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Hunting Accidents ing. That kind of timing includes all kinds of reaction-time lags and anticipatory reflexes Harry Botsford ("Will You Kill A Man on the part of the timer. Let O'Brian draw This Fall," GUNS, October) sings the same and shoot (and hit!) against the scientifical- old song about hunting accidents, makes the ly accurate electric and photographic timers game old guesses (plus some new ones) as used by McGivern and other of the fast-draw to their causes-and then comes up with speedsters. He'll find that -his time come? nothing better than the "test all applicants" nearer to the full second than to the 2/5e answer. You wasted just so many pages in record. And that's still fast. brothers! That*? an otherwise good issue. still fast. Sure it might help if every applicant for Ed Conroy a hunting license had to pass something Kansas City, Missouri equivalent to an Air Force physical exami- nation plus a college entrance exam on gun Cuiigratulations on your fine magazine. It savvy, plus maybe a personal demonstration is my favorite magazine on guns. Have been of marksmanship and safe hunting practice. buying it ever since it was published. Enjoyed It might. Lots of states require pretty strict the story on Wyatt Earp. Keep up the fine CATALOG examination before the issuance of driver work, especially on articles dealing with old licenses, and the road toll doesn't improve and rare arms. Liked the cover of Augiisi Scientific FACTS much. More cars-more accidents. More and September issues. ABOUT DOWN! Henry Kakehaski lustrotes Down hunters-more accidents. It's as simple as gorments for men, that. Chicago, Ill. women and young- But examinations for hunters are plainly sters, 18 styles from impossbile, and Botsford should know it. No New Russian Cartridge $14.50 to $79.50. state game department has, or can have, the Sleeping bogs from personnel necessary to handle the sudden, I just saw the article on the new Russian $14.95 to $89.50 cartridge in the September issue of GUNS. ..Down comforters brief, but urgent deluge of hunters lining up and many useful to buy their "permits to kill." It has been Good article. Could you possibly give me the \ outdoor items. tried. And men like Botsford would not be diameter of the case at shoulder, and shoul- READ WHAT the last to scream if the price of hunting iler angle, please? OTHERS SAY licenses went up to what it would cost to J. Schultz ABOUT back such a system. Because the experienced. Pottstown, Pa. DOWN. "safe" hunter would have to pay, along with Ed. It was not possible to measure one of the ighter than feathers, warmer L the greenhorn. than ten sweaters. Nylon for- 7 Botsford hit the only workable answer. Russian rounds exactly in these dimensions. earlier in the article. Teach kids to hunt, Later, for test, a shoulder of 60' was formed the way he was taught. Don't blame your on the reamer, with a body taper of .03V per state game department for your failure as a inch. This allowed cases to extract ensily parent! from the rolling block test rifle.. Lee Wolff Denver, Colorado Shooting For Youngsters I.read your article "What's Wrong With Hugh O'Brian on Wyatt Earn Target Rifle Shooting?" in GUNSof March. 1956. I am a boy of 15 and own a .22 rifle. It The article by Hugh O'Brian, "Was Wyatt is a Sears-Roebuck. My father bought it for Earp Hero or Heel?" in GUNSwas a decided my birthday in New York upstate. My friend relief after the recent flood of Earp stories in and I go out target shooting almost every day other magazines. Earp was human; a tough after school. man in a tough country in tough times, big My father is in the army-and gets trans- enough to make his mark on the country and ferred a lot; we are now at Fort Dix, New the times. If O'Brian keeps his TV presenta- Jersey. And the law says no-high powered tion along the lines of his article, he won't guns allowed. Is a BB gun a high-powered stray too far from the facts. gun? We can't even go target shooting with But I very much doubt that O'Brian can a BB gun. It makes me sick to have to park make the time he claims with a Colt Single- my rifle. Can't there be target ranges or action. Not if he means, "and hit a target." wooded areas set aside with the sole Durnose--. Two-fifths of a second is the best time ever of target practice, areas with adult guidance officially credited to Ed McGivern-and if and to give us kids a break. I for one believe McGivern isn't (or wasn't) the- fastest man it would give us something to do and fill up a on earth with a handgun he was that man's lot of spare hours. equal. O'Brian shoots holes in own claim Kenneth Davis - -. when he bases his claim on stop-watch tim- Browns Mills, New Jersey GUNS 1s ~ubllahedmonthly by Publisher's Dweloamont Corm., Inc. at 8150 North Central Park Avenue. SkokIe. Illlnoi*. Second claw mailing prlvllegm autnorlml at Skekl*. Illinois. SubMriirtlon à ydy in the USA. 4 Vandalia, Ohio. As the reports of a million-and-a-ha1
Bob Diefenderfer of Reading, Pa., crowded close for second place with 959 . . ."-- ban Orlich was crowned all-around champion based on 400targets of the Grand American, the North American 16-yard championship, and the doubles. Score of 384, reflected credit to the Reno, Nevada, shooter's skill. That Harold's Club range. really keeps shooters in top f om . . Doubles honors went to Ned Lilly of Stanton" Michigan, who broke 98 x 100. Lilly. won the doubles championship once before in
Brown tied with Durwood Baumgartner of Crestline, Ohio and in the 23 to Baumgartner's 18 to win. Brown and the runners-up divided up money . . Mrs. Louis Wolf of Philadelphia scored high gun in the sion with 97. from19 yards, topping Mrs. Annabel Stallcup of Blo coming in secondwith 94 from 18yards . . . A 16-year-old Eagle scout, of Wilmington, Dela., shot first for the junior title, and 14-year-o Will.iamson of Compton, Calif., copped the sub-junior laurels smashing terrific handicap of 23 yards . Professionals Tom Frye of Maumee, Bill Adkins, Louisville, tied .for top. honors won the shootoff for the*championship . . The cha classic trapshooting race occurred in the. prelimina Shelby Edwards of Central City, Ky., broke 98 x 100. Picking up money his first time at the Grand, Edwards outshot the largest in this event, 1775 top shooters from all over the nation. Cam Perry.Ohio. Joe Benner won his fifth natio lakeside matches witha terrific score of 2610 out of 2700. Thi Benner's highest aggregate score but was, as they say, "just en CWO Offutt Pinion, USN, earned a free trip to Australia bywi
Oakland. Calif. More than 250 gun nuts kicked off the bl up at the Oakland pistol club's monthly Sunday shoot. This was a surprise crowd because Saturday was opening day of Southern Cal's deer season. But those slic medals and trophies the club hangs on the winners drew top guns from all over. Many shooters staggered to the lines faint from loss of sleep after having drive all night to get to the shoot from the deer chase in order to qualify for the 1956 aggregate championship trophy . Top scorer was Ted Elton, USN. who anchored the trophy by finishing third in the. first match, second in the second match, and first in the third and aggregate matches . . . The "kickw of .the day happened when Scott Nolan of Fort Ord, checked with the scorer at his table. Nolan knew h had shot two 9's, three 7's and five 8's. What a howl went up when Scott looked a the jumbled more and found that he had been given eight 5's . Team match was won by that hard-shooting California Highway Patrol team and. .atough aggre- gation to beat: Boomhower, Jacobs.Kolb and Thomas. Mount St. Bruno, Quebec, Canada. Dark horse, te or just a darn good showing-call it what you wil victory. Inaddition to other successes he copp Association grand aggregate and the Tyro Grand whichearn tray, and three medals in all . . . Provincial prize mone second was split between Tremblay and Sgt. M. S. Kent. v aunge Pointe Military Rifle Association who matched th -he shoot was one of the best in Quebec's shooting histo entries including 3 U.S. riflemen and a few top-f light Bisley Royal Canadian Air Force team won the Banker's team match with 370. ' c . . . , . Reno, Nevada. Carola Mandel of Chicago finished the skeet season with 99.5 average in 12 gauge, highest ever achieved by a woman shooter and bettering her 1955 record when she became the first woman to compile a 99 per cent average . . . Winning the Women's National 12 gauge skeet .championship with 247 x 250 was part of her success. The slim Chicago scattergunner blasted the birds to win"te women's overall championship a full ten targets ahead of her nearest rival . . . Col. Leon Mandel and Carola teamed to win the national husband-and-wife title with 489 x 500 . . . Jay Swardenski of Peoria swung on 249 birds out of 250 with black-dust success @or the junior 12 gauge champ title . . . With a sha score of 1221 x 1250, the Illinois squad of Bob Rath,. Winnetka; Col. M Dick Halseth, Crystal Lake ; and Chic s Nick DIAndrea and Jay Schatz,. shot together for the Class Ateam title. Moscow, Russia- Warming up for the cs, Soviet marksman Anatoly Ti bettered the world's 300 meter prone record. shooting 39- bare twitch
s. Florida. With a 563 apiece in the centerfire agg hn Goodf ellow battled in paper punching for the gold trop 1 Gables Police Pistol Club. Dunn took the -45 gran hile M/Sgt. Goodf ellow won the "expert class bronze trop shooter George Hardie. Jr. topped eight placing sharps withw 1542 In the aggy. ,L= . Middlefield, Corm."' '% rree trip to Perry was won the hard way by Cook,. leading 186 competitors at the Northeastern smallbore ed some stiff competition including Bill Schweitzer of Hills equalled the National iron sight 50-yard record of 400 - 39X. The story at Middlefield. It was set on that range in 1948 by Ed Gushing in the state championships . . . Ransford Triggs was chief triggerman and a c Cook in every match. Going into the last match Of a rainy Saturday, one point and 5 x' s. Cook came through with 400- -, 33X and Triggs cutting his lead to butIX. Then on Sunday with good weather, Cook took over in the scope matches, woundyp on top with 3195-248X, just three points and 7X1sahea riggs . . . The kids'set up a new national record in the two-man match. ors Barbara Winton and Bruce Reynolds teamed to shoot a whopping score of 800 - . . . Possibles ware thick as fleas ona houn' dawg at the Middlefield range. In the 50 yard iron sightmatch Schweitzer (39X). Cook (37X) and Tr headed 16 shooters who fired highest 400 scores. 'T. <, Big Bear Valley. ~alifornia. Without question the most unusual shooting match sin& Billy the Kid b&t the dust was staged by Snow Summit, Inc. at this TOOO-foot high resort town. Some 20 hard-bitten gunfighters with their holsters slung low congregated for the first leather slapping contest of the modern era. A prize ofy
By William B. Edwards I
Search no more for the perfect gift for that shooter in your RliMINGTON ARMS family. A Bear Cub Scope under the tree will make this by Alden Hatch Christmas THE Christmas for any sportsman. Bear Cubs are the (Plinehart, $6.50) newest, finest, most modern scopes you can buy. Check just a few of the features any gun-bug will go for: An excellent history of the Keiuing- to1n Anns Company has been written NEW MAR-PROOF NEW BRIGHTER, WIDER FIELI "TUF-COAT" FINISH by biographer Alden Hatch. It covers .. . really takes a bwting, looks terrific e -always. thi firm from its earliest start as the ADJUSTMEN1 sirla11 forge of old Eliphalet Reming- NEW OMiCS ...this they love, image is always .. . o ã,precisien optic01 .mstrument. to1n and his son "Lite," down to its cmfrod. Present-day status as a key part of the See Your Sporting Goods Deafer gr1eat DuPont empire. A great deal of thie personal history of early Reming- the Bear Cub 2m ws-T nollmowu optical corporation n workmen, and the Remington fam- and 347 Kine Stmt, Northampton, Mass. { , is brought out by Hatch in his the Bear Cub 6X ;; t Wf dl-written chronicle. It is enjoyable 1 re:ading. From the firearms technical side, the boiok is weak. Without adequate docu- .. I 347 King Street ma mtation, Hatch mentions Remington Northampton, Mass. g" ins which are unknown to collectors - to1day and which some believe never existed. Yet the general tone of the
; bo ok is high and well worth the atten- ticin of gun fans. In a sense Hatch's I . HUNTERS HAMDLOADERS in1teresting biography of the Remington - COmpany occupies a place midway be- tw een the strictly technical and detailed pit cture book on Remington Handguns . by Cy Kaar (which covered Reming~on pii stols only), and the definitive yet-to- . be -written history of Remington Arm* . f01r the gun fan.
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(can) ...... 5.25 $16.75 MEASURE $16.15 225-Grain Round MOM ...... 5.75 150-Grain Spitzer ...... 5.10 333 Caliber-.333 Diameter 175-Grain Spitzer ...... 5.35 8MM. Caliber-.323 Diameter 275-Grain Semi-Spitzer ...... 7.00 150-Gr. Rnd. Nose (can) ...... 5.00 170-13. Rnd. Nose (can) ...... 5.25 .348 Caliber~.349Diameter IM-Grain Flirt Point ...... 5.50 LACHMILLER LUBRICATED 348 Calibe+.348 Diameter 220-Grain Fiat Point ...... 5.85 1 SHOTGUN WADS 200-Gr. Flat Point (can) ...... 5.75 .35 Caliber-.3585 Diameter 3h" Fiber, $3.60 per 1000 35 Caliber~.358Diameter !@&Grain Fiat Point ...... 5.50 lh" Fiber, $4.25 per 1000 220-Grain Fiat Point ...... 5.85 200-Gr. Rnd. Nose (can) ...... 5.75 260-Grain Spltzer ...... 6.50 14" Felt, $4.95 per 1000 250-Gr. Rnd. Nose (can) ...... 6.M %" Felt, $6.00 per 1000 275-Gr. Rnd. Nose (can) ...... 6.8C .375 Caliber-.3755 Diameter lh" Felt, $7.95 per 1000 l3i.Grain Sanl-Pitzer ...... 6.50 .135" Over powder. $1.95 per M 375 Calibe+.375 Diameter Mf-Grain Semi-Spitzer ...... 7.27 285-Gr. Full Metal Jacket ...... 8.00 Orerntot. $1.75 per 1000. 300-Gr. Rnd. Nou (can) ...... 7.3s By GEORGE MONTGOMERY Famed Hollywood movie star
My favorite rifle for big game is in .270 caliber with an Alaskan scope set for grizzly and moose. I am used to big game, mainly deer and elk, and can bag them without too much destruction. However, you must know the kill spot on any of these animals. For duck and geese I use a 12 gauge. On small birds, a 16 or 20 gauge is best. I first went hunting when I was 12 years old. The first bird I ever shot was a teal. I was handling a 12-gauge shotgun. I knew I was big enough to carry one, but I didn't know the wallop they packed on recoil. The teal was flying at me at approximately 50 m.p.h. Not knowing exactly when to pull the trigger, the little feathered fellow was almost at barrel's length when I knew I had gotten the bird. The way I knew I had gotten that bird was because I found myself sitting in about six inches of mud and water, . and I could see featheq strewn-all over. me., And. that wa&.the .htbid. I. ... ever bagged, but couldn't carry home. Also, my lesson was that a 12-gauge shotgun at that range and age was a little too much firepower. Most of my hunting has been done in Montana and Alaska. rn 1 JOBBING: SAKO barmled-actions, rifles (sporter and Mann- licher type), and Sako .222 actions. Lyman; DEALERS: Authorized Installation Weaver; Unertl; Leupold; Pacific; BM; Redding; FLAIG'S Redfield; Pachmayr; Williams; Marble; Echo; Buehler; Jaeger; Sierra; Hornady; Boyt; Tri-Pok; MILLVALE, PA. miles North of Pittsburgh King; C&H; Wilson; RCBS; G&H; Mershon; ACE 6 Products; Husqvarna action, Stith Scopes, Hop- &h A * . Babe-k Blvd. a w's, Argus, McKinzie, Forster, Lin-Speed, Birch- ' Thompson Run Rd. . Near Super wood and FERLACH GUNS. Norma and Thal- Highway FEDERAL PRIMERS & AMMUNITION son. Sheridan, Hi-Score Smiley, Wilsonite, Koll- SPEER PRIMERS, BULLETS morgen, Judd, Douglas, Colt, Alcan, Acme, Polychoke, Schultz & Larsen, Speer components. a COLT HANDGUNS Federal Primers & Cartridges. Nosier Bullets. ENFIELD PARTS-NEW Enfield Stripped. . Receivers ...... $12.00 Enfield New 5 Gr. Barrels ...... 15.00 Enfield Excellent 5 Gr. Barrels ...... 12.00 ENFIELD FLUSHED TRIGGER GUARDS blued streamlined tang with blued screw ------$ 3.50 ENFIELD BOLTS. Complete. New --..------.$ 6.50 ENFIELD ACTION WITH 5-groove V.g. barrel. issue ..ã...... -...-Ñ-.--.Ñ-ÑÑÃ$34.00 DITTO-with milled ears as on Rem. 30. flushed w trigger guard & box cut to 5 cart. ..------$40.00 ENFIELD ACTION* ONLY. issue .-.-.ÑÑ$25.00 DITTO-with ears milled, flushed tr. pard.....- :.$32.00 PRECISION-CHAMBERED BARRELED ACTIONS OTHER ENFIELD PARTS: also available. KRAG PARTS- Receivers. stripped. $4.00: Bolt?, stripped --..----$7.00 Trigger Guards $3.00- Sear-Trigger Units ...... $1.50 Magazine ~~ririgs,$1.h0; Safes --.---..----.-....$1.50
220 Swift; 22-250; 2S7R; 270; 7MM; 308 Win.; ACTIONS F. N. ACTIONS IMPORTED-LITE WGT. vanadium 30-06. Also 250 Sav., 300 Sav., 243 Win., 244 Rem. steel barrels, blued with ramp (220 Swift, 257-R, .250-3000, 270, 7 mm or .30-06), $74.00 PREPAID. Latest F N. Mouser Action - (or HVA Action, $10.00 additional) Best g&de Ackley Chrome Moly Barrel or Douglas Chrome Moly Ultro-Rifled Barrels F. N. ACTIONS, Boehler 24" proof steel barrels, with the smooth, hard, swedged rifling in most calibers, including 243 Win. and 244 Rem. semi-octogon ribbed, matted. Sheared bead in ramp. Each unit precision chambered to mirror flnish with pro or headspace. Caliber 270, ,308 Win. or 7 mm. 30-06, 22-250-220 Each unit test-fired with sample fired case included for your inspection. Swift 26" 257R-250 Sav. $95.00. Length and rifle twist as wonted-otherwise we will ship recommended length and twist. IMPORTED SAKO BARRELLED-ACTIONS, .300 H&H Choice of sporter, Medium Heavy, or Heavy weight barrels. and .375 H&H, blued, $89.95. SAKO ACTIONS on 26" 41/2# mod. heavy ACKLEY Barrels have fino-around.... - finish...... Price $67.50 ~ponirweight. S1/2 lbs. $72.50 Medium Heavy Weight (appr. .700 at muzzle) OR DOUGLAS chrome moly barrel, white, $84.00. 7 Ibs. Heavy weight $77.50 ,222 Cal. SAKO ACTION on imported medium heavy barrel, (37.50 additional for the Dougl~s Premium Grade Barren. (S12.50 additional for NEW ENGRAVED FN ACTION) ow available-F. N. Mag. Action on .300. 375. H6H Boehler semroct. ribbed 26" barrel, sheard head fitted in ramp, ~1101 blued, no sights. Ready for stocking. 222 Rem. caliber $90.00. New Baehler Spring Steel Extractodor Mauser 98 (F.N.) and 1917 Enfield ...... Each $2.00 FLAIGS FINEST STOCKS & BLANKS (S~ecializedSTOCK FITTING & FINISHINGJ .... with bolt forged for low scope safety, with finely engraved trigger guard, floor plate and receiver regularly $74.50, SPECIAL [Some "Seconds" in Walnut, smal pecks, slight ~hecks-soo/~ off PRICE both No. 1 & No. 3 ...... $59.50 This is your chance to save $15.00. FINEST PENNA. BLACK WALNUT BLANKS 6 STOCKS: Rifle blanks, all grades, $4.00 to $20.00. Walnut shot- ONE WEEK un blanks, $1.00 to $15.00. Walnut inloled stock SERVICE BARRELS or most rifles; standard $5.00; xx grade (butt) $7.00' We turn 6 inlet YOUr "fl others $10.00 to $12.00. Also Penna. burls and ran *5.00 each' eormore *" BOEHLER BARRELS, proof steel semi-octogon, ribbed. burls available NOW: xxx grade $17.50-$20.00, matted entire length. Mode by FRANZ SODIA of xxxx $25.00; super Burls up to $35.00. RIFLE BLANKSÑSam as Circassian. From Ferlach, Austria in .35 270 7mm .30, 8mm and .37S. 26" Hiahlv occii'rn'teÑ'i...... the white, $45.00. OREGON MYRTLE BLANKS & STOCKS: Rifle blanks $22.50 to $50.00. $5.00 additional turned and semi-inletted. (Fittedto yo6 action, with sheard bead, complete $5.00 to $7.00. Inletted stocks for all rifles $7.00 to rice $60.00) $12.00. Some Seconds, All Grades, 50% off. STOCK SPECIAL: ~~~~~~.w~?2!s~~$k'~~~re~~~~~ New Springfield 4-troove barrels...... $13.110 Rare Bird* Eye MapleÑdens wood, highly 2l/a" thickness. $12.00 to S35.00 for fancy select.' FRANZ SODIA Boehler proof steel barrels, 24 figured blanks: Fancy $25.00. Turned & inlettod ;zmbp~ppefyo~'~~~~y~~~~;~;~o~, T;;w-;: gradual taper. About 2112 Ibs.; highly accurate 1-10 $30.00. A few super fancy $40.00. twist, caliber 25, 270, 7mm or 30 $30.00. (Fitted to your action, headspaced and test fired, $10.00 more). WE ARE JOBBERS FOR ALCANwe now handle the corn lete line of ALCAN COMPONENTSFOR RE- LOADING SHOTGUN SHELLS.
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ONCE FIRED CASES 6 X Pint extra game get it 22Va' ...... -...... ACE TRIGGER New! KRAG 2-Groove New! MAUSER '98 SHOE $2.00 30-40 BARRELS 2-Gr. BARRELS ACE DOUBLE-SET ch-be- & Far most rifles,shot. 23" or less in length* Fully chambered & threaded.23" or lessonly inSIS.O%. len h . TRIGGER guns aedguns. ~%?d*6rd%!Yces1E%~s a3,* IOW, ~LIIIY 30.0e Barrel,. FINE %" LEATHER $h~~~Av~l;$m~~~~$~ly=- gletely chambered and Threaded. 2-~roove. $1 0.00 SLINGS, Imported. to your Action-headspaced and test-fired- r:;;esf.yOO. (Swial Volume Prices on 52.50 addition". F~~ narrow swivels. Fitted to your Woven leather, NORMA BULLETS AMMUNITION UNPRIMED CASES Mauser or F.N. Ac- $3.50; plain $3.00. Write for FREE New Catalog-List- No. 27 tion - $6.00 more.
KRIION rr riliings 22 FRANZ SODIA Drillings 270 Win. 2-12 go. i:;;elr-~ii~i~l'aecS,y 24" side safe* highly engraved 7# A I ' O on ri& lndkatars 7%! $420.00. (Can lave this madeup any MILLVALE, PA. ~4~0.00. 1 modem combination wanted same price). Swrt Rehad!i SBO~SRofl* How With the ^Y. .. GUNS 111 the NEWS
-- - Exclusive new patented features make this tool a Q Toting up his chances of catching a liudloadT's dream coor trm. A wfeote MW cm' pre-season hunter in the act of bagging ceptbdftstaimd~glaeeriRfwuMRptowdb a squirrel illegally, conservation officer order to make the tool yw nqantUL Look at R. H. Marshall of Calhoun County, W. these netto-be-copled futum: Va., came up with a discouraging esti- mate in his report to the West Virginia Conservation Commission. If a man is going to hunt in a certain woodlot one day in the week, the chances are 7 to 1 the officer can't guess which day, 98 to 1 he won't guess the right hour. With 1000 woodlots in the county, the odds are boosted to 98,000 to 1 that the of- ficer won't hit the day, hour and loca- tion of the illegal hunter. 4. To nsure perfectly uniform ballistics, tool seats 0 0 0 the priiMfS by pressure inside the shell. 13 Using a borrowed rifle, Rene from (Frenchy) Lamoureux killed his first bear at the age of 11 while hunting in 5. Seats entire wad column inone operation. Capilano Canyon near Vancouver, Can- Wad punch is graduated in pounds of wad ada. Today Lamoureux, 32, is estab- MWM lished as a hunting guide in Alaska and is one of that territory's best-known sportsmen. 0 0 0 3 Inflation has overtaken the price of Dies Available la All Pooulir 68~~s.- gopher tails in Campbell County, North CH Shot Shell 714 Dakota. The commissioners have dou- kdudtaomsetof ...... WMO bled the bounty to hunters. It is now m SlMX OiÇ ...... $am ur sporting goods dealer or your local gun- 4 cents per tail. StrFor further information write direct. 0 0 0 C-H Die Company Is the world's largest ex- clusiv manufacturer of reloading equipment. Q Attorney-General John Ben Shep- perd of Texas had the flu and couldn't FREE! Send today for FREE brochure on New C-H Shot Shell Reloading Tool, take his son, 12-year-old Johnny, hunt- catalog and folder on hand loading. ing on the first day of the season. Mrs. Shepperd filled in for her husband and son. Johnny came back with two wild New! GUNBERTH* BRACKETS turkey gobblers and a four-point buck Catalog HM3 deer. For Displaying Your Guns Only 2% 000 In Cabinets, on Walls or Panels Lists full line of Q Donald W. Smith of Paso Robles, These specially designed Gunberth Brackets are NEW, ~UNBIKTHS*.plans. ~ite,and acc.maoriem or Calif., accidentally shot himself in the for foil detail*. ¥en $1.00 for arm while hunting for a rattlesnake he CmlPI* '- book" lilted IM- "SW low. had spied. He was taken 20 miles to a doctor for treatment and, upon being patched up, he promptly returned to the scene, found the snake and shot it 3 Pr. I 95 ppd 3 Pr...... r.25 ppd. 1 &x.' g.' '. '.1<'.95 ppd'. 1 do*. P'. .. 7 95 ppd. dead. 0 0 0 NEW EXCLUSIVE "HANDBOOK"+ When the pickerel are spaewning in Lake Champlain, Vermont, fishermen get hunting licenses. That's because these Veimonters will climb trees and 32 Pag* "HANDBOOKn.. ..only $1.00 ppd. CoUDONATo BR0S-v Dept. 6-120. Hueltom. Pa. shoot the fuh u they come by. wherever r--' are . . . whatever y- --,.c'- - 'e
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Aitro "Cub" Pistols 22 Short One of the hottest handgun sellers on the market. Uses .22 shorts at less thain a penny a shot. Lustrous blue. $29 .90. Chrome engraved, $43.35.
Astm Modal 200 Make a better profit selling the safest automatic of them all-four separate safety features. $29.90. Also, Astra Model 202 hand engraved and chrome plated, $46.00.
