(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) Considerations for Projectile Selection There are many different bullets and powders to choose from.  Given the very long throats of their chambers, we are mostly limited to heavier and flat based bullets.   Choosing the best projectiles for the antique Mausers will help us get the best all around results, quickly. For the purposes of hunting, I would like it to shoot no larger groups than 2 MOA with iron sights and that would limit my shoots to 250 yards if I had 20-20 or better vision and had the rifle on…

Armed Citizen® Today In Dandridge, Tenn., around 10 p.m. on June 4, a man watched as a Ford F150 pickup stopped on the street outside his home and backed up. A man then reportedly exited the vehicle carrying a sword and threatening to kill the homeowner. The homeowner grabbed a firearm he kept in his vehicle and shot the assailant dead. Police said the suspect still had the sword in hand when they arrived and took possession of the body for an autopsy. (standardbanner.com; Jefferson City, Tenn.; 6/4/26) From the Armed Citizen® Archives – January 1987 A Milwaukee bartender was…

00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. 00:00:14 Speaker 2: This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Cala. 00:00:18 Speaker 1: Here’s Cal. Last week, police were called to investigate a shotgun blast at a gas station convenience store in Scott’s Bluff, Nebraska. Thankfully it wasn’t a hold up gone wrong, but instead a sit stay, lie down gone wrong. It seems that the driver of a pickup truck had left a loaded shotgun in the passenger seat of the vehicle. The driver’s dog allegedly moved from one side of the truck to…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places and the people who dedicate their lives to conserving both. I want to give a big shout out to anax Hunt for their support of this podcast. I’m your host, Lake Pickle, and I’m just gonna come right out and tell you this episode is special and it’s a lot different from many of the episodes we’ve done in the past. From the stories you will hear, to the man who we will focus on, whose influence on America simply cannot be overstated, to…

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Suppressors are hot—in more than one sense of the word. After you pick up your first can (or five), you’ll quickly realize that there are a few must-haves that come along with suppressor ownership. Not only do suppressors warm up quickly during even a brief shooting session, they take a while to cool off, and depending on your specific can, you’ll probably have to do a quick scrub-down every now and then. Here are five extra accessories that will make silenced shooting a whole lot easier and more enjoyable. 1. Even when you wait a while after shooting, your suppressor…

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Armed Citizen® Today A 31-year-old man emerged naked from a river in Biloxi, Miss., around 8 p.m. on May 23, and approached a home. The homeowner was not there but, seeing the man on his security-video footage, contacted his neighbor to check whether the stranger needed assistance. The neighbor agreed, but when he approached, the naked man attacked him. Fortunately, the neighbor was armed and managed to defend himself by shooting the assailant multiple times. The adversary fled back into the river but was discovered dead of several gunshot wounds early the next morning. The neighbor suffered facial lacerations and…

In American Rifleman’s 2025 coverage of the new Federal 7 mm Backcountry cartridge, much of the story wasn’t as much about the new chambering as it was about the cartridge case itself, a case that Federal called its “Peak Alloy” design. The single-piece, all-steel cartridge case, in the words of Federal Managing Engineer Jake Burns, “acts as its own mini pressure-containment vessel, absorbing some of the energy without cracking or stretching. That’s part of the case’s ability to manage pressure.” Now, that design has moved from a proprietary chambering to the mainstream cartridge world with the introduction of Federal’s new…