Good Reading in September Target Shooter Magazine
The September edition of Target Shooter, the FREE digital shooting sports magazine from the UK, is now available online. There are some excellent articles in this edition. On pages 61-65, you’ll find Laurie Holland’s comprehensive review of the Forster Co-Ax Press. This is probably the most thorough Co-Ax test you’ll see anywhere. Holland puts Forster’s unique reloading press through its paces — decapping, full-length sizing, and priming cases — and concludes that the press is a winner. If you’re considering buying a Co-Ax, this article is a “must-read”.
Vince Bottomley contributes two major stories in this month’s edition. First, Vince reviews two Sightron 36X target scopes, comparison testing the new “Big Sky” 36X scope alongside the earlier Sightron 36X SII model. In addition, Vince showcases his latest project gun. This is a 6.5×47 tactical rifle in an Accuracy International chassis. Apart from the AI folding stock, the gun uses mostly American components. It features a Surgeon action, Bartlein gain-twist barrel, and Jewell trigger. The finished rifle sports a handsome Dura-Coat camo finish from North West Custom Parts in Manchester, England.
You’ll find many other items of interest in this month’s Target Shooter e-zine, including a Benchrest Air Rifle, an intro to Gallery Guns, plus reports from the Imperial Match and the F-Class World Championships held in Bisley, UK. There’s 92 pages of reading, cover to cover, and the price is right. Target Shooter magazine is FREE, just CLICK HERE for the latest edition.
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Tags: Co-Ax, Forster Press, Lapua 6.5x47, Tactical
I use a Forster press, and take it–perhaps as an act of faith?–to be the best for what I need. I don’t use it for priming, and while I’m certain the good folks at Forster would like to believe it’s fine, there really isn’t anything, to my knowledge, better than a hand priming tool.
I’m not certain the reviewer had time for an in-depth analysis, but… I would have liked to learn a little more about the unique Forster feature that enables one to increase the dimension of the spread between the shellholder jaws for bullet seating.
Which permits, ostensibly, the case to align better with the bullet seating die.
Does anyone care to comment on this feature?
As to the Sightron “review”, the writer meanders around the history of BR scopes, and finishes with one paragraph on the two Sightron 36×42 scopes.
I have both of these, and shoot the Big Sky for long range, but, would… well, have appreciated a box test.
For instance.
I applaud the effort that it takes to put together this on-line magazine [but wish the reviews could have gone into more detail.]
RBD
N.B. It may also be… the fact that Paul has set standards for product reviews on this website so high–and that his reviewers are so well qualified–that I’m spoiled.