Guns & Ammo – October 2019

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target that contains 1-inch

squares to help find your

shot and quickly measure

them to make accurate

adjustments.

Troy Byer

Great Bend, Kansas

SLUGS WITH A

MOD CHOKE?

I have a well-maintained

J.C. Higgins (Sears & Roe-

buck) bolt-action 12-gauge

shotgun with a modified

choke chambered for 2¾-

inch shells. With its long

barrel, it shoots fine with 00

Buck and any other shells

of this length. Would it be

safe to use the standard

2¾-inch slugs with a choke

of this type?

Mike Gibbons

Sarasota, Florida

Slug shooting is probably

the most logical application

for the thousands of old

bolt-shotguns stuck in the

closets of America. Ammu-

nition manufacturers have

to assume that any slug

load they produce will be

used in every choke, so they

take choke into account

when specifying loads.

You will have no problem

using Foster or Brenneke-

style slugs in your gun,

and sometimes they shoot

better with a little choke.

Saboted slugs are intended

to give rifle-like accuracy

with rifled barrels or tubes,

so it would probably be

a waste of money in your

old gun. Keep the distance

below 50 yards and you will

have satisfying results on

deer or black bear.

— B. Hunnicutt

FRANKLIN SAID ...

I read Keith Wood’s column

titled “Dissenting Opin-

ions” in the July 2019 issue

with great interest. I, too,

have heard people in my

orbit of friends say, “I’m in

favor of the 2nd Amend-

ment, but no one needs an

AR-15.” I’ve also wondered

if folks with such opinions

are really pro-gun or not.

A GIFT TO EVERYONE

I’ve been using a sight-in
hack for several years and
only recently realized that
not everyone knows about
it. And I haven’t seen it in
any firearms publication.
When you go to sight in a
scope, often times a larger-

than-normal target is handy.

I’ve found that most gift-

wrapping paper produced

these days feature 1-inch

squares on the back to help

the wrapping process. For

pennies per target, you can

put a 40-inch by 40-inch

backing to your sight-in

DUTCH TRAINER

In response to the reader who sent in an identification
request to Gun Room regarding his FN 1922 (June 2019),
that pistol is indeed a training pistol for the Royal Military
Police. The Dutch military had training pistols and rifles
for all units before World War II. This one was used for the
military police and the police troops, a special unit within
the army to man bunkers and occupy bridges. They played
a significant role in a short battle with Germany during
May 1940. This training pistol was designed by J.L. van
Florenstein and issued to training schools in 1927. In 1935,
production stopped. The actual-issued pistol, the M25,
was 7.62mm caliber. This information comes from “Neder-
landse Vuurwapens” by G. de Vries and B.J. Martens. It is
a reference book in the Dutch language about the history
of all firearms used in the Dutch army before World War II.
Though I am now a U.S. citizen, I served in the Royal Dutch
army and immigrated in 1996.
Eric Slot
Dayton, Ohio

JULY Õ

Then called “SIGARMS,”

SIG Sauer launched its first

chassis pistol, the P250, on

the cover for an exclusive

feature written by Greg

Rodriguez. With a serial-

ized chassis recognized as

the gun, handgunners were

impressed by the ability to

change the polymer grip

module with another size,

as well as the length of

slide and barrel. The P

was a double-action-only

hammer-fired pistol that led

to the development of the

current striker-fired P

and P365 series.

FN MODEL 1922 DUTCH ROYAL MILITARY CONSTABULARY, 7.62mm, 80%