Recently added articles from Guns Magazine:

Backyard fun?(CROSSFIRE: LETTERS TO GUNS)(Letter to the editor)

Aug 01, 2008; Johnson, Bob ... I am curious to just how knowledgeable some of your authors are? I am referring to the June Out of the Box article on True Backyard Fun. I totally understand the fun of shooting an air rifle but, where is Mr. Galan's backyard? Every municipality I know of has city ordinances ...

Remington Army.(CROSSFIRE: LETTERS TO GUNS)(Letter to the editor)

Aug 01, 2008; Stocum, Roger ... My wife wanted to get me a new gun for Christmas but I had no idea what I wanted as I have enough guns now. However I never turn down another new gun. I decided to wait until after the holidays to get the gun and I'm glad I did. When I got my February issue I saw Holt Bodinson's ...

Who needs one?(CROSSFIRE: LETTERS TO GUNS)(Letter to the editor)

Aug 01, 2008; Johnson, Jimmy ... John Taffin's Campfire Tales in the June issue on who needs an assault rifle is a world-class masterpiece! I'm making copies and passing them out everywhere. Not even Ann Coulter could have topped John's skill in showing a politician for what he really is a mindless, dishonest, ...

Watch those story ideas.(CROSSFIRE: LETTERS TO GUNS)(Letter to the editor)

Aug 01, 2008; Bourgeois, George ... Anyone working for a gun magazine should never write in an article that he has enough guns and is willing to settle for what he has especially in a magazine my wife may pick up and scan. Surely some suitable punishment could be worked out such as banishment to England, France or ...

What's hot: and what's hotter.(RIFLEMAN)

Aug 01, 2008; Anderson, Dave ... The first Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show I attended was in Dallas in 1989. It was a big show then and has only gotten bigger. Frankly it verges on being too big. It has gone from three days to four, and even so I have to plan carefully and do a lot of walking to cover what ...

Lugers: an iconic arm.(MONTANA MUSINGS)

Aug 01, 2008; Venturino, Mike "Duke" ... One of the prerogatives of being a freelance gun'riter is I'm not tied into one area of interest. With some gun magazines whose writers are contracted, their editors actually resist letting them step away from a pre-set "persona." GUNS Magazine just lets me follow my nose or perhaps better ...

Reloading 101 Part I: the all-important manual comes first.(HANDLOADING)

Aug 01, 2008; Taffin, John ... You've made up your mind. After several years of buying factory ammo and shooting your bolt-action .30-06 rifle and .44 Magnum sixgun you've piled up hundreds of rounds of empty brass for each and have finally decided to start reloading and your only problem is how to start. The starting ...

21st century super slugs: deer hunting is changing.(SHOTGUNNER)

Aug 01, 2008; Bodinson, Holt ... When "engineering samples" of a new slug load arrived, it was time to dust off the Savage slug gun and see just where shotshell technology is taking us. There were also several boxes of new slug loads I hadn't run over the chronograph or broken down or shot for accuracy. The ...

The business of practice ... meets the business of ammunition.(RANGING SHOTS[TM])

Aug 01, 2008; Smith, Clint ... With the current costs of ammunition it is often hard to justify casual shooting or sometimes even defensive practice in addition to the overall general cost of just day-to-day living. Ammunition costs went up a nominal 11 percent in January and we can expect another price increase towards ...

Saving $$$ .22s for practice.(HANDGUNS)

Aug 01, 2008; Ayoob, Massad ... With ammo prices going so suddenly and steeply upward, .22 caliber "understudy" practice guns make more sense than ever. Jan Stevenson, my predecessor as handgun editor for this magazine, once wrote a great article on .22 caliber "understudy guns," or handguns that duplicated their larger ...

Extraction and ejection: what goes in must come out, or should.(UP on ARs)

Aug 01, 2008; Zediker, Glen ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As said last time, an extractor is supposed to pull a spent case out of the chamber and the ejector is supposed to set it up to get tossed out the ejection port. Extractors got attention last time, so now it's ejectors. The ejector is a little ...

The Nagant sporter: an odd, but effective target revolver.(SURPLUS LOCKER[TM])

Aug 01, 2008; Bodinson, Holt ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] If a prize was being awarded to the most bizarre, but successful, service revolver issued in quantity, I would unhesitatingly cast my vote for the Russian Nagant. How this handful of complex, moving parts was selected to replace Russia's stunning Smith & ...

At last, a true innovation: Friction Forged knives from DiamondBlade hold their edge.(OUT OF THE BOX[TM])

Aug 01, 2008; Turpin, Tom ... A short while back, I was invited to the Tejon Ranch in California to do a bit of wild pig hunting and the stars of this show were the DiamondBlade knives. For once, I found something truly new and innovative, not to mention an improvement on everything I have tried before. Be still my ...

Taurus Thunderbolt: the levergun alternative.(OUT OF THE BOX[TM])

Aug 01, 2008; Taffin, John ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I've often written the first firearm I ever shot was a top-break .22 pistol on my uncle's farm. However, as I have been thinking about it lately I have come to realize that's probably not true. Like many young boys growing up in the '30s, '40s, and '50s ...

Handgun shot loads.(QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS)

Aug 01, 2008; John, Jeff ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Q: Has GUNS ever covered the loading of shot cartridges for handguns, specifically .38 Special, .44 Magnum and .45 Colt? Roger Shoemake Fishers, Indiana A: We haven't covered loading shot charges in recent memory. Sounds ...

Civil war bullet?(QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS)

Aug 01, 2008; John, Jeff ... Q: I found the enclosed spent bullet in the state forestland near Chautauqua, New York, and I've never seen anything like it. I've shot benchrest, varmints, big game, wing and small game, so I am reasonably informed. Using a metal detector, I've found Minie bullets, slugs and ...

Hot Pursuit: Traditions XLT Extreme.

Aug 01, 2008; Bodinson, Holt ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There are any number of break, open, inline muzzleloaders on the market, but no model is as updated or incorporates as many useful features as Traditions' latest offering, the Pursuit XLT Extreme. The Pursuit is not just a 50-caliber inline. It's a ...

Fit for an emperor: the Steyr Mannlicher classic.(Cover story)

Aug 01, 2008; John, Jeff ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The chamois herd grazed lazily on the side of the mountain a little more than 200 yards away. Guide Kefer Hubert and I sat quietly in the blind watching them through binoculars. As we watched, a fly buzzed inside my eyeglasses onto the corner of my eye. I ...

Semiauto surprise: the Kel-Tec PLR-16 .223 is a dandy hunting gun and doubles as a "Walter Mitty" fun gun.

Aug 01, 2008; Taffin, John ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of the great things about working for this mag is the fact assignments are always given on an "if I care to do so" basis. That means an awful lot to me and also makes me want to go the extra mile in doing assignments I may find far removed from the ...

The guns of empire: 18th century martial muskets.

Aug 01, 2008; Cumpston, Mike ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The period from roughly 1689 to 1815 was often called "The 2nd 100 Years War," because of a constant state of belligerency between England and France. It eventually involved the major European nations in a worldwide conflict over colonial possessions and ...