Specialty Longguns

Gun Tests magazine tested three 357 Mag lever-action rifles in the October 2012 issue. Here's an excerpt of that report, used with permission:

Gun Tests magazine tested two high-dollar 12-gauge shotguns, the Benelli Ultralight Model No. 10802 12 Gauge, $1649; and Remington Model 1100 Sporting No. 25315, $1211, in the February 2013 issue. Here's an excerpt of that report, used with permission:

Here are new videos added to GunReports.com the week of September 12: JJ Racaza expands on Natural Point of Aim tactics in a multiple target scenario. Remington’s all-new platform, the Model 783. And a Barrett 50 Cal Impossible 'V-Drill' with Jerry Miculek.

Advanced Technology International (ATI) is now shipping aluminum fluted magazine extensions for select Remington, Winchester, and CZ 12-gauge shotguns.

The Gun Tests Houston test team obtained an IWI Tavor TSB16 5.56 NATO Bullpup, $1999, and tested it as a Special Report in the September issue.

Staff Sergeant Brandon Green of Box Spring, Georgia has won the 2013 National Rifle Association High Power Rifle Championship with a 2384-126x out of 2400. Held at Camp Perry, Ohio, from August 4-9, the matches are a part of the annual Remington/NRA National Rifle & Pistol Matches. Green’s win was determined by a tie-breaker with defending champion Carl Bernosky.

Ashbury Precision Ordnance Mfg (APO) has expanded its line of Asymmetric Warrior Precision Tactical Rifles by introducing the bolt-action ASW223 chambered in .223 Wylde. Ashbury's selection of the Wylde chamber in the ASW223 allows shooters to use either commercial 223 Remington or military-specification 5.56mm NATO ammunition with high levels of accuracy.

Much of the fame of today's sporting BAR began through the fame of the original military BAR designed by John M. Browning near the end of World War I. This rifle, called the BAR M1918, was commissioned by the U.S. Army in an effort to break the stalemate of trench warfare in the battlefields of France and Belgium. It took John M. Browning three months to design it. Browning took this project so seriously that his son Val personally did testing and training of the American troops.

Its roots lie with the original B-25 Superposed, designed by John M. Browning in 1928 and finished for production using a single trigger with barrel selector by his son Val Browning by 1939. As the story goes, production costs hurt the Superposed in the marketplace during the late 1960s, so the design was taken to Browning's partner, the Miroku Company in Japan, and in 1971 the Citori over and under joined the Browning lineup.

Here’s how to get the classic look of curved steel butt plates with modern materials-—without encountering problems.

Here are new videos added to GunReports.com this week: Two bullets too many; Jerry Miculek takes a close look at the Tavor bullpup rifle; and a Brownells' gunsmith goes through, step-by-step, how to properly disassemble a Beretta 92.

There will come a time, sooner or later, when you are faced with having to decide whether you want to work on an old gun that you may never have heard of before. It is up to you to decide if it's worth the trouble but if you do, follow the rules I've learned over the years.