Rifle Magazine - May - June 2017

In this issue

On the cover: This Haenel-Mannlicher 9x57 Mauser was made before 1910. This issue features: Haenel-Mannlicher 9x57 Mauser, .25-35 WCF, World War II Semiautomatics, Stocky's Long-Range Stocks, Modern Rifling Twist Realities, and much more.

Lock, Stock & Barrel

About eight years ago, upon joining the Wolfe Publishing staff, Dave Scovill gave me an assignment to write a feature for this magazine titled “A Rifle for Mule Deer.”

6 mins

Haenel - Mannlicher 9 X 57 Mauser

Long ago, the Sears-Roebuck catalog was the original wish book, and in those halcyon days before the Great War, the catalog carried page after page of guns – long guns, short guns, rifles, shotguns, handguns – American made and imports of just about every description. Between 1905, roughly, and 1914, one of the most expensive rifles found in the Sears catalog was known, variously, as the Haenel-Mannlicher or simply the C.G. Haenel (pronounced HY-nul). It was a bolt-action sporter imported from Germany. It cost half as much again as a Winchester ’86, and it was the rifle to carry if you had pretentions to style.

7 mins

.25-35 WCF Field Testing Hornady's New Bullets and Loads

The buck antelope stood up and was not going to let me stalk any closer, so at 195 yards, I eased into a sitting position with elbows resting between my knees, clutching a Winchester Model 1894 lever-action .25-35 WCF rifle that was 110 years old and equipped with vintage aperture sights.

6 mins

Stocky's Long-Range Stocks

For years on end, Don Bitz has had a passion for refurbishing rifles but found few choices when it came to buying replacement stocks.

8 mins

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Rifle Magazine Description:

Rifle the sporting firearms journal is the only magazine in the world dedicated solely to rifles. Published for over 45 years Rifle covers all aspects of the rifle including gunsmithing, shooting, reloading, accuracy, and much more. Some of the topics covered include; bolt action rifles, leveraction rifles and their evolution of the years. Rifle covers classic cartridges, factory ammunition, custom gunmakers and much more. Rifle is the premiere sporting magazine dedicated to rifles.