Heym SR20
Well-Known Member
I picked up an old - nearly 50 years old - copy of the Guns and Ammo Annual from 1972.
What is really interesting is how little has actually changed.
Still the same debates on cartridges with 7x57 being declared nearly obsolete, 270 and 30-06 reigning supreme and talk of the 5.56 being replaced by something 6.8 as a military calibre.
Biggest change is rifle stocks being now synthetic, and scopes more powerful and made of alloy rather than steel.
We would recognise many of the brands from those days, indeed many of the adverts look familiar.
On British double rifles - excellent choice still going strong after 50 years. Same rifles still going strong after 100.
Major differences are probably in the bullets. Kynoch was still going strong for big game, otherwise American cartridges were typically softpoints - Remington Corelokt etc. Kynoch made copper capped / tipped bullets to prevent damage to the hollow point - nowadays we use plastic tips.
And there is an article by Jack O’Connor on bullet placement- and surprisingly a bullet in the right place kills quickly, but in the wrong they don’t.
What is really interesting is how little has actually changed.
Still the same debates on cartridges with 7x57 being declared nearly obsolete, 270 and 30-06 reigning supreme and talk of the 5.56 being replaced by something 6.8 as a military calibre.
Biggest change is rifle stocks being now synthetic, and scopes more powerful and made of alloy rather than steel.
We would recognise many of the brands from those days, indeed many of the adverts look familiar.
On British double rifles - excellent choice still going strong after 50 years. Same rifles still going strong after 100.
Major differences are probably in the bullets. Kynoch was still going strong for big game, otherwise American cartridges were typically softpoints - Remington Corelokt etc. Kynoch made copper capped / tipped bullets to prevent damage to the hollow point - nowadays we use plastic tips.
And there is an article by Jack O’Connor on bullet placement- and surprisingly a bullet in the right place kills quickly, but in the wrong they don’t.
