Di situ IMDb, film End of A Gun memiliki rating 3,7/10, dan menghabiskan anggaran USD 5 juta atau setara Rp 77,4 miliar.
PIKIRAN RAKYAT - Kondisi ekonomi sebagian masyarakat Indonesia nampaknya berada di ambang keruntuhan, terlebih bagi mereka yang bekerja di sektor informal. Seperti di Lebak , Banten , sejumlah ibu penjaja makanan ringan seakan tak memiliki rasa takut dengan pandemi virus corona atau COVID-19 yang tak juga kunjung usai sebab mereka tetap menjajakan dagangannya. Mak Yayah salah satunya, lansia asal Rangkasbitung yang menghidupi keluarganya dengan berjualan kue dan gorengan ini masih harus keluar masuk kampung, berkeliling dari satu rumah ke rumah lain untuk berjualan. Baca Juga: Ribuan Ojek Pangkalan dan Sopir di Depok Dapat Bantuan Rp 600.000, Besok Cair Lewat ATM "Kita sudah puluhan tahun berjualan aneka makanan, bisa menghidupi ekonomi keluarga," kata Mak Yayah (70) sebagaimana dikutip Pikiranrakyat-depok.com dari Antara.
Kendati hanya mengandalkan laba harian dari hasil berjualan, Mak Yayah mengaku tidak pernah merasa kekurangan. Suaminya telah meninggal 20 tahun lalu, namun, Mak Yayah mengaku mampu menanggung biaya hidup satu adik dan dua keponakannya yang telah yatim piatu. Dalam satu hari, Mak Yayah akan berjalan kaki sebanyak 10 kilometer dari pagi hingga siang hari. Selagi berjalan, nenek satu ini juga menanggung beban sebesar tujuh kilogram berupa dagangannya. Baca Juga: Sinopsis End Of A Gun, Kisah Pencurian Bandar Narkoba Tayang Malam Ini
TRIBUNBATAM.id, JAKARTA - Film Speed akan kembali tayang di Big Movies GTV pukul 23.00 WIB malam ini, Senin (21/4/2020).
Film yang dibintangi oleh Keanu Reeves dan Sandra Bullock sudah populer sejak tahun 1994 silam.
Dengan genre thriller-action yang disutradarai oleh Jan de Bont.
Speed merupakan debut film Jan de Bont sebagai sutradara.
Film ini menuai kesuksesan finansial serta apresiasi dari para penonton dan kritikus.
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Speed berhasil meraih dua penghargaan dari Academy Awards.
Yakni untuk kategori Best Sound Editing dan Best Sound Mixing di 67th Academy Awards tahun 1995.
Film ini berkisah tentang anggot LAPD yang mencoba menyelamatkan warga sipil dalam bus kota yang dipasangi bom.
Sebuah sekuel film ini dibuat dengan judul Speed 2: Cruise Control, dirlis pada bulan Juni 1997.
TRIBUNJATENG.COM - Berikut adalah jadwal acara TV hari ini Senin 20 April 2020 untuk stasiun Trans TV, SCTV, RCTI, GTV, Indosiar dan ANTV.
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Di malam hari, anda dapat menyaksikan tayangan Trans TV dan GTV yang bertabur film box office di Bioskop Trans TV dan Big Movies Platinum seperti Baywatch dan End of a Gun.
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Selengkapnya, langsung saja simak ulasan jadwal acara Trans TV, SCTV, RCTI GTV, Indosiar, dan ANTV hari MSenin 20 April 2020 yang berhasil SURYAMALANG.COM rangkum dari berbagai sumber:
A Maryland man is facing multiple charges after police say a dispute over a parking space escalated to violence.
The incident happened shortly before noon Sunday, on the 4400 block of 31st Street S. near Shirlington and a number of apartment buildings.
