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1M L1GHTW(lGHT Only 6 Ibs. 6 oz.... and a beautiful "heavy gun" performer. The Lightweight is responsive ... accurate ... fast handling even after hours of big game hunting. Calibers: .270, .30-06, .308, .243, 7mm. Now $139.95. See this and other Husqvarna rifles at your dealers. rEm PISTOLS The constantly increasing worldwide popularity . Compact and trouble-free, with "fixed-barrel" and demand for the Husqvarna Lightweight has accuracy. Blue or chrome engraved finish in miniat.ure or full pocket size. Finest Belgian placed it in the enviable position of being the largest workmanship..22 LR and .25 cal. Priced from $29.95 to $49.95 at your dealers. selling bolt-action high-powered lightweight rifle in the world. Husqvarna rifles have always required higher prices than those of competing guns because they are unquestionably the finest among bolt-action rifles. Due to the great worldwide increase in sales, the mmmm Husqvarna factory has achieved greater economy in VARIABLE POWER SCOPES production without sacrifice of quality, resulting in new All purpose ... instant change to any power from 2} to 8. German precision low prices for all popular models. optics give clear view in adverse light. Internal windage and elevation adjustments, binocular focusing. Light in weight, dust and moisture proof. t Finest scope ever offered at $69.95.

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When selecting a gun, you are not buying a fashion of the moment subject to superficial obsolescence - something to replace when next year's model comes along. Your interest is in a precision instrument, capable of with· standing years of rugged use and giving good, dependable performance. Since Browning intends that your Automatic-5 give you these things in lifetime measure, it would be folly to depreciate quality or fail to make the very most ofengineering refinements. That is why we will continue to insist on the finest materials, machined and heat treated to rigid standards, patiently hand• fitted to the closest tolerance - to provide the extra durability of hand-finished surfaces, even the added richness of hand• checkering and engraving. In the manufacture of the Browning Automatic, the ruling principle is not "how cheap can this gun be made," but "how good!" From the smallest part to the gleaming finish, your Browning must bear the mark of Master Craftsmen. it must be flawless.

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Prices subject to. change without notice BROWNING WRITE for "Guns by Browning" a colorful illustrated booklet containing complete information on all Browning guns and special chapters on shooting. Browning Arms Co., Dept. 34, St. Louis 3, Mo. U.S.A. Browning Arms Co. ofCanada, Ltd. Dept. 34, P.O. Box 991, Montreal 9, P.Q. 3 GUNS AUGUST 1959 By JOHN RUSSELL Star of ABC·TV's "Lawman" Series

UNS HAVE BEEN parL of my life. Both my father and grandfatherG also had a great fond· ness for them. Many of the weapons in my collection were given me by them. In fact, my favorite is a .44 cap and ball Colt Army, which belonged to my grandfather, a cap· tain of the militia in Virginia City in the late 1800's. This particular gun, made in 1860, was a big favorite during the Civil War. When practicing on the firing range I use the .22, .38, or .45; but nothing compares to the .44 cap and ball Colt for "tinkering." I have a mold with which I make my own lead balls. It may be archaic, but I get a kick out of the loading ritual, using powder, ball, and cap. Considering the clumsi· ness of the weapon, it's quite accu· rate at short distances. I intend to use the .44 in my television series sometimes, especially since it fits the period during which our stories take place.

MY FAVORITE GUN

By E. B. MANN Editor, Cuxs Magazine

HOOS! G 0 E favorite gun is not easy for a man who lovcs all guns, and friends who knowC me as a pistol addict will wonder at my choice of a rifle; but this Winchester 1\170 .270 holds a special place in my affection. It's an "I / told you so" rifle; experts whose names you'd know said "it couldn't be done," .that a .270 cut I down to 714 pounds (including scope and kick· pad) and to 20" barrel length would lose too much accuracy, have too much jump and too much muzzle blast. Instead, thanks to superb stocking by the late Harvey Rodgers and precision metal reduction by Paul Scates (both then of Albuquerque), the rifle shot near minute-of-angle groups out to 400 yards (beyond which no game need worry about me, with any rifle), handled sweetly. and busted no eardrums whatsoever. It has traveled many rugged mountain miles with me, in hand and in saddle scabbard, and has done its job wherever and whenever I have done mine. The scope is a Leupold 2%X in Lehman ring mounts, sighted at 275 yards for point·blank hold at any range I ever expect to tackle.

4 GUNS AUGUST 19S9 TR

TALK THE COVER Ever think of studying soil analyses of various possible A NY ERRORS you find in this issue you hunting areas before taking 1"\.. can blame on Bill Edwards-not be• off after that long hoped for cause he made them but because he is in record breaking trophy? Tips Europe running down articles for future is• from an old hand at hunting sues and this issue therefore got one less for record heads may make it Ihan its usual number of proof-readings. possible for you to realize o other magazine in the gun field gives that long-time dream. its readers the benefit of staff coverage of AUGUST, 1959 VOL. V, NO.8-56 world-wide shooting subjects that Guxs has provided and will continue to offer. The Edwards "nose for shooting news" has few IN THIS ISSUE equals and no peers, and we can tell you now that the stories Bill brings back for you rifle will be full of both information and surprises. RACKS FOR RECORDS. . Bert Popowski 14 Bert Popowski has earned an authoritalive CHUCK HUNTING is NOT "FOR EXPERTS ONLy" Carlos Vinson 26 reputation in shooting's halls of fame, and AFRICA'S GREAT GRAY GHOST. . Elmer Keith 28 his story, "Racks For Records," reveals some lips for you trophy hunters that have long shotgun ... been well-guarded secrets. Part II of this CHUKAR CHALLENGE TO MOUNTAIN GUNNERS William Curtis 20 two-part series will tell you, in our next is• NEW TARGET FOR UPLAND GUNS...... ~ ~ Cu~s 25 ,;ue, where to find and how to hunt other big game trophies. shooting Our shotgun articles this month suggest TEACH THE GAL TO SHOOT...... Clyde Ormond 17 two new targets for you upland gunners• coturnix quail and chukar partridge. Both western . .. of these immigrants are winning the keen THE SPENCER: NO.4 AMONG "THE WINNERS OF THE WEST" admiration of shooters and conservationists. J. L Beardsley 22 Varminting is so attractive to the highly expert, long range, high velocity fans with guns americana Iheir super·duper equipment, and the maga• KNOW YOUR LAWMAKERS.. .Your Lawmakers 31 zines have been so full of their not always THE OLD MAN'S GUN _ Herbert Robinson 32 quite credible exploits, Ihat maybe it's time we were reminded that varmints can be fun home workshop also for the ordinary man with an ordinary CUSTOM-STOCKiNG THE BIG-BORE RIFLE _ Nate Bishop 36 rifle. If you're in this popular category, you will like Carlos Vinson's story on page 26. departments •.. On the other hand, if you are planning an MY FAVORITE GUN _ 4 African safari or even just dreaming of it, TRIGGER TALK _...... •...... _...... 5 don't miss Elmer Keith's story of the trophy GUNS IN THE NEWS _...... 6 he didn't go for. (And incidentally, if that ELMER KEITH SAYS. 8 safari is or could be more than just a dream, CROSSFIRE . _...... 10 write Keith about it. His address: Salmon, GUN RACK 12 Jdaho. He is the official Western Representa• SHOPPING WITH GUNS...... 56 THE GUN MARKET...... 64 tive for White Hunters, Ltd., and can plan PARTING SHOTS... . '" ...... •...... 66 the whole trip for you.) Our story on page 22 about the some• George E. von Rosen Art Arkush times overlooked Spencer is western in flavor, PUBLISHER E. B. Mann EDITORIAL DIRECTOR but it is a chapter to insert in any man's EDITOR history of American (or world) gun history. William B. Edwards Elmer Keith Sydney Barker TECHNICAL EDITOR SHOOTING EDITOR Lew Merrell When you've read it, you'll add Spencer to ART DIRECTOR ASS'T ART DIRECTOR your list of guns that made history. Louis Satz Marvin Ginn Lou Weber K. Elliott L. R. Pector "The Old Man's Gun" is an off-beat story CIRCULATION ADV. SALES MGR. ADVERTISING ADV. PROD. PRODUCTION for G NS, but as we read it here, we found ourselves smiling over our own memories of Editorial Advisory Board COL. GEORGE M. CHINN CAROLA MANDEL STUART MILLER ALFRED J. GOERG other guns, other incidents that cement the ROGER MARSH ROY G. DUNLAP VAL FORGETT KENT BELLAH affection men (and women too) feel for the guns that have served them weIl. This story won't te]] you what gun to buy or how to use the gun you have, but-we think you'll EDITORIAL OFFICES: E. B. Mann, W.' B. Edwards, 8150 N. Cenlral Park, Skokie, III., ORchard 5-5602. like it, as we did. REPRESENTATIVES: NEW YORK, Eugene L. Pollock, 60 Easl 42nd SI., New York 17, N. Y., YUkon 6-9280. MIDWEST, Lee Salberg, 8150 N. Central Park Ave., Skokie, III., ORchard 5-6~67. CALI• Whether you like Clyde Ormond's "Teach FORNIA The Ren Averill Co., Ren Averill, 232 N. Lake Ave., Pasadena, Calif. MUrray 1-7/23. The Gal To Shoot" will depend, we suppose. SOUTHE'RN, Hal Moore, 279 NE 791h SI., Miami 38, Fla. FRanklin '-3624. GU~S magazine Is published monthly by Publisners' D'evelopment Corp., 8150 N. Centl·al Park Avenue. SkokiC', of which of the two strongly opinionated Illinois. Second class postage paid at Skokie, Illinois].. and at additional mailing- offices. SUBSCRIPTIONS: One year, $5.00. Single copy 50e. CHANGE OF Al?D~ES;'j: Four.weeks' notice required 01) all changes. Se~d old groups you supporl: the husbands who think ~?ste\~a~~r~yl~:;n~~\be ~~~~:~~~l{~?~~ ~~~~rA~t~gfedmt~~~~larc~enrhl~~~ff:~~.h"~~~1~~Tln~.~!ld~SOm;~eUl::r r~~~~ wives should share husbands' interests, or the current at time or accepl.ance and Will cover reproduction In any or a I GUNS magazme editIOns. ADVERTISING RATES furnished on request. husbands who believe hunting should be kept "for men only." We refuse to take sides in t his one, but if you're a "share" husband or fal her, this one is for you. And that, as far as space permits, is ..... CII~S for August. ~

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Only lout of every 1.000 British Enfield No. 4 SWEDISH CARBINE M/94 rifles is selected for elite sniper troops. Each rifle The Swedish Artik-Karlin Model 94 service carbine is prized because of its extremely fast action, is precision hand fitted. hand finished and fitted with specially processed marksman barrels to insure highest lightweight and refinements over other . All machined parts forged and machined trigger accuracy. Equipped with the finest English 23/4 power scope guard, magazine groups and trigger guard. Polished bolt assemblies. Extrem~ly accurate Swedish model 94 adjustable for windage and elevation_has detachable mounts and carbine is the winner of many European competitive shoots. Can easily be converted to a light weight Mannlicher Post and Cross Hair. Walnut stock with Monte Carlo cheek rest, 251/~" barrel, overall length 44". All in very good condj· type sporter! Fine serviceable condition, never used in combat. 6.5mm X 55 caliber 181/4" barrel 7¥.4 Ibs. tion Rifling is like new! Shipped Express Collect in $44 5-shot, choice hardwood stock; rear sight adjustable for elevation. • $29 special fitted wooden case. Certified $280.00 Value! Rifle and Scope. Sale Price, While They Last .... 95 Values to $75.00. KLEIN'S SALE PRICE, ONLy . 95 Pay only $4.50 Down, Balance $8.90 a month for 5 months. Add $5.00 for special selection by Milt Klein. 6.5mm target ammo only $7.50 per 100. (Softnose 6.5mm ammo ~l83 o:;~ftifg'~~rg:r ::t:~lO;nryeT$?'~5bs:~~ctlgo ~~s~1~~ftK;~~:e by Norma available everywhere.) Dealer Inquiries Invited. ammo $2.95 fOT 20.

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"White Line" Pads Today, both .357 and .44 Magnums will Unique design offer's gradual resistance to screws and a set of them will enable one to recoil. instead of "mushy" cushioning' or jump their crimp in the same manner as abrupt "bottoming," There is a rnodel for remove or replace screws on fine guns with· every purpose, whether rifle or shotgun. out burring, spreading the cuts, or ruining the old black powder .45 Colt loads. These For quality. long life and unexcelled ~hoot­ factory loads are crimped on soft bullets ing comfort, insist on "'Vhite Line" Recoil the original appearance of the screws. P

GUNS AUGUST 1959 9 ROSSFIRE

Maybe, if it's what we want, if we think about it and talk about it and pull for it hard enough, some day we'll get it. Shooting Family Please don't print my name; but if any. Glad to read that the ladies are getting a body wants to know who I am, you can tell chance to prove their marksmansl:ip (July them. is ue. "Who's Too Young To Shoot"). I have M/Sgt. ------• long felt that more women would share this U. S. Army Marksmanship Cadre pleasure with their husbands if given a chance to understand the thrill and good fun Bouquet of shooting and perhaps eventually hunting. Have always loved both and had a father I have neither the time nor the inclination who taught us to respect a gun at all times to be passing out roses; however, I can't and treat it as a friend. My husband seems to resist dropping a note to tell you that of the enjoy shooting once in a while with me, al· nine different gun and sporting magazines though I don't practice as much and am not that I subscribe to, yours is by far the most near the shot he is. We've enjoyed many a helpful. Every time I write anybody for in· hunt together. formation, you folks eem to go out of your It is always a contest when your magazine way. Your last letter of January 8 in regard comes as to who looks at it first. In our gun to my Ferlach over·under rifle was just such cabinet are: a muzzle loader (one deer ac· an example. Thi is appreciated very much. counted for), a .45-70 breach loader (one M. W. Ozier deer also), a Mauser action .250-300 caliber Champaign, TIl. rifle (many deer), a 20 gauge Savage, and an over and under .22-410 Savage, a .38 revolver, Famous Fakes and two cork guns. Our younger son seems Congratulations to Mr. A. Baron Engel. on his way to being a "gun nut" too; he likes hardt on hi extraordinary article on Juan his brother's gun, but i "too little to shoot Peron' San Martin Colts (June issue). a bear." Your "Trigger Talk" Editor does not have Camille Campbell to apologize for "publicising" such famous Gore Bay, Ontario fakes. Your exposure has increased the value of Peron's pair of Colts. Indeed, if I had the Is This The A.nswer? means, I would go all the way for this pair The "Minute Men" article hit the spot. of "authentic fakes." What we need today, along with the billions Such an evident fraud pulled on the WITH that are being spent on defense and foreign famous (or infamous) dictator is pleasantly aid, is an armed citizenry ready and able to reminiscent of the "art trick" of which defend our country at a minute's notice. Herman Goering was the celebrated victim SiERRAS Here's how it can be done: at the skillful hands of an obscure Dutch In 1960, the Army is issuing the new M-14 painter, who even confused the most eminent Test your rifle before you go art critics of his country with his "creations" hunting! Sight in with preci• rifle. The "grand old man," the M-l, will be obsolete. Millions of these fine M-l rifles of "authentic Van Der Meers." sion-made SIERRA bullets ... could be put to good use by distributing Louis Belanger choice of successful hunters them (through the National Guard and Westmount, Que., Canada for deadly accuracy, consistent Reserve organizations) to civilians ... 18 mushrooming and maximum years of age or over, who would take and Straight Dope On Enfields killing power. pass required courses in marksman· I cannot give you the exact quantities and ship, safety, maintenance, and u e in partisan other details, but believe I can give you FREE ... warfare. These courses could be taught by the enough information to answer readers' in· local units of the ational Guard and Re· quiries. We produced a total of approxi. Ask your Sierra serve. Each recipient of a rifle should reo mately one and a quarter million of these Dealer for Sight• ceive cleaning gear, 100 rounds of ammuni· rifles. The first ones (about 200,000) were In Targets to help tion to be kept on hand, not used for produced on a direct purchase order from you get ready for hunting), and an identification c;1rd. He the British Government and, therefore, were hunting. should be required to report to the Armory not marked ". S. Property." They were. annually to submit his rifle and gear to however, marked with the square "5" on the ASK YOUR DEALER FOR SIERRAS inspection and take refresher courses in side of the receiver which identifies all of firing, etc. these guns which we manufactured and, for target or game. A by·product of thi would be a better incidentally, was also used prefixing the remember the name understanding between the Military and the serial number on the Thompson sub·machine civilians; something that is much needed, guns of which we produced over a million ~<;IERRA and that comes to pass when the two work for the British and U. S. Governments. together for common causes. The first guns produced had the original ~BULLETS It is our heritage to own weapons, our Enfield·type adjustable rear sight with the duty to defend our country and our homes. ladder leaf and variou ranges up to severa', 600 W, Whittier Blvd • WhIttier. Calif What I have suggested may not be the I hOllsand yards. They also had the sliding answer, but it's something to think abollt. Enfield holt release al the back of the bolt·

10 GUNS AUGUST t9S9 head raceway, similar to that found on most a "Northover Projector." This wonderful other Enfields. piece of apparatus was intended to launch After this early production, the U. S. an S.LP. bottle ... a kind of Coca Cola Government took over this contract on a bottle filled with phosphorous and rubber lend-lease basis and thereafter all guns were which burst into flame and smoke on im• marked "U. S. Property." Somewhere along pact. Range was about 150 yards if the the line, we then went to the two-height tip• thing was elevated 45 degrees or thereabouts. over peep sight, which was not only cheaper It was breech loading but used a black but more rugged. Perhaps about in the mid• powder charge with percussion cap ignition. dle of the contract, one of our engineers con• I would have much preferred Dorr Carpen• ceived the idea of simplifying the bolt release ter's Cannon. by doing away with the bolt locking sl ide at John M. Harding the rear of the bolthead raceway and, in• London, England stead, cut a clearance about Y2-inch behind the front receiver ring. If the bolthead was These Guns Weren't Burned then held at this point, it could be rotated I enjoyed Donnelly's "I Burned Guns You'd up and the bolt removed from the rifle. This Buy" perhaps a mite more than your average apparently worked quite well and was located reader. Instead of burning them, I was sent so that the open bolt would not rest in this to school in Paris to learn how to water• position because of the sear action on the proof and pack them for storage. With the back stroke and the pressure of the main• grudging help of an ex-Afrika Korps Staff spring on the closed stroke_ Major, I set up an assembly line at Ordnance There were other variations in the course Depot 0-653 just outside of Rheims, and $39.95 of production. the principal ones being in with a crew of Kraut prisoners, processed Blue Finish the design of the cocking piece. Likewise, literally thousands of captured small arms with pocket grip by Iver lohnson• some o[ the latter guns had two groove rifling by cleaning them, dipping them in cosmoline, fO[.b~~S instead of the conventional six groove rifling. and wrapping them in waterproof paper. Made exclusively superb shooting In 22, 32, a~d 38 caa:anced solidly made. The entire production was made with birch They were then packed in pine cases and qualities: .fmel~t~ target grip •••• $48.00 stocks. shipped to Russia, by order of our Paris Nickel FInish WI ". $42.00 Blue Finish with target gnp .• •• $45.95 O..M. Knode, Vice President HQ. It's an even money wager that our guys Nickel Finish with pocket gnp .•.• Savage Arms Corporation ran into a lot of those same weapons in Chicopee Falls, Mass. Korea. The big question, of course, is where we'll run into them the next time. Anyone Can Shoot John W. Breathed Jr. Was very interested in "Shooting Is For Encino, California Everyone," page 26. April issue of GUNS_ I know a man in Knoxville that goes on wild He-Man's Book boar hunts (and gets his boar), who has his I have read your two latest issues of right arm off at the shoulder. He uses an GUNS and find it very interesting, full of H. and R. single barreled 12 gauge. Told me information that is useful to every sports• he waits until hog is [rom 15 to 40 feet; man. As I do a lot of chuck hunting and $24.95 uses rifled slugs. target shooting, also reloading, with a .222 Another friend is 86, is a former law cal. rifle, I find your book a lot of help. I 25 cal.bJue officer; carries a .45 Colt New Service 71j~ certainly hope we will see more of this in Beau.tifully designed by one of Europe'S barrel and can still shoot a chicken's head off. the future in this he-man's book for gunners. .Ieadlng rofrs. Govt. proof·fired. Available I am a member of the National Rifle Asso• In 25 cal. and 22 cal. short long and G. E. Briggs long rifle, in blue, chrome ~nd chrome ciation and have been for 23 or 24 years. Hartford, Conn. engraved. Sure enjoy your magazine, especially Elmer Keith. Don't like that newfangled "Buck Praises for "Terni" Carbine Rogers" Remington auto. Rather have my I can't help but disagree with you in your .22 Mauser. opinion of the 7.35 mm Carcano: I find mine 11'-0-. Thomas Sims very good. It's light weight and I think e Of SPAIN SH01GUNS Heiskell, Tenn. shoots a bit better than the .30-30. It will PRID F always be a fine saddle or jeep gun. It ',C 'IQ We'll Try should do very well on light to medium game Your excellent magazine rates tops with at 200 yards or less. nd 20 gauge models with .and 12, 16 a t' e·Iectors. Prices me for modem guns, but you sorely lack For hi-velocity weapons, I lean toward the ithout automa IC articles on antique guns. Sometimes you .250-3000 Savage M99. With hand loads, the W $110.00. Also available 1~ gauge have an article, sometimes not. You concen• 87 gr. bullet can attain 3500 I.p.s. with only from .th automatic ejector. trate on everything new and almost com• about 50,000 psi chamber pressure. I think magnum WI . pletely ignore the '-Old Timers." 1 seriously it can beat the .243 Win. Write for loW prices. think that you lose many a subscriber be• For heavy stuff, I'll always use "old faith• cause of this. It probably could be remedied ful," my .348 Winchester. It has a heavy by having a 50-50 split. One half on Modern bullet and will throw it as far as is safe to MILITARY SURPLUS guns and the remainder on Antiques. shoot. (As you see, I prefer to find a lever AMMUNITION Also, if you could add more articles to action rifle.) Mi./itary Surplus Ammunition-Grade I your magazine it would be more enjoyable. W. E. Hensel, Jr. Calibres: 7.62 Russian 303 British . Except for these suggestions, keep up the Baldwin Park, Calif. 6.5 Italian: $750 8mm Mauser J)er C good work. MTt William S. Devine Wants the Kay-Chuk Hu~t~na;YA~U~~JnU;~i;~eloaded Soft Point Cali bros as above 00 Wayne, New Jersey Received my March issue of GUNS today. $15 lJer C Am very pleased with the article in the 00 Truth Is Stranger Than Cannon Handloading Bench, Harvey's .224 Kay-Chuk. $5 I am amused by the heading for DOIT Have been looking for a handgun but con• Carpenter's account of his Cannon: "Not just sidered .22 RF too light and heavier gun too the gun you'd choose for Home Defense." much recoil. Am getting a reloader in the I have had to rely on a rather less effective future for .308 caliber (Model 88 Winches• weapon. During 1940, when we expected in• ter) and will also get a Kay-Chuk. vasion from the Germans, I was provided Leslie A. Kolden with a kind of drain pipe on a tripod called Glasgow, Montana

GUNS AUGUST 1959 11 By LES BOWMAN

A Report On The Model 725 Remington .280 A new rifle-a new action EARLY ALL new rifles or calibers are cartridge, especially when it came to elk, - a new high in shoot• reported in most out-door and gun moose, and such game. ing pleasure - the nearest magazinesN by competent gun writers, but Last summer Company thing to an all 'round rifle many of these writers shoot the guns only on sent me two new guns and I was asked to the range, seldom actually using them on use, loan, and really give them the works. - another great addition any game, or enough game, to give a factual These guns were the new Model 725 Reming- to an already great line of report on their hunting use. ton in .280 caliber, and I was immediately rifles - a rifle designed Various models and makes of rifles, greatly impressed by them. They were bolt handling 7 mm or .284 bullets have been action rifles, the type I much prefer for my with the hunter in mind. brought out over the years, and (with the work. Second, they were reasonably light in exception of that old reliable, the 7/57, which weight, which, at altitudes of 6500 to 12,000 CALS..243-.244-.308 can be termed an international caliber) most feet, where we hunt, is highly desirable. The Forester-$149.50. of these cases have been of a wildcat nature. final point that appealed to me was the This has tended to damper the enthusiasm standard shell case, actually little different Forester with Dual• of the user after a short time, due to the from the .270 or '06 cases except for mark- Range Peep Sight trouble of obtaining ammunition. However, ings and bullet size. -$154.40. in spite of this fact, many of the users of I immediately ordered a set of loading 7 mm calibers have stuck with the rifles, as dies from R.C.B.S. and, before they arrived, Forester Heavy Barrel witness the diehards who use the .280 Ross, shot up all the factory ammunition I had Rifle-$162.50. which is actually an off-size caliber. received, targeting in and making impact and I have long been a .270 fan, owning one drop checks. I equipped one rifle with a of the first Winchester '54's in this caliber Buehler bridge mount and a new Bushnell ever to come on the market, some 30 years Command Post 4 power 'scope, and the other ago. During this time, various 7 mm rifles with a Redfield mount and a 2%, Bear Cub have come into my possession, and this 'scope. Light gun slings were installed on caliber, next to the .270, has taken more big each gun. I had no trouble with the 'scope game for me than any other during the past installation and, contrary to what I had read 20 years. I have used the 7/61, the German someplace, I found it was not necessary to 7/64, and the .275 H & H when remove the rear sight or even the front ASTRA CUB PISTOL brought out his 7 mm, it proved to be in the sight sleeve. same class as the .275 H & H, and adequate My first agreeable surprise came after I .22 Short-$29.90 for any game on the North American con- fired a round of shots, five each of 125, 150, ASTRA FIRECAT tinent. Weatherby rifles, that had started out and 165 gr. factory ammunition, and found .25 Auto.-$29.90 as wildcats and required hand-made and that all weights grouped in nearly the same handloaded cases, finally reached a produc- 2" pattern at 100 yards. This is the only tion and standardized basis, and factory am- caliber, with the exception of the .270, that UNIQUE munition became available on the shelf. I have found to do this with varying bullets. CORSAIR PISTOL This was followed, a couple of years ago, I then shot for tight groups and found by Phil Sharpe's S & H 7/61. Here was a the 150 gr. bullet to be the best for this. .22 LR-$42.00 Unique Corsair Presentation well designed cartridge, factory produced by Most groups of five shots averaged Ph to Model-Engraved & Satin Finish Norma; but it was a magnum and required I%, inches. I thought this could perhaps be .22 LR-$64.50 a special shell holder for use in handloading due to the somewhat undersized bullets which presses. However, both these new 7 mm are undoubtedly made with the pump and calibers are magnums, and the demand still auto rifle in mind. But they were excellent STAR existed for a standard case in 7 mm, to be groups for factory guns and ammo. MODEL "F" PISTOL used in a reasonably priced, standard pro- The guns were pleasant to shoot from a duction arm. The fact that custom bullet recoil standpoint. I had several others try .22 LR 4h"-$41.15 makers, such as Sierra, Hornady, and Speer them for fit and quick sight-finding, and the had all developed and brought out excellent stock shape proved to be much better than bullets for the 7 mm's had revitalized the most standard guns. However, we all found "What FIREARMS sells demand for a production gun to handle fault with the grip; it seems to be too large ... sells FIREARMS" them. In our own case, using the .275 H & H and bulky. Probably this reaction is due to and the 7 mm Weatherby, we had excellent all of us being more used to custom made game-getting results with bullets such as the stocks with more slender grips. 154 gr. Hornady R.P., the 160 gr. Sierra Trigger action under actual firing condi- B.T., the 160 gr. flat base Speer, .and the tions was excellent, and I made no change 160 gr. NosIer partition. Even on moose and on either rifle. The thumb safetys are very grizzly, we had seen little use to go to the good, the three-position feature being a real 175 gr. bullet. point. All through the hunting season, a total Send IOc for fully illustrated catalog listing our complete line. The 7/57 was and is a well liked big game time of over six months, when the guns were cartridge. However, for the most part, the carried in saddle scabbards or by hand early available bullets had too much weight through brush and tree country, no change FIREARMS and length for any long distance work, being of shape or position of the safety was indi- INTERNATIONAL in this respect somewhat similar to the old cated as desirable or necessary. Navy Lee 6 mm. The newer bullets of 150 gr. About the time I had become well ac- CORPORATION to 160 gr. weight helped this, but the 7/57 quainted with the way the factory ammuni- DEPT. D-OS WASHINCTON 22, D. C. was stilI on the low side as a real big game (Continued on page 60)

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GUNS AUGUST 1959 13 WHERE TO FIND HOW TO HUNT Rack~ For Rl!cord!:

