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Contents: Accuracy Aces (Both designed with competitive shooters in mind, DPMS’ Panther and Hornady’s 6.5 Creedmoor wear out the X-ring); Coming Of Age (Nosler legitimizes the .280 Ackley Improved as a SAAM-speeced factory cartridge. The folks there liked the .280 AI so much, they even chambered the Nosler Custom 2nd Edition Rifle in it exclusively); Favorite Loads: Hot Off The Press (Add to your own reloading manual with our senior field editor’s favorite .280 Ackley Improved handloads); The 100-Yard Rule (If a hurt truly calls for a truly-long-range shot, you need a round with sufficient downrange energy. Here’s how to use 100-yard energy thresholds to pick the right cartridge for that distant shot); A Battlefield Victory (Here’s what the landmark Heller Decision means for gun owners); Smith & Wesson Elite Gold 20 Gauge (The Elite Gold is a sleek, fast-handling side-by-side that’s perfect for hunting quail or shooting passing doves) Columns – Letters (ST readers speak out); Eye On Optics (Guthrie gives you a top-three list of practical specialty reticles and explains why they are his favorites); Trigger Time (Greg tells you about his long-running love affair with medium-bore hunting cartridges and highlights two that get the job done with style); Going Ballistic! (Allan says “statistics” isn’t such a dirty word after all, and he shows you how to make the numbers work in your favor); Practical Reloading (Lane demonstrates how velocity-to-charge ratio is a good, safe way to work up handloads); The Shootist (Paul shoots a bolt-action Savage Model 840 after tracking the gun’s beginnings back to the Stevens Model 340); The Gunsmith (Reid installs a .22 rimfire barrel line in order to salvage a decent rifle with a damaged bore); Hipshots Reloaded (Skeeter wrote this piece on the .357 Magnum sometime during the 1960s and his wife discovered it after he had passed in January 1988. We present it in two parts as special tribute
Issue: October 2008
Condition: Very Good