Shooting Times

Every issue of Shooting Times brings you exciting, authoritative coverage of guns, ammunition, reloading, and the shooting sports. Written for the experienced and novice gun enthusiast by focusing on new product developments and activities in the shooting industry.

Shooting Times

A Clarification

Colt 3.0-Inch Python

Velocity, Drop & Accuracy When Fireforming?

J.C. Higgins Model 20 • Subtle quality and an extremely smooth-functioning slide action are the hallmarks of this vintage shotgun.

Attempts to Improve Handgun Ammo • Any firearms enthusiast younger than about 50 grew up with a feast of effective handgun ammo for defense use. Those of us whose Medicare cards reveal their age remember the famine that came before.

The Esteemed .45 ACP • Created almost 120 years ago, the rimless .45 ACP cartridge has evolved into one of the most versatile handgun cartridges ever designed.

AMERICA’S RIFLE • POF’S 9MM LUGER TOMBSTONE LEVER-ACTION CARBINE ISN’T SOME RUN-OF-THE-MILL LEVER GUN.

A SIGHT FOR OLD EYES • SOMETIMES, PURISM MUST TAKE A BACK SEAT TO PRACTICALITY, AND PUTTING A RED-DOT SIGHT ON A LEVER GUN IS ONE SUCH INSTANCE.

WHEN THE .38 SPECIAL WAS KING • THE .38 SPECIAL ONCE WAS THE KING OF COMPETITION AND PERSONAL PROTECTION. HERE’S THE LOWDOWN.

BROWNING’S BLUE-COLLAR BEAUTY • BROWNING’S X-BOLT ACTION IS ONE OF THE BEST HUNTING-RIFLE ACTIONS ON THE MARKET, AND THE NEW SPEED SR MODEL MAY BE THE MOST FEATURE-PACKED PRODUCTION RIFLE AVAILABLE FOR BLUE-COLLAR DOLLARS.

60 YEARS OF SUCCESS • IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT THE GREAT .300 WINCHESTER MAGNUM HAS BEEN AROUND FOR JUST 60 YEARS.

Uberti1873 Cattleman II Brass Dual Cylinder 9mm/ .357 Magnum

MTMDivided Ammo Crate

Muscle Isn’t Everything • The purpose of a self-defense gun is to get you out of trouble and not to engage you in a gunfight.

A Most Lethal Sniper • This U.S. Navy SEAL sniper was nicknamed the “Devil of Ramadi” by Iraqi insurgents.