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SEPTEMBER 1959
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By JEANNE CARMEN
Starlet & Model
WOLFF-engraved cap-and-ball revolver is the most treasured item
in my antique weapon collection. Like
all original Wolff revolvers, the hammer is in the shape of a wolf's head.
The revolver is an Army Colt .44,
Model 1860. Although it is 14:14" long
and weighs 2 lbs. 11 oz., I have found
it to be a very accurate weapon and
have been able to fire six rounds in
four seconds. Instead of photographing this revolver, which generally
looks very much like a quarter million
other 1860 Colts produced (though
few are as nice as mine), I chose to
illustrate my fine European snap·
haunce flintlock pistol-probably an
Italian pistol of about 1650. It pre·
dates the later "true" flintlock and is
just as accurate as any revolver being
made today. At the Los Angeles Police
range last May, I chalked up six out
of seven bullseyes with the snaphaunce
before several rather amazed rookie
patrolmen.
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I CE being stationed in
Europe I have had the
opportunity to add some in·
teresting firearms to my collection. I have about twenty long
guns, including two of the
French "Charleville Model
1763" muskets that were the
patterns for our first Spring.
field muskets and such as
were used by Americans in
our Revolution. I have a
couple of Flobert breech loading "saloon" rifles, and an
interesting poacher's gun. But'
one which I currently rate as
"fayorite" is the heavy dragoon pistol I hold in the photo. Proper identification of
the gun was difficult. I obtained the gun for a small sum near my base at Troyes,
France. Finally I discovered it to be one of the detonating-lock Augustin pistols,
which were made for the German states and Austria about 1840 but were not
successful. Most were converted, as this one has been, to cap lock. The new breech
plug is dated "1850." Instead of the special part to hold the Augustin detonator
tube in place, a curious safety to hold the hammer off the capped nipple has been
fitted. To fire the gun, you fold the safety limb forward, against tension of a spring.
Whittier. Calif
GUNS
SEPTEMBER 1959
S
TEADY CUIVS READERS will remember a couple of years back when we
published Clyde Howell's narrative of how
he became a skillful "trick" shooter. Howell,
a farmer by profession, is an enthusiastic
gunner and Firearms Editor of a mid-western
newspaper. His principal problems in learning "fast and fancy" pistol handling were
two: high cost of ammunition (for aerial
targets) and a bullet in the leg from a mistake in fast draw_ In view of the lauer,
readers will understand Howell's great enthusiasm for new developments in C02 "guns"
and for the instructional materials now available to students of fast draw_ Howell tells
you on page 14 how to achieve "Fast DrawNo Bloodshed_"
Shotgunners get their innings with a
shortic, on page 21-a simple rig for easy
trap practice at home_ Also for scauergunners is "New Quirks For Quail," the lore of
hunting the brown buzz-bombers in today's
changed cover and conditions_
Two off-beat items in this issue: for pistolmen, new notes on defense sidearms, plus
piet ure sequence of a novel, surprise, coatpocket draw_ Th is one may not be fast as
leather slapping, but it guarantees the advanl age of slIrprise.
Second off-beat is Bob Kindley's thoroughly
researched article on Single Shot Riflestheir care and feeding. Recent publication
by Morrow of the second of Jim Grant's detailed books on single shot riHes makes the
subject of more than minor interest in a
magazine. Kindley digs into the background
of these once-top model in American firearms, still sought by knowing shooters for
their precise accuracy today.
Hunters will relish this section of Bert
Popowski's informative survey of trophies
and where to get them, page 31. His facts
will save you money, if you wisely apply his
recommendations on where to hunt. Popowski, resident of that God's Country of Wyoming, is a staff contributor of the N.R.A.
Last but not least is Know Your Lawmalcers. But this month we have substituted
a statement of policy by a major police officers' association. Knowing your Lawmakers
is important, but you should also know your
Law Enforcers. The best laws can be cormpted by inadequate or inept enforcers, and
even the worst laws can be modified by
understanding administration by intelligent
enforcers. You should save this page and
use it when talking with legislators and/or
police officers. Mail it to your Congressman.
Only you, through influencing your elected
legislative representative, can make laws. If
you find existing laws restricting firearms
unrealisl ic or unfairly administered, you have
only yourself to blame. Often, by so simple
a tool as a letter to your Congressman, you
can get action.
Don't wClste your Congressman's time with
long-winded tirades about guns and gun
laws. He hears enough wind in sessions of
the Congress. But simple statements of YOlir
wi;hes and opinions will help him to do the
job of representing you that he "volun- ~
teered" to do.
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SEPTEMBER 1959
THE COVER
Lives there a fast-draw sport
with soul so dead, who never
to himself hath said, "I am the
best, the fastest gun?" No less
than six, to our knowledge, lay
claim to the title. Dee Wool em
backs his claim with trophies
as well as with authenticated
on-the-ti mer-records.
SEPT., 1959
IN
VOL. V, NO.9-57
THIS ISSUE
rifle
FAST DRAW - NO BLOODSHED
.............. Clyde G. Howell 14
PISTOLS FOR PLAINSCLOTHESMEN. ............... '" .. Allan Skelton 28
guns americana . . .
THE SINGLE-SHOT RIFLE SAGA.
KNOW YOUR LAWMAKERS: SPECIAL BULLETIN.
.. Robert J. Kindley 18
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NEW QUIRKS FOR QUAIL.
.......... George McKenna 26
TROPHIES: WHERE AND HOW
... Bert Popowski 31
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TWO GUNS: COST PRICE, $14,000
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• Gallup, New Mexico. Indian Uprising? ...
In Gallup an 88 Winchester, a hunting knife,
and a Navajo rug were reported stolen from
a residence, police said.
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• Cleveland, O. When an armed thug and
his companion walked into a food store at
2539 Woodland Ave. owner Sam Melluso, 56,
was waiting for them. Melluso pointed his
own gun at the two men and ordered them
out. They turned and trotted off. A year ago
Sam was robbed of $300 in his store. Since
then he has kept his gun handy.
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• Radium, Colo. Henry Hinton runs a ranch
in these parts but spends most of his time
making guns, especially heavy muzzle-loading
rifles like those used by the early settlers.
Mr. Hinton spends so much time on the old
f1int-and-ball muskets that no one could
afford to buy one, so he occasionally gives
one to a friend.
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• Los Angeles, Calif. At a Hollywood party,
Adolph, a Boxer dog, came dressed as Wyatt
Earp, replete with frontier hat, tin badge
· .• and a holstered pistol at his side.
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.Phoenix, Ariz. It turns out you can spend
your time under water and still be no land·
lubber with the rifle. The Arizona Rifle
Association Officers Trophy was won by a
team from Submarine Flotilla 1, a Navy out·
fit based in San Diego.·
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• Wells, Maine. It wasn't always healthy to
be handy with a rifle. A fellow named George
Burroughs was executed for witchcraft here
in 1692 because he could support a heavy
musket at arm's length by sticking a finger
into its muzzle.
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+Ardmore, Okla. Fifty years ago Buck Garrett Carter County sheriff, left a .45 revolver
with Polk Anderson, then a bank president.
The weapon is still on display at the bank.
It was last fired Nov. 11, 19l8-in celebration of the first World War Armistice.
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+Fort Smith, Ark. Pretty Helen Lommasson is proof that you can be adept around
the house and still know how to take care
of yourself. The high-school teen-ager, whose
skills include embroidery, cooking, and dressmaking, and who was recently selected as
the nation's "Young Homemaker of 1956,"
is also a crack shot. She is president of the
town's Girls Club Rifle Club.
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+ New York City. Robert Frielich, Manhattan gun dealer, paid $5100 for a rifle
cartridge-and it was an empty one at that.
But no ordinary one . . . it was hand made
84 years ago by the famed rifle maker, Oliver
Winchester.
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SEPTEMBER 1959
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ACK IN 1926, '27, and '28, Harold Croft
and I, and later 1. D. O'Meara, had
several single action Colt .44 and .45 caliber
guns made up embodying our ideas of what a
modern single action should be. R. F. Sedgley, Neal Houchins, and O'Meara did the
work. We flat·topped the frames, similar to
the old Bisley and S.A. Army flat-top target
models, but we extended the frame farther
to the rear and made the flat top much
thicker and heavier. The top of the hammer
was cut off so it would go under the extended
rear end of the frame. The front sight was
fitted in a band encircling the barrel, and
we used some of the very first ramp-type
front sights giving maximum sight radius. I
designed a new base pin catch similar to the
lever latch on the old Model 1874 Sharps
rifle.
Croft designed his No.3 grip-a combination of the Bisley back strap cut off and
changed in angle to be more like the S.A.
Army back strap but coming up higher on
the frame. This was used with a regular S.A.
Army trigger guard. I further changed and
improved the design in our No. 5 grip with
more flare at the extreme lower corner of
the back strap. Even then, we agreed that
the best grip ever, especially for handling the
recoil of very heavy loads, was the grip and
straps on the old 2nd model Colt Dragoon.
However, Dragoons were valuable property
even then, and we could not wreck one to
get the stocks and straps; so we did the best
we could with the Bisley and S.A. Army
back strap and trigger guard.
The base pin was improved and a largeheaded one made up that could be easily
grasped with the fingers, ending the need
for pliers to pull out the base pin. Croft
designed a main spring similar in shape to
the Colt double action main spring, and the
culmination of our efforts was my No. 5
S.A. Colt.
We tried to get the Colt company inter.
csted enough to bring them out: but without
success. No.5 was made up and left plain
purposely until I had thoroughly tested it.
That winter of 1927, I killed 42 great horned
owls with that gun alone while running a
coyote line. It was so much superior to all
other single actions I had used that I sent
it back to Croft for engraving and ivory
stocks. I believe it is stilI the finest S.A.
Colt in existence.
The late Chauncey Thomas and Ashley
Haines and I corresponded a great deal at
the time on ways to improve the old S.A.
Colt. My friend, Gus Peret, went even
further. He designed and had made up a
swing-out cylinder, simultaneous-ejection single action, which he stilI has. Our combined
efforts, however failed to impress the Colt
company, even though I offered them the
loan of all my flat top guns as models, with
all their improvements. At the same time, I
worked out the design of my .44 Special
buJIet (Ideal 10 . 429431 in 250 grain), and
perfected heavy loads, first with 12 grains of
No. 80 powder and later with 2400 when
that powder came on the market in the '30s.
During the Annual N.R.A. Convention in
Jacksonville, Fla., in August, 1951, Bill
Ruger made a trip to Idaho in his little
Jaguar car, stopping at Salmon, Idaho, to see
me and Judge Don Martin. I had joined the
N.R.A. technical staff in January of 1950,
and was away at the convention at the time,
but Judge Martin obtained my keys, showed
Bill Ruger all my flat-topped S.A. CoILs, and
urged him, as I had been doing by letter, to
bring out a modern single action revolver.
ot so long thereafter, Bill brought out his
famous Single Six. I criticized the flat-top
frame, the forward position of the rear sight,
and the lack of a proper loading gate and
extractor button, and urged him to redesign
the gun and bring it out in a larger version
for the .44 Special with the improvements
(Continued on page 61)
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SEPTEMBER 19S9
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For less than 6¢ a shot, the Marlin Micro-Groove
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Researcher Offers Advice
Your articles on riflemen in Civil Defense
which I have thoroughly enjoyed, have bee~
an inspiration to me. It was a pleasure to
learn that there are others who realize the
importance and need for "Home Guard"
movements.
I have been doing part-time research in
Guerrilla Warfare at the Washington, D. c.,
Central Library and also the Congressional
Library. Like you, I feel that it is important
for the public to know as much about this
type of warfare as possible. I am interested
in passing on to you and any of your readers
information regarding Guerrilla Warfare,
which I have acquired during my research.
William C. Ekeland
300S Erie St. S.£.,
Washington 20, D. C.
Mississippi Law
Circassian Walnut Is Here
I like your magazine fine. As a student of
fire arms I find GU:"iS one of the most valuable texts I can obtain.
About the statutes of Mississippi: First,
the Federal Government is doing and has
been doing just what Mississippi is accused
of except they want all fire arms cataloged
by the dealer before sale. Second, I live in
Mississippi and I own any fire arms I want
and can afford. I ask no one and register
them with no one, as do all other gun owners in this state.
The law referred to in "Crossfire" a few
months ago was put in force quite a few
years ago when the high powered rifle put
fear in the hearts of all; but now it has
been out voted by popular demand.
James H. Luper
Crystal Springs, Miss.
Your fine article on "Gunstoek Beauties on
Parade" in the January GU:-IS Magazine made
very excellent reading. Your treatment on
wood selection and wood talk in general
quite authoritative indeed.
Please accept Flaig's sincere thanks for
mention of French blanks. May I here tactfully point out, however, the renowned Cireassian wood you regretted as not heing
available is available here at Flaig's. Its
source, however, is from Turkey and it is
identical to the Russian variety in every reo
spect, including quality.
Our "ad" shows this regularly in GUNS and
other publications.
Flaig's Lodge
Millvale, Pa.
He Likes Us-Like Us Not
Classes in Hunter Safety and Rifle :'IIarksmanship are being sponsored by the Overland Park Optimist club and Mission Township Police Departmcnt, Kansas City, Mo.
Classcs meet at 4 :30 p. m. cvcry Saturday;
are conducted by expert instructors.
Guns are furnished for those who do not
own a gun, and free ammunition is furnished
for boys of high school age, by the Overland
Park Optimist club. The meeting place is at
7331 West 80th St.. Overland Park, Kansas,
near both Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas
City, Kansas.
The project is promoted and sponsored for
the purpose of insuring a greater degree of
Safety in handling guns, and in an effort to
save lives on hll!lting trips. Too often the
accidental firing of guns has fatal results,
and such grief is the result from a lack of
"know-how" in handling and firing a gun.
M. M. Neal
Kansas City, Mo.
Recently you have concentrated on articles
on hunting and sport shooting as opposed to
the military and collecting aspect of firearms.
I don't like it.
It seems you've drifted away from the
military. I have a few of your back issues
and they are literally crammed with info.
ow, instead of having a cover bedecked
with the latest and meanest for the soldier
you have a cowpoke fooling 'with a lever
action. Shades of Argosy!
The Mossberg is a darn good weapon-if
equipped with good sights. I installed a
Lyman 57 MS on the receiver and a Lyman
17 up front. Lyman makes a special ramp
to adapt the single set-screw of the Mossberg
to a standard dovetail. If one takes out the
reticule in front and the small peep in the
back, it becomes a good sporting sight. With
the reticule and small peep the sight combination bccomes one of target caliber.
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I am in approval of an armed populace.
In my opinion one of the best weapons for
survival would be a Johnson semi-auto.
Why? Because of the .30-06 fodder and
independence from clips and packets and
chargers tha t are necessary for the Carbine
and the M1. I've seen a few Johnson's in
the hands of the Cuban rebels-'scope mounted too. Johnson takes a scope well, and with
its free barrel it should be one of the more
accurate semi-autos.
Arne Eastman Jr.
New York 21, New York
P.S. T like your mag anyway-even if you
don't print this.
It's printed. And we'll print articles on
military and collector guns too, as space and
quality of material permit.-Editors
Why Don't More Clubs Do It?
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GUNS
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THE
BIG
NAME
FOR
BIG
GAME
IS
WINCHESTER
URSUS AMERICANUS
World's finest barrels
Boring, turning, straightening and riAing a barrel are
operations for highly skilled
technicians. For proof of
Winchester's skill, consider
the fact that since the Model
70 was introduced in 1936, it
has won the 1,000 yard
Wimbledon event at Camp
Perry more than all others
put together. The· same skill
goes into all Winchester
barrels.
Winchester craftsmen
Dedicated craftsmen, to whom
pride of product is everything,
perform all of the many opera·
tions necessary to make as
fine a firearm as a Winchester.
Their devotion to detail is
your assurance that a
Winchester is the finest fire.1rms investment you can make.
Each is built to last.
Ever since a Winchester first crossed
the plains over the arm of a pioneer,
men of spirit and action have looked
to Winchester for the finest in fire·
arms. Today, almost a century after
the founding of Winchester, imagination, unequaled know-how and superb
craftsmanship keep Winchester in the
hands of knowledgeable hunters and
shooters. With the tremendously broad
selection offered by Winchester, you
can match game and gun exactly with
the complete assurance that your rifle
is a carefully joined, precision instrumcnt, not a cobbled· up, sporterized
vcrsion of a military cast·off. For example, the Model 88, a clip-loading
Icver action with the shortest stroke
lever in the big game field, chambered
for 243, 308, 358 calibers, is only
$135.50* and is perfect for left·
handed shooters. Left, is the world
famous Model 70, available in ten
calibers, including the hot new 338
Winchester Magnum, and a variety
of styles - .from $129.95*. Right, is
the famous Model 94,
popular for over half a
century, price $79.95*.
It.
All available on the
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Winchester Time Pay.
ment Plan..
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You have a choice of Silvertip or
Softpoint in both Winchester
Super Speed and Western Super-X
brands. Both are designed for careful, controlled expansion that puts
the final, conclusive sock of power
deep in the vitals, right where
you want it. Sustained flat trajectory and optimum power make
both Silvertip and Softpoint real
game-getting loads. The choice is
up to you. You can't go wrong.
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TRADEMARK
TRADEMARK
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Machined parts
Winchester could turn out big
game rifles faster if they substituted cheaper stamped parts
for the carefully machined
parts (even trigger guards)
now used. But the strength
and durability associated with
Winchester wouldn't be there.
Another
reason
why
Winchester is your best buy.
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and non-corrosive
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Symbol of shooting safety
The small "WP" you see
stamped on Winchester big
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that the chrome-molybdenum
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OLIN
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NEW
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4,
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Four times National Fast Draw Champion, Dee Woolem cocks
gun, knocks it back out of holster into firing position, without
ever letting muzzle point at shooter's leg. Best time: .12 of a
second. At right, Woolem demonstrates one of the fancy
spins and twirls that make up his popular stage repertoire.
14
GUNS
SEPTEMBER 1959
A FAST DRAW EXPERT MEETS THE CHAMPION. REPORTS ON THE STYLE
-AND THE GUN-THAT MAKES FAST DRAW THE SAfEST GUN SPORT
I
'M A GUNSLl GER. It's a word some of us dislike,
maybe because it has a reckless, slap-dash sound
that we feel is beneath the dignity of a legitimate and
hard-won manual skill-but if that's the word you
want to use to describe a quick draw addict, I'm one.
