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Silencer Saturday #436: Subsonic Loads With Trail Boss Powder
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday, brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturers of the new Victra 20-gauge shotgun suppressor . We all know that subsonic ammo is a lot of fun when paired with a silencer, but availability can be a problem for some cartridges. Thanks to Trail Boss powder, you can create subsonic loads safely for just about anything.
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POTD: Wilson Combat Division 77 Project 1 Final Edition
Wilson Combat is closing the book on Project 1 in style. The final configuration of their Division 77 flagship wears a Black Armor-Tuff slide, black anodized frame, and a polished stainless barrel with black flutes, a sharp contrast combination that looks purpose-built rather than dressed up. When this run of 500 is gone, Project 1 heads permanently into the Wilson Combat Vault.
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Fudd Friday: Savage 170 - The Pump-Action That Should Have Been Great
The world of guns is like the world of motorcycles (and I’d know, because I pay close attention to both). There are some models that look like they should be very successful; on paper, they have a lot of desirable features. But in the real world, they’re let down by some issue that prevents them from becoming an all-time great. I would put the Savage 170 pump-action rifle squarely in that category. It could have been great, it should have been great—but it wasn’t, and it’s basically forgotten.
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30 Whitetail – New Deer Hunting Cartridge for The Prairie State
There can be numerous reasons for designing a new hunting cartridge: from “because I can” to non-satisfactory performance offered by existing cartridges and everything in between. One reason that has been heavily influencing cartridge designs in the United States is legislation. Many states have regulations on cartridge designs that can be used for hunting certain species within their boundaries; things like case/overall length limits, minimum caliber, straight wall only rules, etc. The new cartridge that we are taking a look at today, the 30 Whitetail, is an example of a cartridge designed to meet the law requirements, specifically the Illinois law for bottleneck deer hunting cartridges.
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FPC Sues Los Angeles, Inglewood Over Handgun Buy Restrictions
This has been a tough year for firearms rights in the U.S., with tough restrictions passed at the state level from east to west. But the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) continues to push back with legal action; its latest target is a notoriously tough-on-guns city. They’re suing Los Angeles as well as the nearby city of Inglewood over their handgun purchasing restrictions.