PART I: MOOSE, ELK, DEER, PRONGHORN

PLANNING, NOT LUCK, ACCOUNTS

FOR THOSE RECORD HEADS HUNTERS

DREAM OF. HERE, A TOP·FLlGHT

HUNTER TELLS YOU HOW TO PLAN

By BERT POPOWSKI

VERY YEAR, tens of thousands of America's big-game E hunters sally forth with gritted teeth and the firm con• viction that this time they'll bag the buck or bull that will pop the eyes of their hunting friends for the next quarter• century. They're tired of bringing home mere eating meat. What they want is a head with horns that reach from here to there and are yeah-high. But only a very small fraction of one per cent of those hunters know the need for the meticulous preparations that must precede the actual hunt. And that's why that tiny per• centage of knowing hunters annually drag in the bucks and bulls that get inside the trophy throne-room. The rank and file work their hearts out, run down every slight rumor of a giant buck or bull, and are firmly convinced after years of failure that luck alone determines who gets the king-sized heads. And sometimes it's true. Sometimes some stumble• foot gets a prize that dedicated trophy-hunters would swap [heir eye-teeth for. Last year, I saw a veteran deer hunter actually reduced to tears when the whitetailed buck he'd hunted two seasons fell to a visiting hunter's bullet, and he learned that the successful hunter had promised the head to his son-to saw up into home-crafted hunting-knife han• dies! The thought of the ruination of that top trophy was really more than he could stand. Actually, the primary requirements for the trophy hunter Steel tape backs Popowski's judgment in selecting this are only three-fold: knowing where major trophies are to fine record-class pronghorn, in the Wyoming Red Desert. be found; having a guide who is himself on the lookout for

14.. GUNS AUGUST 1959 Packing into rough country where big ones are apt to be found means cutting gear to essentials, as in this "Siwash" camp in southwestern Canada.

really fine heads and will spend some time in locating them; and, finally, being able to spend enough time to look over a lot of animals and select the one that will fill the bill. (Money helps, of course. It gives the hunter the time to make a leisurely and painstaking trip, stay as long as he likes, hire a top-drawer guide who is willing to work for his customer's satisfaction. But just money won't make trophies grow where they aren't. That takes a shrewd selec· tion of locality which, in turn, eliminates 90 per cent of the dry runs that plague so many hunters.) There are several factors that produce trophies, no mat• Near-record whitetail (left) and near-record mule buck ter what the species of big game. First is isolation, which are proudly displayed by Wyoming sportsman Don Baldwin·. allows animals to stay out of hunters' reach until he reaches real trophy proportions. No trophy animal jumps from the yearling to the record class. He spends years learning the country, seeking out the food he craves, and growing. He

builds size, vitality, and endurance which help him survive during hard years. Second is food; plenty of it, and in areas where the essential minerals are found in abundance. It's no secret that, where essential minerals are abundant, both in licks and in soluble form that plants can absorb, they help build bodies of a size to feed and support heroic headgear. You just don't find big heads on scrawny bodies; they're in proportion. Finally, there is the matter of genetics and eugenics. When an exceptionally fine male mates with an equally fine female, their physical proportions often combine in their Big enough to cradle hunter is this regal bull elk rack offspring. If some unusual traits of intelligence and wari• taken in mountains near Jackson Hole country in Wyoming. ness are also transmitted, so much the better. Add suit-

GUNS AUGUST 1959 15 able foods, isolated living localities, and time, and all that remains is for the dedicated trophy hunter to find and "reduce them to possession." Trophy hunters fall chiefly into two major classes: the guys who have heard of or seen single outstanding animals in an area and are willing to devote the season to the pur• suit of that animal, and hunters who get a terrific thrill out of seeing a lot of game, love to stalk carefully and exhaustively until they find just what they want. I've hunted both ways, but I prefer the latter method. There's a con• stant thrill in passing up one fine head after another in search of something better. In fact, I'm not sure that I don't enjoy feasting my eyes on a lot of game even more than I enjoy the heart-stopping moment which ends the search. Every day is Bank Day in that kind of hunting; but to enjoy it, you must pick a game-rich country-some• thing like our western states, the Canadian Provinces, or Alaska. You need also plenty of visibility, such as is pro• vided by the open plains, the huge mountain parks and basins, and the elevated lookouts found in mountain coun• try. You can "hunt" a lot of country from such a spot, without moving. Here is where a good pair of binoculars payoff. Let's commence with elk, or wapiti if you would be scientifically correct. Though found in some northern and eastern States, they are in huntable numbers only in the West and Canada. Eight states have elk concentrations numbering 6,000 or more head. Arizona has 6,500, New Mexico 6,900, Washington 30,000, Wyoming 36,000, Ore• gon 40,000, Montana 41,500, Colorado 56,000, and Idaho 80,000. Trophy.wise, the bulk of the best heads have come from Wyoming's Big Horn mountains and the Jackson Hole area south of Yellowstone Park; from Nez Perce county of Idaho: from Jefferson and Gallatin counties in Montana; and from southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia in Canada. I personally prefer the Ab• Head shots ruin cape, may shatter skull so that a saroka mountains of Montana, northwestward of Wyom• record head can't be measured for official record. ing's Big Horns, and southeastern British Columbia. But the Big Horns themselves are a fine limestone-rich plateau• type hunting country. An elk is a long-legged, wide-ranging critter and hunters who go after trophy bulls should be in excellent physical condition. Beware the guides who say they'll ride you right up to your top bull; elk have ears like foxes, and when you bag a buster bull you'll have earned him. The palmate-antlered moose, biggest of the deer family, comes in the king-sized Alaskan-Yukon brand, the middling Canadian size, and the Shira (Continued on page 54)

Massive muley horns (Ieftl were product of South Dakota's mineral-rich graze. Spiked logging boots labovel insure safe footing on rocks, logs, or ice.

16 GUNS AUGUST 1959 Teach the Cal To Shoot

TEACHING liTHE LITTLE WOMAN" TO SHOOT IS NO

PROBLEM-AND CAN GIVE YOU YOUR BEST-EVER HUNTING COMPANION

By CLYDE ORMOND

OTH MY WIFE and daughter like to B hunt big-game, and to shoot. Many times, when we've returned from a success• ful hunt, an envious fellow shooter has asked, "You mean your wife went with you? ... Boy, I wish I could get my wife interested in shooting! I'd not only have more fun and get to go oftener; she'd get a bang out of it. I know she would. One of the reasons she resents my hunting is, she's bored with those after• noon card parties." Yet, in most of the cases, it's the man's fault that his wife, daughter, or girl friend doesn't like to hunt and shoot. It's true that, today, more gals are taking to the outdoors- maybe it's an evidence of this new "togetherness;" but many aren't• because they're scared. They are missing the fun of a great sport because of an initial, unhappy introduction to it-by a well-meaning but bumbling man. Here is the typical way in which many a husband deprives himself of a wonderful field companion. By pleading or barter, he gets his wife to agree to go on a hunt. Naturally, since he's the only hunting member of the family, the rifle or shotgun is his. It is too big for her, doesn't fit her properly, is probably too husky in caliber. So she'll be ready for the hunt, he insists, on the way to the hunting country, that she bang away at a can, for practice. Not knowing what to expect, she assumes

GUNS • AUGUST 1959 17 Daughter Nikki bagged first antelope with 7 mm after three weeks practice, enjoyed both practice and hunt. Some big game cartridges suitable for the lady gunner are (from left to right) .243 Winchester, 100 grains; .250 Savage, 100 grains; .257 Roberts, 100 grains; the 7 mm, 139 grains; .270, 130 grains; .30-06, 180 grains.

18 GUNS • AUGUST 1959 Using the rifle she had used on deer, a .30 Remington auto, Wyoming lady bags pronghorn. a trial position, points, and whangs away. What happens? She is scared stiff at the noise, smacked in her pretty nose by the comb, jolted on the shoulder, and surprised that nothing worse happened. She's had it. Thereafter, she'll take canasta. On the opposite extreme, and just as bad, is the eager but ill-advised husband who knows his lady is delicate, effeminate, and not really up to that brand-new magnum riRe of his. So-he gives her a puny caliber or gauge, inadequate to the game. When she doesn't bag that duck, pheasant, or buck, she thinks it's her fault, that she's just not cut out for shooting, and-Rooey goes the entire project. I've learned from personal experience that both methods are wrong; that women do love to shoot and can become darned good at it, if started right; and that there is no need, either, for them to use a cartridge or caliber in• adequate to the game they hunt. I found this out, not through any brilliant deduction of my own, but rather from bald necessity, after I'd put my big foot into it. My daughter Nikki is a healthy, normal girl. While growing up, younger then her brother Ted, she learned to shoot a .22. As most girls do, she took to it like a duck to water. Well, I promised the boy that when he became 14, I'd take him hunting. This was duly done, and the boy killed a coyote with his first shot from a big-game riRe. He bagged a nice buck antelope just a few shots later. So then the pestering began. "Daddy, when can I go hunting?" Nikki asked. What could I say? There was only one thing to say, so I said it: "When you are 14, too." Idaho at that time had a special antelope hunt. The ratio of applicants to lucky permits was top-heavy to say the least. To prolong an obligation, I promised the girl that she could apply, and if she was lucky enough to get a per• mit, I'd take her antelope hunting. You know what happened. I was suddenly confronted with a promise to fulfill, and with just three weeks to teach her how to shoot well enough so she could make that initial experience a successful one. Briefly, we began with a Model 70 Winchester, 7 mm rifle, and dry shooting. Each day, religiously, after her high school classes, we'd take the rifle and walk around the acreage. I taught her how to sight with a scope; to breathe three times and hold the third; to squeeze. At unannounced times, I'd stop, point out a post, head-gate, clod of dirt, or tumble-weed, tell her it was an antelope, that she must shoot and hit it from the position she was currently in. We concentrated only on one position, sitting. The times she squeezed off at an imaginary buck, on an empty chamber, was a credit to

the stamina of that firing-pin. . '; ....;\ The third week, I made a full-sized cardboard antelope, "What do you mean, recoil?" asked author's wife substituting it for the "game" in the tours around the after dropping caribou with Sharpe & Hart 7 mm. acreage. And about three days before the hunt, at one of the sessions, I simply slipped in three live handloads, and said, "Do just exactly as you've been doing." Well, Nikki laid those three bullets into a spot on the a decade later-last fall, in Alaska's Wrangells. After an cardboard buck's shoulder which your hand would cover all-afternoon stalk, the outfitter, Don DeHart, and I got my -at llO yards, from sitting. Later, she killed her antelope wife up to a creditable caribou bull. She used a 7x61 Sharpe buck with the first shot she fired on a hunt. And when I & Hart Magnum, and plastered him full into the boiler• asked her if the recoil bothered her, she asked, "Recoil? room the first shot. I asked her the same question, "Does What's that?" the kick bother you '?" Because of the similarity, and if you'll pardon personal "What kick?" she asked, grinning to her ears. incidents, I'll tell you of something which happened nearly I could cite numerous instances (Continued on page 50)

GUNS AUGUST 19S9 19 Chukar Challenge To Mountain Gunners

Imported birds and domestic shotgun tangle in fast fusillade in which Chukar partridges. brought from India to stock Oregon's hills, come off second best against three loads of No.6s from Curtis' battered M 12 Winchester.

By WILLIAM CURTIS

AR BELOW ME, a line of green marked the course of doubt about it, they were gone; no use to look further. I F a dinky creek in the bottom of a big canyon. Above me muttered a hunter's oath and started angling down towards tOlvered rocky pinnacles and ledges, separated by runty the red and white dot that was my pickup. stands of dull, green sage brush. Not a bird called or About half way down, not less than 15 chukars burst out moved anywhere. Yet, less than a hour earlier when I was of the sage without the slightest warning. Caught flat• in the bottom of the valley, this canyon wall had been alive footed, I felt the back of my neck prickle with excitement with running, clucking chukar partridges. But that's the as I desperately jacked a shell into the barrel of my Model way it is with these hardy Indian imports. Now you see 12 Winchester repeater. them--and now you don't. Bagging them is something My first try folded a climbing bird 40 yards distant. A else again. second shot missed, clipping juniper twigs behind a quar• When I first heard and saw chukars, I thought filling tering target. I shoved in a third No. 6 just in time to the three-bird Oregon limit would be easy. Now, I was clobber a tail-ender, trying to mark down my two kills beginning to wonder if I'd have to chase these zebra-sided while keeping one eye on the retreating covey. I know speedsters over most of eastern Oregon's rough chunks of better now. The uniform grey.brown upper parts of the real estate to knock off even one. Slowly, wearily, I zig• red-legged, red-billed runners blend neatly with the deso• zagged up to the last peak without jumping a target. No late terrain they live in, and dead birds can be lost birds

20 GUNS AUGUST 1959 THESE WILY ASIAN PARTRIDGES THRIVE ON OUR HIGH. ROCKY. WESTERN

MOUNTAIN RANGES. DISAPPEAR LIKE GHOSTS IN

THIN COVER. OFFER RARE SPORT TO KNOW·HOW GUNNERS

if you aren't careful. I searched for 20 California tried an experimental season minutes before these two were pocketed... only a few years ago, and in 1958 enjoyed The rest of the bunch? They vanished. I a two-months opening in some southern didn't even bother to look for them. Which sections. was just as well; I wouldn't have found So far, chukars have thrived chiefly in them-and, starting towards the pickup the same type of country over most of the again, I kicked out a "sleeper" that I was western and Pacific states. The rugged, lucky enough to nail a good 50 yards away. rocky peaks are fine for them, and this is So I filled my limit, but I couldn't claim a country where they compete with few much credit-except for the shooting. game birds. Some of their range overlaps Since that day, I've noticed that chukars mountain and valley quail territory and, make a habit of getting up at precisely the once in a while, terrain of the Hungarian exact moment you least expect them. I've partridge. But wherever I've hunted them, hunted these birds a number of times since there's been plenty of room for all. On the that initial venture, and it's easy to see other hand, chukars planted in any but the why many field biologists, as well as hunt• rough, sage brush peaks rarely make a go ers, predict bright futures for them. They of it. Here in the Coast Range where I are game targets, well able to survive even live, where you would expect them to in well-gunned country. thrive, they may hang on for several years In Oregon, for instance, no chukars had but then slowly dwindle away. been introduced until 1951. In 1956, when In Eastern Oregon, I talked to miners, this hunt happened, I got plenty of action. cowboys, and Fish and Game field men There was actually an abundance of birds. who told me that (Continued on page 58)

Downing chukars was only half the job: in rocks, brownish birds were tough to find.

Western rifleman Curtis grips scattergun M 12 author uses is take in erect stance; slips shells through pump ac• down model, ribbed fore tion rapidly when chukars show themselves. end, with slanted stock.

GUNS AUGUST 1959 21. THE SPENCER: No.4 AlDong

UNION CAVALRY GAINED

LAURELS AND BATTLES USING THE

SPENCER REPEATING CARBINE

BUT GUN WAS FORGOTTEN AFTER THE WAR

By J. L. BEARDSLEY Old photo shows cavalry encamrment on historic Beecher's Island in Arickaree River, si'te of classic battle in which handfu of men under Col. Forsyth used repeating rifles to defeat massive charges led by chief Roman Nose. Island is named for Lt. Beecher, killed in battle.

HE TITLE "the gun that won the west" is claimed by cavalry arm it rolled up a devastating record. Later on, as T two arms firms today. This may be because historian the most effective arm of our too-few horse soldiers in the Frederick Jackson Turner did say the west was won by Indian Wars, it gained new credit. Colonel Custer, charged "The Colt, the Winchester, and the plough." But of all the with the mission of wiping out a Sioux encampment on the arms used during that vital period from 1860 until the Washita river in 1868, was made efficient by use of Spencer 1880s, one of the most important in the winning of the west, magazine carbines in the hands of his few troopers. Custer the 7-shot Spencer rifle and carbine, has been overlooked. knew the firepower effectiveness of the Spencers; had used Compared to the Winchester-built Henry repeater, of them in the War. Indeed, much of Custer's dash and valour which just 1731 were bought by the Union during the War, might be attributed to the firepower superiority of his over 90,000 Spencers saw service. As the standard Union Michigan Cavalry troopers armed with Spencers. Then, in

22 GUNS AUGUST 1959 "Tbe Winners oftbe West"

Movies garb U.S. Cavalry in uniforms of Spanish War period, but Civil War and Indian campaign troopers depicted (above) actually dressed like sergeant with Spencer at right.

1876, Custer met his end; his basic weapon, a single shot Springfield rifle. The big bone-shocking .52 caliber Spencers had been retired to the surplus sales, and the White Eye soldiers went forth with single shot Springfields to fight the Indian on the Rosebud. The rifles and carbines of youthful inventor Christopher M. Spencer were critical in the War. Some authorities give Spencer firepower credit for turning key attacks at Gettys• burg; weighing the victory for the Union. In campaigns in the border states; in engagements with the Army of the Cumberland, Spencer repeaters figured in the balance. Ironically, a Spencer carbine was among the armament of mad Booth, found when his body was taken after killing Maj. North's Pawnee Lincoln. And though it has not captured the popular fancy Scouts were undefeated when they carried since, one Spencer did a job of capturing which changed Spencers into battle. history: Booth had a Spencer to hold off pursuers, until his nerve failed, but one nervy Michigan Cavalryman carried his Spencer cocked and levered ready, pointed at the pit of Jeff Davis' stomach as he called for the corporal of the guard. Whether the Michigan Cavalryman got the $100,000 in gold offered for taking Jefferson Davis, late President of the Southern Confederacy, dead or alive, is not known; but his Spencer carbine still reposes, an honored display in a Michigan museum. In truth, the Spencer really "ended the war," and would have done so sooner, if the inventor himself had not run into opposition. Lincoln himself approved the Spencer gun: the shingle at which he fired is preserved today. Chief of the Ordnance Department was General James Col. Forsyth's fifty W. Ripley. Ripley has been pictured as a stiff-necked, Spencer-armed scouts reactionary military idiot for refusing the importunate in• resisted 800-2000 at• ventors of patent arms who pressed upon him from every tacking plains Indians.

GUNS AUGUST 1959 23 loading rifles from a previous battlefield. There were, among the over 30 different styles of patent carbines offered for Union Cavalry, one or two exceptions. Some, such as the Burnside, persisted in quantity because of political pull. Others, such as the Sharps, used standard powder and ball, and were not dependent on specialized ammuni• tion. But only about 80,000 Sharps arms in all were bought officially by the Union during the War. Once the initial objections of General Ripley were overruled, the North bought and kept on buying Spencers until 94,196 Carbines and 12,471 rifles were placed into the hands of many Blue• belly fighting men. To support these arms in the field, 58,238,924 rounds of cartridges were obtained, special metal rimfire shells much like a .22 Short, in proportion but .50, .52 and .56 caliber. This gun that "won the War," and in the hands of Indian-pacifying troopers made possible the winning of the west, was designed in the turbulent days just prior to 1860. The market was good for "patent arms," especially for military types having some application to the growing militia movement of the late 1850's. C. M. Spencer, who was to become one of the leading figures in the world's machine tool industry after the war, got his start with a U.S. patent issued March 6, 1860. This contribution to the Union Cause was a lever• operated rolling block repeating rifle, with seven cartridges pushed forward by a follower in a butt-stock tube magazine_ Scalp taken at Arickaree fight, copy of Remington paint• The follower tube was pulled out in loading, and seven ing of the battle, Forsyth's sword, Indian bow case and rounds dropped in. Ammo came packaged in 7-round quiver, are on display in Kansas State Historical Museum. brown cardboard boxes. When the Spencers achieved wider distribution in 1863, Blakeslee's Cartridge Box, a sep• tagonal leather back-pack holding seven 7-shot loading direction with devastating weapons to win the War in a tubes, gave the Spencer-armed trooper a high rate of fire. day. His conservative affection for the single shot muzzle The Spencer metallic cartridge played an important part loading cap-lock Springfield M1855-59-61 Rifled Musket in its success. which he had nursed along into production as the most The inventor took as a model the rim-fire .22 cartridge highly perfected Mil infantry arm of its day, was reason• brought out by Smith & Wesson for their first revolver, in able and practical in the light of circumstances. He foresaw 1857, patented ultimately in 1860. He scaled it up to a prodigious logistical snafu sure to arise if promoters with approximately %" bore, designed several actual cartridges repeating, old-caliber, not-necessarily-safe-in-the-hands-of• which were tabulated as "Spencer" loads although one or an unskilled-soldier firearms were allowed to salt the Army two of the other carbines of the period were designed to with their manifold weapons. These snafus did arise; troops fire the same round. Spencer had to perfect, or aid in did enter battle with limited equipment or, most shocking to perfecting, equipment to draw a big cartridge case which Ripley's thrifty Yankee soul, threw away their patent arms was a proportionately big manufacturing problem. Ammu• and fought with powder and ball and salvaged muzzle nition was made for Spencer (Continued on page 41)

Scarce Infantry model Spencer (top), caliber 56-50, 31 1/2 in. barrel, was built by Burnside Rifie Co., 1865. Rare sporting Spencer, caliber .56-46, 29% in. barrel, was built for big game hunters after Civil War, is in Winchester Collection.

24 GUNS AUGUST 19S9 New Coturnix quail, "four ounces of epicurean delight and a challenge to any hunter," are being released in many states.

By K. D. CURTIS

!\lew Target For Upland Guns

NEW QUAIL PROMISES FAST SPORT IN AREAS WHERE

BOBWHITES CANNOT SURVIVE. HE'S SMALL. FAST. AND A TASTY MORSEL

BIG SURPRISE is in store for gun sportsmen. Here's with the Coturnix. In fact, Missouri pioneered Coturnix A how it happens: breeding and propagation in this country. You are out hunting, hiking past places where you'd Steen, for years chairman of the committee of the In• never expect to find game birds. Maybe you're prowling a ternational Wildlife Commission for the study and intro• grassy, unwooded, shrubless pasture, or you're in ranch duction of exotic game birds, remembers how he "acci• country where ordinarily only the meadowlark, cowbird, or dentally" encountered the idea of transplanting the Coturnix killdeer rise to wing. As you know, there are millions of Quail. One day, while with the (Continued on page 53) such acres in America today where few or no game birds can be found. Then the surprise is sprung! Suddenly, with a vibrant w-h-i-r-,.-r, a speedy little game• fowl rockets right out from under your toes and, like the quail he is, drives ahead as rapidly as he rises. You stand flabbergasted as he flies in an ascending arc, with minimum up-and-down bobble, and climbs only high enough to make for the next cover-the spot he's likely had in mind just in case he's flushed. His flight pattern is much like that of a Bobwhite quail "single" flushed without benefit of point. Don't let the size of this little fellow fool you. He's a true game bird, and a delicious treat on the table. Millions of Europeans and Asians know him well, though he has been a stranger in the Western Hemisphere. He is the Co• turnix Quail (cotumix cotumix). Not long ago, I talked with Melvin Steen, the man who has had a lot to do with the introduction of this newest American game bird. Now, the new head of the Nebraska Poised for covey rise, Ralph Houk, Dave Dennis, Bob Peel, Game Commission, Steen was recently with the Missouri and four-legged hunter named Gus wait for feathered game commission, where he did a lot of experimenting bombs to burst out of upland cover near Hutchinson, Ks.

GUNS AUGUST 1959 25 CHUCK HUNTING Is Not Hfor Experts Onlg"

DON'T LET 'EM KID YOU.

CHUCK SHOOTING DOESN'T REQUIRE SUPER.

NATURAL SKILL OR SUPER EQUIPMENT.

FACTORY LOADS IN FACTORY RIFLES WILL DO

Vinson can spot chucks at distance through Weaver K8 on Colt 57 but here takes close look at opening of hoof-breaking dugout. By CARLOS VINSON

(( C 01\1£ WITH ME tomorrow," said Freeman Brown, been done by a real handloading expert. The fellow has his voice over the telephone fairly crackling with six or seven hundred bucks worth of loading equipment, excitement, "and I'll show you more woodchucks in less and does everything scientifically. The .244 handloads time than you've seen in a coon's age!" carried 70 grain bullets. Now, that's a challenge it would be hard for me to resist, My pore little 01' Colt 57 had not been so pampered. I even if I tried. And I knew Freeman could make good on had followed the instructions that came with my K8 Weaver his promise. A group of Van Buren County farmers had scope, and mounted it myself. I did the sighting-in job all been after Freeman for some time past to come up, and by myself, too. I sighted in at 40 measured yards, and this bring some one up with him, to help thin out the wood• put me on zero at 250 yards. My ammunition was factory chucks that were playing havoc in their fields. This was loads all the way, for the sighting-in and also for the hunt. mid-June, and here in Tennessee, that's about the beginning I used Winchester Super Speed cartridges, .243 caliber of a varmint season that stays open from then until frost. (6 mm), with soft-point bullets in the 80 grain weight. Freeman and I are both dyed-in-the-wool fans for chuck We had argued a lot about those bullet weights, as well as shooting, and this first hunt of the season challenge was too which rifle and which caliber was best and how would my good to miss. I was ready at eight next morning. factory ammo and home scope mounting stack up against So far, this sounds (to chuck hunters) like just another Freeman's expertized equipment. hunt-fascinating sport, but what's to write about? I'll On the way out to the hunting grounds, Freeman stopped make it even more average by admitting that Freeman and at a place where we would have a high ledge back stop, to I are just average Joes; we use no outlandish equipment, see just how our rifles were shooting. Naturally, he used no magic methods, and we're not the world's best rifle his handloads, and I used my factory ammo. shots. But we'd been arguing some points through the At 40 yards, both rifles were smack on the money. At winter, and this was a chance to prove (or disprove) some that distance, we riddled a % inch black bull on white theories. And we did it. At least, we proved them to our paper. Next, we increased the distance to 250 yards and satisfaction. used a 1% inch bull. There was a fairly strong cross Freeman was shooting a Model 722 Remington, .244 breeze blowing, but even at the 250 yard distance we made caliber, with a K8 Weaver scope. My rifle of the day was no allowances for it. Again, we were both on the money. a Colt "57" (recently replaced by the new line of "Colts• There wasn't enough difference in our targets to detect a man" rifles), in .243 caliber, also wearing a Weaver difference. With three shots each, we tore up the 1% inch K8 scope. bull. We took good rests while firing, and the cross wind There were several other points of difference, all of didn't seem to vary the courses of our bullets one bit. which had figured in our winter arguments. The scope on Satisfied that our rifles were sighted correctly, we motor• Freeman's rifle had been mounted by an expert, and the ed on to the shooting grounds, checked in with our farmer same expert had done the sighting in. Freeman was shoot• hosts, and got started. ing hand-loaded ammunition, and this loading job too had While glassing the first alfalfa field with our binoculars,

26 GUNS AUGUST 1959 Glassing shows chuck feeding (I). then Vinson takes offhand 80 yard shot with .243 Colt rifle.

Van Buren County farmer who let hunters check his chucks compares kills with Freeman Brown (M722, rt.J.

we spotted no less than six feeding chucks. Two of them were grizzled old adults, and the other four were half to two-thirds grown young ones. The ranges, I judged, were from 125 to 300 yards. Through my 9 X 35 Bush• nell binoculars, I could follow the movements of even those 300 yards away perfectly. The cross breeze was still blowing, and I whispered to Freeman to ask him what he thought about it. "I'm still not going to make any allowances for it," he whispered back. I decided not to make any allowance either. We had needed none on paper targets; why should we need it on live ones? Laying down, I found a big sedge sod I Brown lines up on pasture check a couple hundred Jards out, taking could use as a forearm rest. I decided to try firm sitting position which allows him to get goo elbow support. one of the old chucks in the far corner of the field, a good 300 yards away. Freeman elected to try the other adult chuck, which was a good 250 yards as he worked a fresh cartridge into the barrel. He was not from our shooting positions. sure just what his shot had done. Through my binoculars, "I'm going to center my cross-hairs smack on his I could see my chuck laying very still in the alfalfa, and I shoulder the next time he sits up," my friend whispered. was sure that it was a clean kill. "What're you going to do?" "I think I'll try to center on Two of the young chucks ran a few yards to den en• the head as he sits up," I whispered back. "That should trances, and then sat up for one more look-see to find out make my bullet strike about the shoulder area-I hope." what all the noise was about. ot many old chucks will do Freeman was shooting from a sitting position, with a this, but most of the youngsters will. That's why we always tightened sling and knee rest. "When I count five, shoot," try for the old ones first when both old and young are out he whispered, as both chucks suddenly sat up to scan the feeding in the same field. surroundings. It was a rather long, whispered count which Having worked a fresh cartridge into the chamber of gave me plenty of time to center my scope's cross-hairs on my rifle, I centered the cross-hairs on one of the young the chuck's head. chucks. I judged the distance to be 150 yards, so I held Both rifles cracked at almost the same time, sounding about two inches below where I wanted for the bullet to like one long report. My chuck seemed to explode in it's strike. In other words, I centered the cross hairs on the top tracks. "Mine disappeared in the alfalfa," Freeman said, part of the young chuck's belly (Continued on page 39)

GUNS AUGUST 1959 27 frica~s

By ELMER KEITH

WENT TO AFRICA with the intention of getting all of the Big Five: I elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion, and leopard; and I wanted a sable antelope. That was about the extent of my planning. But when White Hunters Ltd. appointed me their Western Representative, John Lawrence, my white hunter, told me that I must now get a greater Kudu "if only because he is our trade mark and on our letter heads." After gazing at the beautiful mounted specimen in the outer office of White Hunters Ltd., I quite agreed with John. Greater Kudo was added forthwith to my "most wanted" list. We drove south from Nairobi, 175 miles to Arusha, Tanganyika, in John's safari Jeep, rebuilt with hunting body for the grueling work of African hunting. The big Austin truck followed us, with some ten boys perched on top of the mountain of camp equipment and food. John's little elephant trackers rode with us in the back seat of the Jeep. At Arusha, we spent a day purchasing licenses, going through the Game Department Magnificent 54" kudu horns please museum, and getting everything lined up for our long trek down into Keith and tracker (top), look fine southern Tanganyika. The general game license, plus the special licenses mounted. Keith's .333 OKH 300 gr. for the big five, the greater kudu, the sable, and the oryx put a $700-plus slug killed clean at 92 yd. range. dent in my bank roll, but w~ were then ready for the bush.