I've been one for more than 25 years; a product, not
of TV "adult westerns" but of Zane Grey, William
McLeod Raine, and the tales of the old time gunmen,
fictional and factual. (Even then, there was feeling
about words and their shades of meaning. "Gunmen,"
"gunfighter," meant different things to different people,
and the wrong usage was resented.)
My boyhood heroes were Lassiter, Buckey Duane,
Hopalong Cassidy, and Wyatt Earp and his ilk-not
the present pros of triggernometry like Hugh O'Brian,
Clint Walker, Kelo Henderson, or even Arvo Ojala and
Rodd Redwing and Joe Bodrie and Dee Woolem who
have done so much to spark our present fast draw
boom. I was more than just a reading worshipper;
early on, I wanted to imitate my heroes. I started
practicing quick draw long, long before it was a
national pastime; and I came up the hard way, expending thousands upon thousands of rounds of ammunition, making all the blunders common to the
experimentation of a man who is "going it alone." I
even made the worst blunder of all, the one that still
happens and is giving quick draw a bad name unnecessarily. I earned what the cynics are calling "the badge
of the gunslinger," the right leg limp, by shooting myself in the leg with a .45 caliber bullet. Actually, this is
the badge of the bad gunslinger. No man need wear it,
or even risk it. I know better now; but things are
much different for today's gunslingers than they were
when I earned my badge for bad gun manners. Now,
there's no excuse for accidents.
Twenty-five years ago there were no how-to articles,
no books, no clubs, no instructors in the art of the fast
draw. The only references were those in the book and
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SEPTEMBER 1959
. Border shift, spins, rolls, are colorful,
help develop manual dexterity and timing.
By CL YOE G. HOWEll
15
Safe for fast draw since
gas blast alone will stop
timer, new Crosman Single
Action' Six in .22 Cal. is
low priced but accurate.
New and old get together, compare gas
operated Hahn "45" with original Colt's Navy.
National Fast Draw Championship trophy won
by Woolem in '55 has since been defended
against over 200 "fast guns" in competition.
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magazine "westerns:" "He stood tense, bending forward a
little. both arms bent, his hands hooked like a hawk's
claws." Many of those stories were written by men who
had never fired a gun, much less qualified as fast draw
experts.
Today's fast draw addicts can learn much faster, much
easier, much cheaper than I did-and without acquiring
that Hopalong Cassidy limp. Today, you can learn fast
draw under the tutelage (personal or printed) of expertsand real experts they are; men who have devoted both
scientific study and rigorous practice to the development of
this new-old art. You can begin with holsters perfected for
quick draw, with refinements never even dreamed of when
I started. You can watch and consult with gun wizards like
Dee Woolem, four times National Fast Draw Pistol Shooting Champion, and other professionals. You can read articles like this and others, published and to come in this
magazine. You can study that handgunner's textbook, "Fast
and Fancy Revolver Shooting," by the late Ed McGivern.
You can join fast draw clubs where the experience of other
shooters will help you. And-with the new Hahn "45" gas
operated.single action BB revolver, or with the even newer
Crosman gas-operated .22 Single Action Six, you can
practice for pennies instead of spending hard-earned dollars
as I did. All this, with absolute safety thrown in. You don't
even need to use pellets, because these guns "fire" even when
empty, with force enough in the gas charge alone to stop a
timer.
.Shooting is fun, and for my money, fast draw is tops in
shooting fun. But let's face it-fast draw, like most other
human efforts in which speed is a prime factor, is dangerous if done wrong. And live ball ammunition is wrong!
Practicing fast draw with ball ammunition is as stupid as
going into a wringer head first. It can cost yOll, and it can
damage all shooting sports, penalize all shooters, by stirring
up bad publicity and adverse legislation. Don't do it! You
can be just as fast, you can prove speed and accuracy by
GUNS
SEPTEMBER 1959
Classic among demonstrations of gun speed is drop-draw-and-hit trick enacted (but without
trickery) by Woolem in high-speed picture sequence by Detroit "News" photographer using
a Fastex camera. Gun fires from lip of holster; blast of blank knocks cup left and downward.
topping timers or marking targets, with blanks or wax
bullets or best and safest of all with the Hahn gas operated
revolver (with or without pellets) -and you can learn
faster because you can work without the fear handicap.
There are three objectives in quick draw shooting: recreation or fun shooting, proficiency as a tool in law enforcement, and a career as a quick draw instructor or exhibition
shooter. Only a few can attain the blinding speed, the
prestidigitator's skill needed for instruction and exhibition
work; most of us have jobs of our own to do. Quick draw
can be a priceless asset to a police officer, but-quick draw
alone won't get him a job on any police force. It might
have in the 1880s, but not now. For every man interested
in quick draw for these reasons, a thousand are fascinated
with it because it's fun-and fun it is.
I spent years working out a system of my own for a
really fast yet safe draw. I experimented with many kinds
of belts and holsters, some that tipped the butt of the gun
forward, some that held the gun vertical, a few that slanted
the barrel forward and the butt back. I tried dozens of
positions for gun height, from waist to knee. I cut holsters
and belts to weird shapes until I ran out of leather; then
bought new ones and started over. I "tuned up" my single
actions, first one way and then another. I learned a little
here and a little there, and some of what I learned for sure
was wrong, as I found out later; but what I did gain over
the years was a certain degree of manual dexterity that
helps with each experiment with a new method.
One thing I did stick to was a determination to play it
safe, and my version of safety was-eock after the gun
leaves the holster and slip-hammer the first shot so that the
finger can be kept away from the trigger. I still believe in
this method, in spite of things learned recently and which
I'll discuss later. It's safe if you stick strictly to the rule as
written; and it's fast, as I proved.
Cocking with the draw was what got me the bullet wound
in my leg. I was using a lower holster than I use now, and
GUNS
SEPTEMBER 1959
I was trying for speed beyond that which I could handle
safely. Result: I cocked sooner than I intended, the gun
failed to clear leather, my thumb slipped, and the gun fired.
When hammer-slapping came into vogue among the
Hollywood gunmen, I branded it as doubly dangerous. This
involves slapping the hammer back to cock while the gun is
still holstered, before even starting to lift it out of the
leather. With a low holster, it means that your entire draw
-lifting the gun, pointing it, finding the trigger-must be
done with the gun at full cock. I still say, this is asking for
trouble. I still say it, though I know now what I didn't
realize at first-that the danger lies in the low gun position
and the necessity of lifting it out of the holster, not necessarily in the method of cocking. Again, more of this later.
A few weeks ago, I got the enviable assignment of interviewing Dee Woolem, four times National Fast Draw
champ since 1955, now the traveling representative for
Crosman Arms Company, makers of the new Hahn "45"
gas operated single action BB revolver and the Crosman
gas operated .22 Single Action Six. I knew Dee was
blindingly fast; he had to be, to win those four national
titles in open competition. I knew too that he was a hammer-slapper. Frankly, that last fact nearly scared me off of
the assignment. Fanatic as I am about safety, I had a chip
on my shoulder about hammer-slapping and I was afraid
Dee and I would arrive at nothing but disagreement.
I did some research on Dee before I started, and what I
learned was impressive. At the Erie County Sheriff's Department range, Buffalo, ew York, with Dave Sheldon,
designer of a robot-type timer action as witness, Dee recorded a draw·and-fire mark (including reaction time) of
.37 of a second. He scored another .37 second shot at
Frontier City, Oklahoma, against a Mythen timer. And for
draw time only, not counting reaction time, Dee holds a
record of .12 of a second, set during Helldorado Days, Las
Vegas, evada, in June, 1951, in national competition
before 10,000 witnesses.
(Continned on page 40)
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TH·ESINGLE~SHOT
Kindley holds Haenel-built German
Schuetzen rifle of hammerless Aydt
design. Sculptured cheekrest stock
is typical of these 200-meter rifles.
T
By ROBERT J. KINDLEY
18
HE AMERICAN SINGLE SHOT RIFLE was once the finest firearm
made in this country. Today, the old timers still have their following
among shooters who know. Yearly on the old range at Warsaw, Indiana,
the enthusiasts of the American Single Shot Rifle Association gather to
fire offhand and from rest for accuracy at the difficult "German Ring" tar·
gets, 100 to 200 yards, scope sights. Mention Ballard, Stevens "Ideal",
Sharps-Borchardt or Remington-Hepburn to this group of modern gun
nuts and watch the ears perk up. Unfortunately, most younger shooters
know little about these fine old rifles. But experienced shooters argue
GUNS
SEPTEMBER 19S9
RIFLE SAGA
Ballard .32-40 iron sighted
groups inside 9/lb"xI5/lb".
Single shot loading procedure starts with bullet
dropped into rifling. Slug is best unsized, just
cated with soft, tacky mixture. Then kinked
is used (right) to push bullet into start of
being
lubriseater
rifling.
that, had the development continued after World War I,
competition between the single shots and today's bench
rest rifles would have been close indeed in the field of
accuracy.
American single shot rifles reached their peak in design
and use during a bygone period when we were indeed a
"nation of riflemen." Shooting was the national sport, as
popular as baseball is today. Accuracy was the ideal;
velocity or rapidity of fire of little consequence. The man
with a single shot rifle liked to shoot all day, keeping
ten shots inside a 21j2" circle, from rest, at 200 yards.
This demand for accuracy produced some of the most
famous shooters and rifle-makers our game has known.
The history of the single shot rifle is sprinkled with
names synonomous with accuracy. The old maestro Harry
Pope, George Schoyen, A. O. Zischang, George Schalk,
and A. W. Peterson were barrel-makers topped by none.
A single shot rifle barreled by any of these craftsmen is
a prized item among gun nuts today. Dr. Hudson and
F. J. Rabbeth, both excellent shots, were renowned for
their excellent Gast bullet designs. E. A. Leopold experimented extensively with bullet lubricants, a very important
item for cast bullet accuracy. Dr. Franklin W. Mann, one
of our most noted ballistics experts, was a single shot
advocate.
Along with the single shot rifle were developed some of
GUNS
SEPTEMBER 1959
With bullet seated to avoid jumping to the
rifling, case loaded with FFg black powder
and card wad on top is then inserted.
America's most outstanding marksmen. Chris Westergaard,
Arthur Hubalek, Col. Tewes, C. W. Rowland, and an old
German named Katzenellenbogen, were all famous offhand
champions. The ability of these men to hit the 25-ring
consistently at 200 yards is still remembered today. Remember, the standard target had a 12" bull with a 25-ring
only 11/2 " across. Each succeeding ring was 11/3" larger.
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but minimum vertical, compared to Ballard ,32-40 group.
For Schuetzen fun, take off-hand Swiss butt single shot
rifle (Ballard) plus tools, bullets, powder. Shoot standing.
Thus the 24-ring was 3", the 23-ring 4%". All of the
above named shooters could score 220 or better on this
target, shooting ten shots offhand.
You can't talk about single shot rifles without men·
tioning the "Schuetzen" game. This type of shooting was
one of the greatest single factors contributing to the de·
velopment of the single shot. About 1850 a group of
Swiss immigrants near St. Louis at Highland, Illinois,
organized a sharp-shooter's society called the Helvetia
Schuetzen Gesellshaft. One of the first shooting clubs in
the country, it became one of the most renowned and
as The Highland Sharpshooter's Society is still in exist·
ence today. One of its greatest honors is that the first
National Offhand Tournament was held on its range.
The Schuetzen game flourished. From 1850 until the
first War this typ~ of shooting became a national past
time. At the start of World War I, national sentiment
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against anything German was responsible for its decline.
The entire theme was German; so much so that German
was the shooters' language. About the only native thing
about this type of shooting was the rifle itself. The
majority of Schuetzen men chose one of the fine single
shots designed specifically for this type of shooting. A
National Schuetzenfest was held biennially and turned out
to be quite some affair.
Any Schuetzenfest, whether a Sunday shoot or a National
Tournament, was a real shindig. Most ranges were located
so that Mom and the family could enjoy a picnic while
the old man shot. Prizes were sensible. A good shot
could more than make expenses, often taking home enough
for the next week's groceries. The 3-shot Honor Match,
the 3-shot Center, and the lO-shot King Match were the
most popular. The 3-shot Honor Match was limited to
exactly 3 shots. The highest possible score in this match
was 75, which called for three consecutive shots into the
1%" 25-ring. This was at 200 yards offhand. Top prize
for this match was usually $100.00-the price of a rifleand competition in any shoot was high.
The 3-shot Center Match was shot on a nine inch diameter black cardboard. The cards were kept until the
end of the match, when they were all measured. The man
with a shot nearest dead center was the winner of the
grand prize. Any shooter who placed all three of his
shots on the 9" disc received three dollars.
The lO-shot King Match was the highlight of any
Schuetzenfest. The competition was rough and the winner
was awarded the most coveted honor: he was named
King of the Shoot-"Schuetzenkoenig."
Rifles for the Schuetzen game had practically no restrictions. Weight, caliber, and barrel length were matters
of personal choice. The only rule was that a man be able
to stand on his "hind laigs" and shoot it. Average weight
of a Schuetzen rifle was about 15 pounds, although many
tipped the scales at 20 pounds or more. Single or double
set trio-gers were standard equipment, as was the deep.
pronged "Swiss" but plate. Many riflemen used a palm
rest, which allowed the shooter to rest his left elbow on
his hip while shooting offhand.
Sights on Schuetzen rifles were the best iron sights that
were available. For many years the use of telescopic sights
was not allowed. Receiver rear sights were made with
vernier screw adjustments for elevation, which allowed a
very fine adjustment. Front sights were of the globe type
with a pin-head bead on a paper-thin blade (so that about
all that was in the sight picture was the bead itself.)
Some shooters used an aperture front. Front sights were
often adjustable for windage; many had spirit levels to
prevent a shooter from canting his rifle.
Most popular calibers were the .32-40 and the .38-55.
Both were accurate but, due to lesser recoil, the .32-10
was favored. Some of the matches called for 100 shots
in a day, and recoil figured heavily in the final score.
Most modern shooters are familiar with a few of the
old single shot actions; the Winchester Hi·Wall in particular. This is probably due to the fact that many fine
varminters have been built around this particular single
shot. But there were many makes of single shot rifles.
Fine match rifles included the Ballard, Stevens 44 and
44V2, Sharps and Sharps-Borchardt, Maynard, Wurfflein,
the Frank Wesson rifles, Winchester Hi-Wall, the Reming.
ton rolling block, Remington.
(Continued on page 42)
GUNS
SEPTEMBER 1959
One-Man Practice
Sharpens Shotgun Skill
By PHILLIP D. RUSH
Walking into line which is attached to trap catch, shooter can gain the
effect of a "surprise" throw without needing to have a helper at the trap.
Foot release set-up is variation: rope is tied to peg, tripped by shooter's foot.
YOU DON'T NEED A THROWER TO
PRACTICE FOR SKEET, TRAP, OR FIELD
GUNNING. A LENGTH OF ROPE DOES IT
INGLE-HANDED SHOTGUN PRACTICE is difficult.
Holding a trap in one hand and flinging the clay, then
swinging up to bust it, is not a really satisfactory way of
improving your shotgun shooting. The rifle shooter can
operate his rig all by himself. When the season opens, his
shooting eye is "in" and game falls or scores rise because
of his ability to practice, if necessary, without helpers. But
the shotgunner usually has to dig up some help to operate a
trap, or must have some affiliation with a gun club, to
practice on clay pigeons. It isn't always easy to find a
friend whose time matches yours when you want to shoot a
few rounds, and a gun club may be miles away, too far to
reach in the short daylight afterwork hours.
One solution is to become a do-it-yourself trapshooter, by
operating your own trap with a thirty or forty foot line. A
trap will cost only about twenty-five dollars and will last a
lifetime. The base should be mounted on a post, and the
trap proper may be removed in seconds when not being
used. We won't even figure the cost of the rope; you can
annex part of your wife's clothesline. The plastic type is
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With Marlin Model 90 at the ready, 5hotgunner can
release birds with a slight motion of forend hand.
excellent. Targets and shells are the only other expense, and
quite a savings may be realized if you do your own reloading.
Now you are all set up to shoot without assistance from
anyone, providing your shooting area isn't too far away.
The writer has found three basic methods for tripping the
release catch on the trap. These might be termed "walk
into," "walk away from," and (Continued on page 66)
21
WHITE HUNTER SAYS AFRICA'S MOST
DANGEROUS BEAST IS-THE ONE
THAT COMES CLOSEST TO KILLING YOU! FACE ANY ONE OF THEM, AND
hen Be Charges,
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•
SEPTEMBER 1959
Magnificent African black-maned lion is first prize for sportsmen on
safari, who find placid beast can spring to charge in 30' leaps in seconds.
You Hit-Or Else!
By WILLIAM M. JENVEY
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ANY YEARS AGO, old professional hunter T. Murray Smith told me, "One learns something new on
every safari; if not about game, then about people." He
was right. I have found that one can add an "est" to nearly
every safari, too. Either about the safari itself, or about
the clients or the game, a safari will be remembered as the
longest, the shortest, the best, the worst, the closest, the
hardest, the easiest-or something. These stories are about
"the closest" ... the close calls with death.
Every professional hunter has been asked what animal
he thinks is most dangerous: elephant, rhino, lion, leopard,
or buffalo? With most, the title probably goes to the animal
which came nearest to "getting" the hunter concerned. The
old pre-historic looking rhino comes well down on most
professionals' list. It has the weight and speed, but lacks in
brain power. But, and here is a point: given the right
circumstance he can be as deadly as any! The above mentioned Capt. Murray Smith can testify to this, and did. Two
incidents moved old jaru from low to high on Smith's list.
GUNS
SEPTEMBER 1959
The first incident happened down in the Yaida Valley in
the days when only the bold ventured over the valley rim
and faced the appalling, boulder strewn track. Few safaris
got down without bursting at least a tyre, and none got
back up without trouble. Since then, a decent road has been
made, and bush clearing for tsetse fly -control has altered
the valley's appearance; but in those days it was truly wild.
It was from a camp in this valley that Murray led his client
up to a rhino as it fed along between clumps of thick bush.
