Shooting Times

Every issue of Shooting Times brings you exciting, authoritative coverage of guns, ammunition, reloading, and the shooting sports. Written for the experienced and novice gun enthusiast by focusing on new product developments and activities in the shooting industry.

Shooting Times

7mm Backcountry

Springfield Kuna

.22 WMR and .22 LR Energies?

Winchester Model 70 XTR Featherweight .257 Roberts • Winchester’s push-feed Model 70 XTR rifles are not legendary, but maybe they should be.

Holdbacks in Ammo Pressure and Velocity Explained • Good reasons exist for why some cartridges loaded in the U.S. are well under pressure or velocity specs of the identical cartridges loaded elsewhere, especially Europe.

CCI Blazer Brass • CCI Blazer Brass ammunition is now offered with JHP bullets and is totally reloadable.

HORNADY BACKCOUNTRY DEFENSE AMMUNITION • HORNADY’S NEW BACKCOUNTRY DEFENSE HANDGUN AMMO IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE MAXIMUM PENETRATION WITH NO DEFLECTION, AND IT PRODUCES EXCELLENT ACCURACY.

TIP OF THE SPEAR • PULSAR’S INCREDIBLE THERMION 2 LRF XP60 RIFLESCOPE IS A GAME-CHANGER IN THE WORLD OF LOW-LIGHT HUNTING.

CENTERFIRE OPTIONS FOR SMALL GAME • HERE ARE THE ANSWERS TO SEVEN FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT USING CENTERFIRE GUNS FOR HUNTING SMALL GAME.

COVERT DOUBLE STACK • KIMBER CALLS ITS NEWEST 9MM MICRO 1911 THE COVERT DOUBLE STACK (CDS9 FOR SHORT). AND IT’S A REAL HUMDINGER!

A LOVELY LEVER GUN • SAVAGE IS BACK IN THE LEVER-ACTION GAME WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ALL-NEW REVEL .22 LR RIFLE.

“Sometimes a Great Notion.…” • In an age of specialties, and specialized rifles, small game and firearms suited thereto seem, at best, anachronistic. ’Twas not always so.

Banditti of the Prairie • During the 1830s and 1840s, a band of bandits terrorized northern Illinois. Eventually, they were thwarted by groups of vigilantes.