Rifle 346 May/June 2026

About the Cover: Featured is a Seekins Precision Havak PH3 with a 22-inch, sporter-weight, spiral-fluted barrel (1:8 twist) with a Burris XTR III 3.3-18x 50mm scope and a Dead Air Nomad Ti XC suppressor. Photo by Patrick Meitin.

6 6.5 and 25 Weatherby Rebated Precision

Magnums Mostly Long Guns

Brian Pearce

10 Fear and Suppressors Change – for Better or Worse Fouling Shots

Art Merrill

12 Basic Lubrication

Light Gunsmithing

Gil Sengel

16 Vortex Crossfire HD 6-18x 50mm Riflescope

A Rifleman’s Optics

Patrick Meitin

18 Something Old, Something New, Something Relaxing and Fun to Do

Sixguns, Slugs and Such

Jeff “Tank” Hoover

66 Handgun Tales

Walnut Hill

Terry Wieland

FEATURES 

20 Seekins Precision Havak PH3 in 7mm PRC

Precision Reimagined

Patrick Meitin

26 Horse Pistols

The Missouri Bushwhackers and the Colts They Carried

Gary Lewis

34 The All-American .25

One of the Best, and It’s (Almost) All Ours

Terry Wieland

40 Henry Long Ranger

Old-West Style with Modern Accuracy

Alan Garbers

48 Before the 44 Magnum

Elmer Keith and the 44 Special

Brian Pearce

56 Proper Vintage Riflescopes

Vintage Looks, Cutting-Edge Technology

Wayne van Zwoll