23 GUNS AUGUST 1959 WISE AS A HEAVY·ANTLERED OLD WHITE·TAIL BUCK, WARY

AS A HARD·HUNTED BULL ELK, FAST, AND FEARED ALIKE BY MEN AND LIONS.

THE GREATER KUDU IS ONE OF AFRICA'S TOP TROPHIES

Our first camp out of Arusha overlooked part of Lake Manyarra and the scarp of the Rift wall. It was a very pretty camp, with a line of palms on one side and the plain leading away to the lake on the other. That night I did not sleep much. It was my first night in the African blue, and I clearly heard, several times, the grating, cough• ing, grunt of a leopard half a mile away, and the moaning of a lion in the distance. Toward morning, a hyena let out its maniacal cackle right under my tent veranda and six feet from my bed. I was a tenderfoot in Africa, in spite of 30 years of big game outfitting and guiding from Mexico Tank-like and dangerously unpredictable, rhino to Alaska in America, and I slept with my .476 Westley need big medicine like Keith's .476 double W-R. Richards loaded and in easy reach on a camp chair beside my cot. I was awake long before daylight, listening to the cries of the many strange birds: francolin, guinea fowl, and others. Then my personal boy called with a tray and his cheery "Chi Bwana," and I drank a cup of scalding hot tea, washed, and slid into my clothes while John and the trackers, Galu and Guyo, waited for me in the Jeep. That was the way the next 40 days were to start: up before

Gray Ghos1i

daylight, a cup of tea and a hurried wash, and off in the Jeep for the hunting grounds, where soon the burning African sun popped over the horizon and the day began. This camp netted us a fine oryx, a seven foot leopard, Wily, fast, hard to see in spite of size, kudu and wonderful guinea and francolin shooting. It was all are ranked high among Africa's choice trophies. new to me and my eyes soaked it up: herds of wildebeast, Keith's specimen, 54" horns, is close to record. zebra, oryx, and occasional eland, grants, and wart hogs; and once I got a glimpse of the great yellow head of a lion a half mile away in long grass. We drove next to Singida and spent a night there in a with thorn and the miombo bush on which both Kudu and little hotel run by an Indian; thence on south through sable like to feed. We camped a quarter mile from a water Manyoni and deeper into that African bush. Our next hole, or what passed for a water hole in African parlance. camp netted a fine old bull elephant with tusks measuring It was a mud hole, to my notion, its contents resembling 5l1z and 7 feet, and an exceptional wart hog with great fairly thin cement. But all manner of game watered there; tusks protruding some 11 inches and with a 14 inch spread we found the tracks of elephant, rhino, buffalo, eland, wart at their tips. hog, zebra, hartebeast, sable, Kudu, and other species on From here we pushed on west and south, finally cutting the muddy banks. And our boys somehow strained, filtered, a trail deep into some rocky hills to the sable country. and distilled that muddy soup until they wound up with This was miombo bush country and fairly heavily timbered clear, sweet, drinking water which, with a small mixture

GUNS AUGUST 1959 29 of orange squash, made a very good palatable drink. It hide there and a wounded elephant or buffalo could never also mixed well with Scotch. get at him. They spend the night in these hide-outs, poke Though the beautiful cow kudu, resplendent in their their old muzzle loaders almost against the side of a beast, grey white striped coats, stood within 30 yards of our Jeep and let go. Ivory, rhino horn, hide, and biltong all bring trail and watched us slide by, we had but one sight of a good prices by native standards, and this is the greatest good bull. We spotted him a quarter mile ahead, in the problem the Tanganyika Game Department has confronting edge of some heavy thorn. I slid out of the Jeep with my them. .333 O.K.H. loaded with 300 grain soft nose, and attempted The morning we left this camp, we drove by the band to head him off in the bush some 400 yards from the Jeep. of sable from which I had removed the old bull. Another But he was far too wary; I never got another glimpse of great black bull had taken over the harem, and he was a his great, spiral-horned head. beauty, with even longer horns than the one I had killed. The kudu has tiny hooves for an animal as big as a He stopped and looked us over at 60 yards. This, to my small bull or very large cow elk. The hooves of a great opinion, is Africa's most beautiful antelope. He is proud bull are only about the size of a 150 pound deer. How such as a peacock, knows his strength, and fears nothing but a great beast can travel on such tiny feet is beyond me, man. Even lion give him a wide berth. Sable, roan, and but travel he surely can... We trailed two big rhino oryx are all fighters and have been known to kill both men tracks from this camp, only to find old cows with good and lions. long horns, but both with young, so we had to turn them We made a long all-day drive, partly with no road, and down. They scented us, snorted, swapped ends, and arrived on an open timbered ridge for our kudu camp.

Used for lion bait, wart hogs are frequent targets for all African hunters. Shown left is Keith's best specimen, with tusks II in. long, with 14" spread. Kill was made with .333 OKH Mauser. Camps, like one above. were named for trophies taken at that location.

departed with mlmature steam whistles blowing, and I It was a very pretty place with shade trees and miombo shoved the safety back on the .476 Westley Richards as bush interspersed with thorn. Many rocky ridges lay be• we hiked sadly back to the Jeep. yond this camp, and there were several good water holes I killed a grand old sable bull here while hunting for within a few miles. We soon spotted tracks of the Greater a tree in which to hang a lion bait; but although we saw Kudu, more than we had seen anywhere. Native poachers kudu tracks, we never glimpsed a greater Kuku bull. Once also worked this beautiful country, and we jumped a pair we trailed a pair of lions a long way, until a herd of buf• from a hide-out at the water hole. A great bull rhino had falo obliterated the lions' tracks and we never could pick watered there the day before. He made the largest tracks of them up again. One morning we found a cow elephant near any I saw on the trip; but, though we trailed him a good our water hole. She had been wounded in the head and ten miles one day, we never did catch up with him. A bull left hip by a poacher, and she was very much on the prod. rhino had killed a native near this camp a short time be• We got a wonderful close-up shot of her as she came for fore. His horn went into the man's buttocks and penetrated us in bright, hot sunlight. clear up through the heart. This water hole, like everyone I saw in Tanganyika, There were rhino all over the place, as well as kudu, so had its poacher hide-out near the water. Poaching accounts we took both my .476 and the .333 O.K.H. with us every for ten times as much game as is legally shot there, I am day, never knowing what the day would offer. Guineas were convinced. This poacher hide-out was a hole dug back very plentiful and I killed enough with the 12 bore so that under the roots of a great thorn tree and only six feet all the boys had chicken dinner-and do they love chicken. from the edge of the narrow water hole. A native could All I had to do was say "chicken," (Continued on page 31)

30 GUNS AUGUST 1959 and they would grab the shotgun and a box of shells and come running. Those natives were the best retrievers I ever hunted with. They would spend any amount of time run· KNOW YOUR ning down a wounded bird, then would cut his throat in accordance with their Moham· medan religion so they could eat him. Once as we were working our way back to camp through the thorn bush, I saw the last six feet of a big black cobra going swiftly into a clump of thorn. This was one of the only three poisonous snakes I saw in Senator Robert C. Byrd, 40 days in the African bush. This country West Virginia was inhabited by a great many mongoose of ONE OF THE fundamental questions that stood as a potential several different varieties. We saw packs threat to the successful launching of the United States was of them every day. They must clean up an quieted by the adoption of the Second Amendment. By that awful lot of snakes, and we wished them Amendment, the people who had but recently ratified the Con• lllck. stitulion, granting to the Congress power to raise and maintain The morning of the 29th, John sent Guyo armies, made it clear that there was still a residuum of military and a local native to look for kudu while authority beyond the reach of the central government. They we trailed another rhino. Bllt our rhino fed emphasized to all and sundry that the States still recognized the down wind and into thorn so thick we responsibility for their own housekeeping. The Amendment, I knew we could never get him, so we reo like to think, is a continuing reaffirmation of the worth and value turned to camp. Guyo joined us there, reo of the individual. The militia-that great body of the citizenry• porting that he had seen two great bull kudu is still a potent force. Their right to "bear arms" is no threat to in an old shamha on the other side of the peace, but a guaranty of protective strength. ridge. Knowing that Kudo like to feed in the early morning and late evenings, we Senator Dennis Chavez, decided not to work that shamba until dark. New Mexico The thorn was thick and full of rhino sign, YOUR REQ EST is one which has been asked repeatedly in the past few years "0 we had to carry the heavy rifles at the and is one which means something a 101 different today than it did at the time ready. Little Guyo packed my .333 O.K.H.. the Constitution was written. Concededly. the Second Amendment does not today while T kept the .476 in my hands at all carry the significance or pervasive importance of, say, the 5th or the 14th Amend• times. John had his old .416 filled wilh ment. Nor indeed does it have the same appeal that it did in 1791, when the solids in case we ran into a belligerent rhino. memory of restrictive measures upon the Colonies was still fresh. But it is not Coming into close contact with one of these dead. And while the militia may have given way to atomic bombs as the means of animals unexpectedly can be dangerous! public protection, there is still place for the individual initiative and courage We worked our way to the edge of the typical of those ancestors of ours who demanded the right "to keep and bear arms" shamba and spent a half hour looking out for the security of their free States. over the partly cleared land. There was no sign of game, and John decided to move Representative Clarence J. Brown, north a quarter mile to a spur ridge over· Seventh Ohio District looking another shamba that had grown up I BELIEVE FULLY in the provisions of the Second Amendment to in miombo bush. We arrived at the last our Constitution, and feel there should be no restrictions on the cover and John. Galu. the native guide, and proper ownership and use. by private citizens, of what may be T all spent considerable time looking over designated as normal firearms. However; I do believe that it is the expanse of bush and open country be· proper to have restrictions against the ownership of such arms as fore going on out to the edge of the ridge. machine-guns, submachine guns, sawed·off shot guns, etc., by other There, Guyo looked down the steep slope than officials authorized to own and use them. Then, too, legal below us, and instantly his black eyes took restrictions against the carrying of concealed weapons or the lin a shine. He rushed to me with the .333 ownership of deadly weapons by those with a criminal record O.K.H., grabbed my .476 from my hands, could and should be held as not infringing on the Constitutional whispering, Bigwa, bwana, piga!" I fol· rights of citizens under the Second Amendment. lowed him to the edge of the thorn, and John moved forward until he could also look down Congressman J. Floyd Breeding, the slope of the hill with the glasses. I Fifth District, Kansas turned the safety over on the .333 O.K.H. and worked out to the edge of the hill until IT IS MY FEELING that this amendment is very important to the Constitution of the I too could look down. L nited States and I would certainly help defend it. I believe any person should be There, only 90 yards away, was a great allowed to have his own guns and ammunition, and to use them as he sees fit, so long bull kudu feeding on the big miombo leaves. as he abides by the rules and regulations laid down by the game laws of our States. I Only his head, horns, and neck, and the would be very much concerned if we revoked this freedom, because if every gun had to front of the left shoulder were visible, but be registered, and every box of shells accounted for, it certainly would be infringing one look through the scope was enough for upon one's rights as a citizen. me and I swung the cross hairs on him. I saw the shadow of thorns through the cross Congressman H. Carl Andersen, hairs and moved slightly to my right to Minnesota clear the bush. Just then, John whispered, By TH'E ADOPTION of the Second Amendment to our Constitution "Hurry! He's going to go." we established the principle that each citizen has the right, and As the cross hairs centered at base of with it the responsibility, to arm and prepare to defend himself. neck and front edge of shoulder, I squeezed. his State and his Nation if called upon 10 do so. As a Nation As I finished the trigger squeeze, I whis• dedicated to the cause of the Prince of Peace we choose this pered back to John, "He is too late." course of individual right and responsibility rather than march At the crack of the little .333 O.K.H. and armed to the teeth into the meeting places of the world. We pray the plunk of the heavy 300 grain soft nose, and work for peace, but if our efforts should fail it might once the kudu dropped out of my sight. Instantly, again become the responsibility of our citizenry to take up in- I threw another cartridge into the chamber dividual arms in the last, desperate battle for freedom and survival. and started to aim again, intending to give In such event we would surely bless our forefathers who guaran• him another for safety; but all I could see teed to each and everyone of us that "The right of the people to (Continned on page 40) keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

GUNS AUGUST 1959 31 , e 0dMan's lu

OLD GUNS. LIKE OTHER OLD FRIENDS. ARE THERE. READY TO SERVE

YOU WHEN FEAR OR DANGER THREATEN YOU OR YOURS

HERE'S NOTHING like a usin' a flashlight." It did, too. And that did it. Us kids Tman's gun room for remem· were scared stiff. And, kid like, we huddled before the bering. dark window and let our imaginations build up our fears. Sometimes when things be• I think Mom was scared too, though she would never admit come a little hectic, I retire to it, then or later. my gun room to study my books Dad walked to the fireplace and took down the old Win• or to rub down a shotgun or a chester rifle. He levered a shell into the chamber and rifle. I like to clean guns. The picked up a lantern on the way to the door. fragrance of gun oil and pow• Funny how our fears subsided when dad loaded up that der is a man's smell, a gun old gun. We watched him fight the wind to the barn, saw man's smell. him pause for a moment beside one of the red-lighted I have before me an old lever. action Winchester that windows. Then he disappeared inside. was built for the .32-20 black powder cartridge. Maybe it's It seemed like ages before he came out. When he did not so old; they say a person is as young as he feels, and appear, he seemed quite nonchalant ... but the suspense if that can apply to a gun, this old rifle is young. It has a serial number of less than 10,000, and it has been much used, but the stock is still firm with no cracks. It has a few nicks and bruises, but these are proud scars, like a man's battle scars. The action is smooth as only a well used gun can be. The barrel is somewhat leaded, yet after more than 60 years' use, it will still group in two inches at 50 yards. Funny how important a gun becomes as it shares more and more in your life. I remember back in the middle thirties. I was just a young one then. It was a stormy, windy night. The old pine next to the house howled with each renewed burst of wind. Lightning flashed, making visible the grotesque, gnarled shapes of the apple trees in the orchard. This, and the "bang-bang" of the barn door, was unbearable. He latched the barn door and walked alarmed us young ones. Dad didn't pay much attention to slowly back to the house. When he came in, he jacked the the storm. He just looked up from his paper once in awhile load out of the chamber, hung the gun back on its peg. and asked if it had started to rain yet. then looked at us-and grinned. Then Mom called to dad from the kitchen where she had "Loose light bulb," he said. "Wind was shaking it. been doing the dishes. She didn't say much; just pointed makin' it flash on and off." out the kitchen window to the barn. There was a light in Just the same, as we kids huddled under the blankets in the barn-then darkness-then light again, flicking, irregu• the upstairs room that night, we analyzed every sound, lar. Dad mumbled something about, "Looks like somebody every creak of the old house, and (Continued on page 33)

32 GUNS AUGUST 1959 every movement outside, every flash of light• ning helping us to imagine all kinds of night monsters. A boy's dreams are a part of the woof and warp of the fabric of his manhood, and I went to sleep that night dreaming brave dreams of wildest adventures with the old man's gun. The old rifle was a hunting gun, of course, not a weapon. But it was called upon for defense again, several years later. We were in another house. Grandmother was staying with us while our parents were on a trip. The house was an old "shot-gun" type with a small room built on to the gable end. We kids slept in that room, and we were there this night I'm remembering. Grandma was there, too, telling us stories. The moon was full, lighting the country· ~ UGUST IS THE MONTH of months Arnold Riegger. Arnold probably feels at side with a pale, ghostly brilliance. You could .t\.. for the clay target shooting fraternity. this point that trapshooters have been see, across a field of "shock" corn, the old The month is bracketed by national tourna· practicing diligently during his short lay-off lonesome oak that stood on top of a distant ments in both skeet and trap. from the tournament circuit. In a recent hill. Half-way up this hill stood an old red Sunday, August 2, is preliminary day at Reno handicap event. Riegger broke 98x100 barn where migrant workers used to camp. the 1959 NSSA World Championships, on from the rarified atmosphere of the 27 yard Grandma was telling us local legends• the grounds of the Princess Anne Gun Club, line, then had to shoot 150 targets in a about "Black Anna," the witch, who used Lynnhaven, Virginia. Serious gunning for the shoot-off to settle for fifth place. His feelings to live in this locality, and about the three skeet titles will begin on Monday, with the may have been much like mine, when after "gypsy" boys who were hung from that very 410 bore races, followed by small gauge congratulating myself on breaking 98 from tree yonder and how every stormy night you Tuesday, twenty·guage events on Wednesday, the 21·yard line in the Preliminary Grand, could still hear them begging for mercy. and the 250-target all·bore championships I had to shoot another 100 targets to transfer That put us "in the mood," of course. through Thursday, Friday, and until noon the seventh place silverware to my trophy Saturday. case. Some days it's tough all over! But, 1959's NSSA World Championship events that's what makes the clay target sports so will be the richest on record for the skeet· exciting, and accounts for their steady gunner. The National Skeet Shooting As· growth. sociation dangles $7,500 worth of trophies, ANGLES AND STRAIGHT-AWAYS about 350 in number, as the pot of gold Trap and skeet shooters all over the at the end of the skeet shooting rainbow. nation mourn the sudden death of Jim And, speaking of gold, the NSSA has also Wareham, popular and well·known manager sweetened purses to the tune of $5,500 for of Chicago's Lincoln Park Gun Club. Jim the big event. Five hundred dollars of the was a gentleman, a shooter, and a friend purse will be applied to Preliminary Day. of all shooters. Our sympathy goes to his Since no trophies will be awarded on the widow and family. warm·up day, five dollars of each entry on that day goes toward the kitty for shooters The shooting bill·of·fare***for August, 1959, who tune up with hot scores. also includes an event of international flavor All of which should guarantee that the in the form of the Pan-American Games 1959 running of skeet's biggest event will Skeet shoot, to be held at Lincoln Park be the best ever, and that August, 1959, will Gun Club, in Chicago. be the greatest month in clay target annals. The month which begins on such an optimis• Be sure to bring***the wife along to the I've forgotten which of us first saw the dark tic note should bow out in a blaze of glory, Grand this year. Entertainment for the ladies shape moving between the shocks of corn since the 60th Grand American Trapshoot• has been a fixture of the big trapshoot; this toward our back gate. But we all saw it, ing tournament festivities close on the 29th. year, a new building insures that the always· and our neck-hair was all a-bristle when the Preliminary days for the Grand are August enjoyable program for the ladies will be shape stopped for a moment at the old iron 21-22-23. Record firing begins on Monday, even more attractive. After all, you will want fence and we heard the rusty old gate August 24, and closes on Saturday, the 29th. her to be there when you are presented with creak open. Amateur Trapshooting Association officials the winning trophy, so bring her along. The Grandma had turned out the light by this plan extra drum-beating for the 60th Grand Grand has always been a family vacation time, and she came to the window again to American, the oldest and largest of all for many shooting families; this year it see if she could recognize the night visitor. sports touraments. It is expected that more will prove more so, because of the new But she couldn't; his wide-brimmed hat than 2500 shooters will fire at one hundred facilities. shaded his face. Rigid with excitement, we targets each in the Grand American Handi• watched as the black figure crossed the cap Championship event, high point of the To our readers*who**may not be tourna- yard and walked into the blackness of the tournament, on Friday, August 28. ment trap and skeet shooters, why not plan porch. We heard him as he tried to open And, if past history of the Grand is a your vacation to include a stop in Virginia the kitchen door. It was locked, and he reliable guide, some unknown shooter will for the skeet tournament, or a stop-over on started to shake it. My Uncle Ed lived be the handicap champion of the world,. and U.S. 40, at Vandalia, Ohio, ten miles north about a mile away from us and Grandma several thousand dollars richer, when the of Dayton, for the Grand American. It will raised the window then and called, "Is that sun sets on August 28. The 16-yard, doubles, be a high point of your vacation, and ~ you Ed?" But the shadow only moved over and high·over-all trapshooting titles usually you'll be glad you stopped. ~ to the end of the porch and stood there, not go to well-known shooters whose tournament speaking. Then he moved back to the door records are ATA history; but the richest • Washington, D. C. Sir Harold Caccia, again and began to shake it violently. prize of all, the Handicap event, is up for Britain's ambassador to the United States, That was enough for Grandma. She took grabs to each of the 2500 hopefuls who will not only hits the mark verbally and diplo• the old rifle down from the wall pegs, poked be on hand Friday, the 28th of August. matically but even more literally. Sir Harold the muzzle thm the half-opened window and Extra attention other than the hoop-Ia spends much of his leisure time hunting or said, firmly, "I've got a gun here. Speak up• attendant to the milestone of sixty years will target shooting. A crack shot, on a recent or git!" be focused on the Grand this year by the Austrian Alps vacation, he bagged an ibex, About thirty seconds passed, and then the expected return to the shooting scene of five stag, and a chamois. (Continued on page 65) Mr. Trapshooting himself, Washington State's ** * GUNS AUGUST 19S9 33 t AMERICA'S GREATEST SHOOT ALWAYS THE FIRST JUST RECEIVED!!! All late numbel "THE RIFLE DESIGNED FOR Ve Old" Hunter is all heart! WITH THE BEST! SUPER STRENGTH"

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8MM FRENCH LEBEL RIFLE ••• $5.50 NO.1 MK V-ONLY $19.95! Hal"cst of the ral'e arc these t"ue 8m1l1 Lebel rounds. Nickel platcd lUB gl', boat-tailed bullct assUl'es fantastic RAREST OF ALL ENFIELDS are these hitherto-unknown expel'imental lanK 1'311ge accunlcy in those 8mm t~rench rifles anti car• No. I, Mk V's, Produced in the early 30s, they combine flawless SPECIAL! HITLER KNIVES! bines chmnlJel'cd 1'01' this cartridg'e. Ol"(lel' now fOl' yOlll' j~:i~s C~~~O~nf~~l~ aSF~~n~~:i ~1;"~~~cl~h~~il~~~1mA ~~~e~~~~~;~'; ~;~U~~tl~'lII~VC~.ag~:.~~~g~lslr;a;}u~~ot8r~,p~er~~~~h~me~~~y E~~~~~~d ~:;'\~ while limite.d supply lasts, only $19.95. A shooter S dl'cam,' with ONLY $4.95! thc l'al'e. IHghly aCCUl";lte recciver sight. Truly a rifleman's must! QUALITY made impOl·ted Solingen all.purpose "Hitlel' Knife." Soling'en honed steel blade with 9MM LUGER (PARABELLUMI ••• $5.00 etched wOI'ding "B!ut lind Ehl'c!" (Blood and At last! Your favorite pistol cartridge at an ausolutely ROYAL ENFIELD NO. 1 MK VI-ONLY $19.9~ HonOl·.) Nickel plated tingel' g'uard and leathel"· unheard·of lJal'g"ain pl'ice. Fine U1"ig'llial assont!u issut: pl'otected full tang'. Checkel'ed black g'rip, with loads fl"om the wOl'ld's most famous factol'ies to slide attl'active black, white. red, and gold inlay with thl'oll!!h t1lose no-Iongel'-expensl\'e-lo-Hhoot Ilmm Lllg-ers, Nazi swastika. Black metal protective sheath with nl'()wlling-s. Radoms. Mausers. or what·have-vou. NOW!!! ;ii~l~i~~a~II~~r ac~:~r~~~~, 8J~~~i'atte:~lh~~~yh~~Wl'fe~~~~ openel'" This Is abSOlutely the last time Ole-se will .44-40 WINCHESTER ••••••• $5.00 be available ANYWHERE. Ol'del' today, Real Value, Very r;lrc ul"iginal ~ 1 i GI'. Black Pow(lcr 100u.!s with Ill'ass (',lSC>S but unboxl'd. Flillctions in .111 modcrn gUlls as well ~IS those ciloice old Colts and WinchcslCI'S, Any I"ound The "last of the last" are these rare ultimate model Enfield rifles; prOduced experim~ntally in very limited numbers f1'om 1945-195i, thal f.dls to tll'c is a ll'e;ISIlI'e or relomling- components. they combine all Enfield refinements and perfections of over GO HuJ..:'c nl'W shipmcnt pel'mits this lInpl'ccedented hal·gain. years of development. FeatuI'ing- a special position thread ban'el and lightened I'eceiver, these are the ultimate In Royal Enfields OLD HUNTER, PUBLICATIONS: send 25c for story of America's and the end of the line {or the "Finest Rifle in the World." A lPOSt famed al:d most bie-gest Arms Merchant. Send 50c for 1st .45 (ACP) COLT AUTOMATIC •• $5.00 collector's. shooter"s, and gun lover's dellg-ht - only $19.95 today. edition COlOl'eo printing- of America'S! amazing new automatic Prong bayonet only $1,00 when ordered with rifle. A rare chance. rifle-the An1\"I'jlite AR-IO-a w from Ye Old Hunter's ullbclic\"ab]e discovel'y of enOl'moliS undel"g"I'Otmd supply sccI'et undel'''}1 lund pI'inting IOc stamp 01' coin for pel'l1lits this astonishing- bm-g-ain l'cr all YOU .45 shooters, ~~{~~l ,,~~fieO~d s:t~'Kte::,1'1 i~if01.1d ~~;e;:orJ~'~! sta~~~~ All U. S. manlifactUl'ed. late date and in sealcd boxes the HAND SELECTED "CHOICE-EST" SPECIMENS or coin. Order today. All valid for month this ad appeal'S. ?1~i;t~·tl;t,.o1st'flnfy c~~.~l1~'i,~ ,;,~~rll~I~~ ·:t~e.·'~ig~~n u~~~;;e OF ANY OF THE ABOVE ONLY $4,00 MORE. the stockin's g-ood, as supply is not unlimited! TODAY,

I\IPORTAXT I"FORMATIO"! SAI~ES TERl\I8-PI.EASE READ CAREFULT"Y: All guns and ammo shipped RREXPRESS (Shipping Charges Collect) from Alexandria, REGISTERED DEALERS: Write on your official letterh Vi,.ginia.. Send check or M.O. no XOT SENn CASH. Sorry. NO COD·S. "Money's Worth or Money Bacl{:" guarantee when goods are returned prepaid within two days after receipt. '\Vhen in the East visit Ye Old Hunter's fantastic arms centeJ', located in historic Alexandria. THE GUN CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. ,"Vorld's Biggest Arms House• '\Vorld's Lowest Prices. Order now. Sales I",imited to Continental United States! HUNTERS LODGE. 200 S. Unio u. S. ARMYMODEL 1917. RIFLES R'S BARGAINS All NRA Very good or better! 's! FINEST and LATEST U.S. Army Bolt Action Riffe! CAL. 30-06

Virtually unfired. • fresh from government cases •••f: AND ONLr $27.95! EJ) OF P.~YI~G AL1UOST $40 FOR A "[;".S. ARiUY .30-01l RIFI,E·t SURPLUS M1917 .30-06 rifles-famed Springfleld/Mauser "speedlock" """s \."E OLD HUNTER, so he went out and now brings you this action desig-ned to cock on closing', complete with precision micromete,' ~ ACE AGE" SPECIAL and U.S. ARM\." MODER:\" .30-06 RIFLE GIVE- receiver sight (where it belongs!). For you telescope enthusiasts, the A\." WITHOUT PRECEDENT! The latest and last model U.S. Army bolt and safe are nlrem.)· designed for scope clearance. This super- It action .30-06 rifle, and strongest U.S. Army bolt action EVER made strength action can be converted to take virtually ANY cartridges but Wmg to its DJPROVED SPRINGFIELD SPEED TYPE OF ACTION. So it already shoots the BEST OF 'EM ALL, the fantastic U.S..30-06, t your pocketbook bask in the reflected glow of the astonishing available in every spot in the good 01' U.S.A.! (The most highly developed onomy of THIS rifle bargain, and load-up KOW ... U.S. ARMY cartridge ever made!) Bargain U.S. made M.C. ammo only $7.50 per 100. (A few "like mint" selected specimens on hand for you ultimate l\lodel '17 seekers at only $5.00 additional.)

