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PM 40009473 Return undeliverable to: Canadian Firearms Journal, RCMP Confuses PAL Holders With P.O. Box 49090, Edmonton, Alberta T6E 6H4 4 Criminals On The Cover Gary A Mauser Preparing For Summer 23 51 Remington’s Model 700 5 Team NFA American Wilderness Rifle From The Editor’s Desk Looking After The Details Brad Fenson Looking Ahead Megan Tandy Al Voth 24 6 52 High-Tech Handloading President’s Message Legal Corner Tools to make handloading A Legal Perspective chores easier & faster Looking Back On 2016 Jeff Helsdon Sheldon Clare On Handloading Guy Lavergne 8 28 54 The Modern Varmint Rifle Vice President’s Message A taste of non-restricted The Effects Of A Trump-led NFA Book Shelf hunting fun USA & The UN Marking Scheme Volcanic Firearms – Predecessor Al Voth Blair Hagen to the Bill Rantz 10 32 Preserving Our Sam Adams, Nova Scotia’s Firearms Heritage Features Master Gunsmith Strategic Thinking For Gun Clubs Don MacLean Gary K. Kangas 14 36 12 Transforming Glocks The Right Tools Politics & Guns Turning a stock gun into Wheeler Engineering’s AR Peace Keepers, Eh! a gamer gun Armorer’s Professional Kit Bruce Gold Edward Osborne Lowell Strauss 46 18 42 One Gun’s Story Modern Airgun Systems Making Blanks The Daisy Red Ryder: A BB Gun The technology behind Sometimes you need the That’s Part Of Shooting History shooting with compressed air bang without the Jeff Helsdon Dean Roxby Bob Shell

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January/February 2017 w w w . n f a . c a 2 On The Cover Preparing For Summer

he cover image this month is courtesy of Newfoundland NFA member,T Paul Seymour. He had time to take a photo of himself loading 9mm Luger ammunition on his Dillon 550. Apparently, a shooter’s schedule there is similar to the rest of Canada: load am- munition all winter and then shoot it all summer.

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4 w w w . n f a . c a January/February 2017 From The Editor’s Desk Al Voth

Looking Ahead

elcome to the first 2017 issue of you’re used to seeing here. You’ll find so Dean Roxby provides the lowdown the Canadian Firearms Journal. some new writers this year as well, and on airgun systems and how they work. You will, no doubt, notice a new