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By PAT McMURTRYRank ing U. S. Heavyweight

SHORTLY after I fou ghtGeorge Chuvalo, th e Can a­

dian heavyweight champion, myfather and I went hunting inth e Northwest's Blewett Passarea. Out of th e brush poppeda deer about Chuvalo's sameweight-nearly 200 pounds. MyHu sqvarna .30-06 lightweightrifle weighs only 6V2 pounds.But it did th e job. I onl y wishI had th e hefty punch of thi sHusqvarna lighty. It's definit ely

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FOR TARGET SHOOTING my favorite is th e th e BSA Martini .22 match rifle,because I can hit with it. At Camp P erry last summer I won th e Dewar Course

Iron Sight event and th e 50·yard Any Sight mat ch, placed second in th e 50 meterAny Sight and wound up sixth in th e Any Sig ht Aggregat e. I lik e thi s BSA riflebeca use it is short coupled so I do not have to get out of positi on between shots.I can spot, load, and fire for record without losing my original hold and I findthe dropping lever gun a con veni ent typ e to load. For consist ent accuracy over theyear s, th e Martini system has some advantages in wear ing better than bolt ac tions .It holds headspace bett er, since th ere ar e fewer surf aces to wear in th e Martini,than in a bolt r ifle. We have found in tuning these rifl es for match work that itis best to have the forearm bedd ed snugly for about six inc hes from the receiverand then, if a bedd ing system is fitted, to relieve the stock from about an inchforward of the stock-barrel screw, up to th e bedder at the for end. That way wecan ad ju st the bedd er and improve the grouping of the barrel. A stock properlybedd ed thi s way, we have proved, will not change impact from cold to hot barrel,thail in abolt r ifle. We have found in tuning these rifl es for match work that itis best to have the forearm bedd ed snugly for about six inc hes from the receiverand then, if a bedd ing system is fitted, to relieve the stock from about an inchforward of th e stock-barrel screw, up to th e bedder at the for end. That way wecan ad ju st the bedd er and improve the grouping of the barrel. A stock properlybedd ed thi s way, we have proved, will not change impact from cold to hot barrel,during shooting.

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VOL. V, 3-51

Fred McLarenART EDITOR

L R. PectorPROD UCTION

AL FRED J . GOERGKENT BELLAH

Art ArkushEDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Elmer KeithSHOOTING EDITOR

MARCH, 1959

E. B. MannEDITOR

William B. EdwardsTECHNICAL EDITOR

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Editorial Advisory BoardCA ROLA MAN DEL STUART MILLERROY G. DUNLA P VAL FORGETT

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departments • • •MY FAVORITE GUN AI Freeland ; Pat McMurtry 4TRIGGER TALK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5GUNS IN THE NEWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6ELMER KEITH SAYS . . 8CROSSFIRE . . " . . . . 10HANDLOADING BENCH. . . . . . . . . .. . . Kent Bellah 12GUN OF THE MONTH. . Ray Riling 36PULl) . " Dick Miller 43SHOPPING W ITH GUNS . . .. R. N. Wallis 56GUN RACK 63THE GUN MARKET , " . . . . . . .. 65

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guns americana • • •THE RIFLEMAN WHO STUNNED THE WORLD.... Edward Loring Tuttl e 14THE BIG SHARPS: KING OF THE BUFFALO KILLERS ... . .Elmer Keit h 24WHERE CASTRO GETS HIS GUNS . . . . . . .William B. Edwards 39

shotguns .••THROWN BIRDS MAKE TOUGH TARGETS Dan Klepper 18GET AN OWL DECOy William Schuma"ker 28

rifles • • •RIFLES FOR THE SPACE AGE!. William B. Edwards 20LOAD YOUR .375 MAGNUM FOR ALL-AROUND USE .. Bill McCandlas s 23

handguns •••POLICE QUICK DRAW CAN IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES .T. O. Bancroft 37

hunting •••"NO HUNTING" SIGNS CAN COM E DOWN . . . " . . . . .. .. Ken Louton 40

home workshop • • •YOU CAN MAKE THESE GRIPS YOURSELF Lee Wood s 44

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THE COVERPictured on the cover are riflesfrom the past and for thefut ure. Remington 's nylonsporter is the start of a newtradition. The Sharps are echoesof an old one. The middle gunis a Sharps M1877 Creedmoormatch rifle, Rigby flat barrel;the bottom, a pilot model 1875.

IN THIS ISSUE

THE Amer ican Revolution was a popularrevolution. It differed from more recent

types in that th ere was no mass defectionof government troops, no pal ace coup bymilitary junta. The people formed their ownmil itia, took th eir own guns to war. Therevolution in Cuba (r ecognized by the U.S.the instant it succeeded) was such a strugg le.Few of the military went over to Castro untilthe la st minute. Yet he got gun s, and goodones . Fr om where? From the U.S., mostly,ju st as we in our turn had earlier got gunsfrom France, from the Marquis de LaFayett e.The ease with which Castro got guns shouldserve as a signal to the embers of neo-Iascismelsewhere. The story " Where Castro Gets HisGun s" is history written today.

We herald another revoluti on, a revoluti onin gun makin g, with "Rifles For The SpaceAge !" Remin gton's use of structura l nylonmakes many things possibl e: let your im­aginati on have free rein , and check yourforecasts with th e future.

Mar ch mean s whistle pigs and crows cull­ing the lat e harvest grain or th e new seed­ings. And thi s mean s rifles for varmints. Takenotice of "Get An Owl Decoy." Your big-eyedpartner and your high velocity r ifle canteam up to mak e you Th e Farmer 's Friendwherever you go. Good "spade work" forlat er fall huntin g, too, by gett ing yourselfknown as a safe shooter and good sport.

Sergeant York once made the head lin eswith his skill and coolness as a rifle shot.Ticker tap e parades on Broadw ay, medals

Serge ant York once made the head lin eswith his skill and coolness as a rifle shot.T icker ta pe pa rad es on Broadway , medal sand honors from the Allied powers, all werehis. Toda y he sits alone in Tenn essee, butth e capabilities of qu ick decision andaccurate shooting, which in him reachedmomentary perf ection , remain as examplesto guide the combat rifleman today. Read"The Rifleman Who Stunned Th e World,"the story of Sgt. York.

Latin matt ers plus shotguns hold att enti onin "Thrown Bird s Make Tough Targets." TheMexican sport, a var iation on l ive birdshooting, in a sense pit s shooter aga inst an­other man , expert in his class, th e columbiareor pigeon th rower.

Our emphas is on Latin American affairsthi s issue will be continued in future issuesas stories appear on our neighbor nati ons.Th e Pan American Games will feature shoot­ing mat ches held in Chicago and north shoreWaukegan, Ill . GUNS Magazine has been "ontop" of the stories developin g here and willbring them to you as th ey break.

Gun club officers will find in "No HuntingSigns Can Come Down" a handbook forlocal operati ons in makin g hunting more ac­cessible in their area . Read it-and ac t.

For th e reloadin g technician, facts on oneof the light est and one of the heaviestcenter-fires spans the field. Read KentBellah' s column on th e startl ing new Kay­Chuk .22 CF revolver load s ; then turn topage 23 for dope on how to tame the .375Magnum rifle. Also for the reloader, somenotes of caution from our Gun Rack reportthi s month . Be cautious and skeptical ofwhat you may hear on proof loads- ~th ey are not firecrackers for kid s. ~

GUNS MARCH 1959 5

• In the Moscow, Id aho, justice cour t apoacher had a strange story to tell the juryabo ut a deer foun d in hi s possession. Heha d, he said, see n th e deer and bent overto exa mine it. Th e deer came alive, and thepair rolled some 100 yards. Th e Sta te Con­servation Officer pointed out, however , th atpar t of the "ro ll ing" was uphill accord ing10 the tracks. The man was fined $90.

* * *• I n eas te r n Idaho a deer hun ter, onh orseb ack, fou n d h is trail blocked by amoose. T h e h orse sh ied , throwing th er ider . T he m oo se attacked the man. T h em an b roke his rifle s tock over th em oose ' s a ntl e rs. T h e moose tu rn ed onthe h orse , a nd th e two battled u ntil th em oose 's a ntlers got en ta n gle d in a ropeon the sad d le . The moose took off,leading th e h orse . Several days passedb efore th e h orse wa s fou nd-free ofh is f r iendly com p a n ion .

* * *• Fairf ax, Va. A "deer of parts" , mad e upof left -over pieces of metal scra p, is mak ingFa irfa x Rod And Gun Club hunters the topguns in this area. Th is deer dashes acro ss a

his fr-iendly co m pa n io n .

* * *. Fairfax, Va. A "deer of parts" , mad e upof left -over piece s of metal scra p, is ma kingFa irfax Rod And Gun Club hunter s the topguns in this area. Thi s deer da shes acro ss a25-foot field in 4 seconds and is so coopera ­tive it will come ri ght back 10 get shot atsome more. Behi nd the scenes, cables crea kand wheels whirl , but the rifleman sees onlyone thing-the moving deer. This pr acti ceis, by all acco unts, ma king might y sha r phu nters out of these men.

* * *• St. Louis, Mo. Har old Pi ppin found a newuse for his rifle. When his car' s exhaustpip e was smashed after an acc ident andhe couldn' t get the car sta rted, Mr. Pippin,on a hu nt ing tr ip at the tim e, simply tookdead aim and shot the pipe free.

* * *• P arr is Islan d, S. C. Thi s Mar ine Corpsbase has a r ifle tha t i a r ifle ! More thanseven feet long, it would make any foe ofthe Leath ern ecks gasp and turn pale. How­ever, it's not mean t to ta ke into ba ttle anddoesn' t fire. Th e gian t "mock-up" is usedto imp ress th e recr uits with some of thedetail s of th e ri fie.

* * *• Dayton, Ohio. Af te r a h oldup manr obbed him of $70, Max Stap le to n ,ser vice s ta t io n ma na ger , wa s d e ternlinedn ot to be robb ed for a se con d t ime. Whenh e sa w the sa m e ma n approaching h issta t ion a few weeks la te r , h e barricadedhimself in the b ack room and armed him ­self with a .38 r evol ver. The band item p tied his gun into the door of the'1- _ ....1_ _ .......... __ ~_ .J l\..t"_ Q .. ~_ l _ . ! __1

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permits quick cha nge from scope to aper turesight or factory ir on sight ha s been int ro­du ced by Leupold & St evens In struments,In c., P or tland 13, Or egon . Built into the base

every success for timber shoot ing. It givesabout 1850 feet velocit y with only 30,000pounds pr essure, and is safe in all model '85Winchester sing le shot act ions or th e goodMod el 1886 Win ch ester action s, but shouldnever be fired in any old tr apdoor Spring­field s or other wea k actions.

In cid entall y, th e Model '86 W inchester inth e old er case-harde ned ver sion is good to38,000 pound pressur e, and the lat er bluedsteel action , ser ial num ber over 124,000, isgood to 42,000 pounds pressur e, same as thelater Model 71 ac tion. Th ese are about th esmoothest, fast est , big lever acti ons everpr odu ced and it is to be regr ett ed tha t Win­chester has stopped th eir manufacture.

Read or Blade Front SightsMany h unter s pr efer the round gold or

ivory bead fr on t sigh t for use with e itheropen rear sights or wi th th e Lyman typeap erture r ear sight. True, th e round beadshows up beautifully through an y receiversight and a lso look s well in the wid e anzleEn gl ish V express sights ; but all bead fr~ntsig hts are very fr agil e beca use they ar e un­der cut so mu ch to form the roun d bead .

open rear sights or wi th th e Lyman typeap erture r ear sight. True, th e round beadshows up beautifully through an y receiversight and a lso look s well in the wid e anzleEn gl ish V express sights ; but all bead fr~ntsig hts are very fr agil e beca use they ar e un­der cut so mu ch to form the roun d bead .

In th e Ca ll type, which is a round goldbead set int o th e fac e of a sq uare bla de, th eyare sturdy ; but thi s Call typ e is th e onlybead fron t sight that will stand hard bl owsand not be bent or br oken . Bead fron t sightsshow up wonder full y well on game but donot hold elevations nearly as well as do blad etype fla t topp ed front sights. An yone ca nprove thi s to his own satisfact ion by groupshooting with th e two types.

My own preference in fr on t sights foreither pi stol or rifle is a fla t top ped So ur­dou gh-typ e front sigh t with gold in sert, asfurnished by Red field . T h is sight has a slopeto cat ch th e light in early morning or la teeven ing or in heavy dense timber or bush ,and has proven th e best hunting fr ont sightI ha ve ever used. It can be smoked blackwith a ma tch for target use, or ru bbed clea nso the gold will show for game shooting ; andit will hold elevat ions far bett er than anyround bead type I have ever tri ed. Th e blad eis heavy and sturdy, and it takes a hard blowto put it out of commission .

Heavy .45-70 LoadFo r the .45-70 for all big game hun tin g in

the timb er, an excelle nt heavy load is 54gr ains 3031 Du pont or 4895 behi nd th e 405gra in soft point or th e Barnes flat po int 400grain bullet. This work ed very well on elkdeer and bear for me, and was first work ed

7 x 57mm Lone Ranee Deer Loadeither weighed or measured III one ot w elar ge drum measures lik e th e Sa eco, Holly­wood, R.C-B.S. or oth er s of thi s type, youwill ha ve ammunit ion th at will shoot veryclose to the minute of angle at lon g ra ngefrom gilt edge mat ch barrels.

7 x 57mm Long Range Deer LoadF or th e littl e 7 mm Ma user, th e best long

ran ge deer load I have found was 50 gra ins4350 and th e 160 grain Sierr a Boattail. Thi sload is superbly accura te a nd gives ju st over2800 feet velocit y. It expands on deer outto fa irly long ra nge. Don Hopkins used 1000of th ese, mostl y in Afri ca, and l iked the loa dvery mu ch. For any game lar ger than deer ,I would pr efer the 175 grain bullet, pref­era bly of Nosler make, backed by 47 grains4·350 for 2600 feet.

Ch eap .375 Magnum LoadFo r a cheap medium power pr actice load

for the .375 Magn um, use 47 grains 4895powder and th e Jdeal gas check bull et No.375449, cast of pure type metal and fitt edwith th e gas chec k. Thi s load is usuall y goodfor one in ch groups at 100 ya rds, makes agood tu r key match loa d, and is also veryuseful for a lot of th e smalle r game shooting,as well as practice. It is also an excell ent200 yard load.

Long Range .30 Cal. Match Loads

F OR 600 to 1000 ya rd mat ch shoot ingwith th e .30·06, use selec ted M-l boat­

tail s of 173 gra in weight with 58 grains 4350Dupont for 2901 feet muzzle velocity in 24"barrels. This is my old mat ch .30-06 load. Itwoul d stay in th e Bull eye when other Na­tional Ma tch loads were ki cked out in th efour rin g at 600 and 1000 ya rd s by crosswind s. When th e good service boattails ca n­not be obta ined , mo t r ifles will do almost aswell with Remingt on, Western, orma , Sierra180 gra in mat ch boatt ails and 57 gra ins4350. This is a top load , so work up to itcarefully.

F or th e .300 Magnum bull gun. my 1000yard load was 65 gra ins 4350 and any fine180 gra in mat ch boattail , Sierra, Norma,Remin gton, or Western. 1£ good uniformweight cases are used an d th e powder charg eeithe r weighed or measured in one of th elar ge drum measures lik e th e Sa eco, Holly­wood, R.C-B.S. or oth er s of thi s type, youwill ha ve ammunit ion th at will shoot veryclose to the minute of angle at lon g ra ngefrom gilt edge mat ch barrels.

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The qu ick-change levers can be install edon either the ri ght or left side of th e actionas desired by the shooter. Levers can beadj usted so they lock in twelve differentpositions to hold th e scope securely. Theycannot become detac hed acc ide ntally fromthe rin g asse mbl ies.

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The 13th "Gun Digest"John Amber's annual " Gun Digest" is an I~===========~~~~~~~~~~:::~~=~=~:;¢;:=========:

excep tionally well bal anced and excellentedit ion, with art icles on man y phases of rifle,pistol, and shotgun work by leadin g Ameri- I L ==:;.Ican au thorities. Many reloadi ng art icles onmetallic and shot shell reload ing make thework a most excellent ref erence. All thelatest new arms are also describe d and evalu­ated. Chapters on proof marks, ballis tics , andreloading tools help round out th e ed ition.

~an auth'~rities. :Ma ny rero~di~t~rticles o~metallic and shotshell reload ing make thework a most excellent reference. All thelatest new arms are also descr ibed and evalu­at ed. Chapters on proof marks, ballis tics, andreloading tools help round out th e edition.An excelle nt article on Ed McGivern, andone on the Hollywood Fa st Dra w movie I - ----------- --- - - - ­arti sts, Sixg uns for Hunt ing, as weli as ex­cellent articles on re load ing, give th e handgu n enthusiast plenty of food for thought.The grea t dangerou s game of the world isalso well covered, with hu ntin g articles onmost Asiatic and Africa n game. Effect ofbullets on game is covered in an excellentart icle. The cartridge collec tor and th e guncollector will all find plenty of excellentmaterial in thi s editio n. Articles on theSharp s Borchardt and on gun engra ving addstill more valuable and aut henti c informationfor the gun crank or collector. All told, the13th edition of "G un Digest" is a must to allshooters, collector s, and gun cra nks .

How to HuntDEER and

J ohn P. Conlonewark , Ohi o

R onald 1. CunningMansfield , Ohi o

S ingle S h ot P istolsThe French reader who calls for a new

single shot pi stol may be a yoice a lone in thewilderness. A good accurate single would notbe sharp enough for the only course suited toit, the free pistol cour se, withou t a lot ofwork . It is also not suited for American threestage courses . Th e last US pi stol of thisclass, the Tompkins, sank withou t much tracesome years ago. A lot of th e de ma nd forsingles is by coll ectors not in terested inshooting. If there were more people shootingthe internati onal course, a good single shotmight go over well. Th e Tompk ins came out

class, the T~mpkil;s~ ~ank witl;out mt;ch t'racesome years ago. A lot of th e demand forsingles is by collec tors not interested inshooting. If there were more people shootingthe in ternational course, a good single shotmight go over well. Th e Tompkins ca me outat a poor tim e, wh ich offset it s good poin ts.

But it might be possib le to mak e up asingle on a heavy fram e and work it up fora tr app ers' spec ial, and also as an under­study for th e costly free pistol. Th e USRApistol had a fr ame form ed to fit five di fferentbasic grips, and could suit man y pu rpo ses.Also, thi s modern job could be se t up for asingle shot C&B, and ha ve ome market .Th ere is a single shot mad e by an In di an ashop of thi s general type. It is solid frame,ca p & ball only.

Th at article about Hal vorson should goup with the one ab out Mar golin, as a re­mind er tha t peopl e who have th e most tocompla in of usually don ' t.

Gun Of The Mo nthI have enjoyed every cop y of C uxs I have

ever gotte n but your curren t issue has beenthe best. Th ere was not one article that Iwas not interested in , all of th em mad ewond erf ul reading.

My favor it e is Gun of th e Month and Iwould like to see it every month. I keepth em ; th ey make a very i nteresting "sc rapbook."

A Note From Down UnderMa ny th an ks for your lett er re the ARID.

ln repl y to your query as to who will bemaking th e F ri Ae in Australia, it willbe ma nufac tured by the L ithgow conce rn,who ha ve been turning out a fa ir qu alitylin e of .22 calibre sporre rs for the commer­cial mark et for some years. I don ' t kn owwhether th ey are a purely pri vate concern,making the F N under contrac t, or whethe rth ey ar e Government ponsored. As a tar getshooter, I have had some expe rience withLithgo w barrels, used as replacemen t ba rr elsin the .303 Lee-En field riAe. Th e qu ality of

Good A rticle- PeriodCongr atulat ions on your ar ticle on shot­

shell reloading. F irst article I ever rea d onthe subject where the author rea lly kn owswhat he is talking ab out . Feel I am aveteran on reloading, as I have load ed 96cases in last five years with excellent result s.Own the VE UM reloader made in Milwaukee,Wisconsin , and ca n use wad s or corn meal f01"filler. Resizes brass to base and has auto­mati c pr essure release for any pressur e.

Of cour se there is something new in thi s

\:.t,looca.djH;d!?,u ~j&sf"J1~e~l,H'I?'.( ,,[,f'JIl ;V~!Jsu.m:Own the VE UM reloade r made in Milwaukee,Wisconsin , and can use wad s or cornmeal forfill er. Resizes brass to base and has auto­mati c pr essur e release for any pressur e.

Of course th ere is somet hing new in thi sreloadin g business every day. For your in ­[ormation, most reload ing primers ha ve silver­pla ted cap s except Carlsbad Ammo. of Cali­fornia , and Cascade. Th eirs are copper ­colored caps. So you see, you can 't win inth is busin ess, but it 's lots of fun.

J ohn J . Rein ertWauwat osa, Wisconsin

Good A rticle-B ut W atch That Pipe

Bein g a re loader myself , I was slightly ap­pa lled to see an illustration in the articleon Shotshell Reloading whereby th e loader ,probably the author, was inten t on loadinga shell with a pip e in his mou th. Wh ether ornot it was li t is of no conse quence , as th ecardinal rule of safety when reloading ammois not to have any li ve flame in the sameroom . I tru st that th is picture does not di s­pla y th e writer 's tru e loading technique.

Julian D. FinkNew York , N. Y.