Star Model F 41/'." Barrel 22 L. R. Compact and li ht weight, here is the ideal handgun for the hunter, trapper, and outdoorsman, as well as for all round "plinking." 10 shots &;k! Tic Matador (formerly Model 4WE) Manufactured exclusively for us by the F. N. Deluxe Mauser Rifle with F. N. House of AyA. Hand fitted and finished Tri-Range receiver sight, $1 50.00. Cali- features usually associated with side by bers: .30-06 270 300s 7mm .257R side shotguns twice the price: Powerful .250/3000. .220 Swift. 6Dtiona'l choice selective automatic ejectors, single selec- 1 with' Lyman, Williams, or' Redfield re- tive trigger. All popular chokes and ceiver sights. (Shown left) barrel lengths. $154.00. (Shown left) Sako Masnum Mouser Rifles The Bolero (formerly Model 400) Identical to the Matador with double un- Made in the Sako tradition of extreme derlocks, finest ordnance steel barrels, hand fitted and finished. Monte fine hand checkered stock and beavertail accuracy,Carlo c eekpiece and rubber recoil pad. fore-end of European walnut-except the .300 HGH and 375 HGH, $156.25. Bolero has single non-selective trigger, (Center above) Star "CO" .25 Auto non-automatic ejectors. $125. (Above Outside hammer, manual and half-cock center) Sako Sporter safeties make this an absolutely safe gun. Accuracy, rugged strength, dependability Janssen Triple Lock Three second takedown. Beautiful vel- In our opinion, the finest moderately built into a 6lh Ib. light weight. Check- vety blue finish. $37.70. Chrome en- priced Belgian made shotgun. Quality- ered French walnut stock with cheek- graved, $43.35. designed for rugged field use, with French piece and Sako Dual Range peep sight. .*-1 222 Remington, .22 Hornet, .218 Bee. walnut hand checkered stock and fore- $135.00. A F.I. Own cnw Guamnfd for o Full end. All chokes. $1 39.95. In 12 gauges, (Shown right, above) Yoor. Port* and Swvic* Readily Available. 3" Magnum. $149.95. SaYour Defer w Writ* for FmCatalog. (Shown right. above)
Washington 22, D. C. NEW SPRINGFIELD : : 30-06 BARRELS : Guns { WILL FIT ANY 30-06 SPRINGFIELD i :20 DAY SPECIAL $6-95 :  -. a Regularly $9.95-worth up to $25.00 Model 1903A3 Springfield barrels manu- factured to rigid government specif'ications; : standard G.I. 24". Completely finished, IN THIS ISSUE. chambered and rifled, with front sight band and sporter type-without spline cut.  DEALERS: Write for special Discounts on Springfield barrels only.  hunting ...  SUPER SPECIAL BUY BIGQEST HUNTING RIFLE EVER MADE...... Elmer Keith 16 CHROME-LINED BARRELS 30-06 6 .270 : WHAT CALIBER FOR ELK?...... Leslie Bowman 20 CALIBERS. Will fit .98 6 FN actions. BRAND NEW. Threaded chambered blued HUNTING ELEPHANT WITH A DEER RIFLE...... F. Wallace Taber 34 chrome-lined ready for fitting with mini: : mum effort hhile the last SPORTER Wt. HUNTERS ON MOTORCYCLES...... David Brazil 40 22" ONLY $14.95-0d FITTED TO YOUR ACTION $24.95. - THE ROCK RETIRES FROM RING TO RIFLES...... Tap Goodenough 42 ENFIELD PARTS - NEW : Ea. Per Doz workshop ... :BoltsExtractors with Collar HOW TO MAKE A PERFECT RIFLE STOCK...... Chester Kishel 24 Handguords, rear :Ejectors Strikers (Firing Pins) :M azine Box shooting l . . cocking Piece :Bolt Stop Spring WHAT'S WRONG WITH HUNTING SIGHTS ...... Francis Sell 28 Floor Plate - IS THE BOLT ACTION OBSOLETE?...... Col. Charles Askins @ Trigger Guards 1.OO 8.00 0 31 5 (One each of above 10 scarce parts $6.95) LOW LOADS FOR HIGH SCORES ...... Kent Bellah 37 :Enfield Trigger Guards completely straight- : 0 ened (the hump token out of the front) 0 polished and blued with floor plate and  departments ... screwwhile they last $3.95. Â
CROSSFIRE, letters to the editor , . SHOOTING NEWS ...... Â MODEL 8 10~~01 TRIGGER TALK ...... Â .22 AUTO PISTOL ...... :Prewar quality but ARMS LIBRARY ...... William B. Edwards best of all PREWAR PRICES!- Perfect in and out-as new. MY FAVORITE GUN...... George Montgomery Patridge sights, beautif ully blued, checkered grips, posi- 4 GUNS IN THE NEWS...... GRADE ' *: :five safety. Deep rifling for extreme accuracy. Also a few CARTRIDGES, quips, quotes, and queries...... Stuart Miller :GRADE 2, (slightly warn, bore $26.95 : perfect) @ $24.95. Extra magazines, new SHOPPING WITH GUNS...... @ $1.50 with gun. New holsters with gun, $3.95. 4'/2" BBL only. PARTING SHOTS ......
COVER   Mightiest of trophy game, the big-eared African elephant is classically hunted with  JOBBERS FOR large caliber, heavy bullet weapons, but experienced safari sportsman Wallace Tabei SIGHTS RELOADING TOOLS argues that heaviest of game can be successfully brought down with common deer rifle. : - --- : :LYMAN LYMAN - C-H DIES He uses medium calibre Weatherby on big African game. MARBLE : KING RCBS - PACIFIC  MICRO THALSON - WILSON :MERIT REDDING SCALES AND :WILLIAMS POWDER MEASURES :- SCOPES MOUNTS BULLETS 2 6 LYMAN BUEHLER HORNADY  NORMAN-FORD PACHMAYR NORMA  George E. von Rosen  LEUPOLD GRIFFIN-  PUBLISHER  PECAR HOWE 0 KAHLES LEUPOLD Ben Burns E. 6. Mann William 6. Edwards EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR TECHNICAL EDITOR :MISCELLANEOUS Gun Cases; Grips, Powder, Holster*, Hoppe'i Col. Charles Askins Herbert 0. Bra er Cleaning Accessories Swivels, Factory In- SHOOTING EDITOR WESTERN EDITOR stallem of POLY CHOKES,~utts Compsnsa- :  tors. Sydney Barker Ben Rosen Louis Satz :GUNS HANDGUNS ART DIRECTOR ART EDITOR CIRCULATION MANAGER  HI-STANDARD IVER JOHNSON ... Marvin Ginn M. Magnusson Tom Youn blood LLAMA . . AS'TRA WALTHER AovERTIsING SALES MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER ADVERTISING PRODUCTION BERETTA . STAR~REATWESTERN . LE CHASSEUR Jack Provol Ren Averill Eugene L. Pollock . MIDWEST REPRESENTATIVE WESTERN ADVERTISING MGR. EASTERN ADVERTISING MGR RIFLES SHOTGUNS  ' IVER JOHNSON.. . MARLIN 0/U. IVER Editorial Advisory Board MARLIN. MANN- JOHNSON. BERETTA.: :LICHER-SCHOENAUER SAUER. FRANCHI. H. JAY ERFURTH CAROLA MANDEL STUART MILLER JAC WELLER :STEYR ...SAKO. ZEPHYR. a ROGER MARSH ROY G. DUNLAP VAL FORGETT TERMS: Cash with order only-Plus parcel 8 most 6 Insurance. a QUNS miguiir is publlshwd monthly at S1SO M. Cçntrà puk Awnw Skokl. Illlmis. sçcon C~~à mall privilege authorized at Skokia IllimlS. SUlSCRIPTIONi On8 'mr, ~b.00; singla copy SOC. CHANOE OF ADDRESS: Four wÇckà hie* tW~lrÑ OH ¥I Ghanfl. nnd old address as well as new. CONTRIBUTORS submitting ounuseri~ttPhotoarwin or drawin& do so at thçi own rlsk. Mat.rla1 u?iç be returned unless accompanied by ¥ufkol*nPoxmi PAVM T wlll LN made t rates current at tame A m.,.h rh WW~~~z7, D. c. of aceeptanc* and wlll covr reproduction In any, or all of OUMS magÑIn*' domntlo or foreign additions. ~DV~RTISIN~RATES wilt LN ~rnlwiulupon mid GUNS Readers Offered 10-day FREE TRIAL On Works of Famed Weapons Experts . (Simply Check Free Trial Square In Coupon)
LINCOLN'S CHOICE BY J. 0. Buckeridge You read portions of this amazing account of the Spencer repeating rifle in the Saturday Evening Post. Now here is the wholc dramatic story ... how the Spencer 1 was tested by Lincoln on the White House lawn ... how it helped shorten and win the Civil War! Well documented, and supported by exciting on-the-spot reports of the seven-shooter's spectacular success in major Civil War campaigns. $5.00
".45-70'' RIFLES ARMS and ARMOR IN By Jack Behn COLONIAL AMERICA A new book that fills an important By Harold 1. Peterson gap in the gun book field. Gives the Brings to light a wea1t.h of vital data description and identification of all of on firearms, ammunltlon, equipment, thc guns ever prodi~ced to shoot .45-70 cdged weapons and armor in the age cartridges. Covers service equipment and of colonization and exploration, 1526- sporting rilles, identifying many by serial 1688, and French Wars and the Revolu- number and photographs. $5.00 tion, 1689-1783. Endorsed by Company of Military COIICC~O~Sand Historians. $12.50
A 4 REMINGTON HANDGUNS s SIXGUNS (New, Revised Edition) By Elmer Keith By CHARLES 1. KARR, JR., An authoritative, fact-filled reference and CAROL1 ROBBINS KARR work by the Old Master, himself. Pic- The revised edition of an outstandingly tures of nearly 300 different handguns. si~ccessf~~lreference work that was first Toledo Blade: "It will be a standard published in 1947. Contains much new reference for wars to come.'' Over 300 data. Each Remington model is illt~s- large pages. $10.00 trated and discussed individually, giving history and development and complete technical analysis. $5.00
THE PISTOL SHOOTER'S BOOK The STORY of COLT'S REVOLVER 7 By Lt. Col. Askins By William B. Edwards The most complete volume on Colt ever A veritable handgun encyclopedia. Cov- pt~blished, containing a wealth of new ers American and foreign handguns, data painstakingly researched from pri- :immunition. ballistics, .bore diameters, vatc files. Over 200 photographs, draw- caliber designation, reloading, marks- lngs, designs. Nearly 500 large pages. manship, and many other subjects. $6.00 $10.00 1 :
AT YOUR BOOKSELLER OR ORDER DIRECT THE LUGER PISTOL THE STACKPOLE COMPANY rn Its History & Development from 1 Telegraph Press Building rn 1893-1 945 a Harrisburg, Pennsylvanio rn By FRED A. DATIG Please send books circled below: At long last, the complete and authen- E 12345678 H tic story of the most famous automatic ; Check or money order enclosed 'in amount of i pistol of all times. From the early days rn $ ...... B of the Borchardt to the Walther P-38. Send on 10-day free trial Send C. 0. D. :-- Over 200 pages. $7.50 rn- rn Name ...... rn rn Address ...... a CHECK HERE FOR FREE CATALOG ...... State ...... OF OVER FIFTY POPULAR GUN BOOKS Send FREE catalog of other gun books -d THE STACKPOLE COMPANY HARRISBURG. PA. Huge receiver of Al Weber's rifle built to handle powerful -50 caliber cartridge is drilled from high strength steel. Big fifty (left) which is twice size of -30-06
+ $9 (right) may be loaded with Marvel-made 650 grain soft points for hunting.
. WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL SHOULDER WEAPON SHOOTING .SO CALIBER MACHINE GUN CARTRIDGES
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. ' &.,-. * :, . . By ELMER KEITH
HE WORLD'S most powerful rifle Thas been cooked up by A1 Weber of Lodi7California. I shot this monster gun and it will really give gun fans something to think about. So powerful is this rifle that to shoot it will soon separate the men from the boys. A walloping 127000foot pounds of muzzle energy blasts out of Weber's Getting ready to test big rille built by psmith A1 Weber (right)ÂElmer Keith big rifle at each shot. It is the biggest used auto top as rest for shooting 25 pound sprter at target 350 yards away. of all "big fifties," using the .SO caliber machine gun cartridge. ''On jack rabbits and coyotes," says Webery "I have used a 525' grain soft nose bullet with the same powder charge as for the heavier standard 705 grain bullet. This gives way over 37000 feet per second. About all that is left is the tail and toenails. This load simply disintegrates the animal." Standard GI ball ammunition has been used in -50-caliber rifles on elk and moose at ranges approaching a mile with instant kills. Weber showed me the first of four of these rifles he built to handle the -50 caliber machine gun cartridge. He knew I had long advocated heavy bul- Aiming through Weaver 4X scope in Buehler top mounts, Keith held his head lets for big gamey and this was his carefully to avoid getting hit by eye-piece when heavy rifle fired (below.) answer-a monster rifle built in the shape of a four-shot magnum bolt action. A1 Weber and Jim Radford of Lodi dragged the biggest rifle I had ever seen into the house and asked me to test it. They had proof fired and bore sighted the brute but not taken time even to blue it. We picked up Judge Don Martin and drove out of town for a test. Aiming the rifle at a small rock at 350 yards with just four rounds, we shot from a cramped position with forearm rest over the top of a car. Recoil of the bk Original idea for -50 rifle came from Browning machine gun's accuracy when fired as a single shot weapon using scope sights. Author Keith's interest in big cartridge as sniping round was aroused by wartime experience with such guns.
piece which Weber figures at 113 foot-pounds (a Spring- forearm and fit a finger groove, something to hang on to field kicks about 27 it/&) was a great push, long and sus- instead of a huge saw log of a forend, one could better tained, but not the dirty teeth-rattling jar of the lightweight control the piece. .505 Gibbs or a 12 pound double .600 nitro express. Al Weber albo shot in off-hand. He is a long, lanky The rifle weighed an even 25 pounds. Though I tried to powerful man, with big hands and very long fingers, and hang on to that huge forend, at each shot it would get away could hang on to that huge forend far better than I. The re from me and raise up in the air about 60' and had to be coil prone should be terriiic, possibly dangerous. We would caught again as it came down out of recoil. Safety and bolt be afraid to he it prone as it is such a heavy, sustained handle were made for scope use, but eye relief was none too push, it might damage a shoulder or the scope come back great for the push of this big rifle. I had to hold my head and hit the head of the shooter. But from the standing rest as far to the rear as possible and still see. the target, to position, after shooting over 20 rounds, my shoulder avoid that ocular lens in recoil. showed no trace of discoloration then or later, and no sore- The rifle held very steadily from a hip rest off-hand or ness. Aside from keeping the head far back enough to standing position and its great weight made it swing very avoid the scope in recoil, the big rifle is pleasant to shoot. slowly. But I did not shoot it in that position as I was A scope of greater eye-relief than ordinary is indicated afraid of the ocular lens coming back in my eye. In shoot- for such a rifle. However, the Weaver K-V and the Buehler ing it with a forearm rest (across the car top), I got as far top mount seemed to take the recoil in stride with no change back from the scope as possible and even then the great in impact and no trouble whatever. Possibly one of those push of recoil bumped my nose and eyebrow slightly with little German scopes made to fit on the Mauser by the reax the mope. I believe if Weber will cut down the mix of tbe sight, with an eve-relief of some 16 inches. might hold together on a big -50 rifle. At least it wouldn't come back and hit the shooter at each shot. I shot from a strained position across the car body, but never missed a shot after the rifle was sighted in. It seemel that if the cross hairs bore on any part of a small rock out to 500 yards, I hit that rock. This great cartridge was never designed as a round for a shoulder weapon, yet ita accuracy is almost beyond belief at long range. At 1000 yards it will lick any -30 caliber rifle badly and has but a fraction of the wind drift. Though a hard wind was blowing that actually moved the rifle at times, it seemed to have no effect on that big bullet at all to 500 yad. As Weber says, "It's very g~odfor 1000 to 2000 yards if you care to shoot that far. Wind doesn't bother it much. Those heavy bulleta Three-shot repeating action bdt by Weber for -50 load seem to how where you want hem on the target." is 12" long. and fitted with Mauser type box magazine. The ammunition we fired was Remington stuff loaded with a 702 grain armor-piercing ball of a beautiful boat- tail design, and 242 grains of smokeless powder. Velocity wa~prohahlv 2700 to 28(M feet fContimed on me45)
Availability of 30 cauuer mu-rank &s from war surplus sales has created interest in long range shooting. i
19 Big cousin of deer is majestic elk, prize game animal hunted with long range rifles in Rocky Mountain country near Jackson, Wyoming.
Mounted on his quarter horse and ready for elk, author Les Bowman, well-known Wyoming rancher and guide, carries Model 88 Winchester. - . .,f-, * -r FLAT-SHOOTING, HIGH-SPEED, SCOPE-SIGHTED RIFLES ARE CHOICE OF WESTERN HUNTERS OUT AFTER RUGGED KING OF U. S. GAME ANIMALS
By LESLIE H. BOWMAN
High-velocity .270 nails elk in wide open spaces of Wyoming, one of eight elk states. Model 70 Winchester custom-stocked by Leonard Mews in claro walnut reflects hunter's pride in fine rifles.
HE KING of game animals in the whole North American There are as many opinions on what constitutes the best Tcontinent is without a doubt the rugged, wary, durable elk rifle as there are different rifles. Conditions and hunt- elk. There is no game animal that is better sport to hunt ing terrain have a great deal to do with what caliber, bul- and there are few confirmed hunters of any type game who let weight and type of sight can be used to best advantage. have never dreamed of going on an elk hunt. Also the experience and ability of the hunter is a large The elk or wapiti, as it is sometimes called, is truly a factor in this respect. But in the final analysis, nothing regal animal. They weigh from 550 to 1100 pounds, with will take the place of (1) proper placement of the bullet a spread of antlers that sometimes reaches 55 inches and and (-2) the proper functioning of the bullet. a length of beam that stretches as far as 50 inches. Its huge At this point I could start listing rifles suitable for elk palmate, projecting antlers, long legs, long fleshy muzzle hunting and it would read like a page from a gun catalog. and short neck give the elk an ungainly appearance that Many of the old and obsolete rifles are still good guns for definitely belies the considerable speed at which it can elk, such as the .280 Ross and the .30 Newton. However, gallop. for purposes of comparison, I will stay with modem fac- Elk have an amazing inherent wariness that is aided by tory and custom-made calibers and types. wonderful eyesight, hearing and sense of smell. They are In general, a good medium to large caliber rifle that will as durable as the Rocky Mountain boulders that now form carry fairly flat to 300 or more yards is preferable to the their natural habitat and can absorb tremendous shock and big bore, slow speed, high trajectory guns. And scope still keep going. In order to hunt them, one has to be well- sights from 2%~to 6x are the preferred sight equipment. informed and well-equipped. Thousands of elk have been killed with guns in the 25-35 Having been gunned heavily for many years, these once and the .30-30 class or even with the old muzzle loaders plains animals have gradually been forced back to the high- and later the .30-40's. But that was before the elk become est and most rugged sections of the Rockies. While they as gun-shy zind wary as they are today. When Teddy Roose- once ranged nearly to the Atlantic coast, they are now velt hunted in Wyoming with Buffalo Bill, his beloved elk found in only eight of the Western states and in British and bear gun was the old .405 Winchester which was later Columbia. Wyoming has the largest concentration of elk replaced by the .348. of any of the states and the yearly kill there is around I have a nearly-new .348 in my gun cabinet and although 10,000. Colorado and Montana have a large population I take out a great many elk hunters a year, this newer gun and Idaho, too, has long been considered fine elk country. is seldom if ever used. In fact, most of the slow, heavy bore Other states with an open elk season of some sort are Ore- guns are used only by those hunters who just want to see gon, Washington, New Mexico and Arizona. if it can kill or who want to be a bit different. In general, in these Western states, the natural habitat The ability to fire and make lethal, a 300-yard or even of elk during regular hunting seasons is the high ridge and at times a 400-yard shot often means the difference between timber country. This factor makes tong range shooting' the getting a real trophy head or settling for just any kind of rule rather than the exception. Necessarily, the experienced meat, or maybe nothing at all. I do not mean by this that hunter will be apt to choose a rifle that can be used for all elk are shot at long ranges. Some shots are made as, either long or short range shots and in most cases a scope- close as 75 feet. but this is verv much the execution. One sighted rifle is indicated. year we kept count of the distances at which our hunters Looking for elk on foot, hunters carry Mannlicher-Schonauer (left) and Model 99 Savage .300. Both guns are light arid easy to tote when scrambling around rugged mountain country that has become elk's natural habitat out in Rockies.
Les Bowman has wide selection of elk rifles at his ranch, often uses an 88 Winchester on pack trips into mountains. had killed their elk. It averaged out to 185 yards. How-
core-~oktor ~ornad~ro&dnose in 117 grain weights. The .308 Winchester is gaining favor each year and I find the man who condemns one is a man who has never used one. The .270 and the .30-06 are of course the most frequently used and rate a high percentage of kills, espe- cially the one shot kills. The 7mm Magnums such as the .275 H. & H., the Mash- bums, Ackleys, Weatherbys and the 7 x 61 Sharpe and Hart are great favorites. The .300 Weatherby Magnum and the .300 H & H Magnum are tops in long range elk guns for the fellow who can shoot them well. The .375 and such guns are in the minority because such size is unnecessary and therecoil is so high very few people can shoot them accu- rately. For those who like them and have confidence in them they are fine. But with all this caliber talk notwithstanding the N9. I problem in successful kills is to place the bullet in the right 22 Wyoming's Rocky Mountains provide beautiful back- Hunting guide prepares to clean a huge elk. Ani- drop for elk hunters resting in a 10,000-foot basin. mals provide excellent eating meat and proud trophies.
Short 7mm Mexican Mauser with 19" barrel is excellent saddle gun for packing in elk country and totes easily all day over rocks and hills. Slim 3-shot magazine cuts weight and straight stock by Len Mews reduces kick.
spot. It has been my experience with the hundreds of Hunter Jack O'Connor examines elk he bagged from over hunters I have seen and handled in the past years, that it is 325 yards with well-placed shot from Beisen-built .270. far better to hit elk accurately with a smaller caliber gun than to miss them with a big one. I am not against the larger caliber gun if the hunter can shoot it accurately and has confidence in it. But I have seen more "just wounded" animals and completely missed shots by shooters who are "overgunned" than by those who use a lower recoil, easier to shoot gun. There are very few once-a-year hunters who can handle a high recoil gun without flinching. It takes lots of practice not to flinch and most fellows who shoot high recoil guns and swear by them, shoot fairly often. Recoil or kick can be relieved a lot by a properly fitted stock and many times the extra money spent by having a good stockmaker fit a gun to the user, is money well spent. A well-fitting stock gives more pleasure and better shot-placement to a hunter. As the shooting range for elk varies, the flatter the gun shoots the less the error. The past few years we have had an increasing number of hunters come to Wyoming with lightweight, well-fitted rifles of various makes and calibers. Experience has shown that the average man can use such a gun faster and more accurately than he can a heavy, long- barreled one. Quite often the time element counts a lot in elk hunting. To get off a horse, get the gun out of the scabbard, put a shell in the chamber and squeeze off an aimed, well-placed shot is time consuming. Very seldom does a hunter have more than a few seconds to do all these things and it is here the lighter, quick handling gun really becomes an asset. I believe I have hunted elk in every state that has an open season, and over a great many (Continued on page 49)
23 Chet Kishel finds engineer's machine tools best for inletting blanks to exact dimensions. Stockmaker who works to zero tolerances does not touch blank with hand tools after first step of milling flats on stock top and side. HOW TO MAKE A PERFECT RIFLE STOCK
MACHINE TOOL MAKER SHAPING GUN STOCKS WITH ACCURACY OF STEEL DIE In his basement shop using metal working tools, engineer Kishel spends leisure hours cutting out fine gun stocks for which he has gained local fame. Dense curly maple that is despair of conventional stockers is machinists favorite wd
By CHESTER KISHEL , . . L N AMERICA, it is generally con- with his "fine London oil finishes," is I cede , we make the world's strong- mostly conversation. Of course, on est, longest-wearing rifles. But if Amer- neither side of the Atlantic are stock icans take metal-working honors, gun makers as ~ainstakingas they might nuts tend to reserve top stocking plau- be. No professional does perfect work. dits for the British. English craftsmen If he did, he could not make a living. fit actions into lumber "to the thickness Even so, gun nuts pay up to (400 of smoke," supposedly. English design, for custom stocks. Why? Aside from checking, and finishing are said to be accuracy, esthetics is the only excuse. unsurpassed. But it is in esthetics that fine stocks for Without disparaging English crafts- hunting and varmint rifles really stand manship, these tributes are nonsense. out. There are many guns with ordi- English stocks are no better than nary stocks in the hands of hunters, it American stocks; they're just different. is true. But one of the first things which British workmen are no more skilled distinguishes the casual hunter as he 1 than A1 Beisen, Lenard Brownell, or turns into a real enthusiast, is his wish 2 Tom Shelhamer, to name a few top- to dress up his rifle with a good stock. i notch American stockers. The English- You can sell custom work to gun nuts, Stock for left-eyed shooter is CW- :man's "precision" inletting. together and to a real marksman such as the pared by Kihel with maple type. Cutting away tiny shoulders and high spots in final in- All inletting is completed before final shaping b<--s. letting, Kihel uses Do-All grinder with high speed burr. Hardware such as grip cap and swivels guides stock shape.
Impression that Kishel planted maple seed and let tree grow up around Model 70 barreled action is gained on first inspecting complete contact along barrel groove between wood and metal. This keeps stock moisture proof.
man who keeps his "big game eye" in tune by varmint shooting in the off season. He is the kind of hunter who enjoys drilling a one-inch group at 100 yards with a sporter, because he knows it will give him an edge in ac- curacy when hunting. Factory stocks can be dolled up-rebedded, checkered.
and refinished-to look fine. But the nlain wood in~ such ~ stocks, even though it is strong and serviceable, won't satisfy a real rifleman. They won't "fit" his bones, muscles. and techniques. They won't suit his passion for accuracy. Factory inletting is the villain. Factory stocks must sell for $35, and factory nulling tolerances must fit the budget. They remove wood until the barrel and action literally swim in the stock. I've seen factory barrel inletting fill up with melted snow, freeze overnight, and change the point of impact by feet in the morning. The least they could do is provide a drain ! Inletting doesn't show, but it makes a difference. A rifle is onlv as eood as its least accurate comnonent. sort of the
Borderless checkering and careful shaping on snorters There's much humbug in custom stocking, what with terrify to Kishel's skill in final finishing of stocks. "secret" finishing formula and the like. Aside from having 36 Kishel-stocked .257 shot minute-of-angle from rest by Gregg Langermeier. A1 Johnson fires Kishel-Krag offhand. the gun feel right in the shooter's hands, just two considera- tions are vital. These are positioning the shooter's eye properly, and holding the barrel and action rigidly in the wood. The rest is strictly gingerbread, except in the esthetic sense. How do custom stockers work? Ten will give you ten different formulas. My own work is fairly typical, except that it's far more accurate than most. This is for two reasons. First, I'm an engineer and ex-tool maker. Second, I'm a hobbyist who worries little about time and cost. Money's the least of my ~roblemswhen I'm working on a stock. I do it for relaxation from the strain of teaching and consulting work. I can afford to take exceptional pains. A stocker's first consideration is wood. It's obvious that you should buy the best blanks available. A good blank costs from $35 to $100, compared with $200 to $400 for the finished job. There's no point in stressing economy where the wood is concerned. My choice for rifle stocks is American maple. It's a fine, dense wood, hard and close gained. It's stable and works beautifully. It comes in an endless variety of grains-burly, curled, birdseye. Some shooters wouldn't be caught dead with a maple stock, but maple's popularity is growing. Walnut is probably the No. 1 gunstock wood. But I buy Maple is favorite stock wood used by Kishel on En- native walnut, not the fancy (Continued on page 55) field, pump Remington and Model 70 in his collection. WHAT'S
A hit or miss in snap shooting under forest light conditions depends on good sights. Marlin .35 mounting a Williams "Foolproof' sight (below) with large Twilight Aperture improves hunter's sighting in poor light. Distance between front and rear sights will govern the front blade or bead width used for quick shots at game.
