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Editor’s Rating: 9.0/10 Users’ Rating (Click a star to rate this gun.) Summary: Paul Markel’s review of and rating for the Smith & Wesson Model 637 revolver, including a range report, photos, pricing, specs and user ratings. (Click here to see all of Markel’s pistol reviews.)
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Editor’s Rating: 7.0/10 Users’ Rating (Click a star to rate this gun.) Summary: Walt Rauch’s review of and rating for the MasterPiece Arms MPA30SST-A pistol, including a range report, photos, pricing and specs. (Click here to see all of Rauch’s handgun reviews.)
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Editor’s Rating: 6.0/10 Users’ Rating (Click a star to rate this gun.) Summary: Walt Rauch’s review of and rating for the Taurus Mini Revolver, including a range report, photos, pricing, specs, user ratings and user comments. (Click here to see all of Rauch’s handgun reviews.)
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Editor’s Rating: 8.0/10 Users’ Rating (Click a star to rate this gun.) Summary: Walt Rauch’s review of and rating for the Ruger Vaquero revolvers, including a range report, photos, pricing, specs, user ratings and user comments. (Click here to see all of Rauch’s handgun reviews.)
Editor’s Rating: 6.0/10 Users’ Rating (Click a star to rate this gun.) Summary: Walt Rauch’s review, photos and rating of the Smith & Wesson M&P340 revolver, plus user ratings, user comments, specs and a range report. (Click here to see all of Rauch’s handgun reviews.)
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In America, many of us gravitate toward the biggest, the baddest, the fastest. Hence the Corvette, Pamela Anderson, 60-inch TVs, Wild Turkey, Mike Tyson, the Kingda Ka roller coaster and the Super Bowl. This inclination has its adherents in the handgun world, too. Pistol power has been ratcheting up for, well, forever, and it’s due
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At last count, roughly 25 manufacturers are producing nearly 400 different 1911 models. They are available in a wide variety of calibers, including .45 ACP, 9mm, .38 Super, .40 SW and even .357 Magnum. Oh, and one really small cartridge: .22 LR. Why build the combat-oriented 1911 in diminutive .22 LR? Cost, for one thing.
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In recent years, pocketguns have surged in popularity. Numerous manufacturers now offer tiny handguns you can literally fit into a pocket, in a wide variety of calibers, actions, finishes, etc. This article pulls info for all semi-auto .380 ACP pocketguns into one place. To make the cut, each pistol had to measure no more than
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This article pulls info for all semiauto 9mm pocketguns into one place. To make the cut, each pistol had to measure no more than 5.75″ long and 4.3″ tall. I came up with 13 guns by 10 manufacturers. Each pistol’s listing (below) is an excerpt from its main info page, which contains the gun’s full
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The CZ 75 is probably the second-most copied and/or sourced handgun in history behind only the Colt 1911 pistol. At least 11 manufacturers have produced CZ 75-style pistols in the past five years or so, in roughly 60 different models ranging from CZ-produced originals to outright clones to compacts built on polymer frames. And many
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