Col Art Alpin

[tripodmvr]

Arthur B. Alphin Obituary
Colonel Arthur B. Alphin devoted his life to service, scholarship, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of excellence in military science, weapons technology, and justice. He passed away peacefully in his home on January 8, 2026.

Alongside his military career, Col. Alphin was an elite competitive marksman and lifelong student of sporting firearms. A member of the West Point Pistol Team, he earned All-American honors and later achieved Life Master status in pistol competition. His passion for African hunting began during a 1974 safari in Angola and Mozambique, where he experienced both combat and the challenges of conventional sporting arms firsthand.

These experiences led him to design his first cartridge in 1975 and, in 1979, to found the A-Square Company. Under his leadership, A-Square became the world leader in rifles and ammunition for trophy hunting, supplying international agencies and influencing nearly every major firearms manufacturer. His designs were adopted by companies including Ruger, Winchester, and Browning. A-Square was admitted to SAAMI in 1992, where Col. Alphin served on both the Technical Committee and Executive Board. His impact permanently shaped the civilian firearms and hunting industries.

Widely respected as a firearms and ballistics expert, Col. Alphin served as an expert witness in numerous court cases. Beginning in 1982 with a landmark case involving the Browning Automatic Rifle, he applied his knowledge in service of justice for nearly three decades.

In 2011, his professional life was set aside when his beloved wife, Elaine Marie Alphin, an award-winning children’s author, suffered a catastrophic hemorrhagic stroke. Col. Alphin transformed their home into a full-time care facility and devoted himself entirely to her care until her passing in August 2014. Following her death, he endured serious health challenges of his own, ultimately returning to strength and resuming professional work as a firearms, ammunition, and ballistics expert.

Colonel Alphin will be remembered as a soldier-scholar, innovator, teacher, marksman, and devoted husband—an individual whose intellect, integrity, and uncompromising standards left a lasting mark on the U.S. Army, the firearms industry, and all who had the privilege to know him.

[ZKK]

As ek dit reg het, het hy ook die .338-06 geskep.
Ek het een, en dit is defintief een van my gunstelling gewere.

[tripodmvr]

Wikipedia se inligting

The .338-06, also known as the .338 A-Square, is a cartridge based on the .30-06. As such, it allows heavier .338 caliber bullets to be used from the .30-06 non-belted case. This can be a suitable choice for heavy bodied game such as moose, elk, and brown bear. The number and variety of .338 caliber bullets increased after the introduction in the late 1950s of the .338 Winchester Magnum cartridge, frequently chambered in the Winchester Model 70 rifle. More recently the introduction of the .338 Lapua Magnum has caused an increase in interest in the .338 caliber and their projectiles. The .338-06 maintains many of the benefits of the .338 Winchester Magnum cartridge but has substantially less recoil, makes more efficient use of powder, and allows use of widely available .30-06 commercial and military cases. It is similar in concept to the older wildcat .333 OKH cartridge, as well as the .35 Whelen, which also use the .30-06 brass case as a basis for the cartridge. Thanks to the large number of rifles based on the .30-06 family of cartridges, having a .338-06 made usually only requires a simple barrel change by a competent gun smith. Since the 1960s a relatively obsure cartridge only known to handloaders and "Wildcatters", eventually A-Square adopted the caliber as the .338-06 A-Square in approximately 1998. They then submitted it for approval by SAAMI as a standardized caliber. Weatherby offered factory rifles and ammunition, but has now dropped the rifles from its inventory. The .338-06 A-Square tends to have a velocity advantage over the .35 Whelen, and uses bullets that retain velocity and resist wind drift better than similar weight bullets fired from the .35 Whelen due to an improved Sectional density.

[J le Roux]

'n Ware ekspert en legende.


Ek is gelukkig om sy 'Any Shot you Want' boek te hê.