A Rifle Like a Reese Cup

By gunwriter Throwback Thursday: This is an updated / condensed version of the first article I wrote about Melvin Forbes and New Ultra Light Arms. It was first published in Gunworld magazine in 2003. The Reese Cup may just be the ultimate candy bar: Peanut butter surrounded by just the right amount of milk chocolate that has pleased pallets since the 1920s. Now, you may not like Reese Cups but you have to admire their engineering and balance. Harry Burnett Reese did something unique in the American food industry; built a company that thrived on the manufacture of a single product. What does that have to do guns? Balance. Balance like you find in the Nosler Partition hunting bullet. Partitions offer a near perfect equilibrium between expansion and weight retention and are commonly considered the bullet by which all others are judged. The perfect hunting rifle is balance personified. The formula for it’s construction must contain the perfect mix of accuracy, tolerable weight, good fit, unquestionable reliability and resilience. But putting them all together into a solvable equation is the trick. If you look at most factory rifles and many built in custom shops they will possess the proper amount of one …read more

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