S anta Cla us Please NoteYou man y have seen an ad for a toy

" pelle t-fir ing .45 Cal. Au tomatic." Since Ihave yet to come of age for a permit in NewYork , I decided to obtain one to practi cewith. In reply to my order I received a cardwhich read in part, " Because ew York Sta teLaw pro hibits the sale of toy pistols to minorsunder 16 yea rs of age, we must ask you to.. ." Perh ap s some gun bug of New Yorkshould gather a list of all officials in NewYork with sons of the cowboy age .

I think I have found another argumentaga inst some anti-arms legislati on. In refer­ence to the taxati on of the Un ited Sta tesBan k in Baltimore by the State of Maryla nd,Chief Ju sti ce J ohn Marshall decla red "Thepower to tax involves the power to destroy,"and rul ed no state had th e right to controlor hinder operations of a nati onal institutionlocat ed within its territory . Could thi s notbe applied to civil r igh ts ?

Finally, we must congra tulate th e British0 11 Cyp ru s for being as "li beral" as to issuearms to her citizens there.

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Our lar ge-bore target shooting here, as inEngland, is in two classes : SRa, and SRb.In SRa shooting, the rifle must be used asissued, without the use of the shooting sling.SRb allows the fitting of a heavier ha rre l,windgauge rear sight, and use of a sling.Shooting as done by the civilian rifle clubsis all SRb, and those who use the SMLE asthe basis of their target rifle always fit aheavy harrel, as the issue barrel is very lightand is almost always shot out by the timewe get it. The only heavy barr els availab lehere are those made by Lithgow, and theyhave proved perfectly satisfactory. I use aP14 myself, being a firm believer in theMauser action, and th e one-piece stock. Iused the original barrel for two seasons,until I was lucky enough to win some prizemoney at the Canter bury Championships lastyear, and got a new barr el made by B.S.A.

The Nato car tridge will be manufa ctu redhere by the Colonial Ammunit ion Companyin Well ingto n. They have made .303 car­trid ges for years, also shotgun ammo. Th eir.303 ammunition is headstamp ed C.A.C. andthe date. (Year only.)

Since writi ng to you before, have pick edup a 7.7 Jap Arisaka, and after lookin g abit deeper th an the rough surface finish, wasimpressed. Definitely not the heap of junkthat some writ ers would have one believe.Have you found a bolt in a military rifletha t can be taken apart quicker or easier ?Also preferred the hinged magazine floor­plat e with the catch in the guard to thisbusiness of poki ng bulle ts into little holeswhen you want to strip the magazine. Leaveoff the rattly bolt cover, and the odd aircra ftsight, and you have a pretty good serviceablemilitary weapon. It can't be too bad; lookat the damage the J aps did with it. Arisaka,with wart ime ammo, turned out groups com-

~I/lfit~l~n'tf ;yJ6tI"R~yendl ~¥erty;~O~dT Je'TVrc~aJ)remilitary weapon. It can' t be too bad; lookat the damage the J aps did with it. Arisaka,with wartime ammo, turned out groups com­parable with most mili tary rifles I have fired.

Too many gun writers ' (not you) are in­clined to sneer at the weapons of other coun­trie s, and lull people into a fal se sense ofsecurity. I love fine gunsmith ing, all milledparts, and nice walnut stocks as much as th enext man, hut the day of the military riflebuilt on th ose line s is gone. In fact, it wentin 1914, but not everybody realized it. Thebig things today are Mass Production, andExpenda bility. Look at the weapons turnedout by the Germans in the closing stages ofthe war. They were crude, and rough, hutthey were killing weapons, and they worked .

GUNS, and your article in particular, havetau ght me more about the weapons of theworld, not ju st those of the Western Powers,than anything else. So long as GUNS is avail ­able here , I will remain a subscriber.

Ian M. BarkerNew Zealand

Question For CaliforniansIn your J anuary, 1959, issue there is a

letter to the editor from California statingthat it is a viola tion of the law to practiceshooting in the counties of California ad­ja cent to the coast. If you will be so kindas to check this and let me know if th is istru e I will deeply appreciate it.

Rober t W. KeeneTuckahoe, N. Y.

Civil De fense Useless?Congra tula tions on a fine job. Keep up

the good work. As an ex-Gl and milit aryweapons collecto r. the art icles "22's For Sur-

vival," and "Where Are Tomorrow's MinuteMen ?" really interested me. It 's easy to seewhat Mr. Soule means, and I agree with himcompletely.

It might interest your readers to know thathere in my area most people th ink CivilDefense and even a small amount of pre­paredn ess is a waste of t ime. One fellow toldme I was crazy for even thinking about it.I find tryi ng to expla in anything to most ofthem is useless. I wish there were some wayto wake the m up.

My arsenal contains th e latest and hestmilitary rifles and pistols I could obtain, aswell as sporting rifles, shotguns, and oldermilitary types th at could be used if neces­sary. I would lik e to add submachine guns,but red tape and high costs prohibit. The lawshould be changed. I tr y to keep at least100 rounds of ammo for each caliber . How­ever , 500 would be better.

I think the questions of Civil Defense andsurvival are very real and deserve seriousthought. I'd appreciate hearin g other ideasand comments from you and your readers.

Roger L. KoobJe sup, Iowa

Excusable PrejudicePl ease excuse my delay in wntmg you

concerni ng the excellent article on the "Re­turn of the Colt Rifle" in thi s month's issueof GUNS Magazine. While I am adm ittedlyprejudiced, it was a tremendou sly int erestingand factual piece.

Seriously, I was tr emendously pleased withthe ar ticle and appreciate the nice thi ngs yousaid about me and my company.

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on our Schultz & Larsen rifle and 7 x 61Sharpe & Hart car tr idge. It is most com­prehensive. However, the pri ce of $145 asquoted was in effect when Elmer got the ri fle,hut is now $160. We took increases at thefactory, plus 5% increase on ocean freight.When we eliminated jobbing on Nov. I, 1957,we cut the pri ce from $166.32 to $145, buthave had to advance again. Our advertise­ment in GUNS gives th e current pri ce.

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Will Do, SoonI would lik e to see more art icles like

"Which Bullets Are Best," "The 17 Javelina ,"and "T he Comeback of the Colt Rifle," inthe December, 1958, issue. I am a novice inthe arms field , and the charts and info. in"W hich Bullets Are Best" taught me a lot ofthings I didn 't know.

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beans were blown 25 steps. Cans explodedas if they were hi t with a .222 rifle. Fired inmoist sand, the largest bullet fra gment was 8gra ins of lead fused to part of the jacket.Oth er fr agments were from small to merelead smears , ind ica ting violent d isint egration.

Top loads with 35 gr. rifle pills penetra teth e cans, swell th e seams, and make a 2"exit hole. Expansion in moist sand is good,with some 12 gra ins of lead shed and th ejacket ruptured comple tely.

Unique is also a good powd er ; maybe th ebest in short 4" tubes. Either bullet shootswell with 6 grains, start ing at over 2,000Ips, with pr essur e below 25,000 psi. Th e 40grain Sierr a and Speer bullets with th atchar ge star t at 1,950 Ips in the same pressurera nge. Heavier bull ets are not recommended.

Blast a fox or similar varmint br oadsidewith a factor y .357 and you'll have a caliber­size entrance hole and about a .50 cali ber

New jackete d Sisk (I) and Lyman cast# 225107 bullets Bellah made for KC.

pared to a mere 80 F.P. with .22 L.R . mat chammo in a 6" barrel. Thi s excellent, har d­hitting Hi·V load still lef t something to bedesir ed for the ult imate in varmint destr uc­tion, alt hough bullets penetrate deep and ex­pand well.

With cooperation from Sisk Bulle t Co.,Iowa P ark, Texas, I designed th e first jacket.ed .22 pill for hand gun s, the Sisk 37 gra inRevolver Bull et . I t has th e basic Jugulardesign th at permits higher velocity withdeadl y accuracy, and th e most shockingpower in big bores. Th e new number ha s asoft lead core and flat nose, with a hollowpoint extending below th e short, .320" jacket.It re tains th e fine accuracy of the rifle num­ber, with much faster blowup, and muchhigher velocity with up to 2.5 grains morepowder. Not yet chronogra phed, it shouldregister as much as 2,500 fp s, with M.E. awhooping 514 F.P .

I' ve had fine accuracy with from 8.5 to 12grains 2400. My favorite load is 11 grains,which has "adequate" blowup. Blasting No.303 cans of beans, bullets enter the can,explode th e can and contents be/o re pene­trating! We never did find an exit hole. Some", .UVVPJ.U E; V"&" ""1' ... .... .

I' ve had fine accuracy with from 8.5 to 12grains 2400. My favorite load is 11 grains,which has "adequate" blowup. Blasting No.303 cans of beans, bullets enter the can,explode th e can and contents be/ore pene­trating! We never did find an exit hole. Some

Kay-Chuk round is fire-formed (top)with shoulder from .22 Hornet (bottom).

A Kay-Chuk is th e easiest and cheapest reoloading hand gun for precision shooting, andthe least temperamental. Almost with out reocoil, there is no rock 'n roll to spoil your aim.Groups are tight er th an th e Sunda y shoes acountry gal wear s on Sat urd ay night . It chillsyour kill faster than a blu e whistler northerin Texas. It does twice th e damage on var­mints as factory .357 Magnums. Th e rifle-likecrack is as loud as a .357, while the rifle-liketrajectory eliminates hold -over at any norm alhandg un ra nge. Standard rifle bull ets pun chholes in %" steel plates that shed factory.357 M.P. loads. K·Horn et rifles are dandy

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• Norfolk, Va. A story making th e rou ndsof the Na val base her e : An officer told aNavy recruit, " So you lost your rifle ? Well ,you' ll have to pay for it." "But, sir," pro­tested the boot, "i t was stolen- if I weredr iving a jeep and somebody stole it , wouldI have to pay for that too?" " Yes," th eofficer told him. Th e recruit's answer is whatth ey're qu oting: "Now I know," he said, " whya captain goes down with hi s ship."

L_" W hen you go after big game , you'd better be sur e of your bullet," says J. W.Hornady who likes to prove his bullets in the fi eld. Th is big gOO-lb. Kodiak bearwas dropped in one shot at 200 yards by a 30 cal. 220 gr. Hornady Bullet aheadof 76 grains 4831 fired from a 300 W eatherby ... one of many one-shot trophiesstopped by t he paralyzing shoc k of a Hornady slug on fi eld-test hunts.

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Weems is rig ht. Th ere is a th rill in hand­gun hunting you can 't get with a ri fle orshotgun. Tho se who call varmints love it .Another advantage with a Kay-Chuk , bull etsblowup on impact. This redu ces ri cochetsand mak es it safer in sett led ar eas. Lake­ville Arms will do th e conversion work onyour K-22 at about $40., or a new conversionis available. I recommend a 6" barrel, but a4" is handy and good. T hey will also supplyth e new Sisk Revolver Bullets, Horn et casesready trimmed and the new moulds.

The versatile Kay-Chuk is a fun gun thatgets th e lead out toward the wild blu eyonder for game, ta rgets or varmints. Neithernovice or expert will flinch from recoil ji t­ters, a maj or cause of poor handgunnin g. Itwon't bit e th e hand th at feeds it, even if youshoot hot loads all day in fa st double-act ioncylinder roll ing . Being so easy to shoot, it' sa shooter's gun, that fills a real void in thehand gu n field. Let's hope it sparks a muchneeded factory varmint number , a real sport­er. But we members of the Hull Fill ers & CapBusters Association, Unlimited, like the Kay­Chuk as it is. It has a fu ture, not a past, andwe can say, "Have gun, bullet s ~

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side, and bl ows th e vital organs out . Suchinterior explosion expends all shocking powerin the boil er work s where it counts, makingit unn ecessar y to pin-p oint your hit in a vitalspot.

Texas exhibition shooter Highwa y P atrol­man D. L. Cooper helped make long rangeaccuracy tests with th e new bullet. With atwo-arm rest he consiste ntly plinked t in cansat 150 yards, and larger cans at 300. Somepap er grou ps at 100 yards were under 3inches. Sighted in at 25 yards, you are onaim at 100, and only 3" low at 150 yards.The extre mely flat traj ectory an d accuracymake varmints a cinch at your maxim umhittin g ra nge. Even if you are not a verygood pistol shoot er, your accuracy ra nge willbe greatly extended with the easy-to-IoadKay-Chuk.

Loadin g is fast and easy. Use Remingtoncases for hot loads, as th ey hold more pow­der. Cut top cha rges 15 per cent in WoWhulls. Hornet cases are trimmed .050" beforeforming. Rifle pri mers will increase pressure,with little veloci ty increase. I highly recom­mend C.C.!. pistol primers, as they have ex­cellent igni tion and uniformity for light orheavy load s, and ar e quite sensitive. Fe dera lor Remin gton can be substituted safely, ifnecessar y. Seat bullets out to nearly cylinderlength . Fo rmed and unformed cas es bavepra ctically th e same center of impact , proofthe cartridge isn't temp erament al.

With Lyman's cooperation, I designed aKay-Chuk mould, Lyma n's No. 225107, for38 gr. solid or 34 gr . H.P. gas chec k pill s.The H.P . has excelle nt cast bullet accuracywith an alloy of 3.25% tin and 3.500/0 anti-

mony, sized .225" . Bullets ar e sea ted with all _.::..:~=.::.~:::...::::::.::::...:~~~.::::~:- ...:.....!::::====~~:.===========~th e bearing surface in the case. With your -;seater adj usted for this bull et , back it outabout %, turn for jacketed numbers, thatch n " l rl h e c .... a to rl n u t t n. n ..........l u ,. " l'n..1 "uo

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mony, sized .225" . Bull ets are seated wit h all _.::..:~=.::.~:::...::::::.::::...:~~~.::::~ ...:.....!::::====~~:.===========~th e bearing surface in the case. With your -;seater adjusted for thi s bullet, back it outabo ut %, tu rn for jacketed numbers, tha tshould be seated out to nearl y cylinderlength . Ma ximum loads have not yet beenestablished, bu t a good one is 8 grains 2400for 1,823 Ips. Fired in moist sand, it exp andsto abo ut .32 cal iber with the nose shedd ing .It 's quite effective ; far better th an a .22R.F. ri fle.

J acketed bull ets are chea p, but cast slugsredu ce shooting costs to compe te with .22R.F. ammo . Small bu llets requ ire carefulcasting and inspecti on to eliminate mino r de­fects, that affect accuracy more th an in bigbores. All bullets mentioned are good forsquirrel size game with 3.5 grs. Bullseye, atabout 1,500 Ips, depending on the bullet.Use 2.5 grains for tar gets, whi ch aboutequals th e 950 Ips of .22 L.R. mat ch ammoin a 6" barrel. W-W hulls are good to helpidentify light load s.

Wayne Weems, of Fort Worth, Texas, whomakes th e Weems Wild Call and the newWeems All-Call for varmints, is in th e fortu­nat e positi on of havi ng to spend man y hourstest ing hundreds of d ifferent call "vo ices," aspart of his work. He has been call hunt ingfor over 25 years and can bring varmintson the run int o easy handgun ran ge, likechickens in a farmy ard. He discarded hisvarm int r ifles long ago, and now uses thch andgun. Weems says, "Even a novice canbag all the varmints he wants with a goodcall and the Kay-Chuk. Preda tors are plenti­ful in every sta te, although they ar e seldomseen unt il calle d. Th ey mak e fine targets a t10 to 50 yards, and you'll mak e some la sting

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York got Medal of Honor,French cross , many honors.

THE RIFLEMAN WHOSTUNNED THE WORLD

... Colonel s. L. A. Marshall reported, from his observation ofinfantry in World War II, that never more than one man

in four fires his rifle in combat. Why? General Merritt Edson,USMC, said it was because they lacked skill with the rifle

and therefore lacked confidence . . . This is the story of a manwho did have skill with his weapons, and the guts to use them.

By EDWARD LORIN G TUTTLE

By EDWARD LORING TUTTLE

T HE GREATEST THIl G accomplished by any private soldier of all thearmies of Europe," said Marshal Foch, was the deed for which Sergeant

Alvin Collum York of the American Expediti onary Forces was acclaim ed theout standing hero of heroes of World War I. For the capture, single-handed, ofan almost incredible number of German soldiers, and for the neutralizing ofmany critically placed machin e gun nests which would otherwise have taken abloody toll of American lives-might even have halted a major advance­General " Black Jack" Pershin g himself named York " the outstanding civiliansoldier of the war. " For his act of individu al heroism on October 8, 1918, AlvinYork was awarded the Congr essional Medal of Honor, the Fr ench Legion ofHonor , the Croix de Guerre with palm, the Medaille Militaire, the It alian WarCross, and other high Allied decora tions.

York did it all simp ly by knowing and putting into practice the correct useof the rifle and the pist ol in war.

Who was Alvin York? He was a conscien tious objec tor fr om the hills ofTennessee. And he was the foremost single rifleman of World War I. If thesefacts seem conflicting , perh aps thi s story will bring them into focus.

The story begins at 3 A.M. on October 8, 1918, when the regiment al com­mand er of the 328th Infantry, 82nd Division, called in the company commandersof his 2nd Battalion. He ordered them to atta ck, from Hill 223, the Germanforces which were entrenched facing them on a steep wooded hill across a 500yard open valley. The att ack would move out at 6 A.M.

Capt ain F. C. B. Danforth Ir ., CO of G Company, deployed his outfit in twoassault waves : two platoons in fr ont , two in the rear for support. Sgt. Harry M.Parsons commanded the left support platoon, and one of his corpo ra ls wasAlvin York , a 31 year old farmer fr om the Tennessee mountains.

At 6 A.M., "zero hour ," Co. G moved forward down the slope of Hill 223 int othe deadlv [o Man's Land of that ov en valley. Machine gun fire poured on

When Company G advanced from Hill 223, Jerry machine guns pinned themdown. The rifle line ducked for cover, then advanced from shell hole to shell hole.

to shellhole. Casualties mounted.Sgt . Parson's pla toon was cut off from the rest of G

Company by a ridge and by the wall of cr iss-crossing firebetween him and the other elements. Heavy fire on Par­son's own platoon made it obvious that a charge would benothing less than suicida l ; one careless sweep of fire fr omanyone of the machine guns facing them could wipe themout. P arsons' nex t move displayed the initiative that some­times enables th e Ame rica n fight ing man to whip th e moreperfect military robots pro duced by other armies. Heavybrush slanted down a slope at Parsons' left , and he ordered17 men-Sgt. Ea rly , three corpora ls (including York) , and13 privates-to swing left into that brush and try to workin behind the German guns.

Early led his 17-man task force about half a milethrough thick und erb rus h, going it blind, expecting atevery step to hit heavy resistance. The first Germans theysaw were two stre tcher bea rers , who turned and ra n. Th eAme ricans fired . One German stopped, submitted to cap­ture . Th e other kept going. Early knew the man had to bestopped before he gave the alarm, and led his men inhot pursuit.

Th ey chased the fugitive stra ight into the headquarters

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of a German machine gun regim ent , where between 80 and100 Germ ans, including three officers, were at their break­fast. Th e Ameri cans charge d, firin g. Two or three Ger mansfell ; 15 or 20 others threw up their hands. Early said," Cease fire. They're going to surrender."

Th e order may have been a little premature. One Germankept on firin g, and a corp oral named York shot him. Oneshot, one pin wheel hit.

Th at might have made the " capture" stick ha d it notbeen for the several well-mann ed machin e guns, so far un·noticed, on the hill to their right. Th ese guns swung andopened fire. Th e range was from only 20 up to 60 yards.Six Americans fell dead, three wounded. Of the eight left ,York was one.

Th e eight Americans took what cover they could. Earlywas one of the wounded ; told Corporal Cutting to takeover. But Cutting was also wounded. Corporal York wasthe next man in line. He took command.

York was shooting back at the German ma chinegunnersfrom his prone position. As he put it later, every time aGerman head appeared over the gun emplacements, York"just teched him off." It was, he said, mu ch like theshooting mat ches back in Tennessee ; about the same di s-

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"Over the top." American doughboys rise from trenches and cross No Man's Land atdawn to attack German machine guns 500 yards away. Sgt . York ended day as a live hero.

Test Springfield allowed soldier to sight in t rench;but York stood up to shoot . Men targets were bigger.

York's home in Tennessee was hill farmer's shanty, butyoung rifleman learned to shoot to kill to fill pot.

tance (60 yards) , but " the targets were bigger. I couldn'tvery well miss at that distance. And I didn't ."

Even so, the German machin e guns took turns sprayingthe American position-not even York could keep th em all~ery-weIll ~fs;:an ha\nais~nie. -A~d j''T'chan 't~ "..L-1_'+ _M_

Even so, the German machin e guns took turns sprayingthe American position-not even York could keep th em alldown all the time-but, York said, " They couldn't seemto hit me."

After a few minutes, York stood up. The pr one posit ionhampered him , he thought. He could hi t any target he'dseen so far fr om a standing position, and he'd ha ve a widersweep of fire, could move faster. By now, he had firedseveral 5-round clips. His rifle was hot, and he was run­nin g out of amm unition.

A German officer and five men charged out of a trench25 yards distant, at a time when York had only two orthree rounds in his rifle. He pulled his .45 automatic. Hedropped the man furthest fr om him ; then the man nextfurthest-and so on, from last to first. Six sho ts; six Ger­man casualties, all dead. " Tha t's th e way we shoot turkeysback home," York explained later. "If you shoot the onesin the rear, the ones in front don't know what's happenin'and they keep on comin' and you get them all." He gotthem all.

