Ever since the Trench Magazine days of World War 1, detachable magazine bolt-action rifles have been a reality. Once restricted to military and police weapons, commercial manufacturers have in the past decade or so realized that your average shooter would like the capability to change out their ammunition via the common box magazine. Now Mossberg has taken the next step and produced a bolt-action .223-caliber rifle that accepts detachable magazines. The groovy thing is that they are not some proprietary box that will cost you $40 a pop for, because it uses AR-magazines. Mossberg calls it the MVP.
Read the rest in my column at Firearms Talk
Yes, that IS a AR magazine in that bolt-action gun…
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About laststandonzombieisland
Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
Just got your book today looking forward to sitting down tonight and knocking out a few chapters….