fIIEST III THE fllUUlS finD

HUNTING- SHOOTING -ADVENTURE

JANUARY 1959 SOc
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1958 NATIONAL
DOUBLES CHAMPION
JOE HIESTAND
Ohio State Champion-9 times
Amateur Clay Target Champion
of America-4 times
Doubles Champion of America-
3 times
High Over All Champion-7 times
Hiestand has the remarka'ble
record of having broken 200 out
of 200 fifty times.
Hiestand has the world's record
of having broken 1,404 registered
targets straight without missing
a one.
Champions like Joe Hiestand de-
pend on the constant performance
of CCI primers. The aim of CCI
Champions like Joe Hiestand de-
pend on the constant performance
of CCI primers. The aim of cel
is to continue to produce the
finest quality primers for Ameri-
can shooters.
Rely on CCI PRIMERS
American Made
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Large and Small Rifle, 8.75 per M
Large and Small Pistol, 8.75 per M
Shotshell Caps, 8.75 per M
Shotshell, 15.75 per M
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By FRANKLYN
MacCORMACK
WGN-Radio, Televi sion
Perf ormer
O
F MY collection of more
than 200 pi eces, I am
most pr oud of the Colt .45
"Peacemaker" r evolver I am
holding in the pi cture. It was
given to me over 30 years ago
by a Montana sher iff, Jack
Benjamin, and was supposed
to have belonged to a western
gunman responsibl e for the
eleven notches in the handle.
It is just as accurate toda y as
when it roll ed from the Colt
factor y. Also in my collec t ion
ar e r ifles and side arm s from
32 differ ent foreign countries,
pieces I' ve been coll ect ing for
over 35 years, ever since the
chief of detectives in Water-
loo, Ja., my home, gave me a
.41 cal. palm size Colt, the
famed riverboat gambler' s gun ,
when I was still a youngster.
By NILS KVALE
Norma Amnw nition
Faetory Engi neer
Alth ough I am not much of a
.t\.. milit ary man, my favorite
gun is the submachine gun. I
find it gives a most excell ent
training both for eye and hand ,
to keep up one' s abilities in
shooting the ordinary rifle or
pi stol, and even shotgun. Variou s
targe ts, movin g and stat ionary, at
short, medium and long distan ces
also make the SMG an extreme-
ly int er estin g and amusing gun
to shoot, and the ammunit ion is
inexpensive. The Swedish SMG
m/ 45 is the best perf ormer of all
types I have handl ed ; our stand-
ard bull seye at 100 met ers is
four inches, and we hi t it. I wish
thi s gun had the magazine hous-
ing of the Schmeisser and the
cocking knob on the left side,
but these are per sonal opinions,
whi ch may not be shared by all
shooters. As a ballisti cian , I wish
the gun were shooting a little
VOL. V, 1-49
Fred Mclaren
ART EDITOR
L R. Pector
PRODUCTION
ALFRED J . GOERG
KENT BEllAH
Elmer Keith
SHOOTING EDITOR
JANUARY, 1959
E. B. Mann
EDITOR
William B. Edwards
TECHNICAL EDITOR
Marvin Ginn Lou Weber K. Elliott
ADV. SALES MGR. ADVERTISING ADV. PROD.
Editorial Advisory Board
CAROLA MANDEL STUART MI LLER
ROY G. DUNLAP VAL FORGETT
guns americana . . .
ARSENAL ON THE HUDSON William B. Edwards 14
WHERE ARE TOMORROW'S MINUTE MEN? David F. Soule 31
western . . .
GUNS FOR THE WORKING COWBOy Walter Rodgers 18
handguns . . .
THE MAN WHO BEAT THE UPSIDEDOWNERS Bill Toney 20
GUNS 3rd ANNUAL POLICE AWARD 25
workshop . . .
GUNSTOCK BEAUTIES ON PARADE ... . .. . . . . . . . . . ... . Dick Simmons 22
HOW TO GET CAST BULLET ACCURACy Robert J. Kindley 40
hunting ...
THE TARGET IS SMALLER THAN YOU THINK Alfred J. Goerg 26
GIVE THE LITTLE LADY A GUN Marion Rubinstein 32
shooting ...
TEN OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST RIFLES Kent Bellah 28
"THE PEAK OF PLINKING" . . . .. .. . . . . .. George B. Johnson 36
HOW YOUNG SHOULD KIDS SHOOT? William Hammack 39
gun of the month . . .
NEW SCHORN AUTOMATIC RIFLE K. L. Wate rs 42
Ho"W YOUNG SHOULD KIDS SHOOT? William Hammack 39
gun of the month . . .
NEW SCHORN AUTOMATIC RIFLE K. L. Waters 42
departments . . .
MY FAVORITE GUN . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . 4
TRIGGER TALK , . . . . . 5
GUNS IN THE NEWS. . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. .. . . . 6
HANDLOADING BENCH 7
ELMER KEITH SAyS Elmer Keith 8
CROSSFIRE 10
PULL! .. " ., Dick Miller 12
SHOPPING WITH GUNS . . . . . . .. . . . ... . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . ... . 56
PARTING SHOTS 64
THE GUN MARKET 65
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THE COVER
When a man wins, both his per-
sonal grit, skill, and courage,
quality, and the quality and
fitness of the tools he uses, in-
fluence his record . So the guns
of world pistol champ Bill
McMillan, Captain U.S.M.C.,
share the shooting Marine's na-
tional and international honors.
IN THIS ISSUE
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r<1;R I G G EIi
TALK

THE world ' s champion shooter

cover to the first-team lin eup of stories,
we are presenting to you shooters an all-star
package for New Year ' s. We lead off t he
" worl d's champion firearms sport magaz ine"
with the inside story of world' s champ pistol.
man Capta in Bill .\I c.\Iillan, U.S..\1.C. And,
to give a plu g for the men in gree n, it was
Marine tr ai ni ng that made McMillan an
outstanding pist ol shooter.
Take a gander at the others-Walte r Rod-
gers' story on cowboy guns, by a work ing
cowboy- and Dick Simmons, App le-state
sheriff and noted firearms author and gun
stock expert, wr ites of fine woods in "Cun-
stock Beauties on Parade." Al Goerg, whose
".22's For Survival" caused so much comment
and concern, has an important story for the
woodshunter , "Your Target is Smaller Than
You Think." Read and compare those targ ets,
the vital ar eas of deer , then cross check it
with your own exper ience these past mont hs.
Would you have done any bett er if you knew
then what you know now?
" Give The Lilli e Lady A Gun" is a story
ur ging men to tak e thei r wives hunting. May-
be you don't want to take your wife along on
your hunting trips. Some do and some don't
- which makes it a tough editorial choice.
Yet women can and ar e sharing fun with
guns, with no detriment to their femin inity
and no un-lad ylike competit ion wit h men.
. . . Anyway, her e it is ; if you don' t like
the idea, don't read it.
" ..T.h,P .Iine-un includes . , .c ounle of.mlavers
and no un-lad ylike competition wit h men.
. . Anyway. here it is; if you don't like
the idea, don't read it.
The lin e-up includ es a couple of players
whi ch woul d const it ute, in any other j ournal ,
real "scoop" reporting but which, in GUNS
Magazi ne, you reader s ha ve been accustomed
to as usual far e. Our lead article is a report
by GV :'IS' tech editor on his recent visit to
Bann erman' s Island. Th is off-limits depot of
the gun trade' s biggest and oldest collector
gun firm is also the gun trade' s biggest
myst ery. New photos plus old ones bring the
Bann erman' s Island story up to dat e.
Second scoop is a foll ow-up to one we ra n
from Sweden a couple of years ago, titl ed
" Where Tommy Gun s Are Shot By Civilian
.\I arksmen." The story, first on popular ci vil-
ian use of automatic weap ons to appear in
any journal in the U. S. since the " prohibi-
tion daze," arou sed a flurry 01 MG stories in
the ot her magazines, some pro, some viewing
wit h alarm . Now, Cl,:\S has discovered and
br ings to you t he story of a group of en-
thu siasts in southern Indiana who legall y en-
j oy the fun of shoot ing burp guns. They call
it the " height of plinking," and you may
agree with them.
A third "excl usive" (we promised two but
you' re gett ing three-you al ways get more
for your money in GU:\s) is the report on the
Schorn automat ic rifle. Possessing unusual
accuracy for an autoloader, the Schorn rifle
may be a sign of new gunmaking firm on
the hori zon .. . at any rat e, it cer ta inly
answer s "what's new?" And to reader s, GUNS
will always tr y to give you what ' s new in the
gun world. Ju st keep up with us from
month to month.
Tokyo, J apan: The Japanese Government
announced tha t anyon e who wants a hunting
license from now on will have to pas s a
five-hour course in firearms handling to prove
they are capable wit h guns.
* * *
Fort Carson, Colo.: Ar my Recru it Roy L.
Milliorn, a four foot, 11 inch tr ainee, found
it impossibl e to fire the M-l rifle with his
short arms. Taki ng the situat ion into hand,
Fort Car son shortened the butt of a rifl e an
inch and a half , leaded it to compensate for
the weight loss, and now "Shorty" Milliorn
can handle his rifle with the best of ' em.
* * *
Long Beach, Calif. : When a poli ceman
here used the butt of hi s pi st ol t o subd ue
a rowdy hooli gan, it wasn't quite t he end of
the story. Th e judge, hearing the case, or-
der ed the defendant to pay for the da mage
done to the pi stol when it was brought down
over his head.
* * *
Arl ington, Va.: J ohn McGu ire, a top
GMan for a quart er of a cent ury, ruefully
admits t hat hi s teen-age son, Stevie, now
outshoots hi m on the tar get ra nge. The FBI
agent and hi s son belong to a Virg inia rifl e
[0 m e PISIOI wn en H was nrougru uuwn
over hi s head.
* * *
Arl ington, Va. : J ohn McGuire, a top
GMan for a quart er of a cent ury, ruefully
admits t hat hi s tecn-age son, Stevie, now
outshoots him on the ta rget range. The FBI
agent and hi s son belong to a Virg inia rifl e
club.
* * *
Sudbur y, Canada: Bill Hrini vich felt sorry
for a duck he had wounded, so he nur sed it
back to health , even providing another lame
duck to keep it company. Bill has tr ans-
formed a swamp int o a pond where as many
as 300 different kin ds of ducks make their
home. To keep pr edat ors away from t his
wil dlif e sanct uary he has crea ted, Bill al-
ways keeps a shotgun hand y. The duck was
wound ed acc identally.
* * *
San Diego, Calif. : Jam es Woodward was
cler king in a store when a man drew an
automatic pistol and told him it was a hold-
up. Wher eup on, before he coul d utter an-
other word, the young clerk jumped on th e
man and disar med him, then held hi m for
poli ce with his own gun. The clerk di d thi s
by gra bbing tho gunman' s weapon with one
hand and the wr ist in the oth er- in acce pted
Mar ine Cor ps fashion. J ames Woodward,
you sec, aet nally is a Marine, cl erking on
the side once in awhile.
* * *
Seoul, Korea: Sgt. William Ear p, with th e
U. S. Army in Korea, is a relati ve, a thi rd
cousin, of the old We,t's famed gunsl inging
lawman Wyatt Ear p. The sergeant is a
squad leader and a fine shot in hi s own
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*PRECISION-CHAMBERED BARRELED ACTIONS
Cases show " long pri mer" with firing
pin hole print. may fire when
chambered; also high pressure pocket;
excess headspace primer will pop out.
Micrometer with nail head silvered
on makes good neck rhickness gauge.
37.5 grains, in the more than 50 chrono-
graphed loads with Speer bullets. All hot
loads should be worked up. I foun d Speer's
top charge of 41.5 grs. 4.320 at 3,765 Ips
a bit hot in one rifle. Sisk lists his top 55
gr. Express load as 40 grs. 4064 for 4,075
Ips. Thi s is within 25 Ips of the top 44 grain
hell for-leath er charge l isted by Weat herb y
for t he formed Swift case in the .220 Rocket.
My rifles handl e the Sisk bomb load beauti-
:
ly made a clean, one-shot kill at about twice
I he range many shooters would try (or
should ) with a heavy .300 Magnum. He took
the perf orma nce for granted.
Any .22 bullet that "e xplodes" inside vital
orga ns is quit e dead ly. Hi-V shock often
makes qui ck kills even when vital spots ar e
missed. Tough bull ets may not have pr oper
explosion at long range after velocity is re-
duced. Light , soft bullet s might explode too
fast on larger game at close range. Thi s
would ca use a terrific surface wound, but
would blow small varmints to smithereens.
The 54, gr. Sisk Niedner S.P. is a soft core,
soft ja cket number, made for not more tha n
about 3,400 Ips. At thi s speed it's a bomb,
with low pressure and long bor e l ife. For
varmints, tr y 30 grs. 3031 or 32 grs. 4064.
You might vary the charge a grain or so up
or down for pin-point accuracy with indio
vidual guns. For recover ing small game in
one piece, try the 54 gr. Niedner FJ . (Full
Jacket ) number with redu ced loads.
Sierra, Sisk, Hornady, Speer, and other
good 55 gra in bull et s perf orm well. Sisk
makes the largest variety of .22's in .223 and
.224 diameter. The .224' s genera lly give
super b accura cy, but some rifles reall y tight .
en up groups with the smaller di ameter.
You'll have to try both to find the best size.
Throat di ameter affects pr essure, accura cy,
g8(k"&>' v gnU\' )1i,llkJApePaJrh1F 'W'b'i'.ri~ r : f K '
makes the largest variety of .22' s in .223 and
.224 diameter. Th e .224' s generally give
super b accuracy, but some rifles reall y tight-
en up groups with t he smaller diameter.
You' ll have to try both to find the best size.
Throat diameter affects pr essur e, accuracy,
and safety. One M-70 r ifle that blows pr imers
with factory ammo may have a tight throat
or bore, which the factory would gladly
correc t, but t he owner li kes the accuracy
with his sl ightly reduced hand loads, and
won't return it.
All Sisk Express numbers take any velocity
in safe pressure limi ts. The 55 gr ain is my
favor ite. Thi s, and other makes, gives long
bore li fe and modera te pr essure wit h 37
grs. 4064, for a "sufficient" 3,500 Ips. Speer's
Handloaders Manual recommends thi s, or
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prime r" with firing
may fire when
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Cases show
pi n hole
E
XCEPT FOR Weatherby's Rocket, the
.220 Swift (starting a 48 gra in bull et
at 4,110 Ips) remains t he highest veloci ty
rou nd si nce Winchester brou ght it out in
1935. Handloader s get 4,466 Ips with 42 grain
Sisk Exp re s pill s ahead of 43.5 gra ins 4064.
to redu ce varm int s to fragment s with vital
organs liqu efied. If you haven' t tr ied t his
li ttl e hot shot you'll find it a new experience
in velocity performance. You can amaz e your
fri ends and yourself by pun ching holes in
%" ar mor plat e lik e it was wet paper at 100
yards. (The same plate will shed .300 H & H
Magnums. ) You won't get shaking palsy
from recoil, either. The little st ingaree
squeezes groups ti ght er than a miser does
his money ; and the extra strong case is easy
and economical to load with a variety of
bullet s mad e by most custom makers.
Much misinf ormat ion has been written on
the Swift, the most absurd being that it is
temp erament al. It isn't. Good factor y or cus-
tom rifles give pr ecision accuracy with a
wide ran ge of bull ets, powder , and charges.
Fa ctor y ammo is probably the most care-
full y loaded number. It shoots well in every
rifle I've te ted. My fine F. . Mauser has
made man y groups ar ound : j ( ~ minut e of
angle with handloads, wit h some smaller. It
holds that accur acy 'way down t he road wit h
an 8X hun t ing-type Leupold scope that isn't
too powerf ul for off hand or runni ng shots,
and al igns fast for long range. Groups might
t ighten a bit wit h a 20X tar get glass, but
my guns are for pra cti cal hunti ng, not t ar-
gets. My fine custom Swift on an F. . action
does fully as well.
Some shooters do not consider any .22
suitable for game much larger than coyotes.
Act ually, in my opinion, efficiency depends
. more on the bulIet type and velocity tha n
on caliber. Ralph Sisk, t he .22 bullet special-
ist in Iowa Park, Texas, said a .22 pill of
the right t ype at the right velocity will bag
all medium heavy U.S. game. In his hand s it
will. To prove it, hi s wall s are covered with
heads of deer , pron ghorn s, wild hogs, elk,
and moose. To mak e a legal .23 caliber for
ant elope, he bui lt two Sisk .234 wildcats on
We ate some loco weed. pulled off our
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introduce you to our magazines. we're
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MAN, WHAT A
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shoul de r .300 Mag belt ed case, and al so a .30
Newton for compar ison. The lon g 175 to 180
gr ain bu ll et s i n th e .280s and 7 mm woul d
beat th e .30 cal iber every time for traj ectory
and for wind drift at long range wit h eq ual
wei ght bull et s.
Phil Sharpe and Dick Hart worked wi th
their own shortened version of t he Magnum
case, ver y similar to th e Ri chard Carl son
.276. Th ey exper imente d and changed I hat
7x61 Shar pe & Hart unti l t hey got th e best
possible performance with 4350 powder,
working it out to as near exac tly perfect bo re
capacit y with thi s powd er as was humanl y
possibl e. While the .276 and .280 Du bi el fell
by the waysid e wit h th e death of my oId
fr iend 10hn Dubi el, and the .280 Hal ger a nd
7x64 al so dr opped out after World War 2,
Sharpe & Hart went ah ead and had th eir fine
car tr idge commerc ially loaded by Nor ma, and
had th e Schult z and Larsen rifl e manufac-
t ured for their car tr idge. The Hal ger and
7x64, li ke the fine Ho ffman and Dub iel ri fles,
were custom johs, as wer e the .285 OX.H.
and t he Carl son and Cradl e big 7 mm rifl es.
Ammunit ion hud to he ha nd loaded for all
but the 7x64 and th e .280 Ross, lat er call ed
th e 280 Hal ger.
I tri ed to ae t Heminzton to hrin u out th e
tured tor th eir car trr nge. 1ne t lalger ana
7x64, li ke the fine Ho ffman and Dub iel ri fles,
were custom jo hs, as wer e the .285 OX.H.
and t he Ca rl son and Cradl e big 7 mm rifl es.
Ammunit ion hud to he ha nd load ed for all
but the 7x64 and th e .280 Ross, lat er call ed
th e 280 Ha lger.
I tr ied to get Remingt on to br in g out th e
.285 O.K.B. but without success. It is mil ch
super ior ball isticall y to th eir pr esent .280
Remington load, when used with 180 grain
bull ets and 55 gra ins 4350 powd er. Sha rpe
& Hart are to be complimented for staying
with the j oh until they obta ined both a
commercially mad e rifl e and comme rc iall y
load ed cart r idge. For sta nda rd loading of
4350 powd er and an y hullet from 160 to 180
gra i n th e 7x61 S & H is probab ly as near
perfect as human ingenuity can mak e it.
On game I never was able to tell mu ch
diff er ence between an y of these bi g 7 mm
ri fles when used with sa me wei ght bullets,
and I used them all at one time or another,
eve n kill ed five elk with the 285 O.K.H. be-
for e I found th at , with 180 gra in bull et s, it
was too light for raking shots on t his ga me.
I al so found th ese bi g 7 mrn cali ber s wer e
by all odds the finest and flattest sboot ing
r ifles obta ina ble for all other bi g ga me
up to and including sheep, goa ts, and ca r i-
hou. If placed in t be chest cavity, th ey also
ki ll ed all Amer ica n big game very well , but
on rak ing shots would not t urn tbe tri ck.
Th e 7x61 Sha r pe & Hart car tr idge em-
pl oys a new case, thick er and heavier and
slightly lar ger at head than the .300 Magnum
br ass. I t has been work ed out to exactl y fit
th e bor e capacity with 160 to 180 gra i n bul-
Jet s and Dupont 4350 powd er. Fo r th e wood -
ch uck h unt er want in c h isrhesr veloci tv anrl
1" ,, .. ..... I ~ t ..... .. . , 1"'0 . ;....... "'" tr; o ...-1 .... n...l "'" " ..... ""l1 o n t
very similar to the 7x61 Sharpe & Hart. Roy
Gradle later made a 7 mm on th e .348 case.
In add ition, the German s brou ght out their
fa mous or infamous .280 Hal ger , which wa s
not hing but an exact copy of th e old .280
Ross and also, l ike the .280 Dubi el, a larger
ca liber than true 7 mm. The Germ an s a lso
brought out the time-tri ed and excelle nt
7x64, a tru e big 7 mm and one very well
Iiked and exte nsively used in Afr ica.
All wer e and are very good lon g range
ca rtr idges and , with 175 to 180 gr ain bull et s,
will shoot flutt er and lay close r to th e wind
t han will the fam ous .300 I-I & I-I Mag n um.
This is largely du e to sect ional den si ty of
t he long 7 mm bull et s. I did a grea t dea l of
work with the .280 Dubi el and 180 grai n
bu llet s, finding it a wond erf ul 1000 ya rd load
a nd, at 500 yar ds, made several pron e groups
wit h Lyman Tar get scope and heavy ba rr els
t hat went fro m 21ft " to 3" . well und er th e
minute of angle wi th W.T:C. Co. 180 gra in
bull ets and No. 15Y2 Dupont. Lat er , when
Oneil and Hopki ns a nd myself developed Du-
plex loadi ng, I soon found that th e .3006
case wi th Dupl ex load in 7 rum, th e .285
O.K.H. as we named it, would do anyt hing
t he .280 and .276 Dubi el would do. With one
26" Sniper -weight barrel by A. O. Neidner
and some hand-swaged 173 gr ain NIl bull ets
swaged down to .2845" and 55 gra ins of 4350
in Duplex t ube cas e, I p ut 10 stra ight into
j ust 6 inches at a measured 800 ya rd s. The
car tr idge and rifle also shot many groups of
ju st 2" at measured 300 yards, prone wit h
sling and target scope or bench rest.
These car tr idg es proved even bett er t ha n
th e fine commerc ially load ed 180 gra in .300
H & H Magnum or th e earl ier abr upt-
. ho lllripr SlIn pr.iO or iOO M" lTnllm m"rl p hv
The 7x61 Sharpe-Hart Cartridge
and
The Schultz-Larse n M60 Rifle
T
HE SO-CALLED big 7 mm car tridges
are not new. The first one I used and
tested was the .275 H & H ; next , th e .276
a nd .280 Dubi el, whe n I wor ked with 10h n
Dubi el on these fine loads. Th e .276 was st ill
a 7 mm made from th e .275 H & H ca se. The
.280 Dubi el wa s a lar ger bor e, going a full
.2885" gr oove diamet er.
I expe rime nted a great deal with all three
at the time, and also used them on big game.
Finall y, in company wit h C. M. Oneil and
Don Hopkins, we developed the .285 O.K.H.,
first on a neck ed down .30-06 case, and later
on the shor te ned Magnum Ma user .300 case .
Don Hopk ins also had seve ra l rifl es mad e for
the .276 Dubiel cas e. Dick Carlson of Hamil-
ton, Montana also br ou ght out th e .276 Carl -
son, on a cut-off .300 Magnum case th at is
very similar to the 7x61 Sh arpe & Hart. Roy
Gra dle later mad e a 7 mm on th e .348 case.
In addition, the German s bro ught out their
famous or infamous .280 Hal ger , which wa s
not hing but an exact copy of t he old .280
Ross and also, l ike the .280 Dubiel , a larger
ca liber than true 7 mm. Th e Germa ns a lso
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Wallack mak e up a spec ial rifl e with about
6" twi st in caliber 6.5, chambere d for th e
Sharpe & Hart ca se necked down to 6.5 for
use with Barnes 200 gra in 6.5 bullet s. This
r ifle shot ver y stea dily al so with 58 to 60
gr ains 4831 data powd er and the extremely
long 6.5 bull et about I V:! inches lon g. This
bullet ha d the greatest sect ional densit y ever
sec ure d in a rifl e bull et, as far as I know.
With the very slow burning 4831 powd er , it
work ed well and developed just over 2400
fee t with a 60 grain cha rge of 4831. It al so
made a splendid long range rifl e, for al-
though ' he bull et did not start at hi gh veloc-
ity, it had a much lower velocity loss th an
any ot her existing shoulder ed rifl e bull et we
ha ve ever fired; so that over lon g r anges it
was actuall y much flatter than many high
velocity bull et s at over 3000 feet muzzl e
velocity.
From my many years exper imenting wi th
hi gh velocity rifl es in several cali bers . I
would favor a 10 inch twi st in the 7x61 S &
H for their Schultz & Larson rifl e, usin g bul-
let s of 180 to 200 grains weight for all bi g
game shooting. Th er e is no subst itute for
sectional density, and when you can ha ve
hi gh sectional densit y at hi gh velocit y you
ha ve the hest in a flat shooting long range
rifl e.
Popul ar demand as evide nce d from ord er s
r ece ived convince d Sharpe & lI art that th e
genera l shoot ing publi c want ed a 160 grain
bullet at hi gh velocity, so th eir Norma load
of 160 grain at 3100 feet answer s popular
demand. In my opinion, the 7x61 Sharpe &
Hart ca rtr idge witb 160 to 180 or 200 grain
bulle ts is one of the finest lon g range ca rt-
ri dges ever produced for our li ght er big:
game. In fact or y loading, the 160 gra in
Nor ma load is no doubt th e best of all corn-
merc ially load ed car tr idges for such game. in-
cl uding sheep, goat, antelope, mul e deer. and
ca r ibou to extr eme long r an ge. We do not
cons ider it best for the heavi er aarn e, For tb e
ri dges ever produced for our li ght er big:
game. In fact or y loading, the 160 gra in
Nor ma load is no doubt th e best of all corn -
merc ially load ed car tr idge s for such game. in-
cl uding sheep, goat, antelope, mul e deer. and
ca r ibou to extr eme long r an ge. We do not
cons ider it best for the heavi er game. For tb e
hand load er the NosIer 175 grain would be
best of all bullets.
Next, the rifl e. For man y year s, shooter-
ha ve been pr ejudiced against rifl es havin g
rear locking lu gs. This is all well and good
whe n applie d to lever action rifl es with l ong
spr ingy br eech blocks and locking lu gs ; hut,
when applie d to bolt action rifl es, it is
something Th e old British S.I\1.1. ..303.
whe n tuned tip for ma tch work, showed up
very well in competition at lon g range and
wa s cons idered about the fas tes t and smoot h-
(Continued on Page 62)
bullets in a spec ial 16 inch twi st rifl e to
give 3597 feet vel ocity with 55,640 pounds
pressure, as hi gh as anyone should go with
a brass car tri dge case.
Th ey al so expe r imented with 130, 140, 145,
and 154 grain bullet s, ge tt ing ver y hi gh
velocities in the se wood chuck load s. For the
pr acti cal bi g game hunter, however, we found
out lon g ago, in working with th e oth er big
7 mm car tr idges, that anyt hing under 160
grains is too li ght for bi g game as it simply
explodes on impact an d will al so explode on
a sunbea m or a blade of gr ass ! The 160 grain
Sierra hoattail , that makes such a fine deer
load with 50 gra ins 4350 in the old 7x57
Xlau ser cart r idge, al so pro ved the most popu-
lar for the 7x61, so Sharpe & Hart loaded it
to as hi gh as 3300 feet with 64 grains 4350
for a pressure of 53,800 pounds. Th ey then
had their Swedish car tridge supplier, Nor ma,
dupli cat e tbe load as nearly as was practical
with their powd er s. Th e end result wa s th e
160 gra in soft point boattail ba cked by 60. 5
gr a ins of Norma spec ial No. 104 powd er for
a vel ocity of 3100 feet with a pressure of
51,730 pounds.
Thi s is a fine wond erfully acc ura te load
and cases simply fall out of the r ifle, showing
no signs of excess pressure. It see ms to
shoot equa lly well in rifl es with both 10 and
12" twi st. P er son all y, 1 would pr efer a 10"
t wist and a 180 gra in bullet at around 2800
to 2900 feet for all bi g game shooting, and
the han d loa der ca n eas ily get such a load .
Yea rs ago we loaded the .280 Dubiel to
2900 feet with sta ndard case, bu t it was
over bore capac ity. We also loaded the .285
O.K.I\. to 2814 feet with 55 gra ins of 4350
and the 180 gra in Western Tool & Copper
Co. bull et in sta ndard cases, and to an esti-
mated 3200 fro m Dupl ex cases, est imates
based on tr aj ect or y and steel penet ration
test s in compa r ison with the 180 gr ain .:l00
:\Iagnum mat ch load. Th e Sharp e & lIart cas e
will duplicat e sta ndar d loadings of any of
u' IIU LJI \.. "..L UV !:S "Oll l ',..,. ...,...,'t ,-, ,-u r'U. . ...... vp..., .L
Co. bull et in sta ndard cases, and to an esti-
mated 3200 from Dupl ex cases, est imate s
based on tr aj ect or y and steel penet ration
tests in compa r ison with the 180 gr ain .:l00
:\Iagnum match load . The Sharp e & lIart cas e
will duplicate sta ndar d loadings of any of
t hese car tr idg es, as it gives :1241 feet with a
charge of 60 gra ins 4350 for only 43,800
pounds pressure, with 175 gra in bull et s.
Pressu re r eading on thi s load seems undul y
low to me. Wi th 62 gra ins 4350 and 175 gr ain
bullet s velocity went up to 3272 from a 12"
twist r ifle, with only 47,040 pounds pr essure.
Aga in this seems lik e unduly li ght pr essures
to this old experiment er. Loadi ng 57 grains
1350 in a 12" t wist rifl e with 200 grain bul -
let gave 2863 feet velocity for 48,300 foot
po unds pressure, a very good long range
game load.
H. Nel son Busi ck and th e writer had Bob
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all the privil eges to which he is entitled
tsucli as gnn li censes) just as much. ( IS it
means kee ping from the citizen th e thi ngs
which th e law prohibits. I f your law pro-
vides for the issuanc e of luuui gun. permits,
poli ce should be req uir ed to issue such per-
mits to applicants who comply with th e
requirements set up by th e statute. An active
shooting club , through. its memb ers canvass
ing for desirabl e political nominees and act-
ing to ensure their el ecti on, can incr ease its
voice in public aff airs. I t tok es a little work:
lib erty always did require some effort.-
Editors.
I have ju st read ". 22's For Survival" by
Alfred J . Goerg and my only complaint is,
why doesn't it app ear in more ma gazi nes?
American s should be more defense-mind ed.
Poland, England, and France didn 't think it
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I have a small pr obl em that I am hoping
you can solve. I am tr ying to locat e a gun
collec tors club in my vicin it y. Do you know
of any, or could you refer me to someone
who could give me thi s informa t ion? It' s
very Ir ustrating to have a collec tion of arms,
and not be able 10 meet with fell ow collec-
tor s. My vicinity is the Princeton -New Bruns-
wick ar ea of New J ersey.
J ohn Wr ight
Frank lin Park, N. J.
Collector Seeks Connections
As one of your reader s, let me compliment
GUNS for an interesting job well done. I am
a collector of firearms, not a shooter, but
neverth el ess find the publ icat ion far excels
t he job done by any of your compet itor
magazines.
I have a small pr obl em that I am hoping
you can solve. I am tr ying to locate a gun
collec tors club in my vicinity. Do you know
of any, or could you refer me to someone
who could give me thi s informa t ion? It' s
very Ir ustrating to have a collec tion of arms,
and not be able 10 meet with fellow collec-
" .22' s For Survival"
I fou nd " .22's For Survival" inter est ing,
but I qu esti on the selection of a single-shot
f or t he sur vival gun. I t hin k the clip-fed
bolt -action repeat er would be better. Th e
Air Force' s M-4 sur vival ri fle (.22 Hornet)
uses a cli p (detachable box) magazine. How-
ever, if you alr eady ha ve a good .22 repeat er ,
I t hi nk you would be bett er off with the gun
tha t you know and shoot well .
For li ving off the coun tryside, t he .22 i s
the best of guns; but if you expect t o gu n
Reds, bett er get a hi gh-power rifle. Th e best
bet would be the 03A3 fro m t he D.C.M. If
your gun shoots .30-06 Spr ingfi eld, the gov-
ernment might be able to pass out ammo t o
fit. If not, you might be able t o obtain
wea pons and ammunition from invaders who
won't be need ing them any mor e.