Police say two drivers “became engaged in a dispute over a parking spot” that resulted in the suspect assaulting the victim after the victim had parked. The suspect also drew a gun during the incident, according to an Arlington County Police Department crime report.
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BRANDISHING, 2020-04190043, 4400 block of 31st Street S. At approximately 11:41 a.m. on April 19, police were dispatched to the report of a person with a gun. Upon arrival, it was determined that the victim and suspect became engaged in a dispute over a parking spot. After the victim parked, the suspect exited his vehicle, allegedly approached the victim, grabbed him and assaulted him. The suspect then went inside of a residential building, but immediately returned and brandished a firearm at the victim, before fleeing into the building again. During the course of the investigation, officers developed a possible suspect description. Officers located and made contact with the suspect and took him into custody without incident. The victim was transported to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Desmond Young, 30, of Fort Washington, Md., was arrested and charged with Strangulation, Brandishing a Firearm and Assault & Battery.
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Residents of a small town in Nova Scotia, Canada woke up on Sunday to chaos as police hunted a mass shooter who had left a trail of bodies and burning buildings behind him. By the end of the ordeal, at least 10 people were killed, including one member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Though mass shootings are far more prevalent in Canada's neighbour to the south, the country has weathered its own share of tragic violence at the hands of gunmen.
Reuters reported that the worst shootings in Canadian history took place just over three decades ago at Ecole Polytechnique, an engineering school in Montreal. A shooter marched the men in a classroom outside and killed the 14 women remaining in the class. Ten women and four men were injured in addition to those killed.
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A few years later, in 1992, an associate professor at Concordia University in Quebec killed four of his colleagues and injured one other individual.
In 1996, a man travelled to the wedding of his estranged wife's sister in British Columbia and killed nine of her relatives before killing himself. Two others were wounded in the shooting.
In more recent incidents, a man in Edmonton, Alberta in 2014 killed his wife and eight others before killing himself. Two years later, a student in Saskatchewan killed his two brothers in his house before firing a gun at a high school in a remote community, where two more people died and seven others were wounded.
A year later in Quebec, a man attacked a mosque during an evening prayer, killing six people and wounding five others. Another 12 had were injured during the attack and had to seek medical treatment. Then, in 2018, a man in Toronto walked down a busy street and began shooting randomly into restaurants, killing two people and wounding 13 before he killed himself.
The mass shooting in Nova Scotia wasn't the first in which a member of the RCMP has lost their life.
In 2005, a group of four RCMP officers went to the home of an Albertan man to execute a warrant to repossess his property. When they arrived, the man fired on them, killing all four.
Nearly a decade later, a gunman in New Brunswick attacked a group of RCMP officers, killing three and wounding two others.
Two years later, in 2018, two more police officers were killed at a shooting in New Brunswick. Two other people died during the same incident.
Bond's suit and hat combination would also remain a staple of the sequence for the next ten years, mirroring contemporary design trends until a far more informal Roger Moore would stride on-screen in 1972. This Simmons opening would be used for the next two Connery films: From Russia With Love , and Goldfinger . Only in 1965 would Connery appear at the end of Binder's barrel, when the opening was recreated in color for the release of Thunderball. The fourth Bond film's use of Panavision's anamorphic format necessitated a new, widescreen intro - though the white dot and barrel design was maintained. The lead actor did, however, switch things up in terms of performance, foregoing Simmons' pre-shot jump, staying in the center of the circle, and taking a lower stance when pulling the trigger. The new Connery sequence would appear in black and white at the start of 1967's You Only Live Twice, and was reused again in 1971 for Connery's return to the franchise in Diamonds Are Forever .