WRONG WITH HUNTING SIGHTS
CHOOSING RIGHT COMBINATION OF FRONT SIGHT WIDTH AND REAR
APERTURE WILL INCREASE HUNTER'S CHANCES OF GETTING FALL DEER
By FRANCIS E. SELL
want to touch off a blaze under a hunter's tail, [F::yround an autmmn deer camp some evening until a shooter gets to yarning about a big buck he missed, and then innocently ask, "Wouldn't you have connected if you had been using proper iron hunting sights?" He will hit the roof and shout: "That big five pointer was going through the hardwoods like a bat out of hell-just too fast for any hunter to connect, regardless of sights." But you have a case, a good case. For most brush bust- ing, kick-them-out-and-shoot big game hunting, proper iron sights will get you on your target with time to spare. Ten chances to one, though, the hunter who missed the big five pointer was using iron sights which were too much in- fluenced by the belly-whopping target shooters. As a matter of plain big game fact, the average hunter doesn't know what good iron hunting sights are. He takes what looks nice on his rifle, and that's that. There are plenty of seeming contradictions in iron hunt- ing sights. Two deer rifles may carry identical iron from sights and one may be just the ticket for short range big game shooting in heavy cover, while the other leaves much to be desired. Just keep your hands off the camp axe a moment and 1 will prove that to your own satisfaction. regardless of your hunting experience. Go through a rack of hunting rifles at any autumn deer camp, and look at the variety of front sights you find. There will be beads ranging in size from on down to 1/16"- round beadquare beaddheared beads, and they are all colors of the rainbow-red-white~silver-gold- black. They are placed on the different 'rifles without any great amount of thought as to their suitability. Yet, each rifle should have a front sight carefully fitted to that in- Rounded knobs on Redfield micro sight fitted to sleek dividual rifle alnne HVA Mauwr hunting riflp are fine for won& use. -*-.a- . -* 2y The size of the bead should be gov- erned by the length of the barrel. A rifle with a 20" barrel should not have the same size bead as one with a 24" or 26" barrel. That is why two almost identical rifles having the same type sights are not equally effective in game shooting. The 24" or 26" barrel should Good front sights are blades that differ in width for various barrel lengths. have a slightly larger front bead than Small bead is flatted for skylight, is more visible than the big round bead. a rifle with a 20" barrel. Proper sizes for the different length barrels are eas- ily arrived at by always keeping in mind the actual requirements made on a front sight when game shooting. A front sight must not be so large it obscures any great amount of the target area. That will rule out such beads as the semi-jack, \/^' bead. At 50 yards range such a large bead covers too much of the aiming point. It militates against ideal aiming where the center of interest and the center of impact con- Typical disks from rear sights have several sizes of peeps. Apertures at cide. far right and left are good, wide enough for use in dim hunting light. Any sight which distracts a hunter's attention from the game to the sight it- self is a decided handicap. In short, proper iron hunting sights are those which give both accuracy and speed of aim, but are still subordinate to the target. A proper sized bead is conspicious enough to be caught quickly by the eye as the rifle is snapped to the shoulder, and that is all. It should not subtend more than six inches at a 100 yards- three inches at 50. When this is con- sidered in reference to rifle barrel length, it becomes obvious that a care- ful fitting to the individual rifle is in order. For a rifle sporting a 20" barrel, designed for woods shooting, a bead no larger than 1/16" is called for. For a rifle with a 24" barrel, nothing larger than 3/32" diameter bead should be used. Fitted with these sizes before be- ing worked into proper shape, the finished bead is very efficient. Gold color will show up against any background, and is actually superior to either white, ivory, or red plastic. After selecting a good gold bead of the proper size for your big game rifle, take a small, firte file and shape the bead to take full advantage of the light. First step in this is to flatten the bead on top, giving it a square cut line. This will always give you a more constant elevation in shooting, and will do away with those unaccountable high and low shots. Second, cut .a flat face on the bead, if it is rounded, sloping this back about 30 degrees toward the top of the Ackley .300 short magnum rifle checked out with big .093" aperture and flatted bead. These two operations will some- bead sight is "woods ready" when shots at 100 yards group close on target. what reduce (Continued on page 47) dern bolt rifle. HE BOLT ACTION
DESPITE HOO
TURN BOLT RIFLE IS OUT-
BECAUSE OF SLOWNESS AND A
BY COLONEL CHARLES ASKINS
HERE IS an awful lot of talk in this country about the bolt action rifle, a gun that was invented by a German almost a hundred years ago and not materially improved for a half-century. A lot of hunters swear by the Mauser- type bolt action; a lot of others swear at it. I belong with the latter crowd. A rifle that hasn't been any more than superficially bettered during a half-hundred years is outmoded. Of course, there will be those admirers who will arise to inform me that the bolt action is not a hoary old thing but quite to the contrary is just as modern now as at the turn of the century. Yep, just like Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. Current Winchester M70 bolt action sporter is How can any shooting iron, if indeed very little changed from any mechanism, be otherwise than 50 -year- old Springfield. badly antiquated when it has been kick- ing around for 58 years with scarcely any face-lifting at all? Would you be content to drive an 1898 horseless carriage? Or live with the kerosene lamp, high button shoes and mule-drawn street cars? Or buy rifle fodder charged with black powder and leaden ball? Of course, you wouldn't. But the bolt action rifle that you cling to, swear by, tout to the skies and rec- ommend to the unwary is older than the good old days. Peter Paul Mauser fathered the turning bolt in 1867. His clan added the last major improvements in 1898. Since then the Mauser-pattern bolt action has seen only minor modi- fication. Among these is our Springfield, Model of 1903, which was such a faithful copy we were compelled to cough up a quarter million dollars in royalties. The Winchester Model 54, a gun that saw the light in 1920 and passed out of the picture in 1936, as well as its successor the Model 70 are both Mauser types. The Remington Model 721 bolt action appearing in 1947 is cut from the same cloth. There are other bolt-operated rifles but the lot are about as novel as mukluks in White Horse. The average rifleman isn't an historian. He doesn't real- ize the antiquity of the arm. He buys it all shiny and new and presumes the design is just as fresh. And God knows the manufacturer isn't going to call attention to the fact that the "new" bolt action he is proffering was around when Grandma Moses was a subdeb. Of course, the facts are that in 1955, just like 1954, and for many years proceeding that, the lowly Winchester .30-30 carbine, the Model of 1894. outsold all the bolt action rifles on the market. But the lever action is considered obsolete, so ancient no thinking sportsman could possibly be interested in it. Despite the steady propaganda drizzle, the bolt action ~~l~ actionhas been used by author never faintly touches the Model '94 .30-30 when sales are to hunt but he finds slow action tallied. More game has been killed in North America with a handicap despite precise accuracy. the lever action than all other rifles put together. During
Shooting bolt action rifle fast is difficult since hand must be taken from trigger and bolt turned up, pushed back and forth, and turned down. Few hunters can work bolt gun rapidly in the field.
4 Puma rides Bie MI41 ~ekused by trick shooter Milt Hicks on aerial targets have edge on bolt gum in speed. Mauser repeating rifle Model 1871/86 built at Amberg Arsenal during reign of King Ludwig of Bavaria in Victorian era is identical in principle to modem bolt action rifle. Turning-bolt rifles were first mass-produced in 1838. the epoch of the buflalo when we wantonly slaughtered the stodgy beasts by the millions, the rifle used was a single HOW AMMO SALES SHOW shot. When then did the bolt action bow in from the wings? DECLINE OF BOLT ACTION POPULAR! TY The gun appeared directly after World War I. The chief Cartridge Sales Percentage Cartridge Sales Percentage 30-30 170 gr SP 15.4 32 Spl 170 gr SP 3.5 protagonists were Captains Townsend Whelen and Edward 30-30 170 gr ST 17.0 35 Rem 200 gr SP 2.7 30-30 150 gr ST 9.2 218 Bee 46 gr OPE 2.7 Crossman. Both had been through the shambles in France 30'06 180 gr ST 7.5 300 Sav 180 gr SP 2.5 and had observed the then newly-foaled Mauser-Springfield. 32 Spl 170 gr ST 6.4 22 Hornet 45 gr SP 2.5 270 130 gr ST 6.0 270 150 gr SP 2.1 These hombres were honest-to-god technicians. They knew 30'06 150 gr ST 4.8 25-35 117 gr SP 1.9 30'06 180 gr SP- 3.9 30-40 180 91 ST 1.8 shooting irons. As a matter of fact, they lived with the 300 Sav 150 gr ST 3.7 32-20 100 gr SP 1.6 powder bums so closely they got (Continued on pare 60) 300 Saà 180 gr ST 3.7 25-20 86 gr SP 1.1
. Bolt action rifles' unchallenged claim to accuracy have made them popular among varmint hunters but modern pump and lever guns are as good.
.I Chargingelephant, or any other African game, can be tack- led successfully with any magnums in .300 or smaller class. Mews-stocked Mannlicher in -270 or -30 is good, standard deer rifle and will prove valuable for most African hunting which is frequently long range plains shootii~g.
GOOD MARKSMAN WITH SMALL CALIBER, HIGH VELOCITY DEER RIFLE CAN SUCCESSFULLY TACKLE ANY AFRICAN GAME INCLUDING BIGGEST OF ALL
By F. WALLACE TABER
N THIS ERA of bigness when every- because, unquestionably, flinch is the I thing seems to be judged by size?the rifleman's worst bugaboo. Anyone who big elephant rifle runs right in step with is troubled with it will not help the the times. When the sportsman gets situation with a -450 double elephant enough moola stashed away to take off gun. But flinch or not, a shooter can for three months in the African veldt handle any of the so-called magnums in and starts to think of rifles? the first the -300and smaller class and still have notion that pops into his mind is, ''I a gun with which he can tackle any- gotta get me a big rifle.'' thing that roams the African continent. Elephant rifles traditionally are big However? this is not the story you get guns-big in caliber, big in weight and from the safari companies. Invariably size. The British doubles have long the outfitter will write his prospective reigned as king of African rifles, but client: "It should be remembered when the plain fact is that you can success- making your selection of rifles that fully and safely hunt elephant with a African game possesses greater vitality common deer rifle. than game found in other prts of the If any eyebrows were raised over world.'? that statement? kindly lower them. The These quotes were taken from the fact is, that any ordinary America~ brochure of East Africa's largest out- deer rifle is sufficient for 95 per cent of fitting company. Even so, I maintain all the killing that is called for on the writer of that brochure has never safari in Africa. Even the remaining gunned North American elk? moose9 five per cent can be easily dispatched bear or even Pennsylvania whitetail with an ordinary American deer rifle i/ deer. Pound-for-pound, North Ameri- the animal is hit correctly. And, only can game can carry away as much lead? because the average hunter cannot hit if not more? than any game found on correctly, is it necessary and advisable the African continent. And a single, to shoot with anything larger. well-placed shot from a -300Weather- . For African game, I recommend the by magnum, for instance, can kill an smaller calibers with higher velocities eland, world's largest antelope, with the
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Light 7mm Mauser by Harris Gun Stocks of Richfield, N.Y., is made for deer hunting, but is similar to weapons firing solid bullets (right) used by hunter Karamojo Bell. Tough old wart hog wa bagged by author Taber with single shot from his favorite Weatherby -257.
Weatherby -270 magnum (left) is typical of small caliber, high velocity rifles Taber prefers for Africa.
- Cape bdalo bull fell vic- tim to Taber with single ,!% shot from his eath he&^ scoped .300 magnum.
same aplomb it does an elk. Well placed, the same missle can spell certain curtains for even the elephant as Roy Weatherby-the rifle's inventor-Gen. Robert Scott, affable Herb Klein, youm truly and half-a-dozen other American gunnermen can attest. 1 That I have dropped elephant with a rifle of but -30 caliber is no great feat, much as it may seem to those who have not had an opportunity to (Continued on page 51) LOW LOADS FOR
ONCE-A-YEAR HUNTERS CAN KEEP SHOOTING EYE AND SAVE ON AMMO COSTS BY USING LIGHT GALLERY AMMUNITION
Eight-grain gallery load for -30-06 (left) saves money by using less powder than standard 50 grain service charge.
By KENT BELLAH
OR THE once-a-year hunter, there is 110 bigger prob- Flem than keeping his shooting eye up to snuff for the time when he can go out in the field after game. Gallery loads are the answer. Light bullet, low-power loads will let him use his center fire rifle or handgun for short range plinking and target punching the year around. The sub-caliber gadgets were all the rage back in the Wild West days when a man's social standing and life expectancy often depended on his ability to throw lead with speed and accuracy and he practiced throwing lead constantly. They declined as rifle velocities approached 3,000 feet per second. But there is still good sense in saving cents on ammo cost, while using your big-game rifle or -43 Wadcutter seated low over light 2-grain charge has thumb buster to practice with. Low cost work on the range better loading density and accuracy than full load at right. with reduied loads will develop your latent ability to do . .
Practicing fast bolt operation with live ammo can be done at home dghunter's favorite rifle and gallery loads. Reduced loads are getting a new shot in the arm these days, with no pun intended. They are practical because they are cheap, and safe ranges for full charge practice are not always available. Either handloads or certain factory fodder can be used, that will reduce noise and re- coil almost to the vanishing point. The gun and ammo makers, as well as Uncle Sam realize the importance of practice rounds. Best known "practice kit" is the Colt 45/22 conversion unit. Light loads can be used for safe indoor basement practice or on a backyard range in rural areas. Big bore bullets at low velocity are far better small game killers than -22 rim fires, and the cost is about the same. Try these shooting and reloading tips and the brand new tested loads, developed especially for GUNS. If your cartridge is not listed, estimate a starting load from this data. No load is "best" in all guns. Try a little experimenting with your gun and components, especially the powder charge and primer makes. If accuracy isn't all you expect,' try a different bullet. Bullets in the standard weight range are best. Those cast of scrap lead cost almost nothing and the lead can be trapped and used over and over. Gas check bullets can be shot at low speeds without the bases to further reduce the cost without loss of efficiency. A perfect base is necessary, but at low speed an imperfect nose has little effect on Marble auxiliary cartridges for .30/06 and -22 +vage use accuracy, so some slugs rejected for normal charges can cheap -22 LR and -32 S&W pistol ammunition for praaice. be used for cream-puff loads. Spitzer bullets have a high ballistic coefficient, but the shape has little effect on ex- tnrior ballistics at 50 feet to 50 yards. Uniform bullets mean accuracy. The casting temperature should remain as uniform as possible. The more lead is heated, the more hard and brittle it becomes, so the lowest heat that makes perfect bullets is best. While it's possible to make good bullets with the ancient pot and dipper on a cook stove, a thermostat controlled electric furnace has everything to recommend it for speed, quality and con- venience. Set it for about 725 degrees for most casting, and it will maintain the temperature to within 10 degrees or so. Good cast bullets can be driven up to 2,000 feet per second if they have a good gas check base and proper lubrication. Buckshot can be used, but is not as satisfactorily as bul- lets cast in your regular mold. The No. 2 Western buckshot (.3W') works fairly well in -38 Specials with about 2 ains of Bullseye, and other . (Continued on page 64) ~...--- . E, ;. . . Case with neck crease may be used for reduced loads but popped primer means dangerous case, excess headspace. New Minimum Loads for Standard Cartridges
t- 4. ... + ' Indoor Loads: Unique Powder Caliber Bullet Weight Grs. Powder Gm. Velocity f/s. -30140 Krag 110 6 974 .30/06 110 8 1 I72 -220 Swift 50 6 1655 .257 Roberts 87 7 1151 270 Winch. 100 7 1189
Outdoor Loads: Unique Powder .220 Swift 50 Sisk - 10 2235 -222 Rem. 50,Sisk 5 1500 -257 Roberts 100 10 1500 -30140 Krag 150 12 1450 .30/0$ 150 14 1600
Reduced Handgun Loads: Bullseye Powder -38 Spl-357 Mag. 1!iO 1.5- 540 .38 Spl-357 Mag'. 135 2 635 .44 Spl. . 210 3 623 .45 ACP 190 3 665 Chamber for -45 revolver using low-cost -22 ammunition .45 Colt 190 4.5 710 was designed about 1930 by ordnance man Alonm Gaidos. Lit-load revolver -bullets include (1-to-r) Lyman-Young 110 gr.; H 8C G 150 gr. #9; 155 gr. #36 and 146 gr. #50 wadcutters. Semi-wadcutter? are flat-point Lyman Deep in wild country and loaded for big game, E. B. Stranahan guides his lightweight Harley Davidson motorcycle along brushy trail in Clearwater National Forest. Strariahan is a pioneer motorcycle- riding hunter in state of Tdaht
Trail's end for both Stranahan and huge elk came with one shot from hunter's .308 Winchester Feather- weight) Model 70. He was able to pack elk out of wilderness on the back of his light motorcycle. HUNTERS
. . ON MOTORCYCLES.it- "., ......
TRAVELING FURTHER AND FASTER IN SEARCH FOR BIG GAME, MOTORCYCLE NIMRODS ARE USING NARROW BACK COUNTRY PACK TRAILS TO INVADE
AMERICA'S MOST LUSH HUNTING GROUNDS ,!'. , .
By DAVID BRAZIL
HE STATE OF IDAHO boasts some of the finest and T most rugged game country found anywhere. A vast jumble of mighty mountains extends from border to border across the heart of the state, their towering peaks throwing long, dark shadows into America's deepest canyons. At least one pack trail runs for 150 miles without once cross- ing a road or coming within miles of a single village or hamlet. It is lush big game country, wild, untravelled, and excellent for hunting-on a motorcycle! Motorqcle-riding hunters have invaded this plentiful game land. Motorcyclists, buzzing nonchalantly along trail? high in the mountains far from any road, have made back country packers, trudging along with their pack animals, do a double-take and rub their eyes. Single tire tracks etched into remote game trails have left many a lonely forester scratching his head in wonderment. Yet these mobile hunters, riding into the very heart of Idaho's big game country, find the motorcycle a safe and practical means of transportation over narrow trails built for horse travel. Back country trail riding is popular around Lewiston. Idaho, a town of 20,000 people set in an area where elk. deer, bear, cougar, moose, mountain sheep and goats are prime big-game targets. Three Lewiston businessmen. E. B. Stranahan, George Reed and N. R. Gibbs, actually pio. neered motorcycle hunting. They learned the hard wa! that hunting on a motorcycle could be a pretty bump! business. Reed, who owns a hardware store in Lewiston. got quite a kick out of those early exploration trips. "When we began riding the back country," he recalls. "we tried out the big machines first. You can imagine what a job it was to handle such rigs on any but the best paths. Once we found the right motorcycles, we still had a lot of experimenting to do before we worked out the right gear ratios for our trails and found a way to relocate the muf. flers and exhaust pipes higher on the motors. "You see," Reed explains, "when low hung exhausts or mufflerscatch on rocks, they are not only tom off but there is a chance that the motorcycles and riders will be thrown After packing deer on motorcycle, Wayne Nickel is set to from the trail, (%n$~yd on page 66) leave for home. He bagged deer with .50-40 Winchester. BROCKTON BOMBER HAS TRADED GLOVES FOR GUNS AND NOW ENJOYS HUNTING AND SHOOTING FOR RELAXATION.
. s* BY TAP COODENOUCH
OR THE best years of his life Rocky Marciano's stock in trade was firing the most devastating punches seen in the ring for decades. His blasts with his two fists could down a man almost as effectively as a .45 automatic. Now that he has retired from the squared circle, the former heavyweight chain- pion of the world has not quit his firing; now he's shooting with rifle and pistol instead of gloves. Target practice and hunting have become the
"I've always thought shooting was a lot of fun," exclaimed Rocky Marciano to me when I visited him to learn what his plans were for the future. "Now that I'm out of the ring, I'll have much more time to give my family, and to do
Rocky carried .30-06 Remington on deer hunt at Holland, Michigan, camp where he often trained for a'fight. I
Marciano plans to take it easy and enjoy sports like shooting now that he has retired from fight career. W-^J Autoloading M74 Winchester .22 is used by Rocky for informal target and plinking. His wife, Barbara, is also a good shot with the light rifle.
Stevens bolt-action Model 258 20 gauge shotgun fills Rocky's needs for a scattergun and is often used by him for small game and pest shooting.
some of the things I've always wanted to do but couldn't because some fight schedule was pushing me on. Shooting is one of those sports I'm really going to enjoy in my retirement." He laughed at the idea: "Why, 1'm only 33. Ought to be a few years ahead of me for something besides boxing now. There's one thing for sure, I'm going to do a lot more shooting." Rocky and his wife Barbara were the guests of Toronto sportsman Arthur Gottlieb several years ago. "He owns a fabulous gun collection," Rocky de dared, "and is quite a shooter, too. Barbara and I decided to have a little contest, using .22 rifles at small bottles. I was really skunked-beaten badly To make matters worse, we tried pis- tols, and I'm considered pretty good with a pistol-but I was licked again.' It staggered me a little to realize that Rocky Marciano, who never lost a match in the boxing ring, was defeated in marksmanship by his wife, Barbara "She can outswim me and outfish me, too," laughed Rocky. The ex-champ plans to devote much time to having fun with guns. "I'm going to relax and go hunting. I like stalking deer." "He doesn't have the patience to still hunt,"said Barbara, who also likes to shoot. "Sitting around quietly just isn't for Rocky-he always has to be doing something." Rocky gets a kick out of driving deer. Rocky and his gunning pals hunt in small groups, starting from stands, then spreading across the terrain in a line and working downwind. "Deer hunting was good for me in Favorite gun in Rocky's small arsenal is Hi-Standard Model B .22 automatic my boxing," (Contimed on page 57) which he shoots with skill gained through learning to shoot the .45 in army. CARTRIDGES 1 QUIPS QUOTES & QUERIES J By STUART MILLER 22 Rim Fire Shorts NE OF the first caliber of rim fire tors have been trying to locate original 0 cartridges ever to be made is boxes of the early 22's as a colorful still rolling off the production line by sideline to their cartridge" collections. the ton, and the cartridge itself has not Despite the tons of these cartridges that have been made, it is surprising RECOIL ABSORBER changed much in the hundred-odd With amazing "recoil dispersion"da new years that it has been the pride and joy how few original sealed boxes of the principle of recoil pad construction that absorbs of many a small shooter. earlier type;,* have survived. Genera- "kick" like a sponge and distributes the pres- tions of small and some not so small sure over the whole pad-fitting the shoulder at The 22 short was invented by Daniel the moment of recoil. Really soft.. . Wesson and was introduced with the boys have had little sentiment when it Deluxe-Regular Smith Wesson revolver around 1857. came to saving these old cartridges, a? RECOIL ABSORBER Known the world over r Some even saw active service in the long as they had anything to shoot quality. True pwumadp action without air. For the Civil War when many revolvers were them in. 'discriminati hailable lnY*l!'zr carried as an additional and unofficial The choicest boxes are those made skeet models. personal or hide-out gun. by the early and nearly forgotten car- The shorts were originally sold under tridge companies. Because of the wide the name of "No. 1 Pistol Cartridges" market for these shorts, most new corn- -the No. 2 pistol cartridge being the panics would start in with them so as 32 short rim fire. They were most often to have a sure market to expand upon packed in oblong boxes of 100, with later-if they made the grade. Some
to 2" wide. Made in 5 styles for popular calibre*. them at your dealer or write... RSHON CO. INC .V 511 E. Broadway, lenda ale 8, OW., oft. 1
. " W ¥ ?.t"!. ,- ,-A*-d Ow UIurtratç Old 22 boxes are prized by collectors for their colorful labels. eataloe and . lifts for the current yr mailed upon the label including a cut of a Smith & of these companies were: Ethan Alien receipt of 25c coil). Same-day Wesson revolver. I have one such & Co.; Creedmoor Cartridge Co.: serviee! All shipmenti box by the "Union Metallic Cartridge Crittenden & Tibbals Manufacturing made premM. & Cap Co., Bridgeport, Conn." before Co.; Hall & Hubbard; C. D. Leet; New UMC got around to shortening their York Metallic Ammunition Co.; Na- name. tional Cartridge Co.; Southern Car- The price of shorts did not vary tridge Co.; Smith & Wesson and dozens much until within the last few years. of others. Other interesting items are An early UMC listing in 1869 gives those colorful old brand names that the 1 the list price of shorts at $5.87 per major companies used to catch the eye 1,000. In checking prices in early cata- of the shooters, such as "Copperhead," logs, it should be remembered that "a "Lesmok," "Boy Scout," "Sta-Klean" DEALERS: Write on 7- Irttorhead for our pmald box" may mean a box of 100, rather and "Whiz Bang." wholads dw. than the better known boxes of 50. The While we have been mentioning only ROBERT S. FRIELICH price later settled at $5 per 1,000 and the 22 shorts, old or odd boxes of an} 611 Brudwr stayed there for many years. of the other 22 rim fire calibers are 01 NEW YORK 12 N. Y. The last time I checked the price on interest. It is rather surprising the num- shorts they were listed at $9.20 per ber of different sizes there are in the 1,000 and there has been a price rise 22 line: B B Caps, C B Caps, Govern- since then. I think that the cheapest I ment Special BB Caps, shorts, longs. ever bought them from a store was back long rifles, extra longs, WRFs, Win- in the 30's when Montgomery Ward & chester auto loading, and Remington Co. had a special sale on them at two auto loading, as well as blanks, shot boxes for 19 cents. As I remember and dummies. them, they were not the best shells on Among the boxes I have collected is the market, but at 19 cents per liun- the "Spotlight," which is the hollow dred, we couldn't holler too loud! I point bullet which is filled with a mag- never did find out who made them, but nesium compound that flashes on im- they bore the usual company head- pact. The label on this is in red and Q j SUBSCRIBE TODAY! 1 stamp of "M over W." white. The Robin Hood box is also in .--- Lately quite a few cartridge collec- red 'with a (Conturned on pare 561 BIGGEST HUNTING RIFLE EVER MADE A Natural for Hdter or Target /Continued from page 19) Work
.. ' per uecund. From previous ahvoting of this powder gas that started the slug held the round I know it will hit a target as far away remainder of the chqge in the caae d it F as you oan see. was all consumed. $1 3.50 The 50 caliber is pretty new in rifles now. The place to bum a powder charge is in f"^ PVJ. Very little is known about them so far as the chamber, not by funneling it up the bore loads, bullets and accuracy goes. Jack Whit- of the rifle in hopes that the barrel will be COMBAT GRIPS.. . worth of Marvel, Colorado, has made up some long enough for complete combustion. These Preferred by fine soft-point hunting bullets for the .50. He Duplex loads produced less muzzle flash, Expert Pistelrnm has tried them in weights between 600 grains longer barrel time and a slower recoil, all of and 875 grains, but one about 625 or 650 which would be advantageous for a big rifle. 1dmaftÑIMPUnflllRfingK deems to work well in different guns. A1 Velocities were increased some with normal The COMBAT GRIP gives you ease of han- Hayes of Yeagertown, Pa., has been using pressures with just one straight .50 caliber dling for combat and target shooting.. . Whitworth's bullets on chucks on top of the powder. When a faster powder was used in makes pointing your gun as natural as 250 grain standard MG charge. This kind of the heel of the case and then a slightly slower pointing your finger. Available for: gun-crank shooting is still in a state of S6W K, Combat, Sq. Butt M&P, Magnum powder in the middle and a still slower Colt 0. M., 0. P., New Service change and nobody for sure seems to know powder up forward near the bullet, all A# your dealer's or order direct what the best bullets and weights are. compressed so tightly that they could not Send for Free literature The big .50 is accurate. During the war I move when handled, the average increase was YOUR SATISFACTION GUARANTEED tried out an infantry model Browning .50 up to 202 feet. The same charges that ran DEALERS: Write today for illustrated infor- machine gun at 2000 yards on the Fort around 258 grains of powder would simply motion on the quality line of COMBAT GRIPS. Douglas, Utah range. With a 45" barrel, and blow primers and stretch the head of the case CUSTOM CRAFT CO. set on single shot, the gun proved wonder- and freeze up the pressure guns when fired BOX 457 MAIN, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA fully precise. Plenty of rocks the size of with standard case and rear ignition. The bushel baskets appeared around the rim of average factory or arsenal load ran around the mountain at 2000 yards, and it was easy 242 grains of powder and we were able to FREE CATALOG to hit them. Even in a hard wind, one had to use up to 258 grains in Duplex cases for the hold over only a fraction as much as when same average pressure. Standard .50 caliber using the .30 caliber rifle. The 702 grain ammunition can be bought from war surplu~ 3uick-Draw" Holsters A.P. slugs needed very little windage cor- dealers, and if ever primers are made avail- rection. In a sporting rifle even better shoot- able. Duplex loading would be one starting ing can be expected. point for the handloader.  CUSTOM MADE The machine gun I fired set on single-shot This .50 caliber sporter is no doubt the had only the iron sights, but was supposed most powerful shoulder rifle ever built Some  THE BEST to be equipped with an 8 X scope. If it had gun cranks started the ball rolling for the SINCE 1897 'been available, I would have had even more weapon by writing to me about it. Maynard fun. As it was, with the sights laid right and Buehler had exhibited a superbly built .505 the thumb trigger slowly squeezed off, the big Gibbs at a gun show, mounted with his strong rifle busted every rock shot at with ease. A scope sight base. We referred questioners to P. 0. BOX 1505 .30-06 would simply have faded out at such Buehler who in turn passed them on to A1 EL PAW, TEXAS !id.,. extreme range. Weber, maker of the special .505 Gibbs. Reloading of the big .50 caliber machine As a result, Weber has turned out several gun cartridges is at a standstill outside of the of these giant rifles. Length of the receiver government arsenals. None of the cartridge on the one we shot was 12" and the diameter companies which make .50 caliber primers of the receiver ring was 2%". The bolt was will sell them to individuals, although Win- in equal proportions with locking lugs an cheater, Remington and Federal have all inch long. The bolt face enclosed the case made primers. Frankford primers probably head with the best extractor we have yet seen Guarantnd to flt. Expert could be bought if the Director of Civilian and an ejector of the Remington type. The workmanship. Bwt mate- Marksmanship would put them on the list. magazine held three rounds of standard .50 rial*. Latest designs. Proper .50 caliber primers must be used. The caliber machiie gun ammunition which with FREE .FOLDER big primer requires about three times as one in the barrel makes it a four-shot rifle. . DALE MYRES CO. much igniting materials as does a .30 caliber Cartridges could be loaded out of the maga- Box 7292-0, El Paso. Texas ONLY $3.85 cap, and no .30 primer is hot enought to zine into the barrel or just dropped into the properly ignite the coarse grain powder in chamber as the extractor accepted them per- big charges. fectly either way. The magazine functioned During the war I spent a month at Frank- perfectly. ford Arsenal working on Duplex loading for The whole action was beautifully machined the .SO caliber machine gun round. One load and polished and worked slick as a National showed an average gain of 202 feet per Match Springfield. The rear top end of the second velocity for constant normal pressure. receiver also formed an additional recoil lug The big .50 caliber case is slightly under and the stock was cross bolted in two places. bore capacity, as is the 30-06 Springfield A .50 caliber machine gun barrel turned case. But with Duplex loads I raised veloci- down to more reasonable size and cut to 34" tie* from around 2800 f.p.8. with the 702 completed the metal picture. Trigger pull grain A.P. ball to just over 3000 f.p.8. with was crisp and clean and around four pounds. the same bullet and a much heavier powder For sights, a Weaver K-V scope in special tfit charge than could be burned in a normal .50 Buehler mounts was anchored to bridge and caliber case. New ym un all your S rtà Equipmnt e1 receiver. The action did not have the Mauser our Easy Crçdi?hm--tak 15 months to pay- This was done by running a flash tube from aninside the receiver ring as it was not Now a udce charge for credit to the primer extending half the length of the Send SOc for our Mammoth full &%ah necessary with the total strength and bulk of 1957 EneyelOMdia of Sports ~qui" powder chamber. The charge was compressed this receiver. turln# th finest for tk humtar, when the A.P. ball was seated. When fired, The stock was a massive affair with cheek . RaflMdabiB with~ first ~ ....----.. arder. the primer flash was carried to the forward rest, pistol grip, but a recoil pad of tood PARKER DISTRIBUTORS P. 0. Box 53 half of the charge, igniting that portion and size to balance the rest of the rifle. The for- È%liamsbridfle "O Sta., Now Yaik 67. N. Y. the dog up the barrel. Then the end was m huge, I could only hold my left hand under it and could get no grip on it the .50 Browning. Other AT rifles are being whatever. sold in the same category; taking big powder So far as we know this is the first time charges and big bullets. such a rifle has been built in this country From good seated bench rest, the big with a 3-shot magazine on a bolt action. rifles would be a lot of fun. If fine match While stationed in Korea, my friend Major ammunition were loaded for the .50's, it Bill Brophy shot a 31-pound sniping rifle he would certainly beat any smaller rifle for long made up in .50 caliber. He used a Russian range groups. As a sniping rifle it may still anti-tank rifle stock and action with a 50 come into general use. Such a big shoulder caliber aircraft machine gun barrel, and rifle as Weber's could be handled nicely by fitted a BAR bipod and also a rest under the a team of two men, trained for sniping-one action that is adjustable for elevation. He to man a spotting scope and the other to fire.
