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CONTENTS
AUGUST 2019 | VOLUME 36 ISSUE 10
DEPARTMENTS
6 First Shot
8 Know Your Cartridge
10 Letters to the Editor
12 Gun Digest Digital
COLUMNS
14 Defensive Handgunning RICHARD MANN
16 Collector’s Corner JERRY LEE
18 Hardware Talk PATRICK SWEENEY
20 Reloading Bench PHIL MASSARO
22 Modern Gunnery STAFF REPORT
24 AR Essentials TIGER MCKEE
26 Guns & Gear STAFF REPORT
FEATURES
28 Factory Custom: Magnum Research’s
.460 S&W BFR Revolver
MAX PRASAC
34 Lipsey’s Special Single Seven:
32 Years to a Perfect 32
RICHARD MANN
40 Savage Overhaul:
From a .308 Norma Magnum
to a .280 Ackley Improved
JAY PINSKY
46 The Call of the Old West:
Cimarron’s Thunderstorm Thunderer
and New Sheriff .45 Colts
JOSH WAYNER
50 Refusing to Die:
The .300 H&H Magnum Is Old,
But It’s Not Dead
PHIL MASSARO
54 Elmer’s Revolver: Keith’s Personal
Triple-Lock .44 Special
JOE ARTERBURN
THE BEST GUN LIST IN PRINT
62 Show & Auction Listings
75 The Gun Digest Marketplace
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Cover image by
Vincent Ricardel.