In keeping with the 2000's trend of doing grounded takes on action heroes, Bond's 2006 outing was to be a decidedly darker affair than its predecessor; the new direction Casino Royale was headed was established by the film's gun barrel sequence. Daniel Craig's first Bond film is also the first to completely do away with the original Binder design in favor of having the entire gun barrel sequence happen within the narrative of the film. Having just beaten the living daylights out of a henchman and trashing a public bathroom in the process, Bond bends down to retrieve his pistol and deliver the kill-shot. Once he makes the 180-degree turn and fires a round, the gun barrel motif surrounds him. But this time, it's a completely overhauled CG design that shifts quickly in and out of frame as an entirely new blood design cascades down the screen. While Binder's 1962 white dot design is nowhere in sight, there is a significant link to Bond film history with this being the first black and white gun barrel opening since 1971's Diamonds Are Forever .
"We’re not radical wing nuts,” said Biewenga, who contacted a Hyannis gun shop this month about buying a Mossberg 590M 12-gauge shotgun and ammunition. “But we do believe in being prepared.”
But it wasn’t until the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic that he actually decided to try to buy one.
Bill Biewenga said he had considered buying a gun for years. A former US Marine, the 72-year-old had been in rifle club in high school, and about 18 months ago, he and his partner, Laurie Warner, even applied for and received their firearm licenses.
As COVID-19 has upended everyone’s day-to-day routines, anxiety has rushed to fill the void, be it fear of losing one’s job or stockpiling toilet paper. Even in Massachusetts, home to some of the nation’s strictest firearm laws, others say they’re weighing something else: whether to buy — or trying to buy — a gun for the first time in this uneasy reality.
Less than 17 percent of Massachusetts residents who responded to a recent Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll said they owned a gun. But of those who don’t, about 1 in 7 said they now wish they did.
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“You just start thinking about some of the worst case scenarios,” said Keith Haddad, a 33-year-old Everett resident and poll respondent who said he’s researched the state’s firearm application process. "Who would have thought that a virus would shut down the whole world? And if this is possible, what else is?
“What happens if you do need to protect yourself?” Haddad added. "A gun wouldn’t hurt.”
That new focus on firearms comes at a thorny time. A state order designed to slow the spread of the virus has closed gun shops, among other businesses statewide, and has drawn a legal challenge from gun retailers, advocacy groups, and others who say it steps on prospective owners’ constitutional rights.
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Meanwhile, gun violence prevention groups have warned that having more guns in the home, especially as parents and children remain huddled inside, carries its own risks, including the prospect of accidental shootings.
That hasn’t stopped an surge in interest more broadly.
Monthly background checks for guns hit a seven-year high in Massachusetts in March, federal data show, providing an important, if imperfect, barometer of sales that has reached record-setting levels nationally. As of the end of last month, March 20 saw more checks performed than any day since the federal government began tracking such data more than two decades ago; then, on March 21, there were the fourth most.
In Massachusetts ― one of three so-called “license to own” states, where a person must have a valid license to legally posses a gun — checks topped 23,500 in March, the highest since March 2013 and roughly 3,000 more than the previous March.
The number of active licenses in Massachusetts also had jumped by nearly 22,000 between January and April, pushing the total in the state past 464,000, according to state data.
The data, while illustrative, come with big caveats: Statistics on background checks, for example, don’t specify how many are for return buyers. And the state’s license process can span weeks, meaning many applications likely flowed in before the pandemic hit.
The process of actually buying a gun in Massachusetts, meanwhile, is facing new friction, both real and political.
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As part of the state’s efforts to stem the COVID-19′s spread, Governor Charlie Baker’s last month ordered a variety of “nonessential” businesses to close, including gun dealers. When he revised the order a week later, his administration temporarily included firearm retailers among those that could open, in line with newly amended federal guidelines.
But the Republican governor’s office reversed course within hours, reportedly at the urging of House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo, a Democrat. It frustrated leadership at the Gun Owners Action League, the local National Rifle Association chapter that was already unhappy that Baker excluded gun retailers from a $10 million loan fund for small businesses.
“I believe we made the right decision,” Baker said Friday of the ban on gun retailers, though he declined to address it further. “I don’t speak to questions that are currently before the court.”