York said that after that charge he " knew he had 'emlicked." They couldn't hit him , and he could hit them. Aslong, that is, as his amm unition held out . He began shout­ing to the Germans to surrender. " I didn't want to kill anymore than I had to," he expla ined. " I' d tech off a couple,then yell again ." So far, he had, he thought, killed morethan twenty.

A German major amon g the headquarters unit "cap­tured" earl ier, called out, "What are you, English?"

York said, "No. American."The ma jor said , "Go od God ! ... Look, if you'll stop

shooting, I' ll mak e them surre nder."York said, "Do that. And mak e it good ; you're a real

good target. If they start shooting again, you go first."The major blew a whistle and th e guns ceased firing. At

the maj or 's command, gunners came pouring out of thetrenches, hands skyward. One of those hands, however ,concealed a hand-grenade. It came hurtling at York's head,missed, wounded a German prisoner. York shot the manwho threw it. Nobody else moved. Nobody wanted anymore of York's shooting.

Th e pri soners numbered about 100 now, and they werewell behind the German lin es. York ordered his remainingmen to line the prisoners up and start them moving. TheGerman major asked York how many Americans he com­manded. York sa id, " Plenty. Tell your people to make acolumn of twos." Th e maj or obeyed him. York stood closeto the major, his Colt pointed. When the column wasfor med, York told the maj or , "Start hikin'. " The majorask ed a natural question: " Which way? "

York didn't know. Th ey had follow ed a deviou s coursethrough the brush, and th e fight hadn't left York muchsense of direction. He asked the major which way to theAm erican lines. Th e major made a suggestion. York fig.ured th e major was lyin g ; ordered the column off in th eopposit e direction . . . York was right ; th e major hadlied. Wh o could blame him ?

But this course, th ough right, led through German front­line positions. As they .approached th ese positions, stillother machine guns swung to face them. York ordered the

major to blo w hi s whistle. " Make 'em surrender ," he said,"or I'll shoot you first , and after you, th em." The majorblew his whistle, shouted the order. He made it emphatic;he knew only too well that York wasn't bluffing. The Ger.mans ahead of them surrendered. One didn't , and York" teched him off" with one shot. "Hated to do it ," he saidlater, " but it looked like I had to."

York and the thin remnant of Sergeant Parsons' 17-mantask force marched 132 German prisoners back to theAmerican Battalion Headquarters. Nobody th ere wantedto take charge of that many prisoners, so York and hi ssquad marched them further to the rear, offering them toone unit commander aft er another. He finally deliveredthem to th e 82nd Division Headquarters. Brigadier Cen­eral Lindsay said , " Well, Corporal, I hear you've capturedthe whole German army." York said no, only 132 of th em,and would th e general please take them off hi s hands ; hewas tired of them.

Officiall y, York killed "not less than 25" Germans thatda y ; captured 132 Germans including four officers ; too k" about 35" machine guns. How many Germans he actuallyfaced in doing thi s, nobody knows. It is a further matte rof record that, just aft er York's engagement, Captain Dan.forth and one company runner encountered 44 Germansnot far from where York had taken his prisoners-and theGermans surrendered. It can be surmised that what theyhad seen that morning of Ameri- (Continued on page 48 )

Alvin York, st ill boosting the rifle over scatter guns, came into Iime~

light in 1940's with release of Hollywood's life story motion picture.

Bird-thrower Manauta (back to camera) pluckstail feathers to give thrown bird crazy flight.

Top gun Tiffaine of Puebla talksbirds with companion at Laredo.

Thrower Jose Manauta shows how pigeon's wingsare folded back between fingers for toss thatis calculated to help bird escape the guns.

TRAINED LIKE A BASEBALL PITCHER TO THROWLIVE BIRDS AT ANGLES CALCULATED TO DEFEATTHE GUNNER, THE MEXICAN COLOMBA'RE KEEPSSCORES LOW IN SOUTH-OF-THE-BORDER SHOOTS

THf GUNNfR, THf MfXI(;AN (;OLOMBA'RE KffPSSCORES LOW IN SOUTH-OF-THE-BORDER SHOOTS

Tough game takes two quick shots, so oftenautomatics (below) or over-unders are inuse by skilled wing shots (rt.) who fire overhead of thrower in scoring on the bird.

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M EXICAN SHOOTERS prefer their sport the hardway. Rifle marksmen use only open sights to cut

down on, and hit , live, moving lambs at 500 meters. Pistolenthusias ts fire away at 150 meters, using silhouettes ofplucked chickens as ta rgets. And Mexican shotgunnersscorn the clay pigeon, principa l target of gringo gunners.South of the border , the scattergun target is a live pig eon­not released fr om a cage but thr own int o headl ong flightby a " thrower" who uses every tri ck (and there are many)to fool the shoo ter.

The bird thr ower , tr ain ed in the pr ofession, tucks thepigeon 's wings between his fingers , spin s around like atop and hurls the bird into the air. The gunner, standinganywhere within 20 meters of the thrower, has two shotswith which to bring the high-flying bird to earth withina specified dist ance.

Thi s method of pigeon shooting originated in south-nM+n.~ <;;:~ "; ~ ; 0 n o nA ;~ ~ " ~n Vn.~~n" ~ n m m +. ;no T~

Spain, it ranks close to bullfighting in popu lari ty.Live pigeon shoo ting has been a sport in certain ar eas

of Mexico for several years, but only within the past fewmonths has it moved close to the border of Texas . Twopigeon shoots have been held on the bord er within the pastyear. Both were staged in Nuevo Laredo, a booming bordercity ju st across the muddy Rio Grande from Laredo , Texas.The first contest, called the First Int ernational Live Pi geonShoo t, was held last October. Luist TifIaine of Puebla,south of Mexico City, won the contest. The second in ter ­na tional mat ch was held in February. Both of the contestswere promoted by the Nuevo Laredo Gun Club.

Only 78 gunn ers were permitted to enter. The line-upwas limited for two reasons: 1. The shoot was a one-dayaffai r. 2. Each throw requires a terrific amo unt of energy,and the stamina of even the best bird th rower is limited.

Thrower for these contests was 45 -year-old Jose Manauta,+1"\ 1""...·" :0 1"1,, n f A.,..ofYnn 'n.a~Tl l r ..... ,...,.; ..... u nA .... ,.... ...... I'W "" .... 11'7\

Nylon for sweaters is usual, but nylonin rifles means revolution in armsmaking plus low-cost production ofaccurate .22 crow shooting plinkers.

By WILLIAM B. EDWARDS

FOR THE SPJ.\CE J.\GE!AN ERA IN GUNMAKI NG has ju st ended. I saw pr oof of its ending in Decem­fi ber at the Remington Bridgeport factory. In their office, decorated withhistoric Remin gton firearms, I first saw the new .22 " Nylon 66" rifle-the ri flewith stock and action made fr om one piece of nylon.

How sha rp an impact thi s radical new aut oload er will have on the industrydepend s on how qui ckly the era ends in other factories. Sometimes an age endsslowly: the Roman Empire took 500 years to decline. Sometimes the end comesswiftly: nylon replaced silk in stockings almost overn ight. Now, nylon replaceswood and steel in guns. How rapidly the change comes will depend on how youan d shooters genera lly react to the new materials. But one thing is certa in: sinceRemington released the Nylon 66, the gun game will never be the same.

Though some concessions have been made to tr adition in styling, the newrifle' s butt stock, forearm, and rece iver are ma de all in one piece from Du Po nt"Nylon 66." Th is rifle for the Space Age has th ree ma in parts made of con ­ventional metal : the steel barrel, the steel breechblock, and the spring-loadedstriker block or hammer. Th e sear group is of sheet metal and springs, but thetrigger (a nd of course the trigger guard) ar e formed of nylon.

In manufacture, the stock shells are mould ed in separ ate halves, the lin e ofjoining being ri ght down the middle all around. No solvents will dissolve th ismaterial. As the shells come from the moulds, their joining surfaces are swabbed

Dramatically-styled new Remington .22combines traditional with advancedmaterials never before used in, guns.

ge t he r andclamped to set fo r

one hour. After ward, thesurface is polished to give it

a smoo th luster , a tool runs a setof fine lines aro und the joint, and the for­

end tip and pis tol gri p and butt caps ar e acid-welded on . The checker ing of grip and forend is per­

fect, which is natural eno ugh, if you remember that thestock-receiver comes fr om the moulds perfectly duplicatingthe pa ttern.

Eac h stock is made so accur ately that it is actually agauge in whic h to tes t th e conventionally-machined steelparts. If the bo lt or barrel lock don't fit, check the tooling.Some thing is wrong there, for th e stocks ar e perfec t fr omthe moulds. Since the or igina l is perfect, the duplicate isperfect. No higher quality than that can be achieved in an yprocess of ma nufac ture.

To disassembl e the Nylon 66, two coin-slot screws are re­moved fr om the side of th e steel sheet-metal br eech cover,pJvchj"J.h/;'nJ.i.u e.Q,afL :rhp "nvpr pytpnrk fnr w"rtl "hrnlltl_

To disassemble the Nylon 66, two coin-slot screws are re­moved fr om the side of th e steel sheet-metal br eech cover,whic h is then lifted off. Th e cover extends forward, shroud­ing the barrel breech, and th e rear sight is riveted to it.The sight is designed for low-cost fabrication from springsheet steel; has windage and elevation adjustments.

The stock taked own screw releases the barrel which, withits sintere d powder-metal front sight, can be pulled from the

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front. Then the cocking handle (n ylon ) is jerked out of th ebolt-a spring plu g holds it in by a detent, and canno t wearloose-and the steel bolt slides forward, disclosin g a com­plex of coil springs gro uped one within an oth er. Next, thehammer striker is carefully released and slid forw ard, andtak edown is complete. Actually, only the barrel needs to beremoved for cleaning ; and, with the breech cover removed,the gr easy fouling which develops fro m long use of .22scan be wiped away. Th e barrel can of course be clean edfrom the breech . No other Ame rican .22 autoloa ding riflecan be field stripped to clean fr om the breech, and no othe rrifle ever made has an easier barrel tak ed own th an thisnew Nylon 66 Remington.

Accur acy and point of impact ar e not affected by reomoving and reinstalling the barrel. Below the stock is acoin-slot takedown screw. Releasin g the screw relieves pres­sure on a stirrup-shaped block of steel, which is allowed tomove up and down in a vertical mortise in the forear m.The stirrup locks into a cut on the cylindr ical barrel. Whenthe tak edown screw is tight, the barrel is forced down ont oF,Q!irL l~'>. .cl U1(l,Qn at breech .and.xnuzale....,-jV.UHL<I_.fixmThe stirrup locks into a cut on the cylindric al barrel. Whenthe tak edown screw is tight, the barrel is forced down ont osolid pads of nylon at breech and muzzle, giving a firmbedding with " bench-rest" accuracy. Test groups fired fr omthis new rifle , using 4X scope and shooting 10 shots at 75feet, were all considerably under 1". Representative groupsaveraged .49" for 75 feet , or 1.88" at 100 yards-a veryresp ectable figure for a rifle weighing only four pounds.

Factory test included 75,000 shots withno stops; plus 25,000 shots in dry gun.

Impact and flexural strength of nylon-receiver rifle is proved bydrastic smash-up tests. Gun was not smashed up in these tests.

Choked with sawd ust which would have gummed firea rmmade of usua l materials , self-lubricating nylon gun fired OK.

Breech cover is concession to t radition; also holds rearsight which is click adjustable fo r windage , elevation.

Breech cover is concession to tr ad it ion; also holds rearsigh t which is click adjustable fo r windage , elevation .

Safety is in center, easy for right or left handed rifle­man. Below, magazine tube pulls out fo r loading 14 shots.

Nylon 66's light weight is not achieved at any sacrifice of"gunniness." We discussed gunny qualities and traditionalstyling at length in pondering how shooters would acceptthe new rifle. Concessions to traditional design were obviousin several points. The sheet metal action cover, for example,is shaped for e and aft to resemble the Remington steel re­ceivers of yesteryear. It 's purpose is almost exclusivelystylistic , though it does have a top rib creased for tip-offmount, plus thickness enough to permit drilling and tappingfor receiver sights. But the stark front edge and rear lineare direct carryovers from earlier design. When Remingtonmakes a receiver from a solid forging, square corners areneeded for base lines in the production set-up. If a flat baseis made, as on one end of the receiv er, then all the other cutsare measured by machines from that base line. But thenylon stock and sheet metal cover have no relation to th isnow-antique method of gun manufacture. The square shapeis as outmoded as the horse in this motor car world.

But styling can be tri cky. When I suggested making thecover front edge in a curve, I unwittingly stepped backwardinto tradition. In a display case outside of the very officewher e we were talking, rested a Remington rifle-a back­action per cussion lock, dated about 1850. At the front of thelock was a clipped-moon silver inlay of the exact shapewhich my suggested "more advanced" design would havecreated.

Inevitably, even with this most radical of manufacturingpro cesses, Remington has let traces of traditional designlinger on. And in the next few years, the battle of traditionversus novelty will continue. This battle has been foughtbefore. "Experts" once decried progress in the form of thepercussion cap. "I do not hold with the patent arms, and

Inevitably, even with this most radical of manufacturingprocesses, Remington has let traces of traditional designlinger on. And in the next few years, the battle of traditionversus novelty will continue. This battle has been foughtbefore. "Experts" once decried progress in the form of thepercussion cap. "I do not hold with the patent arms, andthe rejection of flint and steel," quoth Col. George Bomfordof the U. S. Ordnance Corps back in the 1840's, when Rem­ington was showing the Army how to drill cap-lock riflebarrels from rolled steel. But the Army and the industrylearned, and Remington steel barrels and the gun-tech­nology developed from their manufacture helped bring onthe machine revolution in U. S. factories.

Resis tance to tradition dies hard. One of the leaders inmachine manufacturing methods was Sam Colt. In Hart­ford, the venerable Charter Oak, in which the royal colonialcharter of Connecticut was hidden from a despotic newgovernor, symbolized the heritage and quiet country-towntraditionalism of the state's capital. Colt's smelly factorywas not esteemed and home-town-boy-makes-good merelyrubbed the city fathers the wrong way. But Colt went evenfurther, twisting the knife, so to speak. When the CharterOak toppled in a storm, Colt had pistol grips made of thewood, combining the old and the new, which he presentedto friends. The blending of the traditional with the newin the 1850s created what we, of a later generation, arepleased to consider " traditional."

The American of the 1850s looked upon the traditionalfirearm as one lovingly crafted of curly wood and ham­mered iron. Then came the machine revolution. Lovinghands became translated to lovingly-tended machines. Wit­ness the gun enthusiast of the 1950s as he examines a fineM:l 1J~p.r rri sto] or on,:. nf tlu:~ ,...r;Qnl,.r Tt"'I~ ...~; ...... o,l ....... : ... 1..l... __~

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Aut hor bought .375 Winchester M70 as challenge to self but finds bigcart ridge has wide practical versatility with many handload combinations.

By BILL McCANDLASS

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Four loa ds g roup ed closely. FromI. to r. they are: Ideal #375449a nd 44 grs. # 3031; same bulletand 47.5 grs. # 4895; lower 1..2 10gr. H & G spire point plus 32 grs.of # 4 198. Low rt. , 250 gr. H & Gplus 45 grs. # 4895. Below, Hensley& G ibbs 2 10; H & G 250; Ide al#375449; and two H & G loadedrounds compared with Speer 235grain jacket soft-point game bullet.

OR , SURE , I needed another riflelike I needed another hole in the

head. But if all gun nuts weighed theacquisition of a new shooting iron onthe basis of sheer need, there would belots of empty space on gun racks nowbul ging with blued steel and polishedwalnut.

The cartr idge and its possibilitiesalways fascinated me. The British hadlong claimed it to be the best all­ar ound cartr idge in the world, and Ifelt if they, with their well-known con­servatism, were willing to stand behindsuch a statement, then it surely mustbe something. But 1 just happen to bea man who has to tr y things out forhim self, so- I ordered a .375 Magnumin the Model 70 Win chester.

While waiting for my ri fle to put inan appearance, 1 withst ood all mannerof wise crac ks from the local shootingfraternity, including the moss coveredone, "You' ll have to jack that cannonup and put wheels under it." However,being pretty well inu red to the wellknown Bron x cheer, I was content togrin and let the boys have their fun.

When the rifle arrived, I wiped offthe factory (Continued on page 54)

One of country's foremost .Sharps fans is Maurice Clark of LA who describesden corner shown above as mementos of "forty years of chasing rainbows."

THE BIG SHARPS:

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AFTER 90 YEARS. THE "OLD BIG AND UGLY" SHARPS

COULD STILL HOLD ITS OWN WITH MODERN RIFLES NOT ONLY FOR

SMASHING POWER BUT FOR LONG RANGE ACCURACYBy ELMER KEITH

FEW RIFLES ha ve ever captured the fancy and the imagination ofshooters and writers alike as did the Sharps. First made for Christian

Sharps by A. S. Nippes of Philadelphia more than a decade before the CivilWar, the Sharps was one of the most practical and most effective br eech­load ers of its tim e. A .44 caliber percussion piece, usin g paper or linencartr idges which contained powder and bullet, the Sharps loaded and firedmore rapidly th an any muzzle load er , and some had cap magazin es on theside of the rifle which further speeded up the loading-and -firin g process.Closing the lever of the slanting bre ech action aft er the cartr idge wasinsert ed sheared off the end of the cartr idge, exposing the powder to theflame of the percussion cap. The gun could be fired as fast as a man couldopen the br eech, load , close, and cock the big side hammer. Th ey becamevery popul ar as spor ting ar ms.

With the advent of the Civil War, Col. Hiram Berdan raised a regimentof sharpshoo ters , accepting only men of proven abi lity with the rifle.Berden armed his regiment with the new br eech loading .52 caliber Sharpsrifles, with triangle ba yonets. The effectiveness of Berdan's Sharpshootersand the Sharps rifles was well demonstrated at the battle of Gettysburg,where a sma ll contingent of Berdan's Sharpshooters laid down such aterribly deadl y fire that they prevented Lee's tr oops from occup ying severalkey positions. This is credited as a direct contribution to the Union victory .

At the close of the Civil War, with the coming of metallic cartridgesincorporating the primer as well as the powder and bullet, the existingSharps .52 caliber percussion arms were conver ted in great quantity tocartr idge arms. Conversions to metallic .52-70 Rim Fire, and later to .50-70

Sharps .52 ; aliber- percussion arms ~ere-c onver ted in great quantity tocartr idge arms. Conversions to metallic .52-70 Rim Fire, and later to .50-70

Rare M 1877 Sharps rifle in .45-2 6/ I0" caliber was named"Creedmoor" after the famous target range on Long Island.

Superb examples of Sha rps guns include top Borchardt by Kellogg Bros.,second made by factory and finest quality; rifle with patchbox is fines.t

Sharps octagon rifle .44-105-520 was built in Hartford shop forgreat buffalo hunt; has full length scope for long range shooting.

First model Sharps rifle was made by A. S. Nippes of Phil.ad elphia; has automatic cap magazine which primed breech.

Borchardt action finished and beautifully engraved by gun­maker Schoyen of Denver is .38-55 calibe r. Below, Sharps inPhiladelphia made few rifles on actions of cap lock pistols.

Center fire (1% " case), included both the shortcarbine with lanyard ring on the left side for cavalryuse, and also the long, round-barrel, full-stockedweapons fitted with tan g peep and globe front sightsfor sniper use. These became very popular amon gthe Indian fighting troops on the fron tier , and werealso used very effectively on the buffalo.

In company with Harold Croft, I visited theoriginal Sharps factory on the outskirts of Philad el­phi a ; a small stone buildin g on the bank of a smallcreek, where the first Sharps rifles were producedlong before the Civil War. Later, the factory wasmoved to Hartford , Conn ., and still later to Bridge­port, Conn. Much later still, aft er the Sha rps RifleCo. had failed, Meacham, a firm in S1. Louis, Mo.,gathered up and marketed still more Sha rps ri fles,and rifle pa rts .

With the bui ldin g of the Union Pacific ra ilroadand the demand for buffalo hides, the Sharps RifleCo. prospered and the Sha rps long range rifle becamethe sine qua non of the buffalo hunter . It was the

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and the demand for buffalo hides, the Sharps RifleCo. prospered and the Sha rps long range rifle becamethe sine qua non of the buffalo hun ter . It was themost accura te as well as the most powerful long rangerifle pr oduced in America at the time. As the hidehun ting and the decimation of the great herds pr o­gres sed, the buffalo hunt ers demanded and got evermore powerful r ifles fr om th e Sha rps Company. The.45-70-420 (2.1" case), the .45-90-500 (2.4" -2.6" ),the .45-100-550 (2% "), and finally the .45-120-550in the 31;4" case, were produced and used. The exist­ing .50·70-473 did not have enough ra nge, so the.50·90-473 (2lh" case) was pr odu ced, and finallythe "Big Fifty," the .50-170-700 in 31;4" case madeits appea ra nce. The big 31;4" loads in both ,45 and.50 caliber appear ed in the final days of the SharpsCompa ny, were probably made by others who ac­qui red ownership of the Sharp s equipment and part s ;but the na me " Big Fifty" caught on and was app liedto rifles not of the model so named, even to rifles not.50 caliber.