He worked his way carefully to one side and, when a clear
shot presented itself, told the sportsman to shoot. On the
shot, the rhino took off, snorting loudly and bearing to the
right around a thick clump of bush which hid it from view.
Murray, then an agile 65 or so, dived around the other
side of the bush, expecting to wham it as it went past. But
things didn't work out as planned. The rhino was diving
around the bush too, real close, hugging the bush like
Murray. was. They met head on. Murray had guessed
wrong once, and he guessed wrong again as he frantically
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Old faru moved to top of white hunter's "danger" list
when rhino unpredictably drove through brush, instead of
circling it, put battered hunter Murray in hospital.
Pre-dawn safari camp is idyllic. peaceful, but day may
hold high adventure or sudden death in tangle with game.
dug his heels in. There was a grass covered pig-hole in
front of him and over he went! A shot from his .416, fired
somehow as he fell, did not stop the rhino's horn from
ripping his thigh open. Before more damage was done,
the client, who was up to the occasion, killed the hostile
animal.
Murray never attached much importance to this incident.
After all, a pig-hole could be anywhere and rhinos are so
clottish they may decide to run in any direction when hit.
But the second time, the rhino was not even hit.
In the thick bush country near Voi, on the track of a
bull elephant, Murray, his client, gunbearers, and tracker
passed up-wind of a cow rhino and her calf. First indication of trouble was the sound of crashing brush, then the
snorting of the cow as she came straight up wind. The
native boys disappeared. Quickly, he positioned his client
behind a handy tree, himself moving behind a small but
thickly leafed bush. The sound was very close now and to
Murray it appeared that the rhinos would storm past along
a game trail a few feet away. The calf did, but not the cow.
She bored clean through Murray's bush! ... Next day, in
hospital for his second stretch within a couple of months,
Murray stated, "I'll shoot the next bloody rhino that just
looks at me!"
In the right (or wrong) circumstances, I think anyone
of these dangerous animals can be just as dangerous as
another. Because of its nature and speed, when wounded,
the leopard is the one most likely to reach the hunter who is
following up. One may get clawed badly, but is less likely
to be killed, simply because of the average leopard's lack of
weight. A lion is a different proposition. Although a bigger
target, he has to be stopped when he charges, because, if
his charge gets home, one clout from a paw is enough. It
was a lion which gave me my biggest fright.
When learning this business of professional hunting, one
has to decide fairly early what type of heavy rifle to use,
magazine or double. I decided after witnessing an incident
in which my mentor, Murray, figured. On that safari were
two young Americans in their (Continued on page 52)
Plain Westley Richards (top) or engraved India
Royal Holland & Holland differ in finish but both
throw massive .470-.465 slugs to put down African heavy game with knockout one-two punches.
London's John Rigby, "riflemakers to H.M. the
Queen," build light .275's for deer stalking
and heavy double .470s (shown) for Africa.
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•
1959
SEPTEMBER
25
By GEORGE McKENNA
Q
Moving into cover after Bob White are hunters who find
altered farming methods have driven quail to the brush.
UAIL HUNTERS are complaining that the
birds are gone. "It ain't like the old days,"
they tell. "The birds just ain't there. Either a disease
has killed them off, or imported birds like the
coturnix and those ground-running scaled ones have
driven the native 'bob-whites' off."
They're all wrong. The quail are still here; it's
just that they have changed their habits and old
hunting methods won't work any more.
It used to be that quail hunting was a com·
paratively easy-going sport for open country. When
I was a boy, we hunted with big boned dogs that
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SEPTEMBER 1959
worked well ahead of the guns, and almost all of
the shots were made in the open. After a covey rise,
the singles would go down close enough so we
could mark where they landed and go right after
them.
All of this is changed now, and I think the change
is because farming methods have become so different. Quail like weed seeds. Extensive checks by
game biologists have proved that ragweed seeds
make up a major item in the quail's diet during the
hunting season. Along with weeds to eat, they
need good heavy cover in which they can hide from
their enemies.
Both the heavy cover and weeds used to be found
on small farms where mules and human muscles
provided the 'power for farm work. Thick hedgerows were common, and crops were often left standing after they ripened, giving birds both food and
cover until the farmer could get around to his
harvest.
low, the average farm is much larger, the old
fences and hedgerows have been ripped out, and
the farm field may reach a mile or more between
covers. Pastures are clipped close; tilled land is
cultivated by tractors; weeds are kept out; crops
are harvested as soon as they are ripe by machines
which leave nothing in the fields except stubble.
Often large amounts of shattered grain are left,
but no amount of grain can keep quail on the land
if there isn't enough cover.
A few landowners who like to hunt, or who
realize the value of birds in controlling insects, try
to remedy the situation by making plantings of
cover crops along the edges of cultivated fields and
in clearings. If they are left standing all winter, and
if the cover is really adequate, these plantings can
be a big help in keeping quail around. As yet, however, they have been made on much too small a
scale to have any great effect on the quail population.
This means that the man who wants to hunt quail
will simply have to forget about the farming country
where he used to find birds, and go where they have
gone. That's what I did last season.
The first areas I hunted were the tracts of mature
woodland near farming sections. I found a few quail
here, but not enough. I think those quail were only
there by chance, perhaps fleeing from fields that
had just been stripped bare of cover, but not finding
enough of food in the woods to make their new
home.
The only places I did find the birds in lar<Ye
quantities were the blocks of woodland that h;d
been timbered anywhere from two to about ei<Yht
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years before. This land is a wild tan<Yle of weeds
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brush, honeysuckles, laurel, and wild azaleas. Ragweed comes up fast here, and grows thick enou<Yh
to keep quail fat and happy all through the wint;r.
Ragweed mixed with brush and briars and small
trees coming back after the logping offer an ideal
GUNS
SEPTEMBER 1959
Discontinued doubles plus AyA, Beretta, Franchi imports are
most popular quail guns in Virginia and upper South today.
combination of food and cover. These were the only places,
with the exception of managed game preserves, where I found
quail plentiful.
Hunting here is completely different from hunting in open
farmland. This land is rough, badly eroded, chopped with
deep gulleys. Stumps are hidden under the honeysuckle vines,
and there are piles of brittle top wood from the cut trees and a
tight growth of brush and scrub trees and briars through which
dogs and hunters must fight. Leather faced brush pants are
almost essential; and the wide-ranging dog that used to be so
good out in the open fields won't help you here. Visibility is
cut to well under SO yards in most places, and to a matter of
only a few feet in many. 0 matter (Continued on page 37)
End of perfect day! Author studied many guns, found slide
Remingtons (M31 shown), Ithacas, among best U.S. quail guns.
27
Plainclothes firepower is brace of snubbed Smith Chiefs Specials packing total of ten .38
Special Hi-Speed hollow points for concealability plus good close-in stopping power.
Pistols for Plainclothesmen
FINDING BEST COMPROMISE BETWEEN POWER, DEPENDABILITY, AND
SIZE GOVERNS CHOICE OF PLAINCLOTHES GUN
By ALLAN SKELTON
Photos By H. A. Tuck
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Off-duty officer needs small-butt pocket revolver
which packs punch. Skelton carries nickel Colt .38.
28
HE average police officer, arriving home after a day of
pounding the pavement, is ready and eager to shuck off
his heavy Sam Brown and service revolver. When he dons
mufti for a trip to the supermarket, he ponders with some·
thing less than relish the regulation which requires him
to tote his artillery. His big revolver is a tough item to
pack when the object is to keep it out of view. The long
handle of the arm, perhaps made larger with hand-filling
grips, is as conspicuous as rat sign in the sugar bowl,
whether the iron is stuffed in the waistband, slung under
the arm, or attached to the pants belt in a cutaway holster.
And dropping the big persuader into the side pants pocket
leaves the cop in danger of finding his trousers at half·
mast, to say nothing of the likelihood of ripping the pocket
out with the hammer spur, if a quick draw is attempted.
GUNS
SEPTEMBER 19S9
Small town officers who are nut bound by departmental
rules to carry weapons at all times, still face the same
problem, for different reasons. Recognized by one and all
as "the law," the law enforcement officer of a small town
or community is frequently called to duty from church,
the movies, or anywhere he may be found. Not knowing
what he will face on such a call, it is imperative that this
officer be armed, and a bulky, eye.catching gunbelt is not
desirable.
And, let's face it, police in plain clothes are not the
only ones to whom ways to carry a gun concealed are of
interest. The prevalence of hitch·hike murder and kidnapping, of gang muggings and unprovoked and un predict.
able attacks, are making many good cItIzens, men and
women alike, consider the desirability of "carrying the
difference." Here again, a large holstered gun draws suspicion, even police interference.
There is nothing wrong, per se, with the concealed weapon; the wrong depends on the intent of the wearer. In
some states and many municipalities, laws make it "wrong"
to carry any concealed weapon; but weapons for self
defense have been carried, concealed or otherwise, since
time immemorial. Since small firearms came into existence,
they have been so used. Stagecoach riders in England
and the Colonies looked with favor on large caliber, single
shot, flintlock pistols, often carried in pairs. The invention
Hideaway battery includes author's nickel Colt Detective Special .38 which won't rust in pocket. Steel Chief's (left). and
Airweight (top). Bodyguard with cut guard and Herrett grips, and M & P 2" with Pachmayr adaptor, are good pocket guns.
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SEPTEMBER 19S9
29
Old time belly gun for maximum effect in minimum packages is Frontier Colt .45 with barrel taken off frame.
COAT POCKET DRAW
Pocket pistol is
drawn from inside
jacket in surprise
move. Coat is first
pulled open by
hand.••
1
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And muzzle of revolver
grasped, and pulled out into waiting right palm . . .
30
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of the percussion cap meant more dependable ignition for
the pocket gun (flintlocks were prone to twist in the pocket
and spill the priming charge), and the famous Deringer
pocket guns came into being. Those wanting more accuracy than afforded by these stubby pocket cannons sometimes carried a pair of percussion duellers, .40 to .50
caliber, inserted in the armholes of their waistcoat in much
the same position as the later-developed shoulder holster.
The Civil War found military men on both sides packing
small caliber rimfire Smith & Wesson revolvers as "insur- .
ance." Although lacking in power, this little spitfire was
a sought after article, owing to its use of self-contained
ammunition.
Every lover of firearms history is familiar with the stillpopular .41 Remington over-under and its dwarf cartridges.
Kept alive by tales of western derring-do, it is still packed
by belly gunners and little old ladies with lace shirtwaists
and steely eyes. It was, and is, woefully inadequate as a
serious defense weapon. During one period on the Arizona
border I toted one as a second to my holstered .357 Magnum-until a practice shot which stuck about 14 inch into
a telephone pole, leaving the hollow base of the slug
exposed for all to see, convinced me that the .41 short rimfire was not a load on which to bet my blue chips. The
range for this eye-opening shot was three feet.
From Reconstruction days until the early 20th century,
those wanting a small hideaway gun chose from the rimfire,
and later centerfire, .22's, .32's, .38's, and .41's. These were
produced in large quantities by Colt in their Cop and Thug
and Cloverleaf models, by Smith and Wesson with their
old tip-up and later break-top versions, by Hopkins and
Allen with their finely made Merwin and Hulbert single
actions, and by many other smaller companies.
Until the coming of the .38 Special with its smokeless
powder loadings, no production model pocket gun using
metallic cartridges was manufactured that could be relied
on as a manstopper. The only possible exception to this
would be the little-known Sheriff's Model Single Action
Army Colt in .45, .44-40, and
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Which curls around .38
in swift gesture substituting surprise for speed.
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SEPTEMBER 1959
.
Look at those~Laws! Half ton
of British,; Columbia grizzly is
tough trophy for light" sp~rter.
• WHERE AND HOW
•
PART II: SHEEP, BEAR, AND GOAT TROPHIES DON'T COME EASY.
WHERE THEY ARE, THE GOING IS ROUGH
By BERT POPOWSKI
HEREAS THE DEER HUNTERS trample each other for
shooting room, the sheep.goat.bear breeds of trophy hunters
have the country pretty much to themselves. The raw ruggedness of
the sport sees to that; it separates the men from the boys so rapidly
that only a handful of the thousands that start out ever get to where
the top trophies live.
It isn't enough that the hunter of these species have a fine rifle,
excellent optical accessories, and a willing.to.learn receptiveness; he
must also have a good heart, good lungs, good legs and a willingness
to use them-s~amina to endure some privation, and a certain mental
stability that will not desert him under pressure. For this type of
hunting may take a man into country so rugged that he must camp
with only the barest necessities (sleeping bag, fire, and scant food),
and in extreme cases he may have to do without even these. He may
have to inch his way along treacherous trails where a slip could
tumble him hundreds of feet to his death. Or he may have to face a
bear that would like nothing better than to swing a left hook, with
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and this one won't stay long. He's a
you.ellrn.it.if.you.get.it mountain trophy.
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•
SEPTEMBER 1959
31
Record goat has only 12" horns, but the hunter who tops
it will have to match a big billy's own climbing skill.
Big sheep trophies, highly prized by hunters, are
found in high back-country "where weather i's born."
Neither size of track nor
size of bear necessarily
indicates rank of trophy;
size of skull only counts.
Best hunter can do is pick
biggest male bear in sight
and hope skull measures up.
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the hunter's head as the target.
Under such circumstances, it is plain stupid for one or
two hunters, strangers to the country, to try it on their own.
They must have a woods- and mountain-wise guide. A good
one is worth his weight in gold. Without a proper guide,
the mountain hunting of sheep, goats, and bear can be
fraught with frustrations and assorted dangers.
All three of these species require a good, sound rifle of
proven caliber, one that can perform well up to maximum
ranges. This is no sport for the testing of unproven and
unfamiliar armament. Most of the shots will be well inside
the 200-yard range, and some of the most critical ones may
be at 50 to 100 yards. But your only chance for a fine
trophy may be too far out for any but the finest, longreaching rifle, so you should go well-heeled.
You sometimes get some odd shots in this kind of hunting. A sheep-hunting friend once killed a pair of fine rams
on a ledge only 30 feet below the rock catwalk on which he
was standing. At the opposite extreme, another friend and I
took a portly billy goat at an estimated 425 yards, and at a
45-degree angle above us. When he went down, it took us
an hour and a half to climb up to where he lay, within
eight feet of a 90-foot sheer drop.
All of these species can be mighty tough to find and
even harder to kill. A keen-eyed sheep may be located in
such a spot that it cannot be approached to any but extreme
range. Goats, on a pound-for-pound basis, can be terrifically
tough to bring down, even after the hunter has worked his
way on feet, hands, and finger-tips to the cliffs and crags
on which they live. And a grizzly, or an Alaskan Brownie,
has a barrelful of courage and the physical equipment to
make taking him a job of steady nerves and cool marksmanship. Taking all these things together, the hunter of
sheep, goats, and bear needs a substantial supply of what
is delicately referred to as "intestinal fortitude," plus gun
skill. If he is short on either commodity, he'd better
stick to other types of hunting.
GUNS
SEPTEMBER 1959
Snow-filled high mountain canyons sometimes
smooth hunter's way but may prove hazardous.
Big American lion may measure 9' tip to tip, are also found
in rugged country, are usually hunted on horseback with dogs.
Even the weather in such country can be a real hazard.
Sheep, goat, and bear live in country where weather is
born. I've seen a placid and sun-smiling day turn into a
heavy wind-driven snowfall that was as blinding as a
blanket. Concealed behind high and spiny ridges of rock,
the Weatherman can, with little warning, turn into a
treacherous assassin.
I once spent a 20-below-zero night in the shelter of two
spruce trees, three of us taking turns in one lone sleeping
bag spread on a cedar-bough bed to keep it off the ice-hard
snow. We could have camped in far more comfort in a
valley a half-mile away, but if we had we might have
spooked (or been spooked by!) a grizzly the guide had
described as being "As big as a (Continued on page 48)
Black bear, including his cinnamon and brown color phases, is found in great number
over wide areas. This 325 pound black was taken by Chet Kimble with .30-06.
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SEPTEMBER 19S9
33
OF
THE OLD
•
THE NEW
•
THE UNUSUAL
Russians are not the only ones, nor the first, to try upside-down guns. Cut-out in stock permits removal of bolt.
UNIQUE UPSIDE·DOWN ENFIELD IS ONE
SOLUTION TO lEFT·HANDERS· BOLT ACTION PROBLEM
By JOHN P. NORTON
C
ERTAINLY one of the most unusual
solutions to the problem of bolt
action rifles for left-handed shooters is
this upside-down Enfield. In spite of its
appearance, the rifle handles rather well.
Loading is done from the top through
a hinged floor plate. To prevent the cartridges from falling all the way through
when the bolt is open, a piece of steel
was carefully fitted over the loading port
from the receiver ring to the clip slots.
The rear sight ears have been milled off
to form a flat base for the trigger assembly. A hook shaped piece of steel fitted to
the top of the cocking piece forms the
sear. While smooth, the trigger pull is
long and soft; but since the action of the
trigger is clearly visible, it is possible to
get a clean, crisp let-off by taking up the
trigger until you can see that it is about
to disengage, then aim and apply the last
ounces of pressure. There is no safety.
The front sight is adjustable for elevation. It is three inches high in the lowest
position, and four and one-half inches
high when fully extended. The rear sight
is adjustable for elevation and windage,
and is mounted just to the rear of the
magazine with wood screws.
There is barely enough room in the
cut out portion of the stock to remove the
bolt. The rifle can be cleaned from the
34.
rear by running the rod through a hole
that extends lengthwise through the stock.
The magazine has five shot capacity,
the barrel measures 21 Jh inches, and the
rifle weighs SVz pounds.
The identity of the imaginative maker is
not known, but the rifle has account- ~
ed for many Idaho deer and elk. ~
Holding left-handed gun right-handed,
author vouches for rifle's efficiency.
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SEPTEMBER 1959
James guns at Huntington are New Model Remington .44
and 1853 Lefaucheux 12 mm. with added spring ejector.
By HERMAN P. DEAN
WHEN THE JAMES GANG ROBBED
HUNTINGTON. WEST VIRGINIA. BANK.