FROM JULY 4 TO * * LABOR DAY ONLY *STUPENDOUS ~ PRICE SALE * AMMO SALE BARGAINS GIVE.AWAYS GALORE PANCHO VILLA SPECIALS! CAL. 7MM REMINGT N ROLLING BLOCKS 6.5MM ITALIAN IN CLIPS ••• $7.50 Ye Old Hunter-still recovering from SUllel'b appear-inR' orlg-Inal 6.5mm Hallan ball loads for al1 those imported riftes. Packed In orl2'lnal 6 rd. ellps last year's give-away sale and only ready to use In all those Italian 6.5 mm rifles and ear· ONLY 92¢ per Ib.!!! blncs. Cheapest price ever offered for these magnificent saved from complete bankruptcy by a 3ppearlng- cartrldg-es, Comoonents alone worth doublel fantastic horse-trade in the Shetland TOTAL PRICE 58.28! Islands has the gall to again hazard Yes here it 18 the original "gun crank condlUon" 7mm Remlngt(on, 7MM MAUSER (WIN. CTG. CO.I $2.50 You· cnn almost see the finger prints which the former ramnical GOI'g'~OllS Ol'ig-ilHll \\'in('!l~stef 7mm commerl'ial export foreclosure for the sake of his :1n1l110 in 20 r'd. hoxes ea<'!l "ound g-uaranteed with cracked &\~~~:;5~ 1~~':Srt~~i~~g~n~Tlk:~~S:18! trelll re~~:egrn~W::aN: c~~~le~~: ne('k to ('nable tool·less bullet pullin and effortless friends. Having again received this P"c-oiied and ready to clean up. The buy ofthe century, only $8.28. salvag-e. Order this "Pullin Ammo" sensation today• Also some original "Long Tooth". or ultra rare "Short Tooth" salvage and verdigl'is lunnLics attention! Wait no longer! year's "Huntsman of Distinction" hayoncts. These historical specimens. only $1.95 each, A TI·easUl·e. award, thus permanently retiring the U.S••30 (.30·40 CALIBERI KRAG .• $5.50 cup, awarded by the Octopus Arms FAMED .43 OIIGINAL IEM. lOLLING .LOCKS L(";lve It to Ye Olrl Hunter' to l'etur'n triumphant with this greatest larR'e "Itle cartl'idge baf1{aln In America. Associates (remember their tentacles todav_ Bt:autlrul original Commercial U. S. Krag 220 gr. FP loads at far less than even "eloadlng' ("om· are everywhere) and also recently poncnts cost. Supply not Inexhaustible. so better ol'der now to be sure! Manufactured by Winchester. Etc. crowned undisputed champ of the Wt. 9 Ibs. ONLY 62¢ per lb. "Gypsy Gladiators"; Ye Old Hunter TOTAL PRICE ONLY $5.58! spared no effort to share his joyous \'ou can't buy prime hamburger at this price. Condition or all .30-06 "PULLIN" AMMO $3.50 rifles Is "Cun crank special". meanine: that the outline is clearly good fortune with others, and give visible thl'ouJ{h the rust and you can see light through the bore. ~~~l~fe ~)\~~c~~ ~~il e,.:r O?(lt 1·1:~1?1i.~~ ~~~m~l1~~l~II~~~I'~~~ Little or that old elbow grease wlll clean this fantastic balltaln to NRA Sl.unnwl in tl'ying to olltdo himself. This rare unshootahlc everyone a chance to save himself a POOl' condition. Crackled with conquest In the hands o( fanatical Latin lot was specially reserved just for you ,'eloaders. Inflate hoal·ds. It is u'uly a precedent shattel'lng balltaln at only $5.58. "alue~ shipped pl·c-olled. Action alone worth this giveaway price. A gun yOlll' pockNhook with this d{"f1ated prh'e. A shocking fortune on these beautiful, exotic sale cl·ank·s dream. Adorn this historical I'ellc with an original bayonet, items-and even to purchase the only $1.00. when ol'dered with this l·iRe. Supply not Inexhaustihle. 9MM F.N. STEYR PiSTOL ...••••$5.00 ultimate value Model 1917 (above) This amazing fl'nd makes possihle this most shattering OIIGINAL U.S. KlAG "LONG TOM" IIFLES offer or the centm·y. Fabri(IUe National's superb smoke· with savings obtained here. TODAY!! less powder ammo packed In original long boxes. NOW!

.42 COLT BERDAN RIFLE ..•••••.$10.00 Ama;o:ing hut Lrue! Ammo buyer and shootel's' dre:'llH! Ol'ig-inal .42 Colt Bel'd:m cartridges In untouched 6 I·d. CAL..30·40 ••• ONLY $13.95! packets rrom Tula arsenal. Papcr patched 370 gr'. hul. A unique special. The smoothest and most loved U.S. boll action rifle lets in like new condition at this unbelievable harg"ain. ever m;lde at a price which now all can affol·d. T"ied ancl true, aorl worn to prove it are thesc original U.S. Kra!:: .30-40 "Long Tom.!)'· and fortunately without upper hand~uard, Also nn occa.!)lonal si~ht or sare may be found mi.!)sin~. and in some case~ a .!)Ii~ht crack may .43 l11MMI REMINGTON •••• $6.00 be round In the stock, however. at $13,95 you are always ahead. \\'ho els~ hut Ye Old IlllnlCI' would have round lhi,. tl·('a<;lln..·! Ol'iginal Hcmin~toll UMC In.'l.ds In ol"i:.::inal 1\O".<,s-:175 ~r. load hIlilet makes superb t;ll'g-pt 01• .. 'Il\till~ I'ound rm' thuse shootable .43 Rell1in!!tnn ORIGINAL MAUSER MODEL 71/84 "BIG 11" I'ollin~ hl'..... ks. Apl>('al'.!5 magnif1c'ent - shoolahility \In• SALE ITEMS CONFINED gllal·anteed. \\'OI·th twiet.' thl;. price ror coml>onenlS alone: TO THIS BLOCK ONLY *YES-UNDEI,IEVEADLE AS IT SEEiUS,* T.S. !Top SellingI MAGAZINE BUYS you 11I ....1 believe those raptured orbs of yours. This is the give-a\vay of a life• CAL. 11MM MAUSER ••• ONLY $9.95! Schlnei~Sel' i\IP 3:-S 40 hox m;l:.!azinc ,S.s.!:;) The "'IND o( the centUl'Y-lhe HUY of the Ct."ntury. Complete In every Vniled Defense osS Special Box !\·I.;I!.:"lI7.lne tinle. Inlagine-you pay our :alreut)" detail .lntl (lilly functional down to the cloud.!) of dust which rise into <:,i\'l!\1 LllR'cr} ...... 1.00 harg-ain price for one of these rifte or the ail' with evel'Y sU'oke of the bolt. When it speaks, thel'e Is thunder Tilompson 20 rd. b'lx maga;o:ine. 2.00 ammunition specials, and for only $1.00 in the hills. Thel'e I.!) 110 tellinK what condition xou may attain fron-, :fl~~:~~g~~~ gg r.3: :1)1?~n;1~;\7.~~,:~1~~: ::::: ... " g:g~ ~n~k.hONR\ st?~~~ti,.jOt~~~rli~~~~n:~2' 1)~~Si~~~e Ohn~~' ~1~.3K~c~r;;,~I~~et.:;i!t!~ ,Johnson caliber .30-06 11'IG m:lg'azinc, .. ". 1 .,-'0 more you receive a se('ontl rifte of the Model U. S, M3 ("Gl'cn~c Gun") Submaehine sal11e type, or a second 100 rounds of Gun, 30·1'11. magazillc ... .. 2 ..-0 anlnlunition of the sanle caliber. Don't ~~~~~ ~~1f~;il~1~ nl'ftc' ~t;I~;IZj;l~: :...... ~:~8 dela~' on this special, special. Order GARRIBALDI'S GREATEST! 30 Cal. 1\11 Carbine 20 I'ound magazine. .. .. 1.00 Gennan MG 13 Cnl. 7.!J2 20 l'ound ma::nzine .. 1 ..-,0 today from this ad. Immediate deli\'ery! Exotic .50 caliber machine g'un canvas cover. 1.;;0 Enclose 2:Jc po.!)tage (01' all hox type maJ{;:Jzincs. 50c posta!::c (or all dnlnl magazines. and rOI' can,,·a.!) REMINGTON ROLLING BLOCK f-'Ovcrs. H )>ost.'l.ge is not included in (l1'dcl', m{"l'dliHl· SPECIAL $9.95! disc must be shipped by Railwny Express eollccl. Add 7MM and 11 MM REMAINS $1.95 postage and save. ~l~~' tra~ta~U~rl~ibl~n~~~II'~[~ce sf~.s~~i! ~~~atf~aZiG~futr:tNn~ Any item in these fi\bulous magazines for the low SI.9S!!! YF.5 SI.95 (THINK OF IT!) Buys you an price listed plus only 2Sc (bel ieve it or not) for the ahsolulely unbelievably incomplete ol'iginal 7MM Rem· GREATEST can be bou~ht for ONLY $9.95. This is the rifle that SECOND one, Take ad"anta~e of this sl>ccial no,..-! COULD HAVE WON THE KOREAN WAR Ir the Chinese had been ~~fetg3 ~~~i~~~Ma~~~~I~relc~I~~~I~~.Y6.g~~ ~o~~t~~r '~~l~ unanned. Enjoy the greatest and che.d.pe.!)t big bOI'e shooting or nucleus of that dream spol·ter. Shipped RRexpres.!) collect. )'our life with this bloop condition Garribaldl's Greatest Repeater! Now!

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"THE RIFLE YOU CANNOT AFFORD NOT TO BUY," Without doubt the mea.t shatter· tad for new sensational discount lists. ing rifle opportunity ever to bcfall American shooters. An exclusive deal with England . CANADIAN BUYERS: permits Ye Old Hunter to offer these superb 10 shot bolt action Enfield repeating rifles . at far less than the price of even a .22 American sporter. They all take standard U.S. Write direct to our Canadian Distributor, sporting .303 Ammo available everywhere. Most models with S·gr, barrels! Never p, O. Box 628, Peterboro, Ontario. Add before sueh mag": .cent guns at such bargain prices. Get the Greatest American Gun St. • Alexandria 2, Va. 200/0 to above prices when ordering. Bargain from Ye Old Hunter! You'll never again have such an unbelievable opportunity. CustolD-Stocking

Tbe Big-B'ore Rifle By NATE BISHOP

AT ONE END OF THE RIFLE "range" of calibers, big .t\.. bores have a charm for shooting enthusiasts in direct ratio with their size. The bigger the caliber, the greater appeal the rifle has, especially for the average shooter who suddenly decides he'd like to own something a little bigger than his present maximum. Then, of course, comes the time on the firing range when it kicks him silly, and he decides he really didn't want to own such a monster after all. Since many potentially popular American rifles are with• in this hard-kicking caliber class, gunsmiths have evolved improved muzzle brakes and many other recoil-reducing ideas to attach to the factory issue. But of all gimmicks for taming objectionable kick, shaping the stock right is one of the most satisfactory solutions. Whether in building up a complete custom rifle, or in fitting one of the factory big bores with something a little fancier in the way of wood and finish, a properly designed stock will turn complaint into comfort. Maybe it would be well to start out by defining what is You think your gun kicks? Captain L. E. Wadman's meant by "Big Bore," for it is not an exact term. To the big .577 double rifle (shown at about 113 recoil) English, it means a bored to one of the shotgun jumped completely out of both of shooter's hands. gauges such as 4, 6, 8, 10, or 12, or rifles such as the .600

FROM INLETTING TO STOCK PROFILE. CUSTOM STOCKS FOR BIG-BORE

RIFLES NEED ATTENTION TO DETAILS FOR SAFETY AND COMFORT IN SHOOTING

Although big Winchester "African" in ,458 Magnum is preeision-inletted to gauge at factory, bolt with square section steel bar is needed at recoil lug recess to avoid splitting the stock. Metal must not wedge wood apart in infetting.

36 GUNS AUGUST 1959 Goering's 9.3 x 70 Schwy-Mauser shows stock evolution, shapes to_ reduce kick. Cheek piece slants away from cheek bone; long pistol grip curve avoids finger bruise.

portant. Density in rifle stock wood determines the strength, just as the denser structure of steel makes it stronger than cast iron. Many tropical woods are extremely dense and very strong, bilt they have the distinct disadvantage of be• ing also extremely heavy. A wood that is a happy medium between strength and weight is necessary, and appearance is important. Nothing that I have ever found or worked with in wood suitable for big bore rifles is equal for custom stocking, all factors considered, to French walnut. Strong as good, dense, heavy French walnut is, it reo quires reinforcing to withstand the recoil of some big bore rifles. This is not alone because of the amount of the recoil and .577, with the latter just barely making the grade. To but, and it is the more important reason, because of the an American, "big bore" means .30 caliber or a little placement and the insufficient size of the recoil lug in larger. To me, "big bore" means rifles in calibers .375 up many bolt actions such as the Magnum Mauser. The best to .505 (any rifle of more than .505 caliber I define as a method I have found of reinforcing the stock to cope with Hand Cannon), with muzzle energy of from 4,000 to 6,000 the recoil in a big bore rifle is to insert a Vz inch dowel pin pounds, and free recoil (in a rifle weighing from 9 to 11 of ebony or other extremely dense hardwood through the pounds) of 35 to 75 foot pounds. stock at a point where, when the stock is inletted for the Strength is the most important factor in the selection of recoil lug, the back of the lug and the bottom of the action wood for a big bore rifle stock. Wood density is also im- will bear on flattened faces of the reinforcing wood dowel.

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low comb. Misplaced trigger puts 2nd finger Correctly designed stock for M70 no support for face. against guard where kick can hurt. provides needed support for face.

GUNS AUGUST 1959 37 Zero-pitch stock with butt pad at right angle to line of bore aids in reducing kick but height of thrust-axis of bore-above shoul• der still makes Buehler's .505 Gibbs a bruiser. At right, Holland double .600 made for late King Faisal II of Iraq shows straight stock necessary to hold the jolt.

Some shooters believe that this dowel or cross bolt is used The stock should be as straight as the shooter can toler• to compensate for poor inletting. This certainly is not the ate, with a high, well rounded comb sloping very slightly case. Since no stockmaker can accurately prophesy the re• forward, and a zero-pitch butt. The forearm should be action of a given piece of wood to the effect of recoil, the about half the length of the barrel, rather full, and tending added reinforcement is a much needed precautionary meas• toward a pear or beaver tail forearm in section. The pistol ure. Because of convenience in mass-production, Mauser grip, with a circumference of at least 41h inches, should military rifle stocks, even in standard calibers, have such be a well rounded oval and not too closely curled. The a stock-strengthener of steel fitted. distance from the trigger in the release position to the front Extreme care should be used in bedding big bore actions of the pistol grip cap should be between 31j~ and 4 inches, and barrels. The action should bottom on a perfectly depending upon the size of the shooter's hand. The length straight line, with absolutely no wedging on the sides. of pull should be from %" to 1/~" longer than the shooter Examination of many "hair line" fitted custom stocks often would ordinarily specify for a light weight sporter stock, discloses that the action cuts tend to close in when the to minimize the effect of recoil. action is removed. This is thoroughly bad on the big bores. There is no good reason for a cheek piece on a big bore AU rearward-facing vertical surfaces of the action, with the rifle stock but, properly made, it is not objectionable. I exception of the recoil lug, should not contact the stock recommend a cheek piece only for the individual who, wood. Failure to relieve wood at these critical points can because of some peculiarity of build, such as a hollow• cause splitting of the stock and flying splinters at a velocity cheeked face, feels that he can better and more accurately sufficient to penetrate skin and eyes. Most critical in heavy sight the gun with a cheek piece on the stock. With big calibers, stock fit at the tang should be loose even in bores, a scope sight is rarely a practical accessory, since calibers as light as 6.5 mm. or .243. hunting ranges are short. Binocu- (Continued on page 49)

Critical inletting points in big bore stock are at cross To avoid splitting small of stock, action should not bolt where recoil lug should bear evenly on front, top. bear at two rear inside radii and at tang tip. Even Some bolts are steel: Bishop prefers hardwood dowel. with recoil lug solid, stock will "give" over magazine.

38 GUNS AUGUST 1959 CHUCK HUNTING IS NOT "FOR EXPERTS ONLy" (Continued from page 27) section. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw power to the boys that get a bang out of that Freeman was also leveling down on handloading as a hobby; but for the chaps one, and this time there was a split-second that can't indulge in such hobbies for one difference between our shots. "Got mine," I reason or another, the factory loads get the heard Freeman muttering; but now it was job done. my chuck that had disappeared in the Considering today's modern varmint rifles alfalfa. I did not know for sure, but I figured and scopes, anyone with a fair knowledge I had hit him. of guns and scopes and with reasonable There were no live chucks in sight now, shooting ability can mount a scope on a so we decided to investigate. We found four varmint rifle and zero the whole job in very dead chucks, all smacked solidly in the adequately. Drilling and tapping is done at shoulder area. Those chucks never knew the factories, so anyone who can read and what hit them. The cross wind had not understand instructions can do the entire thrown us off one bit, proving that both the job successfully. .243 and .244. are top-drawer wind buckers. I have a new 8x Bushnell "Command Post" In fact, this and later shooting convinced me scope that I am going to mount myself on a that they beat everything I have ever tried new Savage no in .243 caliber. I will in this respect, and this includes the .218, select the proper fittings, and I do not .222, .220, .250, .257, and .308. anticipate any difficulties in the mounting The farmers had not been wrong in saying and sighting-in jobs. I also plan to do my SHOOTING that the area "was lousy with woodchucks." own mounting of a 6X Coltmaster scope on a There were dens in almost every field and new Coltsman rifle in varmint caliber. Again, fence row, and still others along the ditch I do not anticipate any difficulties. And I banks. Many of the dens were big and deep will continue to use standard factory loaded ACCIDENTS cnough to make the moving farm machinery ammunition only. hazardous. We counted over 20 separate dens A good chuck rifle in .243 or .244 caliber 00 in one 35 acre field. It was a real woodchuck can be bought for a little over a hundred $10,000. jackpot. On a couple of the farms. Freeman bucks. Add another sixty or so bucks for even knocked off a few of the critters with a scope, around seventy-five for adequate his scope-sighted .22 rifle. It took real expert binoculars, maybe four bucks for a good stalking to get within .22 range, but that's leather sling strap, and that's it except for COVERAGE part of the sport. the ammunition. That's no more than a good Our shooting scores were not perfect, by set of golf clubs, or the equipment for duck 50 hunting or deer hunting would cost you. any means. We missed three of four apiece only $5. per year ouring the day. Our best luck was between And in most states, the chuck is on the pest cleven and twehe o'clock, and after two• list, making a considerably longer than aver• THE POLICY COVERS age shooting season possible. In most areas, thirty in the afternoon. chuck shooting lasts from June to cold While actually hunting during sea• We changed rifles for a few shots to see weather, which means from four to five son permitted by law. if that would make any difference. It did not. 1 months of real top-drawer shooting fun. Using a gun legally except in mili• There was just no material difference in A .244 cartridge costs only a little more tary or law-enforcement service, or the shooting and killing qualities of the than a high velocity 12 gauge shotgun shell, acting as a private guard or body handloads and the factory loads, And 2 and the average chuck hunter will not fire guard. cvidently, by following the mounting instruc• his rifle as many times during an average Attending meetings of gun or marks• tions that came with my scope. I had done chuck hunt as a duck or a pheasant hunter manship clubs, and similar organi• .i ust as good a mounting job as the expert. 3 zations. will fire his shotgun. We bagged a whole flock of alfalfa-chomping Many more sportsmen could be enjoying Participating in meets and marks• woodchucks, and not a cripple did we have manship contests properly registered woodchuck shooting today if they could but to crawl off into some den hole to die. 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NO. 4 AMONG "THE WINNERS OF THE WEST" (Continued from page 24) \rms by Criuenden & Tibbals of South mand were anxious to trade in their Spring• Coventry. Conn.. later doing business as field muzzle loaders for Spencer repeaters. Phoenix Cartridge Co. among other firms. Indiana General John T. Wilder's "Light• Planning for production, Spencer went into ning Brigade" of mounted infantry wanted ;Jartnership with F. Cheney. a silk mill repeaters and could not get Henry rifles: .Hvner. Some sample rifles were made up Wilder's later enthusiastic reports of the using Sharps .52 caliber barrels. In company Spencer gun, which his troops bought out of with Warren Fisher, Jr., another partner who their own money, proved the success of the ,erved as agent in negotiations with the gun. Wilson's Cavalry Brigade adopted a jI.S. government. Spencer leased premises gold Spencer Carbine as their regimental :n the Chickering Piano Company building, insignia, over a red guidon bearing gold Tremont & Camden Streets. Boston. The crossed sabers. In chronicling a skirmish Spencer Repeat ing Arms Co. was under way! with Confederate sharpshooters holding the Christopher Spencer at the age of 20 south bank of the Tennessee river, six miles ::ears found the Washington rat·race a tough below Chattanooga, Captain G. M. Barber of competition for a young arms merchant. The the 1st Ballery, Ohio Vol. Sharpshooters, '.lId columned brick War Office building, spoke in high praise of the Spencer. Allied ancestor of the Pentagon. was thronged with the 16th Kentucky, whose men carried with merchants promising arms in quantity Enfield M/l cap-lock rifles, somewhat like if only Uncle Sugar would dole out money the .58 Springfield in design and shooting ;Jnd financing and advances on contracts power, Captain Barber reported that the :lOd tools and materials and everything under Kentuckians had fired for three days with no the sun. Ripley. forced by the exigencies of effect on the Confederates, and losing three war. and the adviees of the Secretary. con· men of their own. Said Barber, "The first lracted for many arms of every description. day we opened on them we killed two, But his heart was not in it for the unusual wounded several, and drove them from all :ypes-his standard contracts were for the their positions along the river. We found by Springfield·pattern Rifle :YIuskets. and each actual trial that our guns had longer range .;ontraet included termination and forfeiture and greater accuracy. We seldom missed at clauses which he was frequently overly·eager 700 yards. I had 125 men with me and for ~o invoke. Wit h Spencer, he was not too two weeks kept 600 Rebels at bay and, as I impressed. In the summer of 1861. while con afterward learned, killed and wounded over men clustered about Washington hotel 30, with our loss of only one man wounded. lobbies selling each other Rifle·'IIusket con· It was a genuine trial of arms, and resulted lracts which hardly one had the capacity to in proving the superiority of the Spencer tulfil. Chri,;topher Spencer. whom history Repeating arm over every other gun in the :lrovcd was a genius and who at the time service." :\t least had a genuine factory, capital. and Capable of long range accuracy for snip• :nanpower, went begging. ing, the volley firepower of the Spencer He turned to the _ avy, a separate branch adapted it to yet another kind of fighting. $0 far as arms procurement was concerned, Wilder's Lightning Brigade unloosed a bullet and found some encouragement. A test board barrage against Longstreet's Confederates in June, 1861. under Captain John A. Dahl· who allacked Union positions along the gren, descrihed the Spencer's capabilities: Chickamauga river in north Georgia, in "The mechanism is compact and strong. 1864. The Indians named the stream "river The piece was fired five hundred times in of death," and it amounted to just that for ;uccession; partly divided between two morn· the charging Rebels. As the grey lines ad• ings. There was but one failure to fire, sup• vanced from the timber toward Wilder's posed to bc due to the absence of fulminate. Brigade, a steady roar from the Spencers In every ot her instance the operation was "melted the advance lines into the ground," complete. The mechanism was not cleaned as Wilder wrote in his report. Charge after and yet worked throughout as at first. Not charge faded away in the hail of lead, until, the least foulness on the outside (ordinary said Wilder, "you couldn't walk five feet muskets became caked with primer dirt at over that ground without stepping over a the vent or cone), and very lillIe within. dead or wounded rebel." Firepower gave The least timc of firing seven rounds was morale: troops using the Spencer expected ten seconds." to win. Rebel prisoners remarked to their The Navy ordered 700 Spencer 30" barrel captors, "It's no use to fight you'uns with rifles. with sword bayonets, for l\Iarines and that kind of gun." landing party use. as a result of this test. By the end of the War, the Spencer killer• In Novemher uI the same year. the Army at carbines had shot out a death·dealing reputa• last tested the gu n; the officers reported tion. Many of them went west to the frontier (hat "The rifle is simple and compact in con• where the Army was waging a 20-year Indian struction, and less liable to get out of order war for possession of the plains. The second than any other breech.loading arm now in chapter in the Spencer saga was wrillen in use." On December 26, 1861, agent Warren blood on the war trails of the Old West. Fisher sold the Army 10,000 rifles, and The frontier fighters who used them were Spencer was well on the way to business and always Spencer men, like Colonel H. B. military success. Carrington, commander of Ft. Phil Kearny, Field commanders clamoured for the on the Bozeman Trail to Montana. In Decem· Spencers: its firepower lent courage to the bel', 1866, a ballalion of eighty officers and faintest heart. The fast-shooting Spencer aid· men under Lt.·Colonel W. 1. Fellerman had cd dashing L' nion General Hugh Judson been massacred in a Sioux ambush outside Kilpatrick, ace cavalry leader, in turning the fort. Thousands of hostile Sioux roamed defeat into victory with swift charges. the Big Horns, and they regarded this fort "Fighting Joe" Hooker, youthful ballle in the heart of their hunting lands as a leader, reported many units under his com· violation of treaty rights. Allack was im-

GUNS AUGUST 1959 41 minent, now that the frontier post was weak• filled the shallow river from bank to bank. ened by the loss of many of its best men. Wave after wave of plumed and bonneted Carrington sent a message by courier to savages, led by the giant chief Roman Nose, Ft. Laramie, pleading for reinforcements im• swooped down on the grim little band, mediately to avert a possible massacre. "Give straight into a bitter blast of hot lead. me officers and men," he wrote in the dis• Seven deadly volleys tore great holes in their patch; "Only the new Spencer guns should ranks, and the charge was split, though some be sent. The Indians are desperate and they warriors rode within a few feet of the de• spare no one." Spencers would have evened fenders. Roman Nose rallied his braves and the odds a lot for the imperiled fort, Car• tried again. rington knew. Firing as fast as they could work the levers He got the troops, but not the Spencers. of their Spencers, Forsyth's men held grimly In time, Ft. Phil Kearny and two others on to blistering hot gun barrels. With parched the Bozeman Trail were burnt to the ground throats gasping, and choked from the dense by Red Cloud and his fighting Sioux. black powder smoke. they fought as the The Sioux war went on and, in 1868, the plainsmen always did. Once more the red Southwestern plains were bathed in blood men almost gained the island, but they had by raiding Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Arapahoe never before faced such a fire. hostiles, and a scattering of renegade "dog Volley after volley turned the Indians soldiers." Destruction and pillage of settle• ranks, until the water ran red with blood. ments was worst in Kansas. To protect his The great Roman Nose toppled into the state, Governor S. J. Crawford, a former water, dead, and the warriors broke and Civil War colonel, recruited a regiment of rode out of range. militia to fight the warring Indian tribes. Seven times in the next nine days, the Like Carrington, he knew that the Spencer Indians charged the island, and each time would be the ideal Indian fighting weapon. the fast-shooting Spencers turned them back. He requested 500 Spencer carbines from But all was not well with the scouts. General Phil Sheridan, commanding the Forsyth had his leg broken by an Indian C-H Reloading Equipment was Department of the Southwest. Sheridan, com· bullet. Four were dead; 18 others wounded. designed by handloaders for hand• mander of Union Cavalry in the Civil War, Water was procured in small quantities at loaders. It is easy to own, easy to great risk, only at night, and they were operate. Insures perfect ammo every• subsisting on dead horse meat. The suffering time. C-H makes a complete line of of the wounded was terrible, with festering equipment for reloading rifles, pistol wounds, and no surgical care. and shotgun shells. Cap. Stilwell, one of the scouts, made his way through Indian infested country to Ft. Wallace, 110 miles away, and brought the troops to their rescue. The Indians had seen them coming and left the day before. With Roman Nose dead, when General Custer Carried by John Wilkes Booth, this fell on Black Kettle's camp of 1000 warriors, Spencer is now in Lincoln Museum. in November of that year, he inflicted a knew all about the Spencer. He wasted no crushing defeat and the power of the south• time in issuing the required number for west trihes was broken. Colonel Crawford's Nineteenth Kansas Vol• No officer was better equipped by exper• unteer Cavalry. ience and training than Major Frank North The Spencer rifle has been called the to command a body of scouts in Indian "Indian Model" because it is claimed Custer campaigning. His battalion of Pawnee scouts equipped a company of sharpshooters with was the most efficient comhat team on the them for his campaign ending with his plains, in fighting their hereditary enemies, victory in the Washita battle over Black the Sioux. From 1865 to 1877, they were in Kettle, but this we have not been able to the field (though not continuously), patroled verify. He did have a sharpshooter battalion the right of way and guarded the con• under Lieut. Cooke. struction camps of the Union Pacific rail• The Spencer was justly popular on the road. They were sent on expeditions in Kansas frontier in the late 60's. The 7·shot western Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and lever rifles were chosen by Colonel George A. northward. Forsyth at Ft. Harker, Kansas, when he In 1867, the four companies were equipped recruited fifty plainsmen into a hard-hitting with Spencer carbines, whether by orders of unit to combat hostKe raiding parties of the Gen. Augur or request of Maj. North, is not southwestern tribes. "Sandy" Forsyth's "Orig• clear. That one of the officers had chosen inal Rough Riders," with Spencer carbines, well, is evidenced by the fact that the Paw• stood off 800 (some say 2,000) Sioux and nees never lost an engagement. Cheyennes for nine days in the most heroic His brother, Captain L. H. North, com• battle of all the Indian wars: at Beecher's manding one company of the Scouts, told me Island. before his death in 1935, that: Col. Forsyth and his scouts on September "We thought at the time the Spencer was 16, 1868, camped on the shallow Arickaree a very good gun for our purpose, and I can't fork of the Republican river near the recall one that would have been any better. Colorado line. They were surprised by Chief Anyway, we were never defeated in fifty Roman Nose and a following of the best five general engagements; but my own pref• red cavalry in the southwest. erence for hunting was a Ballard." Leading a rear-guard action, Forsyth kept The success of these independent units, the Indians in check by a continuous fire. added to the Civil War record, is indication The soldiers retired to a small island in the the Spencer carbines would have been ideal middle of the shallow river. They soon had equipment for the Army of the West in a small breastwork and some shallow rifle Indian fighting campaigns. A total of 40,051 pits scooped out of the sandy soil. Night Spencers was in government arsenal in• passed and, with the dawn, came the first ventories at the end of the war. A few special Indian attack-hundreds of mounted warriors (Continued on page 44)

