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An Old Turn-Bolt in an Even Older Cartridge

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Testing New Brass and IMR Powders

Gase on losing two key defenders: ‘Next man up'

Dan Leberfeld responds

‘The mistakes I made last year won't be made'

QUESTION SESSION WITH QUINNEN WILLIAMS

Twitter Talk: Fans react to Mosley opting out

On Aug. 1, Jets linebacker C.J. Mosley decided to opt out of the 2020 season due to concerns about COVID-19. The NFL gave players until Aug. 6 to decide, and if they opted out, they received a $150,000 stipend for the season that they have to pay back next year. Mosley also was able to keep a $10 million contract bonus he received in the spring.

JC Deep Dive: Is Tannenbaum right about ‘blueprint?'

Former New York Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum said the team’s current GM, Joe Douglas, showed his players a “blueprint to get out” by giving in to Jamal Adams by trading the safety to Seattle, July 25, after Adams bashed the organization in the Daily News and on social media.

Is it a cash-flow issue or just being smart?

As legendary coach Bill Parcells once said about free agency, “You can’t buy a championship.”

Dan's Training Camp Diary

Friday, Aug.14

Darnold: I'll never take football for granted again

SAM’S TOWN WITH QB SAM DARNOLD

Will better be good enough?

The Dolphins will enter the 2020 season with a much-improved roster, but making the playoffs still would end up being a major accomplishment

Shula tribute, Tua tales, Uncle Vante

The Miami Dolphins will be honoring the memory of legendary coach Don Shula during the 2020 season with a patch on their jersey.

Ranking the Dolphins' 54 season openers

The Miami Dolphins will open the 2020 regular season against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium on Sept. 13 and it’s really hard — practically impossible, really — to envision a worse season opener than what they produced a year ago.

PARTING shots

A lot of ‘ifs’ surrounding Dolphins

Gailey gearing up for second run

It’s been almost 20 years since Chan Gailey had his first stint as Miami Dolphins offensive coordinator, but some things haven’t changed very much.

Breaking down the Dolphins opponents

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS

coach SPEAK

Head coach Brian Flores offers his thoughts on a wide variety of topics, including issues surrounding adjustments made because of COVID-19, new assistant coaches, and several of his players

BREAKING DOWN 10 MAJOR STORYLINES

No matter what happens, the 2020 NFL season will go down as one of the most unusual in league history.

BOYER HONORED TO TAKE OVER DEFENSE

Josh Boyer will become the sixth defensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins in the past six seasons, and the sixth to handle that role in the NFL for the first time.

RUGER 10/22, OLD AND NEW

William Batterman Ruger is rightfully given credit, throughout the country and across the world, for introducing many recognizable firearm designs. A few contemporary gunwriters have even referred to him as a “genius,” probably because someone else did in the mid-1900s when the Ruger Standard .22 Long Rifle pistol was introduced. Genius? I do not know, but the man certainly had his finger on the postwar pulse of what U.S. shooters wanted and launched one of the most successful firearms manufacturing companies ever known by building a foundry and casting gun parts. This kept manufacturing costs down, accelerated production and allowed making affordable, durable rifles, pistols, revolvers and eventually shotguns.

.22 LR WINCHESTER MODEL 62A

I was taught rifle marksmanship at a young age by my father and clearly remember being nervous to shoot in front of him, as he was, and still is, one of the best shots I know. I was started on his Ruger 10/22 Bicentennial, which he had scoped with a Tasco 3-9x, and once in a while we’d let a full magazine loose as quickly as possible, just for fun.

RIMFIRE TERMINAL PERFORMANCE

Discussions concerning the terminal performance of big-game ammunition are popular at gun shops, around campfires and in the sporting press. As far as rimfire ammunition goes, not a lot is said about it. Everyone seems to have their favorite load, but do they really know how it performs inside the target? Detailed information on the terminal performance of rimfire ammunition is nearly non-existent, so a test was conducted.

SAVAGE .17 WINCHESTER SUPER MAGNUM

Hunters get excited when something new comes along – a rifle, new ammunition or even a scope. As a serious rimfire shooter since adolescence, the thought of a new rimfire round that pushes a 20-grain bullet out the muzzle at 3,000 fps is indeed news. Faster than the .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire (HMR) by around 26 percent, the Winchester Super Magnum cartridge was destined to be the velocity leader when it comes to present-day rimfire ammunition. Along with the Winchester Super Magnum (WSM) ammunition from Winchester, Savage Arms was first to introduce a bolt-action rifle for the cartridge.

WORKING ON YOUR 10/22

The title of this feature is not really appropriate. The connotation of the words “working on” is that there is something about the old Ruger 10/22 with a cast receiver that needs repairing, altering or changing. Such is not the case. In fact, the 10/22 is perfect for its intended purpose, which is to provide a means to participate in that most honorable pastime of plinking.

.22 WINCHESTER MAGNUM

In all my time in the field, the one rifle I did not see very often was the Browning T-Bolt. Unless they were there and I never noticed, the T-Bolt seems to be a rarity in the hunting fields. Not that there is anything wrong with the rifle, but with the market full of bolt-action and semiautomatic rimfire rifles, the T-Bolt has regrettably been left out of the fray in rifle reviews and gun store inventories.

YOUTH RIMFIRE OPTIONS

Though more than 48 years have passed, I remember the day I received my first firearm as clearly as I remember marrying well out of my league just 14 years ago. That Savage Model 24 .22 Long Rifle/.410 over/under (O/U) appeared under the Christmas tree one snowy Colorado morning, a gift from my step-grandfather, who had hunted tree squirrels with the same gun as a young man. It had been hidden away in some dark, forgotten corner for decades. I came from a decidedly non-hunting family, and this gift proved a blindside for my parents (my animal-lover mother and three-tour-Vietnam-post traumatic stress disorder stepfather). So, when I unwrapped that oddly-shaped package and began dancing with glee, the event went over like the proverbial turd in the punchbowl. Only eight at the time, my parents immediately decided I wasn’t old enough to handle a firearm, and the gift would not be accepted.