Gun Digest - July 2022

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
JULY 2022 | VOLUME 39 ISSUE 09
DEPARTMENTS
6 First Shot
8 Know Your Cartridge
COLUMNS
p. 22
10 Defensive Handgunning RICHARD MANN
12 Hardware Talk PATRICK SWEENEY
14 Drawing Conclusions MARTY HAYES, J.D. p. 32
16 Modern Gunnery RICHARD MANN
18 Reloading Bench PHIL MASSARO
20 Guns & Gear GD EDITORS
98 First Look GD EDITORS
FEATURES
22 There’s Nothing Like a First Rifl e: Passing
the torch with Winchester’s Model 61.
BY RICHARD MANN, PHOTOS BY SABASTIAN
“BAT” MANN
32 From Sweden … With Love: The Swedish
M96 Mauser and 6.5x55 cartridge.
JOSH WAYNER
42 Old-School ARs: If you’re gonna build
retro, you gotta get a few details right.
PATRICK SWEENEY
68 All But Forgotten: Yesterday’s favorite
p. 42 p. 68
cartridge choice might still be the best
choice.
PHIL MASSARO
74 No Trap Doors: Phoenix Weaponry puts
p. 74
a new spin on a frontier classic with the
.45-70 Auto.
TOM MARSHALL
80 Built to Shoot: Commemorative lever
actions can do more than look pretty
on a wall.
MIKE SEARSON p. 80
86 Modern Handgunning Tactics: Avoiding
mistakes, and considerations most
shooters never thing about.
MASSAD AYOOB
92 Behind the Bisley: Does the Bisley-style
grip really increase wheelgun accuracy?
JOSH WAYNER
THE BEST GUN LIST IN PRINT
p. 86 p. 92
51 Show & Auction Listings
56 The Gun Digest Marketplace
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o you remember your fi rst about that moment, and the decades of [phone]
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gun? Now, I’m not talking memories that piled up with that gun in
SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
about the make and model my hands—especially “rabbit drives” with
ALEX OSTROWSKI
… that’s almost irrelevant. Grandpa—and how I can almost hear the [phone]
I’m talking about really remembering that sound of his voice when I put that gun to [email protected]
SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
gun, such as the fi rst time you wrapped my shoulder.
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your fi ngers around the forend, or exactly Oddly enough, on a random weekday [phone]
how you felt the fi rst time you pressed phone conversation, Gun Digest regular dfi [email protected]
your cheek against her stock. Richard Mann mentioned that his fi rst SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
LORI MCDANIEL
I consider myself lucky enough to gun was also a Winchester Model 61. His [phone]
have two. history with that gun (which starts on [email protected]
Th e fi rst was a Daisy Eagle 0.177- page 22 of this issue) is a bit diff erent than ADVERTISING ASSISTANTS
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CHING CORNFORTH
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and I was an 8-year-old boy who imme- In that story, Richard talks about pass-
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
diately fell in love. ing that gun to his son … almost at the
JENNIFER SEXSTONE
If I had to guess, Dad and I were in rifl e’s request. In fact, he penned the line,
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and how I had to evolve as a hunter once relationship with “just a gun,” and that you
those birds learned my intentions. truly listen when she speaks.
My other fi rst gun was a Winchester
Model 61, handed to me by my Grandma
a few years later. I remember everything
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The great-grandfather of
almost all modern belted-
magnum chamberings.
HISTORICAL NOTES
Originated by the British firm Holland
& Holland in 1912, the .375 Holland
& Holland Magnum is one of the
original belted, rimless, magnum-type
cartridges—and it has been used as
the basis for numerous wildcats …
and most of the Weatherby cartridges.
H&H furnished it in a magnum Maus- tridge for the American hunter, unless the most eff ective all-around cartridge.
er action, and Griffin & Howe cham- one expects to hunt the heaviest species Th is cartridge was the basis for H&H’s
bered rifles for it beginning about and spend time in Africa or Asia. later .300 H&H Magnum and is there-
1926. The Western Cartridge Co. first John Taylor, in his 1948 book African fore the great-grandfather of almost all
offered it in 1925. Rifl es and Cartridges, rates the .375 modern belted-magnum chamberings.
At present, Federal, Remington and H&H as the best of the medium bores It can certainly be said that it inspired
Winchester load the .375 H&H. Th e for African hunting. It’s his candidate for the entire genre.
fi rst commercial rifl e of American make
.375 HOLLAND & HOLLAND MAGNUM
to chamber the round was the Model
LOADING DATA AND FACTORY BALLISTICS
70 Winchester in 1937. Weatherby
rifl es were at one time available in .375 BULLET POWDER GRAINS VELOCITY ENERGY SOURCE
H&H, as was the Remington Model 725
200 SP IMR4064 80 3,200 4,549 Sierra
Kodiak. Currently, several American
220 SP SR4759 42 2,300 2,585 Hornady
manufacturers list the .375 H&H as
235 SP IMR4064 77 3,000 4,697 Speer
standard, including Ruger, Winchester
270 SP RL-15 74 2,700 4,372 Hornady
and Remington. Many American fi rms
270 SP IMR4064 70 2,600 4,054 Hornady
load the round commercially.
285 SP IMR4831 85 2,700 4,615 Speer
300 SP IMR4064 68 2,500 4,164 Hornady
GENERAL COMMENTS
300 SP IMR4350 77 2,600 4,504 Sierra, Hornady
Long considered the best all-around
350 SP IMR4320 65.5 2,400 4,478 Barnes
African cartridge, the .375 H&H is
250 TB Bear Claw FL -- 2,670 3,957 Federal P375T4
overpowered for North American big
game. However, many Alaskan hunt- 270 SP FL -- 2,690 4,338 Federal 375A
ers and guides prefer it for moose and 300 DGX FL -- 2,530 4,263 Hornady 82334
grizzly bear. It isn’t a very flexible car- 350 Woodleigh FMJ FL -- 2,300 4,112 Norma 20195262
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