The .40 calibers sta rted also with shor t cartr idgesfrom the .40·50-270 (1 11/16" bottleneck and 1%"stra ight ) and ran on to the .40-70-330 (21;4" BN,2lh" Str .), and the 40·90-370 (2%" BN, 31;4" Str. ).There was even a .40·45 Str aight 1% " case, as wellas the .40·50 Bottle Neck. The bottle neck cases werebrought out first, and then the stra ight cases.

In addition to the .40s, .45s, and .50 calibers, therewere various .44 calibers . The early Sharps was a.44 percussion rifle, as stated earlier . Later, theSharps Co. at Bridgeport made a lot of the .44·77-470(metallic cartridge) r ifles. These were widely usedall over the West. The case was 214 " and all I ever

Inscr ibed Borchardt gun in Clark collection corn­memorates famous frontiersmen and Ind ian battle.

Author has owned many Sharps rifles and todar.preserves four representative target types on his wal .

saw carr ied the very blunt -nosed 470 grain patched bullets.Most of the early Hartford Sharps I ha ve seen were either.44-77·470 or the longer 2%" case carrying 90 to 105 grs.of powd er and a 520 grain patched bullet in the bottle

Mo~t of the ~arl; H~rtfo~d Sha~ps 'I ha ve s~en were either.44-77·470 or the longer 2%" case carrying 90 to 105 grs.of powder and a 520 grain patched bullet in the bottleneck case-the old Creedmoor load.

I used an 11 pound, 30" full octagon barrel, set trigger,side hammer Sharps for a great deal of my early big gamehunting ; used it for every thing from taking the heads offcottontails and grouse and big white Montana jack rabbits,to elk and deer. That old .44-77-470 accounted for a lotof game ! I also borrowed Liver -Eatin ' Johnson's old.44-77-740 Sharps fr om its owner, Dr . Gillam of Townsend,Montana, and used it one winter.

The 2%" b ottle neck .44-90-to-105-520 was a muchbetter long range car trid ge. I had a fine 34" light full­octagon barrel Creedm oor that was superbly accurate. Iused that rifle for considerable elk and deer shooting, andalso for coyote shooting as well.

Sharps rifles were used and also mad e up in such a widevariety of styles and pattern s as well as calibers that almostan ything can be found among a collection of them . I hadseveral with "J . P. Lower, Denver," stamped on them . Hewas Sha rps ' distributor . Many of the parts that I purchasedfrom Chauncey Thomas were so stamped also. The finestof all Sharps were long, slim Creedmoors ju st under 10pounds in weight and with 30" to 34" barrels in fulloctagon, half octagon and full round. I once owned a 32".45-120-550 3~" with the '74 action and my .44-105·520Creedmoor was on the Model '74 action . I also owned anold Model '77 chambered for the .45-120-550 Straightshell. I still have a new-condition 34." round barrel Model1877 for the 314" .45-120-550 load. These were and stillare grand old rifles and , if perfect bullets are cast, swagedand patched, and if they were properly loaded, they willmake even modern mat ch rifles go some to beat them. As

late as 1900, the Wimbledon Cup match was won with aperfect 20 shot score at 1000 yards with a Sharps Creed­moor .45-120-550 rifle against all manner of Krags andother sporting calibers of the time.

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perfect 20 shot score at 1000 yards with a Sharps Creed­moor .45-120-550 rifle against all manner of Krags andother sporting calibers of the time.

I grew up in Montana and , a long time ago, I bought an18 pound 30" full octagon rifle th at had been owned andused throughout the buffalo hid e hunting da ys by HankWat ers. The bore of that fine heavy Sharps is still perfectto this day, and one wint er it won me 34 turkeys inMontana turkey shoots, against the best men in the HelenaRifle Club and others armed with the latest modern rifles.I shot it again st everything fr om Springfields down, andnever felt the least handicapp ed at 200 yards. It mad eman y groups at 100 yards that were just one big hole, andat 200 yards mad e some under two inches. It accountedfor many coyotes, too.

The last time I used thi s old 18 pound Hank WatenSharps was at a turkey mat ch at Challis, Idaho. The oldSharps was fired in six mat ches at 100 yards, nearest sho1to center taking the turkey. It won five turkeys and a 15pound ham. We shot it with peep vernier rear and bladefro nt sights against man y scope sighted rifles, including twcbench rifles. Thi s rifle is chambered so perfectly that ncresizing of cases is necessary and the fired case tak es thenext patched bullet perfectly, fri ction-tight when reloaded.It has five wide, heavy, and very deep grooves, which allthe authorities say were never made for pa tched bullets;but I have not seen the Sharps with shallow flat groovesthat would outshoot it.

At one time I owned over 30 Sha rps rifles, but theywere so heavy to move aro und I finally swapped off mostof them, even including my .44 caliber engraved percussionslant breech Model 1852. Today I have but four: a Model1877 Creedmoor .45·120-550 3~" in new condition, andthree heavy buffalo rifles. One is (Continued on page 61)

FOR TOPS IN CROW SHOOTING

GET AN OWL DECOYHORNED OWL, WOUNDED CROWS, SHOTGUN AND

SHELL-AND YOU'RE SET FOR A CROW-SHOOTBy WILLIAM SCHUMAKER

Hunter wears dark gloves, hides inshade of brush, because sharp-eyedcrows can spot flash of white skin.

SEEMINGLY OBLIVIO US to the steady gunfire we poure d atthem, over 100 maddened crows circled our live great horn ed

owl decoy, a stone's thr ow from the histor ic site of the Hudson BayCompany's early day Fo r t Colville. Dive-bombing, growling, cawing,ruffling their feather s with fury, the crows heckled the owl, whilefr om caref ully built blinds, head nets over our faces, dull colored oldclothing and drab gloves, we worked th em over with shotguns , using23 gra ins of Red Dot powder behind 1:l,4 oz. of 7lh shot. After avolley of shoo ting they would retreat to the tall pines severa l hu nd redyards away, still cawing. But they came bac k, aga in and aga in. Witha low cauir-r-r-r, caui-r-r-r, imitating the sound of a wounded crow onan Olt's M-9 call, we got them back up to five times, ta king a tolleach ru n. Of course, as anyo ne who has shot crows knows, we missedplent y of the swirling, divin g, bla ck rascals, too. But it was greatshoo ting. We would stop calling the ins tant the crows spotte d theowlUlJWl sta r t sho oti na, Th P,h1 p,an nr oblems were rouz hlv the same a.san 'it s lVl-Y call, we got t em back up to nve times, takmg a t ol l

each ru n. Of course, as anyo ne who has shot crows knows, we missedplent y of the swirling, diving, bla ck rascals, too. But it was greatshoo ting. We would stop calling the ins tant the crows spotte d theowl, and start shooting . Th e lead problems were roughly the same aspass shoo ting at ducks, excep t that crows weave and turn, seldomflying straight.

Th ose unpredictable turns kept us on our toes. My Model 97Win chester 12-gau ge is equipped with a large aperture peep sightand a Sheard gold bead on front. Th e peep is adjustable and zeroedso the pattern is evenly distributed around the aiming point at 35yards. It's a rifleman 's set-up, and it helps eliminate guesswork fr omcramped positions in blind shooting.

It had to end, of course . The crows wised up , finall y, and stayedout of range. Occasionall y, they would send a lon e scout to feel outth e situation . If the scout got excited and buzzed the owl, cawing,pa rt of his pals would come ba ck. If we held fire for a while,eventually the enti re flock would retu rn . But now the slightest move.ment in the blind would bring a fr anti c warn ing caw, and the flockwould skim back to the lin e of safety 100 to 300 yar ds away. Theysensed now tha t there was something more danger ous here even thana horn ed owl, and once they were convinced of that , getting themback was impossible.

"Try the varm inte r," whispered Wayne Siege l, my hunting bu ddyon this and many other crow safar is. We had learn ed that whispersdo not carry far , but even a low voice ton e is audible across hundredsof yards.

Pickin g up my 26" heavy-barreled .243 R.C. with its 8X Bushne llscope, I took a rest, lined up the crosshairs on a fine black target, andsqueezed the Da yton-Traister speed lock tr igger. The crow explodedinto a cloud of feathers un der the impact of the 75-grain Speerhollow point bull et in fr ont of 48 grains of 483 l.

I slipped the empty case in my pocket and reloaded, but that endedth p, n artv . Th p ('T OW" took o ff Rlinrl No 1 """" ,lon", tn r t h"t maat-

Crow-eating ·owl is partner in var­mint shoot. Birds swarm to tormenthim but owl gets the last laugh.

Crow-eating ·owl is partner in var­mint shoot. Birds swarm to tormenthim but owl gets the last laugh.

Schumaker uses M97 pump fitted with big peep sight and Sheard gold beadfor fast shooting when crows are not wary of decoy. Big-eyed owl looks boredbut was surprised when author (below) blew up crow with .243 Rock Chucker,

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By WILLIAM B. EDWARDS

WHERE CASTROWHERE CASTRO

FN Mauser sporter and cigar are Castro's"trademarks." Here he traces attackingroute taken by his fighters (right below.)

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Castro uses favorite FN sporter with great skill. The scopesight is probably a Weaver K6 in Buehler top mounts.

Rebels in Provisional Army, called the "Movement of July26," descend from hills to raid army; carry Johnson LMGs.

Home-made "Sten" gunsare seized by US agents inCalifornia, while Castrojubilant in victory and menhave FN's, J ohnsons, Mis.

GETS HIS GUNSGtT5 HI5 GUN5

SPUTTERI NG SOUT H of the Uni ted States like a fuseon a powder-keg which threatened to blow up the

Monroe Doctrine, was the Revolution in Cuba. Led byyoung , bearded Fidel Castro , who has spent his fortune onguns, Castro kept going in spi te of late Presiden te Ful gencioBatista 's effor ts to dislodge him. How the revolt has keptgoing in spi te of the opposition of the modern Cuban ar myis a story which has come near to embarrassing the UnitedStates govern ment.

With Fidel's installing of Sr. Man uel Urrutia Lleo asrebel presid ent, and their app eal to the world for recogni­tion of their belligeren t sta tus under in ternational law, theCuban fr eedom fight might have become another Korea.Attempts to involve Commun ist ar ms and Comm unis t in­fluence in the revolutionary movement-which Castr o'sforces blame on Batista---e ould have meant U.S. int erven­tion . But the revolt remain ed local. A few U.S. citizens havebeen ind icted for shipping guns to Cuba, as have citizensof a dozen other Western Hemisphere nations who sym­pathized in cash and arms with Castro. And regardless ofthe merits or demerits of armed insurrection against theinternationally-recognized Ha vana government, Castro'shideaway army in the "Big Mountains,"--the Sierra Maes­tr a of Cuba's eastern Oriente province-furnished a goodlesson on how to surv ive despite the operations of astronger military force.

Arrayed against Castro were the arms of Bati sta's 30,000soldiers. They used U.S. standa rd guns : M1 rifles andSpring fields caliber .30 ; Thompson subs and .45 pis tols;and of course light and heavy Brownin gs in .30 and .50calibers. Mortars in 60mm and 81mm sizes ar e also used.

As a member of the western hemisphere defense orga n.izati ons, Batista had in the past received arms on creditfr om the U. S. Cuba has no munition s factori es. But sinceMarch, 1958, Batista no longer could bu y on credit.

ewspaper readers may have noticed during March 1958a squib about 1,000 Garand rifles being held up in ewYork, expo r t licenses refused by our Sta te Department .Th ey were consigned to the recognized Batista government .Why the State Depar tment refused to let them out is asecret locked in Munitions Contro l Division files. But withthese arms stopped, Batist a turned to other comme rcialsources for arms. I ha ve seen an order given a lar ge U.S.munitions ' broker , said to be of guns for Bati sta , whichrequires 1,500 M1 rifles, many other arms, and quantitiesof ammunition for a "shooting war ," all in U.S. standardcalibers. While " State Department export license is as­sured" on this order, it is not known that Batista had anysuccess in getting them. More recently, an ord er for .45automatics "for Ha vana Police" was stopped by State De­partment. Meanwhile, shipments of arms continued goingto Castro.

C ast ro lookout keens eve o~

C astro lookout keeps eye on road leadingto Sierra Maestra hideaway; has FN Mauser.

The Cuban rebel arms agents are not suckers , and therewere no fabulous profits to be made in smuggling arms tothe rebels. But occasionally incompe tent "gun runners" doget into the act. In Miami some months ago, two men werearrested in a motel with hand grenades which they wereloading with black powder and homemade fuses. Accordingto Florida gun cranks' scuttlebutt-Miami is filled withCuban agen ts-the two erstwhile gun ru nners had drivento the Everglades to test their fuses. The grenade fuseassemblies were reprimed with shotgun caps , and fusedwith lengths of dynamite fuse. The grenade bodies werefilled with black powder and the fuse assem blies screwed in.

But such gadgets are more dangerous to the grenadierthan to his enemy. Flash-by of the prim er cap past thedynamite fuse often set off the grenades as quickly as theyare thrown. Ordnance grenade fuses are varnished andsealed against such flash-by, and loose sporting blackpowder is not the correct filler for hand grenades. Mean­while, in Cuba, revolutionary fighters died because they didnot have grenades. These were the young men of the Ha­vana-area Directorio, the students' revolutionary movement.

Censorship in Havana gradually reduced the Cuban"crisis" of last spring from fr ont to back pages, but theDirectorio attack on the Presiden tial Pa lace made theheadlines. Several trucks load ed with members of the Di­rectorio crashed the gates, submachine guns sputter ing .But Batista was not in residence, and the atta ck failed fr omlack of firepower. Rebe llion , like good government, cannotsucceed unless it is organized. The palace attack was not

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Sergeant Batista was raised to chief of staff in1933 after army revolt that he helped lead .

orga nized. Since that time, when he suspend ed the prom­ised November free elections, Bati sta had taken to ridingaround in a heavi ly armored truck. Meanwhile, the Direc­torio set out to get grenades. The seizure of the bombs inthe Miami motel by F.B.I. agents delayed their supply. Butaccording to reports of the kind of grenades being made, itwas pr obably a good thing for them that they never gotthere !

When I discussed some of the newspap er F.B. I. cla imsto capturi ng "50 per cent of the guns shipped to Castr o,"with a fri end in Centra l Intelligence, I asked him if th isreally meant th at "Uncle Sam lets half of the guns gothrough." His reply jolted me a little. Wi thout any argu­ment, he said, "That would be one way to state it. " Somecorrobora tion for th is idea occurred with the confiscationin August, 1957, of a quantity of It alian Carcano 7.35mmrifles at the home of Gil DeGibaj a in Miami. An Americancitizen of Cuban descent , DeGiba ja was cha rged withviolat ing the Neutral ity Act, since the arms and ammowere believed bound for Cuba. Later, Miam i newspapercolumnists pretending to be in the know, publ ished thatthe Cuba ns "no longe r were interested" in buy ing Italianrifles . But the fact is that Castro's representa tives haverepeatedly and publicly stated th at what they want are U.S.standard caliber arms which can be easily supp lied withamm unition captured from the Batista tr oops. And while theIt alia n guns caught the atten tion of Miami's federal agents,dollars to doughnuts a big shipment of .30-06 and .45calibe r weapons were allowed to slip th rough.

American sporters are popula r with C uban rebel buyerswho find M740 Remington .30-06 as effective as G arands.

Th e newspapers have often in the course of the revoluti on made mention ofsomething or other that would lead the read er to assume the Communists werebehind Castr o. Th e time Bati sta him self ran for office on the Cuban CommunistParty ticket is for gotten. Last summer a New York newspaper columnist de­clared " Czech Guns Used By Cuban Rebels! Czech machin e guns are in use byCastro . .." The fact is, that Czech rifles ar e very popular in Cuba. Th ese sameCzech rifles have been available in the U.S. as ordinary commercial imp ort s, butwere halted ba ck in 1950 when we put the fre eze on doing business withCzechoslovaki a. Mean while, Castro 's agents go to Mexico for arms. Th e Czechspo rters are popular for hunting. There, where a secret rebel training campoperates, sporting rifles of the Cz 47 pattern , a neat ly-styled modified Mauser in.30-06 caliber, are issued to revoluti onary recruits. A cargo of these rifles plusboo ts, clothing, radi os, and other gear so needed by the mountain fight ers, wasseized by Havana government officers in April, 1958, fr om the yacht El Corojo.But none of the new-type she 50 Czech military rifles are in use by Castro. Thiswas denied in Chicago as recently as December , 1958, by President Urr utia onhis way to Ori ente Province to assume his office. The claims of Soviet-influenceguns in the Castro rebellion were str ictly " red herri ngs," was the sum of hisstatements. He was right: the Russian and Czech guns take special cartridgeswhich are very good, but not standard anywhere in the west. After th e firstammunition ran out , they could not have been used. To discredit the revolution,Bati sta arranged with the Domin ican Republic to receive five cargo plan e loadsof arms. Th e rebels heard of the move and put on a surprise party when theplanes landed, so the newspapers carried the story, "B atista Gets DominicanI" " D n a. 7 1 ...1-

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Bati sta arranged with the Domin ican Republic to receive five cargo plan e loadsof arms. Th e rebels heard of the move and put on a surprise party when theplanes landed, so the newspapers carried the story, "B atista Gets DominicanGuns ." But as usual the papers had only half the story. For the arms wereCzech military rifles, which the Dominicans had bought to send to Batista, andwhich he intend ed to "plant" on dead revolutionaries (Continued on page 58)

Surplus Colt .45 automatics from England bounced through US on way to Cubabut were seized bv dictator Batista's trooDS before aetti no into rphpls' h"'ntk

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CAL. 11 MM MAUSER • •• ONLY $9.95!T h e F IND of t he ccruurv-c-rnc HUY o f the ce ntu ry, conmtoto i~l ev e rylIcta il Hnd fu ll y rcnu- uoaru dow n t o tile douds of d u s t which 1'lSC i n t othe a i l' w ith ever-y auok o of the bol t • w n on it sp cnlcs , tl1 ('I'C i s thunderin th e- h ill s " Tilere is no l (' l l i ng" w hat condition yon m ay attain f r o m

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ORIGINAL MAUSER MODEL 71/84 "BIG 11"

CAL. 6.5MM Swedish MauserONLY $22.50

Without d o ubt th c fiues t M au ser built are lIwsc never -befm'e ­<tvi!i lilh le Sw ed i sh m agni fi ce n t maste"'l iece match- l\'Iullsel's! Su p c l' lJl yfin l sl~cd metal and woodwor l< ,md model 'n 11Ig h- v el ocity 6 ,5 i\1Ml'aJ ·tl' ldge and 29" b ane J mal\C them the Ocst ri fle b u y cver pI ~H'NIon t hc U,S . mat'keL An unusua l l' i flcman' s u 'c a l, on ly $ 22 ,50 ,G , :) i\lM hal l ammUllitinn on ly $7,j(J pe l" 100 r o und s, O l'( ]c r now!

Only $9.95 complete withJOO rds of original ammo!

Y es . this I m p oss i b l y l ow p r i ce I s true ! ThIs amazing ly m ach inedand fa n t,ll st ica l ly i n acc u l'ate six-shot r (!p eati n g GAHRI BALD I ' SGREA TEST can be bought for ONLY $ 9 .9 5, COMPL ETE \,;,ith onehun d red rounds of a m m o i n orig ina l clips. T h i s i s t he r lfte t h a tCOU L D HAV Jo; W ON T HE KOR EAN W A R if the Chinese had b eenunarmed . Jo~njoy t he JrI'ealCst an d c heapest big bOl 'e sh ooti n g o fyou r li f e w i th this b l oop co nd ition Garriba l di ' s Greatest R ep eater! Now!

...... - ONLY $22.50Wi t h o u t d o ub t t h e fi uest M au ser b u il t are lI w se never -be fm'e­<tvi!i la h le Swed ish magn i ficent maste"' l iece match- l\'Iullse l's! Su p c l' lJl yfin lsl~ed metal and woodwor l< ,md model 'n 11Ig h -v el ocity 6 ,5 i\1Ml'aJ ·tt' ldge and 29" b a tTel mal\C them the Ocst ri fle buy ever pl aeNIon th c U,S . mat'keL A n unusua l l' i flcman' s u 'c a l, on ly $ 22. 50 ,G,:) i\lM ha l l ammUllitinn on ly $ 7,j(J pe l" 100 r o u nds, O l'( ]c r now!

RARE RUSTY RUSSIAN ROMANOFF RIFLES!!

~·'. : i ."-:AL ••30 (7.62MMI • •• ONLY $8.95!

Yc Old H unter mad e a cash deal recently in, Ulan Ba tor for t.l-t?seo l' ig-inal 1'31'C rus ty R u ssiim R o m a no ff rifl(' s wh It'll have Il~ e n ca] n~ l ng'dcv iation ists for almost tll l'e e g e nCt'lH io n s-ye t t hey are Sll l1 <ImazIng: ·Iv ti' ~ I1l a nd ('on l p le te atld ('a ll he p l CmHll'<l lll y <"ll 'l ,IIIC: ' ,up lO I'('itchth e leas t JlI'C't('ntious of the N itA <,ondi tion gntd.l'S! Ot'l g-ill al 7 .62i\IM

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ONLY 92¢ per lb.!!!TOTAL PRICE $8.28!

!CAL••303 • • • Only $19.95!

CAL••303 ••• Only $24.95!

Wt. 9 Ibs. ONLY 62¢ per lb.TOTAL PRICE ONLY $5.58!

Order a i>et o f PANCHO VILLA SPECIALS,both 7MM an d .43 Ca l. On ly $ 12,95 ! !