John W. Rockefeller
Grand Island, Nebraska
Legal Nonsense
Wh ile looki ng t hrough the stat utes of
Mi ssissippi, hoping to get an idea for a bill
for my st udents to submit to the annual
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Hi ghland s, New J er sey
Wm. H. Wil son
Mill ingt on, Tenn .
The Sull ivan Law Up-state
I happen to be a country resident of New
York State, and I can tell you that getting a
pistol permi t under the Sull ivan Law is a
long drawn out pro cess. There ar e at least
five forms to be filled out; then t he waiting
begins. It tak es at least 90 days, while t he
J udge, Sheriff, Chief of Police, and an official
in Alba ny decide if you ar e qual ified to have
the permit .
Th e permit is wort h waiti ng for though, if
you l ive in the country, beca use you get a
permit that is good for the rest of your l ife.
At least it work s that way in the section
where I li ve. I now have three Ru ger re-
volver s regist er ed : a .44 Mag num, a .357
Mag num, a .22.
I taught my younger brother to use
a r ifle and the pi stol s when he was 12, and
allowed him to carry the 22 pistol whenever
he went with me to wal k the trapline or
hu nt woodchucks.
Legal Nonsense
Wh ile look ing t hrough the stat utes of
Mi ssissippi, hoping to get an idea for a bill
for my st ude nts to submit to the annual
pr act ice congress sponsored by t he vari ous
colleges of tha t sta te, I ran across something
that would delight an enemy power , especial-
ly if all the states ha d it. Th is is a law re-
qu irin g that all rifles with a muzzle velocity
of 2,000 or more feet per second be regis-
ter ed. Since such a gun can be very usef ul
in t he na tional defense, fifth-columnist s and
fell ow-travelers would know wher e to look
for t hem, in order to help render Ameri ca
defenseless.
Few poli ce officers are qualifi ed to give
opinions on legal matt ers. You need a lawyer.
Each club should have among its memb ers
a competent attorney willing to go before a
Law Means " Can" As
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I read your magazi ne ever y month, and
enjoy it very much. I was especially int er -
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we have j ust star ted a pi stol cl ub in our
town. I would like to ask you why it is
impossible to get a pi stol permi t for an y-
thing except tar get shooti ng in thi s state, as
I cannot get a definite answer from any of
the law offi cer s around here.
Earl M. Ri chardson, Jr.
Orlean s, Mass.
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There is no "Exhibition Grad e" made by
James Purdey and Sons, London, though th e
guns shown in the Sept ember issue may have
been made for an exhibit ion. They make one
grade only- the best . Orn amentation fancier
than the standard Purdey li ght scroll en-
graving costs extra, but the buyer receives
the same steel, wood and workmanship.
Gold inlaid guns ar e sold mostly to In di an
raja hs and t he newer r ich of the Western
worl d.
The Engl ish consider all Conti nental guns
infer ior to "b est London guns." I believe
they ar e right. Purdey guns arc especially
noted for their shoot ing qualiti es. YOll get
t hese and t he best workmanship and ma-
ter ials the firm can obtain.
Th e Engli shma n figur es the P urdey is li ke
a chronometer mad e to Admiralt y req uire-
ments and cased in solid gold. He figures
you can buy abroad if you want an alarm
clock in a j eweled case.
1. R. Bal ent ine
Carmel, California
1t must be nice to be in England now that
in bloom.-Ed.
East, West, Home's Best
There is no "Exhibit ion Grad e" made by
J ames Pur dey and Sons, Londo n, though the
guns shown in the Sept ember issue may have
been made for an exhibit ion. They mak e one
zra de only- the best. Ornamentation fancier
Congratulations, Meredee
I n your August Issue, page 6, "Guns In
The News," paragraph one is quite a bit in
error. As I am t he inst ructor who ta ught this
littl e wonder to shoot, and the one who wit-
nessed the targets and sent t hem in to the
NRA, I will att empt to straighten out the
story for you. First of all , the IittIe girl in
question was Miss Meredee (not J oan)
Marks, da ughter of Cap t. Theodor e ::\larks,
Post Signal Office. Meredee fired a perfect
300 over the NRA Ranger Course, using a
M1922 Springfield rifle which is much too
heavy and long for her. Meredee fired in
the prone positi on with the r ifie tucked
under her arm pit . This lit tle girl has been
firing for a litt le over a year, has shown
great promise, and we are very proud of her
her e at the cl ub. She has been an inspira ti on
for many of our aspiri ng young shooters.
I am a steady reader of your magaz ine,
and would appreciate it if you would corre ct
the err ors in the story so that Mer edee will
ha ve the story as a keepsake.
Sr c. Ral ph 1. Ma tt hews
Sec' y Chugach Rod and Gun Club
Chugach, Alaska.
standard cartr idge or the ult ra velocity. I
think that Mr. Bell proved this long ago.
However, I do not recommend that your
readers try the same !
Charles W. Leavell
Sumter, S. C.
"Mr. Bell" was a world-famous hunter
who kill ed all kinds of African game (and
many of them) with- if memory serves----a
6.5 mm. Mannlicher and 7 mm. lI1auser.-Ed.
I l ike your magazine. Guns have been my
hobby. The ar t icle in the August number ,
".22's For Survival," by Alfr ed 1. Goerg, was
wonderf ul. I wish it could be published in
pamphl et for m so one could afford to give
it away.
I know wha t he mean s, for I was here. The
Japanese could have come on from Pearl
Harbor and landed on th is coast; only by
t he grace of God t hey decided to go in an-
other di recti on. If we shonld get into war
aga in wit h any maj or power, I hope the same
grace works again ; otherwise we ar c sure to
be invaded.
Ever ything t he power s that be can t hink
of to hi nder us in the use of firearms is done.
l t is a viola t ion of the law to practice shoot-
ing in the counties of Calif ornia adj acent to
the coast. Whil e our ar med forces ar e tr ying
to get to the moon, t he trai ning for sur vival
on the ground is neglect ed, and that is wher e
the baul e will be won or lost.
I ha ve sold all but one of my guns (can' t
use them, too many restr ict ions). I st ill re-
tain a hand gun. Wouldn't go out at night
without it, for wit h cr ime and violent deeds,
it more dan ger?u;; now when t he
on the ground is neglect ed, and t hat is where
the batt le will be won or lost.
I have sold all but one of my guns (ca n' t
use them, too many restrict ions) . I st ill re-
ta in a hand gun. Wouldn't go out at night
without it, for with cr ime and violent deeds,
it is mor e da ngero us now I han when t he
Jndians were her e. As soon as they can get
aro und to it , J suppose they will r eli eve me
of that 10 0 , so I will be an easy prey for the
criminal.
could and I believe it will happen here.
More on the subjec t along with the guns,
please.
Dro IJ Dead!
r enjoyed read ing the so-called controversy
between Keith and Weat herb y. However , I
do not thin k ther e is much difference be-
tween the two. I do not th ink tha t Weather-
by would go out to ki ll elephant with a .220,
or that Keit h would go out to shoot a crow
with a .470. Ju st as in everything else t here
is a point of dimini shin g return in regard s
to velocit y vs. bull et weight. Thi s is the point
they ha ve not agr eed upon.
Velocity is ver y important in traj ectory,
but over a certain speed I do not believe it
has too much to do with the kill ing power.
I do ubt if a deer can t ell the di fference in
being struc k with a 150 gra in bull et at 2900
I.p. s. or a 150 grai n at 3600 I.p. s. at 100 yds.
Nat urally, at longer ranges the 3600 f.p.s.
will out-perform the 2900 I.p.s. You tell a
bear that has been str uck with an ultra-
velocity bull et in a non-vit al spot tha t he is
supposed to dr op dead, and he will probably
chew your head off.
It has always been my beli ef that any
cartr idge is capable of killing the animal ;
,. ,
Rev. Luther Art hur
Huntington Beach, Calif.
::\lrs. Th omas P. Wells
Miami , Florida
Congratulat ions on printing Alfred 1.
Goerg' s ar t icle ".22's For Survival." He is
not alone in hi s beliefs, and I for one have
already built up an ar senal in the past few
years. ::\ly batt ery consists of several mil itary
rifles, pi stols, and shotguns.
I, too, have fri end s int erested in the idea.
With the pr esent crisis in the Middle East,
the thought of enemy mari nes on our door-
steps doesn't sound too silly.
"A Minut eman"
Massachusett s
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be mailed in an asbest os envelope, an swer
thi s qu esti on. What is your club doing to
bring the fun of shatte ring moving clay
target s to more memb er s of your community ?
Ha s th e club promot ed a Hunter ' s Special
shoot latel y, in whi ch hunters or new shoo t -
ers are encouraged to tr y the games of tr ap
and skee t in compet ition with other begin-
ner s ?
Does your club set asid e a spec ial da y, or
night, for the instructi on . of beginner s ?
One of the sures t ways to drive th e new
shooter away from trap or skeet is to intro-
duce him to the games in a squad of ex-
peri enced shooters, and without an y pre-
paratory instruction.
As a part of my duties in providing t ech-
ni cal assistance to th e Ou td oor Ed ucation
Proj ect of the National Education Associa-
ti on, 1 have had the pl easure of intr oducin g
shotg un shooting at hand-thrown cl ay target s
to about 500 teacher s and admini st rator s,
over a sixty-day peri od. Amazing nnmber s of
the school peopl e, most of whom ha d never
fired at a clay target and man y of whom
ha d never pull ed the tri gger on a shotg un,
wanted to know wher e and wh en th ey could
to
n
;anout"'!>a6 an d admini strators,
over a sixty-day peri od. Amazing nnmber s of
the school peopl e, most of whom had never
fired at a clay t ar get and man y of whom
ha d never pull ed the tri gger on a shotg un,
wanted to know wher e and wh en th ey could
enj oy more of thi s spor t.
Af ter a four-hour shooting and hunting
ed ucat ion clinic I recently cond ucted for a
group of 40 hi gh school boys, at lea st half
the boys bombar ded host cl ub officials with
qu esti ons as to when th ey could do mor e
cla y target shooting. All thi s enth us ias m
came after eac h shooter fired five shots at
tar get s thrown with a hand-trap .
If your gun cl uh has not permitted or en-
couraged near-by citizens to shoot at as man y
as five clay t ar get s, how can yon kn ow
wheth er or not those cit izens are inter est ed
in shooting?
Sur e, 1 know that you won't mak e con-
firmed shooters out of every per son you get
out to the club with Hunter ' s Special shoots,
or instructional clinics ; but you will pi ck up
some new shooters in the pr ocess. On the
oth er hand, if you haven't conduc ted clinics
or hunt er's spec ials, the games of trap and
skee t ar e growing in spit e 0/ your efforts .
This col umn should be int erpret ed in no
way critical of th e Amateur Trap sho oti ng
Associa tion, the Na t iona l Skeet Shoot ing
Associat ion, or the ar ms and a mmunit ion
manufacturer s. Th e re al bu r den of providin g
cont inued shoot ing inter est , and th e neces-
sar y growth, fall s on the sho ulders of l ocal
clubs. It is onl y on t he local level th at th e
pot ential shooter ca n be met and introduced
to tr ap and skeet.
Now, go ahead and write your letter .
Mayb e ,Your exper,ien,ce in new
T
RAPSHOOTI NG is a growing spor t.
This is proved by record-breaking num-
bers of ent r ies eac h year in the Grand Amer i-
can, the national trapshooting t ournament,
held annuall y at Vandalia, Ohi o. Skeet is en-
joying a healthy growth al so ; perhaps not
as spec tac ular a growth as that whi ch marks
the trap-shooting spor t, but a growth whi ch
encouraging.
But the incr easing popularit y of both the
cla y ta rget sports is, I'm afraid, in spite of,
rath er than becau se of, the efforts of most
gun cl ubs.
Now, before ever y gun club presid ent or
secre tary in the United States and Ca nada
( where both sports ar e rapidly ga ini ng new
shooters ) writes me or GUNS Magazine a
"yo u cur, sir" letter for that remark, let's
take a look at the record . (This is a good
phra se in an election yea r, r egardless of
your pa rt y affi l iat. ions.)
Government statist ics show tha t about 15
million Amer ica ns buy hunting li censes. We
ma y dedu ce that a maj ority of this army
of hunters either own shotg uns, or ha ve ac-
cess to them.
Reli abl e sources estimate th at th er e are
at}out'T5
mill ion Amer ica ns buy hunting li censes. We
ma y dedu ce tha t a maj ority of this army
of hunter s either own shotg uns, or ha ve ac -
cess to them.
Reli abl e sour ces estimate that t her e are
about 15 thou sand skee t and tr ap shooters
in the United States. We now arrive at a
fign re indicatin g that only one out of each
thousand spor tsmen possessin g the tools and
inclinations for clay targ et shooting are
att ract ed to the gun cl ub.
At this point, it will sure ly be inter jected
tha t economics enters th e pi cture. Some of
the " you cur , sir" lett er s whi ch 1 will ge t as
a result of thi s col umn will say th at our
community doesn' t have enough money to
support tr ap a nd skee t clubs. Th ese let ter s
will point out that. whil e memb er s of the
communit ies involved can afford to hunt,
t hey cannot afford to shoot trap or skee t.
Two answers can qe given i n ad vance.
One is that some of the most acti ve gun
cl ubs to my kn owledge are located in com-
munit ies with r elat ively low economic levels.
Anot her answer is simply the obser vati on th at
a sportsman can usuall y afford to foll ow a
sport in which he is inter ested. If a man
doesn't li ke, or isn't famil iar wit h a spor t,
he feels tha t he can' t affor d it. Some of my
tra p a nd skeet shooting fri ends ma ke only
from one-third to one-half as mu ch salar y
as some of my non-shooting fri ends who say
they can' t afford th e spor ts.
It wi ll also be said, "My town isn' t bi g
enough to support a gun club." This is no t
horn e out by the exist ing evidence, e ithe r.
Some of the largest and most acti ve gun
clubs in the Mid-west ar e locat ed in t owns
of less t han five thousand souls .
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the Hunter in Your Family
Unsightly not ches on your gunstock tell
only part of the story. The hunter who is
really proud of his ski ll uses solid gold or
silver " STUDS" t hat show the head and
name of the actual game killed. " STUDS"
are beautifull y embossed game heads that
are permanent , easy to use and enrich the
appearance of your gunstock.
Ask for " STUDS" at your dealer. If he
ca n' t supply you, order direct and include
your deal er' s name and address.
"STUDS" are availabl e in these 18 pap-
ular game head des igns in either 10-K
gold at $3.00 each, or Sterling silver
at $1.25 each. Federal Tax included.
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BEAR WOLF GRIZZLY BEAR
MOOSE TURKEY MOUNTAIN GOAT
CARIBOU COYOTE MOUNTAIN SHEEP
ANTELOPE CAT (Pa nt her)
JAVALINA BLACK TAIL DEER
MULE DEER SKUNK (a good gag)
DEALERS WANTED - Cash in on
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space for ammo, accessories
arid mounting of scope.
New positive locking gun rack,
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NOW-lei!s available in choice of woods
Select grade gum for easy finishing
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Luxurious, deep grained Philippine
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Ne ver be-
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t or long ra nge a nd Astro n omy . Guara nte ed t o spot
.22 ho le s in t he black a t 200 yds, Gua r a nt eed t o bring
distan t obj ects, peop le, planets, e t c. 60 times cl oser. 5
ba kelite s e ctions, trimmed In g lea min g b rass-5 prec isio n
le n s e s , A p r ecisio n American made in strument, u neon -
d itionally g ua r ant ee d . Ca r ryin g ca s e In cl u d e d . Send only
$ 6. 9 8 . Cash, check or mone y or de r. We pay noetaee.
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which comfort and att ra ction s ar e provid ed
for an entire family. Ot her pr eserves offer
simple dai ly-fee hunting with no frills.
Guides and tr ained bird dogs are f ur-
ni shed, but most preserves permit you to
work your own dog if he is kept under con-
trol. If you have a youngster along as a
hunting companion, a shoot ing preserve is
the ideal place for his int rodu cti on to the
field. All preserves guarantee good shoot ing.
Charges vary, depending upon the servo
ices and facilit ies offered. Some pre serves fix
pri ces by the number of birds bagged, other s
by the number of birds released. Some of the
pr eser ves offer attractive member ship rat es.
In all instances, the sportsman and preserve
operator agree on cost before the hun t is be-
gun. There are shooti ng preserves t o suit
most purses and most tastes. Many cater to
hourl y wage earne rs and sportsmen of aver-
age income. The advertised lit eratu re offered
by the individual pr eser ve will specify costs.
Reservati ons must be made in advance, and
hunter s pr ovide their own shells. It is well,
however, to follow t he preserve operator's
suggest ions regarding shot sizes. Ask in ad-
vance about hunting li cense requirement s for
the reser ve in question. In some states, no
license is required on shooting pr eserves; in
others, low-fee li censes are available for use
on pr eserves only.
Sports men's Service Bur eau, 250 East 43rd
Stree t, New York 17, New York, offer s free
of char ge a neat, illustr at ed folder listing
( by states ) more than 300 shooting preserves
in the United States, giving addresses where
informati on can be obtained, and li sting t he
kinds of game offered. A postcard to Sport s-
men' s Service Bureau requesti ng this
folder may solve your hunt ing pr oblem.
$18.50
Mahogany
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Gum
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-Matching mahogany
1001 box provides
co mpa ct storage of all
shooting ac ce sso rie s
a nd tools for use in
Ihe field and work-
shop.
Mahoga ny $19.50
15 " kit
to those clubs whose efforts have not been
so success ful. And please, no lett ers saying
your cl ub doesn't want any more shooters.
You won't believe it, but I got lett ers saying
"we don' t want more shooters" in answer to
a col umn I once wrote in similar vein for
another magazine. If your shooting is
wort h the time you spend on it, it 's worth
pr omoting, if only because it will be a bett er
game JOT yon if more people con-
tr ibut e time, effort, and money to it .
Looking For A Place To Hunt?
H
ow MANY of you I fi-or-so million Ameri-
ca n hunters have, at one time or an-
ot her , wished t hat you knew of a good place
to hunt- a pla ce wher e you could be sure of
gett ing a bag and a day or mor e of reall y
good upland game shooting ? How many of
you have wished that the seasons were
longer ?
Th er e is an answer to tha t wish. Excellent
shoot ing, unlimi ted bags, and legal open
seasons four, five, and even six mont hs long
ar e available to you on the nearest shooting
pr eserve.
The growth of shoot ing preser ve popul ar ity
is proof positive that t he pr eserves offer a
workabl e solution to the pr oblem of where to
hunt, and ther e is a shoot ing pr eserve with-
in easy reach of nearl y every major popula-
tion center in the United Stat es. Shooti ng
pre serves ar e ideal for men and women whose
time for sport is limited. They are perf ect
also for the sportsman who wishes to intro-
duce his wife, son, or daught er to the sho01-
ing sports.
Shoot ing pr eser ves ar e pri vately owned or
leased acreage on whi ch ar tificially propa-
ga ted ga me is released for the purpo se of
hunti ng, usuall y for a fee, over an extended
seas on. Good game cover is planned and cul-
tivat ed ; game bird s are carefully br ed,
reared, and conditioned. At mat urity, pheas-
ants, quail, chukars, or wat erfowl are re-
l eased .. fpN'J';U
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ga ted ga me is released for the purpose of
hunti ng, usually for a fee, over an extended
season. Good game cover is plan ned and cul-
tivated; game bird s are caref ully br ed,
reared, and conditioned. At mat uri ty, pheas-
ants, quail, chukars, or wat erfowl are re-
leased in accordance with state and federal
regul ati ons, to pr ovide hunting und er natural
condit ions. A shooting pr eserve is a place of
convenience for sportsmen unable or unwill-
ing to spend long and perhaps fru itl ess hours
searc hing for unposted coverts in which legal
game may (or may not ) be flushed.
No two shooting pr eserves ar e alike. Thi s
variety works to the hunter 's adva nt age. Some
pr eser ves ope rate as full-fledged resort s in
Island castle was guarded by men and dogs against trespassers who might steal or be in-
jured by stored munitions. Dogs are gone, but secrets of island are still well guarded.
.ARSEN.AL

3RD OUTSIDER IN 50 YEARS TO VISIT BANNERMAN HUDSON RIVER ISLAND CASTLE.
GUNS STAFFMAN EXPLORES THE GUN TRADES BIGGEST MYSTERY
GUNS STAFFMAN EXPLORES THE GUN TRADES BIGGEST MYSTERY
Demolition expert Forgett (left)
removes fuse from Civil War shell.
By WILLIAM B. EDWARDS
T
HE POWER LAUNCH which had bro ught us across the Hudson fr om
Cornwall, N. Y., churned near er to Polopel Island. I could see the square
mass of the castellated warehouse loomin g out of the morning haze. The
br eakwater was awash with the tide, but we rounded the long southern arm
and chugged between the guard turrets, passed a worn sign which pro-
claimed " Keep Out-Explosives- Armed Guards." In qui et excitement I
waited for the boatman to br ing the launch alongside the wad. I could wait
patiently. Along with milli ons of passengers on the New York Central' s wat er
level route up the Hudson, along with thousand s of gun collectors who know
the fabul ous Bannerman ar ms business and its incr edi ble catalog (which
after 90 years is still a standard refer ence work for gun students) - I, too,
had long wondered " What's on Banner man Island ?"
Since that day in 1942 when I wandered int o the long, narrow shop on
lower Broadwa y, the building at 501 with its antique " Bannerman-Fire-
arms" and gold bullion lett ers on the facade proclaiming "Army & Navy
Outfitters" whi ch has hardly changed in a half century; since that day when
I bought a rusty Spencer rifle on their "Specials" table for $2, Banner man' s
catalog and company had been a moulding factor in my collecting of old
guns. With the tr emendous post-World War II int er est in arms collecting,
14 GUNS JANUARY
Fabulous wall at Bannerman's Broadway st ore lias been st ocked for years witli
arms from Island. Photo shows display in 1940's; but rare guns still turn up.
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some other mer chant s have tri ed to imitate Bannerman,
with more or less success. But it is not easy to imitate a
legend. And legend Bannerman's has become, largely be-
cause of the Island. Now I was to be the third out sider in
a generation to set foot on the Island. The first was an
Army colonel who visited the Island aft er World War II.
The second man was sitting by me in the launch: Valmore
Forgett, late PFC, Ordnance Corps, USA, now owner of
the Service Ar mament Co., also known as " Ma Hunter's."
Bannerman bought the island in 1900 from one Thomas
Taft , who had bought the rocky crag in Newbur gh Bay to
keep it fr om being used as a depot for untaxed whiske y.
Taft cut out the bootlegging and entailed the title with one
condition, that no liquor be sold on the Island. This became
one of the most ironic twists in the story of the Island
Arsenal, for as it turned out, the condition should have
read , "No whiskey shall be used here." On that Island,
Francis Bannerman erected a rambling castellated ware-
house five stori es high, ri sing some fifty feet above the
level of the Hud son. He needed the Island to store 20,000,-
000 rounds of captured Spanish 7mm Mauser ammuni -
tion, as well as thousands of Mauser rifles captured in the
Spanish-Ameri can War. Ultimately he moved other muni-
tion s to the Island, including case after case (possibly as
man y as a hundred thousand at one time) of Civil War
Springfield rifles, Of most interest to Forgett professionally
were tons of Civil War and Spanish War artillery shells,
corroded int o danger ous condition. In addition, Ban-
nerman, to build a foundati on on which to place hi s arsenal ,
sunk barges in the Hudson-barges filled with live Civil
War artiller y proj ectiles. As we di sembarked and walked
acro ss the crumbling concrete walk, I noti ced that the over-
growth of pois on ivy was tangl ed about the nose studs of
fused Parrott rifle shells.
The potentially dangerous condition of the age-old
munitions stored on the Island became apparent to the Ban-
nerman people recentl y, and they tri ed to locat e an ord-
nance expert who would deactivate the unsafe munitions.
They contacted West Point 's Museum and were told, "Go
see Val Forgett." They also wrote to Aberdeen Proving
Ground. " Only man in civil life we know who would tackle
that j ob is Forgett," they were told. Thus warmly recom-
mended, the engaging pr oprietor of Service Armament
Company was willing to ri sk life and limb to take a look.
With an ever-present possibility of stepping on some ancient
fuse rott en with verdi gri s that would detonate from the
pressure of a foot, we tr od Bannerman's Island.
The br eakwater (composed of thousands of .45 70 mus-
ket barrels dumped in and mort er ed over) led to a north
ground-level door . Beside the entrance I suddenly paused,
scooped int o a tin box filled with the pine needles of
decades, and pulled out a 1" Gatli ng Gun cartridge case
that crumbled in my fingers fr om corrosion. That case, in
"keepab le" condition, would be worth fr om $5 to $10 to
a collector. There must have been a hun dr ed in the box
once-now gone beyond recall .
Inside the first floor of the main war ehouse, we walked
past stacks of amunition cases. These chests, each about
two by one by three feet in cube, contained some of the
20,000 rounds of high explosive Spanish War cannon am-
munition that Bannerman wanted deacti vated. In addi-
tion, ther e were round metal canisters, na vy gray, holding
an even t wo dozen t wo-pounder br ass case cartridges. The
shells were painted red, hi gh explosive, and the fuses were
of a type tha t is "armed," by the shock of discharge, ready
to fire on impact. These shells were condemned, so the
story goes, because they had been dr opped once in tr ans-
port. We shook one slightly-something rattled inside.
I looked at the piles of ammo chests ri sing twice as hi gh
as my head int o the dimn ess of the unl ight ed warehouse
vault, and wonde red how easy it would be to "shock" them
a second time for detonation. I certainly did not envy
Forgett his j ob.
We conti nued to pr obe. My gun-hunting instincts were all
p,rim:d to find 20-musket or one of those
a second time for detona tion . I cer tainly did not envy
Forgett his j ob.
We continued to probe. My gun-hunting instincts were all
pr imed to find a 20-musket armory chest, or one of those
chun ky square boxes containing fift y Frontier Colts, the
way Uncle Sam used to ship t hem. But rust and dust
Scotsman's Island warehouse could transfer heavy guns
through big doors directly to vessels for shipment.
covered everything. There was no system, no order, just
chaos.
To the rear on the first floor, Island caretakers had laid
out a hundred cases of .45-70 ammunition for one dealer
order. More cases held tens of thousands of the brass-bullet
Spanish Remington cartridge. Off in a corne r by a ri ckety,
danger ous stai rway where three big chests, lids smashed.
Each contained Spanish Mauser cartridge clips, once-bright
with fr esh ni ckel plate for tropical issue, now spotty and
stained with age.
On the second floor we discovered more interesting relics.
A pile of scrap resol ved itself into a tangle of .5070 rifle
barreled acti ons. We appar entl y had stumbled on Ban-
nerman' s "factory" area where, long years ago, skilled
workmen had remodeled long Ar my rifles into cadet mus-
kets for private military academies. In another section of
thi s floor , we came upon hundreds of sword hilt s-just the
hilts and about a foot of blade, and scabbards chopped in
half, all of the American Civil War patt ern. North-South
Skirmish fans would like that cache before someone-
chopped 'em in half. Further on, we came to Gatling Gun
carriages, with wood-spoke wheels smashed, and the br onze
hubs missing. One trunnion cap remained ; its fellow had
been hammered off, " What is thi s, battl efield salvage?" I
asked. " Heck no," Forgett snorted. "A former caretaker
was an alcoholic, and he took boatl oads of brass over to the
mainland to peddle for booze!" So much for pr ohibition,
public or private. .. . I n sorrow, I counted the Gatling
Gun carriages . Each was damaged, the guns gone, their
heavy brass housings melted years ago. A few barrels, a
damaged set of trunnion arms or two, some gears, a bent
feed case-all that remained of a dozen fine Colt Gatlings.
I took the light and decided to pass to the highest point
qui ckly, to get the lay of the land , and then continue the
search wor king down. The top was a huge "captain's walk"
rin ged by a parapet and with gun shields set in embrasures,
for the Navy quick-firers- light guns shoo ting t he two-
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qui ckly, to get the lay of the land, and then continue the
search working down. The top was a huge "captain's walk"
rin ged by a parapet and with gun shields set in embras ures,
for the Navy quick-firers-light guns shooting the two-
pound shell, that old Francis had bought from the Spa nish
War sales. Even these guns (Continued on page 52)
Main gate has phony portcullis lattit:e and beams like
cannon. Chains do not really operate drawbridge.
Gun from Farragut's flagship "Hartford" is
silent sentinel amid the poison ivy of old
castle island. In foreground, a Gatling Gun
caisson decays from the wind and weather.
Store stocks quantities of uniforms for props
and rents guns to movies, theatres. Island
still has bales and boxes of Civil War and
1898 equipment unopened and unlisted.
Rare four-barreled flint pistol is typical of finer guns sold
in store, Catalog seldom has current price, as they go fast.
Stock of collectors guns like
Irish f1inter, German wheel-
lock and British blunderbuss
is always available at No. 50 I.
Aft er 45 years as cowboy, professional hunter,
and law officer, Walter Rodgers knows guns as
tools of a trade at which he is "an old pro ."
By WALTER RODGERS
Rifle should be carried so it leaves room for
you (and the horse) to work, and where you
can pull it when needed. Gun? A Win. 30-30.
G
ET IT STR AIGHT - I'm no gun expert. I'm nobody
from nowhere, called Slim by them that know me, and
as to shooting, I'm ma ybe the world' s poorest shot. I' ve sure
mi ssed plent y !
True , I' ve had to try some shots tha t made missing down-
ri ght easy; and in the course of some 25 years as working
cowboy, followed by 20 years as a professional pr edator y
anima l hunt er , mixed up wit h quite a variety of experiences
as a law enforcement officer, I' ve handled a few guns- and
seen some handled by some real good gunners. But, fri end ,
if you' re looking for a tr eatise on the int ernal ballisti cs of
some new caliber , thi s ain' t it. This is j ust a piece about
working guns and working cowboys and how the two go
toget her. The guns ar e apt to be a li ttle older than new, and
sort of weathered and work-battered, wit h maybe a scre w or
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GUNS JANUARY 1959'
WORKING SADDLEMEN WHO CHOOSE "PEACEMAKERS"
AND .30-30S AREN'T CRAZY: THEY'RE
PICKING TOOLS THEY KNOW FOR THE JOB THEY DO
two loose some where - mor e or less resembling, you
mi ght say, the men who use them. But , one way or an-
other , they get the job done when it's needed, and that' s
what a man rememb er s.
That is Walter Rodgers' own introduction of himself -
and although editors should be both unseen and unheard,
I know Walter and would like to add a bit to his intro -
duction. Walter's first article in "The American Rifleman,"
back in 1948, brought a record flood of enthusiastic letters,
man y of them from precision riflemen whos e guns and
pin-point accuracy would win Walter 's ungrudging admira-
tion - just as hi s fluid ease in bowlin g a runnin g jack
with a rickety old .30-30 lever action or a mule-eared
Cac/i niTi a It%(/'0] titters:
man y of them from precision riflemen whos e guns and
pin-point accuracy would win Walter 's ungrudging admira-
tion - just as hi s fluid ease in bowlin g a runnin g jack
with a rickety old .30-30 lever action or a mule-eared
Peacemaker would win theirs. Walter is one of a breed
of men to whom guns were (and are) the tools of the day's
work. Give him a couple of shots "to get the feel of it"
and he'll do things with a rifle you and I would have dis-
carded as junk that I couldn't do with the best piece I own.
Walt er knows thin gs about guns that men never learn from
books - thou gh his own book , "Huntin' Gun" ( Infantry
Journal Press, 1949) will tell you some of them.-EBM,
Editor.
