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| Above, yours truly with a Remington 870 Express. Photo by Mitch Geriminsky. |
There are many varieties of firearms. Like anything else manmade, there are some great ones and there are some pretty lousy ones.
The firearms industry has been bringing out new designs. Some work well while others leave much to be desired.
However, there are some shooters who swear by some alleged "outdated" guns and calibers. This is the crux of a slideshow article posted by MSN.
They begin it with:
Calling a gun or caliber “outdated” usually means it’s been around long enough to get ignored. It doesn’t mean it stopped working. A lot of shooters stick with older setups for the same reason they keep an old pair of boots: they know exactly how it fits, exactly how it behaves, and exactly what it will do when the moment matters.
The modern market chases lighter, faster, smaller, higher-capacity, flatter-shooting. That’s fine. But there’s a different kind of confidence that comes from cartridges with real-world track records and guns that have been carried, hunted, and shot hard for decades. When you’ve seen a load perform on game, or you’ve watched a particular action run clean through bad weather, it’s hard to unlearn that trust.
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