GUNS Magazine April 1958
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The rarest and most desirable of contemporary Mauser rounds available at last! Pormerly ::L%I;~ 13s *:t $ti1:~:"22::~ SC2%"t%:~:vw;:: duction!! 184 Gr. Boat-Tailed Bullets. ~hakgiveaway. 30-06 US. COMMERCIAL . $5.95 iginol US. Krog Long Rifle (Lon9 Tan) Wt. 9 Ibs. ONLY 62$ per Ib Total Price Only $5.58 RARE MI883 WINCHESTER .45-70's I REGISTERED : Write on your official letterhe Iff  Mathis, Tex. When a four-foot diamond- back rattlesnake showed up in his path, Bill Moore took dead aim at it with his gun and killed it. Bill is all of six years old. Less than four feet himself, the boy has been toting a gun, under the supervision of his dad, since he was** three.  Philadelphia, Pa. There's a somewhat ironical twist in the starting of a new in- dustry for inmates of the prison here. They're going to manufacture slugs for policemen's cartridges. * * * 4 China, Me. While her husband was out on a futile hunt for deer, Mrs. Thelma Mac- Donald garnered the venison at home. She shot a buck that had wandered into her back yard. ***  Denver, Colo. A burglar phoned police to report that he had just broken into a groc- ery, explaining that Store Owner Raquel Cordova, 62, had dropped in, happened to have a gun and suggested** he make the call.  Melbourne, Australia. Roy Dowsett has treated sizing dies and seating dies with four eyes going for him when he goes hunt- crimper are included. Featured is a ing. His pet crow goes along and perches unique swing-out primer arm. on the barrel of his rifle as "a sort of for- Complete with dies, shell holder, and ward observer" while** Mr. Dowsett takes aim. primer arm, $54.95.  New York City. A masher made a big A TRIPLE THREAT ... mistake when he approached Dorothy Uhnak This new Big 'C" Pacific Combination in a subway station. Although only five feet, Tool combines power and adaptability to handle any job of reloading pistol, rifle, four inches tall, Miss Uhnak is a police- or shotgun shells. For one caliber, com- woman and told him he was under arrest. plete with dies, shell holder, and primer When he refused to go to police headquarters arm it costs $75.45. Automatic feed, with her, she knocked out the husky 6-footer complete with one tube for shotgun, rifle, Pacific Gunsight Co. is now distribut- with the butt of her gun. Shortly thereafter and pistol primers, $11.9 5. ing F R E E its 32 page illustrated he was facing the judge. handbook and catalog for the ex- * * * THE STANDARD FOR 25 YEARS ... pert and amateur. Get one. Glance  Milwaukee, Wis. When a stranger drove The Standard Tool is constructed with through it. You'll see why expert out of his gasoline station without paying ample strength for all the normal re- hand loaders have consistently cho- for a tankful of fuel and three quarts of oil, loading tasks. An economy tool com- sen and recommended Pacific Tools Clifford P. St. John went into action. He got plete with dies, shell holder, and primer for perfect, low-cost ammunition for arm. $44.95. Automatic primer, complete more than 25 years. For a free copy, into his car and chased the customer 100 with one tube for rifle and pistol primers, fill in the coupon below and mail it miles, then crowded him to the side of the $7.00. to us. road and held him at gun-point until a police car came along. PRECISE INSTRUMENT DIES ... ' Pacific Gunsight Company * * * Dies, rifle and pistol, by Pacific Gunsight 1 2903 El Camino Real  Steamboat Springs, Colo. Leo Roybol are precise instruments with perfect con- 1 Palo Alto, California wouldn't want it any closer. While out centricity of shell 1 Please send me FREE your new handbook ' hunting, a black bear charged at him and body and neck. Every 1 for handloaders. 1 bowled him over. Luckily, a companion of single die is tested I ! Mr. Roybol kept his nerve, took careful aim 100 % perfect for di- Name. ....................................... 