THEY LEFT BEHIND THEM
THESE TWO GUNS. NOW DISPLAYED IN HUNTINGTON GALLERIES
W
HEN THE JESSE JAMES gang rode through Huntington, West Virginia, at high noon on September
6, 1875, they took with them $14,000 from the Bank of
Huntington safe, and they left behind them three mementos
of this daring robbery: three revolvers-one a Colt, another a Remington Civil War army-type percussion, and
the other a French Lefaucheux. The Colt is owned by a
Charleston, West Virginia, collector. The Remington and
the Lefaucheux are among the exhibits on display at
Huntington Galleries. The guns were dropped on the floor
of the bank vault at the time of the robbery, and were
important items of the evidence which secured a conviction
for the members of the robbery band who were apprehended.
History records that the Huntington robbery gang was
led by the James brothers, Jesse and Frank. However.- there
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SEPTEMBER 1959
is some doubt whether or not "the James boys" themselves
actually participated in this particular hold-up. Some authorities contend that they sent their men into Huntington
and joined them later, after the robbery.
One of the leaders of the outlaw gang was a man named
Webb, who carried the Remington percussion pistol now on
display at Huntington Galleries. Webb was later captured
by a Tennessee sheriff while having his horse shod in a
blacksmith shop. This was shortly after the Huntington
robbery, and $5,000.00 in currency was recovered from the
money belt he wore when arrested. Webb was brought back
to Huntington, tried for his part in the robbery, and sen·
tenced to twenty years in the West Virginia penitentiary. It
is recorded that he served his term as a model prisoner and
afterwards took up religious work and became a minister of
the gospel in his declining years. (Continued on page 36)
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Cole Younger, another westerner of bank
robbing fame, is reputed to have been a
member of the gang that robbed the Bank
of Huntington, but he was never tried.
John Hooe Russell was President of the
Bank of Huntington at the time of the rob·
bery and Robert T. Oney was Cashier. The
robbers came into Huntington on horseback
and tied their horses at the hitching rack in
front of the bank. Mr. Ru sell was at lunch
at the time, but Mr. Oney, the Cashier, was
held up at gunpoint and required to produce
a key that locked the bank's safe. The
robbers were professional and they executed
their job with dispatch and without fanfare,
leaving the bank quickly to mount their
horse. But in the excitement of making
their getaway, they did drop the three guns
mentioned in this report.
They rode toward Fourpole Creek and
through WayRe County, West Virginia, in
the direction of Louisa, Kentucky, on a route
which eventually led them into Southern
Kentucky and Tennessee. John Hooe Russell,
president of the bank, had left a very fine
ivory-handled revolver on his desk when he
left the bank for lunch. One of the robbers
spied this and stole the revolver. It was reo
covered when Webb was arrested.
John R. Gibson was one of the several
local persons who witnessed the robbery in
detail. He reported that the four men who
entered the bank wore broad brimmed hats
and linen dusters and were otherwise attired
in western style. This same quartet had been
observed on the streets of Huntington for a
week, casing the bank. They de cribed them·
selves as call Ie buyers and horse traders.
Gibson reported that the most frightened man
on the cene of the robbery wa Jim Carter,
the bank's colored porter who walked into
the bank from the post office in the midst
of the robbery. If so, Carter wa not alone.
The James brothers and Cole Younger and
their bank robbing gang threw fear into the
hearts of thousands along the we tern frontier before their reign ended, and the Huntington robbery was only one of a great many
similar episode allributed to them.
The Remington and Lefaucheaux guns in
the Huntington Galleries, and the Colt in
Charle ton, are I he only tangible mementos
of the robbery, with the exception of a few
silver dollars which pioneer citizens of ad·
joining Wayne County, West Virginia, claim
were given out by the retreating gang.
The arms collection in Huntington Galleries i reputed to be one of the best to be
found in any museum in the country, and
has been the leading attraction of the Galleries. People have come from most of the
states and from several foreign countries to
view the display, which i designed primarily
to illu trate fine art in arms manufacture
and to portray the progre s of unusual fire·
arm evolution through different types of
mech:mism. The historic angle of the firearms
collection is only incidental to its total purpose; but in addition to the James gang
guns, there are numerous other firearms of
historic significance: a rifle ewned by Daniel
Boone, another owned by Simon Kenton, a
Winchester owned by Johnson Hatfield and
used in the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud, and
an elaborately engraved double barrel shotgun given to an American major by Herman
Goering just before this German warlord
committed suicide in Nuremberg
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prison following World War II.
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A
MINI G OPERAnON helps support
the Amateur Trapshooting Association,
the governing organization of trapshooting in
the United States.
The ATA rarely makes a profit from conducting the annual Grand American Tournament, but it does receive some income from
an unusual mining process. No, ATA offi·
cials did not invest shooters' funds in mining
stock, nor did some ATA member bequeath
shares in a lead mine to his favorite organization. But it can be said truthfully that the
ATA is in the lead mining business.
Each year, after the Grand American Tournament is held, the soil in front of seven of
the thirty-six trap field is mined to recover
lead deposited there during the fabulous
shooting event. Over a five·year cycle, thirty.
five of the thirty·six traps are mined. The
annual yield is from 25 to 30 tons of shot.
If this sounds like a major mining operation, it is because 1,400.000 shotgun shells
are fired during the Grand, and that's a lot
of shot! Could be that prices on the lead
market might even fluctuate as a result of
harvesting lead from the 60th annual Grand
American, held this year from August 21
through August 29 at the Vandalia, Ohio
grounds, because the 60th Grand is expected
to surpass all the records set in earlier tournaments.
During the Grand American Handicap event
on Friday of 1958's shoot, 2,202 shooters
fired 100 shots each between the hours of
eight A.M. and six P.M. It is expected that
2,500 gunners will toe the mark in the 1959
running of this, the oldest participation sport
in the United States excepting tennis. A
national tennis tournament was held in 1881,
which predates the Grand; but the tennis
tournaments were suspended during some
war years, and the Grand wasn't. No other
sport equals the record of trap in holding
60 consecutive annual tournaments.
Thousands of words have been written and
spoken in an attempt to portray the color,
the excitement, and the unpredictability of
the Grand. Trapshooting is for the most part
an individual sport. Age, sex, physical handicaps and financial status have no bearing
on the final results. Only twice in the sixty
years has a nationally known shooter won the
richest event of the tournament, the Grand
American Handicap Championship, which
will be held this year on Friday, August 28.
In all other years, some unknown shooter,
"shooting over his head," won the event.
In 1958, Emerson Clark, the first Canadian
to win the biggest event, fired a score of 99
to win. His average for 1958, including the
pot-winning 99, was a modest 86. In 1957,
his year's norm was an unexciting .8266.
Championships have been won by shooters
competing from a wheel chair, or with an
arm, leg, or eye missing. An oil millionaire,
an interior decorator, and a metal plater
squared away for a shootoff in one event,
which went to the metal plater. One major
title went to a truck driver who stopped his
rig long enough to pick up a fat bonus for
his day's work.
The Grand is homecoming for shooters
and their families from widely separated
areas of the country, who see each other
only at the Grand, and look forward to the
meeting from year to year.
For these and other reasons, it's clear that
no one can capture all the appeal of the
Grand in words. You owe yourself and your
family a trip to the Grand. This year, the
60th, would be appropriate. And, who can
say that you will not be the winner, after all
the shooters have made their deposit in the
ATA's lead mine? Lead is supposed to be
a base metal, but it can be gold for you.
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Tryouts for a skeet team to represent the
National Skeet Shooting Association and the
United States in the Pan·American Games
will be held Sunday and Monday following
the 1959 NSSA World Championship skeet
tournament at the Princess Anne Gun Club,
Lynnhaven, Virginia, Aug. 2-8. The PanAmerican skeet shooting championships will
he hosted by Chicago's Lincoln Park Gun
Club on Chicago's lake front, August 27 to
September 7.
keet shooters will want to
arrange summer vacation tours to include
Virginia hospitality and a swing to the
booming Windy City.
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It's a big year for all the clay target gunners, what with the 60th Grand, the NSSA
World event for the first time in Virginia,
and the Pan-American Garnes in the nation's
heartland. The boom is on, literally and
figuratively.
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Production lines in Chicago will soon buzz
with talk of missed (or hit) right-angle
target, slow and/or fast pulls, handicap
yardages, or station eight troubles. Hilldale,
formerly Fieldale, is opening its fabulous
shooting facilities to the industrial leagues.
The Hilldale Club, on Illinois Route 72,
just north of Route 58, was purchased from
the former operator, Marshall Field & Co.,
and is open to the public for clay target
and simulated game hunting from Wednesday
through Sunday of each week. The National
Industrial Recreation Association in Chicago
is carrying the word of Hilldale's invitation
to production line sportsmen via ~
newsletter.
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GUNS
SEPTEMBER 1959
NEW QUIRKS FOR QUAIL
(Continued from page 27)
how good the dog may be at finding birds,
he will be just a hindrance if he goes on
point out of sight and you have to spend
most of the day finding him.
The dog that worked best for us was a
Brittany spaniel. This one was a natural-born
brush dog who actually preferred to squirm
through briar patches and brush heaps when
it would have been easier to go around them.
He worked slowly, checking every scent carefully before he moved in on it. By staying
within sight all the time and working the
tightest of the covers thoroughly, he found
birds and gave us shots when the wideranging dogs ,vere useless.
Although the dog should be one that
works slowly, the hunter has to keep. himself
ready to go into action fast once the dog has
pointed. The coveys held well for us last
year, but every covey wa in such tight
cover that we had only an instant between
covey-rise and covey-gone. The only chance
for a shot was on rise, during that one brief
second before the birds disappeared.
I noticed that if an opening through the
brush was handy, some of the birds always
took it. If there wasn't any opening, they
usually rose straight up to go over the
brush. They went over bushy young pine
trees too; but with the young hardwoods,
they had a tendency to duck neatly under
the lower branches, just skimming the
ground as they twisted and swerved. Picking
out these possible routes before moving in
to Rush helps in making the shots. Doing
this, the hunter can be ready to swing his
gun muzzle for an opening.
The singles offered an even greater variety
of shots than did the coveys. At first, we
simply couldn't find any singles. We tried
hunting straight ahead in the direction the
birds had been Rying when they disappeared.
We tried hunting on angles and in wide
circles, all without success. Finally, we
tried quail calls.
The calls did not work well early in the
day. But from about three o'clock in the
afternoon on, the time when quail normally
begin to covey up for the night, they answered. The sound they answered was not the
familiar 'bob-bob-white' which sings all
through the spring and early summer; it's
a much different sound, one which can best
be learned by following the directions that
come with the calls.
The method we worked out for using a
can was simply to go to the spot where the
birds from a Rushed covey had disappeared,
then sit and wait ten or fifteen minutes to
give the birds time to quiet down again.
Then we hunted in a wide circle, using the
call at intervals of several minutes. When a
quail answered the call, we took the dogs
to the spot the answer came from and
hunted in another wide circle around it.
We found that the birds usually Rew half a
mile or more from the spot where they had
been flushed. They generally landed in thick
cover, spread through an area of several
acres, with occasionally one or two singles
going out into open fields near the cut-over
land_
The singles often flushed wild, in contrast
to the coveys which held well to the point.
They might be found practically anywhere,
even in the tops of small trees. The birds that
landed in trees generally Rew off again as
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SEPTEMBER 1959
soon as we came in sight, well out of range,
but they were an indication that the rest
of the covey was somewhere nearby. If half
an hour or more had passed from the time
the covey had been Rushed, the birds on
the ground were likely to hold fairly well for
the dog. If it was only a few minutes from
the time covey had been flushed, they were
much more likely to be wild and take off
as soon as a dog hunted anywhere near them.
The same thing applied if one bird had
been shot at within a couple hundred feet.
With the singles, as with the coveys, it was
necessary to move in ready for instant action.
This means with both hands in shooting
position on the gun, and the gun muzzle up
to clear the brush. With a double, the thumb
should be on the safety, and the forefinger
should be against the trigger guard, ready
to slide in to the trigger as the gun is
brought up. With a slide action or autoloading shotgun, the forefinger should be on
the safety button, ready to press it off and
slide in to the trigger while the gun muzzle
is swinging into line with the bird. But
keep that safety on until the very last instant!
In this tight cover, it is easy to fall. When
you fall, the gun can go off by accident.
All of this shooting is so fast that, in my
opinion, no gun can equal a well balanced
side-by-side double with 26 inch barrels,
bored improved cylinder and modified choke,
or even cylinder and improved cylinder. On
a couple of the hunts I used a borrowed LeFevre 20 gauge, with 26 inch barrels bored
improved cylinder and modified. It was by
far the fastest handling gun I used all season.
I also used an old Ithaca 12 gauge side-byside double of my own, with 28 inch barrels
bored modified and full choke; a Remington
870 16 gauge slide action with a 26 inch
plain barrel bored improved cylinder; and
a Remington 870 12 gauge with a Cutts
Compensator on the ribbed barrel. (The total
length with the spreader tube in place is
only 25% inches.) Both of these Remington
guns were new. Recoil pads had been installed on both stocks after they were shortened
to give a total length of pull of 13%, inches.
Both guns have beavertail forends which
I slimmed down a bit and checkered, and
both have pistol grip stocks which I also
slimmed down to fit my hand and checkered.
Both of them fit me right and point naturally.
Both were faster handling than any other
U.S. made guns I tried, but they were still
just a bit slower than the two old side-by-side
doubles.
I made no attempt to time the shots with
a stop watch, but I did notice the range
at which the first shot killed a bird. The
20 gauge with the 26 inch barrels consistently dropped the first bird a few feet closer
than any of the others. The 12 gauge Ithaca
dropped that first bird next closest, but with
its tighter chokes it also missed more birds,
and sometimes shot the ones it hit all to
pieces. The 16 gauge Remington was third,
and the 12 gauge Remington with the Compensator was fourth, with both of these
guns making more kills than the tight-bored
Ithaca and not shooting up the birds so
badly.
This convinced me that, for this kind of
shooting, guns must be very well balanced
and feel exactly 'right' to the shooter. Since
I am small in build and fairly light in
weight, I need a short stocked, light gun.
A heavier man with long arms would probably find himself handicapped with any gun
that fits me. A light gun, however, is unquestionably faster than a heavy one. The
Remington and Ithaca slide action guns fill
this bill about as well as any shotguns
currently being made in the U.S., with
the exception of the Winchester Model 21.
The Remington and Ithaca slide actions,
and old side-by-side doubles made by
Parker, L. C. Smith, Ithaca, LeFevre, and
similar makers now out of business, are
the most popular guns among quail hunters
in the upper South today. Such imported
doubles as those made by Beretta of Italy
and AyA of Spain, and the Browning lightweight over-under, are also well adapted to
this use. The only auto-loader I tried that
had a good 'feel' for me was the Browning
20 gauge. This gun has plenty of killing
power for these short range shots on quail,
and a 28 gauge would probably do equally
well in the hands of someone thoroughly
familiar with it.
Before the season started, I tried out half
a dozen commercial loads in my three guns,
patterning them on brown wrapping paper.
The Remington Target Loads with number
9 shot made the most even patterns in all
three guns. This is the load with the equivalent of 3 drams of powder and Ilh ounces
of shot in the 12 gauge, and the equivalent
of 2% drams of powder and an ounce of
shot in the 16 gauge. Next in pattern performance, and best with number 8 shot, was
the Winchester Ranger field load with the
same shot and powder charge for the 12
gauge. The Remington field load and number 8 shot ranked second with the 16. I did
not have an opportunity to pattern any loads
for the 20. I simply borrowed the gun and
used Remington field loads with number 9
shot, getting excellent results_
The differences between various makes of
shotgun shell that I tried was slight, much
less than the differences between the patterns thrown by various sizes of shot. I am
positive that number 9 is perfectly adequate
for quail. They're easy birds to kill at these
short ranges, usually well under 20 yards.
The trick is to hit them. For that, the full,
even patterns thrown by number 9's ~
worked best for me.
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CAL. 7MM REMINGT9N ROLLING BLOCKS
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FAST DRAW-NO BLOODSHED
(Continued from page 17)
We met, and after a few "feeler" jabs at
to drag the "hawglaig" out of the leather.
each other, settled ourselves in the saddles,
But why, do you think, does Bill Jordan,
pulled our hats tight, and got set to "ride 'er
Border Patrol flash, carry his gun high?
out" on the subject of fast draw.
Partly, perhaps, but not entirely because he
I guess I started it by some crack about
wants to conceal it, because he works in
hammer-slapping. Dee grinned and said, "I'm
uniform as well as in plain clothes. Why did
a hammer-slapper, and my draw is the safest
Ed :\JcGivern teach the high carry?
there is, bar none."
The answer is simple enough, once it is
I said, "Prove it." I was going to be darned
pointed out to you. Dee points it out. He
hard to convince, that much was certain. And
says, "You shoot from hip level. You sure
can't hit much if you shoot from down
Dee knew it.
He buckled on his rig and, after a few
around your knee! So, from a low holster,
preliminary passes which, naturally, were too
you must lift the gun and swing it up through
semi-finished
fast for my eye to follow, he cut his move·
an arc, to hip level. I carry my gun as near
ments to slow motion so that I could watch
as possible to where I'll shoot it. The gun
every detail of his draw. Since then, I've seen
has less distance to travel. If my hand is
super-high-speed films of Dee's draw, and I
anywhere near as fast as his, I'll beat the
know that what he showed me is the way
low-gun wearer."
he really does it, even at top speed and under
Dee's holster and contoured belt, both
pressure. . . . And I was forced finally to
designed by him, are tops for correct gun
acknowledge, as gracefully as ten years of
carry. The holster is metal-lined, open top
Finest American Black Walnut
personal positiveness to the contrary would
of course, western style, generally similar to
permit, that Dee's draw is terrifically fast
but still distinct from the other metal-lined
F.O.B.
