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Contents: Best In Class (Rodriguez says Thompson/Centes’s newest Venture bolt-action is not just another price-point gun); Blocking Home Plate (When it comes to the best means for defending your home and family, which gun is best suited to the job: an AR-15, a shotgun, or a handgun? Here are the authors pros and cons of these three firearms); New Glass Of 2009 (From rock-bottom bargains to spendy stunners and Plain Jane to Fancy Nancy, this year has seen the introduction of a broad spectrum of new optics); AyA 12-Gauge No. 2 Sidelock (Our shooting editor thinks AyA’s No. 2 side-by-side is one sweet-shooting senorita) Columns – Going Ballistic! (Allan reveals how his ballistian’s mind sees some of our newest standardized rifle cartridges); Eye On Optics (Guthrie thinks the whole world has gone rail crazy. Here’s the lowdown on the MIL-STD 1913 rail development at the Picatinny Arsenal); Practical Reloading (Lane shows you the proper way to use a powder burn-rate chart); Trigger Time (Greg tells you why you should take a closer look at premium bullets, in their case, predictability is a good thing); The Gunsmith (Reid demonstrates some of the trickery used to fit scope bases to oddball guns. It’s easier than it may seem); The Shootist (Paul says desperate times call for desperate measures, and the Spanish-Ruby pistol was one such measure); Hipshots Reloaded (Skeeter wrote this entire column on a single, rather obscure word that ties loosely to guns and shooting, and it’s sure to induce a few chuckles)
Issue: July, 2009
Condition: Very Good