CAL.8MM MAUSER • • • ONLY $69.50!Manu(a ct.lIl'C' d at the utt.ru-moctcin F . N. Plant in Bcl~'illm i'urEJryptian C!XPOl't. Lhis nno. prociso , smooth-ImndHm r scmt -uuroma tk­com tuuoe t h e m ust moder-n pr-od ur-tiou Il lethods w i t h tI lL' r-ouun-cmentsfor r-te o rous front nne a s soult f unct iouintr . VEH Y (;()OD cond i tionuu-ourmout. t.yplc-a! F. N . quallty , a ll rn llled nar-is. 231 /2 " 4-gT. uhl. .and stlllHlal'(1 arn ru r-nlibor- n t us the c x tremely low prk-o of $6n .;;o.m a ke t h i s th o m ust SOll:..:-ht aftcl" s orut -automauc 011 uio market today:g mm Mauser hall amnlllnition in stock at on ly $ 7 .50 PCI' 10 0 round s.L imited Jl1'or!lwti OI1: lim ited su p p l y . A cOllcc tOl" S must. '{OUI'S now !

I t t ook Yc Old H u n t er to find the l as t of t h e f~\lllOLl S Lee-M e t f ords o fB oer \ Vm' famc. Complete wi th th c u n i quc !) Groovc r ifli n :..:- . Iate l'\lsC'd un many J ap a l ,e se r ifles. an d fi l'st of the B ri ti sh 10 Sh ot b ol tae-ti on s. Wondcrfull y pl'e ~t.'I' \'ed " w ith bluei n g a lmo!';t intact an ti. allwith Walnut sto<'ks: On ly $24 .95. LIM ITED , A lI'uly un ique b al 'g-i n.

The Ultra Rare LEE-ENFIELD Mk. 1*

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27, Sheraton-Park Hotel, Was hi n gton , D.C .,... VISIT "Ye Old H u nter", only a fewminu t es a way in h istoric Alex andria (h omeof George Was hingt on and Rohert E. Lee). . . world's greates t g u n store. Pay foryou r trip with barga ins obtaine d here ...a on ce-a-year cha nce t o LOAD UP w ith outa ce n t 's fr ei ght char ge . Some r ealize sav­in gs to pa y for next ye a r 's trip. Op en daya n d ni ght durin g conven t ion tim e fo r you rcon ve n ienc e. Ye Old H u n ter-a co nven t ion:\1UST .

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Ye s, h cre i t i s . the o l'i g-ina l. " R'l m c ,;,a n l< co n.d i lio n " 7,mm Rcn.ling l.on.You ca ll al mnst se e thL' II ng:e!" p nllu,; wlllcl1. th c lortl~?r l<lI1at lca lo w n e l 'S Pl'(,s f'C'd into the wood as they r ea li zed t he J ig was up.N<lll{)(! V h n s J{cmi ll g l o n s l i k e tl1 esc~ ! ! A ll g'UI1S practi('nJ ly c um p l e t e .j ' r c-oiiC'd a-ntl I'e,ldy t o c l c an u p . Tile buy o f the ('c ntLll'y , only $H,:~H,

1;, : ~~ nc<;t~I~H:;l' h~tig i ;~'il~ to;.}/;\ 1 9SJl~,'gi~l\I~ ; ~ s , ~;ll~1 1 ~"f , !)I~ll '~a c;~ :h_~t' ~rl"~~i.~)l~:~:

YOll can't b u y prime hal. nb lll·J,fer a t th is pl 'i ce. Co nd i t i o n o f al lrifl es i s "G lin cI'a n k sp eCIa l " , mean ing that the o u tlilH! i s c le arlyv is i h le t11l'o ugh the I"Us t an d you (,ll1l see l i J.:'hL t h roll!-:" h the bo n :.Lit tle of that old elbow gTl'aSe wi ll c!cm n t his fa n tn s t ic bm 'g a i ll to NHApOOl' co ndit ion, Ct'a("kl ed with co nq ue s t i n the h a nd s of fannt ie'l l Lati nhO;u 'c!s , It i s, t!'lily a , precedent s h alte l' i n g ba l'g-,l in at on l y $5 ,;38 .sh Ipped pre-Oi l ed. A ctIon a l one wOI' th t h i s giveaway pl'ice . A g unc n \ n !{ 'S drC<lm , Adm'n t h i s Il istol'ica l r cl i c w ith an or ig i n nl hayonet,on ly $1,00, wh('n o l'del"ed with th is r i fle . supp ly n o t i n cx h a uSI ih le,

F. N. Belc.:Jium Semi-Automatic: Rifle!

VERY LIMITED SUPPLY-COLLECTOR'S SPECIALThe RARE Lee-Metford Mk. 11 (1892 Mod.1

VERY LIMITED SUPPLY-COLLECTOR'S SPECIALThe RARE Lee-Metford Mk. 11 (1892 Mod.1

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Ye Old Hunt er illustra tes all weapons by actualunre touched photog raphs so you can see how th eyRfA LLY look!

FAMED .43 ORIGINAL REM. ROLLING BLOCKS

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O LD HUNTER P UBLICATIONS: se nd 2 5c ( or s tory of America'most famed and m os t bi l:!Jrest A r m s M erchant_ Se nd 50c for 1 sedition col orOO p r i n t i nR' of Amer ica's a m azin g n ew 3u t omati~~i!.:.::th;~~rt:.T_a2"1"~_. ~~:,lR=-1'- _~~':!d Ji_r~~ !I~~ .Y e _Ol d H up te !."'

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CALIBER .303ROYAL ENF'ELDSONLY $J4.95 UP!ONLY $4.0 0 EXTR A FOR

HAND-PICKED INC REDIBLYSELECTED SPEC IMENS !

SMITH &WESSONM.P. ·$24.95!!Here itful .38524.95.

.45 ACPBALLESTERMOLINA ONLY $29.95!

No.1 Mk. III ... . $14.95!THE RIFLE THAT SAVED THE BRITISH ARMY!

No.5 Jungle Carbine •••. $24.95!THE RIFLE DESIGNED FOR JUNGLE IN-FIGHTING!

ALL ENFIELDS ARE IN FINE SERVICEABLE CONDITION !!

HERE IT I S ! L ea v e it t o Y e Old H u n t e r t o bring g l eaming p erfect f r e sho st oc k , 3 03 Br i ti sh ball 170 a- . m ag n i ficen t i ssu e l oad s t o you a t onl y~ $7.50 pe r l OO ! S t oc k u p now t o sh oo t t h o se se nsa t i o na l ba rg ai n R oy a l::!E Enfiel d s for a l m os t n o th ing ! W h y pay m o re e l se w here ! Shi p ped So on es t .~ Ord er NOW ! ALSO : F in e . 3 0 3 Br i ti Sh sof t -Doin t hu n ti no lo ad s _ only

HERE IT I S ! L ea v e i t t o Y e Old H u n t e r t o bring g l eaming p erfect f r e sho st oc k ,303 Bri ti sh ba ll 170 a- . m ag n i ficen t i ssu e l oad s to you a t onl y::!E$7.50 pe r lOO ! S t oc k u p now t o sh oo t th o se se ns a tiona l ba rg ai n R oy a l::!E Enfiel d s for a l m os t n oth ing ! W h y pay m o re e l se w here ! Shi p ped So on es t .

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, ••rI= B RI'I'AI N 'S D E S 'I '! H e r late st a n d fin e s t Enfi e ld Serv ice r ifle, t h em No.4, i n c o rpora tin g a ll i mp r ove m e n t s a n d c h a n ges o f 50 yearsof serv ice req u i r e m e n t s. Ma n u ractu red as la t e as 19 ::J ij ! Stills t a n d a r d in e n tir e B r i tis h C 0 1111110nwealt h a n d m arr y o t h e r n a ­tion s. P r oudl y i n se rvice t ro m Br tc k i n gh a m P al a ce t o Ku a laLu mp u r !l Ava i la!.Jl e n ow f ro m Y e O ld Hunter at o n ly $1::i .l}:> w ithb e e c h s toc k. ( A tld $1.00 f or se lec ted Eln gl ls h w alnut stock ifava i la b le. ) Original No.4 bayo n et on ly $ 1.00 wh e n o rd e red w i t hri fl e- w orth easy twice t he p ri c e , bu t yours today at on ly $15 .95.

Most are NRA Excellent unless otherwise specifiedONLY $14.95 and up! !! WHY PAY MORE ELSEWHERE?

All take standard ammo, available everywhere.ORDER TODAY FROM THIS AD! ! ! ON HAND FOR PROMPTEST DELIVERY.

SEND PERMIT IF YOUR STATE OR CITY REQUIRES !

WEBLEY &SCOTTCAL• .455ONLY $14.95!

SMITH & WESSON1917 ARMYCAL••45 ACPONLY $29.95!Now, th e world fa mous Smith & Wesson 1917Army at a pric e a ll can a ffo rd. Th is hard-hitt ingArmy sta nd- by in NRA Very Good cond iti onon ly $29. 95. (.4 5 ACP amm unition onl y $5.0 0

THE ROYAL ENFIELDliTHE FINEST RIFLE IN THE WORLD"

COLLEC TORS - Ord er yo urself " complete set of all four basic mod els listedbelow - sa ve a for t une over wh at you 'd pay e lse w he re a nd hav e th e fin est setof superb ri fl e s ev er ava ilab le . All fo ur basic rifles for only $ 6 9 .9 5 whenord e red as a se t . A coll ec to r's fondest hope. Yes , Ye Old Hunter is a ll bar ga in !

R A R E ST OF ATJL E~F[ETJDS a re th e s e h i t h e r t o- unkn o w ne x pe r i m e n t a l No.1 Mk. V ' s. P roduced i n t h e ear ly 30s. th eyc U1110 in e fl a w l es s b eau t y and m a.gn i fi ce n t m a.nuta ct u re tod el ight e v e r y E nfi e ld a n d fin e r ifle lo v e r . Prev ious ly a $1 00"Pate rso n " a mo n g Enfi e ld s, now wh il e li mi t e d s u p p ly la s t s

V $19 951 $llJ.lI::i. A s h o o te r 's dream, w ith th e accura te r e ceiv er s ight:No.1 Mk. ••• • •THE RIFLE DEVELOPED FOR SUPER ACCURACYI

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No.4 Service Rifle $15.95!THE RIFLE THAT WON FAME ON THE AFRICAN DESERT!

WORLD'S GREATEST PISTOLS AT WORLD'S LOWEST PRICES

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Y ou ca n pay UP T O T HREE TIMES as m uc h f ort he se IDENTICAL WEAPONS e l se w he re , so or derTO DAY and save , save. sa ve. • . T h e jun k ' s beenwh o lesa led e l se w he re . . , th e BEST i s now ava i I·ab le. as u s ual. ONLY T HROUGH YE OLD HUNTER ,

PRIME PISTOL PICKINGS

·"J' he Hi ll e Y o u C:l ll il u t Af[ urd iXO rl' t o Un" ." WITHO UT D O C B T t h e 1110 lSts ha tte r ing r ifl e o p p o rt u n ity ev e r to b e fall A m e ri ca n shoot e r s . An e xcl us ived eal w ith E ng lan d p e rm its Y e O lel Hunte r t o oft el' th ese s u pe r b 10 s h o t boltac ti o n E nfie ld r e p ea ti n g ri fle s a t fa r l e s s than the p rice of ev e n a .22 Amer icans uo rt e r. T h e y a ll t a k e standard U.S. sporti ng .303 Am m o av a il able e ve r y ­wh ere. M o st models with 5- g r . barrel s! Never b efore s uc h m agn ifice nt g un sb\\ d\lt~ \\ 1~~rrHiJ1 JWi«,tisl'U fht~ t~\~\~9 rltatuet:YJ.td.{\n}£Wl~fl l1~a.qp !;J1I11a{~~c:1i,n .Jl~olJl:X §;:,9J,~d eal w ith E ng lan d p e rm its Ye Olel Hunter t o oft el' th ese s u pe r b 10 s h o t b oltac tio n En field r e p e a t i n g ri fle s a t f a r l e s s than the p rice of ev e n a .22 Amer icans po rt e r. Th e y a ll t ake s tan da r d U.S . sporti ng .303 A mm o av a il able e ve r y ­wh ere. M o st models with 5- g r . barrels! Never before s uc h m a g ni fic en t g u n sat s uc h ba r- g'a l n pr ices. G et th e G r eatest American G u n Barga in t ro rn Y e O lelHun t e r! T ru ly you w i l l never a gai n have s uch a n u n b e l i e va b le o p p o r t u n i t y .

COLTNEW SERVICECAL• •455ONLY $24.95!

Abso lute ly NRA Excell ent " SUPERLLAMA" in or igi na l box wit h clean ­ing br ush , worth twi ce bu t only$ 29. 9 5! Some with g rip-safe ty ,$5.00 mor e . (Ext ra mag azi ne $2.50 ).

'I'H "; l.;L'[' lilIATE I N E NFl Jo:LD S! ! Y es , y ou m ay h a v e see n t h e s eli ste d a t 0\'(' 1' $80 b u t ."'''' Y e O ld Hunte r br ings t h e f am ed .30:3J l iN GL E CARlJJ N E Enfi e ld No. " t o you at a pr ice A NY O:-iE ca na ffo n l - 'Oll ly $~-"H :i ! Y e s, it ' s t ru e , a m a.z i n g cond ition Jun g l e Car ­bin e i n Ca l. ,30 3 r e a d y fur in s t ant u s e a s an i d ea l li gh t w e iuh ts p o rte r- (7 lb s .), k i t gUll, bi g b o r e p l i n k e r. 0 1' va lu a lJle co l le c t oritem. Sp e ci al ly d e ve Io p e rl i n \VW I1 a s a f eathe rwe ig ht h ard h i t ­t ing C O in bat car b i ne f u r Br iti sh J un g le Arm i e s o f A s i a a nd Afr ic a ,

ETHE P IU OE OF 'rH I~ B Rl'I'I SH ARilI Y i n all wars from 1900sB oer. c a.m p a.l gn u n tj l iu.o i n }(oJ':a a l~e ~ I~ e s e beaut_ifull~m a ch in ed tr u e o ri g i n a.l lVIk. H I S .M.L.E. n fl e s . T he fam edstand-by ev e n t oday of g overnments all ove r the wo r ld -. 10rd . m a uaz t n e a n d .303 ca. l i b e r a 1111110 a s sure p e rpetu al e n ro y -m e n t . O n ly $ J4.U:> i n p e rtec t ope rat ing co nd it io n . ( A dd $l.00for ~ el e ct e'cl w alnu t s t ock if ava ilab le ) , Or Ig i n a l l on g' kn ifeblad e bayon et o n ly $1.4:>. Y e Old Hun ter h a s the b es t fo r l e s s .

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Extr em e ly rar e and in g reat demand for W bl & S tt f ththose who know. Thi s " husky " of pistoldom Th e pistol barga in of th e year e ey co Th e Arg entin e .45 ACP. Rar est 0 eis a ll gun . A "Y e Old Hunter " bull seye spe- .455 Revolv ers in NRA good condition at th e rare. This maste rpi ec e is absolutely NRA

. cia l on ly $24.9 5 in NRA Very Good . A few unb eli evable pric e of S14l5'hSOB\~~AAVery i Excell ent throughout and only S29 .95. (.4 5

:~"a~~~~ NRA Excell en t onl y $29. 95. Don' t delay. G( °405dS W$19b·195. Standa!td 0 tl e$75"O's JrOmoY)' ACPammun,'tl'on only $S.OOper 100 rounds.)

'd,ed.g. (.455 We bley a mmunit ion only $7. 50 per l 00. ) . e ey nmmum ren on y . per .

i c~ial letterhead for new sensational discount lists. Never NE VE R NEVER again w ill such a pi st ol OPPOI'tu n ily present ilscH! ! ! E v e n Ye Old H unt er ' s ca nn ily cur iousl yI ' t cunn in g old ey es b lin ke d in squi n ty d isbelief w he n he te r n- n ed of h is unbe li ev abl e ex c lus ive good fortu n e in Oo~

• ta ini n~ a t a s tmr te stroke the P IC K of t he w orld' s m-eateet pis to ls a t a p r ice w hich I>e",:~ i~s_':?E~!.o ~..?..~"!? !!~ ..~.".

JABLE ENRICHMENTS* CAL .•303

By RAY RILING

FAVORITE of the arms decorators is theold Single Action revolver. Rar ely are

they so well done as is this fine example ofmodern German engraving, by the celebra tedar tist August Heyrn. This engraver, of thefirm F. W. Heym in Munnerstadt, Bavaria, isone of the Continent's leadin g decorators ofarms.

The revolver is finished in th e curr entmode popul ar with Eur opean arms makers, atwo-color effect. The hammer, tri gger guard,cylinder and ejector rod housing are in abri lliant cha rcoal-bone blue. The frame,h -;arr t:>ol !:I n ri h. ~ ,..lr ctr!lln <:::1 ....,:0. ~ ,.. l I'L f'Y....:n T hni ch

The revolver is finished in th e curr entmode popular with Eur opean arms makers, atwo-color effect. The hammer, trigger guard,cylinder and ejector rod housing are in abri lliant cha rcoal-bone blue. The frame,barrel and backstr ap ar e acid-gray finish,prot ected by a dull lacquer. Thi s combinationof two tones is regularl y seen on the finerEuro pean arm s. Th e backstrap is engravedand inlaid with a gold presentation inscrip­tion, citing Heym's gift of the gun to me.The loadin g gate shows a mount ain goathead in gold and on the opposite shoulderto balance it is an Ind ian warrior, alsoin gold. The ivory grip s ar e the work ofAlvin Whit e of Attleboro, Mass. Th e flyingAmerican eagle design is exquisitely carvedin very high relief, th e bird seems to beflying out of the ivory grip panel.

I think thi s additional work by an Ameri­can craftsman is a fitting complement to theartistry of the renowned German engraver.

A study of th e engraving design revealssome of the ar tist's imaginative int erpretationof the flowery but formal arabesque. Thedominant motif is the popular acanthus leaf,a Medit erra nean-area plant which since theCorinthian columns of class ic times has beena major decorative design. On the barr elthe acanthus is repeated in a single row,the steel sculpture d to give depth to theleaves or petal s which turn and curl as ifthey were real. Th e floral arab esqu e motifof th e frame and cylinder , principally avine-like pattern , dates from the Fr ench 1'0­

cocco period of the 16th century, and is apopular design in fine arm s decoration.

Th e classical but imaginatively done en­graving, showing first quality skill withgraver and chisel, and th e classical lin es of...1... ~ 1 __~ _ _ ~ .. _ 1-. : 1...1_ _ l __

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EXPERT ENGRAVING IN CLASSIC

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CLASSIC COLT FRONTIER.

Arms instructor Bancroft and instr ument maker MelvinLoper built timer using paper reel tape to recordquick draw speed . Fast gun rig for police is Jordanholster or "Border Patrol" type made by S. D. Myres Co.

By T. O . BANCROFTInstructor, Mon roe (L a.) PD

POLICE QUICK DBJlW1'I....--.r_~~Vr•.,.~,..".Can Improve Your Cbanees

TRAINING COURSE DEVELOPING CONFIDENCE

IN OWN GUN SKILL PROVES POLICE LIFE SAVER IN SCRAP WITH ARMED CRIMINAL

POLI CE OFFICERS CARR Y HANDGU S for defense.Ideally, the officer should be ins tructed in how to use

his gun quickly and effectively, at shor t ranges. Thi s in­struction is more imp ortant than any other, for it may savehis life or the lives of others . Recent attention focused onthe quick draw leath er -slap ping techniqu es of the old westand not-so-old-west her os ha s caused many peace officers totry to become proficient in this skill of fast shoo ting . InMonro e, Louisiana, quick draw gained immedia te popular­ity locally and was soon sta te-wide . Th e lar ge LouisianaPeace Officers' Assoc ia tion and the Municipal Peace Officers'Association both placed qui ck draw contests in their annualconventi on pr ograms. Police officers soon found that themethod of scoring made qui ck dr aw int erestin g competition.

All shoo ting events have some definite method of scoring.One designed for qui ck draw hip shooting dates back to1Q4Jt Th;~ lTI pth "r! " f ~""r;n <Y ;n"]l1r!pr! thp t;lTIP t" r!r" w

and fire a pr escribed number of shots in the event, and itpr eser ved the fundamental factor s of drawing qui ckly,shoo ting accurately with speed. Accuracy was alloted 60percent significance in the score, an d speed 40 percent ofthe possible score. Dependin g on the scores , shoo ters aregraded as Master (93 % of the highest possibl e score) ,Exper t (88 to 92.99 ), and Tyr o (87 .99 and und er ). Allscores sho t by each qui ck draw shoo ter in Louisiana forthe past ten years ar e recorded, and today the state boasts17 Masters, 24 Expert qui ck dra w men, and S3 Tyr os.Competitions include those at the annual conventions, andinter-city mat ches. Man y departments require quick drawpractice along with regular " qualification" shooting.

Many dividend s have occurred to repa y all the effor textended by individual officers and department chiefs. Oneof the most outstanding practical pr oofs of thi s form of~h""t;n <Y "r.r l1r rp(l when Lt. L~wrpnrp r.~",,~n()va_ Ir.,

Lope r holds paper timing t ape with pentr acing which hits peaks when gu n shotpicked up by mike boosts cur rent flow.

Bancroft-recommended draw has officer bring hand do wn onto gun butt,evoidin q "leather slap ping" and more certain for non-fumble drawing.