Homemade belt and spring-type cut-away holster hold gun
where Walter wants it , lets qun come free without much
I remember one gun I had - a Model 69 Winchester .22
caliber. It shot eight inches hi gh when I got it second-
hand in a swap. The magazine catch was tri cky and I
lost two clips before I bent a slab of leat her over the
release and secured the catch with a rubber band. I br oke
the stock myself soon aft er I got it , beat ing the brains
out of a big coyote that had a death grip on an old trap
dog I had got used to ; but I fixed that (the stock, I mean )
with a bandage of green rawhide I swiped from a cow
too dead to need it any longer. I was keeping r ecords
then for my reports to the Office of Predator Control, so
I can give you a rea l ballisti c report on that little rifl e. I
used it on 1,260 working days, and I mad e about 4,600
lrjH o d ";tJ,, ;t It tAr 11 7
wi t h a Dan age 01 green rawmce 1 SWIped Hom a cow
too dead to need it any longer. I was keeping r ecords
then for my reports to the Office of Predator Control, so
I can give you a rea l ballisti c report on that little rifle . I
used it on 1,260 working da ys, and I mad e about 4,600
clean kill s wit h it. It accounted for 823 coyotes, 117
badgers, 102 porcupi nes, 161 skunks, 784 hawks, 23 owls,
20 eagles, 79 wild house cats, 6 wild dogs, 1 fox, 1 bob -
cat, 30 ground squirr els, 68 prairie dogs, 125 rattlesnakes,
1,260 jack r abbits, and about 1,000 cottontails. (Under -
stand, I wasn't shooting for fun, or for record; this was
the wor k I was hi red for -or such part of it as I could do
with that ki nd of a rifle. ) It wasn 't a prett y rifle, nor even
a very good ri fle considering the (Continued on page 45)
Fanned draw leaves guns uncocked until left hand sweeps
over to cock gun and fire _shot. Satisfactory dose-range
By BILL TONEY
Former Nat ional Pistol Champion
"THE MARINES HAVE LANDED AND ESTABLISHED
A BEACHHEAD!" A FAMILIAR HEADLINE
FOR A TYPICAL MARINE VICTORY-WITH PISTOLS
T
HEWORLD SHOOTING CHAMPIONSHIPS were fired
in Moscow in August, with some 600 marksmen from 27
countries competing. As expected, the Russians, with first-class
guns in the hands of superb shooters with many months of
training practice behind them, took most of the honors. But
there were at least two major bright spots :
Great Britain won the smallbore rifle competition, taking
both team and individual Firsts. (Dr. Oakley of London shot a
new record of 396x400 at 50 meters to win the individual.)
And a U. S. Marine, Captain William McMillan, won the
World Centerfire Pistol title. This is the story of Bill McMillan,
one of the great competitive pistolmen of all time and not bad
with a rifle; the man Marines call "The shootin'est Marine."
Former Nat ional Pistol Champion
Champion 's shooting stance
is relaxed. his kit simple
and unpretentious. But the
man-gun combination is one
of the best in gun history.
Mac checks his pet centerfire gun ,
a Colt's Officers Model Match .38.
alongside kit holding (I. t o r.] a
Ruger Mark I .22 with muzzle brake,
the High Standard Olympic .22 used
in Olympic speed-fi re at Moscow,
one Colt's .45 with Gi les Heavy and
one plain .45 for Servi ce mat ches.
T F A MARINE Gl- - JER had not said in ellect. "Shoot
I
F A MARINE GU\NER had not said in effect, "Shoo t
the pistol or pick up brass on the rifle range," the
worl d's centerfire pi st ol champion might never have en-
ter ed handgun compe tition.
In hi s ea rly years, Bill McMillan had no inkling of the
impact he would have on shooting in the Ma rine Corps,
in Ameri ca, and throughout the world. During hi s school
years, the family moved about fr equ entl y, li ving in various
smaller towns in the vicinity of Pitt sburgh, Penn sylvani a.
He never belonged to a riAe team nor had any formal
firea rms tr ainin g. In fact, he never had a gun of hi s own
until he was alread y well on the way to shooting fame.
His only contact with shooting had been very cas ual;
nothing beyond infor mal pli nking and hunting.
He enlisted in the Mar ine Corps on Jul y 8, 1946, shortly
after graduating fr om hi gh school in Turtle Creek, Penn-
sylvania. There was no special reason for hi s enlistment;
it ju st happened that \f ay. Ma rksmans hip is always an
important part of a Marine' s boot traini ng, and McMilla n
got his indoct rin ati on - with the riAe. Hi s fr iend s still
rib him ab out his long assi gnment to the only riAe sentry
post at the Brooklyn j avy Ya rd. Some say that the post
was created for him because he had not yet qualifi ed with
a pis tol. But , it was not hi s fault. He did not recei ve
instr uction and tr aini ng with the pi st ol for about the first
ten months of hi s service.
"Mac" had taken to the rifl e very readily, and he showed
even mo re aptitude for pistol marksmanship when he got
to it. Still the young Marine did not realize what he had.
Ti me passed, and it became apparent to his instruct or s
Weighing tr igger pull on .45 auto. to make sure it is
withi n legal limit , champion de monstrates attention t o
detail essent ial t o success in t ough competitive sport.
that thi s man was tea m material. Assigned to an advanced
marksmanship unit, he still loved the r ifle and was showing
no gr eat interest in pi st ol shooting. CWO Earl W. Whit
taker , under whom he was un dergoin g training, cured that
by giving him the choice of further ad vanced pi st ol training
or a fatigue detail pi cking up empty shell cases on the rifle
range. The decisi on \VIIS qui ckl y (Continued on page 47 )
GUI\ISTOCK BEAUTIES 01\1
CHOOSING A RAREWOOD FOR RESTOCKING YOUR BEST
SPORTER WILL GIVE YOU PLEASURE IN ADDED BEAUTY.
;':'"
Author's collection of sporters ;t'"
shows markings of rare woods ;
suigi-finished is 2nd from top.
Stocker N. E. Nelson brinas out arain of maple
PARADE
By DICK SIMMONS
G
UNS HAVE A FASCI NATJON for many people .
But one of the most fascinating fields of rifle -
dorn is the stocking of rifl es with vario us kinds of
woods. Th e stock is one of the most obvious features
of any kin d of fir earm, but mor e so on a rifl e than
on a shotgun or pi st ol, simply becau se there is mor e
of it.
A stoc k can be carved, checkered, inl ayed, or
shaped to cer tain styles and shapes, all of which help
to set it apart as an indi vidual thing. On the oth er
hand, you can look for cer tai n pieces of figu red wood
that also sets that pa r ticular weapon apar t from
most others. I have tr aveled ma ny hundreds of mil es
looki ng ove r va rio us stock blanks to find unusuall y
marked or well figur ed pi eces to ma ke up into
fini shed stocks. I have recei ved much enjoyment in
searchi ng for them, fini shing them up, and then
applying the oil, lacqu er or varn ish to bring out the
true hi gh -ligh ts and colors that one can never predict
bef ore han d. The _anticipJltion is much lik_e th at
fini shed stoc ks. I have recei ved mu ch enj oyment in
searchi ng for them, fini shing them up, and then
applying the oil, lacqu er or varn ish to bring out the
tru e hi gh-l ights and colors that one ca n never predict
befo re hand. Th e anti cipa tion is much like th at
received by the .agate cutter or gem po lisher, as very
sel do m do any two gems, or gunstocks, fini sh up
alike.
Yo u do not have t o t ra vel in orde r t o obtain
di fferent spec ies of woods for stock-blank purposes.
Ma ny pri vate i ndividuals a nd fir ms handle numerous
types of imported woods. Any lar ge city has hard-
wood lumber supply fir ms that specialize in these
woods, and goo d, well seaso ned blan ks can be
purchased fr om five to twenty-five dollars. Many of
the superg ra de burl, crotch or finely figured va rieties
wi ll run as high as th ir ty-five to fift y dollars, but you
will have a stoc k that yo u wi ll be conti nually showi ng
with pri de, so they ar e well wort h paying the extra
amo unt for.
Walnut has always been conside red the finest of
stoc k woo d, but thi s sho uld by no means elimi nate
Nelson holds maple sport e r wit h st ock that would run per-
haps $50 for the blank alone. Wood in fine g rades may
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Before and after of a stock blank.
Rar e maple burl blank (right) was
sea soned 25 years, shaped int o com-
bina tion of ma n made and natural art
as st oc k for 7mm by N. H. Hultgren.
other wood s whic h are equal in strength and far mor e
att ract ive. Ci rcassian walnut, which comes fr om Russia,
and is no longer obtainable, has always been conside red
the finest stock wood procurable, with French wa lnut
r unning seco nd in choice. Gunsmith Roy Vai l of Warwick,
New York; Fl ai g' s of Millvale, Pa. ; and Herter 's of
Waseca, Minnesota, ar e three firms amo ng others whi ch
spec ialize in handling French walnut. The English, Italian
and Amer ica n walnuts are all good, wit h those trees whi ch
gro w the slowest and in a more temper ate climate being
the best. In the past few years we have been gett ing a
trR';' Ff'cl'l6'!.1 arrl"Bfn:ther
n
C,\lif&'.mi"uk!\Q,l"Y 0':'
Waseca, Minnesota, ar e three firms amo ng others whi ch
spec ialize in handling French walnut. The English, Italian
and American walnuts are all good, wit h th ose trees whi ch
grow the slowest and in a more temperate climate bein g
the best. In the past few years we have been gett ing a
walnut fr om centra l and northern California known as
" Claro" walnut which in figure and color has most any
other walnut in the wor ld beat. We ar e going to hear a lot
ab out thi s particul ar walnut specie in the future. Oakley &
Merkley, P.O. Box 2'lLI6, Sacramento, California, is the
main firm that is specializi ng in cutting, drying and
di stributing Clar o wa lnut blanks. I persona lly would not
trade a good blank of Claro for any walnut grown, but
that of course is only a per sonal opinion. Howe ver, I not e
that man)"" of our t op-notch stockers are now t urn ing to
thi s wood as better than any which has been imp orted
for many years.
Eastern maple makes a very hard and durable stock ; one
that wi ll take a lot of knockin g around and abuse without
denting. Cur ley and Fidd leback or Tiger-Stripe are the
mor e common names applied t o thi s eastern mapl e and
when fini shed up in a " suigi" or blow-torch fini sh they
are genuine beauti es in any gun ra ck. I have such a stock
on my .257 Roberts and after seven seasons of hun ting
it sti ll looks like new. I also mi ght add that I recei ve mor e
_genuine comp liments on thi s "s uigi" fini shed stock than
on any other in my gun r ack. Eastern maple is slightly
heavy, but is without a doubt one of the toughest and
most durable of stock woods.
Western Ma ple is being used quite a bit at the pr esent
time and thi s is one wood that the blow-tor ch can really
do justi ce t o. In fact ver y pl ain blanks that would show
li ghter -weight wood than the eastern maple, but quite strong
and entirely suitable for stocki ng purpo ses. I have one on
my combination target-hunting .30-06. Stockmaker Ne w-
ma n Nelsen, Rt. 12, Box 700, Olympia, Washingto n; and
Anthony Guymon, Inc. , 203 Shore Dri ve, Bremer ton,
Washing ton, ar e two who specialize in supplying blanks
as well as furnishing machine turned and hand made
stocks of western maple wood . Guymon puts out an out-
standin g boo klet whi ch pic tures and describes the various
species of western maple and thi s boo klet is free for the
asking. " Basketwea ve", " Shell Flame", &"Crazy" , as well
'1fJ1Jr"I!;"wl l, 'Yf:Ulrncwn.Fvi'We!wr.kL- ..HiUk'\1
as well as furnishing machine turned and hand made
stocks of western maple wood . Guymon puts out an out-
standing boo klet whi ch pic tures and describes the various
species of western maple and this boo klet is fre e for the
asking. " Basketweave" , " Shell Flame", &"Crazy" , as well
as the usual well known Fiddleback, Tiger Tail and Bi rds-
eye var ieties of western maple are to be had. The firs t
three named species are absolutely bea uti ful species of
stock wood and unbelievably unusual. They have to be
seen to be appreciated.
Myrtlewood is ano ther favo rite of mi ne. I have had
wonderful success with it , due ent ire ly (in my belief ) to
the fact that I never used a blank that wasn't entirely dr y.
I have stocks made of this wood that wer e picked for color
only, with gr ain r unning in every direction but the ri ght
way, yet they give me consistently accura te groups and
do not walk around in the least. I have never had one
cra ck on me, and they ar e very unu sually ma rked. I have
five rifles stocked in Myrt le and would not wish t o part
with any of them for any reason. All blanks wer e dried
two years bef or e I purcha sed them. The Myrtle Shop at
Coq ui lle, Orego n and The House of Myrt le Wood, Hi gh-
way 99, Grants Pass, Ore gon , are t wo firms who specialize
in furnishing well seasoned blanks of Myr tlewood. It is
muc h nicer if you can persona lly visit these firms to pi ck
out exactly what you wish, bu t if you will st at e your
preference by lett er the owner s will do their best to pl ease
you. Myrtle fini shed up in clear plast ic ma kes one of the
mos t attractive stocks one can possibly find.
California Mesquite, a " screwbean type", whi ch is
found only around the water holes in the desert, is t o my
mind one of the mos t att rac tively ma rked stock woods.
FOR SERVICES IIBEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY
II
POLICE AWARD
Guns 3rd Annual
NOMINATED BY
CHIEF OF POLICE CHARLES M. GASH
EVANSVILLE, IND.
THOMAS FIRRANTELLO
STRATFORD, CONN.
ROBERT DYMENT
nl l tr.. . V l b V .... v
BY
EDWARD L. CAUM
PHILA DELPHI A, PENNA .
LESLIE E. FI ELD
CHICAGO, I LL.
RESERVE LT. C. McCRACKEN
RESERVE LT. A. R. THODY
AND 200 MEMBERS OF BAKERSFIELD
POLICE DEPT.
HONORABLE
SGT. EUGENE C. CARLILE
EVANSVILLE, IND .
SGT. JOSEPH CARTEN
STRATFORD, CONN.
SHERIFF J. HOWELL FLOURNOY
I
G
UNS reports with pride, and wit h sincere ad-
miration of the work police officers are doing
throughout America, the results of our Third
Annual Police Award.
This was the biggest one yet; biggest in number of
entries, and biggest also in complexity in judging
those entries. Judges agreed early in the game that
it would be necessary to set up different categories
into which different types of services by police, with
guns, in the public interest, could be compared. The
categories established were: acts of heroism involving
police and guns; acts beyond the ca ll of duty in pro-
moting shooting within a police department; and serv-
ices beyond the call of duty in promoting shooting
and gun safety in the community outside the police
department. These categories were judged to be of
equal importance, and the three winners named below
are listed alphabetically, each on a par with the
others. Each of the three will be awarded the hand-
gun of his choice, suitably inscribed and delivered
in appropriate presentation ceremonies.
In addition, GUNS' judges chose five other names
and gun satety in the community outside the police
department. These categories were judged to be of
equal importance, and the three winners named below
are listed alphabetically, each on a par with the
others. Each of the three will be awarded the hand-
gun of his choice, suitably inscribed and delivered
in appropriate presentation ceremonies.
In addition, GUNS' judges chose five other names
of officers whose services, in one or the other of the
three categories, could not be overlooked. These five men are named below for
HONORABLE MENTION.
WINNERS
DETECTIVE LAWRENCE McCALLION
PHILADELPHIA POLICE
COMM. MAURICE C. PETESCH
DEERFIELD, ILLINOIS
LT. MORRIS G. SEAMAN
BAKERSFI ELD, CALIF.
In our next issue, GUNS will tell the stories of these eight men, with pictures,
so that our readers everywhere may honor them for the work they have done and
are doing in the defense of law and order and in the promotion of shooting skill
and shooting safety.
YOU.R TARGET IS SMALLER
Vital area of deer may be smaller than circle of sight-
ing-in target. Straight shooting is needed for clean kill .
..
Gut shot is largest section of deer where wound probably
would be fatal but animal can run all day if hit there.
?r;.
"
DON'T LEAVE IT ALL UP TO THE RIFLE!
PLACING YOUR SHOT RIGHT IS ESSENTIAL
FOR CLEAN KILLS. AND CLEAN KILLS
ARE ESSENTIAL TO GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP
By ALFRED J. GOERG
Throat shots from flank or front don't leave
room for error. Vital hit must score in 9
ring, requiring accurate rifle and good aim.
Throat shots from flank or front don't leave
room for error. Vital hit must score in 9
ring, requiring accurate rifle and good aim.
Six-inch aiming bull shows just getting shot in black is
not accurate enough. Neck shot [ebove] ruined cape.
TEN
Kick of 8-bore rifle, 1700 grain
bullet and 165 Ibs. recoil proves
Buehler scope mount can take it.
OF THE
Classic-car buff Buehler proudly hangs photos of his two restored Rolls Royce motor cars
beside desk in office which holds samples of current rifles for which he makes scope mounts.
WORLD'S
BIGGEST RIFLES
GUN CRANK INVENTOR MAYNARD BUEHLER TESTS HIS SCOPE MOUNTS ON HUGE
RIFLES THAT MAKE ORDINARY MAGNUMS LOOK LIKE PIPSQUEAKS
, H'
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Ho llis' Martini single shot rifle of t ype sti ll
popu lar wit h some hunters in Africa is .577
necke d t o .450, delivers power at both ends.
Big Westley Richards falling bloc k single
rifle is .500-.450 used by Buehler to t est
st urdy rigidity of new scope mount designs.
Buehler t o develop loads for his collec-
tion of "World's Ten Most Powerful Rifles."
By KENT BELLAH
G
UN FANS DRI VE out of their way to visit Maynard
Buehler at Orin da, California. Maker of one of the
smallest par ts of a rifle, its safety, Buehler' s attraction for
the gun cran k tourist is his collection of the world's biggest
rifles. Among Buehler's many fine rifles, there ar e set
aside "Ten of the World's Most Powerf ul Ri fles." Guns
are Buehler 's hobby, but the big bores ar e part of his
business. All are scope mounted, in his mounts. They are
his testing ground for the rugged scope fittings he makes,
along with his special low bolt action rifl e safetys.
Few shooters think of pip-squeak rifles when they thi nk
of Buehler, but his mount s are used on many .22 ri m fire
rifles. And if the mount holds zero on his big guns, it will
certainly hold on hot .22 to .45 calibers. His lar gest rifle
is a flintlock 2-bore, 1.18" di amet er with 11 grooves, that
uses a 3,500 grain (half pound) bullet delivering 17,500
foot pounds of muzzle energy at 1,500 feet per second.
It makes our .50 caliber machine gun bullet weighing
1/ 5th as much, with a listed M.E. of 12,000 .p., seem like
.l. u \J _ .- a _ .. - - 0 - - - - - - ' -- _. -.
uses a 3,500 grain (half pound ) bullet deliveri ng 17,500
foot pounds of muzzle energy at 1,500 feet per second.
It makes our .50 caliber machine gun bullet weighin g
1/5th as much, with a listed M.E. of 12,000 .p., seem like
a dinky plinker.
Buehler 's batt ery of "Ten M,ost Powerful Rifles" range
from the hot-shot , high velocity, flat tr aj ector y j obs, to
the big, low velocity guns that depend on bullet weight and
caliber for shocking power. His 33 pound 2-bore is a bit
heavy for a shoulder arm, but he made a mold to cast
3,500 gra in bullets, and loaded them ahead of 28 dr ams
FG black powder. Maynard and Dick Hart have fired it
over an inner tube, with recoil over two feet no matter
how tight they held the gun.
The " little" 8-bore double shoots a 1,250 grain bullet
at 1,500 f.p.s, with 10 drams of FG black powder that
develops 6,290 f.p. of muzzle energy. The recoil energy
is about the same as the muzzle energy of a .38 Short Colt
bullet! Some who fire the 8-bore would about as soon
be shot with the .38 Short Colt cartridge. The smaller
lQ-bore H & H double, a type occasionally used in Africa
today, has about the same recoil and energy with the
same powder charge and a 1,200 grain bull et. It weighs
17% pounds complete with a K2.5 scope-in a Buehler
mount, of course. A couple of car tr idges add % lb. to
the weight.
More modern rifles include a beaut iful .577 x 3" x 750
Nitro Express doubl e, by Westley Richards. 100 grains
of Cordite starts a 750 grain ja cketed bullet at 2,050 f.p.s.,
deliverin g 7,020 M.E. Neuman and other great elephant
hunters have preferred thi s caliber to all others because
it has more penetration than the .600 Nitro Express. An-
other show piece, in a popul ar caliber, is his .475 No. 2
Standard sporters are dwarfed beside wall rifle over fire-
place. Gunsmith Buehler made grate from rifle barrels.
Standard sporters are dwarfed beside wall rifle ove r fire-
place. Gunsmith Buehler made grate from rifle barrels.
Nitro Express double. It too has a lot of " whammv" at
both ends. 85 grains of Cordite gi\Oe the 480 grain jack-
eted bullet 2,200 f.p.s. and 5,170 M.E.
The lower power ed 450-.400 x 3%" Magnum Nitro
Expr ess has long been popul ar in Afr ica and Asia, for
t wo fast shots at heavy game. 60 gra ins of Cord ite has
4,110 f.p. M.E. with a 400 grain j acketed bullet star ting
at 2,150 f.p.s, It may surprise some people to learn t hat
moder at e powered single shot rifles ar e still used by many
white hunters in Afr ica. These men have learn ed to place
a single bullet wher e it counts. and use the less expensive.
light er weight smgle loaders by choice. Buehler has two
fine models, one a .500-.450 x 3%" Westley Richards that
delivers 2,745 M.E. The other is a .577-.450 HOll is
Mar tini, deliveri ng only 1.850 M.E. In English nomen-
clat ure, the doubl e number ed shells mean the lar ger cal-
iber has been necked down to the smaller caliber. In thi s
insta nce, the .577 or .500 Express has been necked down
to .450.
A " feather weight" bolt acti on in a heavy caliber is
Maynard's .505 Gibbs, a Mannlicher type with 18" barrel.
It was built on the Enfield acti on with a .50 caliber machine
gun barrel, and weighs only 1114 pounds complete with
Alaska scope in a Buehler mount. Buehler doesn't par-
ticula rly recommend the Enfield action, although thi s one
takes the pressure of the regular cartridge, as well as his
souped-up version of 112 grains Hi Vel behind 570 grain
solid bullets, givi ng a mu zzle energy of 7,400 foot pounds.
Ever ything about this gun is terr ific, including recoil,
muzzle blast, penetra tion, and terminal energy.
A flat tra jectory numb er, for pr ecision hit s at extremely
long range, is a beautifu l .300 Super Magnum, with a
6X scope and Buehler mount on an F. N. acti on. A fa vorit e
load, fr om Roy Weatherb y' s "Tomorr ow's Rifles Toda y,"
gives a M.E. of 4,611 f.p., at 3,400 f.p.s. M.V. with 82
grains of 4350 and a 180 grain bullet, in a blown-out .300
H&H case. Thi s load is supposed to penetrate two inches
of steel, which is a whale of a lot of penetr ati on for a
shoulder weapon.
Another super deluxe Buehler rifle is one that, con-
sidering the bullet weight and velocity, is the most powerful
flat trajector y repeater built today-the .375 Super Mag-
num. Roy Weatherb y' s load of 90 grains No. 4350 with a
300 grain bullet gives 2,800 M.V. and 5,223 M.E. The F. .
action is equipped with a 4XBC scope and you-know-wha t
moun t. Buehler says he can' t describe it, and you have to
see it to believe what it does to a block of concrete. Whi le
his 8-bore double has a greater " paper" muzzle energy , the
huge slugs at low speed si mply lack the " busting" effect of
the smaller, modern cali bers at high velocit y.
But big bore or medium bore, the ri fles all have terrific
recoil and none will hold zero with an inferior scope mount.
Buehler says, and I believe it, that his mount will hold a
positive zero on any shoulder weapon . For a number of
years, famous hunters around the world have been bettin g
their life on it, and winnin g.
Buehler thinks he has the best and most rugged mount on
the market, and many experienced shooters agr ee. He re-
centl y developed an elevation adj ustment to take care of
recei vers that may vary as much as 1/ 32" on the outside.
He calls thi s the " Micro-Dial Lniversal" base. All Buehler
rin gs, either solid or split, fit all Buehler bases, and all
bases have windage adj ustments. The new Micr o-Dial base
permits centering the crosshair in the exact optical center
of the scope. Manv shooters are reulacinz their old-monel
rin gs, either solid or split, fit all Buehler bases, and all
bases have windage adj ustments. The new Micro-Dial base
permits centering the crosshair in the exact opti cal center
of the scope. Many shooters ar e replacing their old-model
bases. One scope in one set of rings can be changed fr om
one gun to anot her that it fitted wit h the new base, with out
re-zeroing.
How Maynard P. Buehler, Orinda, California, became a
man ufact ur er, shooter and experimenter who is doing exact-
ly what he pleases, is a saga of turning a hobby int o a
pr ofitable business. Hi s scope mount and saf ety is as well
known in Alaska and Afr ica as in the U. S. The low-scope
safety was the start. Scope sights on mi litary rifle con-
versions requir ed a low safety and , as a suitable type
wasn't on the market in 1939, Buehler designed one. The
King Gunsight Co. ordered 100 immediately, and Buehler
was in business.
He had bui lt a millin g machine at ni ght school, so it was
no prob lem to tool upo The first run was 1.000 safetys for
the Mauser, Springfield, and Winchester 54. Safetys were
made in the basement workshop, and Maynard packaged
them in the garage. Advertising created a nat ional demand.
Scope mount adverti sing paid so well, the basement shop
could no longer handle the volume. Buehler made a deal
with some old fri ends in Oakland , who had a small factor y,
to do the manufacturing. But, first, he redesigned and re-
built all the pr oducti on tooling, and furni shed millin g
machines specially tooled for the work. Sub-contractin g
was a happy solut ion and he now has ti me to handle the
business end, conta cting 200 jobbers and 4,600 dealers who
sell Buehler mounts and safetys.
Buehler was born in Boston, where his love of shooting
started early. When he was six, (Continued on page 58 )
Where Are
TOMORROW'S
MINUTEMEN?
By DAVID F. SOULE
W
E LI KE to think of ourselves as "a
nati on of ri flemen, " self-armed,
read y and abl e t o das h out any ti me and
1 _.cr __ . ~ _ . c . _ L . ~ . u. __ ~ I I _
W
E LI KE to thi nk of ourselves as "a
nati on of riflemen," self -armed,
rea dy and able t o das h out an y t ime and
become an effective, fighting, guerr illa
force in resistin g any enemy who might
attack our country.
But is it true ?
Except for a very few widely scattered
individuals-and possibly small gro ups in
certain also widel y scattered areas - no.
We're not " a nation of ri flemen. " Hard-
ly 5 per cent of the men inducted into the
armed for ces for World Wa r Two knew
how to shoot a rifl e even passably well. A
stunningly hi gh percent age had never so
much as fired a rifl e or handgun. And
it is hi ghl y doubtful that as ma ny as one
of 100 of the men who were familiar with
weapons knew enough about woodscraft
to live off the land and fight effectively
as guerrillas .
If thi s seems to you to be a pessimistic appraisa l, ask yourself thi s question : If
thi s country were hit toni ght and you wer e a surv ivor, what would you do?
Involved in that questi on ar e these questi ons: Wher e would you go? With whom?
How would you get ther e? What would you take with you? And what would you do,
or try to do, af ter you got there ?
Time was, you remember , when the American colonies helped defeat invaders
by the mor e or less indi vidual efforts of the "Minute Men." Arme d with gun skills
and woods skills gained in Indian fighting and in gett ing meat for their tabl es,
t nese men were a formidable for ce against the worl d's finest soldiery. But times
have changed, and men ha ve changed with the times. How many men today could
survive and fight und er similar conditions?
Where to go and how to get ther e would, in itself, be an (Continued on page 63)
GIVE THE LITTLE
I
To avoid being left behind as a "hunting widow," Zephyr Bode
urges ga ls prepare for gun sport by reading up on hunting.
HUNTING TOGETHER, THIS SOUTH
FLORIDA COUPLE SHARE SPORT
IN WHICH WOMAN'S SKILL CAN
OFFSET MASCULINE MUSCLE
By MARION RUBINSTEIN
H
UNTI NG HUSBANDS whose wives complai n abo ut being " hunting widows"
can take a tip fr om Zephyr Bode, a wife who has earned hunti ng equality
with the best men hunters, including her husband. Take her along with you!
( -.;'tl'tnr' " n"tp M pn w h o " rp. lritter about feminine invasions of masculine
H
UNTI NG HUSBANDS whose wives complain about being " hunting widows"
can take a tip fr om Zephyr Bode, a wife who has earned hunting equality
with the best men hunters, including her husband. Take her along with you!
(Editor's note : Men who ar e bitter about feminine invasions of masculine
pr erogatives, who believe that a hunt is primarily a chance to " get away fro m it
all," including "the littl e woman," had bett er hide this magazine to avoid con-
nubial dissension. We'r e not necessar ily advocating "togetherness" in aU its
phases, but women are hunting, and liking it ; and once that fact is accepted, the
idea of making them good hunters has merit. And that' s the theme of thi s story.)
Zephyr Bode says a lot of women think hunting is too rough and tough for
most women and that only a bi g, strong woman could "take" it. Mr s. Bode thinks
husbands may have fost ered thi s belief, to some extent. She thinks some husbands
may have foster ed it because they just don 't want women along on hunt s, and
some may have fostered it because they think women in hunting clothes and
hunting surroundings would necessarily be " unfeminine" or somethi ng. Zephyr
herself refut es both of these theori es. She is just five feet tall , weighs just 110
pounds, admit s she's 40 but could easily pass for 25, and the way she looks in
hunting garb has convinced numerou s strong anti-feminists that mi xed hunting
has point s in its favor.
Zephyr is a good hunt er. Thi s is not so surprising when you learn that she
owned her first rifle at the ripe age of eight and has been hunting ever since, with
good teachers. Her first teacher was her father ; a man who loved hunti ng, wanted
a son to hunt with hi m, and, failing that, taught hi s small daught er to be hi s
hunting compa nion. "That was lucky for me," says Ed Bode, Zephyr ' s husband,
an exporter who sometimes spends more ti me hunting than he does at hi s busi-
ness. Ed is intensely proud of Zephyr 's hunting abilit y, even t o the point of boast-
ing that she is a better hunter than he is.
But a gal doesn't have to have hunt ed aU her life to be an acceptable hunting
part ner, Zephyr advises. She says it' s a lot easier than, for instance, learning
to be an acceptable mi xed-four some golfer or tennis player or bowler-because
in any of those games a woman has to be reall y a lot bett er, skill-wise, than the
men in the game, to make up for the men' s superiority in muscle. Strength makes
littl e or no differ ence in shooting, and any woman who will follow a simple set of
LADY A GUN
Comely lass who belies real age of 40 keeps young by
kee ping active. Outdoor ga rb was selected by Zephyr
after study of lad ies' hunt ing fashions. At right, she
and husband Ed unload duck boat, handing guns out first.
commonsense suggestions can make her self at least "good
enough to take along, even good enough to win a lot of
since re masc uline admirati on. "You don't really ha ve to
be very good for men to pra ise you," says Zephyr. " Most
men expect women to be (a ) awkward, or (b) just plain
stupid, with guns; and when you' re not, they think you' re
wonde rf ul !"
Her e is Zephyr ' s "simple set of commonsense sugges-
ti ons :"
1. Learn to shoo t. It ' s not har d. Sotto voce, Zephyr
said, " If your husband is even-tempered and reasonably
pa tient, have hi m teach you. If not, take lessons fr om
somebod y else and save wear and tear on family relati ons.
If your husband is a duck hunt er , or an upland bird hunter ,
you' ll want to learn to shoot a shotgun. Go out to your
local trap or skeet range, rent a gun, and get the pro to
teach you. If hubby is a bi g game hunter , or a varminter,
or any kind of a r ifle hunter , hu nt up your local rifle target
club and let them teach you. Ten to one they'll be so de-
li ght ed by your wanting to learn that they'll go t o no end of
pa ins to teach you.
2. " Pay particular att enti on to all your teacher says about
gun saf ety. Men ar e particularly critical even of men who
for get the rul es of safe gun hand ling, and this is as it
should be. They'll be wat ching the female member of the
pa rty with extra attenti on. If they see that you know the
rules and are caref ul to observe them, they'll give you cr edit
beyond your due.
3. " Read a few articles and a few books on hunting.
You ' ll be surprised, first, how int er esting they ar e ; and,
second, how much you can learn fr om them. You can learn
a great deal in thi s way about the game you hunt, about
wher e to aim, what to do and not to do in the woods. Inci-
dent all y, do some reading too on game cookery. If ther e' s
an y doubt ab out your welcome with the men of a hunting
party, you can remove it by coming up with a reall y tast y
game dinner , cooked in
the woods or at home.
4. "Equip yourself
well befor e the hunt
with clothing and the
necessary gear, and be
dead sure it' s the ri ght
clothing and the ri ght
gear. Reading can help
you her e, too ; so can
ad vice from an experi-
enced hunter of ei ther
sex.
