Takedowns date back to the muzzleloader era, and they have been experiencing a renaissance of sorts over the past few years. Field Editor Art Merrill puts the Takedown X22 Backpacker through its paces in this month’s Product Focus.
Whatever happened to Speer’s “Index Number” of the 1950s? Art Merrill looks back at the mystique of wildcat cartridges. Wildcatting was popular enough back in the day to warrant Speer to create index numbers matching bullets and case for max “efficiency”