Forgery Squad, New Orleans PD , ar­rested a suspected forger. Lt. Cassa­nova is on the department's qui ckdraw team.

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Forgery Squad, New Orleans PD , ar­rested a suspected forger. Lt. Cassa­nova is on the department's quickdraw team.

Officer Cassano va was trapped andheld at gun point by the suspectedfor ger, aft er entering to ser ve a war­rant. His dela y in returning to thesquad car caused Cassanova' s brotherofficer to investigate, and the disturb­ance diverted the suspect' s attention.Cassano va dropped the suspect, whohad no time to fire even though hisgun was dr awn and leveled at Cassa­nova. The quick-draw of Officer Cassa­nova proba bly saved his life- certainlysave him fr om injury.

To be able to defend yourself underconditions of such deadly emergency, you must know threevery important facts : 1) that your gun is in perfectmechanical condition; 2) that you will not fumble thedr aw, an d 3) that you will not miss your opponent. Anadequate qui ck-draw police course can and will enable theofficer to meet danger, confident that he will score high onall thr ee counts . In such a course, shooting events arebased on actual incidents which ha ve occurred in the lineof dut y. A ma ximum distance of 21 feet is allowed fromcontestant to target. No guns under .38 caliber are used,nor are impr oper holsters and belts permitted. Only the"on duty" gun, holster, and belt may be used in quick­draw shooting contests; otherwise the officer would notreceive the full benefit of the program.

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Facing target, back to target, walkin g right to left , left toright and forward are a part of the instructi on course fortrainees. Rookies ar e required to become familiar withtheir weapons with eye level slow fire practice befo re at­tempting quick draw. It is important, too, that accuracybe required of the trainee before he is permitted toaccelerate.

No claim is made of knowledge of qui ck draw not previ­ously known; that type of hip shooting is as old as the six­gun. However, certain correct movements of " hand togun" and "gun at target" are fundamental for a positivedraw and should be given emphasis in instruction. " Nofumble" and the "accuracy with speed" depends on theindividual and his physical re-action to mental impulse;

than the other twent y-one.The doubl e-acti on revolver in perf ect mechanical condi­

tion has become the mos t popular side arm over the pastseventeen yea rs. Several good reasons have substantiatedits selection as wise and practical for peace officers . First,and most imp ortant, is the fact that the first shot can befired in less time fr om the doubl e-action revolver th an theauto-loading pistol. Thi s can be demonstrated by havingthe same officer draw and fire each type of gun.

Second ly, the revolver can fire bullets of maximumshocking power, whereas the auto-loading pistol , above .38caliber, uses metal case bullets as a means to properlyoperate. Th ese lack the explo sive impact of the soft leadbullet. Since it is the objec tive of the peace officer to defendhimself, hi s point of most int er est is to put his opponentout of commission the instant hi s gun fires. In this writer'sopinion, the best defensive car tridges ha ve lead bullets of250 or 255 grains for .45 calib er and 200 grains for .38Special revolvers.

Stress is pla ced on the "positi ve draw." Th e gun handmust be placed high on the gun stock when draw is madefr om holster. This is accomplished without error by bring­ing hand down ont o stock rather than withdrawing the gun

body movement. Wher e training and practice can eliminateunn ecessary mental impul se to co-ord inate the body, thetime saved may save the peace officer.

This method of scori ng is elas tic, being so designed. In1940, a time credit of 5 was allowed for dra wing and fir ing5 sho ts in 2% seconds. Today, for the same tim e credit of5, a contestant must draw and fire 5 sho ts in 1.6 seconds .We have eight peace officers in Louisian a who can performthi s event in 1.5 seconds and plac e every shot in the insid evita l ar ea of the life -size silhouette at 15 feet from target.

Ten-second stop watc hes were the best devices for timingcon testan ts in qui ck draw but it was found that thesetiming watch es included the human error of the tim e­keeper and were inaccurate, as elaborate studies indicated,from 1/10 to 2/ 10 of one second on the correct time of anycon testant in any event where two or more shots were fired.To eliminate thi s timing err or, work began on elect ricaland mechanical devices in September, 1952 .

The need for improving the timing method by bui ld­ing an electronic computer soon became both a pr oblemand a challenge because, to the knowledge of the writer ,no such machine had ever been (Continued on page 62)

Solid hold is taught by Bancroft who favors revolver for police work. Ranges are short but most speed use of handg unwill be at short distances. Tripod (center) holds flag which tips up to signal shooter. Speed, accu racy is possible .

on the initial up motion of the hand. Wi th the correct highplacement of the gun hand, accuracy is assured. Drawingthe gun on the up motion often prohibits accuracy due tomisplacement of the hand on the stock in such a mannerthat it fail s to properly absorb recoil. Th e gun arm fromshoulder to elbow should rest lightl y against the side of thebody in a ver tical position, with the for earm horizontal,wris t held ri gid or locked, and the bones of the forearmand the line of fire forming the same lin e. If the wris t isbent , grouping the fired shots in a close pattern will bedifficult in fast shooting.

Posit ion of the gun arm with respect to the body shouldnever change after once established. High or low, right or 'left shots are controlled by the posi tion of the front foot orbody pivot. One hundred eighty degree s firing range isinstantlv availahle without mo vinz the feet .

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Guns' publisher von Rosen closes gate left open by care­less hunter. Bad manners on farms hurts all sportsmen.

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By KEN LOUTON

I N SOME of the den sely populat ed ar eas of ourcountry (and increasingly in many no t-so-densely­

pop ula ted ar eas ) , a permit to hu nt is little more thanlegal permission to hunt a place to hunt. Upland gamehunters especially know only too well that WaltDisney's "Vanishing Prairies" hav e vanished indeed,and "No Huntin g" signs in growing profusion ar econfronting gunners whose only sin is not even one ofassocia tion but of being associated with the perhapsone-in -a-hundred hunter whose bad manners and hunt­ing ignorance ha ve turned landowner opinion againsthunters in general.

Something can be done about this . In specific ar eas,of which northern Ill inois is one, something is beingdone about it . And the story of wha t is being don e,and how it is being accomplished, is important to allhunters int erested in the retention of hu nting privilegesfor themse lves and future hunters.

done about It. And the sto ry ot wha t IS bem g don e,and how it is being accomplished, is important to allhunters int erested in the retention of hunting privilegesfor themselves and futu re hu nters.

Area near Flanagan, III., · was turned into farmer-hunter land co-op by gameofficer Jack Calhoun. Plan offered hunting closer to cities, should be statewide.

Woodstock, Illi nois, offers a typical setting . Fifty milesfrom Chicago, and with a pretty de nse population of itsown, the land around Woodstock is valuab le, hunters (orwould-b e hunters) are many, and " No Hunting" signsar e as common as " B Girls" on Mad ison Street. Nowonder. Owners of the nea t, well fenced far ms in the areawere tired to dea th of being over -run annually by menwith guns who invaded their fields without permission,tramped down crops and fences, fired too often withoutproper regard for stock, roa ds, buildings, or human bein gs- other hunters, or the landowners and their helpers.

The town of Woodstock (population 10,000 ) has achapter of the Ill inois Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs.Most of the club memb ers ar e residents and, living as theydo in fine ph easant territory, they per sonally had littl etr ouble find ing places to kno ck down their quotas of ri ng­necks in season. P lenty of men so situated would haverelaxed in smug complacency to let less for tunate would-behunters solve their own problems. But the men of Wood­stock took the unselfish-and far-sighted-view. Th eyknew that hu nt ing pre ssure was increasing, would continueto increase ; tha t the situation could result only in fewerplaces to hunt . more competition for each place. more

trouble generally. Action now would benefit all concerned.The Illinois Department of Conservati on policy has been

that the Department should not enter actively into thearrangements whereby designated ar eas were offered forpublic use during the upland game season. The WoodstockSportsmen's Club felt that the Department could do morefor the hunters by reversing th at policy. A committee wasformed with the following objectives:

I -To obtain a finan cial statement of the Departmentactiviti es related to hunting.

2- To learn in detail th e effor ts of the Conserv ationDepartments on behalf of the hunter.

3- To determine the rental value of land for huntingpu rp oses.

4--To investigat e successful progr ams for public hunting ;and, if the findings warrant-

S- To present the facts to the Illi nois Federation ofSport smen's Clubs for the organ ization 's powerfulsupport in pressing the State of Illi nois Departmentof Conservation to tak e appropriate action.

In vestigatin g point 1, the committee found that afinan cial statement would be of no great valu e, becausethi s phase of Conservation work was not separately

Point 2 was more produ ctive. Much of the current gamebudget in Ill inoi s has been spent for developin g nest areasand, indirectly, some hunting of ducks and geese nearCairo. Such activities are not to be underestimated ; butimproving the plight of migratory birds is of little reliefor in terest to an upland game hunter in the State's northernzone. Thi s type of duck and goose hu nti ng is also highlycommercia l. I would say that you pay for your sport inthe Cairo section when you purchase a Duck Stamp, renta blind, and spend a moderate sum on food and lodging.Certainly such development should not req uire nor thernlicense money and most of the "Pittman-Robe r tson" money-the tax money collected by the fede ral govern ment onsales of hun ting equipment and allocated to the states forspecified uses.

Most developments req uiring the purchase of land forhuntin g are carried on in southern Ill inois- on the logicalbasis tha t land values there are so much lower than nearChica go. This is true, of course, but it does not producehun ting faci lities where they are most needed, which isnear the congested areas.

The State also raises pheas ants and releases them where

Booster of more hunting is von Rosen who manages own,frlrm rl< ",n"frnll.. rl I","rl w ..lrnn.... c rnn4-rnll .. rl I,,,n4-.. r-e,

Opening up "natural land" to hunting by co-opplan would offer shooting benefits to more people.

needed. This is a commendable serv ice, but it has asardon ic twist when the birds stru t where you , are for ­bidden to follow. In add ition, the Department offers severalcontrolled areas where hunters shoo t two bir ds for a

. nominal fee ($2.00). To hu nt on these areas, you submityour name and that of your partner for a drawing. A first~-A.o~-~- "l_~1" . ;~ ~u- J;...A.-.. . _ "' ''! ~_...;-_~r _ _•.l_.;I. J -o .l_.~~. ~~~

contro lled areas where hunters shoot two bi rd s for a. nominal fee ($2.00) . To hu nt on these areas, you submit

your name and that of your partner for a drawing. A firstand secon d choice of da te are given, and if lucky you areassured of one day's hun ting. Often these areas are notfully utili zed, probably beca use of the complica tions in­volved to obtai n a permit, and possibl y beca use sportsmendo not like the regimentat ion. As an afterthought, beingsports, hunte rs might like to gam ble on the drawing of anu mber, but not for the na tive privilege of hunting.

In the comm ittee's opin ion , the money devo ted to thepr oj ects outlined above could be spent better in opening upmuch more land , without the artificial flavor thereby sat is­fying far more shooters per dollar.

The comm ittee's findings under Po int 3 were pleasantlysurprising. A question naire was handed to a number ofland owners to learn the main objections to hu nters and toget opinions as to wha t the actual cash re nta l per acreshould be. Th e prin cipal objections were cons istent : tres­passing, lack of care in crossing fences, lack of commonsense around stock, and safety in the vicinity of buildings.Hunters tha t appeared open ing day withou t having madeprevious arrangeme nts came in for a sha re of cri tic ism, asdid those who did not bother to say " tha nks."

Th e estimated rental value fluctuated fr om no cha rge(they did not consider the conceivable rent al as sufficientto make the income a factor ) to about $1.00 per acre .(The sugges ted $1 per acre would cover the entire season,payable by the managing authority, which could thencharge hunters , or not charge them, as it might wish.Actually, without releasing birds, on a 200 acre farm itwould be unu sual to har vest more than 20 pheasants forthe seaso n, plus perhaps a little additional small game:so such a DIan would be (Cont inlJ,p.d (In ruur« ."i."i )

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exposed to its pressures must , to surviveth em , seek out th at "great, good, plac e," thatpl ace for re laxing and rej uvenation wh ereten sions ca n be forg otten. For many of usthat place is th e gun club, and the gun spor tsbeat any medi cin e.

(A s th ings stand now, I dou bt that the In­ternal Revenu e Service will allow you toente r sho oting fees in the space pro vid ed forme dical pay ments on th e lon g-form 1040 ;but th en , th e Intern al Revenu e Service see msunreasonable ab out a lot of deduct ion s.)

The ho bbies of trap and skeet are ab outto assume still mor e importance, wh en weconsider a recent AP news di spatch. APquotes a noted ph ysicist as saying th at the20-hour work-week is clo ser than most of usth ink. A 20-hour week mu st be re garded as"progr ess" in the annals of man, but it isnot without it' s own peculi ar pro blems. Now,a hobby is optional. We concede the valueof a hobby is better adjusting to the strainsof every-day l iving. But in a 20·h our work­week , a hob by may well be come a necessi tyrather than an optio n.

If I ask th e questi on, "What will yourhobby be, whe n you need work only 20 ho ur slr ,mll15j 10 l \Y~'i'lo?:~, ."' W'h ~\,'y{IlLd"i1\"h~lii'u8

of a hobby is better ad justing to the strainsof every-day l iving. But in a 20·h our work ­week, a hob by may well becom e a necessi tyrather than an optio n.

If I ask th e question , "What will yourhobby be, whe n you need work only 20 ho ur sto make a living ?" most of you will have aready answer. But wh en th e twe nt y-hourweek becomes rea lity, will you be so con ­fident? Look about you at men you knowwho have retired at the compulsory age 65,and note how many of th em hav e failed toanticipate " the golden years" by acquir inga hobby in ad vance.

The t ime to act is now. Your presen t lifemay be mad e healt hier , longer , and more en ­joyable by learning to vent your tensions onbreakable clay targets. When technologicaladvances shorten th e time you spend in officeor plant, you'll be pr ep ared to take up theslac k.

This is a gre at year to join th e shoot inggames. 1959 marks the 60th yea r of theGrand America n, national trap sh ooting tour­nament. Extra promotion and publi ci ty forthe fabulou s Grand, in honor of the anni­versa ry, will bring the story of trapshootingint o every locality. In ternational Trap is tobe a gold medal event in the 1959 P an­Am eri can shootin g games, to be held inAu gust at cent ra lly located Chica go, Illinois.The national tournam ent of skeet will be heldin th e East, offering a large segment of thenation's shooters a chance to see and par­ticipate in thi s national shooting contest.

You couldn't have picked a better t imeto ge t aboard th e shooting ba ndwagon. Con­gra tula tio ns , and good shooting ! Yon ca nget old Doc Miller's prescription filled at anytrJln or <o:kppt ,.lnh 1'hp nrpe;::, r rln tlo n -is frpp_

SMASHING a clay target into smoke canbe good for you. Th e hobby of trap or

skeet shooting ca n add years to your lif e.P opping away at fast-moving clay pigeonscould save you money that might otherwisebe spe nt on pills and tranquili zers. A roundof trap or skeet at your favorite gun clubwill cost you less th an th e same amount ofti me on th e psychi atrist 's couch ; and it's alot more fun! Th at ' s my pr escription forwhat ails you-and don 't say it won't workuntil you've tri ed it .

By pr escribing liber al doses of trap andskeet shooting for th e ailments which plaguemod ern man , I' m not at tempting to move inon th e pill -pedd li ng and head-shrinking pro­fessions . A clu e to th e esteem held for th ecla y target spor ts by th e medical professi onis foun d in the number of doctors who par­ti cipa te in th e shooting ga mes. Look at anyent ry list for tr ap and skeet events , and no tefor yourself th e number of names followedby "M.D." or preceded by " Dr."

A few yea rs ago, I inv ited a fr iend to en­joy an a ftern oon of skeet at the WesthavenGun Club , in Evan svill e, Indi an a. Af ter in­t rod ucing my fri end to the shooters, I askedent ry list tor tr ap ana SKeet events, ana no tefor you rself th e number of names followedby " M.D." or preced ed by " Dr."

A few yea rs ago, I in vited a fri end to en ­joy an aft ern oon of skeet at the WesthavenGun Club, in Evan svill e, Indi ana. Af ter in­t rod ucing my fri end to the shooters, I askedth e usual qu esti on "We ll , wh at do you thinkof the club ?" Hi s an swer was unexpected,bu t to th e point.

He said, " Th is is a beautiful gun clu b,an d th e memb er s most cordial, but I won­der what would happen if someo ne wouldyell ' Is th er e a doc tor in th e hou se' ?" Ithadn' t occ urred to me unt il th en th at all buttwo or three of th e Sunday aft ernoon crowdof skeet fan s were either doctors or dentist s.

My fri ends in th e med ical profession tellme th at some of th e most an ticipated activiti esat regional an d state medical conventionsheld at th e F am ous Fren ch Li ck hotel areth e skee t and trap contests.

Th e same satur at ion of doctor-shooters isfoun d in the national and state trap andskeet tourn amen ts, as well as at local gunclubs all over th e United States. I will an­ticipate the comment by some readers thatthe high perce ntage of medical men who ar eshoote rs is due to the ir above-average in­comes . In com e is perh ap s a contributi ng fac­tor , bu t not an essential one . Oth er profes­sions, where incomes rank with th at of thedoctor, are not so well represented on thetrap and skeet field . The real reason is thatdoctors, to a greater degree than layme n,re cogn ize that what Am erican citizen s to daycall " progress " is not ga ined without greaterstresses on th e individ ual. These men knowby tra ining a nd experience the value of anyh n h h v ~nrl p. 'l.np i'i~1 1v t hp VJl l 11P of ~ 00: (\111..

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hig hly flammab le, the new material 6) mustbe self-extinguishing, If a flame is touched toit, Nylon 66 will burn; but if the flame isremoved, it will not continue to burn, un­lik e a traditional wood-stock gun. Also, 7)the materi al had to be pr oof against solvents,mild acids, alk alis, fun gus, rat s, and insects.8) I t must have an eas ily repaired finish,and 9) be light in weight. 10) It must beperm anent as to colors . It must be 11) inertwith metals, unlik e sappy woods which maycorr ode steels; and 12) it must be self­lubricating and dimensionally stable.

AIter careful research among many pr od­ucts, structural Nylon 66, a "form of "Zytel,"was selected as the only known mat eri al hav­ing these pr operti es.

In resear ch leading up to the finished gun,the abil ity to form Nylon 66 in to any shapeproved outst.and ing. So far, "tradi tional" isthe line and styli ng of the new ri fle. WhetherReming ton in the next few years will developmore advanced forms of styling remains tobe seen. But there is no question that Rem­ington will develop and market a wholeseries of firearms using Nylon 66 to more orless exte nt.

Nylon 66 was tested for strength by suchgross abuse as dropping stocked rill es fr om thefourth floor, and by rolling cars over them.Some were broken, bu t th e abuse they stoodwas far heavier than any wood-stock ed gunwould take. I flexed a stock over my kneeenough to have broken a wood stock. Th eNylon 66 stock was un chan ged.

To test resistance to abras ion, one rill ehas been fired 75,000 tim es, showing nowear on nylon sur faces, I examined thi srille, noted a burnishing on the bolt andslide tracks. Th e steel had worn a little ; th en v \.u u "LU r{\; • .L ~'jl;.AVU·l " ,;:,.:V "" A VY Il;; .L H I ] A I.'1\.A ::-

enough to have broken a wood stock. Th eNylon 66 stock was unc hanged.

To test resistanc e to ab rasion, one riflehas been fired 75,000 times, showing nowear on nylon surfaces. I examined th isrille, noted a burnishin g on the bolt andslide tracks. Th e steel had worn a li ttle ; thenylon had not. Six othe r test guns were shot25,000 times each, dr y, witho ut lu bri cation,and no nylon wear occurred.

Stocks were heated to plu s 252 0 F, withno warping. They were chilled down to minu s40 0

, and the rifles performed satisfac tor ily.In cold tests, an unusual phenomenon wasnoticed about stocks mad e from nylon . Whi lethe steel br eech cover became frosted withice that chipped off, the stock surfaces atthe same nomin al temp erat ur e were icedwith a slush tha t wiped off. Cold stocks could

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That, to the shooter of today, is " tra dition"in guns .

But what, in the light of the use of nylonfor guns, now constitutes " tra dition" ? Markthis : Remington tags their rifle "the gun oftomorrow." But the gun is here, today. Andunless some equally drasti c revolution inpr ocesses of manu facturing occur, it will behere the day after tomorrow. With the intro­du ction of the Nylon 66 sporter , a new tr adi­ti on in gun s is born .

The new tra dition is not an overn ight cre a­tion. Twent y years "ago, Du Pont chemistsbegan to synthes ize from the basic ingred ientsof coal, air, and water, a new substance,nylon resin. In many applica tions it replacedtradit iona l mat eria ls. In gears, it wears longerth an steel and brass. In conveyor belt s, it ischeaper and longer-lived than rub ber an dcha in design s. In the shee res t hosiery, it re­pl aced silk. Nylon-cord tir es took the boun ceout of highways, and nylon silk parac hu tessaved the lives of count less airme n. Nylonwas wait ing when Remington decided to starta new tradition also, in the world of guns.