I- I- r used a big Unertl scope of around 20 to 23 The rifle might be a little heavier, say 40 - power, in a target mount so that the scope pounds with a bipod or other rest arrange- TOP SHOT -800 tube was allowed to slide in recoil. This ar- ment. It would need a better recoil pad, $8.00 for any target .22 auto. rangement might be the answer to the eye and a muzzle brake. With a 10 power target $14.00 for .38 MUZZLE BRAKE and .4S autos., relief problem. scope that would slide forward under recoil, with the Ml rifle is a fine close range combat As we view the big rifle, it's a weapon of , Antique Guns for Sale 1 weapon, it is not accurate enough for sniping the future. Right now it does not seem to A lorge stock of American and Eur individual targets at long range. The gooks have any possible sporting use. Big game pistols, rifl,~,and edged weapm. 'Sex; in Korea'knew this and showed themselves shot at the ranges of which this kind of rifle for photo-illustrated catalog and write us your needs. Also ask for free list of books with impunity beyond 600 yards, but when is capable, would darn near spoil before you on guns, the Confederacy, and Western lore. 1 some of our friends managed to kill one one even hiked up to the animal. As a novelty JACKSON ARMS, 2926 N. Henderson, Dallas, Tex. night and appropriate his good lend-lease experiment, shooting game at long range is Springfield M1903, business picked up for interesting, but killing a moose at upwards our side. The GI's managed to make kills of a mile distant does not have much sports- SHOT GUN REAR SIGHT out to 800 and 1000 yards. But 500 yards man ship to it Of course, civilians can use Fits all models. Shows complete shot pattern. Install yourself in one minute. was about the limit with the M2 ammo and the big SO'S for extremely long range bench GuaranteedÑSen $1 .OO to: the Ml rifle. A few good .50-caliber sniping work, and the military will find it practical BROWN & BROWN MFG. CO. teams armed with suitable equipment could from time to time. And yet . . . Dept. 20 (10 more damage to the enemy in a few days' I sure would like to lay that big rifle across 721 Rector Ave. Hot Springs, Ark. work than a whole company armed with Ml an African ant hill and take a shot at a good rifles. bull elephant. If that boattail did not tumble, BE A GUNSMITH- The whole future of the big rifles looks it would certainly penetrate him from any Good gunsmiths are in great demand. You can have good. Surplus anti-tank rifles with ammuni- angle and if it did tumble it should tear an your own business u a gunsmith, or work u a gun- smith In other shops. Graduates located in 41 states tion are being sold. 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And, in addition, you have added about 30 minutes of shooting light to your hunting day, something very important when you are watching an old orchard for deer in late evening. The Redfield Sourdough front sight has many of the qualifications which you will work into your gold bead by proper filing, and for most rifles it is a good choice. Per- haps its one drawback is size variation: it should be made in several sizes to use with different lengths of rifle barrels. Matching the proper front sight to a hunting rifle is no casual undertaking. It can make or break the best game shot who ever went afield in autumn. It is also apparent that the hunter who missed that buck on the hardwood ridge should be highly critical of his sights. But front sights are only half the story of good field shooting with iron sights. While an improper front sight can cancel out the best receiver sight ever made, a poor receiver sight can also ruin your chances at a trophy buck or elk. A lot of target style micrometer receiver sights are found in the autumn deer woods each fall. These receiver sights with target adjustable knobs are an open invita- tion for some other hunter around camp to turn the knobs. Many deer and elk are lost each autumn because some other hunter was curious about his shooting partner's sights. The chance of having someone goof up your sights can be remedied by fitting receiver sights having "hunter adjustable knobs." These cannot be turned without using a coin, knife blade or screwdriver. And they have very positive adjustments for both windage and elevation. Micrometer receiver sights have quarter- minute click adjustments on both elevation and windage. A quarter-minute adjustment will move the center of impact about a quar- ter-inch, or four clicks for each minute of angle. With these precise adjustments, a lot of aiming error can be taken out of a rifle before a hunter is under the compelling necessity of making a field shot. Three differ- ent makes of receiver sights have hunter ad- justable knobs and quarter minute windage and elevation adjustments-the Williams Foolproof, Redfield series 70 and 80, and Lyman model 48. The cheaper receiver sights put out by these firms are not nearly so desirable as the best models, either from the standpoint of positive and accurate ad- justment, or of holding zero day after day, in the rough and tumble of big game hunt- ing. Receiver sights found on hunting rifles have another fault: improper apertures. Just as the chief fault of most hunting front sights is too large a bead, in the receiver sights it is in having too small an aperture . a target range hangover. When a big buck comes smoking out of a laurel thicket, ac- curate field shooting is measured by the time ...... it takes to get on the target. Then a small . ' ~ ,. Peep hole and wide disk, so often found on . hunting rifles, is a big disadvantage. t.: . . Reducing the size of the aperture is tanta- mount to increasing the size of the bead, in a manner uf speaking. Either will obscure the overgrown logging slash. After a little shoot- fast-disappearing target, making the shot a ing with such an aperture disk, you no longer gamble with the odds very much in favor of notice it, except subconsciously.  Go*. Surplus the trophy. But this need not be so. A All three of the major sight companion hunter has a wide choice of excellent aper- have this ideal hunter disk. the .093" aper- tures specifically designed for the touch and ture, and %" diameter. go of game shooting. The Williams Gunsight Company has even Most hunters seem to have a fetish about gone a step farther. In addition to theiz using small apertures on their rifles which 'Buckbuster" dish with the above specifica- are modtable for prone target work. They tions, they also make a "Twilight disk", same use them by preference. Once I asked a specifications, but with a gold colored band hunter, "Why?" framing the aperture for easily catching aim "See too much through one of those big in very dim light. holes like you use~seethe whole side of the Receiver sights, properly selected for hunt- hill. How can anyone shoot accurately with ing, and complemented by good front sights a sight like that?" he replied. are always excellent hunters' choices. But In some way, probably because of his tar- they are not all the story of fast accurate get shooting, he associated a restricted field :mx* siiiw 69~ Geld shooting. web a% ID. New...... of view with accuracy. And field of view is U. S Ann Luther American sportsmen never given open  mill* Â¥I& UMJ...... $1.00 ...... the one thing most needed for successful sights the study they deserve, nor appreciated shots at running game. Owen Tytegraff of their actual hunting worth. The English the Redfield Gunsight Company, an expert sportsmen, who staked their lives on their big game hunter in his own right, once told heavy double barrel rifles while hunting the me that they were forced by popular hunter dangerous game of Africa and India will demand to provide receiver sight apertures .. .. . swear by open sights. But they would not which were too small for practical field shoot- consider most of the open sights which come l-,&~~~cSPORT SHOPS ing. on our factory-produced rifles. 11 S. 16th St.. Phila. 2. Pa. No COD Yet Redfield has a beautifully designed Proper open sights, such as those English aperture disk for hunting rifles. An aperture on big game rifles, are excellent for snapshoot- of .093 affords plenty of field of view, and ing. In addition to being fast-perhaps the is lightning fast. With that on your old meat fastest sights used in huntingÑthe are much getter you are all set. Out there on a deer more accurate than is commonly supposed. DEERSKIN stand you will beat those target-type aper- But they must be right or, like a poor re tures three ways for Sunday. ceiver sights, they are very poor indeed. TANNING How accurate is such a hunter type disk? They must also be complemented by a front Accurate enough to shoot groups within a bead of the same specifications as required And CUSTOM MADE Into minute of angle of the much slower target- for a hunting type receiver sight-if anything, type small disk, even on the target range. it should be slightly smaller. ,gtz&L -3h~a - Aperture alone, however, is not all the The open sight itself should have a shallow answer to a proper hunting disk. The outside half moon, with its center indicated by a mstswL diameter of the disk is almost of equal im- vertical silver line on the back of the sight. portance to that of the aperture itself. When In use, this vertical silver line appears to be Write for Fm Circuiw a hunting rifle is snapped to a hunter's shoul- a continuation of the bead, and the target der, and he looks through the sights in never center of impact is at the top of the bead. UBER Tanning Co., Owaionna, Minnesota too good light, there must be confidence that Deep notches and the so called "full buck- he is actually looking through his rear sight. horn" open sights are both inaccurate and With an overall diameter of a disk of %", a slow. Their chief fault is that they do not distinct, dark circle appears around your field hold elevation under changing light condi- "OSIER" SHOOTING ACCESSORIES of view. It is there at midday when you are tions. You are either pulling that bead down AcompleteUn*ofallITOMofshootlBHtautDmeot. trying for a shot on a hardwood ridge-re too far in the notch when the light is good, mudm nii-Dluf Â¥hootln mats that retail at half the price of other mate Mi the m&rint. Matt orders assuring you that you are looking through or you are seeing too much bead when the filled promptly. your aperture, not above it, not to one side. light is poor, causing you to either under or Writ...... ~lor .Irse Mwstwe and fftew. It is there in the last shooting light of eve- Ddw Inaulrim lnvlted mut. s.n. over shoot your game. With the English type Llanerch Gun Shop a&?p?:wDarby*y'Â¥n>ning when you are watching an orchard or open sight, the bead is always seen full above I 1 the groove. 0 FOREIGN PARTS SPECIALIST Just recently I shot a .280 Ross on a Mag- num Mauser action, made in London. This but hunters are not. Also in Woods But to get back to the shot on the hard- ' Brawn and other colors. Nice enough to wood ridge where the hunter missed his wear anywhere-durable enough for a trophy buck. You think he had proper iron hunting sights on his deer rifle? If he did, hunter. Your name in gold free. He's a he would not have missed. The fact is that' gtntleman!" , Complete Oeicriptive Fdder on RequeÈ - --- - proper iron hunting sights is a big apd vital' 1 LUND'S NUTRIA RANCH subject, too often neglected by hunters~ 9725 Sunlmd Blvd., Dçpt 39, Sunlmd, Calif. HUNTER HATS, Box 7261; fl. Worth 11, Tex. those that don't get their deer. (Continued from pose 23) years. For must of this time 1 have used a large bore guns, such as the .405 Winchester, Model 54 Winchester 270 with handloads. I the .45/70, and the .35 Whelen, I have seen A REAL don't believe I ever lost a wounded animal elk run for miles when not hit in a vital spot. and the percentage of one-shot kills has been Contrary to public opinion, I find the so high. My favorite handload for this gun is called "heart shot" to be one of the poorest. 59 grains of 4831 back of a 130 grain Hornady It is so placed that if the heart is just missed, Spire point bullet. I have also used Sierra, a vital wound does not occur. You'll find it at J.A.A. Speer and Remington Core-Lokt. My .270 My favorite elk shot with any rifle is a is now 35 years old and has just had its fourth lung shot just back of the forelegs and about A barrel of the finest chrome- barrel installed by Fred Huntington of R. C. one-third the way up the brisket. The animal moly steel - smooth, clean- B. S. gun shop. It is Pfeifer, 1 in 10" twist generally drops in its tracks or walks or runs rifling-outside finish ground and it groups just a shade over one inch very no more than 200 yards. Hit in this area consistently. I use a Weaver KV scope and with a good bullet that expands on impact -uniform wall thickness and a resting elk, at ranges up to 350 yards, had and goes through the animal leaving a good straight bore-each barrel is better not hesitate much in clearing out. exit hole, an elk will bleed to death in a given individual attention by For the past two years, I have been using matter of seconds. skilled barrel makers working a beautiful Beisen-built Mauser action 275 I was hunting with Jack O'Connor a couple to the closest of manufactur- H & H on elk. moose and bear with wonderful of years ago, in the area where Buffalo Bill ing tolerances. success. I use handloads of 63 pains of 4831 used to take Teddy Roosevelt hunting when and 154 grain Hornady round nose or 160 we found a herd of about 90 or more elk Such a barrel is TRULY a grain Speer spitzer bullets. Sighted in for feeding. Jack had a fine Beisen-built .270 CUSTOM BARREL 280 yards, the point of impact with both and was using 150 grain Speer handloads. bullets is the same. It is very similar to the Taking a sit rest and using his gun sling, he We also CUSTOM FIT these 7x61 Sharp & Hart, the 7 mm. Mashburn picked out a huge bull and placed a bullet barrels to your action combin- short, the 7 mm. Ackley and the 7 mm. directly in the lung cavity. The bull stood ing the finest in barrels and Weatherby magnum in that range is no bar- perfectly still for some 20 seconds, then fell workmanship to give you top rier. flat on its chin, without a single kick or gun performance. General practice with all of the above struggle. It took just that long for its lungs calibers, including the handloaded .270, is to fill up. Pacing it off, we found the dis- to sight them in on point of aim at 280 yards. tance to be well over 325 of my long steps. JOHNSON AUTOMATICS ASSOC. Then they are actually point blank guns on The bullet had expanded on contact, pul- INCORPORATED all ranges to 320 yards. That is, 3%" high verized the lungs and gone out the other at midrange of about 165 yards and 3%" side, leaving a good exit hole. Not one bit HOPE VALLEY. RHODE ISLAND low at 320 yards. This method of sighting of meat had been spoiled by the shot or from ii superior for general elk hunting for the a run and fevered animal. Instead it was average shooter. It takes care of the closer wonderful meat, a beautiful trophy and a . shots as well as the longer ranges with no sportsman-like and humane kill. Here was PISTOL REVOLVER hesitation to figure trajectories. And it is a combination of good bullet placement from OR RIFLF PRACTICE surprising what such sightings will do toward a good gun and excellent bullet function and getting one-shot kills. expansion of the Speer bullet. The reverse 19 For the .300 Savage and the 7 nun. Mauser of this came later the same year. $9.45 FAMOUS I sight in for 200 yards and warn hunters I was guiding a hunter who was using a against extreme long range shots. On the fine .30 caliber mn with thin-iacketed hul- A "DETROIT" 30-06 and .308 I use 225 yards as the sight- lets of 180 grains which shedthe lead on ing range. impact. The first shot, fired at approximately 1 BULLET I do not claim these sightings are the only 130 yards, hit too low and in the shoulder and right ones. But I do know they work fine the elk ran diaeonallv awav. Three more v ' TRAP shots diagonaled through the hips and paunch for the average man and get a high per- Hen's just what you need for developing bet- centage of one-shot kills if the hunter is and all shed lead. None penetrated well. ter marksmanship with your istol, revolver or using good bullets. The elk ran some 600 yards into heavy tim- rifle. With 'Detroit' ~ulttTm you can practice shooting whenever you feel like It. With all this talk about calibers and bullet ber and only pure luck helped us find it. Tested and proved by top-mnki pistol and placement, bullet function must also be con- All shots were bloody, meat-spoiling wounds revolver shooters. Models to sto 3 istol, K- volver and .22 calibre rim-fire rifle bullets. Also sidered. Too light a jacket or a bullet that and not any one was vital. This was a prime "Super" model to stop 300 magnum cartrid ea blows up on impact makes a bloody flesh example of poor bullet placement and espe- UD to 3000 ft. per second velocity. Four. mod's $9.45 to $42.50. Send for literature. wound and spoils much meat. It also results cially poor bullet function. in lost game. Likewise, a bullet of any My second favorite aiming spot is high on DETROIT BULLET TRAP CO. caliber that goes on through without opening the shoulder. Usually this breaks the shoul- 26000 Capitol Detroit 28, Mich. up is like sticking an icepick through the der points. Even though it spoils some meat animal and many get away. Experience, re- with any type bullet, it keens one from losing I covered bullets and wound checks have the animal. Not immediately fatal, it usually rn TWMgy^T SERVICE shown that a good velocity bullet that ex- takes a finishing shot to keep the animal f pands well on impact to twice or more its from unnecessary suffering. ^ .. .. .,--,>Â¥<. . . caliber size, will penetrate well and impart For a hunter who is an excellent shot I like terrific shock. It often knocks the animal a neck aim, just forward of the shoulder and completely off its feet and kills instantly. approximately one third ef the way down Of nearly 70 recovered bullets of different from the top of the withers. Often this breaks makes and calibers sent to a major compo- the spine and results in an immediate kill. meats manufacturer for inspection and study, With good bullets that expand well, the ter- 26 were one-shot kills and all of these showed rific shock in such a heavy muscled area al- FINE HANDAAAnc, 1 from double to four times their caliber ex- ways knocks the animal cleanly off its feet pansion and a high percentage of retained and seldom is a second shot necessary. The finest nude In Toms mass weight. While some hunters are proponents of - WRITE FOR CATALOG - An elk is capable of ahiorbing a terrific ultra high speed rifles and the use of bullets ALSO: BELTS BILLFOLDS. shock load, probably more than any other that blow up on impact, they are usually SADDLERY GOODS. ETC. I 4uch animal except a moose. Even with very African hunterg to whom meat apdilage JONES BOOT ft SADDLERY Box 215 Lrpaut. Texn - means little or nothing. Where good sports- manship, game conservation and the use of meat is practiced, we favor the bullet that expands on impact, yet holds together its mass weight to a degree. It kills quickly and r PACIFIC humanely and spoils a minimum of meat. I ' helieve it is the opinion of most elk hunters that properly cared for and properly cooked SUPER TOOL elk meat is second to none (with the possible exception of the Big Horn sheep) for flavor and goodness. Speaking again of rifles and loads, I have For perfect, low cosf owned a Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in .308 caliber for over three years. I have Ammunition! shot it quite a hit myself and loaned it to my guides, my neighbors and some of my Fast, easy, accurate - Pacific reload- hunters. So far it has accounted for 46 head ing tools have been top choice of ex- of game, most of them elk. I have used pert handloaders for a quarter century; handloads of 44% grains of 3031 and 150 over a half-million satisfied customers. Hornady round nose hullets exclusively in the gun. Expansion was excellent in every Often imitated, never equalled case. Retained mass weight was good on all "Made in the recovered hullets and the percentage of one United States by shot kills exceedingly high. Pacific Super Tool, Skilled Union complete with dies, Everyone who used the gun spoke very Craftsmen" shell holder, highly of it, although some of them had been primer arm ...... $39.95 against the caliber before they tried it. They Automatic had no particular reasons and no facts. The primer feed ...... $ 7.00 gun is light, handles fast and with the 6 X scope it is equipped with, makes shooting easy, fast and sure. This seems to me to he PACIFIC STANDARD TOOL pretty good proof that it is not necessary to use a cannon for good clean elk kills. NEW LOW PRICE! As most of my elk hunting is done on horseback, a good scahhard gun is preferred. For speed and accuracy at an economy price. Comes The old lever action rifle as well as the mod- equipped with specially heat-treated sizing die (choice of ern Savage .300 and .308 lever action have either full-length or neck sizing only) and seating die with always been prime favorites for this reason. adjustable crimper. Features unique swing-out The other day I had the pleasure of sighting primer arm for simplicity in repriming the car- - in and shooting one of the new 88 Winches- fridge case. ters in the .308 caliber. I don't helieve I have ever used a finer saddle gun. Just had to go to the barn and try it in a scahhard. It Pacific Dies handles fast, comes up wonderfully and is as for Absolute accurate as our bolt actions. Pacific Standard Tool, complete with Precision! I predict the .308, and probably other dies, shell holder and primer arm.. .$33.95 calibers yet to be brought out, will become Automatic primer feed ...... $ 7.00 prime favorites for our Western shooting on SEND FOR FREE CATALOG! all game up to and including elk. I think the thing to remember for a hunter going out after elk is to shoot the 1 PACIFIC RELOADING TOOLS1 rifle he likes best and can handle fast and PACIFIC GUN SIGHT COMPANY 0 2903 EL CAMINO REAL 0 PAL0 ALTO, CALIFORNIA well. He should be sure that it does not make him flinch. If he uses good hullets and RATE places his shots well, he is sure to come home with the best in eating meat and with 1 CLADALOY BULLET CO. 1 a trophy he can brag about for years to come. Manufactuiwi of the woular new maohlne cut u~pw clad alloy bull* which can be driven at 63 hlahmt velaeltin. Avillabh far hand mini and unrISTOLS 1 07' GUNS-PISTOLS I 1 BOX 643 NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. 1 Write for Catalogue: a EBLEY & SCOTT. LTD.. 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For five long years, he hunted the necesary solids, I would and could have elephant for their ivory. I doubt that even he HOLSTERS dropped elephant with my favorite Weather- rightfully recalls how many thousand he dis- by .257, and possibly evenmy .228 Ackley patched. He is unquestionably without peer magnum. I did manage to drop a mangy, old as an authority on elephant hunting. Cape buffalo with a Weatherby .257 magnum Did he use a double-barrel .450 No. 2? Or using Norma's 100-grain softpoints. That a .465, or a .416 or the favorite magazine might have been stretching both rifle and hand-cannon, the .505 Gibbs? Yes, he did. ammo slightly, but necessity mothered that He used them all and a lot more. The guns invention. So stone-dead did that belligerent he used started with the .256 Mannlicher- buff drop that I am satisfied the combination Schonauer and progressed by almost every would come close to spelling curtains for a known caliber right up to and including the bull elephant. .600, the biggest bore shoulder rifle made. I say close, because killing an elephant What were his conclusions? Here it is in his calls for more penetration than any softnose own words: "It is far more a question of bullet, even a Norma, will ever achieve. You where the bullet is applied than of the have to use solids on elephant. Even Frank diameter of that bullet." Vennum's fabulous "killer bullet" and Ack- Of that great array of armament, what was ley's "controlled expansion" and Nosler's Karamojo Bell's favorite elephant rifle? Be- "partitioned" bullets won't quite cut the lieve it or not, it was a 275 (7mm) Mauser mustard. You have to use solids on elephant. made up by Rigby of London. Holsters for all model guns. But, you can use them in almost any ordinary Bell was not, as you might suspect, skew- Made of best saddle leather, American deer rifle and know that you are ered on the tusk of an enraged wounded bull flower carved, at shooting a killing combination. elephant, but recently died a well-rounded $5-45 Take, for example, old W. D. M. Bell, that octogenarian. In his monumental book, "Ka- the low price of. .. ramojo Safari," Bell wrote: "It was still in fabulous ivory hunter endearingly known to SPECIFY MAKE, British East Africa as "Karamojo Bell." He the days of the round-nosed bullet, and luck- probably killed more elephant in British East ily for me the ammo (which came with it) CALIBER AND than any other hunter that ever lived. Bell was good, sound, reliable, German stuff- BARREL LENGTH gunned East Africa when it was truly a fer- powder, case, cap and bullet. This was the tile country teeming with game of all kinds. hottest combination one could possibly have. In the Karamojo country, to the south, east Without fault or hitch, misfire or hang-fire, and west of expansive Lake Rudolf, in the that little (7mm) rifle did in some 800 bull FLINTROP Northern Frontier Province of Kenya Colony elephant besides scores of buffalo, a few rhino 4034 W. Notional Ava. IV. 3-2626 and across the border into Uganda, it is be- and an occasional lion." MILWAUKEE 15, WISCONSIN lieved he was the first white man ever seen by But, it must be understood that Bell was a &iA.hua &upp&n~, (fi0.m wl&lfUiL LOHMAN DUCK CALLS THE MOST COMPLETE WESTERN GUN SHOP 'KUT UP" FOLDING BONE SAW Weight only 7 02. Folds I ke a pocket knife. Loop 02 ha:dle for i(fl03. Tuned to exacting standards. 4 inches long. The be:t carrying. world's most popu!ar call. Price .$2.00 Birch handh...... Swedish sur- i(f105. Deluxe model. Made of selected figured black wal- gical steel nut crotch wcod, the bsst obtainable. Turned and fini:hed blade. Locks by hand. 4% inches long. 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Heavy buckle state cartridge and waist measurement. $6.75 Double loop model, plain ...... $6.75 Double loop mode, Carved ...... $8.25 Sing: loop for pistol, plain ...... $5.00 ' Single loop for pistol, Carved ...... $6.50 marksman. He is blamed for the deaths of in Africa by Frank ~owi~a~,-Wtf6%a~~ellliig several African hunters who, spurred hy his paid to see that I returned with my skin in- results. attempted to emulate him but they tact on my first safari. Completely unsold on did not have his markmanship. Of his o& small-caliber, high-velocity-the same as shots, he said there was nothing uncanny Keith-Frank insisted I use his .450 NO. 2 about them. But he hit where he aimed. spouting 500 grains of solid-point with which As Bell warned, if you cannot hit true from to dispatch the Cape buffalo. We compro- where you are shooting, get closer where you mised. I used a Model 70.375 H&H magnum can. Frank Bowman, a clever Australian with a 300-grain slug. Later, when Bowman white-hunter friend of mine, advises: "Go as was off in another part of the country and close to an elephant as you possibly can-and could not be held responsible for my skin, 1 then go 10 steps closer before shooting." satisfied my ego by dropping an equally Usually, I do not ride around jousting type- ponderous Cape buff with my .257 Weatherby writers with fellow scribes, but I sometimes magnum handling a 100-grain bullet. The can not resist the temptation to contradict mighty bovine dropped in ita tracks with a NOW! Cçfflplelil mid for Hu them. single shot in the neck. frit AM . . . Uu lndispmsabli h-k For instance, my friend Elmer Keith does Of course, there were 60 grains of 4350 M gun priwi. not agree with me, and he has forgotten more pushing the light-weight missile at a speed about rifles than most men know. Therefore, of 3,710 feet per second, something which I I think twice about crossing him. He and I dare say Keith has never experienced with are about as far apart on what it takes to kill calibers of .33 and over or his bullets of 300 The Gun Collector's an animal as are Kenya Colony and Kan- grains and upwards. In fact, Keith said, "I kakee, Illinois. A prolific writer, Keith has have never been able to get a 220-grain soft Hand Book of Values gone on record mauy times boosting his bul- nose through the neck, broadside, of a really lets. big bull (elk) ." While one example does not BY BHABLES EDWARD IHAPEL. Thu new "Elk are tough," he argues, "and will carry edition of the bible for gun collector* prove a thing, it is interesting to note that m fully to-date. All price* have on for mauy miles with broken legs or last Fall I dropped an elk with a single dug been re-valued after consultation with paunch shots. My preference is for the .35 from my -228 Ackley magnum, the bullet leadii gun dealera and othw expcda. and .405 Winchester, the .45-70-405, the .375 quartering from lower neck on the near side The book describe* in comolete detail Magnum, .35 and .400 Whelen, .333 OKH, hoxt3,000 antique and &mi-modem completely through and out the upper neck firearm, and enables the collector to and .334 OKH, and British rifles like the .333 on the opposite side. Along the way, the identify and appraiu each of them Jeffery, .400-360,.375 Nitro Express, and even bullet broke a vertebra. What's more the readily. WITH 48 FULL-PAGE PLATES ILLUSTRATING NEARLY the .400 Jeffery and the .404 Magnum. Such slug weighed only 70 grains, the minimum 1.000 ARMS FROM LEADING U.S. rifles will always deliver the stew if aimed allowed by Colorado law. COLLECTIONS. $9.00 at all book- right, but small bore, high-velocity, light-bul- #taw. But some people just naturally prefer rifles let weapons will sooner or later lead to a very on which wheels would be most appropriate. COWARD-McCANN disappointing result and lost game. I per- They like to lob bullets which, encountering 210 Modiwn Avm. New York 16 sonally do not care for any bullets under 250 a young jack pine en route, merely splinter it grains in weight40 grains is much better- and carry on to overcome the target by little nor calibers under 3." short of sheer weight. Personally, I prefer to Keith should know. By his own admission, pick my shots sans intervening trees, branch- he has personally killed 127 head of big es and boulders. I can pack the much lighter, game. But, by the same token, I have an small-caliber rifle a long way without tiring MINIATURE REPLICAS OF argument, too. I have not kept count of the and it does not kick a man to death every number of pieces of big game I have shot, but time he touches it off. I can swing it to my it has been considerable. With the exception shoulder and get off a fast, yet tolerable shot. of a single ponderous Cape buffalo, I have Due to its high velocity and concomitant flat never killed a single head with anything trajectory, it gets to the target area along the larger than .30 caliber, nor with a bullet Unique letter opener line of sight, without taking in a tree limb or heavier than 220 grains. two that happened to be a half-a-foot or so That single exception was brought about for Den or Office. / above the line of sight. must for collec4 It all boils down to one common denomi- nator: who is behind the sights. Nevertheless I and notwithstanding, the law today in British I ALASKA 1 East Africa does not allow a hunter to tackle FALL man Crafts. I dangerous game with anything less than the Sheep - Grizzly .375. Caribou - Moose A few years ago, the game department of SPRING Tanganyika followed the lead set by Kenya 1 KODIAK BEAR Colony, and I understand that Uganda and Small parties of discriminating sportsmen are to Those Invited to: AIRMAIL. the Sudan are figuring follow suit. HAL WAUGH, Reg. Guide astute masters of gunning Africa's dangerous eled blade and Skogwoy Aloika game decided that none of the American sheath. 