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Contents: The R-15 And The .30 RAR – Remington Reinvents The Black Rifle (Remington hasn’t been in the AR game very long, but it sure has made a colossal impact, bringing the black rifle to a whole new audience. In another bold move, Big Green upped the ante with an ingenious cartridge and rifle combination that harnesses .308 Winchester ballistics in the lightweight and wieldy R-15); New Rifles For 2009 (Here are 38 brand-new rifles that our shooting editor thinks you just gotta check out); New Handguns For 2009 (Our technical editor picks his Top-10 set of the newest and coolest revolvers and pistols); New Shotguns For 2009 (Our senior field editor says this year is a great one for new shotguns. Here are more than two dozen models) Departments – Letters (ST readers speak out); Ask The Experts (Our panel of experts answers your questions about handguns, rifles, shotguns, and more) Columns – Going Ballistic! (Allan has developed a fondness for certain cartridges, and this month, he discussed the ballistic attributes of eight of his favorite handgun rounds); The Shootist (Paul puts a classic .38 Social Smith & Wesson Model 52 autoloader through its paces and concludes that it is “paper-punching perfection”); Eye On Optics (Guthrie finds the light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak, by revealing the advantages of illuminated reticles); The Gunsmith (Reid shows you how to improve your handgun’s existing iron sights by giving them some simple cosmetic surgery); Trigger Time (Greg says the bond-crushing .35 HCR wildcat cartridge offers loads of punch combined with very manageable recoil); Practical Reloading (Lane revisits the velocity-to-charge ratio concept for working up handloads); Hipshots Reloaded (Skeeter won the hearts of many a reader with more than a dozen of his “Me And Joe” stories. Here is one of our favorites, “The Man In Black”)
Issue: June, 2009
Condition: Very Good