About four year s ago, the concept ar oseat Ili on to constru ct a rifle having stock andreceiver all in one piece. Light metals wereconsidered , as well as the "plastics industr y."Elimination of jo ints between stock and reoceiver nat ur ally could give higher accura cyin the final pr oduct. Small bore rifles, espe­ciall y auto loading types, were not noted foraccur acy as they came from the box. Rem­ington liked the chatte r-gun ammo-burni ngprope rt ies of the .22 autoloader, bu t wantedto combine this with a degree of accuracy notcommonly achieved in earl ier guns. But th enotion of mak ing the receiver int egra l withthe other parts posed some stiff pr oblems.J:hfty~<1't1t1J~v.l utJll'o ""l'~~~';l er\. \>.v! .\o.~~ .araccuracy as they came from the box. Hem­ington liked the chatter-gun ammo -burni ngproper ties of the .22 autoloader, but wante dto combine thi s with a degree of accuracy notcommonly achieved in earl ier guns. But thenotion of mak ing the receiver int egral withthe other part s posed some sti ff problems.The mater ial to be selected had to be aspractical as steel in it s use as a receiver ;as light as wood and stronger.

Twelve quali ties were set up , to beachieved before the designers could agree ona mater ial prop osed for this radical rifle. Th emater ial 1) must tak e any shape desired,and 2) must have hi gh tensile, impact, andflexural streng th. I t must have 3) highabrasion resistance, 4) great resistan ce toheat distorti on, and 5) resistan ce to tern­perature cha nges, from extreme cold to ex­treme heat. Since they were treading in thepath of organic chemicals, some of which are

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a throat spec ialis t from Mex ico City. Thedoctor's den is decorated with more than350 first-pla ce trophi es won in Europe andl\Iexi co. Dr. Acosta , a native of Seville,Sp ain , is proficient with ri fle, pi stol, andshotg un. In 1930, he won the la st pigeonshooting trophy pr esented by K ing AlfonsoXIII of Spa in. In 1951, he won the MexicanNationa l P istol Championship. He has cap­tured two cha mpionships wit h a rifl e in livelamb shooting .

Dr. Acost a only hit 8 out of 10 b ird sd ur ing th e N uevo La redo cont est. But th etwo mi sses didn't bot her him . "Anybody canwin a pigeon shoot," he explain ed prior tothe match, "b eca use eac h pigeon is a differ­ent con test. An d the pi geon, not the othershooter, is th e enemy."

In guns, the doc tor prefers side -by-sidedoub les. The piec es he brought with him tothe shoot inclu ded a $2,000 P ur dy and anAyA , two fine examples of foreign imports.

Ano ther cont esta nt was 30-year-old EdwardTill , a farmer from Bisho p, Texas. Tillsuffers fr om mu scular dystrophy. He ha shad it since birth, but he still manages toh unt by ta king shor t, care ful steps . He ha sne ver shot trap or skee t. All of h is shootingis done " aro und the farm ," at birds an dsmall gam e.

The shotg un T ill used wa s an old 12­gauge It haca pump wit h a full choked , 30­in ch barrel and a crac ked stock. But Tillkn ew how to use it. He mi ssed only onebird out of h is first 10, and managed to getinto the shoot-off. Nine cont estants hadkilled 9 out of 10 birds and were competingfor the la st eight pla ces. T ill pl aced third,behind Tifla ine. He k illed a total of 20 outof 21 birds, the last 15 consec utively. Heused his second shot on ly once." J.N{l..~O [.\Lvm~ mpm.jJJlD.n~.~S~(:LJ!Y. IUr~

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fa lls to the gro und before th e next con­tests-at fires hi s first shot. If t he pi geon landson th e ground wit h in the circle, th e bird isr etrieved by red -shirred cadd ies and broughtto th e judges for inspection . If th e bird isbleeding , th e pig eon is cons ide red a hi t.

The caddies, young boys hired by theclub, stand on the circle. Ea ch has a redflag and a white flag. The cad dies wat chth e birds to determine wheth er th ey fly orlan d in the circl e or out. A wa ve of the redflag signals a hit ; th e white flag a mi ss.

A cont esta nt is not supposed to shoot ata bird if it flies und er the wire or towardth e ga lle r y, wh ich is situa ted behind him .If he gets off hi s first shot, onl y to have thebird tu rn towa rd th e galle ry so t hat hecannot take hi s second shot, the shoote rge ts another pigeo n. In thi s case, when h isseco nd bird is th rown, th e contes tant mustfire his first shot into th e air and th e sec ondat th e pig eon .

Manauta, li ke a baseb all pitc he r, is afte rstrikeouts . The mor e misses he cha lk s up ,th e bett er bird thrower he is conside re d. Inorder to obtain misses, Manauta stud ies eac hshooter's style for the first two or threebirds. Wh en he finds a weakness, he feed sth e gunner b ird s he cannot hi t.

To det erm ine j ust how successful thismet hod is, one need s only to look at th erecord. Aft er four consecutive pi geon s, only11 of th e 78 contes tants had a perf ect score.Only 18 had killed thr ee out of four. Aft erfive consecut ive pigeon s, only seven shootershad a str ing of hi ts.

The cou nt dropped to four on the sixthro und. These four gunners held th eir ownthroug h the seven th, b ut one dr opp ed outon th e eighth and another on the n int h.

Only two of the 78 had perfect scores afterthe final round -. TheX were T iffai ne, .the .d e­throug h the seven th, b ut one dropped outon th e eigh th and another on th e n int h.

Only two of the 78 had perfect scores afterthe fina l round. T hey were T iffaine, the d e­fend in g champion, and Lt. Col. 1. O. Cosner(R et.) of San Anto nio, Texas, a bird hu nt erand skee t shooter.

Cosner was shoo ting a Model 11 Hemin g­to n Automatic eq uipped wit h a ra ised r ib,Cutts Compensator, and mod ified choke. Heused 7% shots, high velocity , for his firstshots, and high velocity 6s for hi s secondshots.

In th e sudde n-de ath shoot-off, bot h Cosnerand Tiffaine killed their eleventh bird , h utTiffaine missed on the twe lft h. Cosne r hi t ,and was crowned the new champion .

The shoot drew contes tants from all sec­t ions of Texas and Mexico , Some were skeeta nd trap cham pion s. A few wer e in ter­national pigeon shooters. Others were ju stbird hu nters.

One of the most expe rienced shoote rs was67-year-old Dr . Victo ria no Mateo de Aco sta ,

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Ma nau ta is a member of th e I ntern ationalP igeon Th rower s Association and is the onlyofficial bird th rower in Mexico at present.He has been th rowing pigeon s for 12 yean'.

Th ere ar e two grades of pi geon throwers :pajareros and colom baires . Manauta is acolornbaire, wh ich is the hig her grade.Colombaires are pr oud of their abi lit ies.E ach yea r colombaires of th e in ternationala ssociat ion ga ther in S pa in for a contest.E ach throw s 100 b ird s. Th e colom ba ire witht he least nu mber of k ill s is the winn er.

Ma na uta, by necessi ty, is a n at hlete. Un­l ess a shooter ha s th ree consec utive or fourno n-consec utive mi sses, he is ent itle d to 10b ird s. Ma na uta , th er e fore, thr ew ap prox i­matel y 800 adult p igeon s bet ween 10 a .rn.a nd 5 p.m. the da y of the shoot. He rej ecteda ll young birds becau se they would be easiert o hit. This wou ld be eq uivale nt, at lea st innumber of throws, to a pitch er going all th ewa y in a half -dozen major league ba seba llga mes in one da y.

Before he throws th e pichon, Manautap l ucks a few tai l feather s from t he bird tog ive it erratic fligh t. H e th en ca lJs lis to andaw aits the shooter's command of pajaro orpull. At th e command, Manauta spins hise ntire hod y and heaves th e bird, He maythrow it in an y dir ecti on, even straight a tt he gunne r.

Both th e bi rd thrower and t he shooters tand wit hin a 20-met er squa re . T he shoote rhas a 3 by 20 met er recta ngle in wh ich tos tand, and the thrower ha s an adjo ininga re a the same size. At the corner of t hesqua re ar e post s four met er s in height . Awire is strung from post to post, and the birdmu st he th e heigh t of th e wire before thea re a the same size. At the corner of th esquare ar e post s four met er s in height. Awire is strung from post to post, and th e birdmu st be th e height of th e wire before th econtestant may shoot.

In experienced shooters, anxious to ge t onthe bird, oft en blast awa y before the p igeona ttains the height of the wire. Man auta isadept at "hitting th e d irt:' Although manymi sses hav e been close ones, he has neverbeen hit.

On e hu ndr ed met er s from each post is aline encirc ling the sq uare. T he shooter hastwo shots on each bird, and the pig eon mustfall with in that circ le if it is to be counteda hi t. Experienced shoote rs use bot h shots,e ven if th e first kills the bird. The secondsho t is in surance.

If a hird is hit b ut ma nages to leave thecirc le, eit her by flying or wa lk ing, it is am iss. If a bird lea ves the circle flying andthen re turns, it is a miss. If a bird landsin a tree or on a wir e or building insidethe circle, it is a mi ss ... unl ess the p igeon

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can ri fle shooting in fluenced th at surrender .The rest of the battalion distin guished

itself , too. In all, it took 300 pri soners;killed 200; captured four 77's, a tr enc h mor­tar battery, signal outfi t, and 123 machineguns.

No one can defin itely say ju st how great apart Sergeant York's fight played in th etot al pi cture. But when a hole is pun ched inan enemy lin e and a large numb er of pris­oners ar e taken, word spreads. Men losesome of their spirit and the fear of enc ircle­ment becomes wide spr ead . However lar ge,or small, York's part may have been in th eovera ll pict ure of that October day, he wrot ea pa ge in American hi stor y that will neverbe forg ott en.

What qualities mad e Sergeant York showwhat he was? Why did he have those quali ­ties ? Is it possible to train these int o men?

Th e answer to th e first of th ose qu est ionsis thr ee-fold . York had valor , shooting skill ,and judgment.

Valor is sustained cour age . York showedit by persisting aga ins t heavy odds and greatdanger for as long as th e situation requ ired.Wh ere did he get such valor? In the earlypart of th e war , York was a conscientiousobjector. He said that he could di e for hi sco un try, but that he could not bring him selfto kill for it. His reli gion forb ad e kill ing,and his own experience showed th e futilityof figh tin g. After his father 's death, Yorkwent "hog-wild," as the saying goes. Hedrank and swore and gambled and fou ghtand shot off his pistols alm ost at other menseveral times. His moth er's patience andlove finall y won him to more reasonab le be­havior, and he later join ed hi s local church.One of th e tene ts of rhar nh urch is : " T houdra nk and swore and gambled and fou ghtand shot off his pistols almo st at other menseveral times. His moth er 's patience andlove finall y won him to more reasonab le be­havior, and he later join ed hi s local church.One of th e tenets of that churc h is : "T houshalt not kill- even in war."

But Yor k' s culture gave him , also, anotherset of values. His family lived in r ura lTenn essee. And th e hi story of his fam ilywas a series of war s. Th e Civil War tookboth of hi s gra ndfathers. York came from along lin e of fighting riflemen. In hi s auto­biography, he wrot e : "What's history withlarn ed people is still a matter of story-telli ngwith us, and . .. these people ar e not merelycha ra cters in books to us . . . th ey were . .•as much a part of our lives as these moun­tains here and th e log ca bins and themuzzle-loaders th ey used, which we stillhave .

"Not more than 900 mountain sharpshoot­er s whipped and shot to pieces Ferguson andhi s 2,600 trained men at Ki ng's Mountain. • ••These same old guns [mu zzle loading r ifles]. .. mad e it possible for th e 6,000 men und erAndrew Ja ckson down th ere at New Orleansto stop 10,000 Br iti sh soldiers who once foughtunder Wellington and mu ssed up Napoleon."York had heard these stories aga in and againin his youth. He had heard about Tenn esseeri flemen- Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, andmany other s-from his father, his fri ends,oth er adults. These stories were hi s hi storylessons, and his heritage.

York's battalion commander, Major Ed.ward Buxton J r., took over th e role of story­teller in York's life afte r he entere d thearmy. York re spected Major Buxton, saying,"He was a most wonderful man at handling

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Maybe owls have expressionless faces, bu tth is one had th e most surpr ised look on h ismap , as if to say, "Now where th e H-OO didyou go to ?" One tu ft of feath ers ca melIoating with in a few yards of h im and hekept his eyes glued on this, comple telybaffled at his enemy's st range cha nge ofform. W hen the fea thered tuft came to lightin the ara ss he stared at it, horn s rai sed,leaning forw~ru, swiveling his head tim e andagain to look at th e tree where th e crowhad bee n, th en back to the feather s on th eground. Then, as if to say, "I'll get what'sleft ," he hopped off his perc h an d wobb ledin an owly str ide for the tuft of fea ther s,only to be tr ipped by th e too short str ing onhis leg.

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over num erou s blinds on different lIocks ofcrows several miles apart gives them time toforget. We got excelle nt result s aga in a fewweek s later.

It a ll bega n mont hs befor e, one eveningwhile we were stalking crows in the br ushyColv ille river ar ea. It was gett ing dark. Weheard an owl hoot. "Le t's slip up on h im,"said Wayne. " No," I sa id, " I' ll call hi m in ."

He was perha ps half a mile fro m us. I"av e the call at int erva ls, and listen ed. Soonhe was an swer ing from barely half th e di s­tan ce. I called again , and wai ted . Withinseconds he was within 50 yard s of us, an swer­ing eagerly. We finally locat ed him , in a tr eeriah t in front of us. It was too dark to seet h~ crosshairs in my scope, but I put him inthe cen ter of the ent ire scope field as best 1could, and fired.

" Yuh missed ' irn,' came from my pa r tner.Quickly, I hooted agai n. Much to our sur­pr ise he came closer and l it again, hooti ngand looking for something that ju st wasn 'tther e. T his time when the r ille crac ked , hecame lIutt erin g to th e ground .

That evening, I was carrying a .20 cal iberr ille on a Sako action , Douglas barr el, myown stock an d blu e, loaded with 23 grai nsof 4895 behind a 45 gra in hollow point bu lletgiving a muzzle velocity of about 3500 feetper second. It is an excelle nt rille , superblyacc ura te, virt ually no recoil, flat, deadly, andpossibly safer tha n the heavi er 6 mm bull etsin far m ar eas.

" You winged him ," said Way ne, an d pick edup a c lub to deliver th e mercy blow. " Stop !"I yelled. " He'll mak e th e finest crow decoyyou ever saw." And he did ju st that.

We had a touchy job gett ing a safe gripon a maddened, snapp ing, cla wing greatill rarrn ar eas.

" You winged him ," said Wa yne , an d pick edup a club to deliver th e mercy blow. " Stop !"I yelled. " He 'll mak e th e finest crow decoyyou ever saw." And he did ju st that.

We had a touchy job gett ing a safe gripon a maddened , snapp ing, claw ing greathorn ed owl. Hi s big eyes were ablaze. Hold­ins him down with a stick, I got the end ofhis sood wins in one hand and contro lled hi sc1a:s wit h t l~e stick. Event ually , we got h imhom e and examined th e bull et damage. Hiswing was shatt ered at the ma in joint.

We app lied antiseptic and ban daged th ebroken wing dail y, and nightl y he pecked th ebandage off. But he seemed none th e worsefor th e shooting, snapping hi s bea k, hissin g,a nd making pa sses at us with his claw s.Wh en the wound had dr ied up, a veterinar ­ian amputated the shatte red wing, re-band­azed it , and gave him a shot of peni cill in." Hooter ," as wc ca lled him, kept hi s h igh

youth; he once told th em: " Eve ry war al ­ways pro du ces its out stand ing hero. He[Major Buxton] didn't kn ow where that herowas in the Ameri can Army, but th ere wasjes as good a cha nce of hi m being in ourba tta lion as anyw here else. And aft er weheard him speak lik e th at we all kinder madeup our mind s to be bett er sold iers a nd ma ybetry and be that out stand ing one." ... Andso York mad e his peace with God a nd wentto war; and having become a sold ier, aimedto be a good one.

The second qua lit y-c-shoot ing sk ill-s-wasstill another par t of York 's heri tage. Hecou ld shoot both ri lle a nd pi stol exp ert ly.York " «rowed up with r illes." H is father waswell known for his rille marksmansh iparound Clinton, Tenn essee. York learned toshoot by imitating hi s fat her. R illes andrille shooting-c-both in shooting match es an din hun tin g- were signs of manh ood in theTennessee mou ntai ns, and York got both­the ri lle a nd the skill at an ea rly age. Yor kand his father-and everyone else who shotin th e Tenn essee mat ches-paid a dim e toshoot at a turkey's head at 60 pa ces. Or hepaid a hal f dollar or dollar to shoot at thece nte r of a cross on a board to try to winpar t of a stee r. If he did not win , he lostmon ey. Th a t hu rt the " men-folks" of a fam­ily of 11 child ren in that poor par t of Ten ­nessee. If he won , he got meat for thatfamily. But th er e was mor e besides. Thewinner s of th ose matches were her oes. Atr uly gre at shooter was a man kn own to allmen. A poor shooter was also know n byall-and lau ghed at.

H uruina carrie d the sa me practical an dsocial rewards and penalt ies. If a ma n couldhunt well , he could sup ply food for his fam ­ily. Family and fr iend s respected him forhis skill. If a man could not h unt well , hegot less mea t- and less re spect.

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social rewards and pena lt ies. If a man couldhunt well , he could sup ply food for his fam ­ily. Family and fr iend s respected h im forhi s skill. If a man could not h unt well , hegot less mea t- and less respect.

In the target mat ches an d in hu nting, therewards went to the man who could hi t asmall mark with one bull e t. Only hits coun t­ed. York-c-like h is fat her and many others­learned to hit, and hit cons istently.

Th e third fact or was-j udgment, York alsoshow ed sound judgment thro ughout the fight­ing on Oct. 8th, 1918. Ju dgment is morethan in telli gen ce. It is th e a bil ity to mak ea wise cho ice and carry out one's deci sion.York d id th at, not ju st once but se veralt imes. He out-thought as well as out-shotth e German machine gunners, th e Germanmajor, and the second line of machine gun­ners. J udz rnen t require s intellig ence , guts,and a drive to carry out one' s dec ision s.York had them all; used all of th em.

But the York story is more than merelya saga of heroi c ac tion. Th er e is a le ssonin it. If you will permit me to dr aw a moral,tha t lesson is th is:

Shooting skill gives a ma n confide nce inbattle. York had that confidence . Sheerbr aver y, even mixed with good j udgme?t. isoften wast ed by men who lac k th e skill tomak e bravery effective. York had the skill ,th e courag e to use it , and the jud gment touse it effectively. But th e skill came first.Wit ho ut it, York might have been ju st asheroic, bu t very dead.

Th e lesson is ju st as tru e now as it wasth en . Sk ill with gun s won't make everysoldier a Yor k-size hero , b ut it will make

CROW SHOOT WITH OWL(Continued from page 49)

We kept him on a luxury men u of crowsth at summer. He'd ea t at ni ght. Morningshowed bla ck feather s all over th e gar agewhere we kept him and a big bloody smileon his fa ce.

One time, after we had shotg unned th ecrows repeat edly, we got a br oken -wingedcr ipple . Nothing completes the owl decoyset-up better than a cr ippled , sq uawkingcrow. We tied h im to a tr ee, but he keptmum. He was patriotic ; refu sed to give hi sbrethern any bum dop e. Hooter kept eyeingthe sile nt patriotic crow ; finall y decid ed itwas abo ut time for his dinn er , and went int oaction. Th e helpless crow, spott ing th e hu gehorn ed owl bearing down on hi m, let out aburst of cawing that stirre d up crows formiles! It all ende d a bruptly when the owltripped on his tet her and fell. After a mouthyowl discussion wit h him self , he hopped backonto his pole and star ted pr eening hi sfeath er s. Shortly a fte r th is, two crows actu­ally kno ck ed Hooter off hi s per ch . Th e reosuit ing victory screams were almost deaf en ­ing. And wh at shooting th ey br ought us!

We had Hoo ter on a per ch in th e yard on eday when our pet tom cat chance d by. Th ecat eyed him , tai l switching, eyes agleam heinched closer. Appar ently Tom was envision­ing a fine meal of something like ph ea sant.Hooter ruff ed up his feather s to twi ce hi snormal size, hissin g and snapping hi s beaklike mad. The cat got th e surprise of his lif ewhen Hoot er mad e the first str ike, ' lungingforward, but landing a bit short and gett ingonly a claw full of ca t hair. Th e cat du g upth e yard gett ing out of th er e, and he gav eth e owl a wid e berth th er eafter .

A year later our owl, Hooter di ed . Werni .:;:, ~prl him 1nrl nnt n n lv !:H : 0 rI"",..ny ""i t h,prtorward, but andmg a bit short ana gett mgonly a claw full of ca t ha ir. Th e cat du g upth e yard gett ing out of th er e, and he ga veth e owl a wid e berth th er eafter .

A year later our owl, Hooter di ed . Wemissed him , and not only as a decoy, eithe r.

A " Wanted- One Live Horned Owl" ad inthe local newspap er brought us a two-thirdsgrown horn ed owl. This owl, st ill accustom edto ea ting what his moth er brou ght him , willeat boi led eggs, meat scra ps and some dogfood. F eather s on one wi ng wer e cl ippedback several inch es to pr event his flyin gaway. He' s not our Hoot er, but we like himtoo.

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But more immedi ate than the effect on Manin the Space Age will be the use of syntheticmateri als in arms fabricat ion right now. Ny­lon pistol frames, mad e like clam shells tosurr ound the basic mechanism of spring s andbarrel, may be forecasts for tomorro w. Chem­icall y inert and imp er vious to man y solventsand volatile substances, Nylon 66 could beused for a liquid-fueled firearm .