Attorney General Maura Healey, a Democrat who years earlier banned the sale of so-called copycat assault weapons in Massachusetts, weighed in, writing on Twitter that retailers and shooting ranges “are NOT essential businesses during a public health emergency.”
Then last week, a coalition including gun shops and advocacy groups sued Baker in federal court in a bid to allow shuttered firearm dealers to legally reopen.
The plaintiffs include Biewenga, who said he was told by representatives at Cape Cod Gun Works on April 3 that they couldn’t sell him a gun because of the ban. Biewenga and Warner said they were unnerved in recent months by a report of a burglary in their neighborhood and then, in the last few weeks of already heightened tension, people walking across their property abutting a wooded area of the Cape Cod National Seashore.
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“It’s semi-secluded, and if you were going to pick a place out you wanted to rob, this would probably be the place,” Biewenga said of their home tucked at the end of a cul-de-sac.
Others in the lawsuit raised similar concerns. Michael McCarthy, a Boston resident and plaintiff, sought to buy a gun for the first time out of fears he would be “unable to protect himself and his family should the need arise and emergency services are unavailable,” according to the lawsuit.
Gun control advocates, however, have cautioned against the embrace of guns amid coronavirus fears.
“The fact is: a gun is not going to protect you from coronavirus,” said Jonathan Lowy, chief counsel for Brady, a gun violence prevention group. “However, a gun is going to greatly increase the risk that you or a loved one will be killed or injured in an unintentional shooting, in a domestic violence incident, in a suicide.”
Massachusetts’ own laws, combined with the new restrictions put in place late last month, also now complicate getting licensed. State law requires license applicants first take a safety course and then undergo background checks when applying. Then, a local police chief has weeks to decide whether to approve or deny the application.
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The State Police’s firearm licensing bureau told instructors who provide safety courses that they’re not allowed to offer training classes, “whether in person or through virtual training” given the governor’s order, according to a letter GOAL obtained and shared with the Globe.
Jim Wallace, GOAL’s executive director, said even if an applicant was able to take a safety course beforehand and applied for a permit through local police, “they don’t want you coming in to do the fingerprinting,” given social distancing concerns.
Yet, it doesn’t stop some from thinking about preparing for a potential worst-case scenario. Bryan Pedlar, a 34-year-old Dallas transplant now living in Brighton, attributes his consideration of getting licensed to a “fatalistic thought process," and perhaps, his own roots.
Among friends here in Boston, "we’re all pretty much, ‘Gosh I miss brunch,’ and, ‘Man, it’s going to be great when this is over,’ ” Pedlar said. “And my folks are more along the lines of [the virus is a] Chinese conspiracy, and they’re going to invade. You get it from both directions.”
His parents, he said, still live in Texas. “They both have firearms at home.”
Laura Crimaldi of the Globe staff contributed to this report.
Matt Stout can be reached at matt.stout@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @mattpstout
Last week, I caught up with one of the workers I met last year as I was reporting a column about labor violations at a Koreatown barbecue restaurant.
Anderson Casteñon was the cook who prepared meats, side dishes, sauces and salads at Genwa Korean Barbecue. The high-end restaurant, which is popular among celebrities, has locations in Beverly Hills, downtown Los Angeles and Hancock Park. Casteñon’s boss cut his hours but required him to do the same amount of work, all without bathroom or meal breaks.
I didn’t use his name or the name of the restaurant then because I wanted to protect him from retaliation, but now there’s nothing to protect. He was laid off at the end of February, along with most of the restaurant’s staff, because of a downturn in business related to coronavirus fears.
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The California labor commissioner’s office cited Genwa in January for wage theft and other violations, ordering the restaurant to pay more than $2 million. The penalties are under appeal, so the stolen wages haven’t reached the workers they belong to. Jay Kwon, the owner of Genwa Korean Barbecue, did not respond to a request for comment.
The Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance, a nonprofit that helped Casteñon and his fellow workers bring their case to state labor authorities, gave him some money as part of a wage worker support program; but a few days ago, the money ran out.
He spent his last dollar on a pack of vitamins to send home to his family in Guatemala. He’s applying for a job at Numero Uno Market, but he hasn’t heard back. He had to ask his mother to help with this month’s rent on the studio he shares with three others.
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“My biggest concern is that I cannot send money home,” Casteñon said.
Perhaps you think one story of hardship is insignificant because more than half of L.A. is out of work, and that restaurants need our support, not our criticism now. Why talk about labor violations amid a global crisis?
Our current crisis is not just a pandemic, but also a human-made disaster of all the things we’ve grown accustomed to overlooking. Even an unknown virus doesn’t pose an existential threat to any country with a modern healthcare system that has the full cooperation of a government that trusts science and cares about the lives of its people.
The last two months have been a painful reminder that we don’t live in a country like that. The way America has responded to the coronavirus is a disaster of its own kind.
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Food rots in the field as food banks struggle to meet demand. An emergency aid program meant for small businesses was monopolized by wealthier chains that had better relationships with banks. Grocery stores and delivery services, seeing record profits, pay their workers pennies without providing enough sick leave or protective equipment.
Asian Americans are being blamed for the virus and targeted for hate crimes. Black and Latino people are dying from COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates. And all around the country, our poorest workers must choose between letting their families go hungry or putting their lives at risk.
You can’t blame a virus for these consequences any more than you can blame the bullets in the gun for a shooter’s actions. A society that can’t protect its most vulnerable citizens cannot effectively fight an outbreak.
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Poverty — and the crowded housing conditions, poor health and lack of access to healthcare that come along with it — makes us far more vulnerable to disease. Exploited, underpaid wage workers without access to proper healthcare cannot continue to perform the essential functions we need. Inequality endangers us, especially now.
This pandemic hasn’t just revealed these cracks in our social contract — it has turned them to vast chasms that threaten to swallow entire industries, communities and neighborhoods.
There has never been a starker dividing line than the one between those who are forced to risk infection to survive and those who can afford to avoid it. Never has there been a more powerful illustration of class inequity than our new work-from-home society, where we sit in our homes shaming people for leaving the house, all while summoning poorer people to leave their homes via smartphone apps so they can bring us food and Amazon packages. At my local grocery store, we wear masks to browse produce picked by workers who can’t afford or find protection of their own.
A lot of us seem eager to move on from this pandemic, and that’s a natural feeling. But I hope that we never forget what it has shown us.
by Layne Simpson - Monday, April 20, 2020
The author tested several factory loads, along with a precision handload, through his own Nosler Custom Handgun, which was factory Cerakoted in Smith & Wesson Red and Graphite Black, and equipped with a Harrell’s Precision Tactical four-chamber muzzle brake. With the Burris 3-12X 32 mm handgun scope shown, it proved capable of half-minute-of-angle accuracy.
Back in 2017, I examined a working prototype firearm hand-built by Mike Lake, senior manager of engineering, research and development at Nosler. It was a long-range handgun built around the Model 48 rifle action, and after Mike had bagged mule deer and pronghorn antelope with the gun, I examined it closely. I was impressed by the design, so it came as no surprise when the company eventually introduced it as the Nosler Custom Handgun (NCH).
The Nosler Custom Handgun is a mid-grip design with a stock CNC-machined from 6061-T6 aluminum into a distinctive shape. A wide range of color options is available thanks to its Cerakote finish.
Of mid-grip design, the stock is CNC-machined from type 6061-T6 aircraft-grade aluminum bar stock. A black Hogue OverMolded rubber grip with finger grooves is secured to the bottom of the stock with a hex-head bolt and, while it proved to be a comfortable fit with my hand, it is easily switched out for other styles of aftermarket AR-15 grips.
