You remember my APB asking for the loan of an Austin-area Remington 870. I can now reveal my hidden agenda: I need an 870 to test Advanced Ballistics Concepts’ Multiple Impact Bullet. As you can see above, the round requires its own rifled choke tube—if you want to improve the bolo round’s performance out of your [otherwise] smooth barrel shotgun. ABC offers three chokes tubes that cover 95 percent of all existing scatterguns. But this is the one they sent us. Thanks to our readers’ generosity we’ll soon be testing the 12-gauge Multiple Impact Bullet ammo on, well, isn’t it obvious? Our new friend and ammo-testing contributor ShootingtheBull410 will also provide more scientific evaluation. And then we’re going to celebrate with a Remington 870 Schützenfest! But before all that a little history . . .
I first ran into this strange and wonderful ammo at the SHOT show 2012. Inventor/promoter Todd Kuchman was kind enough to let me shoot his 9mm Kevlar-connected bolo round and man did it make a mess of a paper target. I wouldn’t say I was sold on the concept—a round with a 24″ spread may not be the ammo you want to use in a hostage situation—but I was intrigued.
At the time, Todd was looking to license the round to a major ammo maker. When that didn’t happen he raised the cash to pursue his pie-shaped dream. Or, as Adanced Ballistic Concepts’ website puts it, a round that combines the accuracy of a spin-stabilized bullet with the increased hit probability and stopping power of multi-projectile-shot (i.e., buckshot).
ABC is now accepting orders for its $30-per-box-of-five shotgun ammo, promising 30-day delivery from the time you warm your credit card on their behalf. And again, you’ll need a $50 choke tube if you want to slice and dice the bad guy with a Multiple Impact Bullet in a Remington 870—unless your Remmy’s barrel is already rifled. Plus $30 for a box of five shotgun shells. Is it worth it? Will it blend? Watch this space.
Countless whiteboards are thrown out on a regular
basis because eventually, they become worn and unusable.
Stoddard recommends engineered wood flooring for seaside homes,
because it’s scratch-resistant—and less
like to be damaged by tracked-in sand—and requires less maintenance.
The other side of the easel is a chalkboard, so we also included the MALA chalk in our purchase.
Leather still has a place it still makes the heart beat faster and brings a twinkle to the eyes no doubt. As far as duty use goes though there are many newer materials that require much less care and, for lack of a better term, special handling. I think leather will continue just because of CASS, war re enactors, and people wanting a “luxury” holster for their high end pistol.
“Since that time they have been disproportionately used in gun crime relative to their presence in the civilian gun market, and, in particular, in the most serious types of crime.”
So what you’re trying to say is people don’t use assault weapons in the commission of crime, relative to their presence in the civilian gun market…
From BJS Selected Findings “Firearms, crime, and criminal justice”
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/GUIC.PDF
“Although most crime is not committed with guns, most gun crime is committed with handguns.”
“Surveys of inmates show that they prefer concealable, large caliber guns.”
Edit: That took less than 5 minutes on Google to find a citation worthy resource… Took less than 5 minutes to find the truth.
I have an account at Medium. Happy to crowd source an article from the Armed Intelligentsia, but you can leave that sexist shit at the door.
If I ever need to commandeer a schooner, I know what I’m using.
In my part of the world (Australia for those unaware), there have been lots of complaints about Remington’s very spotty quality control, and we are not talking about minor cosmetic issues either. The worst culprit appears to be the barrels. On new, out-of-the-box, guns, barrels can be visibly bent or have the chambers cut not concentric to the bore. Barrels can also be fitted not-true to the receiver. Visible tooling marks in the barrels. Inconsistent bores when a tight patch is run up the bore (you can feel the resistance change). The only reason people are buying Remington 700s is the same reason people buy Harley Davidsons. It’s for the after-market customizing which is usually only a Brownell’s catalog away.
If is joked we get the QA rejects from Remington’s other contracts and domestic production. The sloppy new guns have caused a run on 2nd-hand examples which are now costing almost as much as the new guns.
But Savage rifles shoot great out of the box.
That is in direct conflict with the 1939 SCOTUS ruling with the Miller case.