The Gun Digest – 1991 | |
Table of Contents | |
Features | |
The Perfected Boxlock by Nikitas Kypridemos | 6 |
Straight-Pull Rifles: A Brief Overview by Finn Nielsen | 14 |
The 44-Caliber Charter by M. L. McPherson | 21 |
A Classic Calls Home by Peyton Autry | 28 |
The First Magnum by Keith R. Schmidt | 33 |
The Weapons of the Mail Coach by Wilfrid Ward | 38 |
The Finallly Proper Pronghorn by Donald Hamilton | 48 |
The Mini-Thirty . . . Another 30-Caliber Success by John V. Miller, Jr. | 54 |
Kalthoff's Flintlocks . . . The Repeaters of 1657 by Gad Rausing | 62 |
NSSF: 30 Years on the Line by Steve Lightfoot | 65 |
Those Plastic Remingtons by Donald M. Simmons | 68 |
What's a Pinfire? By F. W. Hulbert | 78 |
One Good Gun: For Mine, It's an Old 45 Carbine by Frank Marshall, Jr. | 83 |
My 25 Years With a Winchester 52 by G. Rodney James | 85 |
My Model 12: Good, But Not Fancy by Lee H. Arten | 88 |
Scopes and Mounts by Bob Bell | 90 |
Shooting the Smoothbore Rifle by Sam Fadala | 97 |
The Loser's Gun by Bob Arganbright | 102 |
Custom Guns | 104 |
Rifle Review by Layne Simpson | 110 |
Gun Finishes For the 21st Century by Holt Bodinson | 118 |
On the Air-Power Front by J. I. Galan | 124 |
Handguns Today: Sixguns and Others by Hal Swiggett | 129 |
Too Good Too Soon by John Haviland | 137 |
Holstering the Hard-to-Holster by Bob Arganbright | 141 |
The Making of a Goose Dinner by Francis E. Sell | 146 |
Signs of Pressure by Jim Peck | 150 |
Handguns Today: Autoloaders by J. B. Wood | 153 |
Special Purpose Shotshells | 160 |
Make a Mule Minié: If That's What it Takes to Get a Replica to Shoot by Robert K. Sherwood | 161 |
Security Guns by Clay Harvey | 165 |
It Is What You Use That Counts by Don Zutz | 169 |
Shotgun Review by Larry S. Sterett | 173 |
The Ergonomic 71 by Karl Bosselmann | 179 |
The Art of the Engraver | 184 |
The Guns of Europe by Raymond Caranta | 188 |
Blackpowder Review by Doc Carlson | 193 |
Testfire: | |
Armsport's Trilling by Larry S. Sterett | 199 |
T/C's Scout by Hal Swiggett | 202 |
Hämmerli 280 by Raymond Caranta | 205 |
A Tough Simmons Scope by Hal Swiggett | 207 |
Iiandloading Update by Dean A. Grennell | 209 |
Ammunition, Ballistics and Components by Edward A. Matunas | 214 |
Last-Minute ABC News | 219 |
Ammunition Tables | 221 |
Shooter's Marketplace | 225 |
Departments | |
GUNDEX | 249 |
Handguns – U.S. and Imported | 257 |
Rifles – U.S. and Imported | 309 |
Shotguns – U.S. and Imported | 362 |
Blackpowder Guns | 394 |
Air Guns | 412 |
Paint Ball Guns | 430 |
Metallic Sights | 433 |
Chokes and Brakes | 437 |
Scopes and Mounts | 438 |
Spotting Scopes | 450 |
Periodical Publications | 452 |
Arms Library | 454 |
Arms Associations | 473 |
Directory of the Arms Trade | 475 |
Production Directory | 476 |
Manufacturer's Directory | 486 |
Gun Digest Annual TOC: 1991
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