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SEPTEM-BER 1959 5~c FINEST IN THE FIREARMS FIELD- NEW QUIRKS FOR QUAIL TROPHIES: WHERE and HOW Europe's finest ... now reduced in price r Extra reaching power of the Mercury Magnum gives killing patterns at extreme ranges. Regular loads can also be used. Beautifully balanced, handsomely engraved and checkered. 10-gauge, 1tlt $149.95. 12- and 20-gauge, $129.95. L1GHTW(lGHT Only 6 Ibs. 6 oz.... and a beautiful "heavy gun" performer. The Lightweight is responsive ... accurate ... fast handling even after hours of big game hunting. Calibers: .270, .30-06, .308, .243, 7mm. Now $139.95. See this and other Husqvarna rifles at your dealers. rEm PISTOLS The constantly increasing worldwide popularity Compact and trouble-free, with "fixed-barrel" and demand for the Husqvarna Lightweight has accuracy. Blue or chrome engraved finish in miniature or full pocket size. Finest Belgian' placed it in the enviable position of being the largest workmanship. .22 LR and .25 cal. Priced from $29.95 to $49.95 at your dealers. selling bolt-action high-powered lightweight rifle in the world. Husqvarna rifles have always required higher prices than those of competing guns because they are unquestionably the finest among bolt-action rifles. Due to the great worldwide increase in sales, the mm:mD Husqvarna factory has achieved greater economy in VARIABLE POWER SCOPES production without sacrifice of quality, resulting in new All purpose ... instant change to any power from n to 8. German precision low prices for all popular models. optics give clear view in adverse light. Internal windage and elevation adjustments, binocular focusing. Light in weight, dust and moisture proof. Finest scope ever offered at $69.95. Write for free catalog of the complete Tradewinds line for '59. ·ft.. In Canada: Dorken Bros. & Co., ftEWIND.~,. INC l ""II' 408 McGill Street, Montreal P.O. BOX 1191 TACOMA 1, WASHINGTON ~ \ ,j .r~:;-) 1. ............ :~./--:..~ ...... ""\ _ ~_~y'-.,,~J New BROWNING 3 inch Magnum 12 gauge Automatic-S The Browning Magnum provides that extra long range per­ formance you so often need ... and combines this maximum fire power with ajast, sure, automatic action. 5-shot capacity, reducible to 3-shot when required. Shoots all 12 gauge 3 inch Magnum loads and, when lighter loads are adequate, gives equal pattern efficiency with 2% inch Magnum and High Velocity loads. 32 inch barrel for accurate distance shooting; a tight full choke for dense pattern at long yardage. Recoil pad and built-in recoil absorber afford comfortable shooting with the heaviest 3 inch loads. Same prices U. S. and Carmela New BROWNING Lightweight 20 gauge Automatic-S Now a Lightweight 20 gauge ... in response to the insistent demand of so many. And it possesses the same fine features and shooting qualities of the Browning Sweet 16 and Light­ weight 12. Weighs only 614 pounds. 5-shot capacity, reducible to 3-shot when required. Shoots all 2% inch loads including 2% inch Magnums. 26 and 28 inch barrel lengths. Full, modified, improved cylinder and skeet chokes. And, as with all Brownings, made to give trouble jree service jor a lifetime. It costs no more to enjoy incomparable performance and timeless endurance. YOUR BROWNING DEALER WRITE for "Guns by Browning" a colorful illustrated booklet containinR" complete information on all Browning guns and special chapters on shooting-. Browning Arms Co., Dept. 40, St. Louis 3, Mo. U.S.A. Prices subject to change without notice. Browning Arms Co. of Canada, Ltd. Dept. 40, P.O. Box 991, Montreal 9, P.Q. GUNS SEPTEMBER 1959 3 By JEANNE CARMEN Starlet & Model WOLFF-engraved cap-and-ball re­ volver is the most treasured item Ain my antique weapon collection. Like all original Wolff revolvers, the ham­ mer is in the shape of a wolf's head. The revolver is an Army Colt .44, Model 1860. Although it is 14:14" long and weighs 2 lbs. 11 oz., I have found it to be a very accurate weapon and have been able to fire six rounds in four seconds. Instead of photograph­ ing this revolver, which generally looks very much like a quarter million other 1860 Colts produced (though few are as nice as mine), I chose to illustrate my fine European snap· haunce flintlock pistol-probably an Italian pistol of about 1650. It pre· dates the later "true" flintlock and is just as accurate as any revolver being made today. At the Los Angeles Police range last May, I chalked up six out of seven bullseyes with the snaphaunce before several rather amazed rookie patrolmen. MY FAVORITE GUN WITH By CAPT. JOHN E. PEGG, USAFE Chaumont, France, Rod & Gun Club Test your rifle before you go hunting! Sight in with preci­ I CE being stationed in sion-made SIERRA bullets ... S Europe I have had the choice of successful hunters opportunity to add some in· for deadly accuracy, consistent teresting firearms to my collec­ mushrooming and maximum tion. I have about twenty long killing power. guns, including two of the French "Charleville Model FREE ... 