9%" over- "deer" rifles were adequate for the taking of the so-called "big five" on safari. They out- all. Send for free bro- lawed all calibers of less than .375 for the chure showing other taking of elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion and authentic miniatures of leopard. Whether they were trying to protect the U.S. and German Mili- game or the gunners is somewhat debatable. tary swords, plus full size Personally, I think they were trying to pro- fighting knives tect home industry-British, that is. For, not mentioning any names, where are the choice etc., from $32 doublerifles manufactured? Certainly not by Winchester or Remington or Weatherby or by anyone else stateside. Nor are the better out- WILSHIRE GUN HOUSE fitting companies in British East Africa con- tradicting the game officials' edict. '7 P 0. Bcx 9645 -F LO5 FELIZ STATION y- So, unless you get a chance to use a lighter LOS ANGELES 27, CALIFORNIA rifle on thickskinned game you may never he able to prove me right or wrong. But if you go on safari, comer that fabulous white hunt- er Russell Bowker-Douglass who chaperones The Crown Prince Bemhard in Africa, and ask A gun you'll be 1 him what he saw your correspondent do to distinguished that big bull elephant with a Weatherhy .300 magnum and a 220-grain Norma solid that double barrel sultry afternoon on the Terringari Plains. proud to own... \ One .30-caliber slug did the job with as much success as any 500-grain slug from any dou- ble-ahoulder-cannon ever did. Just ask Doug- lass and hell not only verify it, he'll verify it with gestures, gesticulations, grimaces and a few choice cuss words for emphasis. I often smile when I read of the battery of imported double rifles that the wealthier American sportsmen take with them on safari. Take it from me, a million dollars worth of highly engraved, double rifles with which you are mt familiar isn't going to bag you any more elephant than a single ordinary American deer rifle with which you are familiar. In fact, not nearly so many. As Bell admonished, (and to which I say Precision built in Spain "amen") "you gotta hit 'em right." If you do not, even that million dollars' worth of en- Incomparable in fit and finish graved doubles will not keep your widow a Unexcelled in strength and reliability from collecting on your life-insurance policy. Elephant can kill you ever so dead, ever so easily and ever so quickly. They can run Now you can know the pride of owning a fine faster than you If you climb a tree, they can DOUBLE BARREL DAKIN-and at a realistic pull you out unless you get mighty high and price! With a double gun you have instant they can shake you out unless you hold on choice of two chokes, two well aimed shots mighty tight. Besides, they can knock over without confusion or double effort; fast, easy most of the trees in British East Africa. They loading; the complete safety of full visual in- cannot see too well, but should you hide, they spection when gun is open. With a DAKIN you can smell you out just like a bird dog finding have a superb y balanced double, precision made in every detail b world renowned Basque a downed quail in the grass. So, do not de- NEVER BEFORE gunsmiths; unexcelled for reloading speed, SUCH A GUN AT SUCH A PRICE! pend on bullet weight. Shoot straight! "self-pointing" qualities, and sheer beauty. Ip Fully proofed bySpanish government for mod- Specially made for DAKIN by Gaspar Arizaga of Eibar, my years of hunting game both large Spain. 12and 20 gauge. Demi-bloc barrels forged from and small, I have encountered but few real ern loads, including new standard length Mag- single steel block with half lug integral, the two per- riflemen. Most sportsmen of my acquaint- num. Registry-warranty certificate with each manently joined. Anson & Deeley type box lock. triple ance, I would dub "hunters." There is a gun; service and parts always available. COM- bolts, double triggers, automatic safety. Double radius PARE DAKIN with any other doubje gun-even extractor (without automatic electors) will appeal to difference. Riflemen invariably select a tar- those selling for three times the price. Com- the hand loader and to the duck shooter whodisliker get; hunters just spot an animal and blaze pare finish.. .balance.. .accuracy.. .safety.. . having shells ejected out of his blind to glitter in the away. Recently, in the state of New York, a dependability.. .fit of metal to metal, metal sun. Matchless Pyrenees walnut stock and beavertail forend with fine hand checkering. Beautiful English careful survey run by the state conservation to wood. Note the beauty of design, the good scroll and rosette engraving. Complete specifications department disclosed that fully 25 per cent taste of the handsome engraving. You'll want for Model 100 and other DOUBLE BARREL DAKINS of shot whitetail deer escape. Their wounds to buy a DAKIN. will be found in the Dakin Catalog. were either superficial or, if severe, not imme- diately vital. Some survived; others died a Other DOUBLE BARREL DAMNS from $162.50 to $275.00 lingering death. 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Now, lest I should be condemned as was Karamojo Bell for sending under-armed rifle- men to premature African graves, let me backtrack, fill in and sum up. LACHMILLER I started out by saying "most any ordinary American deer rifle is sufficient for 95 per cent of all the killing that is called for on safari in Africa." Let's change that to 99 per A the tool that reloads cent. For only that one per cent calls for more killing than the average gunner consci- ensciously and without stretching can expect from an ordinary American deer rifle. And, since averages take into consideration the Shotgun shells extremes above and below average, maybe Rifle cartridges you had better play it safe and at the same time comply with the new laws. Pack a pair Pistol cartridges of rifles! Revolver cartridges Take it from me, your favorite American deer rifle will handle 99 per cent of your big Also swage* bullets and re-forms game safari shooting if you can place your metallic cartridge cases shots. But, since most gunners cannot con- sistently place shots, maybe it would be wiser Have better-than-factory ammuni- to carry your favorite, at-home, deer rifle for d tion for 0s little as 30% of the 99 per cent of your safari shooting, and rent I cost of store bought shells.. .and a double in Nairobi or Arusha from your out- with amazingly little work. Every fitter for that other one per cent-for the feature of the Lachmiller combina- dangerous big five. Not even I am foolish tion reloading tool is a result of enough to contradict that those big double- requests from experiencedrelooders. barrel shoulder cannons are good insurance policies because placing your shots is not Strictly precision throughout, the quite so important with them. 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When order- Newsstand the First of The only mechanical hearing protector.NOT Ing ii~lià à urnuiaoture, give us AN EAR PLUG. Hear conversation without re- a try and It not Â¥loud your monn will be Every Month- ,lad6 ntudad, and w um nu I* try other niovin? fruni cars. PltFSCiilBFD BY EAR SPE. m* Don't Miss an Issue' CIALISTS. Accl.iirndl by top slinnters. Tiny. J. J. BARTOLAT ceiiifertablc. durablc. $3.95 pair. Money "WORLD'S FINEST CHECKERING TOOLS" back guarantee. Free literature. AT YOUR DEALERS OR SIGMA ENGINEERING COMPANY DEM-BART CO. 1313 North Ooy St. TJeoma 7, Wuhlixrton 1491 Vine Hellywd 21, Calif. HOW TO MAKE A PERFECT RIFLE STOCK (Continued from page 27) TURRET MODEL European kind. You hear a lot of bunk about scriber, then with a chisel-point pencil to aid ' "imported" walnuts. Their best is not too visibility. Then, using various end mills and Shot Shell Loader superior to American walnut grown under adjusting my milling attachment to precise proper climatic conditions. One Pennsylvania, dimensions, I gradually machine all surfaces 12-16-20 Gauge firm exports American walnut for use by so that they match barrel and action per- Dies interchangeable English and continental stockers. The word fectly. in either model "imported" must sound good over there, too. The same techniques work for dropping in Actually, most of this wood finds its way the floor plate, sling swivels, and other in- complete $7150 back to American shooters as "imported" letted hardware. The final step is to black all stocks. metal parts with a candle flame and fit them Gunstock wood ought to be bone dry. The into the wood, thus locating tiny shoulders moisture content should come down to eight and high spots left by the milling cutters. per cent or less. Kiln drying is the ticket, These imperfections I carefully cut away with providing the wood has first been air dried a high-speed steel burr fitted into the Du-All ~roperly.Some pros swear at, rather than by, hand piece. kiln drying. Supposedly, kilns dry the wood Hand machining, as this procedure might "from the outside in," leaving the center be called, is simple and accurate. It's far less moist. Actually, scientifically-controlled kilns laborious than hand methods, and there's produce fine, warp-free stable woods. little danger of error. It is fascinating work, The first stage of stock making is not very and no hacking, pounding, chiseling, swear- STANDARD scientific. You choose a pattern that suits you ing, and patching slips with plastic wood, and trace it down on the wood, making slight after the fashion of the typical stocker. alterations according to taste. Then you Chiseling is romantic, I'll admit. But it's rough-shape the blank with a band saw. At hopelessly primitive. Shot Shell this point-for me, anyway-guesswork With inletting completed, I switch to ordi- Loader ceases. For the next six months, throughout nary shaping methods. You could machine Loads 3 in. inletting, I'll never touch a hand tool except the exterior of a stock, but there's no point, magnum for delicate finishing operations. since delicate accuracy is not required. Shap- When I speak of "accuracy," I mean ac- ing is a gradual process, involving skilled ap- change $13.50 curacy in the engineering sense. I work slow- plications of band saw, chisels, rasps, draw ly and methodically, using mathematics, shaves, and planes. Shaping is the "arty" me$39 00 measuring tools, and machinery. Every sur- part of gun stocking, hut it's very demanding. face is milled, working to tolerances of A rifle stock is made up of many straight 2/lOOOths of an inch in critical spots. When lines meeting a variety of simple curves. 514 N. State St. I'm through, the inletting is perfection itself, These must be accurately shaped; otherwise Chicago 10, Ill. all surfaces touching everywhere. the job will have an unsightly "fish belly" A- You don't need this kind of accuracy in a look. gunstock, but I'm a perfectionist. I enjoy Throughout shaping, I'm in close touch cutting to the same slim tolerances on a with my shooter. I choose the general di- wooden stock as those I'd encounter in ac- mensions to suit his build, shooting habits, curately die-sinking a mold. My inletting not and even the clothes he intends to wear in only fits "to the thickness of smoke," but the field. Even so, I cut the stock big in- smoke couldn't get by the joints. itially, trying it out on him from time to time My basic tool is a %-inch capacity drill as the work progresses. "The butt stock feels press with a milling attachment. I supplement too long," he'll complain. I cut off a quarter this with a lathe, for making tools, and a Du- of an inch. "I'm getting over all right, but I All grinder with a hand piece, used for touch- can't seem to get down on the sights." I trim ing up the barrel channel and getting into the cheek piece until he's comfortable with it. difficult places. Occasionally I employ a die It's much like a tailor fitting a suit. The filer for sections such as the magazine box. original measurements are guides only. It's Then there are measuring instruments of all the final adjustments that really count. sorts, from verniers to a 1/1000-inch indicator I don't hold with fancy decorations on for truing surfaces. guns, or with the flashy "modern look" West A Use! True surfaces are essential in machining. I Coast designers are affecting these days. 1 ~ook~ou'll mill the top and sides of the blank to get Bears chasing nudes, eagles whizzing around parallel and square faces. After scribing a -they're fine somewhere, but not on rifle There's pleasure and profit center line, I locate reference points for the stocks. To me the California stocks, with for you in this big deluxe magazine box, trigger guard, and barrel. their high combs and exaggerated pistol book - day after day use- These are laid out on the wood, first with a grips, look like space ships and cabin cruis- fulness. 540 illustrations, many pages of authorita- tive, precise information. The saga of the sixgun - WANTED FOR RESALE history with .hair on its chest! $1 5 postpaid, 'return BY NEVADA'S LARGEST privilege. At any bookshop, PISTOL DEALER or write to Serven Books, Box 1777, Santa Ana, Cal. Old Guns, Pistols and Automatics Ñstat price and condition first I letter. Inspection privilege - 11 Name...... ~ighdollar paid. Address...... NEW ,METHOD UFO. CO. 1 . (4.11, Bradford, Pa. I CANNON'S THRIFT SHOP ...... I 1 ~ddie~...... 112 E. Comm. Row Reno, Nevada [Ñ Payment enclosed. I city...... State...... 1 Federal UdDeafer IN- ...... I >.-m------J era. They're not gun stocks in my opinion. field. The job has taken a year, but the A rifle stock should have beautiful dean metal beds perfectly into the wood, and the Take if from me.. lines, like a comely 18-year-old girL It should wood fits its owner like an old shoe. Given . be decorated with sharp and accurate check- a good scope and scientifically devised am- "THE ALL NEW 1957 ering and little else. Taste in stock making munition, the gun Â¥wilput five shots into a 11th Won is like taste anywhere; it consists mainly of one-inch group at 100 yards. All variables restraint. have been eliminated except the one variable I Checkering should not be fancy, I feel, but that will never be eliminated-the shooter's on my stocks it's as clean and accurate as skill. patience and extreme care can make it. I use This is the engineering aproach to gun ordinary methods and tools for checkering- stocking. It combines the best of modern fine chisels, checkering spacers, and files of tool-making procedures with the traditional all sorts. I've never tried the little power wood-working skills of the hand craftsman. checkering tools, but I doubt that they are It tosses out mysticism and substitute* scion- much more accurate than hand work. They're tific information. I've used these methods to fast but I'm in no hurry. Likewise, I don't make 12 stocks, mostly for Winchester Model use a checkering cradle. They get in my way. 70's, and a restocked Krag that MW duty in I hold the stock in my hands, turning it con- the Spanish-American War. They're beautiful stantly to suit the path of the cut, or bracing guns and exceptionally accurate. it on the bench, over padding. Who needs weapons like them? If you're Gun stock finishing is the special province serious about marksmanship, it never hurts of witch doctors. Few shooters know much to have the finest tools. But maybe you can't about preservatives. People who sell stock afford a hand-made stock costing twice as finishes exploit this ignorance to the hilt, much as the factory rifle complete. In that performing all sorts of mystical rites. They case, buy the factory model and have a pro- claim it takes months to build up a really fessional stocker do a little rebedding. The fine finish. Baloney! It can be done in a price tag Â¥wil be about $25. If you started couple of weeks, working a few minutes each with a good barrel, action, and trigger, you'll day. They debate the sealing powers of have a very serviceable rifle, and accurate weird oil-and-wax compounds. Bunk! Water enough for anything you may encounter ex- soaks through linseed oil like mist through a cept bench rest shooting. screen door. No sealing capabilities at all. Have a stockmaker checker your factory stock, too, if you want glamor. But you'll get Varnish isn't much of a sealer either. a kick out of refinishing it yourself. This & Actually, the only thing that would "seal" a always necessary, since factory lacquer is ap- 1 GOLDEN GUN stock would be a resin with flakes of alumi- In the middle of the 16th century the mat warrior plied on top of the wood, leaving a poor finish Charles the Fifth num in nuspension. But no gun nut would swih. was pmsenhH:rth%F2ab%g~YsA? G! from the standpoint of beauty, and one that tricateiy made. and richly elided wheellock pistol a tolerate aluminum paint on a custom stock. myificent masterpiece of the fcunmaker's art. T& cracks and chips readily. Take off the lacquer it s the most valuable V Gmcsay head of cA!!ore&wo&aM My finishing procedure is simple and scien- with No. 400 sandpaper. Then varnish, and of the ~etropolitanMu~um, New York citDMMtmeyi! about t in EMPEROR'S PISTOL. Gun l\lustratç tifically sound. The objective is to fill the cut down to the original wood to fill the in full color on the Front Cover. pores, then to put a "whisper" of pliable resin pores. Then rub on a few coats of "Formula *** on top of the wood. I rob in three or four X." \ WOLVERINE TO 44 MAGNUM If it's a handeun nude in the U.S.A., If it is new or coats of thinned varnish, sanding off the Of course, a custom stock is the ultimate, g2y-y -iTaAgivfintNit Hhtdag&th$ & surplus each time. Then, using a nylon cloth if you can afford it. But heed one tip. Select year's definitive article on today'sÑan tomorrob's- (istois and revolvers Even the yet-to'be-announced and rubbing the finish dry enough to handle mith & Weswn 22'Automatic is described by the your stocker carefully. A few professionals, world's foremost technical authority on handguns, MaJ. immediately afterward, I apply a number of Gen. J. S. Hatcher. such as those named earlier, do fine, accurate * * * extremely thin coats of "Formula X." This work. Others, far too many in number, per- compound is top secretÑspa varnish mixed form raw butcheries on pre-inletted blanks. with equal parts of linseed oil and shellac. Don't be gypped. Scrutinize the "expert's" The varnish provides the resin. The lin- work, inside and out. Make sure you like his seed oil insures a pliable film, and the shellac ideas and style. After all, you'll pay a stiff ~ ~~. is simply a drying agent. The resulting finish price for that fancy "handle." And you'll be * * * is tough and as impervious to water as any stuck with it for a long time if it turns oat to WHO'S GOT THE BUTTON? non-metallic compound. Normally it's satiny, be a lemon. On the other hand, you can al- but you can rub it to a high gloss. ways try inletting your own stock?, like I do, The rifle is now ready for the range or in a machine shop. 0 * * * YOU ARE A GUN DESIGNER We mean exactly that! This is the are of the ques- tionnaire, the outreaching liy the manufacturer and CARTRIDGES ~>~ag~@d~$~~~e~~~th2%y=?g?Li fCftntlenuedfrom wifse 441 I you. the mn buyer. want on the market. &%S?~o~h?~~a%%~fo~$$$w?~~~?fo%~~~ and IdeasÑrea it, then write to us, make yourself I black figure. These cartridges have the usual yellow and green with a red center. The shell^ * * * "R" headstamp. are not marked. PLUS PLUS PLUS 1 The Clinton Cartridge Co. never made any Another box I have is green with a red cartridges but was merely a trade name under center and credited to the Union Cap & which Sears Roebuck sold metallic and shot- Chemical Co. of Alton, Dl. It is by one of gun ammunition. These 22s were from differ- the first companies to be taken over by the ent sources through the years. I once opened an original box of "22-7-45 Black Western Cartridge Company on their dimb Bun Digest- "Treasuryw upward. The cartridges are marked with a 388 Giant pages! New, First EN- Powder Cartridges for The Clinton Cartridge tion! A col ection of the best tech- Gothic Cross. nical features from the first ten Co. Chicago" only to find that they had been made by the German RWS cartridge com- The 22 short can't be undersold for eithei Amber. pany and bore their headstamp "R'!. in a shooting or collecting. It's silly to open shield. As for the caliber, they were merely sealed boxes of the earlier stuff since if you De ux Library Bwund kdifion ...... ,$S.W p;. the old 22 WRF under a different name. I don't want it, it's worth more to a collector if GET ELKS AT YOUR LOCAL SPORTS never heard of any special Clinton headstamp it is still sealed. After all, most of the earlier OR BOOK STORE or ORDER DIRECT FROM for their rim fires, although their shotgun companies didn't bother to headstamp thei~ The GUN DIGEST CO., Publishers shells were marked "C.C.Co," gauge and 225, and when you have seen one plain 227 W. Washington St.,Chiuso 0, lllinoii,Ñpt Â¥-1 brand name. The cartridp hnx shown is headed 22 short. you've çee them all. @ - --.- -. -.-,... -, . . . .% .-3 p'. ,> it. X THE ROCK RETIRES (Continued from page 43) The Rocky pointed out. This kind of active hunt- SHOOTING-EST GUN lag aided him in keeping his legs springy as steel bands, his wind sharp, and reflexes YOU'LL EVER OWN! 1 sharper. "It helps me to relax, too. I could forget that I, the hunter, was going to be hunted in the ring before long. ITHACA "When training for a fight, hunting helped me a lot Road work can become very FEATHERLIGHT REPEATER 1 tedious but chasing after deer is something featuring the amazing new ( else again-fun. My friend, Eddy Young, has a lodge in a wilderness region of Ver- Ithaca wb front sight mont and another on Martha's Viyard, the big island beyond the tip of Massachusetts. You've got to hold it in your hands to know Deer hunting's good at both locations." why this is the only gun for you. From the tip Curiously, Rocky does not always shoot, of its barrel to the end of its stock, it's crafted even when he has successfully come within for shooting pleasure! gunshot of a deer. He is happy to allow Beautiful finished walnut stock and forend, another sportsman to do the actual shooting fast, smooth action; exclusive, safe, bottom- from a stand. He's satisfied to spend a day ejection all the fine features you want in \ outdoors. "I guess the exercise is really . . . more valuable to me than the fact of shoot- your gun! ing a deer," he told me. Plus Ithaca's new Raybar front sight that pin- Yet there is plenty of thrill for Rocky in points your target under any weather conditions. hunting, thrills that often rival the challenge Its scientific light-gathering principle gives you a of the ring. "Speed need in boxing; speed I glowing red dot in dawn, dusk, rain or fog. on my feet and with my hands, and speed I . . . need in shooting. In my opinion, a running See your Ithaca Dealer today .you'll be deer is one of the most difficult of all tar- . . gets," said the champ, swinging his hands on your way to real shooting enjoyment! rapidly in line with his eyes, as if he were snap-shooting a rifle. "There is a lot of the You'll find a model to suit you at a price that same kind of coordination to hunting that I will fit your pocketbook . . . from $89.95 up. use in boxing, putting my hands right where - 1 want them in a fraction of an instant. hind 25c for booklet on Shooting I Getting a bead on a running deer takes Tips and Featherlight Information speed and muscle control, as well as a good L------1 sighting eye. "When a deer breaks from the brush," ITHACA GUN CO., Inc. Rocky exclaimed, recalling his last hunt near Holland, Michigan," he can cover about 20 Dept. 53, Ithaca, N. Y. feet at a leap, his white tail bobbing up and down at high speed, and that's about all you Since 1880 - "Great Guns" I see of this kind of a deer-the rear end going away from you. "When a deer crosses your line of sight at over 30 miles per hour, you have to lead him, even with a high power rifle. Take a .30-30,for example-it's a real popular deer cartridge and I use a Model 36 Marlin car- .- bine-and the bullet moves at about 2,000 Quality Gunstocks 4 Soul lut today for our big awn feet per second. At 100 yards, this means Experience the thrill Of harinx yonr 88 paie'rotaloi NO. 66. PÇ at the bullet will take about l/20th of a second favorite rifle or ahotfnm stocked with one DictnreslUmtratlniawntook Of our CUSTOM FINISHED or SKMI- deiim. Show our new oludBrinx and ourliu dealcu to cross from me to the deer, and when the FINISHED uodra We am offertni tlu for custom itocb. llao the latMt In d-flnldwd rifle deer is moving forward 2% or 3 feet in that flnoot most mmn& lln~in tha tntlnri.rr. andchotiunstocks. time, I have to lead him by about a yard to N . Box 1150. Warsaw. Missouri get him." Not every ring victory has been a firat- round kayo, and not every hunt for Rocky FOR DUCKS & GEESE AT LONG RANGE hag been a one-shot kill affair. "I remember that Michigan hunt near Holland last fall. 10 Go. MAGNUMS! 1 trained there a couple of years back for my first fight with Joe Walcott. Had some good sport hunting there, too. Ted Cheff, another hunting friend, was my guide. I found my deer that time, but let another man in the party shoot it. I guess my deep freeze was just too far away for me to want III The BEST 10 Go. MAGNUM We've ever offered! pack the meat back to Massachusetts. ^\I 32" SOLID Chopper Lump- Bohter Antinit Steel barrels, full "There was another hunt that taught me a choke and Nitro Proved. Double purdey bolt and greener cross-bolt locking system. lesson-you know, in boxing those lessons Engroved action. French Walnut stocks. Finest Craftsmanship by Ugarteburu of come hard and if you learn slow, you wind Eibor. Wt app. 1 1 Ibs. Limited supply only available during 1956. ONLY $1 89.50. up flat on your back. Hunting is a little Prices subject to change without notice. (Discounts to Dealers) easier, but once you do something wrong , FRANK CLARK, JR. and have to follow through. it sticks with Box 297 (Ufa NRA) you. You might, call it -^. manship that I learned on Martha's Vinyard. Marciano's ring carrer has prevented him "I'd taken a shot at a running buck, and from taking time for hunting trips in recent gut-shot him. That time I lead too slow. years, but he enjoys plinking and target A running deer will often go down, hide out shooting. His favorite gun is a Hi-Standard some distance away from where he was shot. Model "B hammerless .22 auto pistol. Rarely do they stay on the same ground. "Ever take that into the ring with you for Made of finest Solln~en steel. Hold* ÇdR sharp "Eddy Young, who was guiding, strapped title defense?" I jokingly asked Rocky. enough to shave with. Finest huntiw, flihinx a couple of snow shoes on me and made me The husky athlete chuckled, removing the I and all 'round sporti4 aid made. Includes 2% track that deer down by his blood trail on clip from the gun. "No, I've never needed &*;,I Y&&F zcw the snow. All hunters should follow up their this to get through a match, I could always EFiii-L z2; quarry. There are thousands of deer each depend on my fists. But so far as shooting bottle opener, and ~ia- year that get hit but not killed right away, for fun or hunting, I'm strictly a handgun Â¥on r.121 ...... 