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GUNS AUGUST 1959 43 (Contil/ued jrolll page 42) troops used them and with good results, but the Government preferred to experiment with :make the :most of your rifle's single shot rifles in the hands of our soldiers. ACCURACY.•• The Burnside Rifle Co., of Providence, Rhode Island, which had built some of the Spencer guns on contract, relined about 7,000 to .50 caliber for private sale on the buffalo plains. But the Spencer action, long enough for a man-killing cartridge, could not be adapted to the big, long buffalo cartridges. Custom gunsmiths filled heavy octagon barrels to some carbines, hut the venture was not profitable. Many Spencer "buffalo" rifles were sold to eastern hunters going west, but when they arrived to shoot buffalo, the tenderfeet discovered the fron· tiersmen preferred the Sharps single shot shooting heavier calibers. With no wartime S have the latest developments and demand, the Spencer business folded about at enable you to make the most of 1868·9. The assets of the company were lsion-made rifles and ammunition: taken over by the growing firm owned by today New Haven shirt-maker Oliver Winchester. • Fixed constantly-centered reticule combined with Ironically, the next year saw an unprece• windage and elevation adjustments inside the scope.· dented stimulation to the sale of Spencer •K Model fixed reticule scopes require no costly guns, but Christopher Spencer, older and double adjusting mounts. Use any rigid or pivot wiser now, did not profit. War between type mount. France and Germany created a great demand • All threaded joints sealed with Neoprene 0 rings• in the U.S. surplus arms market. Of the a positive compression seal. All lenses hermetically Spencers owned by Uncle Sam, 35,028 sealed. All scopes nitrogen processed to prevent fogging. carbines and 1,380 rifles were sold at public auction at prices ranging from 3.50 for un• • These new features are Weaver developments and only in Weaver Model K Scopes. servicable guns up to $25 for good guns. Buyers included Remington Arllls Co., O. F. • New optics-clear, sharp, brilliant. Better than ever. Winchester who took 5,000 Carbines, Hartley • See the scopes that are way out in front-Model K Schuyler & Graham, big !'lew York military Weaver-Scopes. d d All Threa e goods house which bought thousands for *E»:ept Models KI and KV Joints Sealed With shipment to France. and other firms. Even NEOPRENE Caleb Huse, who as Confederate purchasing Model K crosshairs o RINGS are always accu• agent in Europe in 1861-5 had sought for rately centered; only arms to give the Confederacy firepower to the image moves when you turn the combat the Yankee Spencers, now bought adjusting screws. 800 rifles which he presumably shipped to Lenses Are HERMETICALLY SEALED No more oW-center Scopes Nitrogen Proce..ed some friend in France. But Spencer's plant reticules like this was out of business. when you use the © 1959 W. R. Weaver Co. Weaver Model K The young inventor continued to create. with fixed reticule K Models are made from 1 to 10 He had been associated with Colt, and also aDd Internal adjust· power; prices from about $35 to about aided in producing the Roper revolving meDts. $60. See your dealer for demoDstra• tion and his actual prices. chamber shotgun. A "Spencer hammerless" short-barrel revolver is listed by L. D. ~8end 'page Satterlee, which may relate to the Roper t8 enterprise. He invented a machine for roil• NAMEi _ ing silk thread, widely used in the textile ADDRESS _ industry and, in 1882. sought once again to CITY ZONE__STATE _ get into the arms field. He patented in April of that year a pump-action repeating shotgun, DEPT.43W. R. WEAVER CO. EL PASO. TEXAS 12 gauge, made on contract by machinery THE WORLD'S MOST USED, MOST PROVED SCOPE associates of his, in Windsor. Vermont. Annie Oakley used one; the Army & avy Journal (now Army. avy-Air Force Journali de· scribed the shotgun in their March 13, 1886 issue. In the 1890's Spencer collaborated with James Paris Lee in experimental U.S. V.S. &: Canodwn Pat. Peml. army test designs, producing pump-action high powered rifles using the Lee holt ~tme magazine system. But success in the arms field did not return to Spencer. His shotgun factory was offered for many years by The HIGHEST POINT in Francis Bannerman, another New York sur• plus and scrap arms dealer, with no takers. SHOTSHELL LOADER EFFICIENCY Spencer did not lack for employment and Outperforms All Others in Safety, Speed, Accuracy profits--his enduring "monument" is the in• Model 29 - $29.95 ternationally known machine tool enterprise, Loads 60 shells per hour the Billings & Spencer Company of Hartford. But Christopher Spencer, the man, will be Dealers wanted - Get the facts remembered for building a gun that was good to have around, when men were fighting ACME INDUSTRIES, INC. for their lives. In the War, and in the West, 625 W. Lawrence Street Appleton, Wisconsin the Spencer did change the course of (~ history. L.-

44 GUNS AUGUST 1959 ELMER KEITH SAYS . (Continued from page 9) Gravers small game which the old .22 L.R. High New Lymlln Shotshell Press Speed lacked. Dealers will have a hard time Charles E. Lymann III, president of the for keeping a stock of the new K-22 W.R.F. Lyman Gun Sight Corporation, says shot• .\1agnum on hand. Ammunition, we hear, gunners can save 50% or more on ammuni• WOOD will retail at about $2.60 per box. This is tion costs with our new lowcost Vandalia expensive, but the load will eliminate the Shotshell Reloading Press. BLOCK need for a great many second and third The new Lyman Vandalia is priced at shots required where the .22 L.R. cartridge under $35 complete with dies, is simple and Cutting was used on game. easy to operate, and reloads better and faster Ruger is bringing out his famous Single than some presses selling for $100 or more. This set of 6 gravers, consists of 2 round No.3 & No. 10, 2 flat No.2 & Six for the new round, and we would expect The speed and durability of the new press Colt's to adapt their Officers Model Frontier No. 10, Lozenge No.3 knife. Tools are make it ideal also for gun clubs, and its low slightly bent for clearance of hand to Scout single actions for this new cartridge. first cost puts it well within the pocketbook High Standard may also be able to adapt a make it easier to work. Top Quality of the average shooter. Steel. Blades will keep sharp, keen variation of their Double Nine for the .22 The Vandalia comes with 12-, 16-, and ~IIagnum. edge and give a lifetime of service. 20-gauge die sets and the standard 12- and These gravers are ideal for tracing and The new cartridge will be just what the 20-gauge die sets will also reload the 3" cutting of fancy borders and designs doctor ordered for the small game hunter. magnum shells. When used with average on checkered gunstocks. Engraving in• We always hoped for a modern .25 Stevens skill, finished reloads are generally indis• itials and borders on grip caps and re• rim fire for both rifles and sixguns, but it volver and pistol grips. COMPLETE tinguishable from brand-new factory product. SET, $5.00. has not been forthcoming. The new .22 Write to the Lyman Gun Sight Corporation, W.R.F. Magnum may well fill the need. The Send 2Sc For Big 48 Page Middlefield, Connecticut, for full information Gunsmith Catalog No. 58 old so-called .22 Special (officially the .22 on the Vandalia and other Lyman products. W.R.F.) with its 45 grain bullet enclosed FRANK MITTERMEIER Exclusive Importer-Estab. 1936 in the cartridge case, was always a much 3577 E. Tremont Ave., New York 65, N. Y. beller smaII game load than any .22 L.R., Wilson elise Glluges which is a match cartridge pure and simple. 1. E. Wilson, Cashmere, Washington, The .22 W.R.F., while about one-eighth inch makes one of the most useful gauges for all STANDARD DISCOUNTS shorter than the new load, can also be fired reloaders of high power rifle cartridges. The TO DEALERS WITH LETTERHEAD in the new .22 W.R.F. Magnum guns in a Wilson case gauge clearly shows minimum • Hand Guns, Rifles and Shotguns pinch. The new .2245" boring, however, and maximum case length from head of case • Reloading Tools and Components prohibits rechambering old guns for the to shoulder on one end, and on the other • Scopes, Mounts, Sights, Accessories new round. The beauty of the old .22 W.R.F. end it gives minimum and maximum overall • F.N. & Sako Rifles, Actions & Bbls. • Archery, Fishing & Camping Equipment and also the new .22 W.R.F. Magnum is length and neck length_ This little gauge the fact they can be carried loose in pockets will show at a glance whether your rifle is All Cash orders postpaid• without picking lip sand grit and dirt as correctly head-spaced, and if so, if you are $100.00 net orders prepaid. is always the case with greased .22 L.R. resizing your cases correctly or not. It will 229-235 E. Third S1. ammunition. also show if the necks are stretching and are AURAND'S LEWISTOWN, PA.

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WEBLEY & SCOTT LTD. 45 PARK LANE· HANDSWORTH • BIRMINGHAM 21 • ENGLAND ONE OFT HE WINDSOR G R 0 U P OF COMPANIES. A GUNS AUGUST 19S9 4S EDWARD H. BOHLIN, Original Designer of the "GUNSLINGER" This Belt and Holster Has No Equal for Fast Drawinq This is the type of holster used in the "Old West", but made with added safety features and so constructed the gun handle has am)Jle clearance fl'om the side of the belt, minimizing accidental discharge. The Bohlin "snap• 3WO.y", safety hanuner strap is secUl'ely fastened into holster and has a. spring which holds gun "down", but when released it snaps downward, holding the safety strap where it does not interfere with "drawing", The holster is so shaped and constructed that it has a natural curve creating a pernlanent fl'ee space around the cylinder. allowing it to spin freely in the holster and while drawing. Belt and Holster are made of heavy, best quality, single thic}

long for the chamber and need trimming. It is an almost indispensable lillIe tool for the careful reloader. In resizeing all big bottle-neck rifle cartridges wilh rimless heads BRAND NEW! that headspace from t he front shoulder to the head of the case, it is o[ utmost im· ,lust Out! portance that the resizeing die be correctly adjusted and locked so it will not over-resize Revised and Enla.·ged Editioll the case; that is, move the shoulder back and thus create dangerous excessive headspace. To be safe, if you do not have a Wilson case gauge it is best to leavc a bit of margin RED BOOK and adjust your resizcing die so that it does not completely resize the case neck, leaving a one sixty-fourth inch of I he base of the case neck unresized. In this way, you are OF USED certain to leave your case correctly head• spaced for the next reload. If you have such a gauge, however. you can adjust your dies in the press and lock them to give GUN VALUES exact correct headspace and also check them to see if the necks need trimming or not, • More Pages! Excessive headspace can be very danger• ous with a hard or brittle ca e that may • More COlDplete Listings! separate in front of the head and let escaping gas loose to wreck your rifle and probably • Revised~ Up-To-Date your eye as well. Excessively long cases whose necks have Price Values! stretched (and all very large cases necked to small bore, are prone to do this with re• sizeing), will crimp the front end of the neck on the bullet when forced into the rifle chamber. This ruins accuracy and also great• Hurry, send for your copy today! You won't want to he without this valu• ly increases pressures. so it is imperative that high velocity rifle cases be kept trimmed ahle reference work. It's the price handhook for gun enthusiasts every• to correct length, as well as being resized where. And it's all new for 1959! The hrand new edition gives you the to correct headspace for your rifle, latest evaluation of the used gun market ... tells you what your guns are New Hornady Bullets worth today ... lists the up-to-date value of over 1,500 famous make J. W. Hornady of Grand fsland, Neb" firearms in three price categories: fair, good and excellent condition. is now out with a new .45-70 bullet with You'll find valuahle information on what to look for in used firearms ... very blunt round nose in soft point persua• how to he an expert hargain hunter and how to get the most for your sion, weighing just 350 grains, This is a most money when you trade-in your guns. Act now! excellent bullet for all timber deer shooting. It is more accurate than the old Winchester Order Your Copy Today! 300 grain high velocity .45-70 load, and will Fill in the coupon, enclose your remittance and give almost as good velocities. With high• side Winchester single shot rifles or the you'll receive this brand new edition without delay! Model '86 Winchester, you can load up to _------~ ------._._------_._--_GUNS Magazine .. 56 grains of 3031 for a velocity around 2000 8150 N. Central Park Ave., Skokie, Illinois G-8a feet and pressures of around 30,000 pounds or less; a good, safe, accurate load that is Rush my copy of the new, revised RED BOOK OF USED GU flatter over 200 yard ranges than the 405 VALUES. Enclosed is my $2 payment in full. grain soft point with 54 grains 3031 that I have so long recommended. For elk or heavy NAME game, I would prefer the 405 grain soft ADDRESS . point; but for deer shooting, the new Hornady bullet would be better, giving more CITY & STATE .. , , expansion and flatter trajectory. You could ------_._------... _------.._----_._--_._-- safely sight the rifle for eit her 100 or 150 46 GUNS AUGUST 1959 ~'ards, 12.') yards being a good compromise for timber shooting with this load.

Hornady Spire Point 100 Grain 6 mm ITornady also offers a new 100 grain spire \'loint for the rarious 6 mm rifles. Its long !learing surface is especially useful in rifles ~vith worn throats, and will bring back heir original accuracy in most cases. The l,est load for .243 Winchester and .244 Rem• ington on rifles seems to be 45 grains of 4350 Dupont. With this load, the new bullet ~rollps sllperhly and I believe will deliver ;,alf·inch 100 yard groups from super ac• Cllrate rifles. It did this for 1I0rnady, and it also did it here for us with Hank Bensons' ~lIper-aeeurate ten·inch·twist .243 Winchester, shooting from hench rest wit h target scope. Owing to its weight and sectional density, it is also one of the finest long rangc hullets for the 6 mm cartridges. It wOllld make the best. of loads for them when used on the Jighter hi;! game as well as for long range ('oyot.e and vermin shooting.

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Solid Rubber Recoil Pads

For those like myself who do not like the I I rest Ie-work ruhber recoil pads and prefer the !'olid pads with no holes into which mud and snow will pack, the "Noshoc" pad made hy the Scamle!'s Rubber Company, i'lew '-faven. Conn.. should fill the bill. These fine pads ~ol11e it; red with black spacer, and ],ave an ini'idc hidden sponge-rubber pad. The olltside i:i smooth red rubber. I have Write for Illustrated Brochure with all them on some of my finest rifles. and they information on stocks and how to order! have stood np very well over the years. They make "P into a neat. job, and the solid type does not deteriorate nearly as fast as do pads wi th open work in their construction. These 1\'oshoc pads look very similar to those filted t.o the Winchester .'dode! 70 in .375 Magnllm calihre. • Law Enforcement • Target Shooters • Hunters Case Sizing Lub • Field Shooters \V e have jlist finished testing some Anderol Stocks car v e d for all resizing IlIhricant. We resized .44 Magnums popular American guns, in the R.C.B. press and dies, 333 O.K.H. in individually custom fit• the Super Pacific press with R.C.B.S. dies, ted. and .150-400, .450 Nitro Express, .476 West· Icy Richards. and the 3" .577 in Hollywood dies in the big Hollywood Super press, and l1trrtffs STOCKS this Illb worked perfectly in all cases. Merely ,mear a Iitt Ie of it on your finger tips and Box 741 TWIN FALLS, IDAHO GUNS OF DISTINCTION •••

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GUNS AUGUST 1951 47 rub the case with it. They then full-length resize perfectly with no indents or wrinkles, and the cases go into the extract from the resizing die with ease, even the great .577 elephant cartridge. We can heartily recom• mend this Anderol Lubricant for any case resizing.

Ladies' Elk Rifle For ladies wishing a light handy rifle for elk hunting, two excellent choices are the light-weight Model 70 Winchester and the excellent lever-action Model '99 Savage, both in .358 Winchester caliber. The gals have the choice of lever or bolt action, and in either case get a nice, light, fast-handling rifle with excellent accuracy and a cartridge that, with 250 grain bullet, will do the work. Except in some parts of Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana, elk hunting is usually at close range, in timber, and the 250 grain Win• chester _358 does an excellent job on elk if placed anywhere near right. The rifles are best fitted with Redfield Sourdough front sights and Williams fool-proof rear receiver sights, zeroed for 150 yards with this load. This is also an excellent deer load for timber shooting. It bucks brush well, pene• trates well, and is a good killer. It's the best cartridge I know of for such shooting for a person desiring a light, handy rifle. Most ladies do not like a heavy rifle, and while many of Ihem will shoot anything, they will Standard be able to do better work with a rifle that Reloading Press does not tax their strength to lug around All nfle and pIStol cartndges. Powder and Bullet Scale $14.00 all day in rough country. $22.50! Standard of the Industry. Guaranteed accurate to a tenth gra,n. CapaCity 325 gralOs. New Smith & Wessons Coming , $: Carl Hellstrom of Smith & Wesson writes me that they have developed a plainer model of their wonderful Model 41 .22 target pistol, to be used as a training weapon for lhe Shell Holder PrimerPost $1.80 $1.50 military. They are designing the gun to give the soldier a gun in .22 caliber with about the same 1r stock angle as the Colt .45 automatic. The new gun will retail at $85.00, will be the same as the fine expensive Model 41 with these changes: It will be made with• out the cock indicator and compensator; the SCHULTZ MODEL 60 interchangeable weight plug will be elimi• & 7x61 S&H nated and a sliding weight will be used LARSEN that will fit the grooves provided for lhe

II Olympic weights. The new gun will be has terrific power - weighs only 8 Ibs!!11 equipped with Nylon plastic stocks of same Andy Russell-Outdoor Life design as the expensive walnut stocks on the Model 41, and metal parts will have a brush finish instead of the high bright blue finish of the higher priced model.

Custom Pistol Grips BEST BUY ON THE MARKET TODAY ..• Herrett's Stocks, Twin Falls, Idaho, can A completely new departure in bolt action rifles ... four locking lugs furnish any type of plain or fancy checkered ••• shortest bolt trovel •.. hinged floorplate on magazine permits loading from bottom. pistol and revolver stocks to fit the individual Chambered only for the powerful 7 x 61 Sharpe & Hart Cartridge. The new hunting rifle hand. Merely draw an outline of your hand that hunters in-the-know use and recommend: ONE MODEL- ONE CALIBER - ONE LOW and fingers. and tell them what you want. PRICE - ONLY $160.00. They furnish everything from plain-clothes, !JALLISTICS OF THE NORMA 7 x 61 SHARPE & HART CARTRIDGE. The Norma load to our specifications IS now sold exclusively through Sharpe & Hart Associates dealers in the U. S., Canada and Alaska. Primers rounded-corner, combat grips to big, flaring, are of the American type and are non~corrosive and non-mercuric. IBO-gl"aln pointed soft-point boattail bullet at a muzzle velocity of 3100 f.s. The powder charge Is 60.5 grains of Nanna Special iil04 powder, Free-pistol types where each finger has a developing an average pressure of 51,730 pounds. Data below comes from Sanna Ballistics Laboratory. separate groove and both thumb- and butt• AT YOUR DON'T rests for the hand. Anything desired in fancy DEALERS Muzzle 100 yds. 200 yds. 300 yds. 400 yds. 500 yds. 600 yds. MISSOUT OR Velocity 3100 2927 2757 2595 2433 2278 2139 Energy 3410 3040 27':>0 2385 2104 1845 1615 ON TH IS shaped or checkered walnut grips for any ORDER Trajectory x o 1.5 4.3 8.7 14.9 23.2 BEST DIRECT! BUYI gun is available from Herrett's. I spent an evening going through their shop and they have files on every man they have stocked guns for, so that, once they THE SHARPE & HART ASSOCIATES, INC. have your hand drawings and measurements, EMMITSBURG e! MARYLAND they can make any type stoc\,; to fit ~ that individual hand. ~

48 GUNS AUGUST 19S9 CUSTOM-STOCKING THE BIG-BORE RIFLE (Continued from page 38) lars are much better for woods spotting. stocker, no matter how skilled, can overcome Checkering on rifle stocks is regarded by the handicap that a wrongly placed trigger ~PRINr;FI£,£. ,orne shooters as more decorative than func• creates. tional. On light weight sporter stocks, while How good in actual practice is a custom the checkering does have a function, it is stock for a big bore rifle such as the one OVllN~' not overly important. With a big bore rifle described? I can state without reservation custom stock, the function of the checkering that a custom stock such as advocated for is important. For this reason, it should not big bore rifles is very good: we have made be too fine lined. Sixteen lines to the inch quite a few of them. Several of these stocks ful.ly. are not too few; even 18 or 20 will not were for a customer who is a man of average materially impair the function of the check• size and build; that is, about 5'8" tall, 160 ering, which is to give the shooter a better pounds in weight, and well along in years. finished hold on the forearm, particularly with a He consistently shoots big bore rifles from a gloved or sweaty hand. bench rest. He does this for weekend recre• Rubber recoil pads, of which there are ation, firing a substantial number of rounds sporter many excellent ones available, are advisable at one sitting from a number of different (almost a necessity) on big bore rifle stocks. rifles, such as .375 H & H, .404 Jeffery, .416 stocks These rifle. with their heavy recoil can be Rigby, .425 Westley Richards, .458 Win• fired with a steel, hard rubber. or horn butt chester, and .505 Gibbs. He does most of this plate but. except for the exceptionally in• shooting in his shirt sleeves, without any sensitive shooter, firing any appreciable num• apparent discomfort or unpleasant after ef• ber of shots in a short period of time will fects. Such a performance is only possible cause considerable discomfort. with a well designed, properly fitted custom One definitely needs sling swivels and a stock when shooting big bore rifles. This 1 to Pis inch sling strap on a big bore rifle, rifleman is not an isolated case. There are because of the weight. The swivels can either a number of other enthusiasts in Albuquer• be permanent or detachable. but it is impera• que who fairly consistently shoot big bores I ive that the front one be mounted on the on the local range, off-hand and from a barrel, not on the stock forearm. Mounting bench rest. I have yet to see one of them the front swivel on the stock forearm brings physically punished by any properly stocked it too close to the hand in firing the gun, big bore rifle. particularly from a sitting or prone position. After looking at the stocks on quite a few I do not recommend firing big bore rifles big bores, I believe that many of the tales prone, but on occasion it has to be done. one hears of black and blue shoulders and Here's the low-cost Trigger placement in a big bore rifle is beat up cheeks from firing "big bore" rifles way to the high-style important. The trigger should be in the rear are true. But I don't think they necessarily Sporter you've been quarter of the trigger guard, as it is on the need to be true. The average sportsman with -,'rodel 70 Winchester. Triggers such as the a properly stocked big bore ri fle can target hunting for! Professionally ,tandard Mauser two-pull trigger, which is in it and use it to bring down big game without finished American black about the middle of the trigger guard, force being physically punished. When you are walnut Springfield stocks, t he shooter to place his middle finger against going to buy or make a big bore rifle-.375 each hand-rubbed to a back of trigger guard where it is subjected caliber and up-check the stock design and high gloss ... and to a bruising blow on recoil. These triggers shape according to what experience has yours for only $17.95 should be either modified by reshaping as shown is most successful. Your own shooting each. Add $5.00 for I he English gunsmiths do, or replaced with comfort will be greater if the big bore stock selected fiddleback and one of the many excellent single-pull triggers is designed correctly and put together ~ semi-fancy grades available at a reasonable price today. No well. ~ ... and $2.00 for rubber rifle pad. Monte Carlo drop, with cheek-piece, hand-checkered pistol grip and forearm, all hand-rubbed to a fine Non-Breakable, Guaranteed furniture-finish, with rubber rifle pad, for All American, Many Foreign Cuns $27.95. Immediate Non-slip and precision-fitted, fRANZITE GRIPS are delivery! Quantity the most durable made! Beautiful colors; smooth, discounts available! checkered, staghorn and fancy carved; truly distinc• tive. Long-wearing, unaffected by moisture, per• spiration, most mineral and vegetable oils. Will not chip or peel. Luster, color are permanent. Full Conventional or conversion styles. Also target grips, with or without thumb rest_ Available for all popu• lar guns in: Ivory, Pearl, Onyx, Agate, Walnut, di!;!(]Ounf Black and Staghorn finishes. Low cost, $2.50 fa $8.00-See our complete catalog! fO Franzite Grips Are Sold Under Our Guarantee For 1erg Wdte today for 28-page book. Colt Remington Browning Luger dea FREE Proces, ,lIustrates grips for all Great West'n Ruger Czech Mauser A:merican makes, plus many for• H & R Savage Dreyse Ortgies CATALOG eogn. Hi-Standard S & W Schmeisser Sauer Iver-Johnson Walther Llama Webley 5501 BroadwaY,Dept.(H-8:Chi;~;o 40,11I. :ECC>:J:»:I:~~ SPORTS. INC. MANUFACTURING COMPANY Box 185. North Haven, Connecticut GUNS AUGUST 1959 49 TEACH THE GAL TO SHOOT Shooters agree•••ltbest results are (Continued from page 19)

always obtained with ((I Primers" where lithe, entirely feminine little ladies "During the pod two years I hove used many thousand eel Primers bowled over really big·game, with adequate ••. and I om in total 09reement •.. best results ore always ob· ordnance, and simply loved it. Our friend, tained with eel Primers," soys Bud Ross. Opal Yoder, rolled her first buck after only eight field shots with a .30·06. Another, Gladys Ellis, missed one deer t\vo years ago, at 150 yards, then cleanly killed one at over 300 yards-with an '06. Evelyn Vissing, wife of the scope·cover maker, once lay prone in Idaho's Primitive Area, and shot a mountain billy goat three times through the chest, with a Springfield, before he'd topple. I've watched that tiny lady bust crows regularly at 200 yards with an old .22 Niedner Magnum.... Two of my

195. Cion A 1••,t!. eh",pi•• friends' wives are going to Africa soon to ltSi Easten Zo.1t Sk••t hunt the really big ones; and another man Ch••pia•• Cion A 1'5' HilJ" O....'.AII writes me that his wife. too. is Africa• Clan A Ch.",plon bound, and with a .375 H&H Magnum, no 1'56 Gold... Wltlt flyltn Ch.",pi•• less! ... Another friend's wife busted a Boone & Crockett mule deer buck last fall, with her pet .35 Whelen!