"In buying clothing,
be sure it' s comfort-
(Continued on page 50)
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'1'HE P Ili DE OF T H E Ulll 'nSH All lUY In a ll wa rs f rom 1900 s
Boer cam pai g n until in K orea a r e t h exe beautif ull y
m a c h i ned tru e o r i g i n a l Xl k , I II S.)LL.E . ri fle s. The f amed
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THE U L')'IlII AT E I X EXFII:I, ]} S! ! Yes, y ou may ha ve s e e n the s e
li st ed a t o ve r b ut IIUW Ye O ld Hunte r brings t h e famed . 30 3
J l ' NGLE CAnBI :\ B En fi eld No. t o y ou a t a pr ic e ANYO:\E " a n
afford- only ljl:':4. 1I:>! Ye s , i t ' s t rue, a m a z i n g cond i t io n Jun gl e Car -
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ite m . Spec ia ll y d e vel o p e d in ' VW II a s a f eat h e r we ight h a rd hi t-
t i n g co mba t ca r b i ne f ur Llri t i s h .Iu ngle Armie s of Asia a nd Afri ca ,
ui n e 111 cal. . ;) U ;;; reau y t or i n stun t U S t: as an ru ea r Ug' I1L W t H g ' l lL
sport e r ( 7 l bx. }, k i t g u n , b ig' b o re p li n k e r, 0 1' va l u a b le c o ll ectur
ite m. Spec ia ll y d e vel oped i n ' VW II as a f eat he ,'weight hard hit -
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"WORLD'S BIGGEST GUN HOUSE" "WORLD'S LOWEST PRICES"
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OF BURNING AMMUNITION BY THE CASE
HOLDS MEETS WHERE FRIENDS GATHER FOR FUN
HOLDS MEETS WHERE FRIENDS GATHER FOR FUN
Police l uceni le Olji cer
By GEORGE B. JOHNSON
Unique Schmeisser-action rifle may have been
styled for police in Germany. Collector Sloan
and author (left, be low) check MG 34 feed.
r-rHE HATTLl NG RUHSTS OF MACHI NE GUN FIHE
shatter the qui et rural afternoon on a farm in south-
western Indiana. Burp guns rip in the " Battle of Sloan's
Farm." This is not a redoubt of the Civil War nor a
South American revoluti on transferred up north. Heavy
and light machin e guns, subs, semiautomatics, and a dozen
one-of-a-kind experimental ar ms are fired by a bun ch of
gun nut s getting together to shoot for fun with some of
the most unu sual guns fired today by civilians.
Headquarters for this burp gun saf ari is the Worthing-
ton, Indi ana home of Robert D. Sloan, a " typical" fortyish
Indi ana far mer. Sloan has one of the mos t fabul ous
collections of guns belongi ng to a private indi vidual in
thi s country stacked on shelves and han ging on the walls
of his neat , average-looking home. Everything fr om the
Gatling gun to the lat est stamped-out submachine guns
form a neat clutter in almost every room of thi s gun nut' s
par adi se.
Specializing in machine guns for many years past when
machine gun collectors were as scarce as mint Paterson
Colts, Sloan has built a collecti on that is the equal of any
outside a museum. And, as far as I can learn, it is the only
place in the world where thi s type of weapon can actually
be fired and tested in relation to others by any person with
a legit imat e and sincere interest in weapons.
COUNTRY'S BIGGEST AUTO WEAPONS COLLECTOR
PLINKING"
They Call MG Practice
"THE PEAK OF
"Peak of plinking" is description juvenile officer Johnson gives
t o his dust-raising performance with German light MG.
Russian guns , Sloan says, are well made as
u.S. MG's; has pan-fed "Deg" and Goryunov.
Post-war Hungarian submachine gun is prized it em in Indiana fa rme r Sloan 's collection.
Stock folds up like MP 40 , but wooden forearm improves accuracy. Clip also folds.
I i
Post -war Hungarian submachine gun is prized item in Indiana fa rmer Sloan ' s collection.
Stock folds up like MP 40, but wooden forearm improves accuracy. Clip also folds.
Acquiring his first gun, an ' 08 Maxim for $7.00 back in
1929 when the army sold captured mat erial t o anyon e who
wanted it, Sloa n star ted collecting machine guns seriously
in 1938. He got many deacti vat ed full automatic weapons
fr om returning World War II veter ans. Hi s shoot ing
machine guns ha ve been acquired on a Class 4 license
fr om such firms as Numrich Arms, from whom he obtained
a complete ser ies of experimental Thompsons ; and In -
ter ar mco sold him British Brens, Ger man MG 34's, Dan ish
Madsens , and many other interes ting models. He now has
about 250 guns, more than 150 of them machine guns of
all t ypes and nationalities, plus a few cannon to round
out the collection.
Hi s home is a Mecca of interest for gun enthusiasts.
Sloan often takes time out fr om hi s busy farm work to
show visitors hi s collection. He remarks that the gun
most gun bu gs ask to examine is hi s German FG 42
paratroop rifl e. Sloan attributes the gr eat interest in this
particul ar gun to its exo tic appea rence, its rarity, and the
fact that it is one of the direct for erunners of the present
tr end toward light weight, dual purpose ma chine rifles.
Sloan's own favor it es ar e the Th ompson submachine
guns, " beca use of their r omantic ba ckground and fine
workmanship. Th ev ha ve made such a zreat imo ression
still the average person's conception of a submachi ne gun,"
he commented. Sloan' s Th ompsons and some other rare
experimental types are the outstanding items of his
collection.
Hi s Thompson guns include the 1919 model whi ch the
company named the " Basic Machine Mechanism." It was
made without sights or stock and simply intended t o
demonstrate the acti on. It is uncertain how many wher e
manufactured. Sloan's is serial nu mber 7, feeding fr om a
50 r ound drum only. Shoo ting it is like handling a water
hose, just point and spray.
In addition to examples of all the standard model
Th ompson, he has si x of the British Birmingham Small
Arms Company models in various calibers. He ha s been
unable to get much backgr ound information about these
guns , except that they wer e made in England befor e World
War II for test by the army. Th e factor y was un abl e t o
gi ve any further information about them because their
r ecords wer e destroyed by fir e. But they did state that
only about 20 of them were made. Bob Sloan would be
pleased t o hear from anyone who can furnish any addi-
ti onal information about the BSA or any other ex-
per imental models. Th ese include a Thompson Li ght
Machin e Gun of .30-06 cal., built on the same Blish
MG collectina is essential for
rifle, and two exper imental submachine
guns designated T-2 Thompson, about
which littl e is known. Sloan thinks
they may have been made up for test
at the time the army was considering
the M-3 Greas egun for adoption.
Another two standard model Thomp-
sons, but in .30 Carbine caliber, round
out thi s group of very interesti ng
guns.
When asked his opinion of various
weapons in his outstanding collection
Sloan modestly qual ifies his state-
ments by declaring hi mself "no expert
on automatic weapons, just a fellow
with a lot of guns." But being able
to closely compare weapons of all
countries has given hi m an adva ntage
over most people; and thi s famili arity
cer tainly lends some authority to his
opinions.
What is his opinion of American
automatic weapons ? "Well made, re-
liable. But, with one or two exceptions,
perhaps lacking in imagination."
German? "Usually far superior in
design features to Amer ican guns of
the same peri od."
Russian ? " Simplictiy is the first
thought that comes to mind . The Deg-
tyarev Light Machine Gun is a good
example. It has only six working parts
in the action. Although Russian
, v p '.:l1"'\rt,nc t h 9 'nae " l-HI 'U O +.....
tne same peri od."
Russian? "Simplictiy is the first
thought that comes to mind. The Deg-
tyar ev Light Machine Gun is a good
example. It has only six working parts
in the act ion. Although Russian
weapons in the past have incl ined to
be very roughl y made, the latest types
I have seen show manufacturing
standards equal to the best American
mili tar y small arms manufacture ."
In addition to his histori cal machine
guns, Sloan also keeps a supply of the
most recent types of machi ne guns on
han d for sale to police departments.
He retails European guns such as the
Madsen and Swedish Carl Gustav sub-
machine guns, but finds that most law
officers still prefer the older and better-
known Thompson. The psychological
effect of the lethal looking "Tommy
Gun" is often so effective in police
work as to require no actual shoot ing.
While many of Sloan's guns are
deacti vated, most of those he has
acqui red since getting a Class 4 fire-
arms license several years ago are
in shooting condition. It is thi s that
makes his collection of such outstand-
ing int erest.
Anyon e who has ever done any MG
shooting will know what Sloan means
when he says that it is difficult to
describe the fun of firing a full auto-
matic weapon. "The peak of plinki ng,"
would perhaps come closest to describ -
ing it, to anyone who has ever pumped
a rap id fire clip of .22's int o a rolling
tin can. For, while target prac tice wit h
both single shots and small bursts are
just as important with machine guns
as any other type, the thing that sets
them apart and makes for lots of fun
on a summer afternoon is the 4th of
Jul y sound of a clip full of lead going
!J hnrru rl nUTTl
ootn smgte shots and smai burs ts are
just as important with machine guns
as any other type, the thing that sets
them apart and makes for lots of fun
on a summer af ternoon is the 4th of
Jul y sound of a clip full of lead going
someplace in a hurry. Chopping down
tr ee stumps with a watercooled Brown-
ing, rolling ti n cans with a Sten gun,
or shooting clay pigeons with a
Thompson Sub add a thrill to shooting
that no other (Continued on page 64 )
Experimental English 9mm (right
hand) and Thompson T-2 transition
model are in Sloan's study group.
Kennon twins Bubb er (I) and
Mickey (r) learn gun safety,
do n't point gu ns at camera.
Young shooters do not "play" in senior Kennon 's gun
room, but Mickey is honored to be allowed t o wear
gun belt. The brothers hold .25-06's made by their father.
UNDER GUIDANCE OF DAD
TWINS NOT YET TEENS
ENJOY GUN FUN WITH SAFETY
Th e Atlont l ournal &: Constit uti on
" I \ I I I \ I ~
By WILLIAM HAMMACK
WHO IS EXPERT SHOT AND GUNSMITH.
111\11'
HOW YOUNG
SHOULD KIDS SHOOT?
Kids find Dad is good coach as
well as expert st ocker, reloader.
H
o w OLD
should kids be
before they start
shooting?
Ther e ar e a pai r
of eben-year -old
t win boys in At-
lant a, Georgia, who
have been banging
a wa y si nce th e y
were three years
old. They ar e super-
vised and coached
by their father, who is a distin gui shed marksman and a top
guns mith.
Today, these lads can outshoot man y expert riflemen
ana pist oleers. Although they will ha ve to wait a few years
before they ar e old enough to compete in National RiRe
Association Senior matches, they would be strong con-
tender s in these shootfests ri ght now.
The boys, Bubber and Mickey, sons of Mr. and Mrs.
T. C. Kennon of Atlanta. took to shooting like young ducks
take to swimming. Mr. Kennon did not push them into
handling firearms. Nor did he push hi s dau ght er int o
target prac tice ; but the littl e girl , Mary Katherin e, three
years old, alr eady has become a junior -grade Annie
Oakley. She fires on her father ' s indo or ran ge, her chubby
finger squeezing trigger s on full -size .22 rifles and pi st ols.
Her brothers posses arsenals that any gun enthusiast
would be proud to own. Mickey has put his brand on these:
a .22 pump rifle, a .22 single-shot (Continued on page 61 )
(;lINS JANUARY 1959
39
Five shots from Kindley's favorite
.250-3000 dropped into quarter group:
93 grain gas check, 24 grs. # 4895.
Cull handloads and reject cases like
one (left) with off-center flash hole.
Cull handloads and reject cases like
one (left) with off-center flash hole.
HOW TO GET
Bullets must be cast sharp, flat bases
t o take lube and gas checks (at right).
Trimming case neck leaves slight burr.
Remove inside and outside by chamfering
cutter. Herter tool has right bevel shape.
" r
CAST BULLET ACCURACY
GROUPS OF BENCHREST QUALITY ARE POSSIBLE WITH CAST BULLETS IF THEY ARE
CAST RIGHT. CAREFULLY SELECTED. AND LOADED WITH STRICT
ATTENTION TO MINUTE DETAILS
By ROBERT J. KINDLEY
Forster trimmer is used to cut back case necks to uni-
form length. Trimming helps accuracy using cast bullets.
C
AN YOU GET bench rest accura cy from cast bullets ?
Consis tent mi nute-of-angle gro ups from lead-alloy
slugs? Wit h careful handloading, both are entir ely
possible.
The record speaks for itself. Th e lat e C. W. Rowland,
one of the best and mos t serious benc h res t shooters the
game has known, shot a ten shot gro up at 200 yards that
meas ure d a scan t .725"-with cast lead bullets. Th is
amazing group was shot over fift y years ago and rema ined
unbeat en until quite recentl y. And then it was bettered
only by rifles, sighting equipmen t, and jacketed bullets
that are as near perfect as modern methods and mac hi nery
can make them!
Minute-of-angl e accuracy fr om cast lead-alloy bullets is
no accident. It can be obtained onl y by the careful hand-
loader who has the time and pati ence to load them prop-
erl y. The same care and skill the serious bench rest sho oter
empl oys with j acketed bull ets is necessary to produ ce ulti-

can make them!
Minute-of-angl e accuracy fr om cast lead-alloy bullets is
no accident. It can be obtained onl y by the careful hand-
loader who has the time and pati ence to load them prop-
erl y. The same care and skill the serious bench rest sho oter
empl oys with j acketed bull ets is necessary to produ ce ulti-
mat e accuracy with lead bull ets. These handl oads cannot,
however , be completely assembl ed using the same tech-
niques as with j acketed bullets. Str ict att ention must be
paid to a few seemingly unimportant det ails both in casting
and reloading to reap a har vest of 1" groups on the range.
First of all, the mold is a pi ece of precision equi pme nt,
ru gged, but easily ruined by abuse. Handle it with the
same care you'd give a set of mi cr ometer s. Examine a new
mold very carefully befor e using it. The hal ves should
close tightly. with littl e effort. Hold the blocks up to a
bright light as a check. Any trace of light along the pa rting
line ind icates the hal ves are not closing tightly. Perfect
- from such a mold are impossible.
- Car efull y examine the inside face of each block with a
magnifying glass . Any bu rr s must be removed. Check the
two line-up pins. They may need a slight polishing or may
have to be pressed back into the blocks t o allow pr oper
ali gnment.
Pay pa rticular att ention t o the cut-off plate. Here is one
of the most imp ortant pa rts of the mold. Correct adjust-
ment of thi s piece is necessary t o pr oduce accura te bullets.
The plate must be flat. Adj ust the screw so tha t the plate
just swings fr ee by its own weight . It shouldn' t be loose
enough to flop around .
A pr operl y adjusted cut-off plat e should leave the base
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Schorn rifle's action allows low scope
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EW TO RI FLE1VIEN is the Schorn Automat ic Rifle. Bui lt by
Connect icut gunsmith Henry Zorn, who served his apprenti ceship
in Germany befor e War One, the newl y developed self-loading sporting
or military rifle has been exhibited to a few shooters near Zorn' s horne
town of Newton, Ct. The rifle expresses Schorn' s search for a design
in which the barr el didn't over heat so qu ickly
and, when it did, would permit changing
barrels witho ut tools and with out re-head-
spaci ng the new barrel. Schorn conceived his
new r ifle dur ing War Two, pr oposed to build
it for t he benefit of hi s adopted country. De-
velopment continued, the Kor ean War spurr ed
hi s effort s to perf ect it in det ail , but mean-
while the Or dna nce Corp , wit h a considerable
bigger budget , modifi ed t he Garand, tested a
few other automat ic rifles, and then adopted
the modification as the 114. Her e, most gun-
smi ths would have dropped t he proj ect but
Schorn persisted. Back to t he drawing board
he went , to perf ect his rifle as a sport ing model
for the hunt er and target shooter. We tested
the milita ry model some months ago, but its
perf ormance suggested the rifle had strong
possibi lities for success as a spor ter. Thi s is
the most deadly-efficient ri fle I have ever fired.
Ima gine, if you can, the accura cy of a
tun ed Model 70 heavy barr el target r ifle,
combined wit h the fire-power of a Garand or
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non-st and ard expe r ime ntal design unli ke th e
ordi nary cl ip whi ch would be eas il y adapted
to th e Sch orn ri fle. Even t he sandbags wer e
fr ozen , but with a 4-X sc ope , from r est, I
fir ed 5-shot gro ups f or r ecord at 100 ya rd s.
The result s were t ru l y un usu al for an a uto -
loader- five shots wer e in %" at 100 yar ds-
accuracy man y bolt action s will not achi eve
even und er id eal weat her con d it ions. The
Schorn r ifle will shoot ! I ts f uture shoul d be
successful.
I nventor Schorn and a fr ien d, Emil Seifert
of 357 Wi nd sor Ave., St rat for d, Conn., are
hoping to det ermine th e exte nt of spor ts men's
interest in t hi s new r ifle before go ing in to
production for comme rc ial sale. A spor t ing
mod el of th e Scho rn rifl e i s al most
ready for preview.
r ifle. The r ecei ver i s flat. for l ow scope
mo unt ing, wit h eject ion of ca ses through a
nea t right side port. Ju st behind th e barrel
breech on top is a sq ua re hol e in to wh ich
one of t he lu gs, a square steel bloc k, spri ng
act uat ed , r ises to lock. Ther e ar e two l ocking
lu gs at t he fr ont sides of t he bolt , and st ill
a four t h l ock-up at th e bolt r ear , ag ai nst a
r ecess in th e r ecei ver re miniscent of t he
Sa vag e M99. At the rear of the bolt' s tr avel,
a c us hione d bolt stop a bsor bs th e sl am of
the bolt i n r ecoil. While no tr oubl e h as been
expe r ie nce d wit h th e resil ient b uffer so far,
I feel th at a coil spr ing oct in t he r ear of th e
r eceiver wo ul d be mo re r elia bl e over a l on g
per iod of t ime.
T hi s cl ip- loa ding det ach a ble box magazine
ri fle was designed as a ga o-opera ted semi-
a utomatic wh ich co uld he eas ily modifi ed for
full automatic in a milit ary ver sion. For
s po r t ing purposes it wo uld be designed for
se mi-a uto mat ic only. The special Schorn-
d es igne d s in gle row cl ip did not fun ct ion
perf ect l y- in follower an gl e it was a depar-
t ure fr om convent ional clips and most prob-
a bly a standard clip desi gn wo uld be prefer-
a ble . Thi s wa s th e only feature of t he ri fle
which did not check ou t perf ect ly on t est
fir ing .
Scho rn 's r ifle tri gger desi gn is hi s own.
Op e ra t ing on a radiu s, nei l her a st raight
pr essure to t he rear (ouch as would be
ca use d by an accid ental b low ) nor t he jar-
r ing force of r eco il, will ca use t his rifl e to
d ischarge. Its butt ma y be sl amme d on the
Hoar wh en coc ked, wi t ho ut acciden ta lly r e-
l eas ing th e se ar. Tr igger mu st be p ull ed in
a nor mal ma nn er t.o fir e. and t her e ar e t.hree
safer ies, one of wh ich is located in front. of
the t r igger a nd is op era te d manu all y. Two
ot he rs ar e intern al sa fet ies, cla i me d by
Sc horn in hi s pend i ng pat ent s.
Key feat.ur e of t he Schorn r ifle is it.s ba r rel,
a hea vy 22%" Do ug las ta rget. tu be, b utton
r i Hed . in 7.62 NATO (.308 ) . Fo ur large
flut es mill ed length wise di sp erse heat mor e
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a nor mal man ner t.o fir e. and t her e ar e t.hree
sa fel ies, one of wh ich is located in front. of
the t r igger an d is ope r ate d manu all y. Two
ot he rs ar e in tern al sa fet ies, cla i me d by
Sc horn in hi s pendi ng paten ts.
Key feat.ure of t he Schorn r ifle is its ba rrel,
a hea vy 22%" Doug la s target. t.ube, bu tton
r i Hed. in 7.62 NATO (.308 ) . Four large
flut es mill ed length wise d isperse heat mor e
ra pidl y t han fr om convent ional ba rr el s by
increa sing t he area, and t he ribbing in crea ses
s t i ffness wit h l ight. weight. Spor te r ba rrels
would have sma lle r, mor e neatly spac ed
fl utes, The barrel lock s int o t he receiver , has
a f ull th read 1" by l ong. but can be
quickl y cha nged by hand. Since barrel s
cha mbe re d in th e sa me head- size w i t h differ-
ent cal ibe rs (as .243. .358, .308 ) ca n be
i nterchanged wit hout headspacing. a shoo t.er
m igh t use one rifle for 'c h ucks . deer, el k or
moo se. Thi s sho uld be a popula r in novat ion.
Al though gas wor ks th e acti on , no hol e i s
t a pped in t he barrel. In st ead , t he expandi ng
gas is t ra pped in a devi ce at t he mu zzle some -
what l ike a flash h ider , t hen l ed down in to
t he gas cyl inde r bel ow where i t drives p isto n
and op erating rod r ear wa rd in conve nt ional
fa shi on . T he st.ock on t he mi l itary model we
used was pistol gr i p t yp e, could be sl i mme d
a nd res tyled for most pl ea sing effect in a
comme rc ial mod el. Important departures from
ol d ri fles is th e gr ip wh ich posit ion s t he
fi ri ng han d a nd t r igger finger un iformly for
each shot, and t he stock bolt t hroug h the
bott om of t his pisto l gr ip int o th e r ecei ver,
hold ing t he act ion fir mly in t he stoc k and
allowi ng t he ba rrel to float fr ee for accuracy.
T hat accura cy was most a pparent wh en
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Swift, lik e other guns, is not for sli pshod
loading if you want pin-point accuracy at
300 yar ds and more. Cr ude ammo ma y serve
for close r ange work, but pr ecision accuracy
is obta ined only with uniform, qual it y fodd er.
Fact or y pr essur e in the strong case is close
to a hot 50,000 psi . Case stre tching is no
worse than in ot he r hot calibers, writt en
cla ims to the contra r y. Mik e cases after siz-
ing, or u e the more convenient combinat ion
length and headspa ce gauge. Max is 2.205" in
standard chamhers. I trim to 2.20" a nd clu-ck
cases after firing hot load s. I r ecommend
using one lot of one mak e, sor ted by
wei ghin g. I have one lot that runs fr om 169.3
to 170.5 grs., wit h some load ed over 25 times.
If a flyer tu rns up mark the case, and if it
happ ens again disca rd it..
:\1any new cases have a neck wall var ia-
t ion of over .005" , which can ca use flyer s
when bul let s enter the bor e out of a lignm cnt ,
This is eas il y detected with a $32 neck wall
mike ; or you can mak e one j ust as good
by sawin g the a nvil off a ny old 1" mike
and solde r ing on a new one mad e by formi ng
a lid finishing na il. The fau lt ca n be corr ec t-
ed with i he Out side Neck Turner Accessory
for lit e Forster Case Tr immer. An inside
n....k r eamer reduces br ass thickness bu t docs
not mak e un ifor m walls. Maxi mum neck
diameter is .2600 for standard cha mhers
wit h .002 to .003 cl eara nce. Sloppy
afh-ct accuracy; ti ght ones increase pressure.
A cas t will tell much a bout the size. be- t
made wit h Cha mber Cast Met al. ( Sold hy
Frank :\Iilt ermei er , 3577 E. Tremont Ave.,
lew York 65, . Y. ) This alloy metal is
melt ed in a can set in hot water , pours at
194. a nd har dens almost immediat ely.
Bull et s are best seated out to nearl y touch
the lands. Squib load s should he identifi ..d
one way bei ng a dab of nai lpol ish on lilt;
head s. After firi ng. th e cases may have
excess headspa ce a nd should lI ever he used
again wit h normal pr essure loads. Examine
all cases for visible def ect s a fter firi ng hot
" " . , ., 1 1 1
Bu llets are best seated out 10 nearl y 10uch
t he lan ds. Squib load s sho uld be ident ified,
one way being a dab of nail poli sh on
heads, Aft er firi ng, the cases ma y have
excess headspa ce and shouId lI ever he u- cd
aga in with nor mal pressur e load s. Exa mine
all cas es for visible def ect s alt er firina hot
loads and discard those with crac ked necks ,
bodi es. webs, or enlar ged primer pocket s.
lJ ual it y loadi ng dies ar c a must. 0, cr-
worked brass is avoided hy hacking t he
sizer out as much as possib le for eas y cham-
her ing, and st ill hold the hull et ti ght. An
under size bor e incr eases pre-sur e, gcne ra lly
corrected wit h .223" diameter bullets. Zine
alloy bu llet s can be dr iven much faster tha n
j acketed lead, but killing power is grcat ly
redu ced, they r icochet badl y. are wind scns i-
lin' a nd lose vel ocity r ap idl y.
:\Iy shoot ing companion, Ken neth Shacke l-
ford. who is a busy school teacher and acti ve
in religious work as Sunday School Supcr in-
tend enl , spends man y happy hours shoot ing
and rel oadi ng. An ard ent han dgun hun ter ,
hi" [avorit e ri fle is an F. . Swil l. Sa ys Ken-
ncth, "Those who don't l ike a Swift don't
have one !" I agree full y. They perfo rm
bea ut ifull y with factory ammo, st ill
bett er wi th good hand loads.
HANDLOADING BENCH
(Continued f rom page 7)
a combinat ion I hi ghly r ecommend for high-
est velocity at mi nimum pressure,
Th e same load in the smaller capacity
WoW cases with WoW primers wil l stre tch
cas e heads in my guns, and cause a sticky
bolt. With Remingt on cases a nd C.C.I . pri -
mers the accuracy is super b. Whe n star ting
at 4,075 Ips the bullet passes thc 200 yard
mark at over 3,000 Ip , with rota tional speed
a whooping 200,000 R.P.M. plu s. Thi s is
cra nked up fast er than a Texas torn ado
with it s tail on fire, a nd thc heavy charge is
apt to r ed uce bor e lif e. I reserve it for Ionz
ra nge work , and usc 37 to 38 ara ins fo7-
routine shooting. "
Hi -V fri ction isn't thc maj or cause of
bore wear , as some wri ters claim. The first
wear is a dullin g of t hc la nds a few inches
ahead of the chamber, with the ba lan ce of
the tube inter ior almost likc new. This is
ca used by hot powder gas under hi gh pr es-
sur e tha t would melt a gun l ike but ter if it
was maintained a second or so. To avoid
chewing up a gi lt-edge rube pr emat ur el y,
"moder at e" loads tha t wnuld bc cal led holl er
tha n a stove lid in lessor guns ar c ent irel y
sat isfactory. A new barrel is not an expen-
sive re place ment, cons ide r ing il may cons ume
hunder ed of dollar s wor th of a mmo befor e
it ' s "shot ."
The top charge l ist ed hy Sisk for hi s
hea vy 63 gr. Express is 37.S grs. 4064 for
3,600 Ips. Fine accuracy is ohta ined wi th 33
gr s. for 3,260 Ips, using WoW cases and
C.C.!. primer s, or 33.3 grains in a Remington
case. A change in pri mer ,bra nds in top load s
mi ght run pr essure as much as 10.000 psi
hi gher , with much more gas a nd ver y litt le
velocity incr ease. Th e only j ob of the prim er
is igni tion, with as lit tl e gas as possibl e,
Gas check bull et s cas t 1-10 give fair short
range accuracy at velocities up to 2,100 Ip s,
nIYith a '<ra in ,]u n, " pr with i s o- r."
f\ C ange I n pr mer . lf allu s III ro p Joao';
might run pressur e as much as 10.000 psi
hi gher, wit h much more gas and vcr y litt le
velocity incr ease. Th e onIy job of the pri mer
is ignition, with as littl e gas as possibl e.
Gas check bullets cast 1-10 give fair shor t
r an ge accuracy at velocit ies up to 2,100 Ips,
obtained with a 55 gra in num ber with 15 grs.
2400. A mini mu m charge worker! down
especiall y for GUNS 1agazine is 6 grs. Unique
at 1,607 Ips, Anot her load with a 55 gr.
ja cket ed bullet tested for is 10 grs ,
Unique at 2,195 Ips, which knocks small
game colde r th an a banker 's hear t. At close
ran ge no sight adjustment is needed wit h a
riAe sighted for the same hull er at 3,500 to
3,600 Ips, For best ignit ion t he ba rr el should
be elevated before fir ing low density loads.
Custom bull et s ar e 0 good and cheap I hat
it hardl y pays to cas t inf er ior pill s. Th e
bore should be chec ked ca ref ull y for signs
of leading befor e fir ing standard load s. Th e

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and skille t ; hi s bedroll , if he' s slee ping on
the country-and hi s rifle, also if needed.
So far, he' s burdened his hor se with about
40 pound s of saddle and blanket , plu his
worki ng equipment. In the midd le of which,
he hopes. there' s room for hi m; not only
room for him to ri de in, but room for hi m
to work in. Li ke as not. he'll be cl imb ing
over r ough country, up hill a nd downhill ,
maybe a lot fa ster tha n he l ikes, if he has
to run down an animal , and cer ta inly a
lot longer than he l ike , becau se he'll work
" from can to can' t," maybe wea ring out two
or th ree hor ses in the pro cess. He' ll l ikely
have to catch (ro pe) and doctor severa l
calves before ni ght, so he'll need leg room
and rop e room and th ings pla ced where he
can r ea ch 'em and wher e they'll r ide best
and wher e they won't int erfer e with the job
he's doin g.
And, if he ha s to carry a ri fle, he
wants it to be the flattest rifl e. and the li ght .
est, and the eas iest-shooting r ifle th at will do
the j ob. He want s it flat beca use even t he
flattest r ifle you can ge t will feel like a
knobby fence-rail under your leg afte r a
few hours' work (r eal wor k) in the saddle.
He want s it light, because even the li ghtest
rifle you ca n get will pu ll a saddle over t o
one side when the cinch get s loose (as it
will) -and did you ever try r id ing rough
country trying to keep extr a weight on one
stirrup to balance your saddle ?
About those wor ds, "easiest-shooti ng"-
you can get 'will p ull a'
one side when the cinc h gets loose (a s it
will) - and did you ever try r id ing rough
countr y try ing to keep extra weight on one
sti rrup to bala nce your saddle?
About those word s, "e asiest -shoot ing"-
l et' s not qu arrel abo ut 'e m ; they j ust sli pped
in. For the cowboy, li ke for everybody else,
th e "essie t-shooting" r ifle is the rifl e he' s
used t o. Fo r many a cowboy. that ' s the lever-
ac tion. It's the gu n his daddy used. and his
gra nddaddy ; and li ke the song says, "It 's the
reli gion, and it ' s good enough for
me.
All of th at sadd le equipment has to be
placed to the best possib le ad vantage, and
tha t goes doubl e for th e rifle ; beca use when
you need a r ifle, you need it- and no matter
how shor t you cut it or how flat you squeeze
it, a r ifle ju st don' t fit a hor se or a hor se' s
r ider. Carry it with the butt forward and
GUNS FOR THEWORKING COWBOY
(Continued from page 19)
shape it was in-but it got the job done.
Fiction wri ter s, movin g pictures and t ele-
vision, a nd some gun wri ter s as well, have
so gla morized the so-calle d "We stern " guns
that man y peop le who know guns r esen t us
and our guns beca use thcy beli eve that we
believe that our guns are t he best guns for
all uses. Th ey think we think that our saddle-
scarre d .30-30s ar e the best possi ble hunting
rifles, that our single acti on " ha wglaigs" ar e
the best po sible sidearms for everything
fro m targets to tam ing out laws. It j ust ain't
so. We know (at least, some of us do) tha t
t here a re guns t ha t will shoot further , and
flatt er , and faster, and stra ighter, an d hit
harder. (Tho e of us who don't know it j ust
never both er ed to wond er. because the guns
th ey know a nd use do all t hey need for a
gun to do. Afte r a ll, if a tool does t he job,
it-s a good tool. If a hammer drives na ils,
you don 't blame it beca use it won't saw
wood- or you shouldn' t . )
"The n why," some imrod will ask, "are
the-e guns so popular with your kind of
peop le?"
I f by " my kind of peopl e" he means r eal,
ridi u' van d-workin' cowboys, then it's a good
question a nd fits my theme l ike a ta ilored
boot - same way t he guns in quest ion fit
the j oh we do wit h. t hem.