(the fastest I have ever seen), and-that it
or "stiffened" holsters now accepted as best
.,
Warsaw, Mo.
is safe!
for top draw speed. Dee "ties down," to pre"How To Do It" finishing
This is going to take a bit of explaining,
vent even the slight but still possibly disinstructions furnished free.
and it starts with holster position. Dee and
concerting holster movement that will (or
I agreed on that, right from the beginning.
can) occur even with the stiffest rigs. InHis gun is worn high, almost exactly as I
dicative of the height of his carry, the tiewear mine: high enough so that the updown thong goes high up in his crotch. I'm
curving butt of the Single Action touches
told that the Dee Woolem-type holster may be
AVAILABLE FOR:
his arm midway between wrist and elbow or
commercially available soon, economically
British Enfield P·14 .303 Cal.
a trifle higher.
priced, through Crosman Arms; but now
U. S. 1917 Enfield
You think this is crazy? Well, the fact is,
suffice it to say that it has certain refinements
U. S. 1903 Springfield
Hollywood and the western story writers to
he has worked out for himself, not found in
U. S. 1898 Krag
the contrary notwithstanding, that the lowother holsters. They sure must suit Dee;
U. S. 1903A3 Springfield
slung holster is not the fastest. I suppose it
his speed proves it.
U. S. Springfield MI· 22 Cal.
would kick up needless and endless argu·
The how-to of drawing a gun from this
U. S. Springfield M2 - 22 Cal.
ment if I said the old time gunfighters didn't
position goes something like this: Assume a
F. N. Mauser
Mauser 1924 (Jugoslav)
wear their guns down around their knees,
natural stance with the feet about a foot
Ma1Jser M93 (Spanish)
either-though it can be proved that a lot
apart, elbow slightly out from the side,
Weatherby" Rocket"
of 'em didn't; after all, the old timers didn't
shoulder slightly forward. The thumb should
Remington 30S
have the holsters we have today, and maybe
be approximately four inches below and
Remington M720
they needed all the leverage they could get
two inches forward of the hammer spur.
Remington M721
(Many competitive fast draw rules require
Remington M722
this as a minimum). Cocking the gun is
Winchester M54
accomplished by hitting the hammer with
New!
Winchester M70
the first joint of the thumb as the shoulder,
Winchester M43
NIBS
Mauser M98 with large
arm and hand are pulled sharply backward.
receiver ring
PORTA·
Minimizing body or arm movement is of
Magnum Mauser
little consequence; it's the distance the
TRAP
Swedish HusQvarna Mauser
gun has to travel that counts.
HusQvarna "Crown Grade"
The thumb must strike the hammer with
Mauser M95 (Mexican)
Mauser Karbine M98 with
considerable force, not because any parsmall receiver (G33/40)
ticular force is required for cocking the
Jap .31
gun, but to kno-ck the gun backwards out
Jap 25
of the holster into the hand. To be sure, the
Russian7.62
hammer must be fully cocked before the
Sako .222 Cal.
ONLY
hand comes into actual contact with the
Sako·Magnum Mauser
J. C. Higgins M50
gun's grips. Like the old saying, "Don't go
FIRST LOW PRICE TRAP
Marlin M322
off half-cocked," a half-cocked gun won't go
YOU CAN USE ALONE-ANYWHERE!
Marlin M455·Fn
off, won't be of any value. And, no one should
Mounts on your spore wheel and tire fo~ true
Italian Terni M38
rigidity. Lets you shoot anywhere-ony tlmeever rely on the half-cock notch to catch a
Carbine
alone or with another shooter. Throws standard
hammer that has slipped from the full-cock
cloy targets, regulatio~ distance or. farther, .as
singles or doubles. Adjustable tension permIts
position. If the half-cock notch had not been
speeds from slow ubird" to a "canvass-back
burred off of myoId Colt by many slips
corryinll the moil!" Trap is released by shooter
Write for catalog which illustrates and details
from full·cock, I might have escaped injury,
with sloght pressure of leg against lever.
Bishop's complete line of finished and semi·fin.
Practice with traps during off-season will teach
at least for a while longer. But I can't now,
proper lead and range of gun; will keep reacished stocks for rifles and shotguns ••• it's free.
blame my accident on the gun, entirely, or
tions fast and coordinated, guaranteeing less
Bishop products are available at leadtng gunsmiths
misses or cripples and more harvested game
on my pressing for speed, either. The basic,
.. and sporting goods· stores. everywhere. Ask
during the regular season.
your dealer,if not available. ordet·direct.
underlying fault was-low carry. You can't
All steel welded construction; weighs only 12
Ibs. for easy portability. Comes complete with
lift the gun from a low holster without, at
mount, complete instructions and all taxes and
least for a split second, slanting the muzzle
postage paid. For immediate delivery send check
E. C. BISH 0 P & SON, INC.
or money order for only $22.50. Money refunded
toward your leg or foot. This, as I myself
in 5 days if you are not completely satisfied.
D e p t . - ' . Warsaw, Missouri
argued, is okay so long as you don't cock
No dealers-mail order only-order now from
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But when you press for speed, you cock
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sooner than you think - and that's when it
happens. As for the boys who slap-cock in
:I low holster, their whole draw is with a
cocked gun and that is asking for trouble.
The secret that makes Dee's draw safe is
!his: He wears the gun high-and the blow
'hat cocks the hammer knocks the gun back,
')artly out of the holster and into his hand.
(nocking the butt back tilts the muzzle for-Nard. By the time the hammer is even well
"tarted on its way back to full cock, the
muzzle is pointing forward, away from the
shooter and toward the target.
This operation doesn't require as much
force as you might think, particularly with
Dee's carefully tuned guns. But the hammer
mu t be hit hard enough to cock it, and that
is hard enough to tip the butt back and the
-nuzzle forward away from the leg, so that,
even if the hammer should accidentaly fall,
I he resulting shot will be in front of the
,;hooter. From the moment the hammer is
struck until the gun is fired, the muzzle is
!I. ever at any time pointed at any portion of
the body.
Since the muzzle is partially leveled toward
the target from the moment the hammer is
cocked, it requires but a very slight lifting
motion on the part of the hand, and a short
'poke' forward to firing position. The trigger
finger finds the trigger and fire the shot
as the gun moves forward. This is the secret
of Dee's speed. It is a product of minimum
gun movement.
Throughout our interview, Dee was using
Hahn "45" Single Action gas operated
BB Revolver. If this comes as a shock to
your mature mental ego, as it did to mine
when I saw him slip it into his holster, it's
lime you up-dated your thinking. "Here,"
Dee said, as he flipped the Hahn in my
direction. "is the only safe and sane Mlswer
10 fast draw shooting." Frankly, I was surorised. There isn't another single action
Frontier model on the market that feels,
handles, or points so precisely like the
famous Colt "Peacemaker" as does the Hahn.
_\nother astounding feature I had not
i hought possible with such an economically
priced handgun was its velvet action. Dee
had given a personal touch to all his working
~ingle actions, but the Hahn is smooth
aas is."
Speaking of tune· ups, a few suggestions
:lre now in order if you are to enjoy this
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powder and shot. Light loads of DuPont
bulk shotgun smokeless works very well in
most calibers. Numbers 4227, 4198 and 4759
can all be used with small charges. The
most important thing to remember is that
all of these old single shots were designed
to be used with low-pressure loads. If you're
looking for high velocity, stay away from
them. Don't try any "souped-up" loads or,
more than likely, the rifle will come apart.
One of the most important items to make
any of these rifles shoot accurately is a good
bullet mold. Most of the Schuetzens had
the mold made for the rifle at the same
time it was built. If the mold comes with
your single shot, you're lucky. If not, se·
lect a set of blocks from the Lyman·Ideal
list. In the .32 calibers, a slug weighing
165 to 185 grains usually performs best.
With the .38s a 225 to 330 grain bullet is
a good choice. And in the big .45 calibers
I've found the 405 grain slug very good.
Several other factors seem to affect accuracy more than specific bullet weight.
Bullet diameter, number of grease grooves,
and bullet shape are important. Select a
mold that has plenty of grease grooves; one
that casts as close to groove diameter of
the barrel as possible. The reason for this
is that bullets should be shot as cast and
not sized, if possible. Sizing often shaves
more lead off of one side of the bullet
than the other, and a lop·sided bullet just
won't group worth a darn. As to bullet shape,
normally a blunt-nosed bullet will outshoot
a sharp-pointed one in any of these guns.
Cast bullets should be perfect. The most
important part of any cast bullet is the
base. Harry Pope called it the "steering
end". Any imperfection in the base, however
slight, will cause that slug to print outside
the group. Old time shooters could call
their shots by examination of the base of
the bullets they were using.
Another important item, as equally important as perfect bullets, is the lubricant.
Modern lubricants are too hard: the best
lubricant for any of these old timers will
be soft and slightly tacky. The best I have
ever concocted consists of a 50-50 mixture
of pure beeswax and paraffine softened with
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Hepburn, and the Remington-Walker. Along
with these old timers is the modern Vermontmade Hauck action and an imported one,
the Heeren.
Both of these modern actions are built
to take our present high-intensity cartridges.
The Hauck is an excellently designed action
using alloy, heat-treated steels. The modern
Heeren action is manufactured by the Swiss
firm of W. Glaser and is used there in fine
single shot hunting rifles.
Added to these are the hundreds of fine
German Schuetzen rifles "liberated" by our
GIs. These are strictly off·hand rifles, built
to individual specifications for target work.
The majority will be in the 8.15 x 46 mm.
caliber, a short bottle·necked cartridge very
similar to our .32-40. Cases for these present
no problem. .32-40 brass is cut off to an
overall length of 1.81" and then fire-formed.
Any good .32 caliber lead bullet of 165 to
185 grains usually works well with the
8.15. and 12.5 grains of 2400 powder or
13 grains of 4759 are both accurate loads.
All of the fine old single shots are fun
to shoot. Take your pick; it doesn't make
a whole lot of difference. The plain hunting
models or the finely crafted Schuetzens will
both give excellent accuracy, if in good con·
dition. Caliber, too, seems to be immaterial.
The old Sharp's "big fifties" that helped
exterminate the vast buffalo herds will shoot
surprisingly small groups if you can take
the recoil. So will the little Stevens rifles
in .28·30 or .25-21.
One of the most accurate single shots
I have ever fired was a beautiful Peterson
Ballard in .45-90. A favorite load was a
case full of FG black powder, with a cardboard wad over the top. The ·bullet was a
405-grain slug cast 50·to-l and seated into
the rifling about 1/16" ahead of the case.
Shot from the bench, I've seen many a
ten shot group that half a dollar would
cover. A touch on those set-triggers would
send that big slug spinning down range
to punch another hole in the ten ring. Didn't
make much difference either if a small gale
was blowing.
The beauty of these old timers is the ease
with which they can be reloaded. Any of
them can be scooped full of FG black
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Vaseline. This lubricant has given excellent
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enough Vaseline so the mixture can be
rather easily dented with the thumb after
cooling. Experiment with the proportions for
your individual rifle. Each weapon will be
temperamental when it comes to lubricant.
The single shot target rifles were loaded in
one of two ways. The fine Schuetzens were
often muzzle-loaded, through a false muzzle.
This short removable piece of barrel was
pinned in place; bored, reamed, and rifled
at the same time as the barrel. In use, the
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and forced into the bore by a sharp push
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Loading from a false muzzle had quite
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Mark the rim so it is inserted into the
chamber in the same position. The more
uniform each operation is from shot to shot,
the closer will be the group. A case that
has been fired in a good, smooth chamber
forms a perfect seal once it has been fired,
making resizing un-necessary.
Reloading at the bench isn't as complicated as it may sound. With a Lyman tong
tool, all the necessary reloading operations
can be performed. Fix up your bench or the
trunk of the car so that a powder measure
can be mounted, and your in business.
A very good load for any of these single
shots is about five to seven grains of DuPont
bulk shotgun smokeless as a priming charge
and the rest of the case filled with FG
blackpowder. This is a very clean-shooting
low pressure load, and one that is about
as accurate as I have found. To load at
the bench, I carry a supply of priming
charges weighed out and placed in small
plastic pill vials. These can be obtained
from any corner drugstore for a few cents.
Then all I have to do is dump one of the
priming charges into the case and fill it
with FG from my measure.
If DuPont shotgun bulk smokeless powder
is used for the entire charge, it should be
sifted. This will remove the very fine grains
that cause trouble with target rifles. Get a
couple of ten-cent store tea strainers, one
with about 18-20 mesh and the other with
a 26-28 mesh. Sift the entire can of powder
through the 18-20 strainer first, separating
the coarse grains. Use these just as is. About
13 grains in my .32-40 is an excellent load.
N ow sift the remainder of the can through
the finer strainer, removing the very fine
grains. The powder that did not pass makes
excellent priming charges when used with
FG black.
Another piece of equipment to make your
single shot perform the way it should, is a
wad-cutter. Some rifles group best with a
small amount of pressure on the powder
charge, especially with black powder. A
simple wad-cutter can be made from a piece
of tubing with a hole a few thousandths
smaller than the diameter of your bullet.
Sharpen one end so that it will cut a clean
wad when tapped with a mallet. For wad
material, I find that plain ink blotting
paper works well. Some shooters prefer felt
from an old hat. I usually seat the wad
very lightly on top of the powder charge,
forcing it into place with a pencil eraser.
I also use wads when loading light loads of
2400 or Unique, to keep the charge back
close to the primer flash.
This then, is the story of single shot rifles
among the finest that American O"unsmiths
have produced. It' a rifle for tl~ose with
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super-accurate barrels. Single shots were
the only factory made rifles ever to carry
a guarantee of accuracy, something that just
doesn't appear on modern factory rifles.
If you like to shoot and want to get
away from the mile-a-minute pace of this
modern world, get a good single shot rifle.
Shoot it the way the old timers did. Be
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PISTOLS FOR PLAINCLOTHESMEN
(Continued from page 30)
.38-40 calibers. This gun was normally supplied with a 3 inch or longer barrel, but a
few with 2 inch tubes are known to have
been carried by the old time gunslingers.
The double action Colt Lightning in .41 caliber could be rated fair in shocking power,
but it, like the Sheriff's Model, was too
bulky for complete concealment.
Of course. many of the standard big caliber
hoglegs were cu t down by their owners for
pocket use. and thi is still done with our
more modern heavy caliber double actions;
but the lumpy look of it in the wearer's
clothing suggests that nothing much was
gained by butchering the gun. Pocket automatics won tremendous popularity in the
first 40 years of this country. Hundreds of
thousands of them were produced and sold
in .25, .32, and .380 calibers. The market for
these flat-carrying little equalizers was flooded with a myriad of foreign jobs, including
the Brownings. :\Iausers, Walthers, Ortgies,
and other middle-European exports, and the
cheaper Spanish, Italian, and Belgian prod·
IIct. But these little autos, while for the
most part well made and reliable, were as
lacking in power as their .32 and .38 counterparts of the 1880's.
Jf you like handguns, the odds are that y<Hl
either have a pocket gun or want one. If you
are a traveler on our thug-infested highways,
you ought to have one. If you are a law
enforcement officer, you'd damn well better
get one and live with it if you want to stay
healthy. But-what gun?
Specifications for an efficient pocket gun
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The weapon must: (1) be easily and com-
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fired rapidly, without danger of malfunction; and (3) possess sufficient stopping
power. It is a big order to comply with the
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Taking t.he above qualities one at a time,
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pistol with a barrel over 3 inches in length
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blocky outline of their handles. And the big,
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The safety catch can be built up by welding
into any desired shape to correct this flaw,
but there are other considerations, which
force us to drop our streamlined beauties
back into the bureau with a sigh.
To eliminate malfunctioning as finally as
possible, we must do away with any possibility of a gun-stopping jam. Lovers of the
automatics will howl, but I am one who just
can't forget that one faulty round of ammunition can put the autoloader out of a fight.
I know this doesn't happen often, but it does
happen. If your preference for an automatic
is strong enough to offset this possibility, so
be it; but I'm superstitious-I'll still stick to
the revolver.
The gun that can be gotten into action
fastest from a pocket, waistband, or shoulder
holster is one with no projections on it to
catch on the clothing or in the leather. This
lets out anything with a hammer spur protruding from its rear, and is also a black
mark against target sights. At least one snub·
nose .38 has been produced with high·riding
click sights which no doubt increased its
accuracy, but made it next to impossible to
draw from a side pocket. Carried in the side
pants pocket (in my opinion, the best place
for a hideout in the summer when no coat
is worn), the hammer spur will invariably
catch in the top of the pocket unless the
thumb is thrust down over it to shield it. If
you wear larger than a 6% glove, trying this
will cause you to resemble the monkey with
his fist in the jar. A friend once cut a Colt
.357 Trooper to 2" and replaced the factory
ramp front sight. It shot nice for a snub,
but he found it necessary to hang it on his
belt in a quick draw holster, taking it out
of the pocket class.
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The final requirement outlined above, the
one of power, is without doubt the most important. An ever-increasing army of pistolmen maintain that nothing less than the .44
Magnum, .45 Colt, or .357 should be considered for defense use, and they are per'
fectly correct when a holster gun is referred
to, but don't forget that we are seeking a
compromise-the most muscle in the smallest
package. If you accept the limitations as
herein stated, we have little choice other
than a Smith & Wesson or Colt revolver,
with fixed sights and a two-inch barrel, in
.41 Long Colt caliber or smaller in the Colt,
and .38 Special or smaller in the Smith. A
hard look at these calibers leaves something
to be desired by a ballistics-wise shooter, so
fare as factory loads are concerned.
The .41 isn't too bad; and the best fac·
tory .38 Special load, for my money, is the
blunt 200 grain manstopper load. Properly
handloaded, with heavy, flat-nosed slugs, both
these cartridges give the gunman a chance
of collecting his old age pension. Hollow
point bullets, cast butter-soft, will generally
stop somewhere in a mansized animal when
fired at 900 feet a second, which is about
tops for the .38 Special. Energy and shock
are expended right where they should be
expended. Even solid semi-wadcutter bullets
are much superior to the pointed factory
pills, which frequently slip right on through,
expending little or no energy and leavin~ the
target still on its feet. Cartridges must be
charged with a healthy dose of hot pistol
powder to get the velocity needed from short
barrels to expand hollow point bullets, so
layoff the light plinking loads.
Any revolver smaller than .38 Special had
best be used to kill tomato cans. And except
for the .45 ACP, I do not consider any presently manufactured commercial load for automatic pistols adequate for defense use. Hollow points can be handloaded for these guns,
hut lead bullets dangerously increase jamming if they are cast soft enou gh to expand
satisfactorily.