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50 GUNS AUGUST 1959 as possible. Since she already knows that tion: what are suitable guns and calibers she can hit what she shoots a1. and since she and gauges for women? is already familiar with the rifle. and be• First, in the matter of rifles, is the matter cause she has no preconceived fear of the of caliber. If the jump is from the .22 to TRULY WESTERN noise or the recoil, the lady is usually off deer-sized game, then let the needs of that BUSCADERO OUTFITS "RAPID FIRE" HOLSTERS to an eager tart. species dictate the caliber or cartridge. An SHOOTERS' ACCESSORIES As mentioned before, this beginning can adequate deer-cartridge won't be too much DALE MYRES CO. either be encouraged by a suitable rifle or for the lady; and getting such a cartridge• Box 7292-1, EI Paso, Texas ,hot gun, or it can be nipped in the begin• and-rifle is a far more effective procedure ning by an awkward outfit, not built with than allowing her to use an intermediate GUNS ... imitated, but still the needs and dimensions of the fairer sex. caliber. Many a starting career for the "Finest In The Firearms Field" And this brings uS to the ba ic considera- lady shooter has been ruined by a single LOOK HERE FRIENDI AT THESE WONDERFUL LOW-PRICED~ HIGH QUALITY LEATHER GUN ACCESSORIES' MONEY BACK GUARANTEE

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GUNS AUGUST 19S9 51 sour experience of wounding a big-game wife brought that to my attention fast, animal with an inadequate cartridge. Women after a hunt near the Wyoming border. She are more squeamish about such matters than was in the tent at the time, while the rest men; and no man should want such an of us hunted in a snow-storm. As she experience, either. stepped outside once, to see if the weather Good cartridges for the gal deer hunter was clearing any, she spotted three deer include the .243 Winchester and .244 Rem· moseying along the mountainside. The only ington, .250 Savage, .257, 7mm, and the .308 rifle left in the tent was a .300 H&H Magnum -with suitable bullets for deer. If the in• I had brought along-for what pnrpose I tended game is to include elk or moose or still don't recall. Seeing an opportunity fo caribou, then the .270 or even the .30-06 do things the easy, sensible way, my wife aren't too much. grabbed the Magnum, sat in the snow hefore CGUN Next is the matter of fit. Ladies need the tent-flaps, and rolled her annual deer. shorter stocks, stocks that pitch recoil away But it took three shots. She missed twice, from the face instead of into it as most hit him the third shot. ~~---~ factory stocks do, and better fitting cheek• I asked her about the kick of that old A pieces than are essential on the man's rifle. cannon. She said, "The kick didn't bother Oil DEVELOPMENT Too, the stock should invariably be fitted me. But what's wrong with that trigger? OF MISSILE RESEARCH with a recoil·pad. A well-fitting stock not I couldn't make the danged thing go off only appeals to a lady's yen for things at• while I was still pointed at that deer. I OUTPERFORMS ANY GUN OIL ON THE MARKET Easy Aerosol Application Reaches Concealed Parfs tractive, but it actually diminishes the recoil wasted two shells!" ... She was right; ••• it (LEA NS: removes rust, gunpowder residue, of the larger calibers. the pull on that old .\'Iagnum was hard and other corrosive elements. When having such a stock made up, it's rough. ••• it LUBRI(A TES: contains lubricants not subject wise to have the grip made smaller in The pull on the lady's rifle should not fa oxidalion. Prevenls gum formation, insures circumference, to fit better and "feel" better exceed 3 to 372 pounds. And it should be perfect firing from -500 f. fa 3500 f. in the Jady's hand. Again, where many a worked down to a crisp let-go, like the ••• it PRESERVES: "5·66" miracle compound leaves man likes the bruises, field-scratches, and snapping of a tiny icicle. on invisible coating which pratecls guns indefinitely. other noble battle-scars on his rifle-stock as Lastly, I think any rifle with which the little lady is encouraged to use and to like, CPNTAINS NO G .. ~ mementos of the chase, a stock that is should be kept a thing of beauty. This can FORMING PETROL . UNCONDITIONALLY 1 nicely-finished and kept that way, seldom .. ,OIL '. GUARANTEED I fails to add to a lady's interest in shooting. be done, both in the making up, and in the G-66 Brand,an' amazing I'. :~~:i~;:nhe o';;d I Canny husbands, too, can find some personal subsequent polishing and finishing. Gals like little way, such as a monogram, of making pretty things, even that go bang and kick c~ntalns lngredlen~s de· : guoranteed b J Y Signed~he~ic~1 to keep mlssl)es ', Aer Carpn.cond.j~~o~~~r e'· r the gal's rifle entirely "her'n", not like back. CO.'. !1.'. new. mp ..ou.nd..,...... u..c,. u.. ,r .. a-nd rockets ope~a,t,"g 'fully satisfied ~~t, "his'n". The problem is similar with shotguns. under extreme conditions . chase pri '.Jt - '. and af temperatures ap- . refunded ~e t,', be f: As to sights, I believe that the lady's rifle It's always a mistake to start a girl out on praa.Ching m. inus 27~~", ~'. .' In u. .... should be equipped only with a good scope, below zero~ •. '. . ". .' .'. birds with a .410, a .28-gauge, or any smiliar ~'{} ,,-;',,'," ' low-mounted, and of only reasonable power. "light gun that they can handle." It's far A detailed explanation of why one should, JET-AER CORP. Paterson 4, N. J. © better to build up the shooting experience with open sights, align three planes-the first with .22's, then with cartridges of notch, the front bead, and the farget• medium power,-and then, when kick and Custom made for you • •• usually leaves a woman shoofer "convinced, noise are no longer feared, to go to a shot• a Western "FASTDRAW" but of the same opinion still." They see no gun of adequate efficiency. Don't begin the need of anything so complex, and blurred, shotgun field-experience with experiences of BUSCADERO too. They want a sight with which they can missing. The tiny .41O's and .28-gauges, see something, a single point to aim with although feminine looking, are really guns and at. Lastly, the beginning lady shooter for the expert shotgunner. sees absolutely no wisdom in a scope of too· When a gal is ready for a shotgun, then high power which "wobbles around" too a trim .20-gauge, or a 16, or even a light much while she, herself. aims "perfectly .J2-gauge shooting medium or low-powered still." A good scope, of medium power, shells, should be chosen. Such gauges do the Handmade frOlll superb satld Ie accomplishes all the above. The glass should job well because of their greater shot charges leather. Plain basketweave 01' Plain $25 have a reasonably long eye relief, too. and wider patterns. yet are not beyond the hand - carved Basketweave The lady's rifle should be reasonably short lady gunner. Of greatest importance, they fiO!'a) clf'sign. Belt 3" wide through $30 of barrel length-not over 22 inches-and give the beginner a "success formula" right uouy, 5" at holsler Handcarved the combined weight of rifle-and-scope should loop. Leather• $35 off the bat-something vital to any endeavor. lined, fast draw Twa holster not exceed around 7 pounds. I know. that's What is true of the lady's rifle (as to correct ~hootillg tie-down straps. Choice or rigs-add $10 a large order. especially if adequate power fit, design, attractiveness, and performance) :~ colors-natural, in the cartridge is maintained. But it's brown, black at no extra cost. Specify size, is equally true of the shotgun meant for the (allow extra length if belt is to be \\"01'11 being accomplished, even in men's rifles. woman or girl. belovil waist or 011 hip), color, right or left• halHlell, mHJ·~e and lllonf'1 of gun, caliber, And such trim compactness is far more Pistols are comparable. Any girl or woman HIl{l ban·e! length. F'n'e catalog. necessary in a woman's rifle. of normal health and physique can begin D. J. (DonI RUNGE Another factor not often considered in that with a good .22 rim·fire, shoot it until a Dept. G-8. Box 325. San Rafael, California rifle the gal will use, is the trigger-pull. My larger handgun appeals. then comfortably use a .38 Special, or even a .45. After all, "shooting is fun-for everyone." PISTOL SHOOTERS! Gals love it. And the gal in your life may It's Ready! Big, New Pistol Shooters eventually beat the pants off you when it comes to real shootin' ! Reference Boole. and Catalog. There's only one drawback: after they've 116 ~ ~~~~ ~~~~t~~ise~~l'i;s~~~r~orc1 r~:g~~~ap~~iPi~~e~·i;rO~~:~e: .... 6ver 4j?Omilf~;t~i~ learned to shoot. After they do, how tions ... articles by top shooting and reloading authorities Clark, McMillan, do we keep 'em home? ~ Toney, Cartes, Joyner, White. Weston, Shockey, Hebard-these atone worth many dollars if published in book form National records ... 2600 Club, etc. All the latest products and pric.es hundreds of score improving items Harvey Prot-X-Bore Zinc and tips ... Clark, Shockey. Pachmayr custom guns . 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Wildlife Service in Washington, D. C., Steen met a British officer who loved to hunt around the world. "By the way," said the Britisher, "don't you hunt the Coturnix quail in this country?" Steen explained that this bird was un• known to most Western Hemisphere hunters. "How big is he?" he asked. "Oh, about the size of your mourning dove," said the hunter. "Not much of a quail," muscd Steen, "when we can hunt Bobwhites." "But the Coturnix will live and multiply where the Bobwh ite starves to death," in· sisted the army officer, "And, in the Orient, his flesh is a delicacy. In fact, in China and Japan, he is sometimes reared in cages for eggs, and hatches them in 16 days. Thus a meat and eggs. In Europe, we consider him chick hatched in spring becomes a parent a challenge and a thrill to any man who that same fall. And, unlike the Bobwhite, loves to hunt either quail, partridge, or the Coturnix diet consists of more than 40 grouse." per cent animal matter in the form of dis• HOLLYWOOD 'SUPER TURRET' These were challenging words to a game tructive insects. RELOADING TOOL Ideal for technician. "I began investigating the Cotur· "As for survival in severe weather, the a custom reloader or gun club. Bearing surfaces nix," says Steen. "because habitat and breed• Coturnix has one card up his sleeve. He'll are hard·coated to ao BO ing conditions for the Bobwhite and some shelter in sparse cover and 'take' bitter Rockwell C hardoess. Reloads other quails are becoming increasingly un• storms; but when conditions become im• all rifle, pistol, revolver, favorable. due to more intensive farming. possible, he migrates. In fact, he's capable J shotshells and swages all T metal and lead bullets. And I found out what the traveled hunts· of flying tremendous migratory trails." Beautiful custom finish. Greatest man told me proved generally to be true It is this unique migratory characteristic leverage. The strongest, about the Coturnix." that has made the Coturnix so well known in most precision reloading 1001 manufactured loday. Like any other bird with almost worldwide so many places, except in this hemisphere. as shown $237.50 distribution, the Coturnix has developed He wiII make the long hop from Britain, "strains." American game authorities ap• Scandinavia, and northern Europe, over the parently favor the Japanese strain as most lofty mountains to the Africa-Middle East likely to succeed here. The bird is slightly shores of the balmy Mediterranean. Some• smaller than our Bobwhite quail but in times he is so fatigued that literally acres of hunting and eating thrills compares well weakened quail are harvested by Israelites with any quail. and Moslems who eagerly await this change "Our studies and experiments lead us to in their diet. Accounts of these masses of believe," says Steen. "that the Coturnix wiII quail are to be found in the Bible,' Exodus live and thrive on those great grassy acres XV, 13 and _ umbers XI, 31-32. The Isle of where presently no game bird can hold out. Capri and the Bay of Naples are also the This will open up hunting of quail to people scenes of "quail harvests." who may not even have tasted the bird here• "Enormolls Ilunlbers," says one writer, are HOLLYWOOD "MICROMETER" lofore. harvested during the spring migration on the POWDER & SHOT MEASURES "This rugged little bird needs no more north islands and on the Continent, some• shown attached 8" tubes. ('over than a meadowlark. Unlike most quail, times by netting. Coturnix are found in each $29.95. he docs not covey. He gets by on weed seeds Africa, too, except in high mountains and HOLLYWOOD "TURRET" a nd insects, and loves the Army- and cut• deep forests. They're in Asia also, flying the RELOADING TOOL complete worm. Most important to the hunter, he as shown, "special" $229.25, high humps of the Pakistan mountains in stripped $79.95. outbreeds most quail." their migrations. Free literature· Discounts to Dealers Since the Bobwhite is perhaps our most The strain of Coturnix we're soon to see Prices F.O.B. Hollywood· Terms: Buy Now-Pay laler. familiar quail. a comparison between the here has been propagated for centuries in two will show why game technicians have the Far East, especially by the Chinese and high hopes for the success of the newest Japanese. Asiatics breed them in small quail-importee. bamboo cages less than a foot square, with "The Bobwhite," explains Steen, "matures hundreds of birds to a room. A high-protein in four or fi·.-e months. It takes 23 days to diet of fish and grain enables the birds to hatch the eggs. and only one family per year is raised. Only about three per cent of the diet. normally. is animal matter. Hence, wonded and well vegetated cover is necessary BUY GOVT. 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GUNS AUGUST 1959 53 lay from 150 to 200 eggs per year under head. The beak is longer and thinner than For The Shooter By A Shooter controlled conditions of light, temperature, a Bobwhite's. The tail i relatively short, and hygiene. Several generations are thus misleading the observer to believe the bird produced each year, to turn out eggs and is a "lightweight." Actually, mature hens meat. weigh about 130 grams; male, 110 grams. FREELAND In the central United States breeding In walking and squall ing. this quail moves "All Angle" Tri• farms, Coturnix quail are mated in pairs, like a lark, in a more horizonal plane than pod, in gray. green but some effort is being made to have one other quail. Remember. it never coveys; in or black ... $15.25 male serve a coJony of hens, to step up coldest weather, it sits alone or sometimes in FREELAND Bipod production of "seed stock." In the Missouri pairs. latitudes (36 to 38 degrees) where night To the shotgun sportsman the important $17.50 II' temperat ures may drop to 32 to 45 degrees in part is, how does the Coturnix hunt? "This early March, the males are then beginning quail lies well to the dog," say expert Steen, their "spring" calling. The mated hens (often assuring hunters of that Bobwhite thrill that only 70 days old) begin laying the clutch of springs from a trigger-fast flush from "under 8 to 15 mottled-blue·or-brown eggs. In 16 to your nose." "It has a good flight pattern, and 17 days, the first chicks are born. Incidently, calls for the same gun and the same tech• ~~~~ FREELAND "Mid• newly-born chicks apear to be sick because niques, generally, used for Bobwhite. se Century" Cuff Com• they spend their fir t few days lying on their your same 'quail' dog. too." FREELAND Olympic bination Cuff Sling Butt Plate, base Pad and Sling Keep- side. But the parents bring them no food, and Right now, 14 states are stocking the plate with FREE er $8.50 oon they're foraging about in lively, in- birds. 1issouri made an in it ial stocking of Rifle (Schut:ren) DELUXE Cuff 6' Hook $14.50 Hook ...... $4.25 dependent fashion. 2,000 birds on state-owned land, then re• Freeland Aluminum FREELAND Sling Within a single year, under ideal breeding leased 20 thousand more bird on a slate• Adjustable butt Keeper $1.25 conditions. the Coturnix has produced four wide basi. Alabama also released thousands plate $1 0.50 FREELAND Bench Freeland Butt Plate Rest Stand ...$20.00 generations of quail. of Missouri-bred birds. with rubber pad FREELAND Tube How can you identify this new addition to It is the quaiJ-whi tIe of all those ...... $13.00 Rear Sight ....$3 5.00 America's game bird? thousands of wings over a great section of Freeland Schut:ren FREELAND Front hook only ....$1.50 Sight $15.00 The Coturnix is about the size of a dove America that iVlelvin Steen ha been dream• FREELAND 30 Caliber and appears somewhat like our meadowlark ing about for many years. An old pro in the Shooting Kit .. $13.50 in color. The saddle and wings are a darker game conservation and propagation field, he BSA MARTINI INTERNATIONAL buff than the belly. The fully matured male hopes, in the name of the upland game FOR RICHT OR LEFT HAND SHOOTER has a dark throat patch; there is some hunter, that the big experiment pays ~ BSA .22 MARTINI TARCET RIFLE, flecking about the neck, but no crest on the off bIg! ~ less sight $150.00 BSA .22 MARTINI with factory sights $170.00 Checkering $15.00 additional. LICHT OR RACKS FOR RECORDS HEAVY MODEL CUNS-extremely accurate (Col/til/lied Irom page 16) & comfortable. FREELAND Cartridge Blocks .22 Cal. moose of Wyoming and Montana. Each ub• specie of the clan range from Central ...... : $2.00 & $ 2.30 FREELAND Shooting Cloves $5.00 & $ 5.25 species has its own range and its own record America through Canada. One of these is a FREELAND 48" Rifle Trunk $ 25.00 score for trophy evaluation. little fellow, often locally known as the Ari• FREELAND 22 Caliber Shooting Kit .. $ 15.15 FREELAND Rifle Restfork ...$.85 or $ 1.20 The Kenai peninsula of Alaska rank all zona or Mexican whitetail, but specifically FREELAND 3-Point Electric Bedder .. $ 15.00 records for Alces gigas, in size and numbers. designated as the Coues (pronounced FREELAND Palm Rests $12.50 & Swiss $18.50 FREELAND Car Window Attachment $ 1.50 The Talkeetna mountain, Rainy Pa s, and "cows") deer. A separate award class has REM. SPORTSMAN 58 $136.45 Hewitt lake localities in Alaska, and the been et up for this wee guy. TRICCER Shoe Mention Cun $ 2.50 S&W Chief Special Airweight $ 66.00. Mayo and Hart river regions of Yukon Terri· Coues heads are comparatively rare in WIN. 52 HB Cj255R $129.95 tory are also excellent bets, but the Kenai trophy collections, though a lot of them are WIN. 10 Target C1091C 30-06 $164.25 REMINCTON 40X Rifle $129.95 Penninsula is top. killed in their major strip of range on both CROSMAN i¢ 140 Air Rifle $ 21.50 The more southern-ranging Canadian sides of the Mexican border. They're small RUCER Standard .22 Automatic $ 37.50 HICH STANDARD Sport King $ 46.50 moose, Alces americana, occupies a tremen• deer-one of 125 pounds in live weight is a HICH STANDARD Double-9 $ 44.00 dous range. The eastern half of southern whopper-but carry heads that are some• S&W Model 41 .22 Automatic $1 00.00 S&W Hand Cuffs $ 12.00 Canada, and Maine, used to be the tradi• what larger in proportion to the body size LYMAN 310 Loading Tool. $ 16.50 tional record-producing areas, with Silas than tho e of their larger and more famou Hand Guns. Rifles. Scopes. Reloading Official Poly Choke Inst.:lllers! Witherbee's 1914 kill at Bear Lake, Quebec, cousins. Ed Stockwell's record Coues buck, IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT. still topping all known heads. But during the taken in Pima county, Arizona, in 1953 is last decade, the better heads have come nearly a dozen big scoring points better than largely from an east-to-west strip acros cen• any other that has been presented for record tral Canada-from Hudson Bay clear acro s measurement. The provinces of Sonora and Alberta and British Columbia. Smaller lo• Chihuahua in Mexico, and the Rincon, Santa calities-like The Pas, 1anitoba, and the Rita, and Chiricahua mountain areas of Cassiar region of Briti h Columbia-are not Arizona are the best bet for Coues head far off the record pace of recent years. hunters at present, though the Glaos, Chisos, The Shirasi brand of moose was strictly a and Davis mountains of Texas' Big Bend Wyoming product for many years. It still is country al 0 hold some herds. It is quite It's EASY! With to a large degree, but its Wyoming ran"e has conceivable that a Texas head may shortly Cunberth* Plans &Kits ~teadily expanded, e pecially to the outh of break the present Arizona and IVlexico mo• Finished cabinets in 82 different styles and fin- Yellowstone Park along the Atlantic creek nopoly of the Coues trophy list. ishes also available. and Buffalo river areas. Madison and Mis• The standard whitetail, Oclocoileus virgin• soula counties of Montana have al 0 recently ianus and its undry related sub-species, has broken into the ranking records and are fine been divided into the typical and non-typical, bets for the dedicated seeker of trophy repre• or freak, heads in two separate classes. The sentatives of this smallest of the moose fam• lalter class thus provides for the recording ily. Topped by John Oakley's 1952 kill on of those odd heads that ha I'e a great amount All details on Ready-Cut Kits, Green River lake of Wyoming, the limited of irregular antler growth, often with ten Plans and Hardware are listed distribution of this species is reflected by the points or more to the side. Regardless of in big, fully illustrated •• '~Handbook"-Catalog fact that less than 25 heads are presently whether they are of the typical or freak con• Only $1.00 ppd. listed among the records. formation, the bulk of whitetail trophies are Your $1.00 is refundable in The whitetailed deer records have taken chiefly found on either side of the Canadian credit with your first order! a terrific beating of late years simply because border, as far west as eastern Montana. There Get Your Copy NOW! this is, numerically, the Number One big. are a few startling exceptions in mineral-rich COLADONATO BROS. game critter on the Continent. Over 30 sub- areas in such widely-separated localities as Dept. G4A, Ha:rleton, Po. 54 GUNS AUGUST 19S9 'Texas, New York, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, and even Washington. But these localities aren't as consistent pro• ducers as the states and provinces bordering the United States-Canadian boundary_ A world's record head was taken in Webb coun• ty, Texas, in 1949, but this trophy has al• ready been beaten five times, by splendid bucks from Iowa, Minnesota, Saskatchewan, and South Dakota; and then all were topped by a late entered head taken by Roosevelt 1. Made of briar-proof, Water Repellent Carhartt Lucky in Allegheny county, New York, back Super Dux in 1939. That head is the reigning champ. 2. Extra large seamless, blood-proof Game Pocket In the non-typical or freak whitetailed classification, the top-ranked head for some 3. Full drop back for dry sitting 45 years was the famous James Brewster 4. Accessible game vents and large Side Pockets Icophy. Oddly enough, it came from the Elk -with elastic shell holder river region of British Columbia, an area where t.op-ranking whit.et.ails are now some• 5. Zipper breast pocket what. uncommon. But it was shot back in 6. Wide corduroy collar-eliminates 1905, and has now been shoved back into neck chaffing Number Three ranking by two freak Texas 7. BiSwing back for greater shooting 9. Matches Carhartt briar-proof heads on which hunter and kill data is un• Brush Pants known. Both of these are owned by the Lone ease Star Brewing concern of Texas. The next 8. Designed for upland game and duck 10. Backed by famous Carhartt dozen-odd high-ranking non-typical white• hunting money back guarantee tail heads ha\'e all come from States and Provinces adjacent to the United States• VINYL LIN ED GAME BAG ... $3.75 Canada boundary previously mentioned. Water-proof and blood-proof with breather eyelets, Whitetailed deer are found in 43 States adjustable shoulder strap . .. Bellows sides and bottom and all of t he southern Canadian provinces, with wide flap, having double fastenings and outside They're easily the most widely hunted of all shell pocket . .. Ideal for hunting, fishing, camping, of the widcspread deer clan. Wisconsin, camera equipment, and field trips. Michigan, Texas, Minnesota, New York, and HAM ILTO N CAR HARTT CO. Pennsylvania have herds ranging from GOO,• Detroit 16, Michigan 000 to 300,000 head apiece, with 18 other States having native herds ranging upward from 30,000 head. and a few from Saskat.chewan and Brit.ish Like the whitetails, mule-eared deer hea.ds Columbia provinces of Canada, but they can't. are also broken down into typical and non• compete wit.h the Kaibab in annual produc• typical or freak head classes. For many years, t.ion. t.he Kaibab Forest area of Arizona was con· The Columbian blackt.ailed deer is con• Never be· tore has an sidered the place to go for t.he best of these fined in it.s range to the coastal strip of Brit.• achromatic tel e • scope sold tor any• whopping stags. But too small a hunting take ish Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and a where near this amazing low price! You get clearer for several seasons, leading to an over-abund• few northern California counties. Since t.he sharper pictures at aU powers because at the super compound ance of deer and a subsequent depletion of officially approved blacktail records number Achro Lens. No eolor, no fuzz. Vari• able eyepiece adjustable tn 22, 45, or 60 browse, led to a horrible die-off there. This under 50 in all, the best bet for t.he trophy power. Lower powers excellent for target shooting and wide angle viewing. Higher powers range has since been restored and it is hunter of this species is to hunt the most tor long range and Asto:onomy. Guaranteed to spot .22 holes In the black at 200 yds. Guaranteed to bring quite possible the Kaibab will again become isolated areas he can find of t.he coast.al range distant objects. people, planets, etc. 60 times closer. 5 bakelite sections. trimmed in gleaming brass-5 precision a producer of trophy mule deer heads. mentioned above. Trinit.y Count.y of Cali• lenses. A precision American made instrument, uncon· dltlonally guaranteed. Carrying case inclUded. Send only When the Kaibab failed t.hem, the nation's fornia is the best producer of them all, $6.98. Cash. check or money order. We pay posta2'e. Criterion Co•• 313 Church St., Hartford, Conn .. Dept. TSA-43 muley hunters turned mostly northward. crowded closely by Siskiyou, Yamhill, Shasta, There they had 11 States with population and Humboldt count.ies in t.he same State. inventories in excess of 100,000 head each. Blackt.ail ranges in Oregon, Washingt.on, and THE FABULOUS NEW Seven of those (California, Colorado, Idaho, British Columbia run a poor second in tot.al '.lont.ana, New Mexico, Oregon, and Ut.ah) fine heads. AJjUStOMATI~ had herds that exceeded 230,000 head, with The pronghorn antelope has been coming each annual harvests of over 35,000. Nevada, along like a house afire during t.he last. ten MOlf Vemfile Choke Washington, and Wyoming also harvest.ed years and now offers hunt.ing to bot.h resi• In fhe Wo,/d ~ over 35,000, but they t.ook t.heir kill off much dent.s and visit.ors in Arizona, Idaho, Mon• smaller parent. herds. The total annual kill tana, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming. of some 650,000 produced some outstanding Seven additional States restrict ant.elope for trophies. their resident hunt.ers. Some 65,000 are har· Two areas came into great prominence for vested annually, with Mont.ana and Wyoming On pump Or autoloading shotguns, trophy heads. One was t.he Elko county, Ne· hunters account.ing for 60 per cent of that it gives 5 combinations of differel"tt vada, locality; the other was t.he int.er-stat.e national tot.al. pattetns from open to full-choke. area of southern Wyoming and northern But. the oldest. known record still stands; a It automatically tightens the pattern Colorado. A smatt.ering of big heads came head t.aken by some unknown hunt.er in Ante• for your second shot, or you can CUSTOM FITTED TO also from British Columbia, California, Idaho, lope Valley of Arizona back in 1878; No ot.her shoot any pattern continuously. "Iontana, Utah, and Washington_ The present head ever officially measured has come with• YOUR GUN BARREL record-holder, taken in 1938 by Horace Fow• in t.en big points of equaling it.. Wyoming HARTFORD GUN CHOKE CO., INC. ler in t.he Arizona Kaibab, was crowded hard 46 Meadow Plains Road present.ly owns well over 50 per cent of all Simsbury, (onneellCu! by a Jackson count.y, Colorado, head t.aken in the pronghorn records listed and, with an 1949 by Edison Pillmore. Only a meager average annual kill of over 25,000 head over Gentlemen: o Please rush FREE booklets. handful of scoring point.s separates the ex• the past decade, will likely continue to gain o Shipping carton for my gun cellence of t.hese two heads. more spots for its top trophies. barrel. In t.he non·typical competitions, Arizona's Local spots that are good bets for trophy NAME------,"'"C"'••C"'"-,p,-,,,,""',,,------Kaibab Forest is away out in front. Some antelope bucks are the Anderson Mesa of non-t.ypical muley heads come from Nevada, Arizona, the Red Desert of soutbern Wyom. STREET _ Idaho, Wyoming, and eastern Washington, (Continued on page 58) C1Tvr ZONE_STATE _