Four large vents in both sides of the forearm allow air to circulate around the barrel. Three holes drilled and tapped into its flat bottom allow an included quick-detach sling swivel post to be installed close to the end of the stock or farther back for attachment of a Harris bipod. Another post at the rear of the stock accepts a single-point carrying sling.
The stock is attached to the action with two hex-head machine screws, one at the tang of the receiver and another just forward of the trigger guard and into the recoil lug.
The Model 48 action is trued in several ways, including the use of diamond paste to hand-lap the dual-opposed locking lugs of its bolt for uniform bearing on their seats in the receiver. The barrel shank threads are machined concentrically with the bolt, and the receiver face is cut precisely perpendicular to the axis of the bolt. The action is a single-shot, and eliminating the magazine cutout in the receiver increases its rigidity.
Thoughtful features include (l. to r.): a threaded boss that accepts AR-style grips; a modular trigger assembly that can be adjusted for pull weight; and an optional multi-port muzzle brake and thread protector.
The match-grade 416R stainless steel barrel free-floats in the stock, and a Lyman digital borescope revealed extremely smooth, hand-lapped rifling. The pre-threaded and contoured blanks are purchased from Shilen and then chambered, fitted and given a 11-degree crown by Nosler technicians. The contour is heavy, with the 15" barrel on my gun measuring 1.160" at the chamber and tapering to 0.845" at the muzzle.
The barrel is threaded at the muzzle with a thread protector included. Barrel fluting and an extremely effective four-chamber brake from Harrell’s Precision are extra-cost options. Seven barrel-length options start at 12" and go to 18" in 1" increments. Chamberings and their rifling twist rates are: 22 Nosler and 24 Nosler (1:8"), 6 mm Creedmoor (1:7.5"), 6.5 mm Creedmoor (1:8"), 7 mm-08 Rem. (1:9") and .308 Win. (1:10").
Remington surprised the shooting world with the introduction of its XP-100 handgun back in 1963, and so it is with Nosler and the NCH. The two guns share similarities, but their designs also differ in several ways. Since both have mid-grip stocks, a way of connecting the forward-positioned finger lever with the rear-positioned trigger assembly of the action had to be devised.
Designers of both guns skinned that cat in the same way by utilizing a long transfer bar to connect the two. The finger lever on the NCH rotates on a cross-pin in the stock, and pulling it draws the transfer bar forward. A transfer bracket at the opposite end of the bar is in contact with two steel pins protruding from the sides of the trigger housing.
When the action is cocked, the sear is supported by the trigger link, and, since the opposite ends of those pins are fastened to it, pulling the trigger moves it from supporting the sear, thereby releasing the firing pin to fire the gun.
Whereas the transfer bar of the XP-100 is attached to the bottom of its receiver, it is housed in the stock of the NCH. That allows the bar to rest beneath the recoil lug of the receiver rather than through a slot in the lug as on the XP-100.
There are other differences with perhaps the most noticeable being barrel diameter and therefore weight. Muzzle diameter of the 15" Remington barrel is 0.570", or 0.275" smaller than the Nosler barrel of the same length.
The transfer bar of the NCH is far from delicate, but if the barreled action is removed from the stock and then reinstalled improperly, the bar could suffer damage. Nosler recommends placing the gun in a padded vise (I stood it upright on a table with a Harris folding bipod attached) and with bolt and stock bolts removed, the barreled action is lifted vertically from the stock with no twisting or sideways pressure applied.
Prior to placing the barreled action back into the stock in the same manner, it is important to make sure the entire transfer bar assembly is fully seated into its channel in the stock and this includes the rear transfer bracket along with the return spring and its nut and washer. With the barreled action properly settled into the stock, a torque wrench with a 3/16" hex bit is used to first apply 45 to 50 in.-lbs. to the front action bolt, followed by 35 to 40 in.-lbs. to the rear bolt.