1 mensions, tolerance, I I and fired. The bear toppled over dead. I *** and specifications be- 1 Address. .................................I. 1 fore it leaves the fac- I 4 Birmingham, England. Two-legged wolves tory. Each complete I I city. ......................... state ......... on the dark streets are really catching it set,percaliber,$13.50. I these days from pistol - packing females. Tired of being accosted by ardent males, the girls here have begun using water pistols to chase them. The pistols are loaded with a "A'-IFIC RELOAnWG TOOLS 1 harmless but evil-smelling disinfectant. -PACIFIC L... -.-... --.... ..... -.-J EL CAMINO REAL .. JAMES E. SERVEN Here they come Arms Collector and Historian One of my most intrepid friends was a I wonder if U.S. Marshal in West Texas. In his younger days he had been a Texas Ranger, and always carried a Colt .45 single ac- tion revolver when serious trouble loomed. This choice of a weapon impressed me deeply, for this man had faced death many times. Later I obtained such a gun from the eminent arms collector, Maj. Wm. B. Renwick, and another valued friend, Paul Showalter, engraved the re- volver and applied a fine silver overlay. I treasure this weapon because of these associations, and because of its depend- able performance, natural balance, and beautiful workmanship. FAVORITE COL. GEORGE B. JARRETT Chief,Foreign Materiel Branch, APG LTHOUGH the pic- ture shows me with an ItalianA Villar - Perosa sub- machine gun, my favorite is a weapon which I no longer have, though I carried it a long time. It was a Colt .45 automatic, the old Model 1911. When selling out my collection of war relics, I eventually sold it, too. I found this pistol in 1922 You will be surprised how hanging from a hook in a many "impossible" hits dugout once used by Ameri- cans, near Chateau Thierry. you make when you hand- Why it was still there load with Sierra Bullets. puzzled me, but I always Choose the exact bullet for thought that since it was rel- atively soon after World your needs from Sierra's War I for snoopers like my- complete line of 39. Dis- self, it could still have been cover what handloading where left by the last man in the dugout. I took it home can do for you. Write for and on my first tour of duty Sierra's FREE brochure, here at ~berdeenproving * "An Introduction to Hand- Ground-which was July, 1927 as a new lieutenant-I brought along this rusted loading." Dept. 75C. wreck. I had cleaned it enough to make it move, and shot it a few times though I-. bore was badly rusted. Here at Aberdeen we fixed it up with new parts to make it Ms. at least shootable. Then I was faced with my first instruction in pistol shooting, and went to it with a will, drawing a pistol from the ordnance company with which it seemed.1 couldn't shoot. Then I asked permission to try this wreck of mine- did FOR TARGET OR GAME it mainly because I was by then "attached" to the wreck. I promptly shot fairly . THE NAME'S THE SAME well, and eventually got a Marksmanship badge before I went home. Ever after that I could shoot a .45. I didn't carry it in WWII -reason, went out to Egypt sans guns, since we left prior to Dec. '41 and were actually "tourists" to the British forces well; I mean, no match stuff at all, but jumping tin cans at 20 paces sure, anytime. in Africa. So out there I used a captured Luger, which I could handle fairly well. Brought Lugar home; in fact, wore it home, flying from Cairo to Washington, D. C. THE COVER ONTIACS AND PISTOLS mingle in This multiple-exposure picture of the Bodrie draw merits study. Guns Pthis issue, in the story behind our story, Note utter simplicity of stance, "He Backs His Claims With Bullets." This economy of movement, absence FINEST IN THE FIREARMS FIELD fast-moving article on gunswift Joe Bodrie, of crouch or other "fooferaw." Michigan boy, son of a cop, who has chal- And when Bodrie draws ha lenged and beaten at the timer some of the makes more than smoke; he "fastest guns alive," is backed up by one makes hits. See him at your of the most remarkable action photos ever local Pontiac showroom.