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GUNS AUGUST 19S9 57 (Continued from poge 55) .vIagnum, 180-grain, would also be fine. ing, the Oregon area in proximity to the Hart For most of the deer, and for antelope, I Mountain National Antelope Refuge, and would like something like the .243, using Pahsimeroi valley of Idaho. Montana and 100 grain loads for the deer and 80-grain Wyoming have so many choice areas that the loads for antelope. If local game laws re• pronghorn trophy honter literally has to find quired a .25 caliber-or-Iarger rifle, I would his prize needle in a lot of haystacks. The probably go to the .270. with 130·grain loads best bet is to get a license in the largest for deer and 100-grain ammo for antelope. possible area and then spend a lot of time If a compromise rifle was my only solu• with a spotting scope in searching out the tion, it would probably be the .30-06, using a one best buck of many. A pre-season survey range of bullets from 220-grain for moose, of that sort is especially valuable, in that the 180 for elk and muleys, and 130 for the pronghorns are not quite as spooky as they Coues deer and antelope. However, the .270, get when shooting actually starts. However, using the new Speer l70-grain for the heavier since pronghorns often travel a considerable beasts, the very fine 130-grain for the middle• FAST DRAW FANS!!! distance when hunter·hounded, the general sized ones, and some fast-expanding bullet For blazing fast draw action and spinning thrills, use Pointer's Fast Draw Adapter. It's one of the area of a big buck's range may extend over like the Hornady or Speer 100·grains for most important advancements in the art. since a 10 to 15 mile diameter. Coues deer and antelope, would be another the F. D. Holster. Converts your .45 single action so that you can use .22 Rim Fire Blanks, also .38 If I were to trophy hunt all of the big fine compromise choice. Special & .357 Mag. use =.57 Rem. Primers, with• out danger of accident. Not only will it be a safe' game listed here-moose, the various species Although the trophy hunter should definite• sport but you'll save on ammo costs, too. Set of 6 in box only $5.95. In addition. for a sharp pistol of deer, the wapiti, and the pronghorn ante• ly have a rifle that is inherently accurate, grip get this new silver finish Regal PUP (shownL lope-I would use two rifles for the job. One and should be able to use it with skill and Avail. for poP. handguns. Uncond. Guaranteed not to warp or lose its org. luster. Only $5.95. Reg. rifle could serve, but it would be a com• precision, the bucks and bulls that wear imitation stag Grips only $4.00. Choice selection of genuine fancy pearl, Ivory or stag Grips also promise at one end of the scale or the other. trophy headgear are often sli ppery with ac• available. If it had ample power and bllllet weight for cumulated wisdom and wariness, They didn't moose, elk, and mllleys, it would be shy of grow to prize proportions by being foolish. CLEAR SCOPE CAPS flat trajectory for mountain hunting of elk Thus a trophy hunter must always be pre• and muleys in country where across-canyon pared to take the shots as he gets them, with Lets you see while protecting shots would have to be used, and it would little regard to neat, meat-saving kills. A • scope. also fall somewhat short of being the ideal smart old bull elk, or an elderly mossy-horn Protects your scope. Insures clear sighting visi• bility under the most adverse weather or hunting antelope rifle. muley, will not wait to offer any picture shots. conditions. These clear. distortion-free optic lens For the bigger species, I would choose lhe And the slippery little Coues deer, or a guards are your best insurance for a successful hunt. Choice of over 150.000 hunters. Available .300 H&H, loaded with 180 to 220 grain bul• binocular·eyed pronghorn. both force the for all popular scopes. When ordering. please state brand, power & model of scope. Only $3.25 pro lets for deep and certain penetration, even if hunter's hand, often to shots not of his ~ Fine filter lens $4.95 each. Conventional leather ~ scope cover $3.00. heavy bones were hit. The .300 Weatherby own choosing. ORDER NOW! REMEMBER, IF IT'S A PISTOL GRIP WE'VE GOT IT! Send for Free Literature. CHUKAR CHALLENGE TO MOUNTAIN GUNNERS SOUTHWEST CUTLERY &- MFC" CO., INC, 1309 Olympic Blvd" Montebello 5, California (COli till lied from page 21) the reason for this import's rapid rise was ribbed ranges dates back to their original uncloubtedly due to the bonus-sized clutches habitat among the rocky slopes of the they rear. A number of fellows reported see• Himalayas. Whatever the reason, they like ing 16 or 18 and even 20 chicks from one rough country and know how to make the hatch, most of it. AS&M CO. So how do you hunt them? Well, I've Retrievers can be quite an aid in chukar revised my early hunting tactics, It seldom hunting. Winged birds are often hard to over• pays to try overtaking these fleeting ghosts take and, as I've already mentioned, even as they head for the muscle-straining peaks. stone dead ones may be tough to find, Occa• But if you can work around and above them, sionally, the "mountaineers" will set well for sometimes you can stop them. You have to pointers, More often, they run like mountain be pretty lucky to spook out any birds once quail or scared ringnecks. When in this they are put on the defensive. Some scatter• mood, they'll leave your pooch dashing gunners swear that chukars hide in the around in circles. And most chukar country cracks and crevices of the bigger boulders, is mean on a dog's feet unless he is in good that this is why they choose such rugged condition. HOLSTER hangouts. Or maybe their love for the rock- If there are any loopholes in the chukar's defense, it's their habit or need of watering AND once or twice daily-usually in areas where BUSCADERO water is scarce. Also, they have a weakness BELT for frequent snacks of green grass. That, plus ADJUSTABLE FOR weed seeds and insects. just about completes ALL WAIST SIZES their menu. I hope the Fish and Game Com· mission of our western states keep the open DESIGNED FOR seasons late enough to prevent massacres while the birds are still concentrated in great • COLT SCOUT • RUGER numbers at the scattered water holes or • RANGER • DOUBLE·NINE springs. In southern California they gang and Guns of up at the man-created watering places. • HAHN "45" Similar Design Pachmayr After the first rains, chukars spread out Top Crain Cowhide, Available in Black or Cases ha\"e racks for holding 4 or 5 rapidly. 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58 GUNS AUGUST 19S9 creeks and waterholes and kill a few birds, the zebra-striped birds are apparently harm• but you definitely earn them. That's my re• less to farm crops. For one thing, seldom is II~------, vised method of chukar action. You can walk any farming done in the terrain chukars like I or drive along the creeks and intercept more best. I met one rancher who had tucked a I bunches than you ever will trying to run 'em family garden far back in a narrow mountain down among the cliffs. And it's a lot easier valley. Chukars loafed around the garden fre• I on the leg muscles. quently, and this rancher believed they were I I discovered this fact accidentally while the culprits pecking holes in his ripening *DEWATS I hunting in Malheur County, not far from tomatoes. But when I looked it over, I DEACTIVATED WAR TROPHIES : Juntura, Oregon. I climbed most of a day, noticed that pheasants were dusting freely in WORLD'S BEST DEWAT BUY finding only one flock of chukars; and I the plot. In fact, I jumped five long-tailed "'FRENCH CHAUCHAT 8MM MACHINE RIFLE I never got a shot at them. Coming in late roosters just by walking through the patch. ~~~I~;~ ~~otFr~~c~UIL t~tolra'~~~1. ~~ldt'F~en~grli I that afternoon, I spotted two of the black• I know pheasants won't turn up their beaks t:1CI~~~~~ ar~flscta~~ ~futv:,~VaIt~c ~e~~~mrr~~l~~tfo~~utgo~~ I masked exotics streaking across the road in p!clc with crescent 20 rd. mag., Bipod, stocks. and at juicy, red tomatoes, and I have an idea O~~~ t;i~. ~:c: .C:~: .~n.l~::::::::::::::: :1~&:8& front of me. I piled out, fumbled loads into they were doing the dirty work, while the I ~'CiCESSORY' Kif:' . 'consistiri" . of ':2' 'e'xt~a' . m~~:·9~ • my Model 12. Just as I left the road, about chukars were merely watering from the ir• carrying case, tool set, special aircraft sights, plus S~h.~r5. e~tr$15.0~i\.aiJ:~ 30 of the big devils zoomed up. a little out rigation ditches. gun $3.75. Without gun I of range. A tail-ender ducked around a spire Any scattergun would conceivably be okay ':'CERMAN MACHINE PISTOL 44 (MP441 I of rocks and I missed him cleanly. to plaster chukars. They may flush anywhere ~i9~v~v"iIs-:, D~gb~'dti~y siInNie~~d ••~~b~~~~~~JRea.f3n • I never caught up with the rest, but three (Slol'm Rifle, 1944). A classic example of the use of from under your feet to infinity. However, in ~~~1IU8R"~.inm~~~lS. ~~n.u.f~~t~:~ .•. ~~~~~e.t~ • "7~~~9~9~ • or four miles farther down the road I saw most of the chukar areas I've hunted, the ~:m;S~l"o~::.ntJ. ~~e T~::~~~.~l eauit~o~Y~~lio~cl~~e thc~mb~~~~ I another bunch legging it for cover. A creek coveys have generally jumped a bit on the angled alongside the road, and some of this PARTS FOR I wild side. Chukars are good sized birds-a Revolvers. Automatics & Rifles I covey were drinking there; others had been little smaller than hen pheasants. For this Llama, Ballester-Mol ina, Colt, Smith & Wesson feeding on the verdant grass pushed up by ~~~;~ ~~~ltt'Gu~r:~~ld~au~:~,inV~~~:~ii, R~~g, RMI~~"n~ • reason, I like full choke barrels-just in case Iicher, Many others. recent rains. Before I could bail out, the I want to reach out there 40 or 50 yards. SEND SELF-ADDRESSED ENVELOPE partridges again beat me across the road, Another revision I made since my first FOR PRICE LIST heading for the steep country. partridge junkets was a switch from No. 6 REQUEST PRICES ON SPECIFIC ITEMS However, this time I was in for a lucky pellets to 7%s. For targets their size, the .303 ENFIELD PARTS Most Mdl Carbines break. The birds had to cross a deep, narrow 6s seemed ideal before I actually hunted $9.95 :~~~ ~fg~~'e.~.::::::::::: :$I:gg 2.75 canyon scarred with heaps of black lava. I these birds. But 7%s throw over an addi• Trigger Guard ..•.....•.... 3.95 3.95 Barrel Bands ...... •.•. .. 1.25 1.25 caught them stringing across the bottom of tional 100 pellets in the pattern compared to Barrel & Receiver. ....••.. .. 7.95 8.95 1.75 the gorge. Knowing the jig was up, some :'~ft S~it.;:1 ::: :: :: ::::: ::: f:~g 1.95 the 6s; and, frankly, I often need that addi• Butt Plate...... •• 1.00 1.25 of the chukars took to the air. I knocked a tional lead to score telling hits. Most scatter• Trigger Mechanism 3.95 3.95 big fellow kicking with my first shot, but I gunners know that variously-sized shot throw INCOMPLETE RIFLES fired too fast Ihe second try and my sixes the same size pattern. Smaller shot simply rattled against the lava. pours more lead in that deadly circle, in• Gasping for air, I raced across the canyon creasing your chances for anchoring hits. after my downed quarry. A chukar rocketed The size of your gauge doesn't control the up from the brush only 20 yards ahead of spread of your pattern. The degree of choke Complete for restocking. me. I dumped him. A half dozen scattered handles that end of the business. Modified or 7Ml'.. r Cal·bille .•••.••.$4.75 Rifle ••••.••.$3.75 .43 CAL. Rifle •••••. _ ., •••••••••..••••••$3.95 birds took off from the canyon wall. It took improved cylinder chokes spray out larger two more shots for me to tally the third and patterns, and are quite effective on chukars ...!II final chukar for my day's limit. if you don't try to strain the barrel on birds I didn't hunt chukar partridges any more out of range. Your chukar chances will be that season, but I continued driving down somewhat similar to busting spooky quail the same road, searching for a concentration that refuse to set. of the declining Hungarian partridges. Every If you own one of those neat feather• ~~cia~'l.:.m~4 ~~¥lJRli~i:~~H~ho~~,r:r ~:;; day, I saw more chukars than I did the day I'llre ...... •...... $7.50 per 100 rds. weights common on the market today, take it Loose & assorted 7M:M Mauser amnlO, some nlis• fires. most shoot-200 rds. (with a few extra I hunted for them with plain old leg work. on your chukar partridge trip. After clamor• tllI'own in) _. _ $7.50 special Loose Ammo offer .30-06 $4.50 pel' 100. They apparently didn't come down to water ing over cliffs and crumbling slides for a .:30-40 Kl'ag- $4.~5 pe~ 100. (SpeCial Pl"Ic<,>s on case lots.) or feed at any particular time. I'd see them couple hours, you'll appreciate even a pound early, late, or around mid-day. One thing I knocked off from the weight of old Betsey. ~~~:E~l J~~~~~2 l~~t'l~T, AuLn~esl;r~~~Cj~::tIP~~~ learned for sure: I doubt that we in America ~ age is included with order. And, the birds are heavy, too ... if you ALL COD SHIPPED EXPRESS COLLECT ever hunt a less predictable bird. get em. ~ Dealer inquiries invited. If rains have been scarce enough that only the ravines and draws hold sufficient mois• POTOMAC ARMS ture to sprout new grass, these low sections P. O. Box 550. 329 S. Union St. can be real hotspots. Chukars rank green Alexandria 2. Virginia stuff just about at the top of the menu, and they'll visit grassy dining rooms every morn• .. _------ing. Some hunters locate their quarry by DOUBLES THE KILLING POWER whistling to them, then waiting for answer• ~:a0;-i:/leclf:f ~r::d ing talk. Chukars answer to a reasonable revolver bullet that has been hollow imitation of their call, just as valley or pointed by a GOERG HOLLOW POI NTER, compared to a solid mountain quail do. If you know somebody point bullet. Avail· who raises chukars, you might sit out by able for _45 Colt. 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GUNS AUGUST 19S9 59 GUN RACK as the Sierras. I had found this also to be true wit.h both the .275 H & Hand t.he 7 (Continued from page 12) mm Weatherby. This is a nice point to know. During the fall hunting season, we loaned tion shot, I received the loading dies from these rifles and our handloads to any hunter Fred Huntington of R.c.B.S., and a new who wanted to use them, and I found plenty supply of 160 gr. Sierra BT bullets from who did; they were kept busy. Altogether, Sierra Bullet Company. I went to work on the two rifles accounted for twelve elk, three handloads. I had slugged the barrels on both sheep, one moose, two grizzly bears, and guns, pulled and measured some of the fac• seven deer. All the deer and sheep were tory bullets, and checked case sizes against one shot kills; seven elk were one shot kills .270 cases. I found both barrels to be very and five took extra shots due to poor shot SCHISSEL uniform, no tight or loose spots, and groove placement. On the grizzlies, the bullets went for precision reloading of diameter ran about .2835 on our mike. I right on through, killing them in their tracks RIFLE PISTOL found Remington factory bullets to be what and leaving a good exit hole. In all cases, SHOTSHELL I would term "two diameter"; that is, smaller Model 600 press the bullet function was excellent. ahead of the canalure than behind it. Also, The actual kills were hard to evaluate only $26.95 the factory bullets I miked ran .2825, which over 150 gr., .270 handload kills. If any• • one press loads all 3 • • • is somewhat undersize for .284 caliber. I thing, I would give them a slight edge. The rifle. shotshell. pistol wondered how .284 Sierra bullets would work recoil and resultant 'kick' seemed no • equipped with insert for in these guns. Evidently Remington have different than the .270. No cases of flinch shotshell dies or 7/."_14 made their factory ammunition that way to developed, and all who used the rifles seemed thread rifle dies get a better pressure-velocity ratio for use to shoot them well and easily. • extra leverage with no in the three model guns that take this new I had these guns on four different sheep spring or distortion .280 ammunition: the bolt, the pump, and hunts, the hunts, lasting from six to ten • highly ground and polished the auto-loading rifles. days, in rough, high. mountain country. This steel construction I first used once-fired factory .280 cases on type of hunting produces a lot of slips and Rifle and Pistol my handloads and, due to the excellent re• falls, and a rifle really takes a beating as Reloading Dies sults I had previously had with Hogdons 4831 to the stock finish. This seems to be the only • standard 71s" x 14 thread powder in .270 loads, I used this powder real point of desired improvement in both • guaranteed to be equal or exclusively. Starting at 53 grains, I worked better than any $13,50 die guns. The gun I carried had the stock so available up and then back two grains, finally settling badly marred that I took the liberty of re• • precision sizing on 57.5 grains of 4831 with the 160 gr. moving all the original finish from it. I $8.95 a set Sierra BT. Pressures seemed well within found the wood to be of excellent grade and, Write today for limits; primers were normal and ejection after cleaning, resanding, etc., I gave it a our free catalogue! was very soft. few coats of Linspeed which put it back in I now loaded a number of cases and tried "like new" condition, with the assurance of first for groups, finding both rifles except• no further flaking and chipping. ionally accurate, grouping repeatedly l1A; and Both 'scopes stayed put exceptionally well 114 inches with many groups as low as % and took a lot of rough handling. The of an inch. Bushnell Command Post 'scope proved it's I next fired groups of 165 gr. factory usefulness on two late e\'ening kills. Actual• bullets, at one, two, and three hundred yards. ly, I like cross hairs in preference to any Then, after marking, I fired the 160 gr. other type reticule; but on these two occa• Sierra handloads on the same target. I had sions the post proved it's worth. It should be previously noticed an increase of apparent very good when a hunter switches from hunt• recoil on the hand-loads over the factory ing Alaska sheep, caribou, etc., to coast bear loads and now, with my test, could under• or other game at short. ranges and in brush. st.and why. The handloads printed 1%, inches I really think this rifle is the equal of higher t.han factory loads at 100 yards, and any standard factory rifle of comparative at 300 yards were 5% inches higher. price as to finish, smoothness, reliability, I then sighted in both rifles to print 31,4 and definitely in accuracy. In addition, it inches high at 100 yards, and found both on has the added safety of one of the most at 280 yards. This distance is my favorite rugged of actions. Remington has really sight·in range for actual mountain and ridge• pioneered something worthwhile when they to-ridge shooting with the .270 or the .275 brought out this recessed bolt idea. Shultz & H & H rifles t.hat I use so much. It gives a Larson and Weatherby have both gone to it reasonable point blank game range of around since it's appearance. LEARN GUNSMITHING 325 yards. It is my personal opinion that this .280 Creat opportunities-Operate YOUR OWN I next made tests to find the necessary hold Remington, especially in the model 725 bolt SHOP! Learn easily with Country's most com• at 400 and 500 yards. I loaded a few 160 action, and also where handloading is a plete Master Cunsmithin~ Course. Approved for Korean Vets; low tuition. Write gr. NosIer partition bullets with the same factor, will give the Winchester .270 a real PENNA. GUNSMITH SCHOOL powder load used with the Sierras, and run for the money. As with the .270 Win- 2236-C East Street • Pittsburgh 12, Penna. found these printed into the same patterns (Continued on page 62) FAJEN Stocks for Foreign Rifles FREE CATALOG

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GUNS AUGUST 1959 61 NEW ACC.U.REAM .210 (Continued from page 60) in either the pump or aulo loading rifles. To PRECISION "CHAMBER TYPE" chester, the varmint shooters have a choice do so is, in my opinion. asking for trouble. PRIMER POCKET REAMER of bullet weights from 100 gr. upward. while I do not know the factory's feeling along the game hunter has factory loads of bullets these lines, but I believe, if asked, they SAVES• would say the same thing. VALUABLE up to 165 gr. .30-06 G.1. I do know lots of owners are handloading CARTRIDGE Comparative velocities of factory loads in CA~ES for their pump and autoloaders. Dies must 100 gr. weight are: for the .270, 34·80 fps. • be used for complete sizing of fired cases Does NOT and for the .280, 3570 fps. In this instance, DamaKc I'I'imer each time. This limits the brass to very few Pocket Walls the Remington has a considerable edge. reloads. as the brass must be worked too Again, the 125 gr. .280 gives 3190 against the .30 06 Case C,"OSS • much. Dies made for this, by R.C.B.S. and In ACC·U·IU:;A::\I Seelion .270's 130 gr. at 3140; and at 150 gr. weight ACe-U-REAM i!'i KNURLED for case of handlinlr and others, should not bc used for the .725's. CHROME PLATED for a lifetime of trouble free pCI'. shows the .270 at 2800 and the .280 at 2890, In the .725 we have a bolt with it's camming o'Nt'YCC$3.95 Ship. wt. 6 oz. F.O.B. VAN NUYS or nearly 100 feet faster. DEALF.ns IXQUIRIES INVITED action of better, more forceful ejection, and FHEE LITERATURE ON REQUEST Except for Dominion, in Canada, who load ACC-U-REAM, P.O. Box 2371. Van Nuys, Cailf. also a recessed bolt for safety. a .270 with 160 gr. bullets, no factory load In loading fired shells for the .275, very in this country is available for it. Dominion's little sizing is necessary and for this reason 160 gr. is rated at 2800. Remington puts up to 20 reloadings can be had from a casc. NEW FROM RCBS out a 165 gr. factory load for the .280 rated JUNIOR RELOADING TOOL My first dies from R.C.B.S. were made to at 2820; so all the way, the edge is actually accommodate pumps and autos. After our ONLY $31.50 with the .280_ (with removable head shell hunts were over and we coutinued the test· holder and primer arm) All the factory ammunition data was un· ing of these .280's. I started to reload the old • Designed for greater resistance doubtedly made in 26 inch barrel>. as this .280 cases several times. I also ran low on to spring. is standard practice. My own chronographing .280 brass and made some out of .270 brass. • Optional down or up stroke. is on the Model 725 wilh the standard 22 • Removable shell holder is Using either .280 or .270 brass over five standard equipment. inch barrel. This probably cuts the velocity limes, in full·sizing auto and pump dies, • Price also includes primer arm figure down some feet per inch. Nevertheless, gave case separation_ Also when using thesc with flat spring. I am getting an average of 2820 fps. wit h my At your Dealers or Order Direct-Free Catalog full sizing dies. I found excessive case relativly milu hanuloads and 160 gr. Sierra stretching after each reloading, necessitating GUN &. DIE SHOP BT bullets. With 26 inch barrel, this should constant trimming in length. I measured P. O. Box 729-G bring this bullet up into the 3000 fps. fifty to seventy thousands, in five firings. If RCBS Oroville, California class; actually "ery little under that of Ihis condition is allowed to build up, case, magnum rifles in 7 mm. become hard to chamber due to excessive Now for some loading troubles and some over-length, and build up excess pressurc. THE g1ft--, i suggestions. It is my fceling that. while Fred Huntington of R.C.B.S., using my fired factory ammunition probably should be used "It u.s. Pat.-Canadian pending cases as a sample to chcck by, made me new compler:.~s{O~u~~ with the pump and auto-loading rifles of In-bUI Sh20Swn for standard dies. especially for the .725_ With Remington make. the .725 becomes a far these I have gotten 20 firings per case and StreamAne better long range rifle when hanuloads are believe I can get many more. used. Handloading today is big business. In using these new dies. cases were necked -'lore and more of our hunters load their own sized for only 10 reloads. The head of the ammunition for all their rifles. Money saving die was adjusted to approximately 3/16th" doesn't seem to be an important factor in above the shell holder and, on the eleventh this; it is the cnjoymcnt of doing it your· reload. was set twenty thousandths apart, so "clf and knowing you are gell ing the very as not to change the headspace on the case. hcst performance from your gun_ !'io case stretching was experienced in using Personally, I think the .280 Remington .280 cases or in using .270 cases when prop· is a fine cartridge for all western big game. erly headspaced first. When making cases with the exception of brown bear and polar for the .280 from .270 cases. remember that bear, when used tdth the proper bullet the headspace of a .280 is fifty thousandths weights. But I also think the .275 bolt action of an inch longer than a .270. This is to Remino-ton becomes a bel tel' all·'round big preclude loading a .280 cartridge in a .270. o-ame ~iflc when handloaded to somewhat If this could be done, it would probably higher loads than used by the factory. result in a blown-up gun. So the manipula• Now. a word of warning: Do not ever use tion of making and firing a .270 case in a lo~ding of greater pressure than factory loads (Continued on page 65)

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62 GUNS AUGUST 1959 • • NO\V.~~YE I GUNS IN I! WITH THE NEW NUMRICH 1903 SPRINGFIELD .22 CONVERSION UNIT! DOUBLES USE * DOUBLES UTILITY * INCREASES RE-SALE VALUE * FITS ANV MI903 SPRINGFIELD. Your In minufes you convert your Springfield 1903 into a Springfield and our .22 Conversion unit smooth action, man-sized .22 repeater• • Back to 30.061 Simply slip out barrel liner and .22 bolt. • Smooth action, the same that's won match after .d;;;;::\ match-year after year as the U.S. M-2 Springfield. "I'm extremely proud of our new .22 Spring• • "Short throw" bolt and ordnance steel barrel insert, field Conyers;on Unit, which took oyer 2 comparable to $137.00 "target" .22's. years to d.."elop. It offers 1903 Springfield EACH UNIT consists of precision ground .22 barrel insert, full size short action .22 bolt, new .22 cal. owtJers double utility by pro'J'iJing them trigger guard and magazine. EXTRA magazines $1.75 each. Shipped prepaid in counter display box. with a man-sized, smooolh.working .22 re- • Fits all 1903 Model Springfields in 30-06. peater, comparable to the popular but almost ORDER NOW ONLY • Adjustable headspace plug for perpetual service. extinct U. S. M·2 Springfield .22." $34.50 PPD. • lst time available in over 55 years! Geo. R. Numrich, Jr., President • Inexpensive practice with 22's-pays for itself in DEALERS WRITE a few short weeks. ~LOST~ SHOTGUN BEADS Qui ck 1 y Instalted sight set. Stream· DO GET LOST lined front ramp i & BROKEN with sight. Rea I' Here's a packet of 10 large sight with both bead (standard 4/40 thread) windage & elevation sights for usual price of Just built in. Both in- one, ONLY $1.00 per Packet stalled by simply As found on Colt (Buy 100 (10 packets) & next tightening Alten set Sporting Rifles time a friend shows you his Patterson collection screw. Front .560 ~~y: ft;,~mthIiu;u~~~~:U$ .~gh~~Ol~8t1~i~·ht~>,~e~~~ Ld., irear .775 Ld. 7 Plenty of wall thickness for reaming to all popu. for above, 4/40 ------50c lar sizes. Blued. ready to install. ONLY $2.95 for complete set! GARAND TOOL CARBINE REAR SIGHTS

adjustable for windage " elevation. fit.s all U. S. Car• bines. slides into recei.cr Full 1 1/16" diameter, straight, rifted blank-6 dovetail - 2 minutes to tn.. groove for super accuracy. 27" long_large diameter stall. as iSSUed, $1.8$ ppd. makes adaptahle for most rim or center fire actions. 1 turn in 14" only $6.95 pius 45c post. LYMAN 57A REAR SIGHTS (Chambering for .22 L.R. only, add $1.00) Save almost 500/0--New $4.50 ~8" .44 CALIBER BARREL BLANKS-27" long x ..FOR~"IULA 44·40" NOW USED IN EVERY dia. Used for 44/40 & .44 spec. High alloy U.S. GUN PLANT AND MANY ABROAD. steel; adaptable to Win. '92, 1873, Marlins, pis• NOT $5.00 t::\ NEW HIGH-SPEED FORMULA g-ive~ even tol barrels, etc. $6.95 plus 55¢ postage. t;;:\. ?e.tt~t ~;:~WA~s: prote~~:.esU::go~~fct. t~o~gr~~ comphcated. Deep blue permanent finish. .45 TAPERED BARREL BLANKS-Usable for Bunt• ONLY $1.49 WW Actual.ly penetrates ttae steel. Used by gUll line S. A.'s, mu:nle loaders. New Service 1917's, factorlC' and gunsm Ith. everywhere. Gua"" anteed to be the best cold blue you ever miniature cannon, custom revolver bbls. Rifted, HOODED TARGET FROl-lT SIGHTS used-or your money back. new. $5.35 plus 50¢ pp. Standard dovetail_interchangeable inserts included. 3 GUN SIZE $2.00 ppd. .45 CALIBER PISTOL BARRELS-Brand new, For Hi-power or small bores. From discontinued Target rifle of largest U. S. maker. At a 700/0 INDUSTRIAL GUNSMITH SIZE. straight lengths, 3/4 " x 8", for extra long and/or discount! $1.49 ea. $12.00 per dozen 1 pint 57.50 ppd. fancy barrels. Supplied chambered for .45 auto .50 CALIBER BRONZE BRUSHES-for serious or unchambered, state which $3.95 ea. SPRINGFIELD cleaning. Extra size makes cleaning bores fast or 2 for $6.50. 1903 and easy. For all standard rods. Long lasting. 25 brushes ...•..••...$1.75; 75 brushes $3.00. BREECH OIL & THONG SET-for Springfield, ~ ~ Garand, Enfield & Krag. Fits in butt. Nickeled Take Heed! brass, not plastic. As issued. Excellent. Com•• plete $1.00 ppd. ~omplete with catch, pin" spring. steel, not alumh mum. specify blue or pa'rkerized__$6.20 complete. U.S. CARBINE STOCKS (Guard alone. $3.95, F. Plate alone, $2.25. milled U. S. CARBINE brand new. complete with new follower. $1.00. spring SOC) rc("nll plate, butt plate. screws, front MAGAZINES hamt ... prin~. $4.95. Same. less metal parts. 53.95. (Very light color stocks. fini!';h sanded but not GARAND TRIGGER GUARDS-for replacing war• stained. same prices.) Carbine Hnndg-uards. new. time tin "finger skinning" guards. Milled steel. 82.50 ppd. Write wants for other carbine parb. New $1.75 FREE Water (& dirt & UNIVERSAL STOCK BLANKS REMINGTON MODEL 12 FIRING PINS-Our new tobacco) proof rubber cap or finest Amcl'ican Walnut. preturned, shaped and through 1st sanding, n"ote measurements which per• improved design $2.75 ppd. given w/ea. magazine. mit inletting for both high power and small bore rifles: bolt action shotguns; or cut off and use on SWEAT ON RIFLE RAMPS - Universal sizes. pump shotguns and doubles. 281/2" long, 1 3/4" Complete with gold bead sight. Easy to install. through. 21/R" depth. Special price $2.3S plus • 5 shot capacity-required by law for hunting, fits 35t del. Special Steel Checkered Target Butt·plate No glare ramp surface. All machined. A $5.00 flush with guard-streamlines appearance. Solid w/screws, for use with above, $1.00. value. Only $1.79 ea., 2 for $3.25. machined bottom-not "raw" appearing oversized fold overs that some are selling $2.45 • 15 shot. in ori ginal wrap. only $1.00 ea. or 2 for $1.75 NEW U. S. CARBINE BAYONETS BROKEN • 30 shot. ubanana" clips only $4.95 Dr 2 for $7.95! IJ Bayonet & WANTED! INCOMPLETE GUNS .45 AUTO MAGAZINES-Made 1954 of new sheath _$4.50. steel specs. Superior to any made previously. Bayonet attach· All kinds for remaining usable parts. We buy lots ment for gun of one to one thousand pieces and at quite high New, in orig. wrappings. $1.95 ea. 2 for $3.50. prices. We must have parts and the only way to $1.75. get many of them is by breaking up used guns. ~ S.OLE MANUFACTURERS OF THOMPSON SPECIAL ALL 3 Ship off for our offer. Check airmailed day shipment for $5.35 ppd. I' SUBMACHINE GUNS & ACCESSORIES I, received-merchandise returned prepaid if offer not satisfactory.

