... $ those features qpt -- r----- g--both today and' tvmoww. +$ hit-ability &gape it's a 12 gaufi w&t shooting is effortl&, even after with ecision balance to give new aliveness to your swing d pointing accuracy... ouft -cushioned recoil with heavy loads... Side loading that's faster, sm easier-for eitl..,. hand, even with gloves... Shoots all 2%" shells without adjustment ... above all It's made to perform and last like a Browning. Three distinct 12 gauge models Weights as li ht as 6 pounds For every kind of shotgunning Heft it . Swing it . Load tt . Shoot it You'll distinguish the difference Automatic shotgun from Èl27 you BROWNING 6 subject to chingc wilhout not+ Write for new 28-page catalog showing all Browning guns in color, 9 ~ special chapters on shooting-practid information for gun enthuaiaab. Catalog Browning Arms Co., Dept. 81, St. Louis 3, & .. , >;.,,-,,.. ... I,.,.. .;:,,, MONG the rifles pre- served here at the WachoviaA Historical Society Museum at Old Salem, near Winston- Salem, N. C., are a dozen early American pieces which show the work or influence of Christoph Vogler. These, I think, are my "favorites," rather than one particular firearm. You may say with some reason that this is a choice naturally to be expected of a man con- nected with museums as I am, but I think the position is defensible. Vogler was an ingeni- ous craftsman who be- gan his apprenticeship in 1775. He made many By DR. FRANK ALBRIGHT improvements in manu- Director of Museums, Old Salem facture, even in those handicraft days, such as making an attach- ment to the village grinding mill to borehis rifles. Christoph Vogler was the patriarch of gunsmiths, and his touch can be seen in the work of many of his pupils, IL S. Butner, Hermann Buttner, William Dittmar, George Foltz, and others who were his apprentices or who worked with him. Vogler built guns in the days when the Long Rifle was supreme .$ among American sporting weapons, and his arms are highly prized today. MY CONTROLLED MUSHROOM1 FAVORITE it built info Sierra Buffets When your buck jumps out of the GUN brush, one shot must make the kill. For successful hunting, load with SIERRA bullets-uniformly made in weight, size and shape to give maximum accuracy and killing By RALPH A. FISHER, Sr. power. RIZONA'S outdoor writer and licensed guide, BE A WISE HUNTER-sight in ARalph A. Fisher, ST., of Pay- with Sierra bullets before your hunt- son, picks the famous Savage, ing trip. Model 99 lever action rifle in the .300 caliber as his favorite gun. It has, he says, plenty FREE.. power to stop bear or elk as Write today for hunted in our western states; Sierra's exciting enough stopping power with illustrated brochure, lighter loads to drop White- "An Introduction to tails or blacktailed deer, as Handlooding." well as the desert Mule deer; Dept. AGIO and it has enough reach to down the antelope or javelina. Arizona, says the guide, has more big game species to offer the hunter than any other state. Fisher has just had, "The Guide To Javelina," pub- lished by The Naylor Com- pany of San Antonio, Texas. The scope shown is a Bush- nell 4X Scope-Chief on Stith Mounts. The rifle has the 660 W. WH~TTIERBLVD~WHITTIER, CALIF. modern 'thumbsafe' safety. TALK THE COVER The Hi-Standard Sentinel brings Guns EPORT ON LEGISLATION:-In hear- more than merely added color ings which dragged on for two days, to the Autumn woods. It can be, FINEST IN THE FIREARMS FIELD theR Firearms Section of the Treasury's Alco- also, a new hunting weapon. And Ed McGivern, maestro of hol & Tobacco Tax Unit met a snowballing the sixgun, says, "They've made storm of protest against their revised regula- a better revolver than ever they tions governing commerce in pistols and pistol know." ammo. From all over the nation firearms en- thusiasts collected to express their disap- NOVEMBER, 1957 VOL Ill. NO. 11-35 proval. The Treasury-revised regulations, a thinly disguised stab at national registration, IN THIS ISSUE developed angry condemnation from leaders of over 350 clubs, groups, associations, and journals in the shooting field, representing big game a conservatively over 10,000,000 shooters. Only . HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST DEER RIFLE.. ...........Paul A. Matthews 15 three men could be found to speak in ap- GUNS FOR DANGEROUS GAME.. .................... ..Jose J. Fenykovi 18 proval of the regulations! As was pointed out HOT CALIBERS FOR HIGH CLIMBERS.. .............. ..Alfred J. Goerg 30 at the hearings, the importance of such rules is not what good administrators zuiU do with them, but what bad men can do with them. shotgunning . The crushing blow to the Treasury's stand THE STORY OF THE CUTTS COMP.. .... .Brig. Gen. Richard M. Cutts, Jr. 24 came on Sunday, August 25, when the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice convened at Camp Perry to discuss equipment ... these rules. A resolution condemning them GO LIGHT AND HUNT HAPPY.. , Clifton Camp 21 wm