Let's talk first a bout the rifle- a nd by "t he
rifl e;' I mean the r ifle you mean when you
lalk ab out "West ern guns :" t he flat, lever
act ion Win chest er s, Iarl ins, or Savage s,
mostl y of t he .30-30 per sua sion which we
ca rry in our saddle sca bbards,
Let' s say, first, tha t t he work ing cowboy
don't have even a kissin'-ki n resembla nce to
the usu a l scree n vers ion of the species. He' s
for work, not for pret t.y; a nd that goes for
his out fit. Hi s saddle is where he work s, not
. . ' ' '' .'
carr y in our saddle scabbards.
Let' s say, first , that t he worki ng cowboy
don't ha ve even a kissin ' -kin resembl ance to
the nsual cree n version of t he species. He' s
for work . not for pr etty ; and that goes for
his out fit. His saddle is wher e he work s, not
j ust a place to sit for an hour ' s pleasa nt
recrea t ion but the platfo rm for gru nt ing,
swea r ing. swea t ing wor k during abo ut half
of hi s li ving ho ur. every day, for as long as
he' s able to c ut it. It ' s hi s work shop, and it
mu st carry hi s tools.
It must carry his r ope, because that' s th e
tool with wh ich he handl es every thing he can
tie to- from catt le and horses. to stretching
ba rbwire and pulli ng the sucker rod on th e
wi ndmill. It must carr y his combina t ion
wire-cutt ers and staples, for fence fixi ng ;
worm medi cin e and fly dope ; a brandi ng
iron. if needed; a ca nt een of wat er and some
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What I' m drivi ng at is - ther e' s no real
argument bet ween you (with your flat-shoot-
ing, scope-sighted, far -reaching Deer slayer)
and me with my .3030. We're j ust different
men with di ffer ent guns for different j obs.
Th ere' s no comparison, either, between the
beautiful, expensive rifle owned by some ri ch
ra ncher (or some rich ran cher's son) and
t he guns of a work ing cowboy. Th er e just
ain't , to my knowledge, a bolt-action , scope-
sighted, minut e-of-an gle ri Ae that can endure
a round-u p in a saddle scabbard and come
out of it shooting mi nute-of-angle - and no
ma n who can endure sitt ing on top of such
a ri Ae that long, eit her. Such rifles can be
mounted on a saddle and carr ied into deer
country and used to fine ad vantage ; but ,
fri end, that ain' t a working gun as 1 define
it. That' s a sporting arm.
Enough about the riAe. Why is the Colt
Fronti er Single Action so popu lar with work -
ing cowboys? Same answer : it' s " the old-
time reli gion," the gun we' re used to and
li ke - and it' s a good tool , one that will
tak e rough usage (rougher than most gun.
owners can even imagine!) and st ill "work"
for you when you need it.
Rough usage? I' ve seen 'em used as ham-
mers to shoe hor ses ; as twi sting levers t o
get that last couple of inches of stretch on
a stra nd of barbwire; as wedges 10 pry a
stone out of a hor se' s hoof - man, the li st
could be endless ! I sor t of wonder when I
hear men say the old Single Act ion was "the
gunsmith's fri end ," that they "shot loose,"
and that "everybody improved 'em." May be
some "s hot loose," but they shot, loose or
not - and br other, there' s times when that
is import an t ! And most of the gunsmi thing
done on them was done to make t hem fit a
certain man ' s ideas or methods of shoot ing.
[ owned an old Colt Fro nti er six once
that had no front sight. It had been filed off
because some owner befor e me figured the
sight might catch on something and slow
his draw. I carr ied that gun for five years.
is import ant ! And most of the gunsmithing
done on them was done to make t hem fit a
certa in man ' s ideas or methods of shoot ing.
[ owned an old Colt Fr onti er six once
that had no front sight. It had been filed off
because some owner befor e me figured the
sight might catch on something and slow
his draw. I carr ied that gun for five years.
Anot her one I carried for many years on
the pr edator hunt ing j ob had no tri gger. It
was fired sl ip-ha mmer - by lett ing the ham-
mer slip out from under the th umb .
Few peopl e, it seems to me, ever learn t o
use the big Single Act ion the way it should
be used. I suppose Sam Colt' s main idea was
to turn out a wea pon tha t could be carr ied
loaded, ready for a quick first shot, and a
repeat er capable of repeat shots, using husky
knock-down load s. He did that, and he also
produced, whet her accidentally or on pur-
pose, a balanced, walking -beam handgun
that can be handl ed fast. This mak es the gun
a perfe ct fit for the cowboy's needs. Th e
average cowboy would look lik e a compl ete
novice in a target match; but his gun, if he
carries one at all , must be capable of stop
ping wha tever he wants to stop, and do it
sudden.
Your scree n version of how the gun is
worn and used is a lot differ ent fr om the way
worki ng cowboys wear and use it. The screen
hero may wear and use his gun the way pr o-
fessiona l gunmen wor e and used them (or
he may not ) . But your work ing cowboy
would be laughed out of camp if he showed
up in a bu scad ero belt dangling hi s gun half -
way down hi s leg. If you're going to wear
a gun while work ing cattle all day l ong, t hat
z un had bett er be sl unz flat on a belt to
high, it' s in the way of your rope and your
reins. Butt forward and low, it pokes your
hor se in the neck on t ight -reined t urns. Take
a look at the pi cture of me getting down off
I he saddle with the rifle. Carried with the
butt 10 the rear and low enough to swing a
leg over, with the scabbard slanted forward
and down and snug t ight under the saddle
skirt, is the best way I know to pack it
and be able to snatch it in a hurr y. If any-
body knows a bett er way, tell me; I could
sure use it !
Why us cowboys stick to the .3030 class
of cal ibers is another thing that maybe needs
some explaining. Partly, of course, it' s an-
ot her case of " the old-time religion." The
.3030 was a real high-powered ri fle when it
first starred r iding on cowboy saddles. Now,
a lot of peopl e call it a pip-squeak. But cow-
boys don' t need a rifle t hat will knock the
eye out of a mountain sheep at 600 yard s
or so. ' Ve don't shoot at such ranges. We
don't need a gun t hat will knock down an
elephant, either- elephants bei ng real scarce
on our Southwestern ra nges. We've learned
pr etty well what the riAe will do, and what
we can do wit h it, and tha t' s enough for us,
and we li ke it. . .. Come to think of it, what
more can you say for your r iAe?
Anyway, ri ght or wron g, your cowboy fig.
ures that the short, flat, lever-act ion saddle
gun in the conventional "t hutty-t hutty" cal -
iber is j ust about ideal for his job. He' ll
likely use the same gun all hi s life, then
pass it along to his son when he ret ires. He'll
likely never be abl e to hi t a five-inch bulls-
eye tar get wit h it at 50 yard s - but he' ll
usually kill what he shoots at with it. How
can thi s be so? Well , your work ing cowboy
don't hold any records for driving staples,
either - but he dri ves ' em. He don't win any
rodeo bucki ng contes ts, but he r ides wha t' s
cut out for him to ri de. He holds no t ime
records for roping, but he' s roping for wages
with out wastin g too many loops. It' s part
of his. job.
can this be so? Well , your work ing cowboy
don't hold any records for dr iving staples ,
either - but he dri ves ' em. He don't win any
rodeo bucki ng contes ts, but he rid es wha t' s
cut out for him to ri de. He holds no t ime
records for ropin g, but he' s roping for wages
without wasting too many loops. It' s part
of his job.
Same goes with his gun. He' s no master
hand at target s. He can' t "hold and squeeze"
on a black spot on pap er, but his ri Ae is a
tool tha t is fami lia r and when he " throws"
it. on a var mint, it kills the varmint. He
probably can' t tell you why thi s hap pens, or
how. Hi s knowledge of ball istics may not be
much greater than a town dud e' s knowledge
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or 170 grai n load s and he' ll li kely say,
"What's the differ ence?" Tell him the one-
seventies hi t the hardest and that' s what he
want s-providin g the pr ice is the same. He' s
not hard to pl ease; he j ust wants nail s for
hi s hammer.
So far as fast handlin g is concern ed, there' s
just about as much speed in one repeating
acti on as another, since it depend s mostly on
the ma n and how fast he can get his sights
on t he tar get. Any time a sportsman sacri-
fices the super b accuracy of a fine hunt ing
riAe for one of these "cowboy gun s" just be-
cause he t hinks it ' s " faster," he' s making a
sad mi stak e. He' s not a cowboy, and he'll
likely use hi s gun only once a year, and fast
handl ing comes only with pract ice and is not
worth much to the averaze hunter anyway.
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champion.
In int ernational shooting, t he young
of the walki ng-beam moti on.
So t here you have it : an old cowboy t alk-
ing about the guns he loves. But befor e you
decide t hat cowboys must be crazy to love
those guns, remember that your work ing cow-
boy is not a spor tsman on a week-end hunt -
ing trip. He' s a man riding from dawn to
dark over a few hundred sections of rough
range land, min istering to many head of
high-pri ce cow-st uff for which he is respon-
sible. He's behind in his sleep, and he' s
saddle-sore and always hun gr y. He' s li kely
living in a lin e shack fort y miles from no-
wher e. cooking his own bacon and beans
plus hoecak es of his own weir d and won-
derful design, over firewood chopped from a
limb he l ikely dra gged a mile or mor e at
the end of his rope.
He' s not prett y, and his old sweaty shir t
gets the salt washed out of it in the surf ace
tank when and if he has time to do it , and
every ar ticle in his camp and on his saddle
and on hi m has to pay its way in indispen-
sible ut il ity for the weight it puts on hi s
hard-working hor se. What he has to shoot,
he aims for it to stay shot. What he shoots
with is chosen, li ke his rope and spurs, for
the j ob, not for looks.
Don' t underestimat e him; he' s a pr ett y ca-
pable ki nd of homb re, and he learned it all
the hard way. But don't try to copy him, un-
less you aim to do his job. His wire-cutt ers or
hi s rope wouldn't be muc h use to you in
your office, and his guns pr obably don' t fit
your shoot ing needs, either. But for
his job - t hey're perf ect.
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made. and the result has mad e news through-
out the world .
In 1949, "Mac" competed in the Marine
Cor ps Eastern Division RiAe Matches at
Quant ico, Virg in ia. li e has been in the bi g
ti me ever since. His first Na tiona l Ma tches
were the super bly r un 1951 Na t ional Pistol
Cha mpionships at San Francisco, where he
pl aced fourth for the nat ional all-a round
pistol championship. I know of no other
American pistol competitor who has come so
close to the nati onal t itl e so earl y in lif e and
upon hi s first appearance in the Nati ona ls.
For the next six years, Mac was always
a strong con tender in nationally impor tant
pistol tourna ments, usuall y fini shi ng very
near the top. It was not unti l 1957, however ,
that he finall y went over the hump and be-
came the all-around Na t ional Pistol Cha m-
pion of the United States. In t his cont est,
there are ma tches for .22 caliber, any cent er -
fire .32 caliber or larger, and .45 caliber
pistols or revolvers. I n each caliber class, t he
firing is equally di vided between Slow Fire
with a ti me limi t of ten minutes for each t en
shots, Ti med Fire with 20 seconds allowed
for eac h five-shot string. and Rapid Fire
with a ten-second time limit for each five
shot string. A total of 270 shots are fired, for
a' possi ble score of 2700 point s. Usually a
separate day is given to the firing of each
cal iber.
In the 1957 nati onal championship tour-
(Continued fro m page 21)
made. and the result has mad e news through- nam ent, Mac dogged the foot steps of the
out the world . Ar my' s great pistol marksman, Master-
In 1949, "Mac" competed in the Marine Sergeant Huelet 1. Benner . Finally, in the
Cor ps Eastern Division RiAe Matches at last mat ch, the .45 caliber Nat ional Match
Quant ico, Virg in ia. li e has been in the bi g Course, the Mar ine ace beat Benn er by 11
THE MAN WHO SEAT THE UPSIDE-DOWNERS
pieces of saddle leath er or a boot-top , not
worr ying much about looks but ta kin g great
pa ins to bui ld a rig that will keep the gun
where he wants it, out of his way while he
wor ks. As the pict ures show, my own ri g
ain' t purty, but it does wha t I want it t o do.
I said t he Si ngle Act ion was a bal anced
"walki ng-beam" handgun, and "walking
beam" more or less describes the way I use
it and think it should be used. What wi th
the shape of it s hand le and the heavy loads
it shoots, t he recoil roll s the gun back and
up - int o perf ect cocking posit ion. Hook
your thumb over the hammer , and all you
need to do to fire a second shot is - close
your hand. Your grip pull s th e gun down to
target level ; your thu mb hold s the hammer
ba ck, cocking it ; and the hammer slips from
und er the thumb and l et s the shot go j ust
as the gun comes level. Repeat , and you' ll
see t he gun perf orm the walking-beam move-
ment I'm descr ibing. Fi red thi s way, the gun
is trul y a " singl e ac tion :" one smooth, fast
movement cock s the gun and turns the shot
loose. You won' t get pin- point target accu-
ra cy this way, but you can get so you can
pu t fro m one to five mi ght y discouragin g
punches int o anything you need to stop, and
do it plumb sudden. Th e gun ain' t a target
gun, anyway, and never was. Anything you
do to it to mak e it one, t akes j ust that much
away from its efficiency for the j ob it does
best. Even using l ighter loads r edu ces t he
recoil , fa ils to roll the gun back to easy cock-
ing posit ion. You have to lif t it with your
wr ist muscl es, and that spoils the smoothnes s
11is movement s and r ea ct ions ar e fast.
The y ha ve to he for hi m to rat e among th e
world ' s best in firing the int ern ational rapid
fire event. Recentl y the quick draw has a t-
tract ed hi s att ention. I n contrast to some of
the " Wes tern mar shal" outfits, he uses a
double action Smith and Wesson Combat
Magnum (.357 cal iber) revolver ca r ried in
a n S. D. -''lyres Bord er Patrol -type holst er
on a Sa m Brownc belt wit hont the shoulder
"t ra p. It is a ver y pra cti cal ri g, one th at is
see n on many uniformed pol ice officers ever y
day. When he dr aws. tha t hardhitting litt le
gun lit er all y pops int o fir ing posi tion.
An Ar my majo r once sa id to him. "Xl uc,
you' re the most ' at ease' oldier I have ever
see n." l ie ra n he a ro ugh, tou gh, field Ma-
ri ne, or he ca n be spit and poli sh. In full
un iform he is an a ler t and immacul at e mi li-
ta ry figur. Ne v"r letharg ic, phlegmatic, or
apat. lie ic. he has the qui et self assurance a nd
eusy relax ed bea rin g of many topfli ght at h-
let es.
Far [rom a swas hbuckling advent urer ,
I\l ac i,. a pr etty typi cal young Amcr ican with
living ha hits no different fro m those of
thousands of othe rs. Marr ied and the proud
pappy of a youngster whom he affcct ionat el y
dubs " Wild Bill ," Xlac likes to l ive at home.
He docs not smoke. and hi s drink ing is usu-
a lly limited to a few cold beers at the end of
a day. III' doe" not beli eve drinking d urin g
shootin/! hours helps scores. The per son alit y
a nd temper ament of thi s big Marin e a re the
best indicat ions that he has the st uff of wh ich
champions are made. He has the compet it ive
spir it. He can prod uce und er th e pr essure
of compet. it. ion. and every inch of the wa y
his sportsmanship is of the highest.
In li sti ng four things needed to mak e a
good pist ol shot, t. he cha mpion first named
the desire to win. A man like thi s will ask no
favor. or spec ial pri vileges and will have
only token pati ence with ar t ificial handicaps
and cl assification systems. Wh en he began
open compet it ion it was en tomar y to classify
I I ' "
hi s sportsma nship is of t he hi ghest.
In listi ng four things needed to mak e a
good pist ol shot, t he champion first named
the desire to win. A man li ke t hi s wi ll ask no
favor. or special pr ivileges and wil l have
only token pat ience wit h ar t ificia l handi caps
and class ificat ion systems. When he hegan
open compet it ion it was customary to class ify
un known beginner s as "Exper ts," the next -
to-top br acket. As soon as t.he labor ious
classificat ion mach iner y can oper ate to classi-
fy him, the usua l pi st olman rates as " .'II arks-
man " or .. hurpshooter. " -'lac' s first offi cia l
clas- ificurion was "Sl as ter," th e top leaf.
Since then hi s classificat ion has been the very
It-a,.t of hi worries. He wishes to compete
onl y wit h the hest . Asked directl y wheth er
he be lieved class ificat ion systems developed
h-uer shots. he an swer ed with a n unqua li-
fir-d " No:' In hi s own words. "The keener
t he comperit ion. the mor e challe nging th e
mat ch."
:-. rdli llan is as likel y to feel the pr essure
,)f compet it ion as a nyone else, hut he can
shoot good score s in spite of it. This pressu re,
which handi caps man y compet it ive shoote rs,
is likely to be felt when one is abon t to win
or lose a n imp or tant match or when he is
a bout to at tain some signal success such HS
hreuking an import ant r ecord . The man who
does not care enough to develop some degr ee
of exci te ment. at such moments will not ca re
(' nough to spe nd t.he necessary st udy, t ime,
a nd effort to pla ce hi mself in such a posi t ion.
In t he Rapid Fire Silho uette mat ch in the
1952 Olympi cs. "Vlac" got a good start wi th
a score of 290 over the first. half of th e
course a nd led the field at that po int. How-
ever, compet it ion from the t op European
using a Hi gh Sta ndard Super ma tic pistol in
bot h the Free P isto l and Rapi d F ire Silhou-
ette events. As one of the two Amer ican
repr esentat ives in the Olympi c Rapid Fire
pi stol event he placed seventh. In t he World
Shoot ing Championships of the In ternationa l
Shooting Union at Oslo, Norway, a couple
of weeks earl ier he had been a memb er of
the Amer ican team whi ch won the center
fire and Rapid Fire Silh ouet te pist ol mat ches
with world record scores . In our 1954 tr y-
outs for the U. . Internati onal Pi st ol Team,
he was hi gh man in the Rapid Fire Si lhou-
ette event. Wh en the team fired in th e World
Shoot ing Championships at Ca ra cas. Vene-
zuela , he pl aced second in the silhouett e
event and third in the cente r fire mat ch.
Th is Rapid Fire Si lho uett e event in Ol ympi c
or Internationa l Ma tche requ ires some ex-
pl ana tion. It is very diflerent fr om our own
Rapid F ire mat ches, which are fired on
standar d bull seye targets. all shots on the
same tar get. Th e Olympic or I nternat ional
Ra pid Fir e event is fired on ma n-shap ed sil-
houettes in thr ee t ime stages. I n the first
stage, five shots mu st be fired in eight sec-
onds, one shot on each of five " sho ulder- to-
shoulder" silhouette tar gets. In the second
stage, the five shots must be fired. one on
each tar get , in six seconds. I n the fina l stage,
the ti me is cut to four seconds. Having fired
through. the three stages once. t he cour se is
repeat ed. A mat ch cons ists of two strings of
five shots at each time stage, And simple hi ts
are not enough. Each ta rget ca rries scor ing
" r ings," so that numeri cal valu es ca n be
given to each hit.
Top compet itors in thi s mat ch have
wit ched from .22 Long Rifle to .22 Short
a mmunition to avoid even the modest r ecoil
of the Long Rifle load . Th ey have had guns
spec ially built for the event, guns wi th com-
pensat or s, guns with weight s, guns with any
and ever ything t hat ju st might give a man a
bit mor e time to aim in that swift burst of
firin g. The " upside-down" guns des igned hy
.22' Long' Rifle to .22
ammuni tio n to avoid even the mod est r ecoi l
of the Long Ri fle load. They have had guns
spec iall y built for the event, guns wi th com-
pensator s, guns with weigh ts, guns with any
and ever ything th at j ust mi ght give a man a
bit more ti me to a im in that swift burst of
firing. The " upside-down" guns designed hy
Ma rgoli n and used by the Ru ssian compet i-
tors were designed to throw recoil stra ighter
back agai nst the cushion of t he shooter' s
ha nd and ar m, ther eby reducing t he upward
kick and lessening the ti me needed to get
the gun back on target.
The Ameri can national pist ol recor ds
which McMillan hol ds arc too num ero us to
list. The most important are his score of 2652
over the 2700-point, t hree-gun . [a tional
Match Cour se aggregate, a nd a ter r ific 2663
over the at ional Rifle Association Shor t
Course Aggr egate. Both wer e star t ling.
Hi s rifle success es ar e al so outsta nding. lie
won the Ma r ine Corps Rifle Matche in 1955
with a score just two point s short of the
record. In connect ion wit h thi - event. the
Marine Corps Pi stol Mat ches ar e al so fired.
1c 1illan' s combined score in t he two
tourn amen t s mad e him winn cr of the La uch-
heimer Trophy, se nior marksmanship award
of the Corp s, wit h a record score of 1131.
which at t his writ ing st ill sta nds .
This pheno menal mar ksman gives no out-
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young ( born J an uar y 29, 1929) , hea lth y, big
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look ing. According to hi m, hc was too small
(a bout 140 pounds ) to la ke any big part in
ath let ics during hi s high school da ys, Golf
and swimming are two of his hobb ies now,
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at t he J\ ational Matches. However , barring
some unf oreseen mishap, he would hold up
and shoot a good score.
With the heat on and everyone looki ng
down his throat. Mac pound ed away for three
days and ca me in with a strong finish. His
score was 40 points short of his national
record. but t he rest of us were shooting below
par also. II is 2612 was the best score fired
in that tournament, and the United States
had a new Nat ional Pistol Champ ion-the
four th one since World War II.
Anyone who believes a champion mus t
ha ve elaborate and expensive equipment will
he surp rised upon viewing McMil lan's shoot-
ing kit. The case itself and the telescope for
spott ing shots are good but plain and low t o
medium priced. The last time I saw it , he
was carry ing a .22 Ruger pi stol customized
hy Jim Clark, a Colt Officers Model Match
revolver for t he "any center fire" matches,
a .45 automatic pi stol wit h John E. Giles ac-
curacy job , rib, and sights, for most of the
.45 cal iber matches, and another .45 auto-
mat ic for service pistol matches. It is a
modest, simple. and economi cal outfi t, free
of fr il ls and furbelows but wit h quali ty
where qual ity counts.
Ther e are no secrets abou t Mac's success
or technique. He was blessed with a sound,
heal t hy body and some natu ra l apt it ude in
t he beginnin g. li e has learned and used good
techni que. During t ra ini ng sess ions he prac-
ti ces regularl y. and at matc hes, alertness and
prepar edness keep him clear of many pit-
fall s tha t plague other shooters.
The i\l cMillan techniq ue is t he same t hat
has been tau ght to thousands of other begin-
ni ng shooters. He ta kes a solid. comfortable
stance, grips his weapo n firmly, br ings hi s
sights into line with each ot her and his aim-
ing poin t. and sometimes mashes. sometimes
squeezes. I he tr igger to fire t he shot without
disturbing the sight al ignment. He uses
adjustab le sights and changes the m whe n-
ever he I" inks it necessary, whi ch is in
ning shooters: He tak es a solid. comfortable
stance, grips his weapo n firmly, brings hi s
sights into line with each ot her and his aim-
ing point. and sometimes mashes. sometimes
squeezes. I he trigger to fire the shot withou t
disturbing the sight al ignment. He uses
adj ustabl e sights and changes them whe n-
ever he thinks it necessar y, which is in
freq uently. Wit h some of his guns he aims
at the center of the bullseye and with others
at its six o'clock edge.
Th e champion believes that it is eas y to
overtrain and tha t he will become stale if he
shoots too much over a long period of tim e.
For shooters seriously intere sted in keeping
in tri m, he suggests at least 60 rounds of
prac tice firing with each of the three calibers
per week. I n his own case, he li kes to shoot
about 90 practice shots per week with each
of the thr ee guns.
Mac is very gentlemanly and sportsmanli ke
as well as a crack marksma n. Since 1951 I
have been meet ing him as an opponent in
nationa l pistol cornpet ition. Sometimes I have
beat en him. More oft en he has beaten me.
But , never ha ve I known of hi s braggi ng,
gloating, griping. or otherwise evidencing any-
thing other than scrupulous honesty
and the highest sports manship.
M/Sgt. Benn er , scored a mi ss. Under the
scoring system in effect at t hat t ime, he was,
for all pra ct ical purposes, elimi nat ed. That
put the chances of a win for th e United
States squarely on the shoulder s of th e 23-
year old Marine firing in his first Olympic
Games.
Mac star ted hi s second half of the course
with a score of 99 at the eight-second stage.
In the six-second stage, his last shot cracked
just as the targets edged and th ere was
doubt as to wheth er it was fired in time.
If it was a good hit , he was still in position
to win the mat ch. If it had landed too late,
both Ameri can representatives would be fa r
down the li st. At that particular time, another
competi tor had trouble with his gun and
scoring was delayed some five minutes whi le
t ension and anxi ety mounted. Wh en th e tar-
gets wer e finall y scored, Mac' s last shot had
been a hit ; hi s score for that stage was 97.
However, his four -second and final stage
scored a definit ely below avera ge 89 for a
total score of 575 over the cour se. Th e match
was won by 1948 Ol ympi c Champion Takacs,
of Hun gary , with 579. Even the best shot s
must somet imes have score s below average,
and they are ju st as lik ely to occur one ti me
as another. With r egard to thi s particular
incident , I asked Mac, "Did the close call on
your last shot of the six-second stage, and
the dela y in scoring it, ha ve an adver se effect
on your four -second stage ?" " Definitely," he
repli ed.
About two weeks earl ier, in th e World
Shooting Championship s, he had been on the
spot and came through with flying color s. He
fired last on the Ameri can team. Competition
was keen and our scores wer e good. A high
score by the anchor man might ma ke us
world champions. One miss would el imina t e
us. The Turtl e Creek boy came through with
no misses and a total of 579 to give the
Ameri can s the world championship with a
new world record score of 2304.
Upon the many occasions that he has ap -
was Keen and our scores wer e 'good. A ' high
score by t he anchor man mig ht ma ke us
world champions. One miss would eliminat e
us. Th e Turtl e Creek boy came through with
no misses and a total of 579 to give the
Ameri can s the world championship with a
new world record score of 2304.
Upon the many occasions that he has ap -
proa ched new nat ional or world record s he
must have felt pressur e, but t he reco rds
speak for themsel ves. When he fired t he last
few shots in the national service pi stol mat ch
in 1956 he knew he was on the br ink of
a new record and might win th e match. Such
times mak e seconds seem l ike eternities, and
each one is miserable; but if you stand
hitched and keep shoot ing, you may win.
McMillan won t he Custer Trophy.
In the summer of 1957, Benn er's national
record of 2644 over the Nat ional Match
Cour se aggr egat e with t hree guns had stood
since 1950. Th en McMillan excee ded it three
times in four months and came to th e Na -
tional Matches wit h a new record of 2652
fired on t he San Diego, California, Poli ce
Ran ge.
Speculation was rif e. Why are California
scores so much hi gher than tho se at Camp
Perry ? Would he shoot the same scores at
the Nat ionals? Would he be the new cham-
pi on? Th e Cal iforn ians shoot t he same dis-
t ances at the same size target s in t he same
time limits as competitors in all other parts
of the country. Good weath er , fine permanent
type ranges, and superior ma nagement of
tourn ament s ar e conducive to hi gh score s.
In addition, "Mac" was at home when he
fired hi s 2652 in San Diego in the South
Pacific States Pistol Regional Champ ion.
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Hu nti ng tr ips toget her have not only
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us closer to our fri end s. We've gott en t o
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exper iences with them."
Zephyr had one final word of advice to
wives about hunting. "Don't expect to hit
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Zeph yr's ref er ence a whi le ago to good game
cookery? Here' s her favori te recipe for duck.
About this, Ed says, there' s no controver sy;
this is good.
First, of course, kill your duck . . . . Tak e
thr ee cups of rice and cook until tend er but
not soggy. Dra in and steam. Add one cup
chopped pecans, I ll:! cups chopped celery,
one cup chopped onions, cup s chopped
bell pepp er s. Salt and pepper to taste. Add
baco n fat if you like it. St uff the ducks with
thi s mixt ure and use the rest to pnt in the
pan abou t 20 minutes before taking the ducks
out of the oven. It ' s guar ant eed, Zephyr
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Hunting in the Okeechobee mar shes, says
Ed Bode. is different from the wild fowling
10 be found anywhere else in thi s country.
Th e Bodes and their fr iends use airboats
(shallow-draft boats powered wi th air pro-
peller s) to reach the nat ura l mar sh-gra ss
blinds from which they shoot mallards, pin.
tails. teal, widgeons, and scor p.
Gun s? Well , Ed Bode uses a Remi ngton
16 gauge automat ic equipped with Polychoke.
Says Ed, " For me, thi s is an all-arou nd shot-
gun. I use high velocity shells loaded wit h 5s
or 6s, for dncks; sta ndard loads, No.6 or No.
7% shot for pigeons; and high-vel with 4s or
5s for geese."
Zeph yr uses an Ith aca Feath erweight 20
gauge pump. "So me will ar gue that she' d
do bett er with a bigger gauge, " Ed admi ts,
" but, again , she likes the 20--and she gets
her share of the birds, so- ?"
Mr s. Bode used the lit tl e It haca to good ad-
va ntage on a trip to the Bahama s last August.
" We hunted whit e crown pigeons," she says,
" off the islands of Great Exuma. The day
be fore the opening of the season we went
as hore on one of the island s and hired two
Neg ro boys to retrieve bi rd s for us. Th e boys
d idn' t li ke to wear clothes and. when they
saw birds coming our way, they'd pull off
t heir pant s, yell , 'Heah dey come, Mum!
Shoot, Mum! ' and plun ge int o the wat er.
T Ill" hirrl Ili o-h t ... W f"I ' P f rom is la nrl to island.
be fore the openin g of the season we went
as hore on one of the islands and hired two
Neg ro boys to retr ieve birds for us. Th e boys
d idn' t li ke to wear clot hes and . when they
saw birds coming our way, they'd pull off
t heir pant s, yell , ' Heah dey come, Mum!
Shoot, Mum! ' and plun ge int o the wat er.
Th e bird flight s were from island to island,
so there was a lot of wat er retri eving."
Speaking of those boy retri ever s reminded
Ed of two boys they encountered one day in
a Florida mar sh. "These two kids were
walk ing in wat er up to their arm-pits," Ed
re lated, " and they were really lost. We picked
t hem lip and t hey told us that t hey had
started into the swamp with a ball of twine ,
the end of the twin e tied to a tr ee on shore,
le tt ing t he st ring out behind them as a guid e
t o lead them back to safety. Tr oubl e was, the
s trin g broke. Th ose boys were in real trouble.
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it useful. And. st ill looki ng up stream, de
fending the Island from the holiday boat er s
who often oar close for a look, a monst er
Dahlgren gun rested on its iron barbett e
carr iage, frozen sol id with r ed, immovabl e,
hut as gra nd in it s silence as when it frowned
from the gunwales of Flag-officer Farragut 's
" Hartford" and challenged the Confedera cy
on the western wa ter s,
I had brought with me several old Ban-
nerman catalogs, t wo dat ing back t o 1903
and 1905, and here in the shadow of th e
firm' s memori es, it amused me t o look
through them and see what was once offered.
Tak e the Hall ri fles, for example. . .
" First American Breech-Loading Flint
Lock Rifle made in America," reads t he
1905 catalog. Aft er a thrill ing description of
the guns, calc ulated t o speed the purc haser' s
pul se, comes the kicker : "We expect t o get
$50 each for some of t hese guns . . . but for
t he present we will pack gun in case ready
for express ( buyer pays expressage ) for
lil 0.00 each." Thou gh thi s lot of Hall r ifles
has long since been sold, Bannerman has
left us a story of how he obta ined them:
At the Gover ment auct ion sale, 300 Hall' s
r ifles were offered. I n 1873, Bannerman had
bought such guns in unser viceab le shape at
3%c each. About 1900, he had paid as much
as $8 a gun. Pu zzled over t he mar ket value
of t hese guns, Banerman dr eamed three
days before the sale tha t he was in hi s Broad-
way store, sell ing a man a Hall rifle for
$1.71. He took this figur e as hi s bid. When
the bids were opened, it was found that Ban-
ner man' s competitors, Har tley & Graham,
had al so bid $1.71. Bannerman and H & G' s
and the sale was almost made when he re-
quested the privilege of using our island to
repack the cart ridges into nail kegs." Ban-
nerman refu sed. "We will not sell you the
cartridges," he told the revol ut ionary agent,
" You haven' t money enough to induce us t o
br eak the law." The ammunition buyer t hen
went to anoth er firm, bought the cart ridges
he needed, had the boxes wrapped in ex-
celsior and packed in kegs of dry cement.
