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What you see ain’t necessarily what you get. Mike “Duke” Venturino Chris Reeve: lifetime knives. Pat Covert
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Ruger’s SP-101 .22 is “just right.” Dave Anderson
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2012 26 the siXgunner
John Taffin
Ruger Bearcat .327 Federal upgrade!
30 the ayoob files
Massad Ayoob
A cop-killer and his demise.
36 better shooting
Dave Anderson
HK P7 mini-upgrade.
90 gun rights
Alan Korwin
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Roy Huntington
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20 reality check
CLINT SMITH
24 coP talk
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SAMMY REESE
34 shooting iron 72
MIKE “DUKE” VENTURINO
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JOHN TAFFIN
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Montana ranch raised; so, during didn’t need any. Unfortunately, they
Mike “Duke” Venturino’s recent hunting season she will be up before didn’t get a shot at a legal-size moose.
feature on the tiny Browning 1911 .22 daylight, saddling her horse with her If she gets a boo-boo on her thumb from
(“A Baby 1911,” Jan/Feb 2012), caused mother and brother, riding high into the a pistol’s slide, she’ll be able to handle
some reader concern because a young mountains hunting elk. It will often be it. She’ll also learn not to do it the way
shooter, Morgan, was shown holding below zero, and likewise time and again most of us did — by experience!” Duke
the gun with her left thumb behind the she will bring home meat. In September
slide, in danger of being cut by the slide of 2011, she and her mother were flown
Assault Rifle Nonsense
cycling. Duke had this to say: into a drop camp in Alaska for a moose
“GuyPsA, CTM_poorstgxamnas _i0s9n_f’ti xjeud.sptd fa n o1t2h/1e6r/ 08 h u9n:t0.4 :T1h8 eArMe were no big, strong, tough As a hunter and CCW holder, I’ve
pretty face posing with a gun. She’s guys to take care of them — and they read every gun magazine and I see a lot
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of articles written about assault rifles,
assault clips, assault gear and such. My
question is how do we change this? A
rifle is a rifle; a handgun is a handgun;
and what is so assaulting unless it’s
turned on someone? Then they’re
assaulted. You can dress up a Ruger
10/22 to make it look evil, but it’s still
just a .22, with nothing assaulting about
it. So, how do we shooters and hunters
change this picture to the public? The
media is tearing our sport to pieces
everyday by abusing the term “assault”
rifle. Some yahoo shoots at the White
House, and the first thing they say is it
appears it’s an assault rifle (then show
a picture of a shotgun!). Give me a clue
how to help change this perception.
D. Williams Aiken SC
Via e-mail
While my knee-jerk reaction is to not
worry about a name, I understand
your concerns. The NSSF (National
Shooting Sports Foundation) has lead
the way to calling AR-15-type rifles
“Modern Sporting Rifles” instead of
assault rifles. Indeed, after WWII and
Korea there were thousands of M1
Garands converted into some very
Serious Features for the Serious Professional
beautiful hunting rifles — perhaps the
first of the Modern Sporting Rifle gen-
eration? We here at FMG have also
coined the term “Modern Defensive
Rifle” to cover the entire gamut of
semi-auto rifles that might be used for CROWNED BARREL
self-defense (by police or the public), BALL RADIUS CUT HEINIE LEDGE WITH CHAMFERED
and can also be used for targets, SLIDE TOP REAR SIGHT BUSHING
plinking, hunting or simply just to own
for the sake of owning or collecting. To
hear a homeowner used his “defensive
rifle” to defend his family during a riot,
or a cop relied on his issue defensive
rifle to defend herself against a car full
of criminals, is hard to ague against,
and does seem to paint a subtly dif-
ferent picture of the situation and the
gun used. I say, let’s out smart ’em! RH
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