{"id":38391,"date":"2016-12-30T14:23:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T20:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=38391"},"modified":"2016-12-30T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T20:23:22","slug":"gun-gossip-the-latest-rumors-from-the-hidden-bunker-in-the-rocky-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/gun-gossip-the-latest-rumors-from-the-hidden-bunker-in-the-rocky-mountains\/38391\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Gossip &#8211; The Latest Rumors From The Hidden Bunker In The Rocky Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38392\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38392\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ColtCobra-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ColtCobra-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ColtCobra.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-38392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Colt Cobra was chambered in .38 Special, .32 Colt New Police, and .22 LR and was sold by Colt from 1950 until 1981.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So the big news going into SHOT is that Colt is\u2026&nbsp;<i><b>finally<\/b><\/i>\u2026 resurrecting the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/2016\/12\/daniel-zimmerman\/new-colt-cobra-38-revolver\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colt Cobra<\/a>, truly one of the great snubbies of all time. Smith and Wesson is rolling out a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/28\/leaked-new-smith-wesson-mp10-6-5-creedmoor-mp45-shield-ported\/\" target=\"_blank\">6.5 Creedmoor MP-10<\/a>. Ruger has ditched the .243 in the superb&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruger.com\/search\/new\/rifle\" target=\"_blank\">Ruger Precision Rifle<\/a>&nbsp;in favor of the new hottness, the 6mm Creedmoor (this is outside my pay grade).&nbsp;I&#8217;m very familiar with the 6.5 Creedmoor both for long distance shooting and hunting; zero experience with its 6mm cousin\u2026 read this from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/precisionrifleblog.com\/2015\/04\/25\/how-much-does-cartridge-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Precision Rifle Blog<\/a>, which will give you the facts from an expert. Plus the Ruger American Compact in .45 ACP; the military Glocks 17 and 19 on the near horizon; &#8220;boutique&#8221; manufacturers spinning out new 1911s, M1 Carbines, little tiny concealed carry pistols, fill in the blanks.<\/p>\n<p>I think what is happening is that as the market moves toward normal times, manufacturers are going to be filling every conceivable niche\u2026 think of it as throwing &#8220;stuff&#8221; on the wall to see what sticks. To be sure, we all benefit from that. I&#8217;ve said before that we live in the &#8220;golden years&#8221; for firearms\u2026 if you want it, somebody is making it, from the very highest end (a nice, heavily engraved Wesley Richards 4-Bore to go with your Cabot Arms meteorite-made 1911) to the very lowest (concealed carry pistols in the sub-$300, even sub-$200 range that actually work).<\/p>\n<p>You want retro? Pick your time period, from Kentucky long rifles to AVATAR-styled guns. FN&#8217;s &#8220;military collector&#8217;s series&#8221; is selling like crazy, especially their&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fnamerica.com\/products\/collector-series\/m249s\/\" target=\"_blank\">semiauto version of the SAW<\/a>, which (according to my little cherubs, is selling at an incredible level); Inland Manufacturing is cranking out M1 Carbines at a level not seen since WWII. Concealed carry pistols? Take your pick from hundreds. Tactical rifles? Duh! Hunting rifles? An amazing assortment.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;. what rumors have you heard?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going into SHOT Show, rumors and some facts are beginning to float around in the gun universe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dropped-shot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}