Of two-stage design, the trigger is fully adjustable. Sear engagement can be viewed through small windows on both sides of the trigger housing, and it is adjusted by turning a screw in the back of the housing. An overtravel adjustment screw protruding inside the trigger guard at the front and upper end of the finger lever is easily reached.
Pull weight is adjustable from approximately 2 to 4 lbs. by reaching through a small hole in the bottom of the stock and turning a screw at the bottom of the trigger housing. I adjusted pull on the test gun to 2 lbs. and remained as happy as could be without touching either of the other two adjustments.
A QD stud installed in one of three threaded holes on the underside of the stock served to attach a Harris 1A2-BR bipod.
Lake went with a two-stage trigger for several reasons. He wanted to use a cross-bolt safety design to block movement of the trigger lever. He also wanted the sear to be completely disconnected from the transfer bar when the safety is engaged. Another priority was to remove the mass of the trigger lever, transfer bar and other mechanism components from the equation with regard to shock or jarring that could set the gun off.
With the current design, the only mass that could contribute to the gun firing if dropped or jarred is the sear itself (assuming the finger lever is fully released and first-stage clearance exists). Lake considers a two-stage trigger a bit more inherently safe, as it requires a focused and concerted effort on the part of the shooter to take up the slack in the first stage, followed by a slow squeeze to release the second stage.
Positive spring detent pressure keeps the transverse safety in either of its two positions, which is important on a gun to be used for hunting. The thumb and finger can be used together to operate it with very little noise.
I have recommended to Nosler that the safety be made consumer-reversible for left-hand shooters, and my trusty crystal ball indicates that this may eventually happen on future guns. We all know that any firearm is only as safe as the person handling it, and, regardless of design, no safety should be relied on to prevent a gun from firing.
As might be expected, gun weight increases as barrel weight is increased. Nosler rates the NCH with a 12" barrel at 5 lbs., 8 ozs., for fluted and 5 lbs., 14 ozs., for nonfluted. That increases to 6 lbs., 1 oz., and 6 lbs., 12 ozs., for an 18" barrel.
Those are averages and due to a larger hole through its barrel, a gun in .308 Win. will weigh a bit less than one in a smaller chambering. The optional muzzle brake adds about 4 ozs. and increases overall barrel length by 0.750".
A transfer bar links the trigger proper to its module
The Nosler’s stock and barreled action wear a Cerakote finish, and Nosler increases the fun factor of placing an order by inviting the customer to pick and choose among numerous color options in the library at NIC Industries. My specifications for a red stock and black barreled action bounced back with a request to choose among several different shades of red and black. I settled on Smith & Wesson Red and Graphite Black.
Prior to accuracy-testing the gun I broke in its barrel by cleaning with Shooters Choice powder solvent and Barnes CR-10 copper solvent after each shot. This was concluded when, at the 12-round mark, my Lyman Borecam indicated light streaks of copper fouling had diminished.
After that, the barrel was scrubbed with powder solvent after each five-shot group was fired and 30 rounds later, group size had become fairly consistent. From that point on the barrel was cleaned with powder solvent after 10 five-shot groups had been fired. Copper solvent was used again after as each 100-round mark was reached.
When first shooting the NCH from a concrete benchrest, I attached a Harris adjustable bipod to its front sling swivel post and rested the bottom of its grip on a flat sandbag. Prior to taking a shot, I snuggled the grip into the bag with the horizontal crosshair a bit above my aiming point, gently squeezed the bag to lower the crosshair to dead on the money and pressed the trigger.
Some who buy the pistol will prefer shooting it with sandbags at both ends, so I removed the Harris bipod and shot it over a Sinclair Int’l Heavy Varmint front rest and the rear bags. When shooting groups with the most accurate loads, I found accuracy to be the same, although I did have to concentrate more on avoiding canting the gun than when shooting over the Harris bipod.
