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Contents: Les Baer Goes High-Cap! (Offering 19 rounds of 40-caliber firepower, the new high-capacity H.C. 40 if great for duty, personal defense and competition); Favorite Loads: Hot Off The Press: .40 Smith & Wesson (Add to your own reloading manual with our senior field editor’s favorite .40 S & W handloads); Nighthawk’s Ultra-Accurate Bolt Rifles (Nighthawk Custom is well known to Model 1911 pistol shooters. Now high-performance rifle shooters are going to have to get to know Nighthawk as well); Short & Still Sweet (The snubnose revolver is still a viable competitor in the carry-gun market. It’s not going anywhere…because it goes everywhere); The Contenter’s Magnificent 7 (A T/C Contender with a bevy of barrels makes a lot of sense, but which chambers should you choose? Here’s Layne’s list of seven sensational cartridges that capitalize on the Contender’s versatility); Maxus! (Browning’s newest autoloader, the Maxus, promises to deliver more speed and less recooil. It just might be the fastest, most comfortable-shooting 7-point shotgun you’ve ever fired); Ruger LCP .380 (Handguns are minimal defensive guns at best – they just happen to be very handy, and a man fights with what he has. The Ruger Lightweight Compact Pistol (LCP) is a handy pistol indeed) Departments – Ask The Experts (Our panel of experts answers all your questions about handguns, rifles, shotguns and more) Columns – Going Ballistic! (Allan revisits his days in the Dallas Crime Lab and tells you about some of his most interesting no-gun cases); Eye On Optics (Guthrie focuses on handguns and optics, pointing out the advantages of variable- and fixed-power scopes as well as those red-dot optics); Trigger Time (Greg says you don’t have to spend an arm and a leg to get a reliable and practical defensive carbine); Practical Reloading (Lane reloads the new .327 Federal Magnum cartridge in order to take full advantage of it’s personal defense and small-game hunting abilities); The Gunsmith (Reid shows you how to handle a pistol-repair emergency in order to get a self-defense handgun back in action in the shortest amount of time); The Shootist (Paul thinks the German Model 1879 revolver possessed the two primary characteristics of a military firearm: simplicity and ruggedness); Hipshots Reloaded (As a Southwest lawman and SHOOTING TIMES Handgun Editor, Skeeter put his hands on a lot of handguns, and these few are the ones that served him best)
Issue: February, 2009
Condition: Very Good