Another vote here for the Benelli Montefeltro. Franchi also has an Affinity in 20 with blued/walnut furniture and several years ago had a pretty sweet humpback semi-auto, the 48-AL, that you might be able to find cheap on the used market.
Yes, Atkinson is very good. He wrote a pretty solid one on the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 IIRC. For my money, anything by Antony Beevor for the ETO, Ian Toll's Pacific War trilogy or Hornfischer's Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors/Neptune's Inferno are the best writing on WWII.
Probably a little dry but the generation of history works written in the first 50 or so years after the war, when there were still quite a few Civil War veterans still living, are pretty cool artifacts in their own right.
In the same vein, the books written by ranking officers are good for...
Read The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers just a few months ago. Fantastic work with a lot of primary source material in it.
As always, very well researched @VikingsGuy. You might find Apostles of Disunion interesting if you haven't read it already.
I do think there is a distinction to be made between the political reasons for secession-- which was undoubtedly slavery-- and the political reasons for opposing...
I would expect better than 50% weight retention and penetration at least through the chest cavity for any premium, bonded bullet. Again, lots of Accubond fans and it is a projectile that has no doubt killed a ton of game. I just had a suboptimal experience with them on one elk.
Well, my .308 certainly wasn't impacting at that speed. I dunno, then. Maybe those NM cows are just armor-plated. Or maybe I should've been toting a RUM 🤣
Could've been, but I figured I was just too close and the bullet impacted above max. ideal velocity. Photo below comparing an unfired 165AB and the fragment recovered from the heart weighing 87.9 grains (with some organic material still attached), for a weigh retention of about 53%.
This...
I know it is heresy around these parts, but I was really disappointed in the performance of the garden-variety Accubonds out of a .308 on a cow elk at about 70 yards. Two chest cavity hits, both projectiles came apart and penetrated very poorly. Piece of first round lodged in near side of the...
Killer Angels is fine, but it is ultimately fiction. Harry Pfanz's nonfiction Gettysburg trilogy is even more compelling and firmly based in academic research:
https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Pfanz-Gettysburg-Trilogy-Omnibus-ebook/dp/B006BAJEE6
@shrapnel-- if you have time for a quick jaunt down...
Sincerely believe that if you can consistently kill toms in Alabama-- especially on public land-- then you can kill them anywhere. Great bird, congrats!
And that's how we get the Blue People. Do you want Blue People? https://abcnews.go.com/Health/blue-skinned-people-kentucky-reveal-todays-genetic-lesson/story?id=15759819
Feel like I just read an article in Handloader or some other shooting magazine about this cartridge. Essentially duplicated .308 Win/.303 Brit ballistics.