1763" muskets that were the patterns for our first Spring. Ask your Sierra field muskets and such as Dealer for Sight­ were used by Americans in In Targets to help our Revolution. I have a you get ready for couple of Flobert breech load­ hunting. ing "saloon" rifles, and an interesting poacher's gun. But' ASK YOUR DEALER FOR SIERRAS one which I currently rate as "fayorite" is the heavy dragoon pistol I hold in the photo. Proper identification of the gun was difficult. I obtained the gun for a small sum near my base at Troyes, for target or game ... France. Finally I discovered it to be one of the detonating-lock Augustin pistols, remember the name which were made for the German states and Austria about 1840 but were not ~<;IERRA. successful. Most were converted, as this one has been, to cap lock. The new breech plug is dated "1850." Instead of the special part to hold the Augustin detonator ~BULLETS tube in place, a curious safety to hold the hammer off the capped nipple has been fitted. To fire the gun, you fold the safety limb forward, against tension of a spring. 600 W. Whittier Blvd • Whittier. Calif 4 GUNS SEPTEMBER 1959 THE COVER Lives there a fast-draw sport TEADY CUIVS READERS will remem­ with soul so dead, who never S ber a couple of years back when we to himself hath said, "I am the published Clyde Howell's narrative of how best, the fastest gun?" No less he became a skillful "trick" shooter. Howell, than six, to our knowledge, lay a farmer by profession, is an enthusiastic claim to the title. Dee Wool em gunner and Firearms Editor of a mid-western backs his claim with trophies newspaper. His principal problems in learn­ as well as with authenticated on-the-timer-records. ing "fast and fancy" pistol handling were two: high cost of ammunition (for aerial SEPT., 1959 VOL. V, NO.9-57 targets) and a bullet in the leg from a mis­ take in fast draw_ In view of the lauer, readers will understand Howell's great en­ IN THIS ISSUE thusiasm for new developments in C02 "guns" and for the instructional materials now avail­ rifle able to students of fast draw_ Howell tells FAST DRAW - NO BLOODSHED ..............Clyde G. Howell 14 you on page 14 how to achieve "Fast Draw­ PISTOLS FOR PLAINSCLOTHESMEN. ............... '" ..Allan Skelton 28 No Bloodshed_" Shotgunners get their innings with a guns americana ... shortic, on page 21-a simple rig for easy THE SINGLE-SHOT RIFLE SAGA. .. Robert J. Kindley 18 trap practice at home_ Also for scauergun­ KNOW YOUR LAWMAKERS: SPECIAL BULLETIN. 25 ners is "New Quirks For Quail," the lore of hunting the brown buzz-bombers in today's shotguns changed cover and conditions_ ONE-MAN PRACTICE SHARPENS SHOTGUN SKILL. Phillip D. Rush 21 Two off-beat items in this issue: for pistol­ men, new notes on defense sidearms, plus piet ure sequence of a novel, surprise, coat­ huntil'ilg ••• pocket draw_ Th is one may not be fast as WHEN HE CHARGES, YOU HIT - OR ELSE!. ".William M. Jenvey 22 NEW QUIRKS FOR QUAIL. .......... George McKenna 26 leather slapping, but it guarantees the ad­ TROPHIES: WHERE AND HOW ... Bert Popowski 31 vanl age of slIrprise. Second off-beat is Bob Kindley's thoroughly researched article on Single Shot Rifles­ home workshop ... their care and feeding. Recent publication GUN OF THE MONTH: THE UPSIDE·DOWN ENFIELD ... John P. Norton 34 by Morrow of the second of Jim Grant's de­ tailed books on single shot riHes makes the collector . .. subject of more than minor interest in a TWO GUNS: COST PRICE, $14,000 Herman P. Dean 35 magazine. Kindley digs into the background of these once-top model in American fire­ departments arms, still sought by knowing shooters for MY FAVORITE GUN............................................. 4 their precise accuracy today. TRIGGER TALK . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 5 Hunters will relish this section of Bert GUN IN THE NEWS. Elmer Keith 6 Popowski's informative survey of trophies ELMER KEITH SAYS... .. .. 8 and where to get them, page 31. His facts CROSSFI R[ ... .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. ............. .. 10 will save you money, if you wisely apply his PULL! , .. ,",".. .. .. 36 SHOPPING WITH GUNS R. N. Wallis 56 recommendations on where to hunt. Popow­ HANDLOADING BENCH Kent Bellah 66 ski, resident of that God's Country of Wyo­ THE GUN MARKET 72 ming, is a staff contributor of the N.R.A. Last but not least is Know Your Law­ malcers. But this month we have substituted George E. von Rosen Art Arkush PUBLISHER E. B. Mann EDITORIAL DIRECTOR a statement of policy by a major police offi­ EDITOR cers' association.
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