The shipment was seized by customs officers,
the ammunition impounded and sold at auc -
tion. "We were the pur chasers," Banner man
added smugly. "The cement we used in build-
ing our island storehouses, and t he cart-
ridges were sold to t he President of Santo
Domi ngo."
EI President e got a better deal with hi s
car tridges than Bann erman got with the
cement. It occur red to me that, i f I wer e a
revoluti onary shipping ammo in cement bar -
rels as a disguise, I. too would buy t he
cheapest cement I could find. To j udge fr om
the state of Bann erman' s castle, t hat is what
happened. The 20" t hick main wall s have
developed cracks thr ough whi ch dayli ght
passes, and weeds are start ing t o pu sh their
way into the buildi ng.
We walked outside again, and it was l ike
walk ing out of the 19th into the 20t h cent ury.
Piles of gummy knapsacks, chests of un-
fini shed Kr ag Jorgenson ri fle parts, r usted
cartr idge cl ips and broken art ill ery carriages
wer e t he herit age of the 19th Cent ury to the
20th. Outside, a shatte red 3" gun needed a
thousand dollars wort h of woodwork to make
it useful. And. st ill lookin g up stream, de-
fending the Island from the holiday boaters
who often oar close for a look, a monst er
Dahlgren gun rested on its iron barbett e
carr iage, frozen sol id with r ed, immovabl e,
hut as gra nd in it s silence as when it frowned
from the gunwales of Flag-officer Fa rragut' s
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were gone, more probably unli mbered and
sold for scrap, since t hey had no military
val ue for over a generation.
The castle roof was tarred and sagging.
One side sloped a good four feet lower than
the ot her , and I did not dare trust my weight
to the middl e. I edged around carefully,
caught the view downst ream wher e West
Point ' s gray granite barracks cl ustered on the
hill side, saw farth er downstr eam wher e Corn-
wall was a spr inkling of whit e window
frames and blue roofs. Then I starte d down-
stairs . The thr ee top floors were empty of
heavy gear , the top two stripped clean.
Through the concrete floors I could see day -
light as the sun shafted through some win-
dow on the floor below. Wire net and rods
showed where the concre te had sloughed off,
leaving not hi ng but reenforci ng metal.
The third floor level had a southern exit to
a castell ated walkway that slanted down
abr uptly to ground level. St rewn about and
tumbled into the rank garden below, were
dozens of U.S. Army white cor k helmets.
" Rudy Vall ee bought 600 of th ese a few
years back," I was t old. "His band wore
them, and then they were auctioned off for
charity." Today- anybody want a pith hel-
met? They'r e up ther e on the Island, rotting
in the rai n.
The second floor came in for anot her care-
ful search. I shuddered to look at a care-
fully pil ed stack of Civil War arm y knap-
sacks, formin g a hu ge cube possibly fifteen
feet high and thirt y feet on a side, which had
begun to tip . A single rope passed in front
of the pile, the topmost tiers of which had
now sagged out as much as five feet over the
base. The rope has frayed to a single stra nd
or two. If that pil e coll apses, it might have
force enough t o br ing down the whole
tott er ing old bulding!
Though Bann erman built for the ages,
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base. The rope has frayed to a single stra nd
or two. If t hat pile coll apses, it might have
force enough t o br ing down the whol e
tott ering old bulding !
Though Bannerman built for the ages,
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a potential customer. "A party came to us,"
recount ed the late Fra nk Bannerman VI
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Per 100 cart ri dges. Fact ory loaded with 112 ar ain Metal
Jacket bull et . Li mite d quant ity lat e issue non corr osive
$7. 50. Also 110 gr . Soft No.. box (50) $6.00. 15 Shot
Magaz in 85<. 5 shot $2.45. 30 shot $4.95. Gl>v!. Surl' luI .
heavy canvas Zi pper Cover $2.45. Legal barrel extens ion
$3. 75. St ocks wit h metal fittings $4. 75. Compl. t. bolt
assembly S4.95. Extr act or SI. OO. Lat est adj ustabl e rear
si ght $1.85. Brass br ushes $1.00 a doz. Free li st .
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Special Pri ce $89.95.
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Brand new, in factory boxes. List $177. 75. Sp eci al Pri ce
$137.50.
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that was a real "gone" shooter.
Bannerman li ved an advent urous life. The
Mauscrs did not make him any money sit-
ting in New York, and he decided to go
abroad to sel1 them. Complained Bann er-
man frequently, "The Amer ican Government
does l ittl e or nothing to help t heir mer chants
tra de in foreign count ries." He had shipped a
sample Mauser and cartridges to King Alex-
ander of Servia, via Amer ican Express. But
the Ki ng was assassina ted and t he tr ansac-
tion slightl y delayed. The gun remai ned in
the American Express offi ce in Hamburg,
unt il Banner man asked of the new Kin g
Peter if he was inter ested. Said Bannerman,
"The Servian agent cabeled ' Yah !' but no
business could be done without samples."
Quickly, Bann erman took passage for
Eur ope, ent rained to the Bal kan kingdom
wit h his ri fle and cartridges. - He met th e
Servian agent in Liege and gave him the
package of cartridges to smuggle th rough,
while Bann erman decided to take th e Mauser
r ifle to King Peter personal1y. At th e German
border the customs officer r eached for the
gun but the Scotsman, game to the l ast,
cried out, "Nien Zoll, Deutsche Mauser,"
("No dut y, German Mauser") and showed
the guard t he "Loewe-Berlin" stamp on the
gun. But the customs officer levied a duty of
72c, which t he muniti ons ma gnate gladly
paid and continued on hi s way to Servia.
The ironic finale to the excursion was th at
Servia agreed to buy the r ifles, hut Austria-
capt ured Spanish war mat eri al acquired by
the U.S. in the Spanish American War . Over
20 million rounds of small arms cartridges,
plus a tr emendous pil e of other munitions
alr eady on hand, made the New York fire
mar shal take a dim view of t he business,
and so Pol opel' s Islan d was bought . To it
came barge loads of munitions, including the
Spa nish Mausers.
Many of Bannerman' s I auser r ifles were
cleaned and repair ed at Springfield Armory.
The armory business was a littl e slow in 1900
since the Army hoar ds were considering
adopting a new magazine repeating rifle,
ulti mat ely the famous "03 Spr ingfield," and
Bann erman pai d the men. Bann erman then
bought 14,000 guns and offered them at $10
each, with 7,000,000 round s of 7mm ammo.
Master of the "hard sell" in a gentl e, 19th
cent ury sort of way, Frank wrote, "Any day
our Agent may send us cablegram ordering
shipment of the whole lot (for export ) . If
you contemplate purchasing a good rifle
do not put it off. Every one is pleased with
t he Mauser." Some of hi s customers wer e
more than pleased : they went stark, raving
mad with joy. Surely only a madman would
write, as one testimonal declared, "The
Mau ser is the only gun made for use in
hunting big game, mount ain sheep, el k, etc.,
at 1,500 to 2,000 yards. The .30-30 ri fles are
not in it. The Mauser is superior to any
American-made sporting gun." Even for 1900,
Bannerman gift to Britain was M1901 U.S. Action
with Krag, M1903 and Mauser parts built on.
Spr ingfields, plus tons of cannon and harn ess,
were sold off to arm t he French in th e
Franco-Pr ussian War. Though Bann erman
may not have been personall y act ive in th ose
sales, his firm was to have a long association
with foreign munit ions houses. By World
War I he had consol idated small arms storage
and sales at 501 Broadwa y, with the Island
Arsenal off Cornwall, a war ehouse at t he
Erie Basin Stores Brooklyn on the wat er
front, and a Belgian agent in Liege.
Bann er man also had commercial connec-
tions with the German-Belgian munitions
firm of Adolph Frank of Hamburg. To jud ge
from the overl apping offer ings of identical
musket s and r ifles, Bann erman did a hri sk
business bidd ing in guns for ALFA and the
European munitions tr ader s, reserving a
stock for hi s store. Collectors shudder to re-
call the pictur e of the Colt r ifle musket in
Bann erman' s catalog wher e, i n addition to
reassuring every collec tor that he needed one,
Bann erman remarks that his Liege agent
altered 50,000 of them to flintlock for t he
African trade, and they are "now rare."
Ther e seems to have been considerable r eci-
pr ocit y between Bann erman i n New York
and the Ger man and other foreign munitions
brokers. Offer ed in Bann erma n' s catalog as
well as those of European deal ers, were th e
ident ical souvenir tr inket s-desk weights, ink
stands, and button hooks, mad e from a
var iety of small arms cartridges and small-
caliber cannon shel1s.
Springfields, plu s tons of cannon and harn ess, that was a real "gone" shooter.
were sold off to ar m the French in t he Bannerman lived an advent urous li fe. The
Franco-Pru ssian War. Though Bannerma n Mauser s did not make him any money sit-
may not have been personall y active i n t hose ting in New York, and he decided to go
sales, hi s firm was to have a long associat ion abroad to sell them. Complained Banner-
f; ;: '-'-' Bannerman gift to Britain was M190I U.S. Action
with Krag, M1903 and Mauser parts built on.
The founder of this fantasti c arms business
(which, as earl y as th e turn of the century,
"required 15 acres for storage") was the
sixth Francis Banner man, a vigorous Scot-
tish nationalist born in Dundee, Scotland, in
March of 1851. With his parent s, he ar-
rived in Amer ica in 1854 and gr ew up in
Brookl yn, where hi s father ran a ship's chan-
dler store near the Navy Yard . The business,
mana ged by hi s fath er and lat er by Fra nk,
grew dur ing the 1870's and 1880' s, but did
not take on its char acter of a general muni-
tions firm until near the turn of t he cent ury.
In 1897, Bann erman moved to 579 Broadway,
a spot that served as maj or outfitters for
many of the Spa nish American War volun-
teer regiments. Young Frank had accom-
pan ied his father to the government auctions
which siphoned off t he tremendous Civil War
surpl uses and, wit h nat ive Scott ish sagacity
and some acquired Yankee acumen, became
a shrewd bargainer in the surplus sales t hen
being held in New York. A newspap er ad
of about 1900 showed three steam trai ns and
th e heading, "Three tr ain l oads of army
goods sold to Fr ancis Bann erman," with re-
vol vers at SOc up, carbines at $1.00 up,
muskets slightly hi gher.
Though Bann erman' s lat er catalogs inti-
mat ed he had purcha sed guns at the end of
t he Civil War, hi s name is conspicuous by i ts
absence from the Congressional report of
sales made in 187071. Then a half-million
the 1880' s he became associated with Christo-
pher M. Spencer, rifle inventor then making
a pump shotgun, first of its kind and one
li ked by Annie Oakl ey. Th e Spencer business
fell apar t in 1887, and Bann erman for the
next twenty years li sted the Spencer factory
in hi s catalog as " for sale."
By Worl d Wa r I Bannerman had grown
to be the lar gest house of its kind in the
U.S. A cooperat ive bidd er with ri val firms
like W. Stokes Kirk and Har tley & Graham,
he had a better sense of publ icity and ap-
pealed mor e to the gun crank and coll ector
than to t he revolutionary agent. Though he
spiced his offerings with phrases like "s pecial
bargain pr ices to govern ment war mini ster s,"
hi s primary ap peal was to the curi o colle ctor.
Remin gton revolver s, new, at $1.85, he sug-
gested could be gro uped with brass drum-
st ick holders (20c) , U.S. Mari ne brass
shield ( ISc}, crossed sabres ( lOc) , and U. S.
br ass bri dl e monogram ( Hlc}, or "All the
above ar t icles for $2.40, not including the
board. " The happy purchaser was supposed
to make his own mounting placque, drill a
hole through the revolver frame, and bolt i t
to the boar d as a " den decorati on."
But Bannerma n did tur n out some un-
usual models of guns for shooting pur poses.
Cadet Cor ps were out fitted wit h Bann erman
cut-down Spr ingfield rifles, or Remin gton
single shot pistols converted to small i n-
fantry musket . Fo r the more delicat e cadets,
he offered " quaker guns," his own original
design, using U.S. muskets wit h wooden bar-
rels. Once he invent ori ed 125,000 Spr ingfield
musket stocks, and he could make up these
items from time to time fr om spare parts.
And being the success ful bidd er on the 5,000
conde mned U.S. Rifles, Model 1901-2, put
him into the Spr ingfield Rifle business.
These part icular guns and pa rts of guns
were in all stages of manu fact ure at Spr ing-
field Armor y when several major design
changes were authorized. Bannerman became
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condemned U.S. Rifles, Model 1901-2, put
him int o t he Spr ingfield Rifle business.
These part icular guns and pa rts of guns
were in all stages of manufact ure at Spr ing-
field Armory when several major design
changes were authorized. Bannerman became
the lucky bidder on these bolt act ion re-
ceivers and assembl ies, which are di stin-
guished . from the tru e M1903 recei ver by
having a smooth recei ver bri dge at the rear ,
not humped up to recei ve the large M1903
safety lug on the bolt. Came World War I
and Bannerman decided to do a ni ce thing
[or Engla nd with these parts. He created the
Banner man Springfield, fittin g M1903 stocks,
Krag barrels and sights, Krag tri gger guar ds,
Mauser hand guar ds and followers, and dum-
my magazine floor plates to the guns. Th ey
wer e chambered .303 and marked on the
receiver s with the Banerman arm and flag,
and the word BANNERMA N ' in an arc. A
thousand of these r ifles, plu s complet e sets
of equipment, cartridge belt s, bayonet s, were
deli ver ed to the Briti sh as a gift fr om their
roving Scotsman. His Maj esty's Government
said thank you, tr ied out the rifles at Hythe,
found that the first shot would hit the mark ,
but found al so that the second shot would
not feed into the cha mber. Th e bi g .303 r ims
j amed in the Mauser-type magazine. So they
stamped all the guns " DP" for " Drill P ur-
poses," and not one of them saw combat. But
the spirit was there. An old Briti sh soldier
told me that the Bann erman Spr ingfield was
one of the most accurate rifles he had ever
ha ndled, with that .303 cartridge on the
front-lug act ion, for the first shot. For th e
found er of the firm, the first shot was the
last : the sixth Fr ancis Bann erman died in
me spm t was wer e. An 010 nriusn souner
told me that the Bann erman Spr ingfield was
one of the most accurate rifles he had ever
handled, with that .303 car tridge on the
front-lu g act ion, for the first shot. For th e
found er of the firm, the first shot was the
last : the sixth Fr ancis Bann erman di ed in
1918.
After World War I Bann erman' s firm kept
act ive, and such deal s as Civil War Smith
Carb ines, which they sold by the thousands
through Gimb els New York Store for as little
as 29c, kept them in business. Th ey bid in
thou sands of the Ru ssian Nagant rifl es and
proudly pr oclaimed that buyer s should or der
"as our pr ices are half what the ammunition
compa nies charge." They even converted Ru s-
sian rifles to .30-06, but few peopl e care to
talk about that nowadays. Such guns wer e
definit ely unsaf e,
And through the years the Br oadwa y store
sold the Springfield rifl ed mu sket s, t he Colt
revolver s as "complete out fit, including flask,
mould , caps, just $7.50." But today, with th e
501 Broadway address destined t o be cleared
for a parking lot, and the Island cr umbli ng
into the weath er , gun fan s want to know
what is left at Bannerman' s. Th e questi on
is not easily answere d. Th e New York store
runs through the depth of a city block, has
basement s and sub basement s, and from
per sonal exper ience I know that something
nobody expects always seems to crop up
there. With the Island and the store, I still
cannot answer the question " what' s left at
Bann erman," except to say "plenty." Ban-
nerman's is full of surprises.
Take the day I got a copy of th eir big,
new catalog. Th ere, star ing out from t he
same page where in earl ier edit ions it has
been pictured as a memento of the days when
the firm di d have Gatling Guns, was a rar e
aluminum 6mm Gatling, complete with tri -
pod, drum, ammunition, and pri ce. Gatlin g
guns with pri ces had not been li sted for
years. But I pl unged. No, I di dn't buy t he
gun, but I wasn't much lat er than the cus-
tomer who did buy it.
And then one day I stopped into the
store for a look ar ound. Th at wall of guns
has had muskets come and muskets go, and
something ca ught my eye : a sawed off mus-
ket with a pr ofile that was familiar. I had
been doing resear ch on the Hackett or "Fusil
Robert" musk ets, the top-l ever detonatin g
breech loader s tested at West Point in 1837
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has had muskets come and muskets go, and
something caught my eye : a sawed off mus-
ket with a pr ofile that was familiar. I had
been doing resear ch on the Hackett or "Fusil
Robert" musk ets, the top-l ever detona t ing
breech loader s tested at West Point in 1837
in compet ition with Colt, Cochran, and Hall ' s
arms. I owned one such gun, identical with
the West Point Museum specimen except
for ser ial number. Now I saw something
similar on Bannerma n' s wall , and for $5 I
bou ght a specimen of the hi ther to unknown
under-l ever Fusil Robert. It needs cleaning,
and the lever is missing, but one day I' ll get
around to restoring it. For me, Bannerman
still has a bit of that old cha rm.
Th e fact is that whil e Bannerman pr obably
doesn't have cases of musket s left , t he im-
possibl e does happen. Said the I sland' s care-
taker , "We found a box of .50-70 r ifles her e
l ast month and sent them down to the
store." And from the sub ba sement s of
the store, cases and chests of parts, accoutre-
ment s, artiller y comp onent s, and ammunit ion,
st ill come in bewild ering confusion. Th e old
firm is ready for a face-lifting.
Current dope is that new pr emises will be
secur ed and the business continued. So near
to the century mark, it would be a shame
to shut up Bannerman's merely becau se the
old building must come down. A more ag-
gressive sell ing program will put more of
t he Civil War relics before the coll ector, and
Bannerman's will boom aga in. But they ar e
still a littl e leery of that island. Th ere is
enough ammunition on that rocky
crag to mak e it boom all by it self.
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around or pull one way or th e ot he r t o
quite a n extent. I let t hem ha ng on th e
wall from six months to a yea r. 1 t hey
have not alt er ed shape ver y much by t his
time. I can rest assured that the stock is
well seasoned. I might add that t hese a re
left in a room that is in t he upstairs part
of the house and the temperat ure varies to
no gr ea t extent from one month to t he next.
If they ha ve not warp ed or walked around
du r ing thi dr ying peri od, I have never
found them to do , 0 aft er being completely
finished and fit ted to the gun.
As to finish-I have oiled stocks, laquer ed
stock, varnished stocks. and stocks pr a yed
with plasti c. I have found them all t o he
ver y durabl e. but the oil finished stock will
a bsorb more moisture than t hose finished
otherwise. The new plasti c finishes are very
hard, durab le and wear extremely wel l.
Furthermore. they lea ve the wood in th eir
nat ura l color. which I per sonall y prefer. I
will never use oil aga in on a stock unless i t
be a piece of pla in wood where I ca re
not hing for the looks. If you have a finely
figured piece of wood or one with contras ting
grain, then it should be fini shed in th e
nat ura l state wit h no stain being used. Th at
is what sets the stock apart fro m other s. The
only one I have stained is a Prima Vera
stock which I placed on a J ap sporte r, h ut
it was st ra w colored in the na tural state and
I did n't care for it. It took a beautif ul
waln ut stain wit h gold en high-lights.
My rifle stocks ha ve heen to me on e of
the most enj oya ble part s of my shoot ing
hobby. I have di splayed th em many t imes
to civic cl ubs, Parent -Teacher Association
meetings, and spor tsmen's gro ups, in neigh-
boring count ies as well as my own. People
come from all di stan ces to look at them, yet
they cost no mor e to make up than would
a factor y issue stock, pr oviding you pi ck
out your own wood and have th em turned
and inl etted by machinc.
Even if you own only one rifl e or shotgun,
I think you would ga in much pleasure fr om
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meet ings, and spor tsmen' s groups, in neigh-
bor ing count ies as well as my own. Peopl e
come from all distan ces to look at them, yet
they cost no more to make up th an would
a factory issue stock, prov iding you pick
out your own wood and have t hem tu rned
and inlett ed by ma chinc.
Even if you own 'only one rifl e or shotgun,
I think you would gain much pleasur e from
having one stocked in an unusual wood of
some sort, one th at is attractive, yet
durable.
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"You' re welcome to the watch, but

what'll you take for tha t gun? It's
just what I need to fill a gap in
my collection."
posedly guara nte ed to be dry, I send it to
one of the var ious firms who specialize in
mach ine turning stock bla nks, and have it
t urn ed. Th is usuall y runs from t en t o t welve
dollars. Then I set it on the wall to see i f
it is going to war p or walk aro und or t wist
to a ny apprec iable degree. Th ere is not
much wood left in that forearm aft er it has
been machine turned and inletted, and if it
is not good and dry it is going to twist
posedl y guaranteed to be dr y, I send it to
one of the var ious firms who spec ialize in
machine turning stock blanks, and have it
turned. Th is usua ll y r uns from t en to twelve
dollars. Then I set it on the wall to see if
it is going to warp or walk around or twist
to any appreciabl e degree. Th er e i s not
. . . my' collecfion."
Th er e are lit er all y dozens of varret res of
impor ted woods whi ch wi ll mak e ver y fine
gun stocks. Some of them ar e a l ill ie heavy,
but t hey can be used on target or bench rest
rifles to furnish the shooter wit h something
different. Th ey cost very littl e. if any more,
than the local pla in woods and I ha ve never
pa id over fifteen doll ar s per blank, even of
the imported woods.
AIter purchasing a blank whi ch is sup'
GUNSTOCK BEAUTIES ON PARADE
(Continu ed [rom page 24)
r unning through it ma kes it very unusual in
color. I have had two r ifles stocked i n
Mesquite and pr ize them highl y.
West ern "quilted ," "c r azy" or " shell-flame"
:napl e, I br iefly ment ioned pr eviously,
I S a senes of names att ached to one parti cu-
lar species of mapl e grown in Wa shington
State a nd Or egon. This spec ies pr odu ces
stock blanks figured to resembl e oyster shells,
large fish scales, or ha lf-dolla r size coins
overla pping eac h other. When bl ow-tor ched
these stoc ks give off an ir idescent effect
which I have never seen on a ny oth er wood.
Th ey mak e at tract ive stoc k for Iiaht-weiuht
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Apple wood and Cherr y, as well as Wi ld
Cherry wood all mak e good stock woods an d
were used quit e exte nsively by our early
sett lers in th e Ea t. Th ey ar e uncolorful, but
pra cti cal. Apple is a whit e colored wood
that can be mad e to r esembl e Ebo ny if dyed
black in color and h ighl y pol ished. The
Cherry woods ar e pink in color i f left
na tural. Cha rles DeVeto, 12717 Irvington
Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, furnishes Ea st ern
Curly Mapl e and the Cherry wood blan ks.
One of the most un usual stocks I ha ve is
mad e of Zebra Wood which is imported fro m
Africa. It is yello w colored with da r k brown
strea ks thr ough it. Zebra wood, Tu lip wood,
and California Mesq uit e probably have t he
hi ghest cont rast in the gra in colors of any
stock woods.
I have a Ti gerwood stock whi ch is dark
brown in color and even when it came off
the car ving ma ch ine it wa hi ghl y poli shed.
Sandi ng really mad e it glow. Very strong
and no particul ar gra in structure whatever .
It also comes from Africa .
An Amar anth or " P ur ple Heart" stock
fr om South Amer ica is a natural purpl e in
color and quite unu sual beca use of thi s true
natural color. Th is wood is used quite ex-
tensi vel y for inl ay work on gun stocks as
well as for making Iorend tip s and gr ip caps.
th e ca rving ma chine It wa hr gh l y poli shed.
Sanding really made it glow. Very strong
and no particular gr ain struct ur e whatever.
It also comes from Afri ca.
An Ama r anth or " P ur ple Heart" stock
from Sout h Ameri ca is a na tural purple in
color and q uit e unu sual beca use of thi s tr ue
natural color. Th is wood is used quite ex-
tensi vely for inla y work on gun stocks as
well as for making for end tip s and gr ip caps.
It is also pr acti cal as an ent ire stock.
A stock cut ent irely fr om a big western
mapl e burl is one of the most unusual as
well as bea utiful ones in my per sonal col-
lecti on. It was seasoned for over twent y-five
years before I had ils Hult gr en of 1217
South McBr ide Ave. , Los Angeles 22, Cali-
forni a, finish it up in pi a tic fini sh and put
it on a 7mm Mau ser rifle for me. I probably
could have sold thi s blank alone for 100
becau se of it s unu sual qu aliti es.
Laminated stocks of all patt erns and de-
signs ar e availa ble, and will be found to be
very pract ical wher e one wishes to el iminate
warping, such as for target rifle use, or if
livin g in damp cl imat e areas.
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mation. Pu bli shed monthl y by Harding since
1905. Priced at 25c a copy. $2.00 a year.
Harding, 878 E. Main St. , Columbus 9, Ohi o.
REVERE'S NEW STILL CAMERA features
compl etel y automati c exposure sett ing. Elec-
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Simply aim at the subj ect and the camera ' s
electric eye does the rest. Guar anteed pro-
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exposure, the sportsman and ama teur pho-
tograph er can concentrate on picture' s art is-
tic composit ion. Further details furni shed by
Revere Camera Company, Chi cago, 111.
JIM BOWIE KNIFE measur es ju st a foot
long, 7" hand -honed blade 1,4" thi ck. Large
br ass guard, shank of blade extends through
bras s lined, extra heavy, untrimmed stag
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JIM BOWIE KNIFE measur es ju st a foot
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Automatic start and stop. Models for sole
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diesel. Folder A33 avai lable upon requ est.
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NOSLER PARTITION JACKET BULLETS,
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diameter approximately double, having ample
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Used all over the world with unexcelled re-
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Work equally well load ed in small and me-
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QUICK QUAKER OATS now avail able in
wat erproof individual packets is designed
especially for the sportsman. Each 1% oz.
packet makes one man- size serving-so easy
to make. Just add contents of pack et to
boilin g water and cook for two minutes.
Convenient and nutri tious. Sold by mail
only. A 24-pak tr ay may be purcha sed by
sending $1.75 to Campers Pak, Box 6166,
Dept. Gl , Chi cago 77, Illinois.
"TOUCH 'N' CHROME" r efinishes ru st y
chrome with pure, glowing metal. The kit
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" To uch ' n' Chro me" is guaranteed to stop
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as well as r estor ing th e chrome to it s or igi-
nal br ill iance. The process is simple: cle an
the chrome wi th Mag ichrome Cleaner , dab
on Magi chrorne, and poli sh the finish gentl y
NEW SAECO LUBRI-SIZER is preci sion,
heavy dut y, cast bull et sizing and lubricating
pr ess, with heat tr eated and honed di es,
ground between centers for ab solut e con-
centr icity. Dies and top punch es ar e avail-
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Saeco Lubri -Si zer has gas check sea t ing at-
tachment and spr ing load ed grease reser voir.
Th e pa rall el rods are gro und for absol ut e
alignment and bull et concentr icity. Lu bri-
Sizer less di e $36.00, di e $6.50, top punch
$2.00. No w ava ila ble for imm edi at e delivery.
For f urt her details contac t Sa nta Ani ta
Eng ineer ing Co., Dept. 17, 2451 E. Colora do
a nte tor all popu lar ca n ner s an d bullet s.
Saeco Lubri -Si zer has gas check seat ing at-
ta chment and spr ing load ed gre ase reser voir.
Th e pa rall el rods are gro und for absol ut e
alignment and bull et concentr icity. Lu bri-
Sizer less di e $36.00, di e $6.50, top punch
$2 .00. No w ava ila ble for imm edi at e deli ver y.
For f urt her deta ils contac t Sa nta Ani ta
Eng inee r ing Co., Dept. 17, 2451 E. Colora do
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glass are so computed that th ey compensa te
for th e incr eased distance between eye an d
binocul ar when eyeglass es ar e worn. Fi eld of
view of t he spec tacle -wearer is doubl ed ; with
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WILSON AUTO SHADES make camping
trips mor e enjoyable. Ea sy-to-install auto
shades mak e comfor ta ble sleeping quart er s
of a stat ion wagon or car. Provide priv acy,
all ow pl ent y of fr esh air and keep out pesky
insects. Made of maintenance-free Ka iser
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scree n out direct rays of th e sun while cool-
ing br eeze. ar e permitted to circul at e throu gh
car . Shades keep car int erior 15 degrees
cooler. Opera te as eas il y as home wind ow
shades. Unique snap spr ings ena ble scree ns
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lat e model stat ion wagon s and most late
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inform ati on are available up on request to
manufacturer , Wi lson Auto Product s, 16
West Ut ica St. , Buff alo, N. Y.
PLASTIC SHOTSHELL CASE destined to
revolut ioni ze t he shotshell field. New pla sti c
case s fa r super ior to fac tory cases. Wat er
proof. will not swell. Won't fra y after sev-
era l cha mber ings . as do paper cases. Will
withstand five t imes as many reloadings as
pa per case s and give better , mor e uniform
ignit ion and pa tt ern s. Cases ca n be loaded
to full velocity for either tr.llP: use or long
ran ge wat er-fowl shoot ing. A produ ct of
Herter' s, Inc. , Waseca , Mi nn.
Dept. PG-H, 227 W. Washington s., Chi-
cago 6, Ill.
NEW BB REVOLVER handles like Old-
West "45." The Hahn " 45" BB Single Act ion
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f ront ier Amer ica's famous Peacemaker. shoots
with perfect bal an ce a nd point abilit y. Ac-
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100 shots fr om a si ngle Cros man Gi ant Gas
Power let. No pump ing, no hea vy spr ing
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for m power , plu s prec ision t rui ng of th e
ba rrel a nd factor y testi ng of every gun, keeps
shot groups ti ght for compet it ive shoot ing at
th e regul ati on BB range of 15 feet with
easy hull' s eye s at 25 feet. BB model is
a vailab le for $15.95 fr om P. Y. Hahn Mfg.
Co., In c. , Ea st Ch urc h sr., Fair port , N. Y.
CHAMOIS CLOTH SHIRT for sports men
who want a warm, dura ble, non-it ch, out -
d oor shirt. Ma de fr om a heav y, durabl e
fleeced cotto n. Full cut with two large
brea st pock et s and long tail s. A shir t that
can be worn d urin g th e middle of th e da y
witho ut a coa t. Wa shes beautifully. Sizes
14 to 18. Half sizes included . Ea ch size
co mes in one standard sleeve len gth whi ch
is in pr oportion to th e size. Worn bi g and
f ull. Ava ila ble in tan or sca rle t colors . Pri ced
at $5.95, postp aid. Ma nufact ur ed by th e
Gokey Company, St. Paull, Minn.
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Flint t wo-gauger shoot ing eiCjht tons
muzzle energy slug t est s scope mount.
early 30' s, majoring in mecha nical engineer -
ing. During the depression he worked as a
machini st yet quit hi s job three times in
four years to takc six month hunt ing trips.
Th e first tr ip covered most of the . S. a nd
the second Westcrn Canada, in a l\Iodel A
Ford. Bein g pract icall y broke, he li ved off
th e cou ntr y with a Colt Woodsman. Th e
batter ed Model A made ab out 20,000 mil es
into Mexi co, on the third trip. Maynar d d is-
covered he was down to S30 and 2,750 mil es
from home. He got ba ck with SS to spare,
due to hi s deadl y accura cy with th e Woods-
man that supplied pl enty of fresh meat, in-
cl uding ja ckrabbits. Tho se 18 months of
hunting accounted for spe cimens of most
North Ameri can game.
An attracti ve lad y named Katherine and
a pr eacher ended hi s r oaming, ca ref ree l ife,
as Buehl er says, " for a better one" in 1939.
Marria ge di dn 't faze hi s love of guns, shoot-
ing and experimental work, and he appl ied
him self wi th even grea ter zeal.
Gunsmi th business was building IIp, and
leaning heavily to scope sights. Buehl er
wasn't sa t isfied with any mount on th e mar-
ket. "loun t r ings were in th e wa y of th e
turret and he thought they should have a
bett er appearance, in keeping with fine cus-
tom r ifles. Aft er many tri al s he built hi s
concept ion of the ult ima te in a fine, st ur dy
mount. Local shooters lik ed it, so more na-
ti onal ad ver ti sing br ought in floods of or ders.