I removed the barreled action from the stock and then re-installed it to see if the gun would hold zero. When placing the barreled action back into the stock I settled on 50 and 40 in.-lbs. of torque on the front and rear action bolts, respectively. The gun had maintained its zero perfectly.
The heavier the contour of a barrel, the stiffer it is, and drastically shortening it increases stiffness even more. The barrel of the NCH is both heavy and short, and that pays off in several ways. When shooting groups at 100 yds. with bullets weighing from 120 to 147 grs., there was no difference in lateral group dispersion, and while vertical dispersion was about one-half inch higher with 120- and 130-gr. bullets, all the other weights would have landed in the same group.
During my accuracy tests I allowed the barrel to cool for five minutes between each five-shot group, but average group size increased very little when I tried cooling it every 25 rounds.
My first tests told me how accurate the Nosler pistol can be with factory ammunition, and while the best groups fired were small enough to make many shooters happy, I figured precision handloading along with additional scope magnification would take accuracy to a higher level.
I have never been a big fan of muzzle brakes, but as shooters of custom, heavy-barrel XP-100 pistols long ago discovered, one of the advantages to using a brake is that the drastic reduction in felt recoil allows the safe use of a high-magnification rifle scope with its shorter eye relief when shooting from a benchrest. When shooting the NCH with a firm hold on its grip, the bipod did not lift off the bench and the gun traveled less than an inch to the rear.
Switching out the two-piece base for a Talley Picatinny rail and rings and attaching a Burris Black Diamond 6-24X 50 mm scope boosted magnification and added another 1 lb., 8 ozs., of weight to the gun and that reduced recoil even more.
Lapua 6.5 mm Creedmoor cases were trimmed to the exact same length and their mouths chamfered and deburred. Cases were then sorted by capacity and their necks outside-turned to 0.291" (with bullet seated) which was just enough to uniform neck wall thickness. Primer pockets were uniformed, and flash holes were uniformed and deburred.
Powder charges were weighed with a RCBS Model 304 scale and RCBS Gold Match dies were used in a Corbin CSP-1 bullet swaging press converted for ammunition loading. A 0.289" bushing was used in the RCBS neck-resizing die.
Prior to being seated, all bullets took a trip through a Bullet Sorting Stand from Sinclair Int’l. Powder charge weight and bullet jump were adjusted until the Nosler pistol’s accuracy sweet spot was found. Federal GM205M primers were used.
As it turned out, a propellant/bullet combination that delivers sub-quarter-minute accuracy in my 17-lb. target rifle in 6.5 mm Creedmoor worked quite well in the Nosler pistol. That rifle prefers 39.4 grs. of H-4350 with the Nosler 140-gr. Custom Competition bullet seated for 0.025" of free-travel. The Nosler handgun delivered its best accuracy with 39.8 grs. of H-4350 and the 140-gr. Custom Competition seated for 0.010" of jump.
Functioning and feeding of the NCH are bobble-free; simply toss a cartridge through the ejection port, push the bolt home, take aim and squeeze the trigger. Cycling the bolt of a rifle usually takes minimal effort when the forward hand is used to pull the rifle firmly against the shoulder.
This is not possible with a long range-pistol, so leverage required to rotate its bolt from the locked position is gained by placing the thumb against the cocking piece of the bolt or, as I prefer, atop the rear scope-mount ring while using two fingers to lift the bolt handle. It also helps to apply a light coat of gun grease to the firing pin cocking cam surface of the bolt each time the gun is cleaned.
Applying dabs to the rear surfaces of the locking lugs doesn’t make bolt lift easier, but it does prevent locking lug galling in any bolt-action firearm. RIG gun grease from Birchwood-Casey is excellent for this.
Overall workmanship exhibited by the Nosler Custom Handgun is superb, and shooting it proved to be a pleasure. It’s hard to imagine a better example of its type, particularly when accuracy is taken into account. Altogether, the Nosler NCH sets a new standard for the large-format bolt-action hunting handgun.
