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While it seems everyone is raving about the striker-fired Heckler & Koch VP9, don’t forget that for decades H&K has been making hammer-fired guns. In this week’s American Rifleman TV web-exclusive video, American Rifleman's Joe Kurtenbach leaves Heckler & Koch’s Grey Room and heads back to the range with HK USA Marketing Director Bill Dermody to shoot the H&K P30, the German firm’s most modern hammer-fired gun. This version is the P30 with the LEM trigger, which has a mainspring that is fully cocked, but the hammer is down—giving a double-action length of pull but a single-action pull weight. Watch this web-exclusive previewand be sure to see this week's ARTV episode on H&K's Grey Room, Part 2 on theOutdoor Channel.
The Taurus Raging Hunter is designed for field use, and one of the latest versions incorporates a great straight-walled cartridge designed for taking game: the 350 Legend.
SAAMI has formally standardized the 5.56 Commercial cartridge as introduced by Hornady Mfg., a designation that provides universally agreed-upon commercial dimensions for the popular 5.56 NATO cartridge.
Encouraged by his generally positive reception at the Great Exhibition in 1851, and always anxious to gain elusive government contracts, Colt, in 1853, opened a London factory where he would make a number of revolvers, including his popular 1849 Pocket Model.
Savage Arms jumped back into the lever-action market in 2024 with its rimfire Revel platform, and this year, the company is expanding with a feature-rich Revel Tactical model.