AIter makin g a nd shipping 1,500 moun ts,
pili'; the safctys and guns mithing, 16-hour
days wer e beginni ng to tell. The couple took
a vacation in 1940, and wer e too busy for
the next 15 years to take another.
Th e offi ce was moved to Orinda, 10 mil es
out of Oa kland. when Katie resicn erl 1'1) 1949
pius t ile sa tctys and gu nsmithing, o-hour
days were begi nning to tell. The couple took
a vacar ion in 1940, and wer e too bu sy for
the next 15 years to tak e another.
Th e office was moved to Orinda, 10 mil es
out of Oakl an d, when Kati e resi gned in 1949
to look a fter thc famil y. Th eir first daughter ,
Sandy, was (our years old, a nd Nancy was
born in 1950. Th eir home is four miles out
of Or inda a nd the a bandoned quarry, con-
ver ted to a fine shoot ing range, is convenient-
ly locat ed a bout midway. This is wher e one
ca n often hear rifl e fire tha t sounds l ike
ar t illery. Th e basement shop. now ent ir ely
exper imental, is st ill at home. wher e Buehl er
does all I he toolin g and wor ks out t he new
ideas which arc the lif e-bl ood of his business.
He completely r cconditi oned a Ph ant om I
an d 11, Roll s Royce, str ipping them down to
th e last nut, to see why t hey are considered
th e finest cars in the world. He found they
wer e bu ilt with a complete disr egard for
cost. Both cars took sever al bl ue r ibbons a nd
premier awar ds in aut o shows. befor e he sold
them. As he sa id, "There was noth ing else
mechani cal I could do to th em. " He built a
% scale model Roll s, with a semi-automat ic
tr an smission, for the kid s. Top spee d is 12
mph with the 1% horse power mot or .
Wh en Buchler desi gned and made th e
first one of hi s scope mounts, he th ought of it
as the " ult imate" in desi gn. Yet af ter yea rs
of accept ance among shoote rs, he mad e a
change to "M icro-Dial" to even further per -
fect it . He doesn't think he can improve hi s
pr esent mount, but he is not th e kind of man
to r est content with even perfecti on. Hi s
basement shop still whirrs and the nearby
range resounds to the sounds of Buehl er ' s
Ten of th e World's most
PnUTpr f ll1 RiRpc:
oped the Lovell R-2 at the same time Lovell
did . Again. with Dick ] omton, who is now
a pr ofessional guide in Alaska, he developed
the famous Var mint er at the same t ime Geb-
by did. Th ey called their ver sion th e .22-250
Magnum, but the car tridges wer e inter-
changeable. "laynard says thi s fir st exper i-
ment al r ifle is still the most accurate rifl e i n
his collection today. As such development s
wer e a hobb y, he never made an effor t to
comercial ize on them.
Handgun s pla y a large part in Buehl er's
hobby shoot ing. Fa vorit es include a Col t
Woodsman , a mat ched pair of S & W K. 38/
K-22 revol ver s. a .45 Colt Single Acti on, and
a Colt .45 Aep. Hi s Jove for optical sights
ca used him to design a mount to use the K-l
Weaver scope on a r evolver. Whi le he doesn't
recommend it, it did work , whi ch is what he
wanted to pro ve, His fine rifl e collec tion in-
clud es most calibers from .22 Hornet up. He
shoots them all. No loading tools ar e mad e
to tak e the extre mely lar ge case s so hc makes
hi s tools and loads for all calibers.
Buehler had five years of coll ege in the
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(Continued from page 30 )
hi s father bro ught home a littl e St evens
single shot .22 with a supply of Short s. Hi s
brother , Ken, was onl y four, and their dad
had to help them hold the rifl e. Both boys
learned to shoot, and to l ove guns. Ken
is now a coll ector of Winchest er s. Th e first
game the youngsters took wer e lar ge sna p-
pin g turtles in the Charle s ri ver. With Dad
paying for the ammo. one summer th e buys
popped three cases (30,000 rounds ) in two
months. Dad thought thi s was too much of a
good thing, so redu ced the all otmcnt to a
case or so a year. Th e boys supplemented thi s
meag er supply with cart r idges bou ght with
their own money.
Ma ynard became inter est ed in th e me-
chanical end of guns in hi gh school. Mor e
than a quarter century ago he star ted hand-
loading and remodelin g gun s und er thc
supervision of C. R. Salmonson, a gunsmith
in Oakl and, Cali forn ia, wher e th e fami ly
had moved. He soon had hi s own lathe and
was making hi s own r eloading tools, rc-
working military rifl es and designing wild-
cats for him self and oth er people. He devel-
HOW TO GET CAST BULLET ACCURACY
(Con tinued from page 41)
BLUE BOOK OF
USED GUN VALUES
minimum of li ght. A small hi gh spot usuall y
remains where the spru e has been cut off.
Th is hi gh spot must be " dead center" t o
eliminate " fliers ." Cast bull et bases must be
perfect if the ut most acc uracy is t o be
obta ined.
Old time schuetzen men spoke of the base
as the "s teering end" of the bull et. For thi s
reason their molds were oft en cut to pour
from the nose, assur ing t hem of a smooth,
flat , perf ect bull et ba se. This part of the
bull et must expand uni forml y and fill the
grooves for ming a perf ect, gas-t ight seal. If
the base isn' t square one side will emerge
from the bor e before the other allowing the
hot , expanding powder gases to escape un-
evenly, a condition whi ch will tip the bulle t,
losing accuracy.
Cast bull et s are made from a l ead-tin alloy.
Rifles, as indi viduals, will show a pr efer ence
for one mi xtu re over the others . Thi s par-
ti tcul ar alloy can only be determined by
exper imentation. All of my rifl es, regardless
of caliber , will shoot ti ght er average groups
wit h bull et s cast as soft as the riflin g will
handl e without leading. Us uall y a 15/1 or a
20/ 1 mixture of l ead and tin is a good pla ce
to start. Th ese two normally pr oduce excellent
groups in cases of medium capac ity, espe-
cially at 1800/2000 feet per second vel ocities.
Any good handbook, such as the Id eal or
Belding & Mull , cover s t he procedure for
cast ing good bull et s. Severa l deta il s remem-
bered while casting will do much t o insure
good, uni form bull et s. The mold mu st be
al most as hot as the molt en metal it self . The
best method to bring the mold up to heat is
good, uni form bull et s. Th e mold mu st be
almost as hot as the molt en metal it self . The
best method to bring the mold up to heat is
by cast ing bullet s. Usuall y 10 to 20 will
warm it up. Wh en your bull et s drop fr om
the mold with full grooves, sha rp corners,
wrinkle-free bearin g sur faces, and are as
br ight and shiny as a newly minted dime,
cast ing can proceed without interruption.
Above all , don't try to hurry. It ta kes
several seconds for the met al in the spr ue to
solidify so t hat the cut-off plat e can do a
smooth job. Allow the dipper spout t o re-
main in cont act with the sprue hole for a
couple of seconds af ter the mold has been
tipped upri ght. Thi s will insur e a completely
full cavity. And whil e the dipper and mold
ar e thu s connected, tap the bott om of the
blocks li ghtly on the top edge of the melti ng
pot a couple of times. Thi s little tri ck will
pound the molten metal into th e mold, pro-
ducing cast sl ugs that won' t vary mor e than
.2 grain either way. Remember you are cast-
ing bull et s for accuracy and that a littl e
pa tience will pay of with smaller groups in
the range.
Above all, be sure to handl e cast bull et s
very carefully. Even the "har dest" all oys are
soft and deform very easily while hot. Cat ch
the slugs as they drop from t he mold on a
folded blank et or a large turkish towel. Don't
drop them into a pile.
I cast my bull et s in groups of 110 or 115,
then set the mold aside whil e these are ex-
amined. Any slug with even the sli ghtest
defect is thrown bac k int o the pot. Th e ones
that appear perf ect are th en weighed on the
scales. Th ese bull et s ar e separated int o three
groups ; those th at weigh within .25 gra in
either way of the nomin al cast bull et wei ght;
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scales. Th ese bull et s ar e separa ted int o three
groups ; those th at weigh within .25 grain
either way of the nomin al cast bull et wei ght;
those that weigh from .25 to .5 grain abo ve
that weight ; and those that weigh fr om .25
to .5 grains below the weight. Any bullet that
var ys mor e than plu s or minu s .5 gr ain i s
di scard ed.
Ea ch of these weighed groups is kept sepa-
rate-lubricat ed, sized, loaded, and shot the
same way. And each lot of 110 is kept sepa-
rate. A lot of tr oubl e? Not when loading to
squeeze the utmost accuracy fr om a cast bul-
let. Unifor mity is the secret of lead-alloy
accuracy and thi s is one of the ways of bein g
certa in your cast bull ets are as unif or m as
possibl e.
Lubri cati on has a definit e and very im-
portant bearing on the ultimat e accuracy of
any cast bullet. It mak es l itt le differe nce
wheth er the sl ug is lubricated by the cak e-
pan, cake-cutt er method or with a sizer and
l ubrica ter, ju st as l ong as the grooves are
packed f ull . Th e most import ant t hing i s t he
composition of the lub ri cant i tself. Many
differ ent mixtures ha ve been tried, sworn by
and at- -wat er pump grease, Lubriplate, beef
tall ow, Japan wax, beeswax, and carna uba
wax to name a few. All have their merits, but
fr om severa l years of experimentat ion 1 ha ve
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is a 50-50 mixture of pure beeswax and paraf-
fine. Both of these ar e inexpensive and
readily obtained at the corner drug store and
eight ounces of thi s mixture will lubricat e
several thousand bull ets.
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a load of 600/0 to 750/0 of a full charge of
# 3031, 4320, 4064, or 4895 wit h real ac-
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will work fine. One of the most accura te
loads for my .30-06 sporter is 30.7 grains of
#4895 behi nd a 165 gr. bull et with Win.
120 pr imer s. On the ot her hand, 12.5 gra ins
of nique tr iggered by the Win. III large
pistol primer with the same bull et in the '06
shoots like a house afire.
With the .250-3000 FN sporter I rely en-
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barrel itself, the more accurately it will shoot.
In tr ying to squeeze minute-of-angle gro ups
from cast bull et s, much depends on the
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tile solution whi ch evapora tes leaving t he
bear ing surfaces coated with gra phite. Ac
curacy with this lubri cant has been excellent.
Leading is no longer a problem even with
cast bull et loads at close to j acketed slug
velocit ies !
Aft er l ubricat ion, the gas check is at-
tached to the base of the bull et. Thi s shall ow
copper or gilding metal cup protect s the base
from the blow-torch blast of the expanding
powder gases. Accuracy is not measura bly
affected by the make, type, or mat eri al of gas
check. The import ant th ing is to att ach the
gas check so that it rem.ains on t he bullet
clear to the tar get. A gas check flying off
the base or't he bullet during flight is often
the cause of t hat one " flier."
There are many differ ent brand s of gas
checks on the mar ket at the pr esent time and
they all perform excellently if they stay with
the bullet. One bran d is designed so t hat it
crimps on the base of the slug when forced
through the sizing die. This part icular one
does a very good j ob of staying with the bul-
l et. However , gas checks are much a matter
of choice. Usually the Id eal bra nd fits the
base of bull ets cast from a Lyman mold
much better than most of the other s.
Proper sizing of a lubri cated, gas-checked,
lead-alloy bullet is pro bably one of the most
impor tant operat ions affect ing pin-point ac-
curacy. For years handbooks always r ecom-
mend ed shooting a cas t bull et that was
several thousandth s over groove diameter .
Theory behi nd this pr act ice was that the
lar ger hull et did a bett er job of sealing the
bore, ther eby jacking up pressures {or more
effi cient burn ing of light powder charges.
However, none of my ri fles will produce ac-
cur ate result s wi th oversize bull ets. All of
my pet gas check loads call for a bull et
sized to groove diameter.
To determine the proper bullet size for
any rifle, first "slug" the bore by pushi ng a
hunk of soft lead through it. Mike thi s t o de-
curare r esu us WJlll o vers rze u u uers. .t\ JL 0 1
my pet gas check loads call for a bull et
sized to groove diameter.
To determine the proper bullet size for
any rifle, first "slug" the bore by pushi ng a
hunk of soft lead through it. Mike thi s t o de-
termine the groove diameter. Now mike one
of the bull ets as cast. Most molds will t hrow
a bullet from .005" to .007" oversize. If the
cast slug is more than .003" over groove di-
ameter it will be best to run it through Iwo
sizing dies to redu ce it. In thi s mann er
Cases to be loaded wi th cast bullets re-
quire special att ent ion. For uniformit y, sepa-
ra te them int o groups of ten or twent y ac -
cording to make. Each must be full le ngth
sized before loadin g the first ti me, t hen
trimmed to a uniform overall length. Trim-
ming the necks will insur e the same seat ing
dept h from case to case. It will also square
up the case mouth so that one side of the
sl ug doesn' t emerge before the other. Trim-
ming also afford s equal neck tension on the
bull et from load to l oad, an important ac-
curacy factor.
Trimmi ng will leave a slight burr on both
the inside and outside of the case mouth. A
few t urn s of an ordinary 82-degree counter-
sink will chamfer t he inside ; a couple of
gentle swipes with a small piece of crocus
cloth will remove any trace of burrs fr om
the out side, or use one of the special de-
burring tools for thi s operation.
Examine pr imer pockets carefully. Make
sure no burrs were left on the inside when
the flash hole was punched. Remove any by
scraping with the squared end of a small
screwdriver. Flash holes will var y from .065"
to .085". The act ual diameter is unim-
port ant , just as long as it is the same in
every case. Run a #4,5 drill t hrou gh each
hole as a check. If any are larger than thi s
drill size, discard them for cast bullet use.
Be sure that t he flash hole has been
pun ched " dead center. " Often they ar e off t o
one side of the pocket. If so, di scard that
parti cular shell. Always clean the pr imer
pocket befor e seat ing a new pri mer. Scrape
out the residue left by the spent pr imer with
the end of a small screwdriver blade or lise
one of the special steel wir e bru shes designed
specifically for thi s job. A t iny bit of pr imer
residue in the pr imer pocket can tip a new
pr imer enough to cause fa ulty igni tion, re-
sult ing in a " flier" for t hat shot.
After cases have heen fired once, suhse-
quent reloadings will require neck sizing
specmcauy lOr ims Jon. 1\ uny mt or pnmer
residue in the pr imer pocket can tip a new
pr imer enough to cause fa ulty igni tion, re-
sult ing in a " flier" for t hat shot.
After cases have heen fired once, suhse-
quent reloadings will require neck sizing
onl y. Adj ust the sizing die so as to leave
about 1/16" of Ihe neck unsized. This
unsized port ion will center the case in the
neck of the chamber, holding the bnll et
concentric wit h the bore and deli ver ing it
tru e to the r ifling.
--------- - ---- - - - - ---- ------ - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Select ion of the proper size of expanding
pl ugs is very important in assembling ac-
curate cast bull et loads. Why go to t he
troubl e of cas ting, weighing, lubricat ing, and
sizing a perf ect hull et; then rui n it by forc-
ing it into a case neck that is t oo small ?
Use an expanding pl ug that is as near t o
t he diamet er of the sized bull et as possible
for best result s. Expa nded with such a pl ug,
t he case neck will ca use very li tt le, i f any,
deformat ion of t he sl ug dur ing t he seat ing
operat ion.
One of the most accura te bull ets for my
.250-3000 is t he 85 gr. Ideal # 257312. As
cast from my mold thi s particular bull et
mikes .257" on I he nose and is not sized.
Wi th this slug: I use an expanding plug t hat
measure s .2575". Bullets are seated in the
case necks with the finger s, yet t her e i s
enoug h neck tension t o cause a li ttl e "pop"
when one is withdrawn. Th is bullet, shot as
cast and seated in this manner, aver ages 1"
groups at 100 yard s when pushed by 18 grs,
of # 4198 in my 7% # FN sporter l
Bull et seat ing dept h will greatl y affect ac-
curacy. Here, experimentat ion is necessar y.
Cast bull et s are peculiar creat ures. As a gen-
eral rule a seat ing depth which allows t he
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This is j ust one of th e safet y mea sures he
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fro ntier mod el pisto l, a 20-gauge pump shot-
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th e boy s are not lim ited to their own weapons
when th ey shoot. They have access to th e
r ifles, pi sto ls and shotguns i n th eir fat her's
exte nsive firearms collect ion.
The twins handload their own cartridges,
carrying out t he entire operation by th em-
sel ves, except the mea s uring of th e powder ,
whi ch is do ne for th em by t hei r fat her. He
tames t heir wild cats to kitt en s by und er-
loadi ng, and he do es t hi s to cut down on
the noi se level of th e ro unds. "One of t he
sa ddest mistakes a fell ow can make in train-
ing a youngst er to sho ot safel y," Kennon
sa ys, " is to use noisy ammuni tion. 1 hav e
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a shoote r nearl y so much as t he noi se does."
Mick ey is a crack pi sto l shot. Not long
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are Deadeye Di ck s with a revo lver.
Bubber' s fav orit e fire arm is a shotg un.
The youngster lov es to hunt birds, and
Georgia' s q uail field s give h im pl enty of
opport un it y to hone th e edge of his wing-
shoot ing.
Th e boys come hy th e powder in t hei r
blood nat ur all y. Their fa th er , a member of
th e At lanta Po li ce Departmen t, cut his teeth
on shooting ir on s in his native state of
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Th e boys come hy th e powder in t heir
blood nat ur all y. Their fa th er , a member of
th e At lanta Police Department, cut his teeth
on shooting ir on s in hi s native state of
Texa s. Their moth er is a fine wingshot.
Mickey and Bubber are on Cl oud .45 wh en
they ente r t.heir fat her' s den , where he keep s
th e grea te r part of his gun coll ect ion. Since
all the weapons th er e, from super bly re-
store d an tiques to brand new, Kennon-made
custom r ifles, ar e ready to fire , Mr. Kennon
has laid down an inflexible ru l e: no ammuni-
is closed wi ll prod uce ex cell ent r es ult s. How-
ever. some t imes a bull et will shoot much
with a ce r ta in load if se ated wi th th e
Lase Hush with Lase of t he neck. Be sure to
make up a dummy cart ridge for future
refer ence, once an accurat e seating depth is
det ermined .
An accurate cas t bu ll et load can be worked
up for any of the powd ers. Better accuracy
in l igh t loads wi ll be obtain ed wit h th e quick-
burning powders li ke #2400, Unique,
# 4759, #4227, and # 4198. # 4198 works
except iona ll y well with loads in th e 1800/2000
Ips range. Heavi er bu llet s will shoot much
be tt er with the slower powder s espe ciall y at
long ranges.
Several of t he sal vage powd ers current ly
on th e market should n' t be overlooked.
# 4895 Gov't powder is excelle nt. #4831 will
produce exce ptional accuracy with most of th e
.30 cal iber cas t bullet s of 150 grs, or mor e.
Both th e West ern ball powd er s, type "C"
and 1-1 -240, shoot very well in small and
medium ca pacit y cas es . And. here, t he hand-
loader ca n combine accuracy wit h economy.
Mo st all of th e sal vag e powd ers menti oned
sell for ab out $1.00 to $1.25 per po und, t hu s
giving th e shooter about twi ce as many l oads
as canister powders for t he sa me cost .
Wh en working up ncw l oads, I usually
wei gh ever y charge on th e powder scales
un t il I get th e grouping I want. Then I cal i-
brat e my Beld ing & Mull mea sure to th row
t hi s parti cular load and find that it is ac-
cura te enough to give me consis te nt minut e-
of-angle gro ups. This is es pec ia ll y true with
the fine-grained powd ers s uch as Unique,
#2400, #4320, # 422 7, # 4895, a nd West ern
ba l l.
No one ca n r ecommend any load that will
give p in-point accuracy in all ri fles of a
given ca libe r. The most accurate load for a
parti cul ar rifl e with a certa in cast bull et
and powder ca n only be determine d by ex-
perimental shooting. The best pl ace to star t
is wit h a load frum a good handbook for
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No one ca n r ecommend any load t hat will
give pin -point accuracy in all ri fles of a
given ca libe r. The most accurate load for a
parti cul ar rifl e with a ce rta in cas t bull et
and powder ca n onl y be deter mined by ex-
perimental shooting. The best place to star t
is wi th a load from a good handbook for
th e bu llet you int end to use. Try it. If you
are l ucky, it ma y gro up ; mor e than l ikel y it
won 't. Work up fr om rh is l oad by .5 grai n
incr ement s. within reason . Shoot a series of
gro ups a nd co mpa re them. Pi ck th e load th at
averages the smalles t groups . Now vary an-
ot he r ser ies of loads from thi s particular
charge hy .1 increments both plus and min us.
Shoo t a not her bunch of gro ups and compare
th em. P ick the load t hat again averages th e
smallest groups and st ick wit h it .
If you t.hink better accur acy can be had ,
tr y varying the bullet sea ting depth, or try
a no ther lu bri cant. P erhaps your rifl e will
handl e.' a bull et .001" to .002" larger than
groove diamet er. Then , aga in, your best ac -
curacy may be obta ined with a differ en t
hul let mixtu re ,
But , remember, ca st lead-all oy sl ugs ar e
temper amental. Don ' t ge t di scouraged if
vour first att em pts don't br ing 1" gro ups .
Lead bu llet !' can be mad e to shoot as well as
j acket ed s lugs if parti cu lar att ention is pai d
to a few det ai ls. Unifor mity from load to
load is t he one big sec re t to ca st bull et ac -
r-uracy. Ex pcr imental ion and a lot of shoot ing
are necessary to mak e lead sl ugs perform.
But with enough of both, your l ead-all oy
bull ets wi ll punch out th e X-r ing with
regular it y, And t!,er e' s certai n
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flares out larger at the cap. This is an excel-
lent stock t hat will fit almost anyone and
will not punish your j aw in shooting. It is
stocked j ust right for scope use, and no
iron sights come on the Model 60. Gr ip cap
and soft rubber recoil pad with white spacers
and one inch sl ing swivels complete the
stock job.
All told, 1 li ke thi s ri fle very much. It is a
well finished ri fle, comparable wit h man y fine
custom jobs. The forestock is a depart ur e
from my design, in that it is flat on the
bottom with less width at the top. It feels
and holds very well indeed.
We fitted one of Weaver' s lat est 60 series
K4 scopes with my double hori zontal wire
ret icle known as the ra nge finder reticle, in
Buehler special mounts for this rifle and,
after bor e sight ing. only four shots were
necessar y to sight it in perfectl y for 300
yards. Accura cy was except ionall y good fr om
the start. At 100 yards, thi s 12" twist rifle
seems to want to pi le these 160 gra in Norma
loads into one-inch gro ups, and at long r ange
it st ill shoots very small groups. No doubt
t he elimination of lug r ecesses in the re-
ceiver r ing cont ributes to a very stiff strong
action and a much closer, smoother fit of
bolt to recei ver , which in turn contributes to
the high degree of accuracy.
I n all fairness, I must admit to having been
prejudiced against those rear locking lugs
when I started working with t his rifle. How-
ever, the more I use it, t he more I like and
admire it s man y good features. Th e four
locking lugs per mit a bolt lif t of only one-
eighth turn, about half t hat of convent ional
Mauser-t ype act ions. The flush extractor per -
mit s the bolt to be completely enclosed in
the receiver. The tr igger pull is one stage,
no slack to take up. Lock t ime is ver y fast.
Striker tr avel is about one half inch. Th e
safet y has three posit ions : full y forwar d is
fire, full y to the rear for safe wit h tr igger,
bolt, and firing mechanism fully locked, and
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and blued a deep bl ue-black. Bore is rifled
with 6 grooves and narr ow lands and is per -
fectly finished.
The stock follows my own design of nearl y
30 years ago, first made by J ohn Dub iel, ex-
cept that the forward end of the cheek rest
is raised upward instead of being turned
downward int o the middle of gr ip. It has the
same excellent Monte Carl o comb, low in
front, and instead of my monogram hump
on the ri ght side, thi s one has t he old Wund
hammer swell. Gr ip cap is larger and grip
act ion. It was pr oof fired with up to 130,000
pounds pr essure, which it handl ed the same
as the old heavy Magnum Mauser action,
and which blew up standard Mau ser actions.
This Dani sh-made action works very smooth-
ly and fast. The top is matted full length and
the bolt is completel y enclosed it s f ull lengt h,
except for the ej ection por t. It is tapped and
thr eaded for standard Buehler or their top
mount s. Buehler makes a special mount to
fit it.
The act ion is anchored by two strong
guard screws, one at the recoil lug and one
j ust in front of the tri gger guard, plus a
wood screw in the lower tang behind the
trigg er guard. Tr igger is small, neat, gr ooved,
and well posit ioned. Tr igger pull is excellent.
The magazine is hi nged, wit h, tr ip in front of
tr igger guard, where it should be. Arnmuni-
tion can be changed quickly, or t he maga-
zine can be recharged fr om t he bottom while
keepin g a loaded round in the chamber. The
magazine holds three rounds, which with
one in t he barrel, makes it a four shot rifle.
The rear locki ng l ugs permit a longer
barr el sha nk and thr ead, making for maxi-
mum st iffness at barrel and receiver joint.
The receiver has flat, clean top lines, and
the tri gger guard is neat and well shaped.
The barrel is 26" long, j ust the right lengt h
to burn the heavy charge of slow burning
43.50 powder or the Norma No. 104 powder.
Barr el is of excellent exter ior design, wit h
a heavy br eech port ion extending one inch
forward of receiver, t hen a grad ual taper
for three inches and a straight taper on to
the rat her small muzzle, just ri ght for ex-
treme acc uracy in a hunting weight barrel.
Barrel and action ar e bea utifull y polished
and blued a deep bl ue-black. Bore is rifled
with 6 grooves and narr ow lands and is per -
fectly finished.
The stock follows my own design of nearl y
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(Continued from page 9)
est of all milit ary bolt action rifles for combat
use. The Model 54 Schult z and Lar sen act ion,
wit h it s rear locki ng lugs, mana ged to clean
up the free rifle game pr ett y well for years in
int ernational compet it ion, which speaks well
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The new Model 60 Schultz & Larsen em-
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Given a group of maybe ten good men and
true, we'd meet and pi ck lead er s. We'd al so
enac t a set of by-laws. One such law would
r eq uire ever y man to stand read y to pr oduce
on a moment' s notice cer tain guns and cer -
tain qu antities of ammunit ion. A rifl e of th e
curr ent U. S. mili tary caliber would he a
must, if only becau se mil ita r y ammunition is
easier 10 obta in in war time-might even be
furni shed.
A .22 rifl e would he equally import ant,
for use on small game for meat. A shotgun
would pr ovide add it ional food-gelt ing values.
And ever y ma n should have and know how
to lise a combat-cal iber revolver or pist ol.
I' d see to it tha t at least one man in my
group was, or became, a r adi o " ham" a nd
technician . If thi s bad dream of ours ca me
true, ther e woul d be no power , no t eleph one
fa ciliti es. no communicat ions of an y kind in
many ar eas-or, at best , non e avail abl e to
woods-running rifl emen without offici al in-
signia. It would be real ni ce if one of th e
boys owned a walk y-talky. I see them ad ver -
ti sed by compa nies dealing in war sur pl uses.
What ever " inner circl e" gr oup you joined
or formed, you would want first to j oin the
regul ar Civilian Defense uni t, wheth er th ey
r ecognized your gro up or not. Members of
Civili an Defense units are issued ca r ds of
identifi cati on whi ch give the holder ce rta in
r ights r egarding movement from pl ace to
place in an emerge ncy, and thi s al one would
be essent ial. Anyway, any man fit to j oin
my un it will be active in Civil ian Defen se in
it s ot her phases as well as thi s one. This is
an obvious d uty, and my men ar e not the
kind who shirk dut ies.
. .. Of course, it will never happen. It
hap pened in a lot of countr ies, bu t those
wer e foreign countr ies, not like our coun-
my un it will be active in Ci vil ian Defense in
it s ot her phases as well as thi s one. This is
an obvious dut y, and my men are not t he
kind who shirk duties.
. . . Of course, it will never happ en. It
happened in a lot of countr ies, bu t those
wer e foreign countr ies, not like our coun-
tr y. It ca n' t happen her e.. _
But if it did happen . .. I' d sur e be glad
I kn ew thoseten woods-running ri flemen ! .If
ther e wer e enough of us- u " Minuteme n of
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insol uble pr obl em for the avera ge indi vidu al
who hadn't don e a lot of deta iled a nd
far -sight ed planning. To that pr obl em, the
Civil ian Defense organizat ion could a nd
should pr ovide answers. But are Civilian De-
fense leaders thinking along these lin es ? 1
nOI. why not ?
Wh y not set up, in int egra ted coor dinat ion
wit h each local Civilian Defense gro up, local
l lome Gua rd unit s- call them Minutemen,
if you will-s-compo sed of men who have guns,
know how 10 use them, and eit her have or
sta nd read y to learn the woods skills a nd
guerr illa fight ing tacti cs needed for "enemy
hara ssmen t ?"
As of now, of course, our govern ment tak es
a very dim view indeed of any att empt to
organize any armed force outside the formal
ca tegor ies of armed forces. Th e rule now is
-(k n' t do it ! But . . . rul es can be changed,
if enough peopl e set about to change t hem.
Mayb e it' s time t hat men of good will and
good courage began taking a long look at
rules that ju st might, God for bid, mak e the
diff er ence between dea th and sur vival.
I was thinking the other da y how I'd go
about it, if such thin gs wer e permitted. I'd
begin. I think, by pi ckin g a hard core of sure
prospects from among the men I know in
local Rifle and Pi st ol Clubs, Legion orga niza-
t ions. and hunting groups. I'd want to know
eac h man extremely well before I asked him
to join my cadre. I'd want to be very sure,
first , t hat he beli eves in the th ings I bel ieve
in. I don't want any pink in this pi cture;
afte r all , if the worst happ ens, my lif e may
depend on the absolute loyalt y of the men
I choose.
I want men who own guns and know how
to use thern ; but, on a par with that", I
want men with some skill as woods-runners.
TIL J dont want ani prnk 111 this pict ure ;
aft er all, if the wor st hap pens, my life ma y
depend on the absolute loyalt y of the men
I choose.
I want men who own guns and know how
10 use them; but, on a par with that, I
want men with some skill as woods-runners,
Even a man who is loyal and brave and a
dead shot can get you kill ed if he l acks
woodscraft for t his kin d of hunting. I' d r eo
member, thou gh, t hat woodscraf t can be
learned ; and if ther e was a man I wanted
who didn't have it , I'd teach him.
Ammunit ion in 160 gra in TUns around $27.00
per hundred. Th e rifl e is priced at $145.00.
One inch Buehl er split rin g mount s TU n
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ca rt ridges yet developed. I would favor use
of 175 gra in Ne sler bullet s with 60 to 61
gra ins of 4350 and a ny of our commercial
lar ge rifl e primer s for all bi g game shoot ing.
as the first half (If the hull er will expa nd
bu t th e r ear half will not and will penetr at e
on I hrou gh the beast. Th e No ler bull et
would also be mandat ory with me for anv
shots at our larger game such as el k, moose.
or gr izzly if I was forced 10 lise a mall bore
on them. Man y Sharp e 8. Har t 7x61 r ifles
a re now being mad e lip on Spr ing field, Rem-
ington, and Winchesl er actions.
Cutting Shotshells
Th e an swer is. don't do it ! Formerl y many
shoote rs, when they needed a sl ug load in
th eir shotgun for lise against a big an imal,
simply took t heir jack kn ife and cut the
ca rt r idge case almost in two between the
powder and shot char ge. It was and is ver y
effec t ive, for the whole front end of the
shell goes out of the gun in sl ug form. It will
bl ow an awful hole in a bear at close range,
as I have had occasion to not e! However ,
th e shot charge mu st he compressed and
the whole oversize ease (wad and shot
cha rge) for ced t hrough t he forcing cone
int o the bore of t he gun. In so doing, pres-
sures mount greatly, beyond even th e heavy
proof load s used in proof fir ing the guns at
the factory. Wit h modern heavy l oads and
pa rt icula rly wit h our lat e shor t magnum
loads. these pr essures are enough to bl ow up
a good gun. So don' t tr y thi s stunt.