passed, and Army Secretary Milton com- municated to Treasury Secretary Anderson the Defense Department's strong opposition collector a a a to the regulations and their effect. (Civilian THE .30-06: WORLD'S MOST VERSATILE CARTRIDGE.. .Col. B. R. Lewis 27 fun saves the Army millions of dollars in training.) When GUMSlearned of this con- handguns ference between the two cabinet members, . we spoke to the assistant Director of Civilian REVOLVERS FOR FUN AND FUR. Marksmanship, Col. EUis Lea, and were asked to introduce this information at the Treasury departments a a . hearings. In signing off om phone talk, we 4 said "Well, it looks as if this thing is licked. MY FAVORITE GUN.. ....... ..Dr. Frank Albright and Ralph A. Fisher, Sr. TRIGGER TALK ...................................................... 5 Next step: repeal the National F'irearmg GUNS IN THE NEWS. ................................................ 6 Act." And, in agreement, Cd. Lea said, CROSSFIRE ........................................................... "Check!" This view of the Army, on the im- SHOOTING NEWS ................................................... portance of individual firepower and civilian ARMS LIBRARY ..................................................... II markamamhip training, ia shared by top-levd ELMER KEITH SAYS.. ................................................. 12 policy-making personnel. The appreciation of SHOPPING WITH GUNS.. ............................................ 60 automatic weapons' importance is directly recognized by these men. A new national George E. von Rosen Art Arkush shooting association, the American Automatic PUBLISHER E. B. Mann EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Weapons Association, 317 Houseman Bldg., EDITOR Grand Rapids, Michigan, has been formed to Sidne Barker William B. Edwards Fred McLaren study the problems of sport-shooting and ART DIRECTOR TECHNICAL EDITOR ART EDITOR recreational training programs involving law- ful age of automatic weapons. Unofficially, Louis Satz Marvin Ginn M. Ma nusson Carlos Thut during the course of the hearings, this or- CIRCULATION ADVERTISING SALES ADvERflsING PRODUCTION ganization obtained the blessing of many topA men in the Defense Department and the Ma* Editorial Advisory Board COL. GEORGE M. CHINN CAROLA MANDEL STUART MILLER ALFRED 6. GOERG rine Corps. With progress in modem legis- ROGER MARSH ROY G. DUNLAP VAL FORGETT KENT BELLAH lation this "blming" may become official. Meanwhile, firearms enthusiasts must be- come far more active politically than they have ever been since 1776. The strength of the gun enthusiast is through his ¥shootin club and association memberships. These groups are awake to the immediate need for REPRESENTATIVES: NEW YORK Eu one L. Pollock 40 East 40th St. New York 16 N. Y. Murray Hill 5-6760 MIDWEST Jack ~roiol360 N. ~ichi~ahChicago Ill k~anklin2-2488' CALI~RNIA political action. To help shooters, we 'are The Ren Averill company Ron Averill 232 N. Lake St. frasidena Calif. ~Y'an1-9291; and making available reprints of 'Why Not Save Gordon Cole, 74 Bret ~arteTerrace, Sah Francisco II, calif., PROSP~~&390^. A PRO-Gun Law?" from the September, 1957, GUNS,ten for a dollar, postpaid. We have mailed out hundreds to legislators, law en- forcement, youth group executives all over the country. You should do the same, con- tacting your elected representatives. Thig k not an election year-there ie plenty of time to learn now how your representatives think, l~~foreTOU go to the polls. a . - - 5. READING TIME 8 - 2 A a I /to compare In the last two years, hunters have killed 180 deer on Little Rocky Island in Lake Su- perior. And since the island covers only two square miles, that's an average kill of 45 deer per square mile per year, probably some kind of record. "And," reports the Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin, "there are still deer there." **  Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito has a weakness for practical jokes. Not so long ago, on a hunting trip, he tied a pair of deer's antlers on a cow and turned it loose in the brush. Then he excitedly pointed out the animal to a companion and courteously allowed him to take the first shot. For days after the inci- THIS ENERGY Chart Proves dent, Tito would phone his hunting friend and when the latter answered, Tito would PRICE Weatherby Magnums just say, "Mooooo."*** $250*00 .ARE  Another story making the rounds: Worn -AMERICA'S M0ai PQWERFUL RIFLES and up. and haggard, a hunter staggered into a Far North trading post. A crowd gathered around Leader in its field - the Weatherby Weatherby Magnum because they him and he was asked what happened. "My Magnum stands alone for its un- know its ultra-high velocity kills with sled dogs kept dying along the trail, we'd paralleled killing power, flat trajec- one shot even though no vital spot been without food for days and finally there - was only me and the dog leader left," the tory and accuracy.