Get yourself a snubnosed Colt or Smith &
Wesson. If it has an exposed hammer spur,
grind it off. The trigger guard is best left
intact unless you have extremely large fingers. Revolvers with grip adapters can easily
be twisted from your hand in a scuffle, so
leave the adapters to the target shooters.
Learn to handle your gun double action.
The Military and Police Smith & Wesson has
the lightest, smoothest DA pull of them all,
with the Colt guns running a close second
and the five shot Chief's Special, Centennial,
and Bodyguard Smith & Wessons last. Double
action trigger pulls can be lightened on the
Smith M & P by grinding a dab of metal
from the sides of the mainspring and removing a coil or two from the trigger return
spring. Slightly bending the top half of the
Colt mainspring into an inverted V will
sometimes help it, but either of these jobs
should be attempted only if you know what
you're doing. Better leave it to your gunsmith. No one in these parts has been able
to do much to lighten the pulls of the coil
spring five shot Smith & Wesson models. Replacing the springs with lighter ones has
resulted in misfires, so local users have found
it best to leave them as is.
The new CCI primers should not be over·
looked when handloading for your "stingy
gun" with its lightened hammer fall. These
caps seem ultra sensitive to the bite of
worked-over actions.
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Don't overdo this alteration business. Cut
off ·or remodel only what is necessary to give
you a fast, smooth·working gun. Any further
improvements should be in your ammunition
and, more important, your shooting. One
mutilation frequently touted by the hipshoot
artists is the removal of the front sight.
Their theory is that most gunfights occur at
spitting distances, so who needs sights?
Maybe so, but just suppose you get caught
with the guy half a block away?
0 sights,
no bullseye.
The pocket gun described here is just that.
It can always be kept handy by simply drop·
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of clothes you happen to be wearing. If you
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One Border Patrol cornpadre of mine in
California just drops his "snubbie" butt first
into the inside breast pocket of his coat, the
butt forward and the barrel up. To draw, he
reaches thumb and forefinger under his lapel,
as if to get a pencil or wallet. and plucks
the .38 out by its barrel, grabbing the butt
with the other hand as it clears. This isn't
as slow or awkward as it sounds.
Whatever weapon you choose, load it
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top inountain goat heads. The Chugach moun·
tains, Rainy Pass, and Knik river areas of
Alaska, and the Kluane Lake, Sifton range,
and Champagne areas of Yukon territory are
good bets. Though white shcep are far easier
to spot than other mountain sheep, they're
no easier to stalk. They seem to know that
their coloration is a hazard and vary their
behavior accordingly, often employing rifts
of snow as camouflage. .
Many widely experienced sheep hunters
consider the Number One Stone sheep head
taken by 1. S. Chadwick in 1936 the very
finest of all North American big-game trophies. Chadwick took his prize in the heights
overlooking the Muskwa river of British
Columbia, which province has a virtual monopoly of Stone sheep of top trophy classification. Other good bets include the Cassiar
region, the heights above the Prophet and
Peace rivers of British Columbia, with the
Pelly mountains of Yukon Territory also to
be considered.
In the Bighorn class, anything over 40
inches in horn length around the curl is of
trophy caliber. Martin Bovey's Number One
Bighorn, taken near Oyster creek of Alberta,
measures 45 inches for each horn, but its
massiveness throughout the horn length
placed it above a handful of other heads,
some of which actually exceed it in aroundthe-curl length. Bovey's great head displaced
the famous James Simpson trophy, taken four
years earlier, in 1920, despite the latter head's
substantial superiority in sheer horn length.
The Desert sheep-which is merely a ham.
mered down and drought-dried bighorn-with
horns over 35 inches makes a fine trophy;
37 to 40 inches make it magnificent, especially if both horns are matched for length .
and not badly "broomed" or splintered at the
tips. Considering the scarcity of licenses for
these little bighorns, the true sportsman will
never take anything that hasn't grown to
trophy size.
Baja California and Sonora provinces of
Old Mexico, and the heights overlooking the
Colorado river in Arizona and Nevada, hold
most of the remaining Desert sheep and have
yielded most of the record heads. After a
lapse of a decade or more, when the species
was afforded complete protection, a very few
permits are now available annually. But
Desert sheep are not plentiful, and probably
never will be again.
On White sheep, the hunter can shoot for
the moon, both in length of trophy horns and
in wide-spread hunting areas. The top six
recorded heads are in the 44-inch class,
topped by Frank Cook's Number One trophy
taken in the Chugach mountains of Alaska.
The Knik river, Wrangell mountains, and
Brooks range in Alaska, and the Champagne
and Kluane Lake areas of Yukon Territory
are also good producers, but not up to the
Chugach country. The number of high-rank.
ing records taken during the last decade indicates a substantial boom in hunting these
snow-white, golden-eyed mountain sheep.
Both White and Stone sheep have rather
wide-flaring horns that may look longer than
they actually are. Because of this flare, these
two species do not normally broom their
horns to remove tip growth so they can see
better. The tips may be nearly perfect, but
may lack matching lengths, due to a natural
unevenness of growth.
1. S. Chadwick's Stone sheep record is, of
course, simply out of this world. It outranks
any other Stone ever taken by an average
horn length of five inches and by a dozen
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was a male, with a horn length of 12 inches.
Any goat that breaks the present record will
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is the Cassiar area of British Columbia. But
no goat hunter needs to expect that his high.
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Among bear trophies, the Alaska Brownie
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of the Aleutian peninsula. Actually the
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For trophy purposes, the skulls of all bears
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Among all trophy hunters, the bear hunter
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it is a male, hope for the best, trophy-wise.
Females of all bear species just don't have
skulls that rank them anywhere as trophies.
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head are annually taken in Montana, and
perhaps an average of half that, or less, in
Wyoming. In 1957, 23 grizzlies were shot
in Montana, as compared to 685 black bears;
and Wyoming harvested 8, as compared to
192 blacks. Although two of the high.ranking
heads came from Montana, since 1953 the
top heads have come from uch widely sep·
arated points as Rainy Pass of Alaska, Slave
Lake of Alberta, and Bella Coola of British
Columbia. The pre ent record skull was
taken by F. Nygaard in 1954 at Rivers Inlet
of British Columbia. It ranks its nearest
competitor by 3/16th of an inch.
The black bear, including its cinnamon
and brown phases, is found over an enormous
range in the United tates and Canada. The
Numbcr One champion was shot by Ed
Strobel in Wi consin's Land 0' Lakes country in 1953. Elwrctos americanlls ranges in
every direction from there.
In southern Alaska and adjacent British
Columbia, he vies with the Browns and grizzlies for spawning salmon in season, though
carefully keeping out of the way of his lustier
cousins.
The polar bear, Thalarctos maritimilS, is
the perpetual Arctic wanderer, touching the
fringes of the frozen land areas when ice
pack floes get him within swimming distance.
But chiefly he lives adjacent to the arctic
waters where blubber·fat seals provide him
with the food needed in that climate. He is
chiefly hunted by plane nowadays, though
occasional specimens are taken when they
approach Eskimo or white camps in the Arctic. He is second only to the Kodiak in both
trophy skull and body size, easily surpassing
the largest of the grizzlie. Many sportsmen
consider the polar bear tops among all bear
trophies.
Hunting the sheep, goats, and bears of the
Jorth American continent takes something
special in the way of rifles and calibers.
In cool and capable hands, such calibers as
the .270 and the .30-06 are entirely adequate
if the hunter is lucky enough to work into
an advantageous position on his game. Rifles
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And for exclu ive use on big grizzlies, Alaska
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twice more, and, just before Simba disappeared into the long grass. he acknowl·
edged a hit in the hindquarters with a
furious rumble. The boy had steadied himself enough to score with the second barrel,
but his performance was ,'ery unlike his
usual slick shooting. That's how it is with
lion; hc can unnerve even an expericnced
shooter. We professionals learn not to be
surprised by it.
Now herc was a "situation:" a wounded
lion in thick cover. We approached carefully
and found the grass patch was not a "cry
big one, so it was a sure thing the lion would
still be in it. Murray and the shooter positioned themselves on a slight rise about
fif teen paces f rom t Ile spot wIlere "~I urray
thought the lion would be. having directed
the other two of us to cover a possible escape
rou te further downstream. .\lbebe, a hcf ty
Mkamba gun bearer, picked up a heavy stone.
The other gunbearers picked up stones and
sticks ready for throwing. At Murray's noel,
Mbebe heaved the stone. It did not go as far
as Mbebe meant it to, but it must have
landed squarely on the lion.
At the deep growl, I saw .\lurray's and
the boy's rifles flash to their shoulders. There
was a brief pause, then one report. The
lion could not have used that donga before,
or else he was so furious he had forgotten,
because, as he heaved himself at his tor·
mentors, his first bound landed him in a
grass covered wash some three feet wide
and one foot deep. This upset his charge
momentarily. The boy's shot hit the lion
beside its left eye, killing it instantly . . •
Murray had a misfire.
When I arrived at the spot from which
they had fired, I saw the body of the lion
eight or nine paces away. Murray was
emphatic that he could ha,'e stopped the
lion with his second round had the young
fellow missed, but there and then I decided
to get myself a double. The boys tried their
darndest to get Murray to fire his ncxt
round, "just to see, Captain, ,,,hether it would
have gonc off." Murray's reply will give you
some measure of the man: "Not on your
life," he said. "This ammunition is practi.
cally impossiblc to get, and I',-e only eleven
marc rounds and have two more safaris to
do beforc I can get any more!"
The very next safari was a memorable one
for, shortly after it ended. there arrived at
Nairobi airport for me a really beautiful
.465 Holland and Holland double. airfreighted out by the satisfied client with whom
Munay and I had just been on safari. I'm
sure it would embarrass him if I mentioned
his name.
The rifle was a non-ejector. That was no
inconvenience, as I found that, with practice,
it was as quick to re·load as any full ejector
-when both barrels had been fired. Having
fired one only barrel and then trying for a
quick re-Ioad is something ehe. With both
barrels fired, one breaks the rifle while the
barrcls are still pointing upwards and, as
the butt drops, out fall the empty cases. But
on a single shot, the barrels have to point
downward when the rifle is opened, other·
wise the unfired round too would fall out.
The empty case has to be flicked out with a
finger. It was a one-barrel shot that had a
little to do with my "closest."
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Many years later, after I had become a
fully qualified professional hunter, I was
conducting a safari for two Latin-American
gentlemen, one of whom could not understand or speak English. I'll call him Pedro.
The other, Amando, was a very steady fellow.
He was not excitable, listened to what he
was told. and when he shot he knew where he
was shooting. Pedro, well, Pedro was another
story. And my not knowing Spanish did not
help, either. Pedro and I worked out some
sort of understanding by pulling faces at
one another and gesticulating. But our communication was imperfect to say the least,
and the gesticulating sometimes gave a stalk
away. This happened in the case of Pedro's
elephant.
The elephant, a 1131 pounder, was crossing
our front about twenty paces away. We had
a thin bush in front of us. As it cleared the
bush, I touched my shoulder and whispered,
"Now, hit him there." But Pedro thought I
meant for him to rest his rifle on my
shoulder. When I shook my head at him and
knocked his rifle off, the elephant saw us. Up
went its head and, as it swung away, Pedro
shot for the brain. He missed. It is a hard
enough shot for a tyro to accomplish even
when the elephant is standing still, hence
my reason for the shoulder shot. As it went
the bull received some body shots without
much apparent effect, but it had to be
followed, and it was late the next day before
we caught up with and finished the wounded
bull. I mention this incident only to show
what my problems were with Pedro.
After the elephant hunt, we moved camp
to Tanganyika and the Yaida Valley. With
us was a photographer and a young American Walter Jones. Amando shot his lion
the second day we were there. We had crept
up to a zebra bait early that morning, to
find two male lions and a lioness feeding.
With his usual steadiness. Amando hit the
best lion in the shoulder with his .375 Magnum, dropping it instantly. The other lions
bounded away. So now we must get a lion
for Pedro.
Walt had seen another lion slip into a
wide, shallow donga about six miles on the
opposite side of camp. Next morning, he
took us there, pointed to the spot where the
lion had disappeared, and cruised about in
the hunting car looking for sign. We found
the old boy himself. He had already seen
us and was circling back to his favourite
hideaway in the donga. A good spot it was,
too. The whole donga was full of long, dry
grass, and three feet in from the edge he
would be invisible.
We drove on up the dong a, keeping an
eye out for a tree suitable for bait hanging;
but then I realized the donga gave an
opportunity for a "beat." I remembered a
sloping bank on the far side of the donga,
below the spot where the lion had sought
cover. If Pedro and I circled around to that
sloping bank and found a good ambush point,
I could signal Walt to start a beat, he and
the gunbearers working down to us through
the long grass, and Pedro should get his shot.
The photographer decided he would like
to come with us, so he grabbed his movie
camera and followed Pedro and me as we
circled well out to come back to the sloping
bank. A convenient small bush was situated
at the top of the slope and, using it for cover,
I surveyed the donga. Directly below, slanting
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towards us at an angle, was a strip of sand
some 25 yards long and averaging about six
feet wide. The nearest end was 15 yards
away. On either side was long grass.
The chances were that the old boy would
know of this strip and, as the beaters moved
in on him, he would give ground, using the
strip when he came to it rather than keep
pushing his way through the long grass. He
would not be able to see us until he stepped
out of the grass; and then, if Pedro was "on
the ball," Simba, looking as big as a house,
would only be, at the most, 35 yards away.
Could Pedro make sure of him with one
shot? I didn't know. Amando was the boy
for a setup like this, but he already had his
lion. What if Pedro wounded the lion? One
bound and it would be gone ... and I was
the chap who would have to go into that
grass and get him. Three feet from him and
I wouldn't be able to see him, but he could
hear me coming easily enough. He would
charge, and I'd need a field gun to stop him
at that distance.
On the other hand, the strip of sand pinpointed the lion's course, I felt sure; and
we had an excellent shooting position. An-
other thing: there were few lions in this
valley, Pedro had to have a lion, and we
might never get a better opportunity. It
added up to a calculated risk ... O.K. then,
J envey; can you drop him if you hold on him
as Pedro fires and Pedro's bullet does not
do the job? I felt I could.
Motioning Pedro to keep still behind the
bush, I moved back past him and the cameraman to a position where I could see Walt
looking our way through binoculars. He
waved back when he saw my raised arm and,
as he turned to the boys to give final instructions, I moved back to position to crouch
beside Pedro.
The lion did not keep us waiting long. He
was not letting the beaters get close. They
were still 150 yards away when I saw the
grass tops moving not far from the end of
the sand strip. I wanted to put Pedro in the
picture, so I nodded gently and pointed
slowly at the shaking grass. He tried to stand
up. I hauled him down. "No more of that,"
I thought, "until he can actually see the
lion!" So I waited until the lion's mane
showed above the grass. He was about five
paces from the strip. Again, I pointed.
Again, Pedro tried to rise, but this time I
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had him. I pointed again, and he nodded
fiercely. The pulse in his neck was galloping.
Knowing Simba would look down as he
stepped onto the sand strip, I moved my hand
from Pedr~'s shoulder to his armpit. The lion
obliged. He listened to the beaters for a few
seconds. then lowered his head as he stepped
down. We stood up. The old boy thought
all his troubles were behind him. He took
three strides before he saw us; then his head
jerked up and his yellow eyes met ours. As
he froze, Pedro fired.
The .470 slug kicked up sand a foot to the
right of the lion. He growled, spun around,
and in two bounds reached the end of the
strip. "Too late!" I said; but of course Pedro
did not understand. I should have grabbed
his rifle.
The lion had two feet to go when Pedro's
second shot snicked one hind leg, high up.
The hit was acknowledged with a furious
rumble. The lion pulled up short, swung
side-on behind a heavy clump of long grass.
lie hadn't quite stopped when I fired at
where his shoulder should be, feeling the
180-grain would do the job regardless of
the grass. Not that I had any choice! But
the heavy bullet did not reach him. The grass
had a long centre cone of hard earth closely
woven together with grass roots, and into
this hard core the bullet ploughed. The lion
was not touched.
Obviously he felt he was cornered.
Through the grass, I caught the movement
as he turned to face us. I knew he was going
to charge within seconds, but something told
me I had a fraction of time to replace the
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need it. And if I did need it, I'd need it
badly.
The rifle barrels had been swinging down
while these thoughts raced through my mind.
Pedro had already commenced reloading
after his second hot. As the empty case
was flicked out of my right barrel, the lion
gave a deep rumbling growl, and came.
At the rumble, my eyes jerked away from
the rifle to the lion, and the round hit the
edge of the bore. Another jab, then another.
He was too close. I had to snap the .465 shut
on one empty barrel, after all. If Pedro failed. my shot would have to be a perfect one.
Pedro fired ... and missed. It was going
to be close. My shot had to be centre. Subconsciously, I hem'd sounds of the photographer's flight. Pedro fired his last round at
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with forelegs spread. claws distended. silhouetted against the sky, he reached for us.
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me, and I thought. "Safari land's first client
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Pedro regained his feet with an effort, reloaded his .470, fired twice to put the poor
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As :\111lTay said, one learns something new
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that Croft and I had worked Ollt on Ollr S.A.
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Hammer and trigger were still standard. It
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side-tracked the big gun project. I asked
for a lower Bisley-type hammer with sharply
checkered spur, a wide, checkered or grooved
trigger. I also asked for a Smith & Wcssontype rear sight, or some improvement over
the Micro on the original Black Hawk; also
for a lower front ramp and highcr blade, as
well as a gold inscrt in the top of thc ramp
type blade, shaped similar to the red insert
on thc fine S & W .44 Magnum. Also, I
requested a larger button on the extractor
rod. The grip on this first pilot model proved
the best any of us had ever used, pcrfectly
cushioning recoil and, as it turned up in the
hand, positioning the thumb just right to
cock for a second shot. The big Dragoon
grip absorbed recoil of the .44 Magnum the
best of any gun yet tried.
Now, in June 1959, I have just received
and have been testing the final pilot model
of the new Super Black Hawk. (J still think
it should be called the Ruger "Dragoon.")