3.7s and I understand many so-called 'sportsmen' man, although I enjoy using my rifles and don't bother to track them. They should, shotgun when I can find time. I've always SPORTSMAN'S and often the deer will be found a short like target shooting with pistols, and my COMBINATION walk away in some unexplored bit of cover. Army training boosted this hobby even more a KNIFE If you keep after them right away, they will for me." Fine, imm -multi- - rouse up and try to run and you spot them lgg Marciano was stationed at Fort Lewis, 8:::::n: 8:::::n: two'r:~~; blades fork, upoon, can easily. If you let them lie undisturbed until Washington, during part of the last war. and bottle opener, saw their wounds stiffen, they may die right there and flwh scaler, awl. In the 348th Combat Engineers he learned screw driver file cork- and you'll never find them. Eddy made me the use of a .45 Colt. screw, sailmaifem needle. track him down without delay." and çciasom High car- "The .45 is a powerful weapon," declared bonsteel blades. 4-5/7" The Brockton block-buster keeps his rifles low-bond handle - com- Rocky, "and I never had any doubt about Bite In leather holfter. - and shotguns at his training camp in Gros- M~Ã...... 3.25- when it went off. It really packs a punch, singer's, the well-known Catskills resort in on both ends. I was fortunate to have some 30 POWER 60mm New York state. "Just collecting guns never of the best handgun instructors, and I spent CDnTTINE CPnOE interested me much," Marciano explained. a lot of my spare time on the range. I even "I'd rather own a few guns and be able to helped give a few lessons on my own. shoot well with them, than have a huge array, the majority of which always stay on "Looking back at it, it seems to me that the racks to be seen, but not heard. footwork was as important to my Army pistol "For birds and small game I use a 20 shooting as it was later in boxing. There is gauge Stevens Model 258 bolt action shot- a difference, of course, because in shooting J 4 \ %"EtiETG gun. It suits me fine, and my wife likes it, you stand still, and in boxing you keep 111, " tripod and adjustable mount. ~iigrhsonly moving. But everyone walks in a different l~itbt.includi~~s tripod. Complete with leather too. For plinking and target work we use a carrvinir case. mount and trid 22 Winchester automatic, the Model 74. manner, and it's only natural that each These are modern guns, ready for use. How- shooter has an individual stance. Body build ever, I do admire those men who restore the affects this stance in many cases, but it is All IMà ÑÑt IMW - L old timers, and use the muzzle loading per- mighty important. Just as I have to be cussion and flintlock rifles. It must take a standing correctly, in the proper stance when KO FOR t M01 AGlr I let go a roundhouse right, so I also have AMB OCTICAL ÈffCC great deal of skill, a little like rejuvenating an old, old fighter into a winning battler to be balanced for good shooting. again. It's quite an art." "The best position I find is the one where the angle my body makes with the target is easy and comfortable. To besure my stance is right I start with my feet together, arms at my side ...and relaxed, always relaxed. Include posloge -0th order. Then I move the left foot 12 to 15 inches to the side, left side, that is. I've noticed that some shooters keep their heels close together, at the position of attention. Some of the European shooters stand this way. Most Americans find that 'a more relaxed, easy I MULTI-TARGET HOLDER I stance works best, and the distance that the Ub 8. Patent No. 2,722,420 feet are apart is entirely a matter of comfort TEN target frames in ONE SHOOTERS bi est and ease. BOON since NOAH'S time. fops too for JUN%RS air rifle or archew set. MONEY BACK GUARAM- "Then I raise my pistol arm and aim at TEE Postpaid WHY RISK YOUR LIF: ...... $10.00 BE SAM! WITH OTJB GRIP COMPASS! It's eaw the target. If my arm is in a strained posi- Write TODAY for fret brochure Install, re~l&cea your grip cap, large enough for I tion, move the left foot back or forward KUQS, can't be lost, beoomea Dart of your gun: no ho I T. H. ADAMSON a&^& to drill, will not ruin stock. Finest comioss, jewel a few inches, using the right as a pivot. beiring, luminous, watercroof, duck resistant with u breakable cap. At your dealer's or ~ostoid. $2.1 Finally when the gun sights seem to line Patent pending. naturally on the bullseye, I know I'm 'on SAVE UP TO 100% FRA-MAR COMPANY target.' When I had to teach a left-handed 3 Jones Avo., Wilmington, Massochurtt* shooter in the army, and it was okay to let ON AMMUNITION him fire left-handed, I had to reverse the Standard and most popular foreign caliber rifle and pistol loads. Write for price list. AMONG THE WORLD'S BEST system. KIMBALL CUSTOM AMMUNITION "The correct stance is one that is com- Box 217 Alpine, Texas GUNMAKERS fortable and not awkward," added Rocky. I (Life member N.R.A.) 1 "You should be able to fire without twisting HOLLAND AND HOLLAND LTD. your neck to sight, your arm coming up WESTLEY RICHARDS & CO, LTD, easily and remaining extended toward that bullseye with little strain on the shoulder London, England and neck muscles." Represented by Every boxer has an individual style, just as MURTA APPLETON CO. every marksman shoots in the way that ob- The demand for these world famous handmade knives has become so great that at present I'm Quality Guns Since 1889 tains the best results. Rocky has powerful several months behind in deliveries. However I hands, and the little Hi-Standard almost dis- refuse to lessen their quality by mass production. Your patience will not o unrewarded. MURTA APPLETON CO, appears in that huge grip, yet he handles the Send 206 for descriptions, prices and instructive pistol with the finesse of a concert pianist. manual. 506 for fighting knife booklet. SANSOM AT 12TH, PHILA., PA. W. D. RANDALL, JR., Box 1988-G, Orlando, Fla. When Marciano grips a pistol, his palm is flat against the side of the stock, the gun tween the hold and the squeeze. Practic held firmly so that a line could be drawn as much as possible. Even dry firing with a through the bore, wrist and forearm. His unloaded gun can be especially helpful i fingers are curled naturally around the stock, developing proper trigger control." his middle finger close against the junction The champ has utilized his handgun ski of the trigger guard and the frame, his two while hunting pests such as rats and snake - lower fingers supporting it. "Once I shot a running rabbit with a bout y r "A pistol must be gripped properly," he pistol," recalled Rocky as he slipped th advised. "Thus you will have the steadiness Hi-Standard back into a desk drawer an needed for sighting and squeezing the trig- locked it away. At that moment little Max ger. Some shooters develop their hands Anne Marciano, age three, walked into th through special exercises. Custom-built stocks room carrying a toy cap pistol. are found to be an advantage for skillful "Don't ever point that at anyone, honey, shooters, but the average person will be able said her daddy. It's Rocky's opinion that a to turn in good scores with standard grips!' youngsters should be taught how to hand! Handgunner Rocky never holds the stock too firearms safetly and adroitly. In accessories and service, as tightly, just firmly. A strained grip is to be "We often try to take a boy hunting in 01 well as handguns, you'll find the avoided, because this would cause a bad parties," he remarked. "A kid can lear finest at Pachmayr. movement when the trigger is squeezed, from going along with experienced gunner Rocky says. especially if they are conscious of safe1 Carefully Rocky held the Hi-Standard with measures and point out to the lad what the the barrel vertical, showing me the correct are doing and why, like unloading a gu placement of his finger on the trigger. "Most before crossing a fence. Too many youngstel folks seem to use their trigger fingers in- are given guns by their parents without ai correctly," Rocky remarked as he dry-clicked sort of instruction or warnings. As a resul the pistol. "I always try to touch the trigger they go into the nearest woods or field exactly halfway between the first joint and firing at anything, regardless of backgrount the tip of the finger. The rest of the trigger or the ranges of their weapons. finger must be away from the gun, not "Sportsmen's clubs are doing great woi touching it. This insures that squeezing the in this line for juniors. There are sever. trigger will give a pull that's straight back- clubs right in the Boston area who ha1 ward. I've discovered this to be very im- good junior shooting instruction program portant, if you don't want to waste car- More clubs should get up junior program tridges." In squeezing the trigger, Rocky and in this way there'd be less hunting ace emphasized that the wrong technique could dents in the future. A boy with a .22 mi throw the shooter off his target. not be too dangerous, but when he grows u "You must keep your sights aligned per- with careless habits in gun handling am fectly while increasing the pressure on the takes a high powered rifle out, he may. hu trigger," said the leather-pusher. "Don't someone. It is this kind of hunter who givi flinch. Strive for complete coordination be- the gun-law fanatics something to chew o The favorite with handgun shooters. Widely used by service teams. Finest W'&r;$;,s p~onl~am~mn~istol~WAL~ "World under in Aubmatic Xiand the new MARK' I1 series. The Mark II WALTHERS construction. Grained simulated are even better than the excellent German pre-war models. The past-war model! are made at MULHOUSE-WURTZWILLER. leather in grey or maroon. Also -The followin excerpts on the Mark I1 WALTHER PISTOLS simulated black or brown alligator. 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In ordering-PI- wnd check $32 SO or P.0 Mane Order-Do not send Cash Send 2Sà stamps or coin far anuxin DELIVERY. .22 LR ...... $84.75 booklet of fabulous values and story of'AmericaSs Most Famed Arms Merchant .22 Short ...... $87.75 tp l:z=%bg= F'ACHMAYR GUN WORKS, INC. or directi'z from Cxclusive U. S. Distributors. I 177n < r:.-..~ AW- I ni~r>..-~-.rnl;t - J'S DOWN and it's too bad because the cure is so phase of gun-sport that really needs help. simple: teach them while they're young. I Many professional athletes, men in the public want Mary Anne to grow up into a lady, eye, are active outdoorsmen and the Brockton but if she gets interested in guns, I'm cer- slugger believes that more publicity should 3. On warmer, tainly going to see to it that she learns how be given to their hobby of hunting and or rainy days ...the outer to treat guns safely. And later on in school shooting. coot alone. she may be on the rifle team. Shooting is a "For instance, I've always had the greatest popular sport with girls these days." admiration for Ted Williams," explained Rocky is emphatic on the need for more Rocky. "He's a great baseball player, angler, junior training at the high school level. "It shooter and fight fan. Probably the fact that might help boys if they knew more about Ted rarely missed one of my bouts has firearms before entering the armed services. prejudiced me in his favor. On the day of Experts might step right into the jobs of the Archie Moore fight, Ted played for the instructors when needed. And another thing, Red Sox in Boston, then flew down to New we must train our youth to shoot straighter York to watch the battle. He wants to take if we ever hope to beat the Europeans in us hunting with him soon." That "soon" is official shooting competitions. We're also right now, for with a ring career behind him weak in this phase of the Olympics." and a lifetime ahead, Rocky will make fun Shooting promotion strikes Rocky as a with guns a part of his future. @ IS THE BOLT ACTION OBSOLETE? A wind-resistant, down-quilted Inner Jacket zippec to a heavy. water-repellent. duck canvas Outel (Continued from page 33) Coat gives double protection against the worst weather. . . detach the Outer Coat and you have a sort of warped point of view. Accuracy be- menced to propagandize in favor of the two garments for year 'round wear. Hip length. . came a fetish with them. Nothing else was Springfield bolt action, a type of rifle that adjustable waist. . . 5 big pockets, including rub. berized game pocket. . . license tab under collar. quite so highly desirable as a rifle that would existed only in governmental arsenals. Amer- Send height, weight. chest measurement. Colors: poke all the bullets through one hole. ican target shooting was tied to this weapon Forest Green. Hunter Red. Autumn Brown. Innei To point up the first and greatest virtue of so closely that the marksman had to use this Jacket : Dry Grass. the bolt action is to call attention to its gun if he were to compete at all. The Scheut- high degree of precision. It is a tack driver. Zen rifle game had fallen into disrepute most- The Whelen-Crossman duo ding-donged on ly because this manner of target shooting the anvil of sportsman opinion that no gun was German in origin. The deutscher and 1 RUSH further information on the above and FREE catalog 1 on Down Insulated Garments for men, women ond children. was so much worth its salt as the turning his way of life were not exactly riding the I I bolt. Over the years the chorus has been crest of the popularity wave. sung by a corral-full of Whelen & Crossman A new rifle target game was born and little brothers, who talked up super-precision. everyone firing was compelled to use the But the unsugared truth is that the average new bolt action Springfield. huntsman is a poor shot. He aims at the Thus the Mauser-type bolt action rifle was buck's neck and feel lucky if he finds he's hit gently eased into the American shooting low in the paunch. If he aims for the fore- scene. shoulder and breaks the deer down in the hindquarters, he never gives his mediocre There was no commercial manufacture of marksmanship a second's consideration. bolt action weapons. The only gun of the What if he did miss his point of aim by a type was the Springfield and it was a strict- couple of feet; he brought the venison to ly GI piece of goods. It was simple indeed bag, didn't he? As far as our garden variety to arrange shooting programs that limited of gunner is concerned, a rifle that groups the match entry to the Springfield rifle. In into four inches. at 100 yards will serve him 1920, the Winchester Company announced quite as well as one that plops 'em into less the Model 54 bolt action. It was promptly than a minute of angle. ruled off the match course. The gun could not compete against the Springfield. It was 6 ~ightI YOU can now Yet the bolt-action super-precision crowd MODELS mrrow a brand new continually encourages a certain boobyhatch permitted in some "any rifle" matches at Camp Perry but these competitions were held (39.50 to iushnell Scope, use it fringe to essay longer and still longer shots WM -à full month without to a minimum. charge or obligation. at game. It is now quite fashionable to shoot 2% x Why are we doing at deer up to 800 yards, sheep at 600, coyotes So if you hankered to be the rifle champion 3 X Âthis? Because we've no less, woodchucks at 500, and I haven't of the United States, you had to petition- built- -.. . so- . manv suoeri- the government to buy the Model of 1903. Of orities intotheii 'new checked with any of my Missisippi cracker ScopeChiefs, that once friends lately but I expect to hear any day course, you could go to the National Matches you ve used one you sans a gun and draw one for the duration won't be satisfied with that they are potting away at cat squirrels anything else. at a full six furlongs. Such far-out-of-range of the big cap-busting but as even the rankest I tyro will realize, your chances of copping th~ FREE SCOPE-LOAN capers account for a hideous amount of crip- COtTlflCATI WISH 11 pling. Even if the animal is struck, the national title with an on-loan shooting iron LIMITED. MAIL bullet has shed such a great deal of velocity weren't exactly shiny. COUPON NOW I and as a consequence energy that it only This situation continued for a couple of wounds, the beast escaping to die agonizingly. decades. Then John Garand came along and To shoot at any game animal over 300 yard? upset the applecart. BushnellSCOPES should be against the law. His semi-automatic .30-06 rifle, refeked to , The trend goes directly back to after World through two wars as the "MI," reduced the Americas* Most Distinguished War I when Whelen and Crossman com- Soringfield- - to a state of obsolescence about Sport Optic8 . on a par with the Zulu single barrel. Today. D. P. Budinall 1. Co., Inc. hpt. GA31 . target rifle shooting is a>*" as lively as -8 Budindl BIdg., Pandano, Calif. mm ~"E-sT~ ,- .as ul. Bunk OrteUc Thursday afternoon game of shuffleboard at I annum AUTOMATIC, OUpKXd. the old soldiers' home because the bolt ac- 0çbotBnwta NO FIR~IT ~IQUIÑ \. tion has been continually foisted on target Send TBBX Sco e-LO& Certificate and men these past many years. 'hame of nearest ~ushnellDealer. Just how good is the bolt action rifle? We NAME have been told all these many years that it wasta is the only gun, a miracle weapon without which the sportsman might as cnrr OTAL well go afield ,------BIG THREE Inc., Depl. 6.1 1 mAZY.with an Auca blowgun. Is it really that good? The bolt action closes the breech tightly and strongly. This is accomplished by plac- ing the locking lugs at the forward extremity of the breechbolt. This principle of design contributes measurably to the accuracy of the weapon. Due to the strength of the ac- tion it will withstand pressures in the 50-55,- 000 rounds per square inch ranges. Breech pressures in small arms do not rise much above these levels. True, some wildcatters exceed these limits but ordinarily they don't top 'em for long! . The extracting force of the Mauser-pattern bolt is some five or six times that of the con- ventional lever action. It is extremely power- ful and is a desirable feature to the military who can expect to have mud or sand in the action at times. These virtues extolled, the case for the holt action is made. It is so slow to operate it might as well be classed as a semi-singleshot. The difficulty of getting shots off with anything like speed has persuaded the U.S. Army to abandon the rifle as a military arm. In the hands of the average hunter, who fires less than 20 1. Shoot RIGHT shots annually at game, it is awkward be- MORE TRAINING AND PRACTICE SHOOTING- yond words to describe. He finds it impos- sible to keep the gun at shoulder and oper- te the bolt. Tour separate and distinct mo- tions are required to eject and reload. CROSMAN This is precisely twice the number of movements necessary to complete the ejec- CONTROLLED RANGE tion-reloading cycle of any other repeating AND POWER* ins you firearm. I,, 2. Shoot MORE OFTEN If this were not enough, the crime is com- 1. Shoot RIGHT 2. Shoot MORE OFTEN MORE OUTDOOR SHOOTING F pounded by the fact that the marksman must No driving miles to shoot be- lift his face off the stock and out of the line 3. Shoot IN MORE PLACES cause with a Crosrnan .22 you don't shoot a mile! Plinhng, of sight when the bolt is retracted. If he *Safer, accurate "power-without- target ractice short-range var- does not he finds the cocking piece has got powder" pellet gun shooting-full mint shooting: pest control-all Ithe thrills of top-accuracy Cros- to be gouged out of his aiming eye. mpoct at short range, but carrying man shooting, right near home! distance overages only 300 ft.- The trigger finger gives up all contact fits perfectly today's "limited with the trigger during the bolt manipulation area" shooting conditions in the 3. Shoot IN MORE PLACES routine. But that is not all. spreading suburbs and towns. MORE INDOOR FAMILY FUN &*, ^F-\ <-a Townsend Whelen persuaded everyone Right in your own home-game some 30 years agone that the only safe trig- room or basement-enjoy pre- cision shooting and year- round ger was the kind the military use with a two- target games the safer Crosman stage travel. That is, there are some frac- "power-without-powder" way. Clean . . . odorless . . . auiet tions-of-an-inch free play before the true I . . . no recoil! 1 squeeze is encountered. Can you imagine then what confronts the snap shooter? First he has a rifle that is so slow to operate he might better arm himself with an old Sharps and catch up a couple of spare rounds in his teeth. Once he has wrenched the bolt Power through (1) the upward movement, (2) Without PowderB backward travel, (3) forward direction, (4) lable in Canada! 1 World's laraest oroducer of ~EllGUN^riflesand pistols and final downward closing, he then musi -. fight a trigger that moves falsely for three- eighths inch before getting to the true pull. Small wonder a fleeing whitetail can cove] PEEP RETICULE AT YOUR DEALER, OR twenty rods between shots! FOR MOST RIFLE Â¥COPE wt. e roticuie that doas not hi& thm axact natw $4.25 ??,' There is much heard about the balance ol tUmf th* targl. Field of view unchanged. An *xed a bolt action rifle. But there is so much spare tent rang* finder. Promptly Installed. per dot. Invited Dealers InvitedÑFre Literature iron in the action it could not possibly be Post Offim BOX 417 said to have any aliveness. In all truth tht F8C8 BONES Almeda, Texas action is too heavy, too bulky, too long anc too broad. It is as ugly as a West Texai 1 KALMAR GREAT DANES horned toad, and has about the equivalen SMILEY CASE TRIMMER #55 number of warty-like projection, angles, cor These noble dogs ore WITH THE NEW PRESS-FIT PILOTS ideal guards and com- THE LEADER IN DESIGN, PERFORMANCE, ners and other blemishes. As compared t< panions. Shipped on op- AND VALUE. the Savage Model 99 lever action, the run FOUR NEW MODELS NOW AVAILABLE proval. Not expensive. The only case trimmer made that trims and deliiirrii of-mill bolt action is about as sleek an( Write for pictures and both inside & outside in one oiiration-The fastest & lowest-priced complete trimmer. One SUUionary streamlined as Elsie the Borden cow. monthly payment plan. collet takes all CasesÑGuaranteed No ulher trimmer 1- can compare in speed and performance. Tent .ti. Then there is the fact that one in ever; 6 CHAMPIONS AT STUD FREE FOLDER 16 persons is left handed. Currently wi Sold by Dealers Everywhere have 16,000,000 hunters in the U.S. or si KALMAR GREAT DANES, REG, G. T. SMILEY COMPANY 158 KdII* Laà Auburn, California çaythe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Tha STONE MOUNTAIN 7. CA means that one million of these sportsmen just very blissfully ignored that 56th part now handles the rifle just as skillfully as hie are southpaws. Can a lefthander use a bolt of their customer potential. When the mili- right-handed brother. action? Not only must he remove the weap- tary claimed the old Springfield as the serv- The telescopic eight is a popular accw- on from the shoulder but he must get it ice rifle, recruits were always forced to sory these days but the optical sight causes down at hip level before he can reload. None change shoulders to the detriment of the be- complications on the bolt action. Experience of our manufacturers have ever taken the ginner marksmen. The M-1 semi-automatic indicates that the best mounts position the slightest heed of the situation. They have was a boon to the left-handed soldier. He telescooe directlv. atoo. the action and just as lowas possible, in the iron-sight line we say. When a telescopic sight is mounted on the bolt action rifle in this manner, it re- quires long minutes and fingers as strong and supple as those of a professional safe- 1 HOLLYWOOD FAST DRAW HOLSTER cracker to work the fresh cartridges around and beneath the scope and while holding the Finest Fast Draw Holster Made round to manage to depress the magazine follower and with this done feed the case Used by top movie stars and studios. Especially de- signed for sinale action Colt, Ruger and Great Western. into the magazine well. It is quite a trick, Made of finest leather available, especially since the gymnastics must be done two thicknesses (lining and out- more by feel than by sight. Unless the hunts- man can somehow persuade his guide to tie the game before he shoots, he might as well Oaw artist and instructor . . . fea- give up any idea of getting off the first red in July GUNS MAGAZINE. magazine and then reloading. olster is metal lined and formed There will be those who complain that to fit the gun. Each gun belt es- pecially hand made and customized maybe I am a trifle prejudiced against the to your personal measurements. bolt action. Not a bit of it. I only read those Send your exact waist and hip mea- straws that are in the wind. The Olin surements, gun make, calibre and Mathieson colossus, most powerful gun firm barrel length. in the world and owners of the Winchester line, spent eight full years designing and Plain Black Plain Black perfecting a new rifle. And do you suppose or Natural $39.50 or Natural $5 9.50 Carved or special orden- Single Double send for information it was a new and completely modernized bolt action? You betcha it wasn't! Enclose 25% deposit (money order) with order. It was a lever action, the Model 88, a rifle that has a compound-operating lever, a gun HOLLYWOOD FAST DRAW HOLSTER that employs a rotary bolt with locking luge at the forward end, a rifle to handle our most 6509 Coldwater Canyon Nerth Hollyweed, Calif. Phone: Popular 3-4391 modem and hottest loads, stuff in the 50- 55,000 sounds per square inch range. The 88 is sleek, streamlined, well balanced and light in weight. It will mount a scope as low as the iron sight. It loads with a detachable magazine that enters from the bottom. It is 1 FACTORY INSTALLATION the answer to the year-after-year, top-of-the- heap sales position of the venerable 30-30 carbine. No longer taken in by the hoopla that the bolt action is the super gun, the Model 88 indicates the manner of thinking going on among the high brass at Olin uzell Scope Mount Mathieson. "World's Fastest Detachable Scopemount" Over in the Remington camp two develop- "Guaranteed Accuracy" ments have equal significance. The first of Hi-Top, Lo-Top Or Side Mount Location these was the announcement of a pump ac- tion rifle, the Model 760, to handle our more 1 N s TALL E D 0 N Y 0 U R G U N $19.95 Plus Handling popular high-intensity hunting cartridges. We cw apply your chok* of tcop*. n w hindb inert ill adku of icopu. Wlni of rif OI lad shotguns (uctpt soldered di-bk bind ihotgund $9.50, pistols Â¥a This handsome, completely modernized trom- nvolv*n$<. 50, otl~çn-prtc on nqveit. bone rifle utilizes a turning action to lock up and the lugs are located at the forward KRUZELL GUNSMITHING WORKS extremity of the breechbolt. A telescope can 301 Hotchkiw St. , Bay City, Michigan be mounted on top of the receiver as the Spa&llsti In Sight, Sup* Mounting. Unmatched Quality Robhlng . . . . weapon loads with a separate clip. TheNEW ... sC-TZ & -EN at no EXTRA cost! Lower bolt lift by half plus shorter bolt travel. r - Safe, Lightweight and Powerful! MODEL 54- J HUNTING RIFLE Chambered for the Amazingly Efficient 7 x 61 SHARPE & HART CARTRIDGE (Other Calibers Availably. .30-06 - 270 - 6.5~55- 244 Rem.) Made by the world-famous Schultz & Lorsen Rifle Company of Denmark The Sharp & Hart Associates, Inc. EMMITSBURG 1. MD. 44374 Piimont Avo., Oakland 11, Calif. After the debut of the Model 760 Keming- ton,',engineers strained mightily and brought FOR INSTANT ACTION forth still another rifle. Again it bore not the slightest resemblance to the German - Mauser. This latest is the Model 740 auto- loading .30'06. This gas-operated number locks up essentially like the pump gun, a ' SCOPE MOUNT rotary bolt with forward lugs. Unquestion- 1 ably this very newest Remington will shortly be announced for the .270 and .257 car- the world's fastest detachable mount tridges; as well the .244, latest of the UMC children. The new automatic is just a little more streamlined and smooth looking than the F-100 Super Sabre. To achieve this Marilyn- like silhouette, the knobs, cut-offs, safeties, bridges, bolt handles, corners, edges and 90- degree surfaces of the bolt action are-praise Allah !-missing. Had Olin Mathieson engineers and Rem- ington's brilliant team elected to improve the bolt-and God knows they'd have been on practically virgin ground-there isn't any doubt they could have provided us with a better turning-bolt action today. Instead they chose to modernize the lever and the pump and in keeping with the military turn to give us a practical sporting auto-loader. These people are hard-headed, practical business- men. They have studied the market and have forecast the future. It was their deci- sion that the gun of tomorrow will not be instantly positions gunscope and just as quickly -lifts the old Mauser-pattern firearm but rifles of . infinitely better appearance and improved off! A simple press of the plunger removes or replace* handling qualities. They are guns that safe- No struggling with screw-drivers - no groping ly handle our hottest loads, are faster firing, easier and more rapid to reload, and possess for coins - no clamping screws to tighten. a degree of accuracy vastly superior to the Kruzell's exclusive V-design plus the positive seating skill of the average rifle shot. @ of the precision-milled V surfaces assure a guaranteed LOOK FOR accuracy! Fits most every rifle and comes in three mountings; Hi-Top, lo-Top and Side Mount Locations. GUNS Weight, 5% oz. - overall length 3%". AT YOUR If your dealer cannot supply you, order direct. FAVORITE NEWSSTAND KRUZELL DISTRIBUTING CO. , I -I 211 Sonn Building Boy City, Michigan G 11 56 Please send literature 0 Please lend Krozell Scope Mount to m rifle. 1 Choice of 3 inbrchanaeable bracket* ^^ 1 ~~ldis $14.9~ check Lo-Top, Hi-Top and Side-Mount I [-I I 1 NAME I -fit all bases. Guaranteed accuracy! ADDRESS I ! 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Then the cases are not ejected and an id groups may vary from fair to awful. can be easily saved for reloading. Yi >ur pet rifle barrel will last indefinitely The proper powder for gallery-load velocity wi ith cast bullets, but it's wise to check for is important. All powders have a high and lei siding occasionally. low pressure tolerance for efficient ignition While reduced loads may give a feeling of and burning. An under charge of slow rifle safety, they are lethal at long range and may powder may not ignite until the primer has ' " Inspired by the shikari (shi-ka'-re) - ri~cochet badly, so a suitable backstop is a driven the bullet into the bore. This leaves big game hunter and guide of India. 