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Product Description
About the Cover: A pair of Lonesome Dove Walker CB 9” .44 caliber revolvers from Cimarron Firearms. The guns are authentically marked, one with “Capt. Augustus McCrae, Texas Rangers Frontier Battalion” down the backstrap and his Texas Ranger Division “E Company No. 120” on the left side of the frame and barrel, and the other with “Capt. Woodrow F. Call, Texas Rangers Frontier Battalion” and “E Company No. 119”. Photo by Lacey Polacek.
COLUMNS
4 Smith & Wesson Model 25-5 and 625-6 45 Colt Sixguns
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Brian Pearce
10 Making the AR-15 Shoot Rimfire
Fouling Shots
Art Merrill
14 Ruger MKII 22 LR Pistol
Light Gunsmithing
Gil Sengel
18 Riton Optics 5 Primal 3-18x 50mm Long-Range Scope
A Rifleman’s Optics
Patrick Meitin
22 The Silver Stream of Versatility
Sixguns, Slugs and Such
Jeff Hoover
34 Precision Rifle Checkering Giveaway Savage Model 99
Custom Corner
Staff
66 The Great Suppression
Walnut Hill
Terry Wieland
FEATURES
26 The Colt Walker Dragoon
The Horse Pistol of the Texas Rangers
Gary Lewis
36 A Pencil-Thin Bull Barrel?
An Innovative Approach in a DIY Barrel Swap
Art Merrill
38 Franchi Momentum Classic Walnut Elite in 270 Winchester
Old-World Style, Modern Precision
Patrick Meitin
44 Smith & Wesson 16-4
A Masterpiece by Any Other Name
Terry Wieland
50 The 35 Whelen and the Ruger M77 Hawkeye African
A Century of Proven Performance
Brian Pearce
58 Winchester XPR Hunting Rifle
An American Legend Reimagined
Alan Garbers
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