The new gun should be in production by
early fall, and it embodies about all the
improvements I have asked for. Bill has
redesigned the flat-top frame so that the
Micro sight is enclosed by solid frame steel
on each side and can now be elevated and
still be solidly supported on each side by
the frame, thus eliminating any side movement when the sight is raised. The front
ramp is still too thick and the front sight
bladc about one sixteenth inch too low,
as the gun shOOIS a good foot high at 60
yards; but this will be corrected. The extractor button is still too small, but can
also be improved. Ruger has improved the
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loads in both these pilot models. This base
pin does not become tight or jammed and is
easily moved forward with fingers alone, as
it should be.
The new gun is fitted with a 7Vz" tapered
barrel, and it balances and handles perfectly. It is the perfcct single action for the
h,mter, packer, guide, or cow puncher. The
base pin can be moved forward enough to
clear the cylinder for removal but not far
cnough to leave the gun unless the extraclor
rod assembly is also removed, and this will
JJreyent loss of the base pin when the cylinder is removed for cleaning. The rear sight
blade proper projects above the top of base
and the flanges on the flat-top frame about
one sixty·fourth inch, giving a very clear
sight picture, and the rear notch is wide
enough to permit one to see a strip of light
on each side of the front sight for perfect
centering.
Grip assembly is of steel instead of aluminum alloy, and incorporates Ruger's fine coil
main spring. The gun cocks much faster and
easier than with the old high, narrow hammer, and even a short thumb can easily reach
the Bisley-type hammer without shifting the
grip as was necessary on the old Colt Single
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men with small hands. This gun is not designed for fanning, but would be very fast
for properly trained men for quick draw.
Those peace officers who prefer the single
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yards. It shot very good groups with my 250
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The main disadvantage to any of these
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The New Dead Center Sighting Guide stops
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even better. The mill revs up plenty of
whoosh for a flat trajectory. Recoil is about
half Ihe 20 pounds or so of a .30·06, which
makes it as easy to take as whipped cream
on strawberry shortcake.
That's a good sales pitch for a good
cartridge, but I've heard better. A prominent
gun writer, and a fine fellow, calls it a 600
yard varmint number, and labe];; the corn·
petitive .244 Remington as a mere 300 yard
job! This lad wouldn't stretch the truth or
the range, but a dirty little gremlin cut his
yardstick to about 18 or 24 inches just before
he measured the maximum accurate range
of a .243.
Factory 80 grain pills start at a listed
3,500 fps. At 300 yards, they are still twist·
ing at a respectable 2,410 fps. about equal
to a Swift; and of course the bigger slug
packs more punch. The 1,030 F.P. of energy
is considerably better than the 780 F.P. of a
.32-20 pill of the same weight at the muzzle,
I mention this old cartridge because gun
writers of yesteryear recommended it for
deer. It bagged many, but wounded more,
even under 50 yards. Let's call 300 yards
the max range for deer, if you can place a
slug in the right spot. Try a closer range
for cleaner kills.
Mid·range trajectory at 300 yards is 4.7
inches, compared to 3.8 for a Swift. A 20
mile cross wind moves the bullet 20.1", and
the little Swift 35.9", so trajectory isn't the
whole story. Neither is the "accuracy" of
your gun or load! At 400 yards a .2-13 drifts
along at 2,140 fps to deliver a 810 F.P.
punch, which is better than the 705 F.P. of a
Swift at only 300 yards. At 500 yards, the
slug wobbles along at 1,910 fps with a
lousy 645 F.P. tap, with mid-range trajectory
a huge 16.5 inches, compared to only 9.4 at
400 yards. The 100 grain slug has about
the same velocity at 400 yards as the 80,
with a 11" trajectory. The 995 F.P. punch
is gelting light for clean deer kills unless
placed with precision.
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Coyotes are generally cleanly killed or
missed at 400 yards, with average shooters
making more misses than hits. If you have
a hot tube, a fine gla s with a really good
mount on well mated iron and wood, and
if you take enough practice, you'll connect
often enough at 400 yards to make it interesting. As for the average guy plugging small
varmints at 600 yards consistently under
field conditions with a porter, I know a
better joke about a traveling salesman and
the farmer's daughter.
A .243 fills the void b(ltween .22 and .25,
being better than either for some work.
Inherent accuracy is fully 500/0 bctter than a
.257, perhaps 650/0, depending on the Lot
umbers of factory ammo.
All factory .243's I've fired shot well, and
I've fired many. The fine F. . Mau ers
and Sako's are too well known to require
much mention. Colt rifles use the internationally famous Sako·Mauser actions that
have a wonderful reputation around the
world. These action are my choice, not
only for their fine quality, but the extra
margin of safety if a case has a defective
head. Most of my tube, both custom and
factory barrels, are on these actions. They
have saved me from serious injury, or worse,
on several occasions. All three Colt models
handle beautifully.
Sako's new "Fore ter," like Colt .243's,
has 12·groove rifling. Accuracy will be better
if bullets leave the bore with less deforma·
tion, as it is claimed they do. I don't dispute
the claim. It sounds logical, and both gu ns
shoot well enough to back it up, and both
makes handle well. I put a higher value
on gun handling for hunting than on the
ultimate in accuracy, which is needed in
competition. Half the riflemen are mis ing
the thrill of their life with awkward hand·
ling guns. Some shooters don't even attempt
running shots. They could take a new lease
on life by taking some jackrabbits making
a fast get·away, with a hunting gun.
Lever fans continue to discover the
Savage 99 line. The neat new Savage 110
bolt action is popular. The 110 MCL is
another Savage first in a left·hand model.
Lads who fire from the left shoulder now
feel they are loved, and that someone cares.
Custom stockers are whittling handles right
and left for the right- and left·hand barreled
actions. Winchester's M·70 linc sells well,
and generally shoots well after a bedding
tune·up.
Some writers overstress hunting accuracy.
You'll bag more game with a fast handling
rifle that gives larger groups than with a
clumsy gun that screws 'em down. Good,
slim, trim tubes do shoot well, especially
the first two or three shots from a cold
barrel; and these are the shots that count.
Try 3·shot groups with your light sporter.
Heavy tubes are better for a long string of
shots on targets. Work up accurate load
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~~d J!~~IA~5~t;1~~j.llf:~t -l~f: I:ct:g~
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Try it.
6 mm's were old hat to wildcatters long
before modern factory ammo replaced the
6 mm Lee of the 1890's. Fred T. Huntington,
owner of R.C.B.S. Gun & Die' Shop, Oroville,
Calif., designed his .243 Rock Chucker on
a .257 case for one of the superb wildcats of
all time. Fred knows guns and handloading,
as well as how to make quality dies. His
creation helped make 6 mm's popular, prob·
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wildcats and wildcatters that contributed
much to modern firearms efficiency. If you
send in three fired cases, Fred will make
cutom dies for your particular rifle, at the
regular 13.50 price. He will also make
dies for your own wildcat.
Cases stretch from Hi·V and a 20 degree
shoulder. Max length is 2.045. Keep trimmed
to this figure, or a bit less for safety and
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Inspect case mouths after trimming and
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The usual 1:10 twist stabilizes 75 to 105
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Special $4.95 plus SOt Post.
(Ramp & front sight for abovc
$1.25)
JIAUSER '98
1I11LJTARY BOLTS
Complete. Used. Good. Fits all '98
rifles. vVhile small stock lasts
MAUSER OWNERS
~9!f
1'\ 1
.45 TAPERED
BARREL BLANKS
• 5 shot upacity-required by law for hunting. fits
flush with guard-streamlines appearance. Solid
machi ned bottom-not "raw" appearing oversized
5'2.45
fold overs that some are s.elling
• 15 shot, in original wrap. only $1.00 ea. or 2 for 51.75
• 30 shot, "banana" clips only 54.95 Dr 2 for $7.951
~
.
....................... . $12.50 ppd.
SPRINGFIELD
STOCK OF STOCKS
Shotgun stocks all 12 ga., all new, original
factol'Y n1ade.
SAVAGE 111 720 and 745. plain finish, hard
rubbe,· butt plate
$5.95
nEJnJ"G'l'O~ (old model) autoloader, MdL 11
w Isafe in front of triggt"r guard
$5.95
nEllllI~GTON 1I11H, 31 with butt plate
$7.25
lTHACA 37 stocl{s. plain with swivel cut. S6.50
Special. beautifully checkered
$8.25
REJU:-IGTO:-i 1I1nJ~ 11 With push safe .. $6.50
Quickly installed
sight set. Streamlined
front
ramp
with sight. n ear
sight with both
windage & elevation
bUilt In. Both til.
stalled by simply
tightening Allen set
screw. Front .560
Ld .• nar .775 Ld.
Plenty of wall thickness for reaming to all popular sizes. Blued. ready to install. O:"'LY 82.95
for complete set!
adjustable
for
windasre
&
elevation, fils all U. S. Car·
bines,
slides
into receiver
dovetail _ 2 minutes to In"
~~~ll~~~ESS'~~iR 75. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ::::: g:~g
E':iiiiiiIrJ,...-/.-J
37 pump 11UIllllc assembly, cOinplete
\nth checl<crcd fore-end . . . $5.50; ,vith
gl'ooved fore-end
$4.75; fore-end wood
alone, ~h....~ckered
$3.75; standard grooved
. . . $2 .. ".
RE~n~GTON
31 fore-end, beavertail. checl( ...
('red . . . $6.95; standard size, checl.:ered . . •
$4.25.
ltEJUl"GTO:-i UnT, 11 fore-end (state if for
5 or 3 shot) . . . $3.49.
BlOT
~
These shotgun balTcls should cause one at these prices!
ABOUT 820/0 DISCOUNT_buy an extm, ideal for slu~ &
brush work.)'ldl.
20"12 cyl. bOl'e, all 12 gao-' new •__ blued
Winchester
$4..95
HEAVY .22 CAL. BARRel BLANKS
(.'
Fun 1 1/10" diameter, straight, rifled blank-G
uroove for ~uper acctll·acy. 27" IOIlJ.":"-lar....c diameter
makes adaplable for most rim or center fire actions
1 turn in 14':
only $6.95 plus 45c post:
(Chamberlllg for .22 L.R. only, add S1.00)
. 44 CALIBER BARREL BLANKS
Complete with catch, pin & spring, steel. not aluml.
mum, speci.fy blue or pa.f'kerlzed __ $6.20 complete.
(Guard alone, 83.95, F. Plate aJone, $2.25, milled
follower. 81.00. spring 50C)
CARBINE REAR SIGHTS
.22 TARGET RIFLE STOCKS
RElIUNGTON 513 '1' ••.•..•.••••••••.... $9.95
l~IIACA
1903
SPRINGFIELD
1903A3 only
A3
SI~H'+·S.a~il~l~~~~dloS~I;~~e. Pfg;
new, issued
NOT $5.00
ONLY $7.49
$1.8S ppd.
&:\
W
(Spirit level In.unching sight as issued
.. $2.65; special gas cylinder plug with
valve for gun .... 75c)
MW~
HOODED TARGET FRONT SIGHTS
Slandnrd dovetail_interchangeablc inserts included.
For lIi·powcr or small bores. From discontinued
Target rifle of Inrge!'lt U. S. maker. At a 700/0
dls(·otllltl $1.49 ca. __
_
$12.00 per dozen
SWEAT ON
RiflE RAMPS
Unive"snl size. complete with gold bead si~hL­
ea~)'
to inSlall. Xo glare ramp surface, al1 rna·
chined_a 85.00 value, only 51.79 ca., 2 for
8:J.2:' - 814.60 per doz.
"FORMULA 44-40" sow USED 1::'-0' EVERY
GU:-': PLA:s'T A?'\O !\'fAS"Y ABROAD.
NEW HIGH·SPEED FORMULA gi\'es even
U.S.
?e.tt~rb~~~~l~~s: pro·te~~~.esu::~o~~~.t~o~gr~~
complicatcd. Dcep blue permanent finish.
Actually penetrates the steel. U!'icd by gUll
factories and gunsmiths cvcrywherc. Gun"ranteed to be the hest cold blue you ever
used-or your money back.
3 GUN SIZE
52.00 ppd.
1 pint INDUSTRIAL GUNSMITH SIZE.
$7.50 ppd.
WANTED!
SHOTGUN BEADS
DO GET LOST
& BROKEN
Herc'!'l a packet of 10 large
bend (standard 4/40 thread)
sights for usual price of Just
one, ONLY $1.00 per Packet
Tap fOI' above. 4/40
REn!rU;LU
GARAND RIFI~E GRENADE I~AUNCH·
ERS as issued. New, irnportant accessory
addition to your collection. Only $3.95 ea.
JR.
50~
SCOPE
RINGS:
BROKEN
INCOMPLETE GUNS
All kinds for remaining usable parts. We buy lots
of one to one thousand pieces and at Quite high
prices. We must have parts and the only way to
get many of them is by breaking up used guns.
Ship off for our offer. Check airmailed day shillment
received-merchandise returned Ilrellaid if offer not
satisfactory.
Solid steel. %," dia. only. Fits all
Redfield Jr. bases. Very special
....................... $1.95 per pro
We have some 20,000,000 gun parts in over 27,000
sq. ft. of storage space-modern, obsolete, foreignadvise wants for free quotation.
GUNS
SEPTEMBER 1959
71
THE
GUN
Classified ads 20c per word per insertion including name and address. Payable in advance. Minimum ad 10 words. Clqsing date for November, 1959, issue
ACENTS WANTED
HTN A Spare-Time Greeting Card and Gift Shop at
home. :-\how friends samples of OUf new 1!)59 Christmas
ami All O('('asion Grecting Cards and Gifts. Take their
orders and earn to 100% profit. ?\o experience necessary.
Costs nothing to try. \Vl'ite today for s<lllll>les on aPI)rOval.
Begal Greetings. Dept. 72, l'~crndale. l\lichigan.
BINOCULARS AND SCOPES
Bl:\IO<' I 'LA It SPF.CIAr....IS'l·~. all makes repaired. li'ree
estimates, all work guaranteed. New hinoculars, telescopes,
riflcsl'opcS for sale. Authorized llausch & Lomb, Zeiss,
)Icllsoldt, Bushnell. HerLel-Heuss, Dr. Wohler, SWif~.
Aleo dealer. Tele-OIlLies, 5514 Lawrence. Chicago 30, IIbIlois.
BOOKS
HOOK~I':AHClJEHS!
YOU Xame it - \\"e Find It! All
whjecLs.
Catalog 10c.
Vanguard Booksellers, 5880-G
Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood 28, Calif.
DAl\"GJj;n. A HEA D for uninformed collectors! Arm yourself wiLh the valuable informaLion in "Colt Firearms."
5-10 illustrations dear, related text.
Any bookstore.
Free hroehure: en-en Books, Santa, Ana. Calif.
COLLECTORS
FAll LOUS 36 PAGE li'ully Illustrated Catalog Every
:\Ionth. Hundreds antique guns, swords, military items.
All different in each issue. Order with confidence from
America's Finest Antique Service. Subscription just $1
for 12 catalogs. Norm Flayderman (Gi\!) , 44 West Putnam
Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Ax'rIQUE F'rHEAR~{S large illustrated catalog with
periodic supplement 50c. Jackson Arms. 6200 Hillcrest
.1\ \·c .. Dallas 5. Texas,
LUGEltR j\tAUSERS Automatic Pistols. Bu)'Rell - Trade Send For List. James K. Belford. 702 So.
Anna St.. Stultgart, Ark.
"ANTIQUE & MODER:V Arms, Accessories at 'Recession'
prices. Sample list. 25c. Ladd Arms, Catskill. N. Y."
GUNS - SWORDS - Knives - Daggers - Flasks. Big list
~5e cein. Ed Howe, Cooper Mills 10. Maine.
MARKET
(on sale October I) is August 16. Print ad carefully and mail to GUNS Magazine,
8150 North Central Park Blvd., Skokie, Illinois.
SMITH & WESSON. 22 Cal.. brand new. model 41. target
automatic. $110.00. Fully engravcd model. $285.00. Public
Sport Shops, 11 S. 16th Street, Philadelphia 2. Pa.
S"VISS 7.5mm AMMUNITION. Military $12.00, Sporting
$17.00 per hundred. Randau Arms, 011 Pico Avenue. Fresno
4, California.
:\'£11 :H8 WINCHESTER NEW $00.50. 6:5 Steyr carbine.
Feekcr 1.tAl" excellcnt $115.00. Jetf. Trader. Pocomoke
Cit..... :\Taryland.
10,000 GUXS!! !-A:KTIQUES, Moderns, Swords, Armour
-cvery description. Giant Catalog :1'1.00. Agramonte's,
Yonkers 2-1{. N. Y-:LARGE ASSOUTMENT of new and used handguns. rifles
and shotguns. Send ten cents for list. Centre Firearms Co.
of ;..i. J .• Box 9:1, Hochelle Park, N. J.
BULLETS, HELOA DERS write for list prccision made
jacketed bullets.
Hi-rrecision Company, Box G121,
Orange City, Iowa..
HAKDGUNS-XE\V enlarged 1959 catalog 50e.
li'rielich, 396 Broome St., ::'\'ew York 13. N. Y,
Robert
20mm NAVY CAN:\'ON Cartridges deactivated $1.00 postpaid. Joe Puffert. 1808 Baltimore, Cincinnati 25, Ohio.
NF;W 1\'£-1 CAHBI.'\l)l;S $100.
llimrock, Ariz.
~·r·I
lUfles $125.
Sloper,
EKFIELDS. MA USEHS. Snrillgfields, etc.
Free list.
Freedland Arms Co.. 34 Park How, New York, N. Y.
NEW ),[-1 CAUBINES $100.
Sloper, Rimrock, Arizona.
Perfect Garands, $110.
CUNSMITHINC
DRILL1XGS (THREE Barrelled Guns). rellned to Ameri-
can cali bel's. a specialty. \Ve can handle any practical rebore, reline, or barreling job. All work 100 % guaranteed.
Write for prires. Snapp's Gunshop. 214 !\. \Vashington.
Royal Oak. "Michigan.
GUN SCRE'VS, 6/48 or 8/40 assorted lengths 50c per
dozen. Professional 2 flute Taps $1.20 Special hard steel
drills 45c. All postpaid. Scnd for Catalog l4GC on all
Buchler mounts (including New l\Iicro-Dial), Low Safetys
etc. 'Maynard Buchler Inc., Orinda. Calif.
BLOCKSTOCK1NG. REBROWN & Reblue.