6' oust." Farmers and ranchers are apt to be unburned powder in the barrel or blows it out Distinctive and practical all-weather na mow minded if their cattle are shot by the muzzle. Over-charges of fast burning clothing of finest quality for the stray bullets. Loads in the 1,500 f.p.s. class pistol powder develop high breech pressure American outdoorsman. Satisfaction ar e generally accurate up to 200 yards and and erratic groups. Correct charges will dc ingerous at a mile or more. Steel plate ignite easily and burn completely in any atrout W thick set at an angle will deflect length barrel under low pressure, which is bl dlets down where they can be caught in ideal for extremely light loads. But low load- ss;nd. Dry sand is one of the best "stopppers" ing density can effect accuracy or ignition. in side or outside for either direct or deflected For example, the .45 Colt cartridge was not hi ts. Penetration is not deep and slugs will designed for target use. The original charge n(it ricochet. of 40 grains of black powder was, and still is, Commercial bullet traps permit salvaging not of the best big-bore loads. But under- Ie ad for re-use, but fooling around a junk loaded, it falls way off in short-range ac- Yiird will turn up something that can be con- curacy. With modern powders the runty Vtxted into an efficient trap. I use an old axle little .45 ACP case, shorter than the .45 Colt, The hat you've always wanted to own. Au- hi >using. A heavy steel plate was bolted on has better target accuracy due to the higher thentic big game hunter styling. . . smart th ie back and a 1" board bolted on the front. loading denshy. It even works well in re- and dashing. 3%'' brim protects from sun, dust, wind, rain. Resist01 self-conforming con- A wad of cotton or cloth is used as filler volvers with over-length cylinders. Another struction molds to your head for proper fit UI ntil the lead bullets fuse into a solid chunk. example is the .38 Special wadcutter load and head flattery. 1/hen sufficient metal is caught, the back is that gives superior target accuracy, in spite Genuine Premium Beaver 1 $14.50 putpaid Tan Fur Felt with 1 Y4" rf moved and the chunk driven out. When the of a bullet with a poor ballistic shape, be- Buckskin Band Give reg. ha, srze. ciinter of the wood front is shot out, it's still cause it is seated deeply, reducing case g' -sod for a couple of thousand rounds, then capacity, and driven at low speed. True wad- ei isily replaced. The unit weighs about 17 cutters are erratic at high velocity or beyond P'ounds empty, so is portable for use in the 50 yards and are quite wind sensitive. Semi- b,asement or outdoor range. A backstop is wadcutters make the same clean holes in nl ecessary, of course, to catch stray shots. paper, and have a range and trajectory that T'his trap, one of several I've made, has almost equals a round nose, plus far greater ci aught several hundred pounds of lead with killing power. no sign of damage. A word of warning about rimless rifle The handgunner who plans to master roll- cases: keep separate brass for squib loads. ix ig a cylinder may as well learn the truth The primer charge may drive cases into a now as later. Double action speed shooting chamber far enough to set back the shoulder, rl squires mild, but not minimum loads. If creating excess headspace. A fired primer cl harges and bullets are too light, primers may that protrudes from the pocket indicates this Authentically tailored of the original Shikari Sl st back and make the cylinder difficult to condition. If a full charge load is fired in cloth developed for use by Indian army offi- rl evolve. Worst, pronounced hangfires may such a case, it may rupture near the head, cers. This specially woven long staple cotton fabric has a rich lustrous sheen, repels wind. 0ccur. I recommend a bullet of over 100 and could rupture your head. While a high is spot-resistant and completely washable. rains, and heavier is still better. Amazing power rifle is nosafer than the cartridge case, Full-cut bi-swing back gives complete free- g dom. Average size coat weighs only 22 oz. s peed and accuracy can be developed with squib loads develop such low pressure that Natural Ton $19.50 postpaid s teady practice and loads that almost equal old, or slightly below standard brass can be Sizes: 36-48 Give reg. suit size. 1 fiactory match wadcutters, with perfect ig used with safety, so long as it isn't a failure MATCHING TROUSERS...... $8.50 postpaid Give waist and inseam length. lition. The .38 Short and Long Colt cartridge in the pocket or head. New cases may stand is i inferior to .38 Special wadcutter commer- 100 or more loadings, so brass life is not a cial rounds in .38 Special and .357 revolvers. problem. t Lutomatic pistols do not function with cream- Squib loads are worked "down," rather Distinctive styling . . . plus the ultimate in comfort and protection for outdoor adven- ture. Vamp leather is SYL- FLEX tanned - permanently waterproof soft and flexible. Walk in wet grass, mud or snow all day without getting your feet wet. Top of this 9%" boot is scuff - proof, ruff -out premium quality leather. Easy-on-and off. Fully leather lined. Sprin steel arch. Non-slip Squee-Ge rubber sole and heel. Gunstock Brown Vamp Desert Tan Top $25.50 pr. postpaid Give regular shoe size. featuring the finest handmade leather jackets, shirts, boots, clothina and eaui~mentfor ac- iGe o~doarsm~n~ rWrite for Your Copy Todofrl# , NUI-in New! Barrel Bands for 12-gauge .rml Thompson Shotguns, 1" or 1X" Bows $2.00. Oept. 41 1311 W. W. 21st Portland 9, Oregon 1 PHIL83 E. PARK ST., than "up." That is, you start with a more than minimum charge and work down, until accuracy falls off, just the reverse of full loads. The loads I have listed as "minimum" should be accurate and permit some variation in bullet weight and your components. Let me emphasize the importance of keeping the tiny powder charge at the base of the case, next to the primer, for uniform ignition. The barrel should be elevated before each shot to insure proper ignition before the bullet is driven into the bore by the primer. THESE RIFLES, FIRST PITTED AGAINST EACH OTHER ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF CUBA, ESTABLISHED A REPUTATION AMONG It may or may not be possible to reduce SHOOTERS AND HUNTERS WHICH HAS ENDURED UNDIMIN- these loads in your gun with your compo- 1 ISHED TO THIS DAY. nents. Only a test will tell. Loaded cartridges should be identified so they will not be acci- rs- dently used as full charges. If your cases are We hove been extremely fortunate in securing the lad remaining lot of all the same make, a dab of nail polish on the the official United States Cavalry saddle carbines, the famous Krog headstamp will identify the squib loads. Model '96, caliber 30-40 with 22" barrels. These carbines were monu- Light charges and bullets may have a dif- factored ot Springfield Armory and Were the pride of the U. S. Cavalry ferent point of impact, generally low, and in the Phillipines, Cuba and Chino. Good Condition 634.95 sights must he adjusted to compensate. By all means use the same sights you expect to use for hunting, because learning to use your sights is more than half the problem of us- ing your gun. Always use your hunting scope The famous Model 93 bolt action Mouser rifle, 5-shot, caliber 7mm for gallery practice. Optical sights are a Mauser has proven itself as the official arm of 19 nations. It is used by tremendous advantage for everything except hunters throughout the world from the steaming jungles of Africa to the' a rare shot at big game right off the gun frozen wilderness of the Arctic. muzzle. A few die hards dispute that fact, but I've never met a single one who gave the The renowned African hunter, Bell, killed a record 1100 elephants, using glass a fair trial against iron sights. I this caliber rifle. (Ammo currently produced by all U.S. and foreign Cheap sub-caliber commercial ammo can manufocturers- "The Hand-loader's Delight") be used in rifles with Marble's auxiliary car- tridges. These are steel cases with built-in firing pins. When a pistol cartridge of the proper caliber is inserted in the front end, the unit will feed through a magazine. Hot shot 10431 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, California 2.2 varmint rifles use 22 rim fire ammo. A Joe Bickaton *ole owner, not connected with any offer firm. GUNSÑAMMOÑGUNSÑAMMOÑGUNSÑAMMO NOW 13% GENERATIONS OF GUN TRADERS! SEZ .... TREMENDOUS SURPRISES ...... Here's Where You Get the* Bargains You Read About Elsewhere! SAVE 80%^ - 50/40 Krag with the outrigger magazine and made for some explosive power tools. A he smoothest of all actions, makes an in- regular bullet is seated in the front of the xpensive big game, small game and gallery steel insert. The whole thing looks like an ifle. Like the 3/06, it uses .32 Smith & iron 3-06 cartridge. With power cartridges Vesson cartridges, and the little cases can be adapted to the various bullets, this should be eloaded with better than factory loads. My a neat package for indoor and mid-range ifles do not need any sight adjustment for 25 practice. rards and groups are excellent, probably due So if you have a yen to outshoot the famous o the high loading density and the bullet shooters of the past, who caused interesting wing almost in contact with the rifling. pages to be inserted in history books, you can California's FDL outfit has worked out a do it. Better equipment is available and all it ,ub-caliber chamber for .30-06and some other takes is practice and more practice, with )opular calibers. The idea is to use bulletless gallery loads, and a determination to make 'power" cartridges. the powder-filled -22's every shot count to the best of your ability. @ HUNTERS ON MOTORCYCLES (Continued from page 41) "More than once we ran out of fuel and reached often enough to hold their popula- lad to push our machines anywhere from a tions within numbers supportable by the lalf to three miles. When we were too far annual food supply. But the motorcycle lack or the trails were too tough, we left our mounted hunters can easily reach such herds, notorcycles behind and walked out for gas. even thbugh these mobile sportsmen may not Every now and then, during those earlier be able to hunt for more than one or two lays, we would get caught out in the woods days each season. when night fell. Asa rule we were not pre- Most of the experienced trail riders prefer lared for such emergencies, so we just sat Harley Davidson's lightweight 125 model. inder a tree and waited for morning. On These little jobs weigh only 150 pounds and me occasion, night caught us out of gas and are easily handled. With gripster tires and 5ve miles from our destination. We were the low gear sprockets that are usually used headed through the mountains on a trail (60 teeth), the little machines have power leading to a remote ranch where we had enough for the steepest trails. The medium- been invited to spend the weekend. The weight 165s seem to be second choice. rancher figured something was wrong when Each rider usually carries an extra spark we didn't show up at his place. He climbed plug in case someone should have trouble. an a horse and led a couple more down the Additional gas seldom need be carried as the trail until he found us. Boy, were we glad light cycles' mileage is exceptionally good, to see him. even in the mountains. When an unusually "During those days, Stranahan and I rode long trip is planned, an extra can of fuel is together a lot. At that time he seemed to lashed on behind the rider. believe a motorcycle could go any place a Two or more cyclists generally travel to- horse could, and he came pretty close to gether. All motors are completely muffled. "/ Jt proving it except the last one in the group. As they "LITTLE GIANT "Why, we even climbed peaks in moun- string along the trail, the riders in front do tain goat country. We rode along high cliffs not have to look back to see how those fol- on trails so steep and rough my blood curdles lowing are faring as long as the unmuffled GAME HOIST every time I think of them and how inex- motor can be heard. Whenever the tail mo- perienced we were." tor becomes silent the group stops to check. SWINGS UP TO The original group of back country trail During hunting season there are many riders soon grew in size. Today it is not pack outfits traveling in big game country. 500 POUNDS unusual for several groups of hunters to be Horsemen and cyclists sometimes meet on riding widely separated mountain trails on narrow trails. As the leading motor is the same weekend. They easily reach trout muffled, the pack animals do not become POCKET SIZE steams seldom seen by other sportsmen. frightened. The leader stops and a signal is They have discovered that with their motor- sent back to the operator of the noisy ma- "BLOCK AND TACKLE" HAS MANY cycles, the cream of the big game hunting chine, which is immediately turned off. The HUNTING AND CAMPING USES is available to them. riders lift or roll their American lightweights off the path and let the horses pass. YOU eon handle that big deer, elk, moose a Easily accessible areas are hunted far too bear with ease when you use the "Little Giant heavily, while herds further back are not Speeds vary from a mile or two to 20 mile? Game Hoists. It's handy for mils and boa! too, or around the home workshop. Pulb you car out of chuck holes in a (iffy. Take th drain off your muicles and put It on th * PRODUCTION MADE RIFLE BARRELS "LHtle Gianti" iULTRA-RIFLED 8,&R-,v."-m...,...a, COMPLETE KIT WORLD'S FINEST The "Little Giant" Game Hoist kit consirtt < 2 aluminum pull+, anodized bright red, an OFFER YOU...... 30 foot of rope. Pulley weigh only 3 auna 9 HighÑ quality. atovCort. each. Carrying bag. Long Life. 0 Pin& Inride flnisb. With 500 Ib. tut Manila rope...... $4.9 Straightad sportor*. a Record holding Bench RÇm With 800 Ib. test Nylon rope...... $6.4 . With 1100 Ib. test Nylon rope ...... $7.3 lBml discount* (To gunmiMn). 9 Exailant delivery. Postpaid All ealibon from .22 to .450. 9 Bad fttting civic* (rtall only& Smd chock or M.O. (No C.O.D.'t pbor) Cbpofli^moly irou. a Stainlou d. If oufdde U.S. (end wah or M.0. Order Today. Satisfaction Guaranfd 1 Ask for free data on all setvkes. Dealer* Write Route a, Box 4U ANDY SORENSEN 1 G. R. DOUGLAS, WN-~LRL Charitton, Wit Va. 3224 N. R# Blvd., Roumwd, Calif an hour, depending on the condition of the trail. This is from two to four times as fast as a man or horse can walk over the same Complete color brochure sent free on paths. request. Contains all information and On the sharp switchbacks of trails zig- ordering instructions. zagging up steep mountainsides, the men lift the front wheel and "float" it around, riding all the while. Traveling downward on such trails must be done slowly. Riders develop a habit of coming to rest n the foot toward the inside of the trail. The outer edge is often soft or loose and will cave away if the rider were to plant his foot there. A nasty spill could result from such FIELD MODELS OR I carelessness. If logs or other obstructions are encountered, the rider dismounts and "walks" TROOPER his machine over, using a little power to help carry the load. There have been no serious accidents. STOCKS Side cars are never used on the usual woodland paths as there is not enough room for these outfits. However, many narrow Custom fitted to the exact needs of your mountain roads cut through some excellent hands, these stocks are made for either hunting areas. Heavier motorcycles with side Colt's or Smith & Wesson Revolvers and are cars can be used advantageously in these designed especially for heavy loads for places. officers or field shooting. Herrett's excf2tlÈ design gives the needed re-distribution of re- Here in Idaho, thousands of sportsmen coil for comfortable shooting of heavy cab drive their cars into the back country wher- bera Made with or without thumbrest ever there are roads. They set up their camps and hunt to either side on foot. In this country these people are called, "road hunt- ers."' It is easy for the motorcyclists to go far enough into the woods to be well beyond the area covered by the road hunters. The trail riders therefore contribute to the wider and better distribution of hunters, for they do not add themselves to the overcrowded fringe area along the road, but hunt beyond it. 1 Sometimes game will move out of a local- SERIES ity just before hunting season opens. Men on foot, or even on horseback, will generally STOCKS spend several days scouting an area before The DetecttVB they discover this has happened. Quite often, mo el.'. - so much of the vacation is lost by the time made to costom &menston& the situation of game scarcity is known, that Herrett's full t a r get Give the police officer a the sportsmen do not like to move and try stocks made for all pop- healthy stock to ban on to ular American guns: re- and permit on of the new volvers, 22 a u t 08, .45 light frame guns on the range auto. atrn~us....as well as du Ideal tor HmtftS'- STOCKS FORYOURHANDGUNS BOX 7414, TWIN PALLS, IDAHO 0 BETTER ACCURACY MORE KILLING POWER NO BARREL LEADING wM PROT-X-BORE BULLETS combine a had GUNS AND JOBBERS AND bullet with a zinc base, either when swa or cut. Provide* greater accuracy and k& EQUIPMENT DISTRIBUTORS power. The zinc bale keeps the barrel clean of corrosion or leading. SWAGED BULLETS, MOULD G EQUIPMENT AND SWAGING DIES AVAILABLE. Dealers: Try our speedy Shooters: We carry just about LOOK!! HAND GUN HUNTERS1 JUST service whenever you need: anything you may need: LABORATORY TESTED. HARVEY 127 Gr. JUGULAR JACKETED S.P. 867 Magnum RELOADING EQUIPMENT Velocity 1961 ips. Over 1000 fp Energy. POWDER & PRIMERS g E;TF:%ti 114 Gr. JUGULAR JACKETED H.P. 2026 BULLETS ips. Over 1000 fp. Energy. ALSO for 88 i Special at lower velocities. READY FOR & MOUNTS AMMUNITION IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. Loading tables ** LARS SIGHTS furnished. All bullets packed 100 to boi. $ LNcn Rmsr Tmam Plus the items listed at left. Double taper bullet jackets perfectly shaped and -- ., balanced makes Herter's bullets superbly accurate and SEMI-POINTED HOLLOW-POINT ROUND-NOSE deadly. Jackets are thin at the nose to permit ready expansion and instant mushrooming for miximum shock. Price Price Expansion is controlled when mushrooming reaches the Per Per heavy metal at the shoulder. Extra heavy base section caliber Grains Type 100 Caliber Grains Type 100 22 45 SP $1.97 7m/m 139 SP 3.27 assures strength to withstand pressure from powder gases 50 sp 2-19 .284 Dia. 175 RN 3.57 and holds together for deep penetration. , '224 55 SP 2.19 70 HP 2.57 30 Lead cores are alloyed to the correct hardness for de- bm/m 85 SP 2.74 .308 Dia. pendable expansion. Lead ti is small and rounded - ' 100 SP 2.87 not subject to deformation in randling or battering in the 87 HP 2.74 303 magazine. 25 100 SP 2.87 .312 Did. '257 Dia' I I7 SP 2-97. Ever Herter bullet is identically matched and micro- 6.5m,m 130 sp 3.17 8m/m 150 SP 3.27 180 RN 3.43 scopical? y inspected to assure shooting accuracy and uni- ,263 Did. 150 RN 3-29 -323 Dia. 236 RN 3.74 form Herter bullets are of the highest quality for target or game. 270 110 HP 2.97 35 200 SP 3.74 77 130 SP 3-27 .358 Dia. 250 RN 3.97 150 RN 3.39 * All Herter bullet jackets are progressively and automatically drawn .375 Dia. 235 SP 3.97 through the same series of dies to the final shape and size on the Mag. 300 RN 4.74 finest most modern machinery obtainable. Unexcelled for uniformity Further Quantity Discount Available! and concentricity! ------NON-CORROSIVE NON-MERCURIC * All Herter bullets are of the flat base design. NOTE: We make no obsolete boat-tail bullets. The German army as well as the FACTORY CENTER-FI RE American army abandoned the boat-tail bullet years ago. Boat-tail RIFLE AND PISTOL PRIMERS bullets have no greater velocity at an effective killing range than do # 120 Large Rifle ------78$ per 100 $6.85 per 1000 flat-base bullets. Actually boat-tail bullets tend to collapse rather # 111 Large Pistol ------78$ per 100 $6.85 per 1000 than expand or upset in the barrel and the gas tends to squeeze past Small Rifle, Pistol and Battery Cup Type Shotshell Primers to be them. They can be so reduced in diameter that it completely destroys available October I. 1956. their accuracy. Unless made with extreme hard cores and stiffer iackets than flat-base bullets they are absolutely inaccurate. When For huge catalog on reloading equipment, gunsfocks, made with hard cores and stiffer jackets their mushrooming and shock- gunsmith supplies, decoys, game calls, fiberglas boats, ing power is greatly decreased. Furthermore, the tapered base of general outdoorsman items: Write Dept. j~y the boat-tail bullet exposes the thinner walls of the bullet jacket to the hot powder gases which causes separation of the lead core from the jacket greatly upsetting the bullets accuracy! right where they fall when shot. The motor- it doesn't have a sling, you must have one LI cyclists have developed a system of slinging attached. You've got to have your hands G;TE~~ and tieing the meat high on their machines free while riding, so you sling your rifle in a manner which works as well as methods across your back where it is out of the way. usually employed when packing with horses Of course, the shorter, lighter guns are easiest or mules. No special racks are used. The to carry. AUTOMATIC SHOTGUN meat cannot be hung on each side of the "The old army way, carrying a gun in a machine for it would catch on logs, trees and front-wheel scabbard, is sometimes good but rocks at the edge of the pathway. the added weight in front makes the cycle The little lightweights will not carry as handle sluggishly. When the narrow trails much meat as a pack horse, but they do have switch back and you have to reverse your an important advantage over livestock; they direction going up hill, a heavy front end - are faster, and the hunter also rides. Some makes steering tough. This graceful streamlined of the cyclists weigh well over 200 pounds. "Scabbards used in saddle-carry can he beauty still retains a wonderful Impression of The motorcyclist can shoot an elk 20 or 30 adapted to strapping on the cycle frame. It feather lightness even miles from camp without any danger of takes a little study to make sure the chains after hours of carrying. The chrome lined meat spoilage before the trophy can be taken and sprockets are free and the rifle doesn't barrel, the all weather to headquarters. On occasions, when several get hung up in the machinery. But, except stock treatment and the automatic cut- riders were together, an elk has been shot. for long distance road travel before entering off are exclusive They dressed and packed it 25 miles over a a hunting area, the cross-back sling carry is Franchi features. wilderness trail in less than a day's time! the best way. A short-barreled carbine sticks bt hll lilnullr If 1W IfIItlm# But as a rule the sportsman spends from one out less and will have less chance to hang rift takr ir to two busy days packing his game out, if up on brush as you cut through the woods, Sli Or FIE the trail is a very good one. but the choice of a rifle is dictated by the Iunkitten Along average trails these hunters make it game you plan to find, not by carrying 3 NEK GRADES a rule never to shoot an elk over ten miles methods. THE from camp and a deer over fifteen miles "For road carry, travelling on a good away. The tougher trails, and the ones run- highway, packing the rifle strapped tightly ning through burnt-over areas where there is across the handle-bars eases the strain on much windfall, are not used for big game the rider of having it hang from his shoulder. hunting unless there is a packer in the area But when you roll off the black top and and he agrees to haul out any animals killed strike for the hills, a cross-back sling carry is by the motorcyclists. best!' Motorcycle hunters carry their own favor- "You know," Gibhs went on, "this motor- ite big game rifle on trips. N. R. Gibbs, cycle hunting is quite a sport. For many Lewiston gunsmith and dealer, likes the years I hunted the back country by hiring model 70 Winchester, chambered for the .300 a pack string and saddle horse each season. Weatherby. He uses 150 grain bullets for Seven years ago, I began riding those same deer and the 180 grain slugs for elk. When trails on a lightweight. I do my hunting asked if any special gun was best for motor- much easier and cheaper now. 45-18 Court Square cycle hunters, he said: "You ought to see how surprised some Long Island City 1, N. Y. "No, just take your favorite gun along. If dudes are when I ride past their camps. They BEST.BUYS IN WLES NOW @@@ HuntingFor the GunRifle. Collector or for my conversion into an excellent, inexpensive 1 '''."iTTon SWIVEL INSTANT ONE-HAND ON OR OFF CANNOT RELEASE ACCIDENTALLY SQUARE LOOP WON'T FRAY STRAP NEW, SHORT LENGTH HANDSOME d 111 BLUED v# -- Custom Hand Mode - For Colt S.A. ONLY $5.8 15 AlsoI available for most all other Revclivers, and Automatics. Se,nd for FreeI Price List. 1 NEW GUNS CATALOGS Big Jumbo used Gun Catalog Bargain Colt Frontier C & pp. German Collectors WI 1 - . . BOX 2127 enuine Custom Restored Colt 3 Spl. 45 Cal. 44 Spl. $11 2767 E. COMMERCE SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 1 EARLY i MODEM FIREARMS CO. DC., Dip). 0. 12418 tain R., shdk Cb. CJ. 1 1 1 69 id oumc pack outhi cany tlien reat ntt) ick into the woods, and just about the REVISION ne they settle down for a nice quiet hunt ray from everyone else, some guy like me SERVICE mes riding down the trail on a motorcycle. FOR CURRENT "Of course,"Gibbs laughed, "we never do iy hunting in their territory. That would ; a dirty trick. Deer and elk do not seem fear the machines, so we don't scare them it of the country. In fact, most of the ime I have killed was shot within a short stance of a trail; some were were even ken within sight of the motorcycle." ITH THIS COMPLETE E. B. Stranahan was probably the very EDITION OF Â¥sLewiston man to take up back country ail riding. Nowadays he always finds time go out with beginners and teach them the FIREARMS ndamentals of riding mountain trails safely. The .308 Winchester Featherweight Model is Stranahan's favorite rifle. As a rule DIRECTC... 1 i experiences very little trouble getting his by SHELLEY BRAVERMAN ? ier and elk. However, the Fall of 1955 was different. 'hen the big game season came to an end i was still empty-handed. He felt pretty idly about this, but he had one more chance try his luck. The game department de- ared a special late open season on elk in This is the only-of-its-kind Gun Encyclopedia which, since 1951. has been serving tho- whom winter range area where the animals were vocation or avocation includes Firearms .Collectors. Dealers, Gunsmiths, libraries, Manufacturers. lid to be damaging crops on ranches along etc., throughout the world, are finding the Firearms Directory more and more valwble. ie edge of the forest. Police Laboratories from Scotland to Singapore use the Firearms Directoryf When this special season opened, Strana- Since its inception. The Fireorms Directory has grown each year by means of additions and in loaded his lightweight into a pickup revisions, to the extent that it now weighs more than six 16) poundst id drove to the locality where the hunt was PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED - THOUSANDS OF ILLUSTRATIONS! :ing carried on. He parked near an old The unique mointenonce service. consisting of additional new material and revisions, solves the lad, mounted his motorcycle and followed "obsolete book- problem-The FIREARMS DIRECTORY I$ ALWAYS UP TO DATE, AND THEMAINTE- until he came to a large meadow. He sat NANCE SERVICE KEEPS IT THAT WAY; there is nothing elm like it in the Firearms field. iwn beside a stump in the middle of the THE FIREARMS DIRECTORY IS DIVIDED INTO SIXTEEN SEPARATE SECTIONS: lening and quietly waited. About half an hour later Stranahan spot- d a movement just inside the edge of the rush at the upper end of the clearing. What Appropriate material, contained in the above classificatiom. is continually added to- illowed is in his own words: for exemple, the "PISTOL ATIAS" lpp. 34-35, FIREARMS IDENTIFICATION, 1. S. Hatcher) "I picked up my gun and took a look long unavailable, will be at YOUR hand as a Firearms Directory owner.. .,Ah, each irough the scope. It was a fine big cow. potent in the Firearms field is extracted with illustrationsand and included in the annual ooked to me like it was an awful long way supplement And, of course, our world famous Isometric Drawings-04 which we now T so I set the cross hairs at the upper edge hove sixty-seven-all to be included in the Firearms Directory! These range from the ' Collier Flintlock Revolver ond Patterson Colt through the modern outomatiu-Truly a its backbone, directly above the heart. wealth of moterial nowhere else available. EACH F/D COMES TO YOU IN A SPECIALLY OES16NED. CUSTOM BUILT. 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"Then 1 squeezed the trigger of my 308. how my riHe is sighted in, the evidence THE LEWIS LEAD REMOVER The elk sort of jumped, but settled down proved to me that blamed cow was only about 1 UTHFAOTION aUARAMTlI0 right away and trotted off into the timber. 450 yards from where I stood when I fired." I was not sure I had hit it. Actually, I wag Stranahan packed his elk out on the hack afraid I had not. Anyhow, I hiked up of his cycle in three trips. "If I had made there and made a big circle through the the hunt on horseback," he said, "I would trees to see which way it had headed. The have ended up at home with a few hun- snow was just right for tracking, but I did dred pounds of spoiled meat. But the cycle not see a single sign of my elk. got over the trails fast enough for me to " 'Well,' I said to myself, 'that cow has got bring the meat to the lncker in gond con- to be somewhere inside this circle.' And sure dition." enough, I found it in a few minutes. It NEW J. 