomer leads one to believe the big green rifle from Big Green will deliver. [...]
New American Defense Precision Rifle Chassis
As a longtime firearm and hunting writer, I’ve often stressed the importance of range time as a necessity to make accurate shots on target. After all, there is nothing better than making a good shot and putting a bullet exactly where you want. Accuracy is critical in the field but [...]
Springfield Armory Saint Victor .308 Pistol
It’s no secret the world isn’t a very nice place right now. In fact, by the time these words hit subscriber mailboxes and the newsstand, things might even be worse — though I’m not exactly sure how the world could get more “bat-excrement-crazy” than right now. Regardless, as someone who [...]
Triple Threat
LWRC’s REPR MKII Delivers Match-Grade Precision, Gas-Piston Reliability And 7.62 NATO Power. Mike Cumpston With Stan Jarosz Photos: Takashi Sato In early 2017, LWRC took their 7.62x51 Rapid Engagement Precision Rifle to the next level. The REPR MK II still hews to the basic goal of the original—providing an ultra-reliable, [...]
Exclusive: New Savage 110 with AccuFit — A Legend Reborn
By Michael O. Humphries How do you remake a classic? How do you manage to retain everything that makes an original everyone loves so popular, yet gives customers all the newest and greatest benefits of today’s cutting-edge technology? Not an easy task, right? Well, Savage has done just that with [...]