GUNS AUGUST 1959 63 THE GUN MARKET

Classified ads 20c per word per insertion including name and address. Pay• (on sale September I) is July 16. Print ad carefully and mail to GUNS Magazine able in advance. Minimum ad 10 words. Closing date for October, 1959, issue 8150 Central Park Blvd., Skokie, Illinois. '

"ANTIQUE GUN Depot" Offers: 45/70 Cartridge Belts FREE "DO-lt·Yourself" Leathercraft Catalog. Tandy BINOCULARS AND SCOPES with large "U.S." solid-brass buckle ... $4.50; Rare Leather Company, Box 7fll-E30. Fort 'Vorth, Texas. Civil 'Var Union Knapsacks ... $6.50; CiYil 'Var tulip• GER:\IA...L~ PRISM Binoculars Direct From Importer. Fold• head reproduction ramrods ... $2.75; Above postpaid. SELL OR TRADE er ll'ree. Edo Strcckmalll1, 3656 Johnson A\-enue. New Also ... Springfield 45/70 Rifles; Civil 'Yar Muskets & York 63. N. Y. Carbines; Kentuckies; \Yinchesters; Loads More. Illustrated PRIVATE COLLECTOR desires to sell or t.rade follow• Gun Cata!ogue 25c. 'Vestchester Trading, G-2478 Arthur ing; Luger. P-38, 32's K-32 Smith. CoLts. ~rausers, 'Vill• COLLECTORS Avenue, Bronx 58, New York. chester 73's, 86's. 92,'s, !)4 & '07 auto, others. Roger Quisenberry. Stuart. Florida. FABULOUS 36 PAGE Fully Illustrated Catalog Every .\[ontl1. Hundreds antique guns, swords. military items. 'VIl~L TRADE '''inchcster )[l!J .30-30 ex., and an 1873 All different in each issue. Order with confidence from ,Vinchester .38-40 oct. bbl. \'g. for Ruger Blackhawk .44 America's Finest Antique Service. Subscription just $1 or .357 magnum (state condition). R. Mayer, 112 Bleecker for 12 catalogs. Korm Flayderman (G)f), 44 'Vest Putnam St.. Jersey City 7. N..1. A\'cnue, Grccilwich, Connecticut. REM. M32 30" BBLS.. SST. SAE, solid rib, all orig. KI'-;W RET~OADI:'\G tools & dies. will take used tools & SE:'\lSATIO~AL RELICS sale-Confederate regimental $400.00-Rem M32 skeet. 26" bbls, SST, SAE, VR, orig. dies in trade; James T. Royds. 137 W. :Kedro Ave., Phila. ('ap Ol"namcnt-$l.OO; ISi5 U.S. canteen--$1.25; U.S. John V. G. $325.00; Ithaca Field grade 28 ga., 28" bbls. M&F. (20). Penna. son semi-auto bayonet-$2.00; British WWII canteen• RAE, cocking Indicators. Ser. # oyer 450,000. VG $1.00. Illustrated List-25c. Brotcke. 7435 Shoshone, Van $150.00; Lefe\'er A Grade 26" bbls skeets 1 & 2. XSST. 'VILL ALLOW $20.00 in trade On any gun that shoots :\"lIYs. California. SAE, BT. orig. Excellent. $225.00 1'\0 Trades. Douglas T. toward a new ){94 \Vinchester carbine $10.95. Jeff. Trader. House, Box 116. LouiSburg. 1'\. C. Pocomoke City. )[aryland. AXTfQUE FIREARMS large illustrated catalog' with periodic supplement 50c. Jackson Arms, 6200 Hillcrest RU~LES. 303 BRITISH Enfields, as issued. good condi• WANTED Aye.. Dallas 5. Texas. tion. $23.00..303 British Mllltary Cartridges. $10.00 per 100. Public Sport Shops, 11 S. 16th Street, Phila• "ANTIQUE & MODEH.N Arms. Accessories at 'Recession' delphia 2. Pa. MIXED LOTS of German WWII military issue smaH arms prices. Sample list. 25c. Ladd Arms, Catskill, N. Y. " ammunition, grenades. booby traps. cannon shells. Any COLT FRON1'IERS, Colt and Remington percussion re• publications German or English that are concerned with GUNS-SWORDS-Knives-Daggers-Flasks. Big list \'oIvers, 'Vin. Lever actions plus many other Modern and small arms, munitions or ordnance equipment of axis na• 25c cein. Ed Howe. Cooper Mills 10, Maine. AntiQue Guns. 'ViII Trade. Stamp for list, Chet Fulmer tions :Kazi Cartridge Collectors Association, 1122 lIuges (GUllS), Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Ave" Santa Rosa. Calif. l2 CE,:\lTURY MILITARY Flails: Complete details upon request. John's, 311 So. 4 St., Harrison, N. J. LEE ENFIEI..D #4 VJC condo 10 shot $14.95. Select .,3.00 COLLECTOR WANTS-tine old Smith & 'Vesson, factory extra. Trim sporter $19.95..303 tar~et ammo 7.aOC. sport• engra\·ed. rerolrcrs; le\'er action type pistols; 22 reyoh'ers ENCRAVINC ing 2.75 box, Bayonet 1.00, new sling 1.95 Tolan's GUIl• in hard rubber boxes; & any ~&\v·s equipped with shop. RFD # I, Hillsdale. l\fich. shoulder stocks. '''ayne Kramer, P.O. Box 271, Great Bend, Kansas. WORLD'S FINEST Engraving. Folder $1.00. E. C. Prud• GRE.:,,rADE I~AU!\'CHING Cartridges, .. star crimp. for homme, \Vard Bldg.. Shreveport, La. lallnchin~ grenades or flares. Rifle M3. $5 per C Carbine MODEL 32 RE)IIXGTOX O/U. 30 Inch barrels, plain, :'.16 $5.75 per 102. Keystone State Arms Co., Box 5011, no rib. full and ful1 or ful1 and modified. double triggers FOR SALE Phila. 11, Pa. preferred. Johnny Johnsen, 1135 R Street, Lincoln, 1'e• braska. ~PECIAL DISCOUNTS; Rifles. I)istols. shotguns. scopes, SMITH & WESSON. 22 Cal.. brand new, model 41. target reloading tools, bullets. powder, wads, shot, primers, Super automatic. $110.00. Fully engraved model. $285.00. Public OLD HANDCUFFS. legirons, thumbfasts. shackles wanted. Pacitic wols. Acme 12 $35.00; Herters 72. $52.00. \Ve Sport Shops. 11 S. 16th Street, Philadelphia 2. Pa. Patterson Smith, 2FL. 26t1 Shepard Ave., East Orange. handle all brands, want M: 1 Carbines. Garands, pistols. N. J. :-lhooters Supplies. UO\lte # 1. Box 178, Appleton 3 \Vise. BRITISH MK. 5 303 Lee-Enfield jungle carbines. Very ~00d-$24.!J5. Excellent-$2fl.95. Immediate deliver)'. }l~ree 'VA::\T US )[AHKED Detcc·th·e Rpecial dwat Johnson 44. G-43 VER¥ GOOD plus extra G'l:l for parts $65; bullet list. AI's Gunroom. 1 Beekman Street. New York, N. Y. M3 carbine or receiver milled for Snil>erscope. Britt Brown. liies .357 and .458 reasonable; Buehler 98 mount and rings Eagle. Wichita. J{ansas. $10. 32 auto dies $10.50; Scintillator sell or trade; all pre• ~irlo~SpJ~5h~~d~~~~~I~~~I~~1;s~IJi~t~rco$~;T~~ue~~;~~~~ paid. R. M. Suriano, 14521 Rayen. l;)anorama City, H\VAXTED-AUTO:\1ATIC Pistols. Rare, odd. unusual. California. 4. California. 'Vant Jap. Spanish pOcket )fodels. Gire fun particulars. Sidney Aberman. 1210 Beechwood, }>ittsburgh 6, Penna." EXC. PAIR French Admirals Royal Guard F. L. Blunder• 10.000 GUXS !!!- S\VORDS - Kenturkies -Colts • hllsses. All brass engrared. bbls 24" Oct and Round, about Lugers - Hunting Guns !! ! Bargain Catalog - 50e COLLECTIXG LUGER pistols exclusively send description 1763. Bargain at $695.00. No C.O.D. H. i\orris, SOO-E. Agramonte's, Yonkers 2-K, N. Y. . and price. A. n. Gudowski. 2809 West 12 St. Cleveland 13, Ohio. Cypress. Burbank. Calif. RPRINGFlELD :W-OG 03-A3 Mn~I~ED guard &. floorplate L. C. S~nTH 12 GA dbl hammerless. s. s. t. auto ejectors. in )[-2 sporter type stock $35.00 A. Bench 620 So. 19th COLT AXD Remington cap and ball re.olvers. Describe eng action fancy wood. Perfect Bore. 95% original finish AYe. Yakima. 'Vn. fully and price. Irwin Kotek, 1370 )Iontcrey, Redlands, trade for long-guns or 22 Pistols or? Birkmeyer, Chetek, Calif. l'.J;;T'l'!i\GILL NAV"'!. fair. $125.00; Merwin-Hulbert, 44, 'Vis. fair $..>0.00; PercussIOn double rifle, good. $75.00. Charles PURDEY OR Boss shotgun. Regular or 0 & U, any SHARPS 1851 BOXLOCK Engraved Presentation. Car• Sdlllmm. 611 'V. O·Connor. Lima, Ohio. gauge. Will pay cash. H. G. )[oore, Box 3003 Ri.ermont Sta.. I~ynchburg. Va. hine made by RObbins & Lawrence. Excellent, One of the ~te.yr First $900.00. Grover Johnson. 104 ~outh Pacific A\"e .. M71 :l48 'VINCHESTER NE\V $fH1.50. 6:5 carbine. Feckcr 1 %" excellent $115.00. Jeff. Trader. Pocomoke 'VAXTED - RE.:\n:-\GTO:\" 513T Target Rifle..F. \V. San Pedro. California. City. :Harylancl. Sicngle. Edgewood. Maryland. nUAND ~E'V Bausch & Lolllb 2~x8. Bah"ar Scope and M:24 HE:'.£. 22 SHOUT; S&\\" 22-32 pl'cwar; 357. Once fired :'I[ount $99.50 prepaid. San Franrisco Gun Exchange. 75 cases; 218 Bee cases; C. H. Stocking, Hutchinson. )Iinn. Fourth Street. San ]j'rancisco :{. California. 'VI~TCIlESTER )(I8!)0 RIFLE. perfect to new condition COLT .44 FRONTIER. complete $39.50 Win. 86 $25.00 only. Hollinga Reel Repair. Orang(' City, Iowa. K·43, sporter sLOck. 5COI>e $85.00. 'Vant .35i Ruger. Garand KY. UU'LE built. fancy curly maple fullstock. your lock &. b~L. authentic A-I worle Pine Hill Trading Post, rifle. sniper rifles. Charles Spielman. Twin Valley. :Minn. Ferdllland. Ind. BEST WIX. '86 Carbine $75 will bu.\'. must be Original. Robert Drake, 7111 Knox ..he.. :0-:0. i'\£pls. 23, Minn. "HISTORIC AC'fUAL photocopies Custers Last Battle. Send 25c (coin) to: Ueprints. 10146 '~. E. Wasco, l·ort· HAXDGUXS-XE\V enlarged 1959 catalog SOc. Robert Frielich. 390 Broome St.. New York 13, N. Y. ALL KIXDS .45 automatic Pistols. Prewar .38 Super. 22• land. Oregall." 45 conversion, ace·s. J. R. Coker. Mitchellville, Tennesee. )rAUSER 98 \VWII ST1l.Il'PED rust pitted receh'er $4.00; N~'V DIXIE Kentucky Rifles: $99.50. Prompt delivery. Tillek catalog 25c. Dixie Gun 'Yorks. Union City. Tenn. TENOR SAXOPHOl':E, trade guns or cash; Kenneth Man• Bolt $2.50. Bolt Stop .:W; tiring pin spring .15. Smires, grum, Harrisburg. Ark. H. D. Columbus. ,:\lew Jerse:r. 201.nm :,\lAVY CANNO:,\' Cartridges deacth'ated $1.00 post~ JlU;-£OL }l"'LASKS, brass. modern. with 36&44 chargers. paid. Joe Puffert. 1808 Baltimore, Cincinnati 25. Ohio. MISCELLANEOUS photo. dealers discounts. J. r\. Dangelzcr. 3056 Frontier RUGER )!ARK-l 22 6" bbI. Muzzel Brake. $45. Excel• 1'1. ,:\lE.. AlbUQuerQue, X. ~1. FINEST LUBRICATING Oil Money Can Buy! Once in a lent: Higgins "88" Swing·out 22 Cal, 6" Revoh'er, $30. Lifetime Purchase from Government surplus. One Quart Oil BIlO\VNTl'\G 0& Y. )'LB., AE. SST, PAD. 12 ga skeet Excellent: S. Krzak, Pawtucket. R. I. and One Pound Grease manufactured by Lehigh Chemical cxc.. $190; J. Hoelle. 2310 X. Highlands. Fort 'Vayne, 'VE BUY. sell or trade guns. write for deal! Bruggen• Products Company for Aircraft Instruments and ).£achine fnd. schmidt's Sporting Goods, Tell City, Ind. Guns. Compares to $40.00 Retail value. Both for Only $3.00 Prepaid. San Francisco Gun Exchange. 75 Fourth Street, .\IILITARY A:\"D Sporting items at Barg-~un Pri('es, List San }Prancisco 3. California. 23c. Garden State Arms, Box :H2. Ridgefield Park, l\"ew CUNSMITHINC .1ersey. LEARN GUXS)flTHIXG. America's oldest, most com• GARAXD .:\Il D SNIPER riMe barrels. tinest accuracy. plete, 2-yr. course. Earn AAS Degree. Recommended bY Govt. made. fit any Garand without headspace reaming. DIME FOR list Handguns. ltiftes and Shotguns. Modern ready to use. only $9.75. Spring'field .22 1\12 Bolt handles, And AntiQue. Lyle Quist, Crookston. Minnesota. leading Firearms Companies. Modern Equipment. Com• petent Instructors. VA appro\·al. Trinidad State Jr. $3.50. Heads. $1.90. Firing pins, $1.79. Postage extra. ~pringtield. RElIII);!GTON MODEL .870 20 gauge like New $65.00 College, Dept. G.:\'L Trinidad. Colorado. Other parts. Garand., Carbine. M1903 45/70. C. B. Barnes., Route 5. Johnson City, Tennessee. .303 Ross. List 15c. Valley Forge Arms Co .. 228 Crooked DRILLIKGS (THltEE Barrelled Guns), relined to Ameri• Lane. King of Prussia. Pa. HENRY, 'VIN.. Colt. Reproduction parts. List lOc. Clln calibers, a specialty. \Ve can handle any Ilractical re~ Gendreau, 924 'V. 5th. Shakopee. )Iinnesota. bore, reline. or barreling job. All work 100% guaranteed. UUN A Spare·Time Greeting Card and Gift Shop at 'Vrite for prices. Snapp's Gunshop. 214 N. 'Vashington home. Show friends samples of our new 1959 Christmas COLT SAA .45 EXC. condition reloading dies components. Royal Oak. l\Iichigan. ' and All Occasion Greeting Cards and Gifts. Take their Elwood Dearth. 245 Brooklyn Axe.. Dayton 17, Ohio. orders and earn to 100 % profit. :-\0 experience necessary. GU);! SCREWS. 6/48 or 8/40 assorted lengths 50c per Costs nothing to try. \Vrite today for samples on appro\·al. ~E\V ~ORMA cases, the best yet. 222 cal. $7.50 per C dozen. Professional 2 flute Taps $1.20 Special hard steel Regal Greetings. Dept. 72. Ferndale. :\fichigan. prepaid, Charles Hibbs, Marengo. Iowa. drills 45c. All postpaid. Send for Catalog 14GC on all Buehler mounts (including New Micro-Dial), Lo\\' Safetss CARRYALL CA:\TVAS Roll with Straps and handle. large :-lAVER d.a..32. AUTO. excellent. $25.00. S&'V .38 spL etc. Maynard Buehler Inc.. Orinda, Calif. . size 54 x 22 inches, for travelers, campers. baseban players. .:\I.P., nickel, $37.50. Wintle. 618 Fourth, Pittston. Penna. etc. Gov't Surplus. hrand new. value $12.50-Special $2.25 BLOCKSTOCKIXG. REBROWN & Reblue. Repair all each. Public Sport Shops. 11 S. 16th Street. Philadelphia FOIl. SALE Ithaca single No over 400000. 1 pr Texas horns )[ake Shotguns & Rifles. Frank LeFerer & Sons Inc 2. Pa. !)3 in(;11 spread. Emile Hea. Burnside, 11Iinois. Custom Gunsmiths. Frankfort, New York. . ., HAl\"D SIGHTING Levels. improved new model, many CUNS & AMMUNITION GE~ERAL GUXS':\[lTHING-Repairing. r('bluing. con• uses. for laying drains. ditches. foundations, grading. con• verSIOn work, parts made. InQuiries imitcd. Bald Rock touring, layIng out of fences, piers. roads and gardens. UIUTISH 1\1K. 5 303 Lee-Enfield jungle carbines. Very Gun :';hop. Berry Creck. Calif. Fully guaranteed. $2.50 Postpaid. Public Sport Shops, ~ood-$24.95. ExceBent-$29.95. British Mk. 4 :'03 Lee• 11 S. 16th Street. Philadelphia 2. Pa. ~ntie~d sniper ritle with original sniper scopes. Very good• BLUBLAK REBLUI);!G-special for 2 months-Bolt ac• lion Guns $S.00-20th Century Guns, Norwich, N. Y. 30-06 SPRIXGFIELD OR Enfield Rifle Stock. as issued. *44.Dl.l. Excellent-$4D.95. U.S. 30-06 Enfield ritles. Good brand new. $2.95 each. AS·03 SpringfiE:ld rifle barrels. cal. -~29.95. Ex..cellent-;$34.50. U. S. 45~70 Springfield rifles, INDIAN RELICS 30-06, brand new, Gov't. Surplus, 24-inch. completely Good-·$39.9

64 GUNS AUGUST 1959 THE GUN MARKET (Continued from page 62) .280 must include lengthening the case. If PEEltLESS HAl\DCUFFS, $13.95; lightweights, $16.45. Darbies. $9.95. l.eg Irons. $12.95. Iron Claw. :1'0.95. Twist• some means of helping hold the case back ers. Guide Chains. $1.50. Transport ('hains. Fetters. Leather restraints. Collector's specialties. Thomas Ferrick, Box 12. against the bolt when the firing pin hits :-;ewburrport. Mass. the primer is not used, then wrong headspace BRASS. O~E·Pieee Cleauing Hod with brush. Oo\"'t Sur• plus. tor 45 cal. re\'oh-ers and automatic pistols. $1.00 each will result and case failure will occur. While postpaid. Public Sport Shops. 11 S. 16th Street, Phila• I found that first expanding the .270 cases delphia 2. Pa. to .30 caliber, then necking down to .280, SHOOTER'S BIBLE. 1959. over 500 pages, Immediate ~hipment. llhnnral.cd )Iodern Guns and Acressories. $2.00. allows me to make cases reasonably well, I 1959 Gun Digest $2.95 Postpaid. Public Sport Shops, 11 ~. 16th Street. Phila. 2. Pa. would like to suggest that .280 cases be ~{.S.A. EAR DEFE:'\DERS tor the shooter. Brand new. used entirely. This also gives you proper U,S. Gov't. Surplus. Value $3.00-Whlle They Last $1.00 pair Postpaid. Public Sport Shops, 11 S. 16th Street. marking and easy sorting of loads and cases, Philadelphia 2. Pa. if you own both the .280 and .270 caliber "IXSPECTIOX AIUIS": Bore·Lite with Luclte head ... 88c plus 12c postage. 25 lot ... 68c earh <$17.00) post• guns. paid. \Vestchestcr Trading. G-2478 Arthur A\'enue. Bronx In ordering dies, be sure to specify whether 58. New York. for bolt action or pump or autoloaders. Do PEDOMETER. BRA~D new by Nt'w Haven \Vatch Co. ~[easures the distance you walk. \Vhile They Last $5.95. not try to use the dies made for the bolt Public Sport Shops. 11 S. 16th Street. Philadelphia 2. Pa. action for the pump or autoloader. Cases ~BA."ER llU'LE SLINGS. leather. Army Surplus. 1% inch. Brand ~lew. $2.00 each. Public Sport Shops, 11 S. 16th Street, made with these dies will function very hard Philadelphia 2. Pa. with the pump, and may fail altogether in WorlJ's 'Finest Sleeping OVEn. 5000 RIli'LES. Shotguns. Handguns. Modern. An• tique listed Monthly. Sample Copy 25c (Coins). Shotgun the autoloader. PROVEN I COMPARE! ~ews, Columbus, Nebraska. I am not, by any means, through using Rated the finest by Order Without Risk an7 RIFLE SCABBARD. \Vestern Boots. Clothing. Saddles. Free Catalog. Silver Spur. Box 1785-B-46, li"ort \Vorth. these two fine rifles. I am keeping them over expedition leaders, Eddie BAUER sleepin!: Texas. for spring bear hunting, and as our average guides, mountaineers, bags-singles, twin sets, mummies, station wagon "'VINE:!\fAKING:' $1.00. "STOUT. Beer. Ale Brewing," of ten to twelve bear each spring usually foresters. authorities bags, Compare with oth• $1.00. Illustrated. Eaton Books. Box 1242-N. Santa Rosa. includes two to five grizzly, I feel I will everywhere. READ California. WHAT OTHERS SAY. ers of aimilar quality, 11 FREE! 12 PAGE photographic bargain catalog. Dept. have more data on them by the end of next Made exclusively in you do not agree you 18-A8 Central Camera Company. 230 S. \Vabash Ave., save about 1/3 and that Chicago. Illinois. hunting season. I would also like to add our own factory under that these two fine rifles will undoubtably U. S. Patenta. Sold ours are finer in every CUSTOM HOLSTERS and Kits. See Our '59 Catalog @ way. return for prompt .25c. Leathers by Reid, 2230 Comegrs Ave., Scranton 9, go in our gun rack as regular using ~ direct to you only• Penna. 'never through dealers fuU refund ..• including ~ CANNO~ BARRELS If!%. ,. Long-Other Sizes-Send 25c guns, in our business. ••• never under other shipping costs for intormation..1. I>. \Vhitaker. 2415 Bridge Ave.. Daven• b~ands. both ways. port. Iowa. OLD FAITHFUL YAR'\[ENT calls: Fine. coarse or THE OLD MAN'S GUN medium. hand made. $2.50 ea. pp.; dealers inquire. 'Ed. Ford. :Uineral \Yells. Tex. (Continued from page 33) ALASKA FACTS! Booklet on lIuntlng-, trapping. home• crisp night air was shattered by the report steads. by 30 year resident. $1.00 to Uobert H. Redding. 207 B St., Anchorage. Alaska. of the old gun. Grandma wasn't fooling! The ":\UKIATUHE BRASS barreled cannons. l:'nion and Con• inlruder began to run the way he had come, federate. Free catalog. Dealers wanted. Gatling gun parts, accessories. Toppe!. \Voodcliff Lake.1\"..1." and grandma cut loose three more times, nOI "COLT ~~TREAlnIS" faithfully describes. prOfusely il• to hil him but to emphasize her order. The lustrates (540 plates) two·fisted Americana. Any book• man, whoever he was, didn't even bother to store. Free brochure: Senen Books. Santa Ana. Calif. open the gate. He hit the gate, did a sort E:\[BLE)1S EMBROIDERED for your Club. 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GUNS AUGUST 1959 65 trying to locate the "jackel'S." The old rifle Many are once-tame animals that have been was a comfort, those nights; it gave me left at the abandoned farms. They are no courage. I do not know when or if it may longer tame. In the last 12 months, at least have saved my life by just being in my five does have been killed by dogs. Many hand, but I'm sure its presence would have does have twins, so that means ten or more concerned anyone who thought of assaulting deer lost, counting the mothers along with me. I do know that I passed one night the fawns they would have borne. within a few feet of a poacher who had I found a doe last week with her side already been in and out of prison a few torn out. She was dead, young, and fat with times. I didn't catch him, but he was caught young. I trailed the "sign"-dog tracks the next day, with an illegal deer, by the alongside the tracks the doe had made; tracks District Ranger, and he told us how close of a hound with one toe missing on his front we had been to him. foot. A few days later, a young buck bound• We moved later to a mountain top in ed across in front of illy pickup truck, pur• Boone County, West Virginia. I taught sued by two large hounds. I checker their school there and was also Explorer Advisor prints. One of them was missing a toe on for the local Boy Scout Troop. I spent his right front foot. After three hours of many nights camping, while my wife stayed tracking, I called on the old man's gun alone except for two youngsters. It may again. It did the job; did it well. have been safe enough, but loneliness seemed What other adventures I will have with POWDERS to creep up at night from the "hollers" 600 the old man's gun, I can't foresee; but I'm Dupont, Hetcules Hodgdon and Alean feet below our cabin. The wind always blew barely 34 years old, and the gun, as guns go, up there, and every crack and crevice of the is younger. STOCK THIS NEW 1959 house seemed to be auditioning for Metro• I was watching television the other night. B&M HANDBOOK politan Opera. Almost every week, we'd hear The station interrupted with a "Conelrad" Will srimulate sales the "Runners" (moonshiners) screeching signal for 30 seconds. Something was said Has latest calibers fully around the horseshoe bends as they made about "in case of attack." I looked up at illustrated with how-ro• the old man's gun on the wall. It's comfort• do phoros and instruc• their runs to the towns on the other side of tions. Shows how to cut the mountain; and if it wasn't them, you ing. It hangs there-ready, always ready to shooting COSts 50 to could hear the hounds running a fox, or a serve its master-and its master's son. That's 85 %. Retail $1.50 bobcat, or possibly a bear. One night, I the way I hope it will always be, with ~ TOOLS & EQUIPMENT frightened off a bear that was trying to get me-and with the Old Man's Gun. l~ All leading lines including B&M, Lyman, Pacific, into the henhouse ... the old rifle was a RCBS, CH, Ideal, Acme. Thalson, Redding, NOW! HUNT AT \ ppd. Wilson, Forseer, Fitz, Jaeger. etc. Scopes. sights, comfort to my wife-and to me-on this $3 50 mounes, slings, scales, moulds, handbooks, etc. mountain top. DUSK AND TWILIGHT 2.50 for Send for FREE FOLDER I don't suppose the old rifle ever was small size needed as much as it is now. I am Super• MORE-LITE BELDING and MULL intendent of a State Park and Game Refuge 4------'1 104 N. FOURTH ST., PHILIPSBURG, PA. of 1396 acres, surrounded by thousands of POWER LENS acres of forests and deserted farms. We have AMAZING NEW TELESCOPE-SIGHT ATTACHMENT some poaching going on all year, most of it Slips on in seconds! Increases visibility in poor light. THE GUNS THAT outside the Refuge area. Never-the-less, I Gives deep shadow penetration with greatly increased target detail. Does not change zero setting. Fits all spend many nights on a ridge top, looking scopes BUT MUST STATE MAKE AND MODEL OF 5COPE for "Spotlighters." During the winter months, WHEN ORDERING. Send cosh, check or M.O. for 53.50 I spend the greater part of every week in and your More-lite Power lens rushed postpaid; only WON THE WEST 2.50 for small size to fit 22 scopes with 3/ " tube. 4 the forests. patroling, checking tips, study• Must be delighted or money back. ORDER TODAY! ing my deer herd and its enemies. NORMAN-FORD, Inc. We have many wild dogs in this country. Box 928·GA· "Fine Optics Since 1941" • TYLER, TEXAS PARTING SHOTS

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