Repair all
] 2 CE:"TURY MILITARY Flails: Complete details upon
request. John's. 311 So. 4 St., Harrison, N. J.
:\iake Shotguns & Rifles. Frank LeFcrer & Sons Inc.,
Custom Gunsmiths. Frankfort, New York.
'
ENCRAVINC
GEXERAL GUNSMITHING-Repairing, rebluing. conversion work, parts made. Inquiries invited. Bald Rock
Gun Shop. Berry Creek. Calif.
\VORLD'S FINEST Engraving. Folder $1.00. E. C. Prudhomme, Ward Bldg.. Shreveport. La.
FOR SALE
30-0n ~PRI:\lGJt'IJ~LD llARHI':LED ,porter. )lauser 98
bolt action. F'ront and Lyman ,Micrometer peepsighl. Forearm and full pistol grip checkered. Cheek piece, swivels.
adjustable sling.
New condition $85.00.
Ted Hobert,
851 Boulcyard East, Weehawken, )[..J.
BUAND NEW Bausch & Lomb 272X8, Bah'ar Scope and
)Iount $09.50 prepaid. San Francisco Gun Exchange, 75
Fourth Street, San Francisco 3, California.
rl~TOL
}""LA KS. brass. modern, with 36&44 chargers,
photo. dealers discounts. J. N. Dangelzer. 3056 }i'rontier
1-'1. ~E., Albuquerque, ~. :.\1.
:MILITARY AXD Sporting items at Burg-gun Prices. List
25c. Garden State Arms, Box 342, Ridgefield l'ark, Kew
•lersey.
('OI~T
S:AA .45 EXC. condition reloading dies components.
Dearth. 245 BrooklYn Aye., Da)·toll 17, Ohio.
~~lwood
INDIAN RELICS
3 INDIAN \VAR arrowheads. Flint Scalping Knife. Flint
Thunderbird $4.00. Catalog 10c. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Arrowhead. Glenwood. Arkansas.
LEATHER CRAFT
LEATHERCRAFT CATALOG Free. Kirkpatrick Leather
Co., Box 637-A10, Gainesville, Texas.
FREE "DO-It-Yourself" I..oeathercraft Catalog. Tandy
Leather Company. Box 791-E30. Fort Worth. Texas.
LOST & FOUND
LOST, s'rUA YF.D or Stolen: One Item ington Over and
Under, 32 Trap Shot Gun, Ser. No. 198. One Browning
Over and Under special grade trap gun, Ser. No. 1461. One
L. C. Smith Crown Grade double, serial No. 11596. Will
pay liberal reward fOr infornUltion about these guns. John
:'\[oran, 1931 :\:fartindale Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.
CUNS & AMMUNITION
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
RUITISH MIC 5 303 Lee-}~nfleld Jungle carbines. Very
good-$24.95. Excellent-$29.05. British Mk. 3 & 4
303 Lee-Enfield rifles. Excellent-$19.95. U.S. 30-06 Enfield rifles. Very good-$20.95. Excellent-$34.95. Perfect-$39.50. German Mod. D8 8mm :\fauser rifles. Very
good-$37.50. ExceJIent-$42.50. Czech 'Mod. 98 8mm
Mauser rifles. Excellent-$49.50. EgYI>tian 8mm Mauser
10 shot semi-automatic rifles. F.1'\'. made. Very good$69.50. Jap 7.7mm Arisaka rifles. Pre-\Var issue. Very
good-$18.00. Jap Type 44 6.5mm Arisaka carbincs with
folding bayonets. Very good-$SD.50. Excellent-$45.00.
Swedish 'Mod. 84 6.5mm Mauser earhines. Very good$32.50. Moneyback guarantee, Free list. Freedland Arms
Co., 34 Park Row, New York 38, K. Y.
ACCORDIONS SAVE 50%. Connell Music. 101 South
Brown St., Gloucester, New Jersey.
~'ANTIQUE GUN Depot" OtTers: 45/70 Cartridge Belts
with large "U.S." solid-brass buckle . . . $4.50; Rare
Civil \Var Union Knapsaeks . . . $6,50; Ci\'U 'Var tuliphead reproduction ramrods . . . $2.75; Above postpaid.
Also . . . Springfield 45/70 Rifles; Civil War Muskets &
Carbines; Kcntuckies; 'Vinchesters; Loads More. Illustrated
Glin Cata!oguc 25c. \Vestchester Trading, G-2478 Arthur
Avenue, Bronx 58. New York.
"SHOOTIXG A:\DIO Specials" . . . priced per 100 rds.:
·lj/iO Smokeless . . . $8.00; .303 British . . . $8.00;
30/06 . . . $7.50. Shipped Express. 500 rd. orders prepaid.
\Vestchester Trading. G-2478 Arthur A\'cnue, Bronx 58,
'Kew York.
GEH~lA:\' ~IOD. 71/84 lJmm Mauser riflcs. New condition-$2·1.95. Select stock-$27.50. British Mk. 4 303
Rnipe! rift,es with original sniper SCOI>CS.
Very good _
$·1'1.9:>. F~xcellent - $49.95. Frcc list. AI's Gunroom,
1 Beekman Street. New York, N. Y.
PHOTOCRAPHIC EQUIPMENT
FREE! 72 PAGE photographic bargain catalog. Dept.
18-A9 Central Camera Company, 230 So. \Vabash Ave.,
Chi.ea~o, Illinois.
SELL OR TRADE
XEW REJ..IOADING tools & dies. will take used tools &
dies in trade; James T. RoYds, 137 W. Nedro Ave., Phila.
(20). Penna.
3 LB. PETRIFn~D Dinosaur tooth valued at $50. for exe.
20 ~a. double shotgun. \"arren \". 'Vegner. P. O. Box 553,
('entral City. Nehr.
WANTED
COLLECTOR WANTS-fine old Smith & Wesson, factory
engraved, rcvolvers; lerer action type pistols; 22 revolvers
in hard rubber boxes; & any S&\V'8 equipped with
shoulder stocks. \Vayne Kramer, P.O. Box 271, Great Bend.
Kansas.
:\IODEL 32 RE:\HNGTON O/U, 30 Inch barrels, plain,
no rib. full and full or full and modified, double triggers
prcferred. Johnny Johnsen, 1135 R Street, Lincoln, Ne·
braska.
OLD HANDCUFFS, legirons. thumbfasts. shackles wanted.
Patterson Smith. 2FL. 269 Shepard Ave., East Orange.
~ . .T.
"WAi\'TED-AUTOMATIC Pistols. Hare, odd. unusual.
Want Jap, Spanish pocket !I'{odels. Give full particulars.
Sidney Aberman. 1210 Beechwood, Pittsburgh 6, Penna."
COLT Ij~R9NTIERS, Colt and Remington percussion rel"ol\·crs. \V1I1. Lever actions plus many other Modern and
tG~i~)~ ~~t~~'it'i~~eS~r:I~~ne~~~~P for list. Chet Fulmer
ClJ.NS. GUNSMITHING, Bausch & Lomb scopes, acces:sones. Trades accepted, Send stamp for bargain gun list.
~Vineheste.r, S & 'V, many others, modern and collectors'
Items. 'Vlest, 234 Tulane. Oak Ridge, Tenn.
72
COLT AKD Remington cap and ball revolvers. Describe
fully and price. Irwin Kotek, 1370 Monterey, Redlands,
Calif.
MODEL 32 B.E:\II::\I"GTON shotgun. Give price and condition. C. \". Hornsb)', 14 Elm Ave., Newport News. Va.
COLLECTOR WANTS dewat Thompson Submachine Gun,
model 1928 or AnAl, in excellent condition. Describe &,
price. John Fahe)', 15 Fairview PI., Buffalo. N. Y.
MISCELLAN EOUS
FINEST LUBRICATI:\"G Oil Money Can Buy! Once in a
Lifetime Purchase from Go\-ernment surplus. One quart Oil
and One Pound Gre;.\se manufactured by Lehigh Chemiral
Products Company for Aircraft Instruments and Machine
Guns. Compares to $40.00 Retail value. Both for Only $3.00
Prepaid. San }i'rancisco Gun Exchange, 15 Fourth Street,
San Francisco 3, California.
GARAXD ..\II D SNIPER rifle barrcls, finest accuracy.
GO\·t. made, tit any Garand without heads pace reaming.
rea.dy to lise, only $9.75. Springfield .22 :\12 BOlt handles.
$3.50, Heads, $1.90. Firing pins. $1.70. Postage extra.
Other parts. Garand., Carbine. MHl03 Springfield, 45170.
.303 Ross. List 15c. Valley Forge Arms Co., 2:!8 Crooked
Lane. King of Prussia, l'a.
CARRYALL CANVAS Roll with straps and handle, large
size 54 x 22 inches. for travelers, campers, baseball players,
etc. Gov't Surplus, brand new, value $12.50-Spel'ial $2.2.-,
each. Public Sport Shops. 11 S. 16th Street. Philadelphia
2. Pa.
HA:"D SIGHTI,KG Lerels. improved new
uses, for laying drains. ditches, foundations,
touring, laying out of fences. piers, roads
Fully guaranteed. $2.50 Postpaid. Public
11 S. 16th Street. Philadelphia 2, Pa.
model, many
grading, conand gardens.
Sport Shops,
30-06 SPRIKGFIELD OR Enfield Rifle Stock. as issued.
brand new, $2.95 each. A3-03 Springfield rifle barrels. cal.
30-06, brand new. Gov't. Surplus, 24-inch. completely
finished. Value $25. Special $5.00 Postpaid. Public Sporl
Shops, 11 S. 16th Street. Phila. 2. Pa.
AUTHENTIC REPRODUCTIOi\rS-Huge 11"x33" Famous
1874 "Buft'alo Bill" and "\Vild Bill" Hickok 'Vild \\'est
Show Theatrc Broadside $2.00 Postpaid. Set of 12 all different old \Vells Fargo Heward Posters S2.00 Postpaid
Norm Flayderman Guns. Grcellwich. Conn .
PEERLESS HANDCUFFS, $13.n5; li~ht\. . eights. $16.-1::i.
Darbies, $9.95. Leg Irons. $12.95. Iron Claw. $!UJ3. Twi~l­
ers, Guide Chains. $1.50. Transport chains. I;"'etters. Leather
restraints. Collector's specialties. Thomas Ferrick. Box 12,
).,l cwburYl>ort. ~Iass.
l<'AS'l' DUA\V .r;nthusiasts Improve your draws. time, and
scores now with thc aid of :\rangal's Fas! Draw Tillie <lnd
Score Charts. Fifty (50) charts to a pad $t.~:) 1'.1'. per
Dad. Special rates, to dealers and clubs. Charles .\langal,
DCDt. 2, 4]33 W. Harrison Sl., Chicago 2-1. Ill.
BRASS. OXE-Piece Cleaning Rod with brush. GO\"t Surplus, for 45 cal. revolvers and automatic pistols. $1.00 each
Dostpaid. Public Sport Shops, II S. 16th Street, Philadelphia 2. 1:1o a .
SHOOTER'S BIBLE. 1959, over 500 pages. Immediate
shipment. I1111strated i\Iodern Guns and Acrcssories, $2.00.
1959 Gun Digest $2.95 Postpaid. Public Sport Shops. 11
S. 16Lh Street. Phila. 2. l)a.
M.S.A. EAR DEFENDERS for the shooter. Brand new,
U.S. Gov·t. urplus. Value $3.00-WhiIe They Last $1.00
pair Postpaid. Public Sport Shops, 11
16th Street,
Philadelphia 2, Pa.
"INSPECTION AR:\IS": Bore-Lite with Lucite head . . .
88e plus 12c postage. 25 lot . . . 68c earh ($17.00) postpaid. Westchester '.lTading. G-24i8 Arthur Arenue. Bronx
58. !\ew York.
A'fTENTION PREMI :\1 Gun Blanks For Rale. Complete Selection of Pistol Grips. Gold and "Silrer Inlan.
Dealer Inquiries Invited. Send for Ii'ree List. Host's Gunsmithing Supply Co., Box 457, \Vestport. Conn.
ATTENTION ENFIELD Owners. I Hare :\lissill/.{ Brass
Stock Disc And Screw. Complete Your Enfield For Only
$1.00 l=»ost Paid. Gordon, 35-08 Garclen \'i~w Terrace,
Fairlawn, New Jersey.
PEDOMETER. BRAND new by New Haven \"atch Co.
Measures the distance you walk. \Vhi Ie They Last $5.95.
Public Sport Shops. 11 S. 16th Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa.
HIF'LE SLINGS. leather, Army Surplus, ItA inch. Brand
new, $2.00 each. Public Sport Shops. 11 S. 16th Street,
Philadelphia 2, Pa.
OVER 5000 RIFLES, Shotguns, Handguns. Modern, Antique listed Monthly. Sample COpy 25c (Coins). Shotgun
Xews. Columbus. Nebraska.
CUSTOM HOLSTERS and Kits, Sec Our '30 Catalog @
.25e. Leathers by Reid, 2230 Comeg)"S .: he., Scranton n.
Penna.
CANNON BARRELS 19 %. .. Long-Other Rizes-Rcnd 25c
for information. ,1. P. Whitaker, 2-115 Bridge A\·e., Dil\'enport, Iowa.
OLD FAITHFUL VAR:\IEXT calls: Fine. coarse, or
mcdium, hand made, $2.50 ea. pp.; dealers inquire. Ed.
Ford, Mineral "Veils. Tex.
"THE GUN Heport," monthly magazinc for gun eollceLors.
enthusiasts. Informati\"C. factual, interesing. $·1.00 )"Car.
Box un;, Aledo, Illinois.
IJOLSTEHS, HIFLE Scabbards, qualit;r lelHher items for
sportsmen, lowest prices. Stamp for folder. Tejano Leather,
Dept. G, I=». O. Box 3332, 1':1 Paso. Texas.
I"HEE CATALOG. Finest Lightweight. Outdoor Equipment.
Unconditionall,r Guaranteed.
Porta Co., Inc.,
Canton 24, Mass.
HWINEMAKING: BI';ER. Ale Brewing," Illu,;trated. $2.00.
"How to Smoke Meats, Fish," $1.35. Eaton Books, Box
1242-N, Santa Rosa, California.
ELECTRIC PENCIL: Engraves all Metals. $2.00. Beyer
10t511-Q Roringfield, Chicago 43.
:\If~.
CROSSBO\VS! HUNTIXG Bows! Factory·Direct-Prices I
Jay Co.• Box 1355, \Vichita, Kansas.
"ACCORDIONS SAVE 50%," Connell Music, 101 South
Brown St.. Gloucester, :Kew .Jersey.
XAZI ]TE~IS bought So:. sold, ori~. onl~', 1 pieee or colleetion; I... ('nkel, 812 Anderson. Palisade. :\. J.
GUNS
SEPTEMBER 19S9
.THE GUNS THAT
WON THE WEST
Colt Wells Fargo·
.31 Cal. 1848
Colt Army .44 Cal. 1860
ANTIOUE Ii UNS
These are replicas of original rare COLT guns
made of strong metal-look and feel like the
REAL GUNS-with gun blnc finish.
1847
1873
1836
1848
1860
1851
Colt
Colt
Colt
Colt
Colt
Colt
Walker-44 cal•.....•••.•.. $6.95
Peacemaker-45 cal. . .••.•. $5.95
Texas Paterson-40 cal•...... $6.95
Wells Farga-31 cal.
$5.95
Army-44 cal. . .....•...... $5.95
Navy-36 cal•.............. $5.95
Truly novel gifts that are interesting conversation
pieces. Each gun comes complete with a short
.and enlightening history on its period.
Send cash, check or Money Order now1
VALLEY GUN SHOP, Dept. G
7784 Foothill -
Tujunga, Calif.
Manufacturer 10 YOU
';~:~,~ 'l'!;,~~g'~ul;rW~It ~~~uU~~~
ster Set has been the pride or
"'estern Cattlemen. All sizes, in Brown or
Black. All Calihers and waist
~i~~lSCY b~~kdGl~~l;:I~te~.~_m~:.?:~.·....
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520 N. Main St., Las Vegas, Nev.
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grain pills okay. Winchester's 80 grain gives
fast blowup at moderate range, good expansion at long range. Hunters report their
100 grain gives insufficient expansion on deer
at long range. Best bullets are made by
Sierra, Speer and Hornady. All the handbook loads I've tried gave good hunting
accuracy. Varminters will work up individual
loads for their particular gun.
Stan Sprague, editor of "The U.S. Handgunner", worked up loads for Hodgdon's
B-L Type C (ball) powder and Sierra's 75
grain H.P. Stan said, "41 grains worked
well. 43 spread a grou p to 4 inche at 200
yards. 42 grains was better. When I put 9
shots in 2%" inches I left it right there. 45
grains locked the action." This shows what
one grain variation can do. I alway recommend working up, and weighing all loads,
for safety and accuracy.
There is a wealth of loading information,
and over 3,000 loads chronographed for
muzzle and 200 yard velocity in the two
excellent handbooks at $2. each, by Speer
Products Co., Lewiston, Idaho. The 54 tested
.243 loads are in the "Wildcat Rifle Loads",
data being too late to include in "Speer
Handloaders Manual". I recommend both
books highly. I haven't fired Speer's 105
grain R.N., but a friend says it's the best
of all .243 brush bullets. He like 40 grains
4350, a good powder for heavy slugs.
An 87 grain Homady is good for all·
around use. 44 grains 4350 for 3,320 fps has
good blowup at moderate range, good expansion at long range. 75 grain bullets are
accurate in most rifles with 40 to 41 grains
4895 for around 3,500 fps. 100 grain slugs
start at around 3,000 fps with about 42
grains 4350, generally a good load. Always
work up charges, and back up at any indica.
tion of high pressure. The Electric Dripper
made by Shooters Accessory Supply, $6.50
at most stores, is a handy dandy gismo to
"drip" powder on your scale pan and bring
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insurance against overcharges, and insures
precision loads with speed.
CCI primers are my choice. A gent claimed
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they gave high pressure in his gun. Our
tests proved his other brand gave incomplete
ignition, leaving some powder unburned. CCI
primers merely gave perfect ignition to burn
the charge completely. His pressure was in
an excessive powder charge, not the primers.
Perfect ignition will consume all the powder.
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