Neu: O.K.H. Caliber
1an y yea rs ago. C. M. Oneil , Don Hop-
kins. and the wr iter developed a line of bi g
game cartr idges. from the .265 O.K.H., the
.285 O.K.H., .333 OKH. , .333 O.K.H. belt ed,
a nd .424 O.K.H., to the .475 O.K.H. Now
Oneil is tooling lip to comple te the l ine with
a .350 O.K.H . Thi s will be made on th e
shortened .333 O.K. II. Belt ed case. and will
give lover s of the .35 cal iher a wide r an ge
of exce llent bull ets. It will not have th e
sec t ional density in 300 gr ain of t he .333
a nd .424 U.K..H.. to the .475 U.K..H . Now
Oneil is tool ing up to complete the line with
a .350 O.K.H. This will be mad e on th e
short ened .333 O.K. I I. Belt ed case. and will
give lover s of the .35 caliber a wid e r ange
of excellent bullet s. It will not have th e
sec t ional den sit y in 300 gr ain of th e .333
O.K. H. , nor will it he qu ite as flat over long
r an ges, but it should mak e a most excelle nt
all ar ound big ga me car tr idge wit h 60 to 62
grains 4350 and a 300 gra in bull et.
"You'll just have to get prone at one end or the other."
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The averag e Americ an knows far less about
automat ic weapons than he knows abo ut the
r ifle; yet the auto-firer s are the weapons he
will be expected to use if war should come.
It was the man wit h a ri fle or machi ne gun
that slowed the J aps at Bataan, stopped t he
Germans in the Battl e of the Bul ge. Th e same
despera te need may come aga in.
Now that mac hine guns are becoming
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So long as you went by t he book, th ey were
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Fu ll automa tics are sta nda rd mil itary
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man that has ahead of him prospect ive serv-
ice in the armed forces will do well to learn
all he can about t he American mil itary r ifle.
If he can become a really capable riflema n,
so much the bett er. Once he has donned the
uniform he will find his hours and days so
packed wit h int ensive training t hat he will
find the time all too short to learn the many
thin gs he should know, for his own self-
preservat ion, before he is call ed upon to meet
the enemy.. . . Expertness in the rifle's lise
cannot be overemphasized."
Up to this ti me it has been standard prac-
tice for the government to encourage civilian
practice and use of the standard mil itary
wea pon. Now t hat full automat ic weapons are
becoming standard in our own and all
major worl d armies, General Eisenhower' s
statement has become even more valid.
If ano ther war should come, it will come
swiftly. We shall ha ve even less time to pre-
pare than in the last . Unbel ievable as it may
seem at first thought, only a small percentage
of soldiers in combat fire their r ifles at the
enemy. But if you consider how much train-
ing and weapons' know-how you would want
before you st uck your head out of your hole
under fire to shoot back at the enemy with
any confidence of hitti ng anyt hing, t he point
comes home. Such confidence can not come
in the few short weeks of service t ra ining.
(Continued from page 38)
"THE PEAK OF PLINKING"
weap on can mat ch.
An aft ernoo n of such shooting is not cheap,
but t he plen tiful supplies of inexpensive mili-
tary ammunition now availab le make a few
hour s get together as reasonable as most
other aft er-lunch sports. Also helpful to t he
cost is t hat machine gun shoot ing is a group
sport. They ar e among t he few weapons that
ar e almost as int erestin g to watc h as to
shoot; and mor e fun when several t ri gger
squeezers get togeth er for a bang-u p t ime.
Why does Sloan in partic ular , and oth er
automatic coll ectors in general, coll ect ma-
chine gun s? Sloan an swer s with a very short
sentence : "They ar e interesting."
To the present generat ion, brought up on
movie Tommy Gun s, heavy doses of MG' s
in war-time news reels and trai ning with full
automatic weap ons in the armed forces, a
genuine interest follows naturally. Expose a
man to an interesting thing, be it a Tommy
gun, or a 36-26-36 blonde, and he is going
to stay interest ed for a whil e, even t hough
it may be expens ive, rar e, or even ill egal. He
still want s it. Being hard to get only makes
it mor e desirable.
Sloan believes the machi ne gun, like the
shotgun, pistol or blunderbuss, is just anot her
type of weapon. It is one that should not be
und eremphasized or over emphasized, one that
should tak e it s ri ghtful place with the other s
as a collec tor's it em. Aft er all, machi ne guns
have been dramat ic and historic weapons in
world events. No man who has ever heard it
will forget the ripping blast of the German
burp guns, the rattl e of Korea' s Russian
Tommies, or the Ma ytag put-put of the G.r.
Greasegun.
Her et ofor e, the mil itary coll ector had to
work ar ound the machin e gun, inclu ding
OI!!Y
burp guns, the rattl e of Korea' s Russian
Tommies, or the Ma ytag put-put of the G.r.
Greasegun.
Her et ofor e, the mil itary coll ector had to
work ar ound the machin e gun, inclu ding
onl y the semiautomatics such as r ifles in his
coll ecti on. But now that the world's arm ies
are going full automat ic it is no longer
possibl e to ignore them.
Th e designer al so ha s a legitimat e need to
collec t automati c weapons. The pr oblems in-
volved in designin g automat ic weapons ar e
enough to fill ar ticl es in themsel ves. Anyone
interest ed in arms design must necessaril y
have access to shootable automatic weap ons.
Military small arms design in th is coun-
try needs new blood. We cannot get it if new
designer s ar e not allowed to develop. You
cannot pick out a man who is good at de-
signing can opener s to build a gun and ex-
pect to get any more than a work ed-over
ver sion of the one before it. Ori ginal and
far sighte d design can come onl y from a man
with a close familia rity and int er est in guns.
At pr esent, the Russian comrades ar e not
only out-Sputniking us, but badly out gun-
ning us as well. Their new weapons ar e tops.
The sad poi nt is they have equipped their
troops and have en011gh left over to send to
the Midd le East. With Russian weapon s go
Russian instructors and influence. Yet the
United States-military leader of the free
world-has only recently placed the first
order for t he newly adopted M-14, and does
not expect to have the military forces fully
equipped until 1960.
The third and , probably, most important
reason civil ians should have access to auto-
mati c weapons, is military pr eparedness.
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RU'LE SLI NGS, leather . Army Sur plus, l 'i4 in ch. Brand
ne w, $2. 00 each. P ublic Spo r t Sh ops. 11 S. 16th Street ,
Phil adel phi a 2. Pat
F HEE " Do- It-Yourself " Leather cra tt Cat alog. Tandy
Lea ther Company, Box 791- 016, }l "OrL Worth, Texa s.
LEATIl li:ll l'll AFT CATA LOG Free. K irk pat ri ck Leath er
Co. Box 637- AlO, Ga tnesvl l le. Texa s.
3 IX DIA'x \YAU arrowheads. }l "1int Scalpi ng Kntte. F li nt
Th un der bird $4. 00. Ca t alog F'r ee. Sati sf actio n Guaranteed.
Arrowlll' ad. Glenwood. Arkall sa s.
INDIAN RELICS
SHOOTEll S : If you are i nt er est ed in leurn tng Gunsmi th -
i ng and ar t' willi ng to spe nd a few hour s i n your horne shop
for a handsome, accur at e . 22 t arget pi sto l. se nd 4 cent
st ump for complet e t nronnuuon. 1). O. Box 3G2, Terr e
Haute, I nd iana.
CUNSMITHINC
GU !" CAB I!" ET5', Hark s. Complete Se lect ton. Se nd 25c
for Cat alogue . Dept . D. Kn ox Wood Products. Kn oxville,
I owa.
CUN CABINETS
O" EU 500 SH OTGU.:\'S, rifl es, ntstots. modern, forei gn.
an t ique, bur sell t ra de. J . E. McK(r cher. Ashland. N. H.
HAI'iDGUNS- !\'I<;W enlarged 1958 cat alog 50c. Robert
F r fettrh. 3H6 Broome St.. New York 13. N. Y,
BRITIl-'H 303 Lee-Entlel d j un gle ear blnes. Excell ent
- $24.95. Free li st . .AI' s Ounroom, 1 Beekman Bt. , New
York , X. Y.
375 MA GX U:\f . hea vy bbl. J... vmnn Jr. ta rget -
spot. very good $125. 00. J eff. Tr ad er , Poc omoke Ci ty.
Maryl and.
sxn'nr & \VE S80X. 22 cu., br and new, model 41. target
automati c. $110.00 , Fully engraved model, $185.00. Public
Spor t s hops. 11 S. 16th St reet . Phl lad elphl u 2. }:l a.
5.00 0 GUXS!! ! Briti sh Enfl el ds $13.95 -
Sp r in gflel ds $39.95 !! !
K entucki es-c-El enh ant Guns!! 1 Bar gai n Cata log 50e. Agra-
mont e' s. Yonker s 2- [(. 1'\. Y.
CAll HYALL CA:\ YAS Holl with st raps and ha nd le. la rge
siz e 54 x i nches . for t ruvelers, campe rs, baseball pt arers.
etc. Gov"t Surp lus, br and ne w. va lue
ea ch. P ubtt c Sport Shops. II S. 16th St reet . Phll adelph ta
2. Pa.
OLD HA t\ DCUFFS, legf rons, thumbf ast s. shackles wanted,
P a t ter son Smit h. 2l.i' L. 26!.J Shepard Ave . Ea st Orange.
N. J.
F HEE B IG sale cat alog wildlife 8mm. 1611l1ll. mo\'i es.
2" x 2" {'Olor sli des . Other subj ects , too! l-'rojcct or s. cam-
eras , suppli es-big di scount s ! Get f rec. e\'er y t hree weeks.
12- oa ge nCWspa l)er size bar ga in li st ! B lat khawk Fil ms,
Da \-clLpor t 8, I owa.
30 -06 Oil Enfield R ifle St ock. as i ssued.
br and new, $2.95 each. A3- 0a Spr ingfield rifl e ba r rel s, cal.
br and new, Cor t. Surplus. 24 i nch, complet ely
fini sh ed. Val ue Spec ia l $5. 00 l-'ost pai d. }Juulie
Shups , 11 ::;. 16th :-3t reet, ] 'hila. 2, }'a .
Ji AKDCl Flo'S. UllA ND IICW, $15.00 Va lue. n ickel plated .
Peerless tyoe. li gh twei ght. Speci al Sa le $1.95 pair. Leg
Irons. Gor ' t. Il i<'l {el I)la ted. bra nd new. Ya lue
$j .J5. P uuli c Spor t 81101)s. 11 S. 16lh
Street. l ' hilatll' lllhia 2, ])a.
HA:\ D S IGlI l' [ .KG Level s. t muroved new model, many
uses . for laying dra ins, d l tches, foundations. grading , con-
tn ur iuu. out of fenn ' s. pi er s. roads and garde ns .
F ully "' gu aranteed. $2. 50 P ubli c SI)Ort Shops .
11 S. 16th Str cet, P hiladel phi a 2, l")a.
MISC ELLANEOUS
COLLECTOH \\'A:\"'l' S Naz .i dress da gger s and unifor ms,
Descr ibe and prt ce. Arthur Svl vie, iO Suunvslde Ave.
Brooklyn I. Xew York .
LEATHER CRAFT
WANTED
SP ECI AL ! COLT S.A. P arts Ki t. 3 spr ings : 10 screws.
pr epaid . t- a n s L ls t-c-St ump ed en ve lope. Hunt er Gun
Sho p, South I t oud . J ' cpperel l. Ma ssachusett s.
OLD HAt\ DCUF F S, legfr ons . thumbf ast s. sha ckles wanted,
P a t ter son Smit h. 2l.i' L. 26!.J Shepa rd Ave . Ea st Orange,
N. J.
WANTED
SP ECI AL! COLT S.A. P arts K it. 3 spr ings : 10 screws.
ur epald. I' uns Ll s t-c-Stumped en ve lope. Hu nt er Gun
Shop, Sou th I t oud . J ' epperel l. Massachuset t s.
PARTS 6' SPECIALT IES
l\:LS.A. EAR for th e shoote r. B ra nd new.
U.S. GO\'t. Surolus, Valu e $3. 00- \ Vhile Th ey Last $1.00
pair l'ustp uid. l -'uulic Spor t Shops. 11 S. 16th St reet.
P hi lauelphi a 2. P a.
FLEXIB LE $12.95 : Hamuur g E igh t ' s .
eut Sd le j'oli zci, $ 11. !J.i. e lwin t wistc rs. $1.50 ;
Cl aws , SU. Uj. Ll'g I rons. $5.00. Ste('! coll ars , $7.50. Lcather
rest ra int s. Collct tor s specialt ies . Thomas F cr r ick. llox 12.
?'cwbuTYPurt , Mass.
SHOOTE ll: S BIBLE. 1959, over 500 Dages. Im lllcdi at e
Sl l i p l llt' ll l. I JIIIst rall't1 Mudt' rn Guns and AC(:tssori es.
1959 Gun Digest $2.95 })ost pa id . Publi c Sport Shops. 11
S. 1Gth Strccl. l'hil a. 2. Pa.
GOGG LE S GOV' T Su rp lus. for in dust ri al use, skii ng .
1ll0toft'Y(' li st s and a uto dr hj ng. Va lue $12. 50. Sale $1.05
per pair . Pu bli c Spor t Shops. 11 S. 16th Stree t, Phila-
delphi a 2. Pa.
BINOCULARS " SCOPES
FOR SALE
COLLECTORS
AllTl S'l' JC G U:\, Engrav in g. Jnlaxed Scroll s, Ga me Scenes.
Floyd E. Warren. It t. it 3-Box 87, Cor tl and, Ohi o.
ENCRAYINC
B ll I'l' I SlI ) lK. 5 303 Lee-Enfield jungle carb ines. Ver y
gl)od- $:!1.9j . Excellcllt- $:W.!J;,. Ge rman Mod. US 8IUUl
;'Iluu sc r rilles. Very guod- $;W. U5. P crfect - $44. 50. I srcul l
Mod. OS Smm Mauser ri fles. ( Czech mad e) All mi lled
nar t s. Perfect - $H1.50. EgYllti an 8mUl 10
shot scmi- a uto mat ic r itl cs. All mill cd part s,
mauc ) Vcr}' good - $6!;.5 0. Germa n 0 --13 81llIH
10 shot scmi - a utomat ic r ifl es. Excellent - $GO.QU.
) lod. UG 6. 51l1lu Mauser r ill cs.
::)\\'cdb; h har 38 6.5mlll Mau ser car bi nes . Ex r:ell ent - $3:.!.50.
Swed ish -'l od. 94 6. 5rulll ) Ja use r car bi nes . Very good-
J al) i . 7mm Ar i sa ka ri fles. Excell ent- Sl S.OO.
:\lo!1ey ba rk guarantee. j!' rcc g"un li st. Frced land Arms Co.,
3-1 P ar k How. Xew Yor k 38. N. Y.
WO HLU ' S F I:"Es'l' En gruv in g. F older $1. 00. E. C. P r ud-
homme. Ward Bl dg. , Shreveport, La.
" AXTIQ UE & l\10DEH:-i Arms. Accessori es at 'Recess ion'
pri ces. Sarl1ple li st. 25c. Ladd Ar ms . Cat ski ll, t\. Y."
GUN li st. Knight . Box 294. Seneca Fall s,
GU:r-;S -SWORDS- Kni"es - Dagge rs-F la sks. Bi g li st
25c cctn. Ed Howe . Cooper Mills 10. Maine.
] 2 :\Il LJ'j'A HT l"'la ib-' :---= C-o,-n-Cpt:- e-te'--:d-Cet-a'"' il- s-u-p-on
r equ est. J olin's . 311 So, 4 St . . H arri son. N. J.
CUNS " AMMUNITION
HUi'LE S- uur sole bu sin ess si nce 11.1 32.
Custolll mauc. as the n<lllle im pli es. to ro ur spec ificat ions in
IIlust cali uers and t he famous n D[ Express. Uarrcl s of
'l'illl ken Spc d al rifl e bar rel stee l in an y twist. length and
wei ght. '!'llOrUll !!hly seasoncd stuck blan ks ar c hand in lctlt'd
an d sha pcd to in sure you per fect fit and balance. F i ni shcd
r ill es group- tes ted to i nsure at curat y. Th e highc st tluulity
i n ever yt hing Ullt cos t . Hoy Gradlc. Hifl csmit h. 205 West
J sl ay Rt ret't. Bar bara, Ca lif.
B I NOCULAR, H IPOIlTED. li ght wei ght . 10. 50 , with
coat ed opt ics. centra l focusing, bra nd new. Valu e $65. 00.
Sa le $29. 50. Complete wl t it leat her case and st raps. Public
Sport Shops, 11 S. 16th St reet. Phil adelphia 2, Fa.
1'\E W GOV 'T sur plus Plastic P i stol P ouch. heavy r ctn -
forced. wit h bra ss sna p. Prot ect your gun fro m wea t her and
ru st. Fi t s guns to 8%" long. Send $1. 00 for 5 P ost pa id.
Value. J oseph Marino. 619 Elm St. . Arlington. N. J .
!'\ .I!;\V II YDltAULI C B ull et (l' at. r-'end.) has dcadly
hydr ostali c shucking elfe ct. Gu aranteed cont rolled expall-
s ian at all ranges. Greate st ad\' ance in hun ting bull et s in
last 50 years. Ii5 gr. only. 20 for $2.35 post pa id .
Boa ta i l ty pe $2.4 0 for 20. Oth er cali bers a\'uilable soon.
).larrlanu Hcsearr.h Co. , \)680 Ha dcli fl'e lld. . '1'owson 4, l\ld.
30/06 SPIU L\"GFJli;LD AU.\! Y ri fles. guaranteed excell ent
cond i ti on. ouly $::W. !J5. Brand Hew GaraJld sni per ri tle bar -
n- Is complete wilh mount base. fi t any Garand acli on. finest
accuracy' only $9.75. 30/ 06 Springfi eld se mi - pistol gri p
rifle stocks. ura nd new. $2.85 each. I:Jost agc addit iona l,
ll.::ppert s Crook ed Lane Ki ng of Prussia . Pat
B UY SU UI' LU S Boats; Mot or s; Ai r craft; Jeeps : Tra cto rs;
Walk te-tl'al kl es : Shop Eq ui pment; Amphibious Vehi cles;
Radar; Camping cq ui nme nt : 'I' ypcwrf ters : Ad di ng Machtu es ;
Et c. - Bu y di rect fr om U. S. Gnvern meut Depcts-e-Ll st &
proced ure $ 1.00. Brody, llGX S- GU , Sunnys ide 4, N. Y.
l i flllO 000 O l i N oh!;olet e.
WO HLV ' S F I:"Es'j' En gruvin g. P older $1. 00. E. C. P r ud-
homme, Ward Bl dg. , Shrevepor t, La.
FOR SAL E
B UY SU UI' LU S Boat s; Mot or s; Ai r craft; .leeps : Tra cto rs;
Shop Eq ui pment ; Amphibious Vehi cles;
Radar; Ca mping cqul nme nt : 'j' .)'JlCwrit crs; Add ing Machtu es ;
Etc. - Bu y di rect f rom U. S. Gnvcrn meu t ]) epots- Li st &
pr oced ure $1.00. Brody. llGX S- GU , Sunnyside 4, N. Y.
}j , 000. 000 C U.:\' })All'j'S Stocked- modern . obsolete. fe r -
c fcn . Se nd traci ng:, dcscriptton for Quot at ion. Nu mr lch
Arms, We.:i t Hurley 19. N. Y.
" ANTIQ UE GUN Depot" Ott er s : The " Most ' Vant > d" in
U.S. Milit ar y Eq ui plilent -U.S. Ar my \ Vhit e- P it h Helmets ,
mi nt - M. 75 ; U. S. 18i 3 Cavalr y Leather Car bi ne Shoulder
St raps wit h Bra ss Huckle. and Snap- Hook. Rar e- $6. 75;
U. S. 18i3 Cavalry Car b i ne Hoot s. Brass 'f rimmcd- $3. 50 ;
U.S. Caval ry Spu rs wit h St raps- $'!. j;j ; 45 /70 L ea ther
Cart .rfdge Pouches wit h Bruss ll adge- $3. 25; U.S. Brass-
Hook Meta l Scabbards-e-Sk.Du : Ch' iI war llilyonets- ' :U,O;
Cl vi l \Var Leather Car bi ne Soeket s-$2.01l: Ci vi l \ Var 58
cal. Tuli p-Head Ramrods. It enr oduet ions- $2. 75; U.S.
Spa nt sh-American Wn r Canteens with Brass-Hook Straps
- $2. 00 ; U.S . Kr ag Bayone t s wi t h 8('a bba rds- $4.50 ; Spe-
cial- U. S. Ar tiller y 60rum ) [ortar Sig hts wit h 2 Bubbl e
J..cvcts. Ca li brated Knobs for Windage . and El evati on. and
Ca rryin g Ca se-c-Oovt. Cost App rox. $100. 00- $4.75 : Speci al
- U. S. Sig nal Cor ps Itudl uscnd es ( Weal her 'rransmtucr s:
has Transmit ti ng Unit. Modulator. Hel av. An tenna. et c.-
$3.7;:). Ab ove P ost pa id. Alsu - -1"pr ingtic ld 45/iO Ri fles-
$27 . 50; Clvi l w ar 58 cal. Musk ets. and Car bines ; \ Vi n-
ches te rs : Ken tu cki es; F' Hntl ocks : Load s More. New Illus-
t rat ed Gun Cut nlosue 25c Coin Refund abl e. w est chest er
Trad ing. G- 24i8 Ar thu r A\'c nue. Bronx 58. Ne w York.
GU:-; S! Gu ns ! Cuns! Anti qu e Cnl lect .lon-e-Ken-
tuckv' s Colt s. wtnchest er s, S&\V. Se nd IDe f or Thi!J
month' s li st. Po ny Expr ess Spor t Shop. 17460 Ven tura
m-u.. Erwino 6. Cali f.
WHOL ESa LE TO You ! ! 11 Unli mitc d Di scounts! !! Wcarer
K K 3- $2,j.50-K 4-$:.!U. i5- B ushne ll 4X- $34.50
- Lyman 3X-$32.U5-4X- $34. 50-Lclll)0Id 4X-$,jU.5 U-
Scolles-3U% Di scoun t ! ! : F.\.l Mauser
)I ar li n Lcrcr s- :j;j !J.50- :-3 tcrens Shot gUlI 77SC-$64.00-
:Big ll ar gai ns !!! Gun s- tk opcs-He1oad in g- Binotulul' s-
Sp or ts Gif ts. Cat alogs. 25c. Di scounts "Unli mited. Box 38.
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DOUBLE BARREL DERRINGER
.22 cal . . . $28.75
.38 caliber ( Der-
ringer $59.95
.38 Spec ial. . $59.95
Holster . . $5 .00
Excellent authentic reproduc-
tion of the famous Remington
over & under double barreled Derringer .
Blue finish. black checkered grips .
GERMAN LUGERS
Genuine German Luger 9mm
Autos . Blue finish checkered
walnut grips in good mechani-
cal shooting condition $49.85
Extra clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.50
Ammo 100 rds. 9.50
Holst er (Europea n) 5.50
Erma .22 Cal. Convers ion Unit . . 39.95
GERMAN 9MM P-38
$42.50
AUTHENTIC HOLSTERS
Custom mad e Or i g ina' A ut hen t ic t y pe hol ster s. A vai l
abl e f or t h e Co lt 1860 A r my. Co lt 1851 Navy and
.. P.P.
Fine High quailty German
Wal ther, World War II German
oL!,tomatic.. Fires 9mm Luger car-
tridge. Original near mint condition
Extra clips $4.70. Ammo 9mm, $9.50
for 100 rounds . Holst er $4.50.
European Army Holster . . $5.50
Used by Congo nativ es. Complete
and in shoot ing condition. Painted
stock , brass . Need cleaning, but a
. . . . . $19.95 each
.' _.. .. ... _Rfa ...'''''.. .. ..,..
Used by Con.go nativ es. Complete AUTHENTIC HOLSTERS
and In shoot ing condition. Paint ed Custom made Or ig i n"'l Aut he nt ic t ype hol ste r s . Ava i l
stock, brass . Need cleaning, but a .$9520 . .:.nd
. .. $19.95 each Colt 1849 Poc ket Mod e l . .. . . . . . . . . .
real bargain
Original as issued in excellent mechanical
and shooting condition $39.50.
GERMAN MAUSER 8MM
ARMY RIFLES
MAUSER
.32
CALIBER
cellent mechanical &
shooting condition.
Grade I $49.50, Grade II $39.95,
Astra "Royal" Military pistol, 7.63 cal-
iber, Grade I $74.50
Ammo $9.50 100 rds., Holster $8.50,
extra str ipper clips $1.25 each.
MAUSER MILITARY PISTOLS
WEBLEY
.45 AUTO CAL.
Beautiful finish, 6 shot
Grade I $19.75
Grode II 14.95
Nickel Plated Gun Like New
A';';"o.: .t:.:
COLT SINGLE ACTION PARTS
ENFIELD
COMMANDO
.38 CALIBER
Six shot S" Bbl. Double act ion
revolver. Excellent mechanical
and shooting cond ition. Used by the
8rit ish Commando s $19.7S
Nickel Plated Gun Like New. . . . . 28.75
Ammo Box 50 Rds. 4.20
SPRINGFIELD 30-06 RIFLES
U.S. Model Cenuine Springfields. All have very
H. Numbers, and all milled parts. Original as
issued very good condition $39.95 . With new
sling and in excellent condition $45.00. Spring-
f ields 30 -06, low numbers - V6 $32.00.
Genuine Colt 45
automatics,
nal finish & grips
Grade I $45.95
Grade II 39.95
Grad e III 34.9S
Nickle finish , like new $48.00
Ammo $4.25-50 rounds
Army holster new $5.95
Extra c1ips- $3.50
. .... ' _A-I
Grade II 39.95
Grade III 34.95
Nickle f inish, like new $48.00
Ammo $4.25-50 rounds
Army holster new $5.9S
Ext ra c1ips- $3.50
Hammer . . $7.67
Back Strap 6.50
Firing Pin 1.00
Crips . . . . 3.50
Hand .. . . 3.33
Trigger . . . . . 2.33
Main Spr ing . . , 1.67 Base Pin Screw . $ .33
Bolt . . . . . . . 2.67 Base Pin Nut . . . .33
Trigger Cuard . . 7.00 Base Pin Spring .33
Barrels- Cate . . . . . . . 6.33
45 cal . 44 special Cate Catch . .33
38 special Cate Spring . . . .33
-5 1/2" 11. 33 Ejector Tube '.. 6.67
-7
1
12" 13.33 Ejector Rod . . . .67
Sears (, Bolt E,ector Rod Head 2.67
Spring .67 Ejector Spring . . . 33
Bas e Pin 1.00 Cylinders 45. 38 Spl.
Base Pin Bush ing 1.67 and 44 Spl . . 13.33
All Screws $0.33
COLT SINGLE ACTION
Catalog SOc
An entire catalog devot ed to genuin e
hard to find ea rly model Colt Single
Action revolvers. Complete listings on
engraved guns, parts, grips and hol-
st er sets . Out standing values on qual -
Colts . Prices start a t
The Very Latest in Single-Action
Revolvers
Custom Blue Finish, Walnut Grips, Full-
length Rib, Solid Front Sight , Rear Sight
Adjustabl e for Wind and Elevation.
.22 Caliber 4" BBL . . $109.50
.38 Special 4" BBL 119.50
.357 Magnum 4" BBL. 124.50
- PROMPT DELIVERY-
INTERCHANGEABLE CYLINDERS
A .45 cylinder designed to tak e .22
blan ks. No modification necessa ry, slips
eas ily into any Great West ern .45. Gives
lightn ess of .45 plus ut ility and money
saving features of a .22. Will pay for
itself in just 2V2 boxes of blanks .
$15.00 extra
THE NEW GREAT WESTERNDEPUTY-SINGLE-ACTION
GREAT WESTERN
Catalog SOc
Completely illustrated, showing all
models of Great Western Arms. The
Single Action , Derringer, Buntline ,
Deputy. Also complete selection of
h a Is er s and quick draw sets and
equipment . Parts, presentation case
and engraved models are also included .
GREAT WESTERN DO IT YOURSELF KIT
.22 CALIBER Short , Long, or Long Rifle. . . $71.50
SAVE MONEY ... All machin e OTHER CALIBER KITS:
operations have been performed .
and only de-burring, fitting, .38 Specoal $79.S0
polishing , and blueing rema in to .357 Magnum 85.50
be done. Fit the action to suit .45 Long Colt 79.50
your taste, and potish and blue ot .
in the manner you consider most .44 Special 85.50
attracti ve. Choice of 4%, 5)12 or 7V2-inch barrel at no ext ra charge.
GREAT WESTERN PARTS AVAILABLE! (Send For list) I
GERMAN MILITARY
Catalog SOc
Outstanding collection of German
Military Arms. German Lugers, P-38's,
Mauser Military pistols , Browning au-
tomatics and many other German
Arms. Also parts , holst ers, grips and
ac cessori es, curr ent listing of de-acti-
vat ed machine guns.
PRICE SCHEDULE
.22 Cal iber (Sta nda rd Model) . . $ 91.50
.38 Special (Standa rd Model) . . 99.50
.44 Special (Sta nda rd Model) . . 105.50
.45 Caliber (Sta nda rd Model) . . 99.50
.357 Atomic (Standa rd Model) . 105.50
GREAT WESTERN DEPUTY
.22 Caliber $109.50
NOW .38 Calib er 119.50
.357 Magnum 124.50
CHOICE OF 4
3
/4" , 5
1
12" or 7 1/2" barrel
GREAT WESTERN PARTS AVAILABLE (Send For List)
Great Western Single Actions
IMMEDIATE
DELIVERY
The 'Fast-Draw' Special is a Fronti er
Revolver that has been factory modi-
f ied to offer on ext ra smooth act ion
and an excepti onally smooth , crisp,
trigger pull. Furnished with 4%" bar -
rel and brass tr igger guard and back -
strap. Regularl y suppl ied in .45 calib er
with a 4%" barrel. Other calibers
and barrel lengths availabl e on spe-
cial order . $111.S0
'Fast-Draw' Revolver
JUMBO USED GUN
Catalog $1.00
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E9 WIDE FIELD! The wide field at 2Y2X
( 40' at 100 yds. ) helps the hunter in
tracking a mo vin g target-"c!ose in" on
game wi t h desir ed po wer and shoot
with accuracy.
E9 SHOOT NOW-PAY LATER! Buy you r
BALvar 8 or an y other fine B&L scope
n ou/ on th e con venient time payment
pl an. As little as 10% down and th e
scop e's yours. Pay th e balance i n con-
venient monthly payme nts while you're
enjoyi ng th e use of the scope. Ask your
dealer for this easy purchase pl an.
It's the most wanted scope on the market-the only multi-purpose scope of
. .B&L' BALvar8' - r L _
Variable Power 2 ~ x to ax
BAUSCH & LOMB
B&L BALvar 8
Variable Power 2~ x to ax
FREE! "FACTS ABOUT TELESCOPIC SIGHTS"
Send for your copy of this unusual 96-page manual,
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E9 SAFETY FEATURE-VARIABLE POWER!
When hunting, use higher po wer for
positi ve identification of target . A quick
turn of the power ring to 8x and a
better look at your target may prevent
an accident.
E9 INTERCHANGEABLE-RIFLE TO RIFLE!
Put B&L mounts on your favorite hunt-
i ng rifl es; zero your BALvar 8 on these
mounts . . . once you r mounts a re
zeroed, BALvar 8 can be tran sferred
from mount to mount in seconds, lock-
ing in perfect zero every time!
ONE
SCOPE
It's the most wanted scope on the market-the only multi-purpose scope of
its kind providing year 'round hunting through an excellent choice of low
powers for big game and high powers (up to 8 X ) for varmints. And there's
------1 no change in reticle size, eye relief) Jocus or point of impact as power is
changed! BALvar 8 is rugged . .. designed and built to take hard punishment
during hunting trips. All adjustments are made externally in the mount-no
delicate internal parts to jar loose. With its lifetime guarantee, the BALvar
8 is your best buy . .. it's several scopes in one for all hunters! Price $99.50.
EXCLUSIVE! NO CHANGE IN RETICLE SIZE
WITH CHANGE OF POWER
Patented B&L tapered cross-hair ret-
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