GUNS Magazine February 1961
the American Gun a new, exciting, hard-cover magazine Something sensational was bound to happen when men like Each issue of THE AMERICAN GUN will have a main theme - for Larry Sheerin, Herb Glass, Larry Koller, and Don Myrus got to the first issue it is the Civil War. From the single ball of a gether with Lucian Cary, Harold McCracken, William Ruger, sniper's bullet, to the really big cannons that Robert Bruce writes James Serven and Roy Weatherby. It was sure-fire. The result: of in "Artillery on Land and Sea", the gunsmoke will rise from a new concept in gun lore, THE AMERICAN GUN, a hard-cover THE AMERICAN GUN. Continuing features will be big-game hunt magazine that re-creates the meaning of the gun as a symbol ing, evaluation of modern firearms, book bonuses of excerpts from famous hunting and shooting literature of the past. Yes, of masculine vigor, of hallowed deeds by the brave, of the de everything that has ever had meaning to any man of discriminat fense of life and family, or the excitement of the hunt. THE ing taste who has an interest in guns or sports will be presented AMERICAN GUN is a four-times-a-year periodical on gun lore, gun by gun experts, hunters and collectors in vivid, illustration· collecting, gun history and gun usage. Overall lOW' x 131jzt' packed style. size, high quality paper, lavish, full-color illustrations, stimulat The first edition will contain such articles as Serven's THE ing text ... all combine into "trophy" proportions for your library! PASSION FOR POCKET PISTOLS, Peterson's THE REPEATER Let THE AMERICAN GUN carry you through our great wars and LINCOLN TESTED, Wellman's BAREBACK GUNFIGHTERS, Camp's deadly Indian conflicts - help you share the lives of the har<1 WATERFOWL OF THE OUTER BANKS, Purdy's SOME MADE IT HOT.
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