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INSULATED a SCOOP UNDERWEAR SUIT on Spanish guns is, an anecdote about the There are three sections. The first conta in author is in order. An American gun col- seven chapters by Neal on Spanish gu ,ns lector was talking with a European expert on generally and particularly. Secondly come! I a old arms. "Oh, you don't want to ask me translation of an historical account of t he those questions," the expert replied, "Go to gunmakers of Madrid by Isidro Soler, w ho see Keith Neal in England. There isn't any- was a gunmaker of Madrid in 1795. T he one alive who knows more about flintlock descriptions of forging gun barrels from cild guns than Neal." A small part of that great horseshoes is remarkable, as it clarifies t he learning is expressed in his book on Spanish details of an historically important phase of weapons. gunmaking. To modem metallurgists, Sole1's Brand New, First Quality SCOOP'* DuPont Nylon Air Mattress gun modeb together with up-to-date data on aR uno* cftonoef. 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Literatux ble Shaft Machine grinds, drills, cuts, routs etc., with greater ACCURACY, on dies and complete loading equipmex CONVENIENCE. and ECONOMY. upon request. Write RCBS Gun 81 Die Shol EASY TO HANDLE Dept. G-11, PO Box 729, Oroville, Calif. PENCIL SIZE HAND- PIECE Provides sensitive FIN- CER-TIP control of your work. Gets into "tight- spots". Your work always well in view. LONG MOTOR LIFE 1/15 H.P., 14,000 rpm. universal motor. Speed does not drop precipi- tatedly under load. Motor not dwarfed to fit hand, hence longer life~lowerlong run cost. Hundreds of uses. Use Foredoms to grind, polhh, ADJUSTABLE TONE CROW~ - CALL drill, mill, saw, sand, clean, cut, carve, rout, etch. engrave, eta on dl metals, wood, plaatks, glow. fai~lifnllyreproduces the liigl~er-pilchedcalls linoleum, etc. if young crows as well as tlie lower-toned i-Order Now-10-Day Money Back Guarantee ---I !ails of older crows, all wi~lio~i~taking the 1 IJ Send name and address with check or money order i for $25 SO to get Foredom Model FB (with foot call upark or making any reed adjustments. rheos!at'~30.00). Include.! choice of 3/32" or W 1 I caoacitv collet. Add 8Se if mu want both. t l11st a simple iiirning of (lie barrel provides 1 0 FREE CATALOG No. H36M- I i full range of lones lo assure good shooting I Foredom Electric Co., Dept. H36M 1 ti~dcrany condi~ions. Easy lo blow; heauti- 1 27 Park Place New York 7, N. Y. 1 fully made of green and lirnwii plastic. Re- L______Ñ_-ÑÑ---Ñ-- tail price $3. Order from tlie CIWIIIread Company, Delt~.G-11, 1.a Salle, Ill. .- .-. .. - . n E VJ 60 POWW ACHROMATIC precision work in industry, is ideal for rc loaders. Makes optical inspection of bullet; cases and primers fast and accurate withou eyestrain. Shows the object magnified wit depth and clarity. Worn with or withou glasses, Magni-Focuser leaves both hand free for work. Normal vision resumed b raising head. No. 3 model measures 1%" 3 DIL~FOR RELOADING PISTOL 14; No. 5 measures 2%:" x 10". Each mode AMMO iiffer an advantage over the usual retails for $10.50. For literature on these an1 2 die sets. They permit expanding the case other models write to Edroy Products Co mouili in a separate operation to insure bul- Dept. G-11, 480 Lexington Ave., New York lets will liv seated without shaving lead-a N. Y. Expert Rifleman's a @B Badge Custom made Original Authentic type holsters. Avail- Made In 1916 at able for the Colt 1860 Army Colt 1851 Navy and Rock Island Arsenal. Remine-ton Army Percussion 'revolvers. $9.20 IT. :Winchester Military 303 British Cartridges, 100-$ 40- - ; Jumbo Used Gun Catalog: $1.00 PP. - Dept. K SPECIAL 1 E&M Co., Inc., 12418 Ventura 81.. Studio City, Calif. 1 :RIFLE - 12 Shot Repeater $125 Cal. 44-40ÑUnuiua ovmrtunHy ta MBTPAIB *Eft thi8 11fl0 8t 8 lOW pri~.Limited Â¥qumtlty Und~ioodmndltlon. Cold plated aver wild bmn. HUNTERS' HOIST a44.40 Cal. Cartridges. 100 - $9 Rald town . . . Limited quantity. The Hoist with a lock. No more tying off. Raise or low- er that big Deer, Elk, or Boat ------PUBLICSPORT SHOPS a few inches at a time and ELKPORTSSHOPS, 11 S. 16th St., Phila. 2. P. 11 S. 16th St., Phila. 2, Pa. No COOS lock it. Weighs 12 oz. Capacity 750 pounds. 5-1 ratio. 10 foot CLOSE OUT SHOT SHELLS span. List for Dealers & Individuals Synthane Pulleys. Brass Bear- All gauges 410-28.20-16-12-10 Sheridon custom ings. Steel bolts. Steel hooks. Skeet Loads-Buck Shot-Brush Loads - BB shot lllty High Velocity & Standard Loads Nylon line. A quality prod- 2%'' and 3" Mag. Loads .Prçdi1çn4ç uct. ALSO ODDS & ENDS RIFLE and REVOLVER CTGS. .E,m.m.b The new Hoist for 1956. Save Up to 50% Genuine pneumatic- un free air. Boll action. controlled 38 Super-348-38 S&W Blank-41 Long Colt Penetrates pine Bollislicolly correct $7.95 PPD. 25 Rem.451 AutoÑ25-35-25 Sav..308 power. 1" board. 38 AutoÑ3 & 32 Win. self load 5 mlm 1.20 col.) bullets. Automatic safely. Receiver HUNTER MFG. CO. AURAND'S, 229 E. Third, Lewistown, Pa. Box 376 SHERIDAN PRODUCTS.INC.,Dept.266-K,Racine.Wis Prott, Kansas 25 Cell Brilliance 66,000 1 Candlepower Beacon I IJNIbat light. how u1 shorrilna from gnat dls- tan& 20 mile ~Ignalran-. Urn only 6 flashlight SHOPPING batfriu. nt unlaua deslon ematu nowor of 21. Na-- 1 boat oomplate without ft. Dlsutai protiation. tire M powerful u any other fluhlliht made. Hawaiian bronze flnlsh with mold 1 Ilttlngi. Order by mill 1 zipper for head and shoulder protection Bottom is semi-circular for maximum foot: comfort, and there is a full 84 inches to the -. end of the hood-ample room for hunters^ sportsmen as tall as 6'1". Priced at $46.75' complete with carrying case. Complete in- formation available upon request. Write Camp and Trail Outfitters, Dept. G-11. 112 Chambers St., New York, N. Y. BLE APERTURE SIGHT DISC takes place of single aperture disc that comes with peep sight. Permits you to fit your eye to light and range condi- tions prevailing at shooting time and to quickly get clear, sharp definition. Simply open or close click adjusted iris shutter for instant choice of 12 different sized apertures from dim light and snap shooting and smaller apertures for bright light and long standing shots. Made to fit most peep sights; retails for $4.00. Merit Gunsight Co., Dept. G-11, I-""CARTRIDGEBOXES 1 6144 Monadnock Way, Oakland (5) Calif. LIGHTWEIGHT INSULATED VEST ham an outer shell of 20 ounce lightweight virgin wool, backed by a 4 ounce virgin dacron which is quilted on nylon taffeta. Bright, fire-engine scarlet color. Vest is reversible, fitted with four pockets on wool side, two pockets on nylon side. Reversible zipper. Knit collar and vents at side of 100% pure virgin worsted wool. Back cut extra deep for protection across lower hip area. For hunt- ing, shooting, golfing; ideal for casual wear. Available in full range of sizes from Wool- rich Woolen Mills, Dept. G-11. Woolrich. tures a filling of the finest Canadian goose Penna. down. Fabric is dark green water-repellent balloon cloth. Zipper extends down the side PACKET BLIND enables the wild fowl and across the bottom; hood closes with hunter to be fully self sufficient in the marsh. I I MUZZLE : I STILL THE TOPS I BRAKE : CUSTOM RELOADED I Tiny, but POTENTI Custom-fitted into your BARRING NONE! I barrel, like the chamber. Illustrated folder. AMMUNITION : 10-%I Corbhr Ranting Reload* 15.00 pw box (50) 220 SwUt $1.75 pà box (20) (your colma only 270 Win. 82.90 pà box (20) Finest, Top Grain Cowhide 10-06 $3.00 pw box (20) Â¥M Maunr Ue$3.00 per box (10) HOLSTERS^ 38 Special 12.50 pw box (50) to fit any model or size hand 45 Auto $4.00 pmr box (50) xun. Preferred by police ~e- partmenta. Black or russet. Sbed and Lubricated cent bullelm Also belts, cartridge belts, 38 coL 150 gr. nml WC and 156 w, slides. cases, Sam Browne round nor $1.50 per 100; 11.40 PM 101 belts. For 4- barrel $3.50. In 500~- lots~ ~~ftpold @ -for .. S"- barrel.- - - .. $3.00,- ..- .. Discount to Dealen Write far FREE Folder - - JOHN B. ALESSIO 1 Stock of all popular nnokeleaa and blad P. 0. Box 58A. Wdde Park, N. I. HARPSTER & WILLIAMS, Philipsburg, Pa. powd~i, primer* and bullets, olio shot gun reloading suppliw. Dmolmr Dkoualm on BWS primer, colt bullets, and reload*. SCHWARTZ CUSTOM GUNS 1 RmWsSs PRIMER AND BRASS I STOCKS-plain, fancy, target. - 6.5 Jap. 6.5 Carcano, 6.5 M. S. Brass, $9.75 REMRRELING-feotherweight to bull. Per 100. Primers. Large Rifle, Small Rifle, Trade-in your factory gum on custom guns. Small Pistol $2.24 per 250. Loaded 6.5 Jap. - 6.5 Carcano. 6.5 M. S. $6.00 Per 20. No - c.0.D.'~. =- ICUST~IBftODD6R INTERNATIONAL TYPE "FREE" RIFLES SHELL SHOP Box MW Fort Pierce, Fla 209 Lafayette Owouo, Michigan 3705 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles 26, Calif. 1 NEW WOODCARVING SETS I IN HANDY PLASTIC BAGS Imported from Germany, made WITH (5um of finest 8t-l by ExmerlenMd Crafl8men Tool8 kern ahan keen edge tor lid-long urvd ' SET No. 8 (IUUS.) Allows the duck or goose hunter to make a proper set and to shoot over his decoys com- fortably; also permits him to retrieve his duck or goose when they fall in deeper water and to go after cripples. Made of over 10,000 pieces of natural raffia tied to a COMPLETE SET à 8hown strong net especially fitted to the anodized In Plutlo Bag Only $9.20 aluminum, non-rusting frame. Weighs 10 Many other populai Ibs.; can be assembled in 5 minutes; comes priced sets from $3.15. SEND 2Se FOR BIQ 48 PAGE CATALOQ in a bag suitable for carrying. Retails for ON GUNSMITH SUPPLIES $54.50. Porta Company Inc., Dept. G-11, 32 FRANK MITTERMEIER, Neponset Street, Canton, Mass. 3577 E. Trcmont Ave., New York 65. N. Y. 0000Â¥00000000000000000000 :THE MOUNT THAT WILL : ALWAYS ZERO BACK PORTA-BLIND is a new wind and water- proof duck-blind, that weighs only 18 pounds, shelters two men, and can be put up in five minutes. It is 3' wide, 4' long and 50" high and sells for $39.95. Sturdy metal frame is in 0 1" UruUUa UL iUU Jard6. haw) four quarters which, when assembled, form 0 off and back on between shots. No Wrench needed to adjust. $19.75 P,Pm an oval compartment which nest together for Oven rear sight. Fixed reticule scopes only Bigid :when locked no bouncing around to damage scope. storage. A lightweight canvas bag pulls over Discount to dealers. For free Information write: metal frame and is held in position with a GEORGE M. FISCHER draw-string. The 180-degree, turret-type hood :Box 22R Billings, Mont. attaches to the base. Available in choice of oooooooooeoooooooooooooooo olive drab, dead-grass and camouflage colors. Folds quickly, carries in one hand, fits easily into car or trunk. Write Porta-Blind Co., Dept. G-11, PO Box 1758, Wichita, Kansas. GENUINE WALNUT GUN RACK harmo- CLEAR SIGHT SCOPE CAPS protect nizes well with gun stocks, adds much to the scope lens from weather and dust. Also give attractive appearance of firearms. Holds four scope full protection against abuse. Will not guns so they cannot come out until rack is interfere with aim or optics in scope itself. unlocked~secureagainst tampering. Roomy Lenses are ground optic flat. Lens holder of drawer, equipped with high quality tumbler Neoprene can not be damaged by gun oils or lock, keeps ammunition, knives and other cleaning fluids. Available for Bausch & accessories safe. One key unlocks both Lomb, Bushnell, Leupold, Supra, Hensoldt, drawer and guns. Rack measures 22" wide, Lyman, Texan, Stith, Unertl, Boone, Lichen FOR SALE 3%" high, 7" deep. Weighs approximately and Weaver Scopes. $2.95 per pair; $1.50 MINIATURE BRASS BARREL CANNONS U.S. or Confederate proof marks 14 lbs., retails for $16.95. Write W. R. for % pair. Order from Southwest Cutlery $4.00 to $15.00 pair Vermillion Co., Inc., Dept. G-11, 410 South & Mfg. Co., Dept. G-11, 1309 Olympic Blvd., Dealers wanted. Stamp for list. Campbell St., Springfield, Mo. Montbello, Calif. WANTED NAZI ITEMS LENKEL 812 Anderson Ave.,Palisade, N. J. ^ PROTECT the TIPS WITH A Parker Cartridge Clip 14 inches long. A precision instru- ment. All metal with chrome and AiiaranfaMMt.-- -. -. . . . . -. 1 DAVID WAYLAND, Box 2446, Hollywood 21, Calif. 1 SANDERSON PISTOL STOCKS help you get the extra points. ASK THE CHAMPIONS! INDIVIDUALLY SHAPED TO VOUR SPECIFICATIONS. ~oldsl NAME VOUR QUN FOR INFORMATION. TEN LEW SANDERSON 3075 N. Hickow Ridge Road - MILFORD. MICHIBAN cartridges at your FINGERTIPS for FAST RELOADING Goerg HOIIOW pointer High Impact Plastic (Guaranteed) for .38 Special 6 .357 Magnum, .44 Special and .45 Colt revolver [f not at your dealer, Price $3.00 ppd. Doubles Killing power of bullet HOLIDAY MFG. CO.. DEPT.-G Grand Island, Nebr. $4.95 postpaid - Dealers inquire Jobbers & Dealers Inquiries Invited GOERG ENTERPRISES %l,?$? 3009 So. Laurel Port Angeles, Wash. . . - . ,- < ,--.a. , q . ..% . '* THE GUN MARKET Classified ads 15c per word per insertion including name and address. Payable (on sale December 1) is October 16. Print your ad carefully and mail to: in advance. Minimum ad 10 words. Closing date for the January, 1957 issue GUNS Magazine. 8150 North Central Park Blvd., Skokie, Illinois. KNOW YOUR Shotgun! Eight 32" x 32" Patterning Targets with instructions. $1.00 COLLECTORS postpaid. Dealers also solicited. Tegrat De- signers, Dept. G-56, 3740 Aurora Ave., Cin- TONS RARE Antique Gun Supplies. Illus- cinnati 11, Ohio. trated catalog 256. Dixie Gun Works, Dept. 0, Union City, Tennessee. RIFLES, 303 BRITISH Enflelds, ns issued, OVER 500 ANTIQUE-Modern Guns-Pow- good condition $27.50 each. 303 British Mili- der Flasks-Swords-Edged Weapons. Large tary cartridges $7.50 per 100. Remin ton COLLECTOR'S PIECE-Colt revolver pocket Printed List 25< coin. Cartridges for Col- Pump Action ~ifles,Model 14%. Cal. 44'-40, model (1849) with rammer. Five chamber lectors List #66 25< coin. Ed Howe. Coopers used 12-shot good condition $39.50 each. single shot. Percussion fired. Calibre .31. Very 44-40 cartridges $12 00 per hundred Public good condition and in working order. Offers Mills 11. Maine. Sport shops, 11 S. 16th Street, ~hiiadiiphia2, to Chisholm, 34 Beaufort Avenue, Kenton. Pa. ANTIQUE ARMS for Collector or Shooter. at Harrow, Middlesex, England. Bargain Prices. lo< for List. Lndd, Catskill. FOR SALE: S&W 44 Magnum 6%" target re- N. Y. U. S. 30-40 CAL. KRAG rifles. Very good . . . volver New $135.00. Lang 12 a. double 30" $37.50. U S 30-06 Cal Enfleld rifles Excel- F&P side locks no safety nTce engravin $1.00 ALASKA MINERALS $1.00. Ore As- lent . . . $39.50. U. S."30-06 cal. ~prlngfleld very' good 395.60. W&C &ott 12 ga. doubt? sortment from the Last Frontier. A Swell rifles. Good . $42.50. Very good . . . $55.00. perfect $65.00. German 28" open, Monte-Carlo B model, engraved and Gift 15 different minerals. Send $1.00 to . reflnished, very good , $295.00. Winchester ~laskaNorthern Lights Ent., P. 0. Box 1101, G 43.8mni Mauser 10 shot semi-automatic M88 308 lever-action rifles, New (129.90. Jeff. Anchorage. Alaska. rifles. Excellent . . . $60.00. German Mod. 08.8mm Mauser rifles er good . . . $37.50. Trader. Pocomoke Citv. Maryland. AMERICA'S MOST Unique Antique Arms Excellent . . $42.'50. Ja 7.7mm Arisaka JAPANESE 7 7 Ammunition $3 00 per twen- Service. Huge monthly catalogs containing rifles. ~xcelient . . . $18.00 Ja 6 5mm ty. 30-06 ~mmo$1.50 per twenty J B. Sloan. hundreds of antique guns, swords from the Arisaka rifles. Very good . . . $20.08 Money 92 Ormond St. k. E.. Atlanta 15. Q; world's famous Philip Medicus collection. Back Guarantee. Free Gun List. Freedland flasks, uniforms and curiosa. New and differ- Arms, 34 Park Row, New York 38, N. Y. GUNS: NEW, Old, Rare, Antiques, Unusual. ent items each month. Wonderful variety. Curios, Oddities list postpaid 254. Farlsh's. Subscription $1.00 year (refundable). Norm GUNS BOUGHT, Sold and Traded: Top Al- Vicksbnrg, Mississippi. Flayderman-G, Kennehunk, Maine. lowance for Your Old Gun. List 25c. Agawam -- Associates. Box 55. Aarawam. Mass. FIREARMS ENGRAVING-Refinishing $25 TONS OF Rare Antique gun parts and sup- up. Firearms taken in pa ment Layaway Ian Complete Gunsmith service. Marty, Box 5204: plies: All questions answered in new catalo KIFLES : THE Famous British Current Issue #lO4 25c. nixie Gnn Works. Department Ashevilie 3. N. C. Cf .303- - .. Short- -. . . Lee- - . Enfleld (No. 4 Mark 1) Deluxe ~nionCity, Tennessee. Sporter 10-shotdetachable magazine repeater. (A $100.00 value*. Now only $39.30. Send re- JAP AMMUNITION, 7.7 $3.50 per box; 6.5 $4.50 per box : 3 or more Express Prepaid. FOR SALECAntique European weapons. Pls- mittance prompt delivery. International Fire- Invest In Bargain List of Guns. Under- tola, Casks, Noblemen Duel cases. Low Prices, arms, 22 Kingman, St. Albans, Vermont. lo< send $1 for Photos and descriptions to D. wood's, Post Road. Shrewsbury, Massarhn- Segers, 30. I.ongue Rue D' Herentals, Antwerp setts. -Belgium. ENFIELD RIFLES: Famous 30-06 Enfleld 6- shot repeating Service Model $33.00. .303 cali- bre $24.50. Manufactured by Winchester, AUTOMATIC PISTOLS Collectors. Send Remington, and Eddystone. Very good to ex- GUN CABINETS stamp for list of rareand scarce automatics. cellent. Dealers quantity discounts. Shipped James N. Belford, 7th & Anna St., Stuttgart, Duty Free. Send remittance Immediate ship- "THE MIFFLINBURG1'-Solid Cherry. An 8 Ark. ment. International Firearms. 1011 Ble~iry. gun positions or less gun stock flnish For Montreal, Que. details write W. W. ~iover,woodworking, 241 Chestnut Street, Miliiinbnrg, Pa. GUNS & AMMUNITION SWISS ARMY Rifles '89 Famous Schmidt- GUN CABINETS ! Hold 8 guns. Glass door. Rubin Rifles. Hi-power .30 cal. 12 shot re- large stora e drawer. Brass, bronze or black 30 CALIBER 12-SHOT hieh-power precision peater, fast loading detachable magazine. Ex- hardware $0" high 30" wide 12" deep 18" Swiss Rifle, silk-smooth action, flne accuracy, cellent condition $16.50. (Two $29.50) Also base. ~vailablein Pine Ash or Birch Satis- low recoil, excellent shooting condition. available as flnest light weight sporter with faction Guaranteed. write Colonial ~abinetry. $14 95 * 48 Military cartridges $5.00 ; Hunting 22" barrel only $22.50. Ammunition $2.65 box 205 Cypress, Porterville, Calif. cartridges $3.25 per 20. Free Brochure,****** 20 (2 boxes $5.00) Send remittance immediate 52-page gun catalog jf(15, Modern & Obsolete shioment. International Firearms. 22 Ktog- Pistols, Rifles and Shotguns. Hard-to-get For- man. St. Albans. Vermont. eign & American Ammunition Loading Tools. GUNSMITHING Clips. Magazines, ~ccessoriesprice 254 Mar- AMMUNITIOX: .45 A.C.P. $4.25 PER 100. tin B. Retting, Inc., Culver City (23). Cali- 1000 rounds $35.00 2000 rounds $29.50.10.000 GOLD-SILVER-Nickel Plating. Bright pre- fornia. rounds $24.50 per '1000. Shipped Duty Free. war bluing. Antiques, Frontiers resorted. Gun- Immediate shinment. International Firearms, reblu, Biltmore 15, N. C. YOUR JAP rifles altered to 30-06, $6.00. .lap 1011 Bleary, Montreal, Que. shells $3.75 Bolts altered for scope $4.50. SHOOTERS : IF you are interested to leanring engine turned $4.00. both $8.00. Catalog .On. Gunsmithing and are willing to spend a few TF Shop, West Branch 16, Mich. RIFLES: FAMOUS .303 Short Lee Enfleld hours in our home shop for a handsome ac- (S M L.E.) No. 1 Mark 111 British Service curate .22 target pistol, send 3 cent stay' for ~od&,Ten-shot repeater. detachable magazine complete information. P. 0. BOX 362. Ferrc .. -only $29.50. Send remittance. immediate Haute, Indiana. È f3 fin pt=r 100, Blanks' 30-06. shipment. International Firearms Co.. 22 King- no pop 100, Re- man St., Albans. Vermont. LEARN GUN repairing at home. Profitable 45 Auto business. Details lOc. Modern Gun Repair $4600 Per i 000.' Bullets. Sized and Lubri- GERMAN MODEL 98 8MM Mausers. Very School, Box 4304, Marshfleld, Wis. cated 38 spec. $16.00 Per 1.000. 45 ~uto Good $37.50. Excellent 42.50. U.S. 30-06 $18.00 Per 1,000. No C.O.D.'s. Shell Shop. Springfield Rifles. Good $42.50. Very Good 3705.~- Sunset~ Blvd. Los Aneeles- 26. Calif. $55.00. Perfect $65.00. Jap 30.06 Caliber con- ENGRAVING verted rifles. Very Good $22.50. Excellent - SAVE UP to %-Buy New Guns, Reloading $27.50. Jap 7.7 Arisaka Rifles. Excellent ENGRAVING-SCROLLÑgol animals-In. tools and components, scopes, shop tools, tires, $18 00. .Tap 257 Roberts. Excellent $29.95. dividual designs. Doubles restocked. Gunre. home appliances. Discount list free. Walter ~reeList. North Eastern Firearms. 145 Nas- blu. Biltmore 15. N. C. Oliver, Box 55, Auburn, Indiana. sau Street, New York, New York. FINE ENGRAVING on flne uns. E. C. Prnd. CARTRIDGE COLLECTORS-List #14 with SPItINGFIELD HOLTS. fomplete. Perfect hokme, 305 E. Ward Bldg., [hreveport, La. new additions listing 1000 different U. S. and 5.00. Milled Floor Plate and Trig er Guard Foreign Collectors cartridges. Many rarities g4.00. Frontier Gun Shop. 3445 dniversity, never before offered. 20<. Mnrtln R. Retting, ban Diego 4. Calif. INDIAN RELICS lnc.. Culver City 23, Calif. RIFLES, PISTOLS, Shotguns, Revolvers. We 2 FINE INDIAN War Arrowheads $1.00. LEGAL M-1 RIFLES, $125. M-I carbines. buy sell and trade. Bargain list for dime. Flint Scalpin Knife $1.00 Flint Thnnder- $87.50. Colt Frontiers, Bisleys $80. SlOper. want Winchester lever rifles and percussion bird $2.00. ~~t Free. Arrowhead. Box 1249. 907B Nearmont, Tucson, Arizona. revolvers. Describe and price. Midwest Arms Hot ?iorines. Arkansas. Exchange, Dept. G. 28N. Hazel St., Danville, ANTIQUE AND Modern Firearms. Send 104 for list. Hawkeye Arms. 3900 S. W. 108 Ave- SPRINGFIELDS, MAUSERS. Japs, Krags, nue. Out Box 19-20, Miami 55. Florida. Enflelds etc. at bargain prices. Free gun list. Al's ~uhroom.1 Beekman Street, New York. gas. SEND 10# FOR lists either shotguns. rifles, s. Y. handguns, ammunition, or send 256 for all PARTS & SPECIALTIES lists. Frayseth's, Willmar. Minnesota. RIFLE SPECIALS ! ! ! Krags-$39.50 Jap 6.5-$29.50 * Jap 7.7-$19.50 Russian l.30- '73 WINCHESTERS-THE Gun that Won the $10.95 Mauser 8mm-$29.60 $44.60 Swiss GRIPS-IVORY. pearl, stag, wood. Your de- West. Priced low. Free brochure. Richard -$16.50 Super Bargain Catalog dl<. Agrn- sign Inlaid-gold, platinum, ivory for discrim- Short. Woodstock. N. Y. monte's. Yonkers 2K. N. Y. inating. G~inrehlii.Riitmore 15. N. C. r.1l.LS, DECOYS and l'hoinigrapli liecords AMEKlCAS AkMY weapons, ~Iliforuih. eS- SAVE UP To 25%. Send for one IUU page which teach the art of calling for duck, goose, necinllv Civil War Kouinment. belts. biickles. Walter Oliver Bargain Book. Full of new ITOW,squirrel and deer. Supplies, eyes, heads hats. etc. From Circa evolution 'to 1873. best brand name merchandise such as Super paint, etc. Illustrated catalog 106. Oscar Send description. Will pay top prices. John Pacific Reloading tool complete with dies Quam. 3149-X9th Ave.. South, Minneapolis, I. Galvin, 34 Pleasant St., Wakefleld. Mass. $29.97. Saturn Scout spotting scope $21.47. Minn. Thalson Shot Shell reloading tool $16.88. Marlln 56 Levermatic $39.43. Bear Cub 4X SHOTGUN STOCKS and Beavertail Forearms MISCELLANEOUS Scope $44.63. Pecar 8X scope $64.90. C-H liand fit and finished in walnut ready for use. Magnum press less equipment $26.40. Redding Boxlock ciins $16.00 Side locks i!lS.OO Fore- scale $10.50. BALsix scope $56.25. Sako Mag- arms for do~ibics$10.00 and $12.00Checkering ELECTRIC PENCIL: Engraves all Metals. num Mauser rifle $120.00. Stith Dovetail $3.00 extra Blueing by safe acid rust process 81.50. Beyer Mfg., 10511-Q Springfield, Chi- mounts $11.25. Saeco Electric melters $28.88. Rifles and" Shotguns $10.00 Pistols $7.50. eago 43. Hertcr reloading dies $6.86 set. Everything Discount to deniers. Write Treloar Gun Shoo.-. guaranteed new, Postage extra. Catalog free. 107 W. Mullan, Waterloo, Iowa. HAWAIIAN KONA Koffee Generous Trial Package. Hawaiian Souvenir "Green Dia- Walter Oliver Associates, Box 55, Auburn. -. monds" Key Chain, Hawaiian Lucky Emblem, Indiana. PROSPECTING Shoulder Patch Iq'or Your Shooting Jacket. NYLON ROPE, Cords, Fishing Lines, Finest ---~ -. .- . Your Choice One Dollar Postpaid, William made for fishermen, hunters, campers and \Vilson, Box 167, Hilo, Hawaii. SPORTSMEN - PROSPECTORS : Complete household use. Specialists in the finest of portable ultra violet flash light for use of the cordage for thousands of uses. Free catalog SPORTSMEN - HUNTERS - Shooters - and samples. Beebe Cordage Co., franford 6. uranium prospector - IInnter - Sportsman. Lets Save You Money. Your used guns as part Compact, Sturdy; Operates on Flashlight Bat- N. .J. teries. I'owerful Ileam causes Piiiorescent payment toward new Rifles, Shotguns, Hand- TTranlnm Mineral to Glow at Ten Feet. Per- ~iins,Ammo. Scopes, Mount, Reloading tools. FREE GIANT handbook! "How to Bowhnnt fect for Bead Test. $3.50. Prospectors Spe- Send 256 coin or stamps for list-particulars and Bowflsh" 100's Revealing Secrets! Also 4als : New Optical Uranium Detector Geiger- -Free hunting tips book. Refunded flrst or- Tells "How to Imnrove Shootine Accuracy, scope, $5.00. Uranium Iladiactive Ore der in full. Berkshire Gun Rack, Six Lakes, Select best equipment, make yourown tackle; S ecimen Kit, $2.50. Uranium Head Test Kit. Michigan. etc." Illustrated ! Yours Free with large Bar- $2.50. I~ong Wave Ultra Violet Bulb. $3.00. gain Catalog (Save 50% on archery equlp- Short Wave Ultra Violet Bulb, $3.00. Send BUY SURPLUS direct from Government. ment). Send 256 to cover mailing expenses cash. check, KO. and return address to: Boat, motor, truck, jeep, hunting, fishing, refunded on flrst purchase. Supply Limited ! Gordon I'illing. Dent. (4-15. (10 Broadwav. camping, sporting Equipment. Radio, Photo- Hurry! Malihu Archery, 1036 South LaBrea. graphic, rower tools, machinery & hundreds Los Angeles 19, California. Dept. 1030-GNR. others listed in our Bulletin "Surplus Sales." . - - Price $1.00. Box 169UH. East Htfd. 8, Conn. LEG IRONS, $5.00. Nickeled handcuffs, $7.50. RELOADING Leather restraints, holsters. Thomas Ferrlck. - - RARE COLT illustrated catalog 1872. 10t. BOX 12. Newburyport. Mass. Harrlman Books, Harriman, Tennessee. ('ARTRIDGR BOXES with partitions and data LEATHER JACKETS Renovated Expertly. labels, prepaid: 38 spec. - 44 spec. - 45 ACP Free Circular 11. Berlew Mfg. Co., Freeport. etc. $1.50 dozen. 30-06 - 30-30 etc. $1.40 dozen. FREE, COMPLETE illustrated catalog. Lea- New York. Sample 20f. Labels 506 hundred. J. E. 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Please send me your FREE two color brochure on the Lighting Model Whitney including full 1 1 specifications. 1 ' '. ' ' I own the following guns FASTEST GUN GOING! 1 .22 Cal. L.R. Ten Shot Pistol - "If you have the slightest inte: you will experiencev the greatest thrill in shooting ever known when you aim and fire ithe Whitnc^ THE EDITORS SAY FIREARMS DIRECTORY "The Whitney is one of the best pointing guns I've ever handled. Fits like a glove. Beautifully detailed and worth at least double SIX EXCLUSIVE FEATURES its price." Shelly Braverman, Editor I. SPEED AMERICAN RIFLEMAN An increased firing speed is secured from the "From the moment we took it out of its Whitney because of its pointability, rapid box, we were impressed with the clean lines, aiming and precision smooth action. The dif- good balance, and excellent 'pointing' quali- ference is immediately apparent. ties of the pistol. . Significantly, the entire 2. STRENGTH frame assembly plus other major parts are 40,000 consecutive shots fired through a sin- fabricated from lightweight but tough dural. gle pistol. This record pays high tribute to . . . Those responsible for this interesting new Whitney's strong Monobloc@ construction. handgun merit a great deal of credit." 3. BALANCE GUNS MAGAZINE The Whitney seems to float in the hand. Pre- "I have triggered the new gun so rapidly viously it was impracticable to balance a pistol it fired like a .22 machine gun. . . Whitney so perfectly. It is neither muzzle heavy nor has an advantage in accuracy over some other grip heavy. designs. . . Its magazine is the best designed 4. POINTABILITY clipin a handgun today." The Whitney is the world's fastest pointing Bill Edwards, Editor pistol. The result of a perfect grip, perfect SPORTS- ~- AFIELD "These people are to be congratulated balance, and feather weight. *" on the design of this pistol. . . The working 5. TRIGGER PULL mechanism is also cleverly designed. . . The The Whitney has trigger pull perfection. The Whitney is a fine shooting pistol." exclusive aluminum trigger does not vary Pete Brown, Gun Editor in pressure from shot to shot. OUTDOOR LIFE 6. WEIGHT "For small-game shooting and general Only 23 ounces, the Whitney is America's plinking the Whitney is a dandy." lightest weight .22 caliber long rifle pistol. Jack O'Connor, Staff Writer Exclusive U.S. -World Sales Representatives: Write for complete specifications including alu- minum trigger, non-slip external hammer and J. L. GALEF & SON, INC., cut-away diagram. For you convenience use the Chambers Street, New York New York form on the page opposite. 85 7, POWER - from the hands of experts !. . HandgUhs now on display at leading dealer Dealer ask your favorite Jobber. 'I- t < See coupon on opposite page . . signature of the gunsmith .. .hallmark of old-world with deep, personal pride in his heritage of almost 300 years of accumulated skills. This personal endowment, combined with finest Swedish steel and the ultimate in modern sporting gun design produces , , .. '. Rifles that give Pride of Ownership All Series 3000, 3100, 4000, 4100 and 1000 Husqvarna Rifles have built- Lightweight Series 4100, some as the in cheek rest. 00 model shown but witt Sporting" AT BETTER DEALERS ~OEWINOS, INC. PO Box 1 191, Tacoma, Wnshington or Write for Information IN CANADA oodKEN mRos 1 co, 408 M