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1988 Articles
1988 American Handgunner Magazine Articles
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| Item | Article | Author | Issue | Title | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HJF8822 | Taffin Tests | Taffin, John | Jan/Feb 1988 | Loads of loads for the popular .357 Magnum. | 22 |
| HJF8825 | The Ayoob Files: A Survivor Stands Alone: The Bayshore Incident | Ayoob, Massad | Jan/Feb 1988 | Death stalks ill-prepared Canadian constables. | 25 |
| HJF8826 | Nosler Handgun Bullets | Cotterman, Dan | Jan/Feb 1988 | The makers of the Partition rifle bullets turn to handgunning. | 26 |
| HJF8832 | The Inner Game | Winokur, Jon | Jan/Feb 1988 | A panel discussion with top pros on mental aspects of shooting. | 32 |
| HJF8836 | Pepper Popper Steel Targets | Felter, Brian | Jan/Feb 1988 | How to build the ultimate reaction target. | 36 |
| HJF8841 | The Guns of Rick Mears | James, Frank | Jan/Feb 1988 | One of Indy’s hottest drivers likes his handgunning. | 41 |
| HJF8844 | AMT Automag II | Wood, J.B. | Jan/Feb 1988 | The world’s first .22 Magnum pistol is a real winner. | 44 |
| HJF8850 | The 1987 Masters | Hopkins, Cameron | Jan/Feb 1988 | A retired bullseye shooter cleans house. | 50 |
| HJF8857 | Master Tips | Winokur, Jon | Jan/Feb 1988 | Mickey Fowler explains singe-action trigger control. | 57 |
| HJF8858 | Choosing a Custom Gun | Weller, Jim | Jan/Feb 1988 | There’s more to it than just picking a Big Name. | 58 |
| HMA8828 | Clark’s Classy Classic | Ayoob, Massad | March/April 1988 | Jim Clark’s longslide .38 Special 1911 pistol is pure classic. | 28 |
| HMA8832 | The Ayoob Files: High-Volume firefight: The Kolowski-Burchette Incident | Ayoob, Massad | March/April 1988 | A biker and two cops shoot it out. The cops win. | 32 |
| HMA8834 | Master Tips | Winokur, Jon | March/April 1988 | How to clear the combat shooter’s jams. | 34 |
| HMA8836 | PMK .380 | Wood, J.B. | March/April 1988 | Inexpensive and well-made, the PMK .380 is a good pocket pistol. | 36 |
| HMA8838 | Ammo for the Dark Place | Mejia, R. and Petty, C. | March/April 1988 | Two views of what to carry for ammunition in the Dark Place. | 38 |
| HMA8842 | Training With a World Champion | Ayoob, Massad | March/April 1988 | Audit a class with champion shooter Mike Plaxco. | 42 |
| HMA8846 | PDW-XM9 | Lenaerts, Jacques | March/April 1988 | At last, the real truth behind the Army’s 9mm test. | 46 |
| HMA8850 | 1987 IPSC Nationals | Petty, Charles | March/April 1988 | Jerry Barnhart wins with a .45 ACP over the .38 Super shooters. | 50 |
| HMA8852 | Smith and Wesson Olympic Gold | Baiocco, Sam | March/April 1988 | This radical new .22 Short features a whole new design. | 52 |
| HMA8855 | Texas Longhorn Sixguns | Taffin, John | March/April 1988 | Was Sam Colt left-handed? Here’s a right-hander’s revolver. | 55 |
| HMA8862 | Big Red | Taffin, John | March/April 1988 | Ruger’s new Super Redhawk is a handful of handgun. | 62 |
| HMA8865 | Glock 17 | Petty, Charles | March/April 1988 | The infamous “plastic pistol” is exposed for what it really is. | 65 |
| HMA8867 | Tuning the Dan Wesson | Neisler, Trip | March/April 1988 | Like any mass-produced gun, the DW needs some fine tuning. | 67 |
| HMJ8828 | The Ayoob Files: Armed Robbery In Progress: The Stanton Robinson Incident | Ayoob, Massad | May/June 1988 | An Armed robber learns Burger King is home of the whopper .44 Special. | 28 |
| HMJ8830 | Taffin Tests | Taffin, John | May/June 1988 | Hotrod the .44 Special with favorite loads from John Taffin. | 30 |
| HMJ8836 | Master Tips | Winokur, Jon | May/June 1988 | Competition ammo tips from Jack Breskovich. | 36 |
| HMJ8838 | Taurus Handguns | Arnold, Dave | May/June 1988 | The way things are going, is S&W a cheap copy of Taurus? | 38 |
| HMJ8839 | Bill Jordan on Jordan Grips | Link, Sheila | May/June 1988 | The fast hand with the slow drawl on grip design for magnums. | 39 |
| HMJ8840 | Lyman T-Mag Press | Cotterman, Dan | May/June 1988 | Our Handloading Editor wrings out Lyman’s multi-station press. | 40 |
| HMJ8841 | Breskovich Advantage Grips | Petty, Charles | May/June 1988 | Steel insert grip panels add weight to reduce recoil on 1911 autos. | 41 |
| HMJ8844 | Remington XP-100 | Trzoniec, Stanley W. | May/June 1988 | New calibers, new look for the quarter-century old single shot. | 44 |
| HMJ8847 | The Martz Luger | Wood, J.B. | May/June 1988 | Simply stated, one of the finest custom handguns. Period. | 47 |
| HMJ8854 | .44 Magnum Desert Eagle | Weller, Jim | May/June 1988 | Awesome new power for the gas operated semi-auto. | 54 |
| HMJ8858 | 4x.44 | Ayoob, Massad | May/June 1988 | The four-inch .44 Magnum is a rugged workhorse of a handgun. | 58 |
| HMJ8898 | Bausch & Lomb Scopes | Barach, Mike | May/June 1988 | Two new handgun scopes of exceptional quality. | 98 |
| HJA8828 | Master Tips | Winokur, Jon | July/August 1988 | Sally van Valzah on controlling the flinch. | 28 |
| HJA8830 | The Ayoob Files: The Newhall Massacre | Ayoob, Massad | July/August 1988 | Finally, the truth about the infamous Newhall Massacre. | 30 |
| HJA8834 | Llama’s Auto Pistols | Arnold, Dave | July/August 1988 | A fresh new look at autos from the Spanish gunmaker. | 34 |
| HJA8838 | Falcon Gunsight | French, Howard E. | July/August 1988 | It’s not a scope, It’s not an iron sight, it’s new. | 38 |
| HJA8840 | The Best of the Breed | Ayoob, Massad | July/August 1988 | Of all the small .45s, Ayoob likes the lightweight Officers. | 40 |
| HJA8844 | Frank Pachmayr’s .45 | Lachuk, John | July/August 1988 | The grand old man of .45s and how he inspired the accurized .45. | 44 |
| HJA8846 | Taffin Tests | Taffin, John | July/August 1988 | Taffin handloads for the hot .357 SuperMag. | 46 |
| HJA8848 | Lee Reloader | Cotterman, Dan | July/August 1988 | Inexpensive, simple and it works. A test of the reloading tool. | 48 |
| HJA8849 | The Little Monster | Hantke, Paul | July/August 1988 | Big bite, little kick, that’s the compensated Officer’s Model. | 49 |
| HJA8852 | Single-Action Gunleather | Nesbitt, Mike | July/August 1988 | Traditional holster rigs for your traditional single-action. | 52 |
| HJA8858 | Supercomp III | Weller, Jim | July/August 1988 | A stunning pictorial and in-depth test of Steve Nastoff’s custom .45. | 58 |
| HJA8862 | Handgun Scopes | Taffin, John | July/August 1988 | An incisive look at the how, why and wherefore of handgun scopes. | 62 |
| HJA8866 | Substance Abuse: Gunpowder | Staley, Neil E. | July/August 1988 | Are you suffering from a serious shooting malady? | 66 |
| HSO8825 | M9 | AH Staff | Sept/Oct 1988 | The Army calls for new pistol tests after Beretta failures. | 25 |
| HSO8836 | Silhouette Champion | Johnson, Tim | Sept/Oct 1988 | Meet Boyd Carpenter, IHMSA champ and ballistic experimenter. | 36 |
| HSO8842 | Pistolsmith Profile | Schaffert, Lee | Sept/Oct 1988 | Meet Kent Miller and his amazing MercComp. | 42 |
| HSO8844 | Dynamite Derringers | Wood, J.B. | Sept/Oct 1988 | Two new Derringers, the TEC-38 and FIE-38, are special. | 44 |
| HSO8846 | The Omega Man | Baiacco, Sam | Sept/Oct 1988 | Meet Josef Peters, the man who invented the Omega 1911 conversion. | 46 |
| HSO8848 | Clark’s Pin Master | Petty, Charles | Sept/Oct 1988 | Jim Clark, father of the pin gun, introduces Pin Master. | 48 |
| HSO8850 | Taffin Tests | Taffin, John | Sept/Oct 1988 | Five levels of high performance loads for the .45 Colt. | 50 |
| HSO8855 | B-Square’s S&W Scope Mount | Petty, Charles | Sept/Oct 1988 | No gunsmithing mount is no trouble to install. | 55 |
| HSO8856 | Handgun Hunting Laws | Fender, James E. | Sept/Oct 1988 | An overview of the regulations governing handgun hunting. | 56 |
| HSO8857 | Cor Bon Custom Hunting Bullets | Hopkins, Cameron | Sept/Oct 1988 | Superior penetration, outstanding expansion—Cor Bon bullets. | 57 |
| HSO8858 | Planning a Handgun Safari | Hopkins, Cameron | Sept/Oct 1988 | 58 | |
| HSO8860 | Big Bore Autos for Hunting | Fender, James | Sept/Oct 1988 | Desert Eagle, Coonan Arms, Grizzly Magnum—which is best? | 60 |
| HSO8872 | Handgun Hunting: The Experts | Sept/Oct 1988 | What guns and loads dot he experts pick for handgun hunting? | 72 | |
| HND8831 | Bolt-On Custom L-Frame | Ayoob, Massad | Nov/Dec 1988 | Trick-out your S&W L-frame yourself with add-on accessories. | 31 |
| HND8834 | Master Tips | Winokur, Jon | Nov/Dec 1988 | Combat Master Elden Carl on physical conditioning for shooters. | 34 |
| HND8836 | Christmas Turkey | Hart, David | Nov/Dec 1988 | Yuletide cheer for a handgunner at a turkey shoot. | 36 |
| HND8838 | Hogue Monogrips | Petty, Charles | Nov/Dec 1988 | A new, soft rubber Monogrip from Guy Hogue. | 38 |
| HND8842 | The Ayoob Files: Cover and Concealment: The Earl Gorrell Incident | Ayoob, Massad | Nov/Dec 1988 | Earl Gorrell applies the lessons of cover and concealment. | 42 |
| HND8843 | Big Three Chronographs | Petty, Charles | Nov/Dec 1988 | Which of biggest selling chronographs is really best? | 43 |
| HND8844 | Handgunner’s Christmas Wish List | Nov/Dec 1988 | Some suggestions for stocking stuffers. | 44 | |
| HND8847 | Taffin Tests | Taffin, John | Nov/Dec 1988 | High performance favorite loads for the .45 ACP cartridge. | 47 |
| HND8849 | Dan Wesson .44 Hunter Pak | Taffin, John | Nov/Dec 1988 | A new .44 Magnum switch-barrel set for the discriminating handgun hunter. | 49 |
| HND8858 | Ed Brown’s Maxi-Comp | Hopkins, Cameron | Nov/Dec 1988 | Master pistolsmith Ed Brown and his remarkable .45 pistols. | 58 |
| HND8862 | Steel Challenge 1988 | Leatham, Nyle | Nov/Dec 1988 | The fast and furious action of the world speed shooting contest. | 62 |
| HND8866 | Pin Grabbers | Moritz, Mark | Nov/Dec 1988 | A new saw-toothed bullet for bowling pin shooting. | 66 |
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