Tradition will come to mean man y things,some new to guns and .shooting, The fun ofusing firearms for sport will be sprea d outover a mu ch wider segment of the popul ati onthan even now. Prosper ity is alread y in­crea sing parti cip ation in gun sports. Peopletoday are experiencing an increase in leisure­time act ivity, with the emphasis on activi ty.Toda y, nylon t ires carry the fam ily a thou­sand miles on a weekend to park or moun­ta ins. Tomor row nylon will mean firearm s sowell mad e, so sa fe and durable, and so lowin pr ice, th at every memb er of the famil y canbe a skee ter or enjoy shooting in one or an­other of it s ma ny forms. All th is will stemfr om Remin gton's bold step in laun ching itsrifle tailor ed for the Space Age.

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he held in th e hand without dan ger of losinga str ip of hide stuck to frozen wood or meta l.Since the tri gger itself is also formed ofnylon, as well as th e tr igger guard, this" warm to the to uch" charac ter istic followsthrough for pract ical shooting.

The " plas tic" stock was exposed to all th ekn own gun solvents : gasoline, alcohol, ben­zine, car bon tet , acetone, mild acid s, andalka lis. It remained un affected in ma ter ial orfinish. Strong carbolic acid, if allowed to"s et" a few minutes, can be used for "g luing"Nylon 66. Oth erwi se, nothing touches it. Ofcours e it is possibl e to scar th e surf ace. Butsince the colors go all the way through, thereis no probl em in mat ching finish. Just rub itdown wit h a fine grit car rubb ing compound.Stock Glaze, mad e by Burn ishine P roducts,Skokie, III. , is a rubbing compound adaptedto the shooter 's needs.

Finally , not only is Nylon 66 un affected hymost thing s itself, it does not affect an ythin gelse. Steel par ts in contact with it did notreveal th e least trace of the corr osive effectcommon in wood stocked guns where thewood may be improperl y dried or a littleacid.

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little sense in spreading bett er than two tonsof energy across country every time I pulledthe trigger. For anyone who likes to shoot,and does shoot as much as I do-unless hebe rotten with th e well known filthy lucre­reloading is a vir tua l must; and I mean reoloading in its most economic vein, whichmean s sub-loads with cas t bullets. To thi ssor t of shooting fun, it was my th ought thatthe .375, with its lar ge bore, genero us bulletweight and a one in twelve rifl ing twist,should work well .

F rom th e firs t, I had , at th e back of mymind, an idea and theory I wanted to tryout. Year s ago I owned and hunted with a.35 Winchester, out of the old Model 1895rifle. Thi s car tridge pushed a 250 gra in roun dnosed, soft-point bull et in th e ne ighborhoodof 2200 feet per second, and to this day Irecall the combination of rifle and cart ridgewith a great deal of affection. For it was acompletely honest and depend abl e two-some,killing what it hit , ri ght where it hit it , andwith a very minimum of mea t spoilage. Myth eory was that , by usin g a gas checked cas tbull et in the .375, I could come up with aload close to th e old .35 Winchester.

I star ted out with the standard Id eal .375gas check bull et , # 375449, weight around260 gra ins, depend ing on bullet mixture.Th e Ideal handbook gave a load for thisbullet of 42 grains of #3031 powder, for avelocity of 2000 fee t. I tried this, and itworked well ; but it was obvious th at morepowder could be used , wit h equally good,perhap s bett er , results. So I sta r ted goingup. With 44 gra ins of # 3031 I got a fiveshot group at 100 yards that went .1% inch,center to cen ter. With th e same weigh t of# 4895 an d the same bu llet I got a group of1% inches. I went as hi gh as 47.5 grainswith either powder and found th e big fellowstilI pounding them right down th e groove,with no sign of fu sing; or leading.center to cen ter. With th e same weigh t of# 4895 an d the same bu llet I got a group of1% inches. I went as hi gh as 47.5 grainswith either powder and found th e big fellowstilI pounding them right down th e groove,with no sign of fu sing or leading.

So here I had what I'd set out to find : aload in the 2000 to 2200 foot-second velocitycla ss, driving with fine accuracy a cast, home­brewed bullet of sufficient bor e size and heftto tak e care of such game as deer, veryhandily. That it wilI do thi s, I alr eady havesome evidence, three deer so far havingdropped to the authority of the load withimmediate, clean , one shot kill s. Of theseinstances, one is particularl y ju stified in be ­ing related in some detail, for it was a verysatisfying example.

Th e bu ck was at a slig htly lower level,facin g the gun and distant somewhere be­tween 125 and 150 yar ds. It was comingalong a trail at a trot, but th e lay of thecountry was such th at it was obvious th e deermight leave the tr ail and jump into heavycover at any moment. So the shot was takenwithout waiting for the bu ck to get anycloser. As it happened, just as th e shot waslet off, th e quarry did start to swing aside.

Th e bullet struck just back of the peakof th e left shoulder, driving back and downand through, coming out between th e hams.Th e deer was lit erally picked up and drivenbackward and pil ed up in a heap , withouta wiggle. Th ere was virt uall y no spoilage ofmeat. Th e big, blunt, solid bullet plougheda good wound channel stra ight through , with.out blood-shorting. A similar hit by one ofthe ultra-velocity smalle r cali ber rifles, somuch in vogue th ese days, most certai nlywould have mad e a horrific mess of things.

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grea se, hit ched on an Alas kan 'scope, andhied me out to th e ran ge with a couple ofboxes of factory ammo. Also, I must confess,with some small misgivin gs. For, while mostof the sound authorities I'd read agreed thatthe big fellow spoke with undisputed author­ity, they also said the recoil was nothing toworry a seasoned shooting man. On th e otherhand , there were those who spoke in hoa rsewhispers of the big fellow' s come-bac k, andexhibite d every evidence of cha tte ring teethand cold sweat at the mere thou ght of sta nd­ing up to it. There was but one way to findout for sure . So, I crossed my finger s, con­signed my affairs to the benevolent RedGods, and cut loose a 300 grain, factory load.

I was surprised, pleasantly. I found thatwhil e the big brute was certa inly not ach ild's plaything, it wasn't anything to ter­rorize a grown man. So I went ahea d andfunn eled out the best part of two boxes ofammo, in 270 and 300 grain bull et weight s.I shot off-han d, kn eelin g, sitting, and finally,from th e ben ch rest .

I found that, as usual , the truth of th ething lay half-wa y between th e extremes ofopinion. I kn ew I'd been shooting a gun, allright, particul arl y off the bench rest. Onthe other hand, I' ve taken worse beat ingsfrom skinny-gripped, razor-stocked, sawed-off,feather weight shooting contraptions in muchfeebler calib ers that are supposed to be th eeat 's whi skers in th ese effete days when aman is looked at askance if he packs arounda hunting rifle th at weighs bett er than sevenand a half or eight pounds.

Out of all th e roar and rumpus I foundsomet hing else tha t filled me with joy, pureand unalloyed. Th e big gun was beautifullyman IS iooxeu at askance It ne packs arounda hunting rifle th at weighs bett er than sevenand a half or eight pounds.

Out of all th e roar and rumpus I foundsomet hing else tha t filled me with joy, pureand unalloyed. Th e big gun was beautifullyaccura te. Topped with an Ala skan 'scope, itwas no great trouble, shooting from thebench, to stay in or about a minute and ahalf of angle at 100 yards.

Wanting to find out if I'd merely beenlucky or if th e rifle really had it, I inviteda shooting fr iend to try his luck. Like my­self, he'd never snuggled up to a .375 before,yet he sat down at the bench, tried one dr yto get the feel of the trigger , and th enpro ceeded to turn in two success ive five shot,inch and a half , center to center groups, onewith the 270 grain , the other with the 300grain factory loadings. When he finished th esecond string he turned to me and said;"This big wallop er will do better than that .I wasn 't holding too well."

This, mind you, out of a sta ndard huntingrifle, fresh from th e fac tory grease, just asit came, with out any tinkering or fixing ofany kind. And handlin g a power housefactory cartridge primarily designed to per­man entl y flatt en all sorts of bi g, mean, four­footed critte rs with felonious designs on th ehunter 's hid e. Not a specially work ed outcombination of rifle and cartridge for supe r­accura te varmint shooting- just everythingsta ndard. With power-great gobs of power­and stilI with that lovely, inh erent accuracyquo tient.

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moderat ely expe ns ive. Iron icall y, and fur therevidence of th e imp ort ance of contro l, farmer swill occasiona lly permit a small grou p ofrespon sible spor tsmen free use of their la ndin retu rn for posting and policin g. )

Po in t 4 was also enlightening. In vestigat­ing successful existing hunting programs un ­expec tedly shed cons iderable light on values.The committe e selec ted P enn sylvan ia's pro­gram, beca use cond itions were so compa rableto tho se in Illi nois. Th ere, upl an d ga mehunting in populated are as was at th e " 0

H untin g" stage when th e Dep artment wentto wor k. The program ha s been in effectpr ogressivel y since 1936. The addition in1946 of their " Day· Old P heasant Chick Pro­gra m" ha s done wond er s for the bird popu­la tion. Ad d pl enty of game (wild rear edand curren tly released ) to over a millionac res of land all in the vicinit y of Pennsyl­vania's large cities, and the sportsman find sconge nial, pl easant hunting. He need onlybu y a li cen se for $3.15 and pro ceed to thenearest clearly id entified hunting ar ea.

Th e de ta ils of thi s program have bee n inpr int man y tim es and th ey ar e very th orough,even down to signs for parking and re­st ricted areas.

W hat was th e key to success of th e P enn­sylva nia program? The an swer is- control.Cer ta inly there were sincere, in du st r ious con­servat ion ists sell ing th e idea to the lan down ers and far mers ; and , beli eve it or not,permission for land use was ob ta ined by th eP ennsylvania State Game Comm ission wit h­out one ce nt of cas h being paid . Th e primefa ctor was control: the farmers wa nted onlyto be ass ure d they would not be overrun byirresponsible, nitwiued nimrods.• S nm p. ca sh is na ir! fnr sta nd in z crnus asP enn sylvan ia State Game Commission with­out one cent of cash being pa id. Th e primefa ctor was control : the farmer s wa nted onlyto be ass ure d th ey would not be overru n byirresponsible, ni twiUed nimrods.

Some ca sh is paid for stand ing crops asgam e food (at th e going rate) , a nd theGa me Comm ission 's principal (but not only)service is supplying an officer for supe rvisionof each 1000 acres. The entire expe nses areborn e by li cen se fee s and Pittman -Rober tsonmon ey. T here is no charge to th e spor tsmanwhen he goes to hu nt .

Our committee then heard of a n Illinoissta te b iolog ist by th e name of J ack Calhoun,who took a bold step forward in conservation.

Turns out he had ideas of h is own, one ofwhi ch was to try a hunting contro l plan onan Illinois test ar ea. To mak e th e test plen tydifficult, Jack chose an ar ea ro und F la nag an,ju st 85 mile s southwest of Chicago. This wasexcellent pheasant country and must havehad a "No Hunting" sign for eac h bird. Be­ing just off Rte. 66, accessib ilit y was easyand poaching and trespassing were common.Fa rm s were neat , pr osperous an d well fe nced.

J ack sold every far mer on 24 square mil esof land on th e idea of remov ing the "NoHunting" signs. Th eir No. 1 consid era tio n?Control. He promi sed th at thi s would behandled by a chec k-in an d check-out sta tionwh ere a reasonable number of spor tsmenwould be briefed as to the boundari es of th eare a, and then permitted to proceed for th enominal fee of $1.00.

This venture was stric tly non-profit. Theincome paid for in surance an d nominal ex­pen ses. The surplus at th e end of th e sea sonsupplied a chili supper for participatingfarmers, as well as furnishin g th e communitywith lim ited funds for some need ed equip­ment.

An interesting sidelight was th e harv estingof 67 cocks per section th e first year, withwhat is apparently a norm of 45-50 bein greached after the second or third yea r. Hunt­ing seeme d not to r edu ce th e populati onbeyond this figur e.

Jack Calhoun 's job at Flanagan was com­pleted at the end of five years of ope n-seasonhunting. The cost to th e Sta te of IllinoisConser vation Dept. had been fundamenta llyone biologist's time. Th e area would havehad some expense under normal condi tions,withou t th e exp erimen t.

The Department called th e experi men t suc ­cessful- and abandone d th e project! " Weshowed 'em how; let 'em do it themselves."This mavseem to some to be a li ttl e re rnin­had some expense under normal conditio ns,without th e exp eriment .

The Department calle d th e experiment suc ­cessful-and abandoned th e pr oj ect ! " Weshowed 'em how; let 'em do it th emselves."This may seem to some to be a little re mi n­isce nt of Marie Antoinette's " let 'em eatcake ." Anyway, this fine pr oj ect, aft er fu r­ni shin g natural and pr odu ctiv e hunting tocountless hunters for five years, was turnedover to th e community for continuance.

Without official blessin g and competentfull time guidan ce during the season, theorganizat ion did not endur e for long. Thisimplies no crit icism of th ose left in cha rge ;it was just the old story of asking th em to

do a thankless job for whi ch they had nei therth e training nor th e in spired interest.

P ennsylvania 's progr am, and Fl anagan(along with others), convinced th e Wood­stock Sportsmens' Club 's committee th at Ill i­nois could and should offer upl and gamehunters in th e Northern Zone more tha n theopportunity to buy a licen se-th ey shouldal so supply a majority of th em with the legalopportun ity to use it.

Keep in mind-neither the Pennsylvanianor Flanagan farmers received any cash forpermi ttin g spor tsmen to use their land. Theywer e sa tisfied to have re sponsible spor tsmenhunt the ir land with only indirect ben efits inreturn-the principa l ben efit be in g control­whi ch , in P ennsylvani a's case, became self ­contro l a fter a territory was establishe d.

In cid entall y, once a mod er at e portion of aconge sted are a obta ins some rel ief from th epr essure of number s, th e surrounding landbecomes less over-r un and re sistance di s­sipates . In a se nse, the situat ion brings abo uta favorabl e chain reaction.

The next move, Point 5, was to invite everySpo rtsmen s' Club in th e Illinois F ed erationNorthern Zone to a meeting and inform th emof wha t our hard working committee hadlearned . About 75 individuals wer e presen trepresenting various clubs, and a few clubsunable to atte nd ac knowledge d th eir whole­hearted support . The committee's findin gswer e di scussed , and minutes of the meetingwere sent to every cl ub. Mu ch of th e informa­tion in th ose minutes has been in clud ed inth is ar ticle .

As a resul t of this gathering , a resolu ti onwas forwarded to the Illinois ConservationDepartment , r ecommending th e adop tion ofa progr am simila r to P ennsylvan ia 's (or theFl anagan ex pe rim en t), in clu din g P enn syl­vania's " Day -Old Chick Program."

Th e job is not over ye t. All par t icip at in gr.JJ,':l'·~'}l' ill.~htullt;.\',prluLn £.~~'}~0wp.... ,t;h~it; ,StNflDep artmen t, recomm ending the adoption ofa pro gr am simila r to P ennsylvania 's (or theFl an agan expe rim en t), including P enn syl­vania's "Day-Old Chick Program."

The job is not over yet. All par ti cipat in gclubs will be ur ged to convince th eir Sta teRepresentative of th e merits of such par­ti cipation by th e Conse rva tion Dept. Themor e forces in ag ree me nt, the fa ster and easi­er it is to put such progr am s in motion.

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for the newspaper s to write about . Sin ce th erebels kn ew of the plan , it was foiled . Notonly d id Batista fail in proving Communistint er ven tion - Castro 's peopl e ha ve steadilyrefu sed such aid - but he wound up withfive loads of gun s he couldn't get ammo for!

Castro 's forces are well supplied with ma­chine guns. Many of these are types used invari ous other Sou th American republics.Best of the se is unquestionably th e "F ucileAmetralle dora Colt ," or th e Colt Monitor,commerc ial version of the popular Brownin gAutomatic Rifle (B AR .) . During the 1930's,Colt sold man y of these guns to Latin Ame r­ica. From Latin America, offered by personssympathetic with La Revolucion, th ey arecoming into Cub a. Most of th ese are .30·06caliber. A few guns, such as th e Danish­made Madsen light ma chine guns in 7mmcaliber as used in South Ameri ca, t ake othercalibers . But all guns in use tak e either U.S.ammunition, or car tr idges eas ily found inCuba.

In the pleasant, grassy uplands of eas ternCuba which Castro controls and which he iseven now trying to rul e un til all of Cuba isconsolidated again , a variety of rifles are inuse. Ads in U.S. journa ls help supply theseguns. Active in th e trade are people inMiami, for example, who inser t notices"Wanted : Springfield s, Ml Garands, Carbines,Top pri ces paid." But the " top prices" arenot showing any hu ge profit s : the Cuba nagents pay little more than the going pri cefor arm s. Garand rifles they buy for from$50 to $100. Oft en the same g un will bringmore on th e U.S. shooter 's and collector'smarket than th e Cub an buyer will offer. Re­cently, with the D.C.M. price incr ease inGar and rifles to over $160 automaticall y in­lor arm s. t;arand ritl es they buy for from$50 to $100. Oft en the same gun will bringmore on th e U.S. shooter 's and collector'smarket than th e Cuban buyer will offer. Re­cently, with the D.C.M. price incr ease inGar and rifles to over $160 automaticall y in­creas ing the value of Garands in shooters'hands to over $100, the Cuban buyer s ha veturned to commerc ial sporters for their mili ­tary need s.

Th e .30-06 Remington Model 740 autoload­ing rifle ha s turned up in the Cuban hill s, aswell as man y other sporting gun s commonlyfound in the U.S. market. Th e FN Mauseris Castr o's fa vori te per sonal rifle, wh ileJohn son semi-automatic sporters, with scopesights, are much lik ed in Cuba . Along withSpri ngfield and Enfield rifles, in .30·06 cal­iber , the Remington bolt acti on 721 andWin chester Model 70 share honor s in thehand s of Castro's band. A tribute to thestrength of th e Remington Mod el 721 actionis a special carbine whi ch one of Castro'sheadquarter s guard ha s made to fire grenades.Th e barrel is chopped to about 15 inches,and gre nades mad e fr om hand-smithed ironcanisters are fired from it with rifle accu­racy, from the shoulde r.

In Cuba, Castro ha s few ord nance men.Some are Americans, but few are exp er t.Since submach ine guns were difficul t to ob­tain in th e quantity needed , Castro's U.S.agent s arranged for some to be manufac­tured in the U.S. Last May Lynwo od, Calif.,poli ce raided a residential area garage, foundit contained a home hobby ma chine shopturn ing out Stenotype SMGs. El even guns,six ty barrels and hundreds of parts of sub­machine guns "which authorities beli eve mayhave been destined for FideI Castr o" were.. _ 1. _ _ =_ ..L= =.J W 1L _ ..L __ r" _ _ &. _ _ L _ _ .J _

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fuel from the U.S. base at Guantanamo.Newspa per accounts decl ared tha t Bati stahad obta ined " jet plan es from Brita in." Ac­tu ally, these were Vam pire night figh ters,surplus from the Canadian a irf orce a yearor two ago. With cr uising speed of 549m n h ;l nrt ' "J:l n a p n f ,\vpr 7flO Tfl;l .".c ( n".".rrvewspaper accou nts declared tnat Batistahad obtained " je t plan es from Britai n." Ac­tu all y, these were Vampire ni ght figh ters,surplus from the Canadian a irfo rce a yearor two ago. With cruising spee d of 549m.p.h. and range of over 700 miles (over1200 miles with wing tanks), th e Vampiresare good planes when they don ' t blow upaccidenta lly. Each carries four 20mm rapidfire cannon. Some have been bought by U.S.enthusiasts. cost about $9,000 to put in theair.

Accord ing to a leadi ng aircra ft bro kerin th e C.S ., these jets were sold to a mid­west dealer who in turn sold th em to aMexico City merchant. From there th ey wereflown to Ba tista . Castro prot e ted about thegaso line deal : he has four Vampi re j ets inthe hills himself , which are as u eless with­out fuel as if they had no wing.

Sudden ly, as GUNS Ma gazin e goes topress , the R evolut ion becom es an accom­plish ed tact , Castro is ente ring Ha van a, andthe U.S . has recognized his governmen t.

T he success of F idel Castro's ar ms over th esuper ior equipment of Batista' s U.S.-equippedforces attest to the poten tial for victory in­herent in the popula rly suppor ted change ofgovern ment. Free elections- which Batistarefused to hold after promi sin g the world hewould do so- are the key to peaceju l change sin central ad ministra tion. But when a aov­er nrne n t becomes destruct ive of what our ownFounding Fathers consider ed inalienabl er ight s, an d what 4,000 Cuba ns have giventhei r lives for, force may be the only way tor ight wrongs. Certa inly th e Cuban revoltsee ms to have concluded with as much in­spiration and patr iotic fervor, as with blood­shed. Aud th e Great Democracy of the 1 ort h1, J:l lO.. h ;)rI !H :: m ll ,..h t n rio "UT;' ]' th o:;>; " i l"t n ru ..... f

the U.S. is acco mpa nied by legal dan gers,and since import ed some sharp Ya nkee toolmakers and a few lat hes with ga soli ne gener­ator, is not kn own. But it would be a logica lnext step. For F idel Castro and his bro therRaul have been learn ing revolution the slow,leisurely " mana na" way. Th ey have mad emistak es. and th ey have pa id for them inmoney and blood.

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mixture I'm partial to, could, I'm sure, bedriven at even higher velocity and still holdto practical hunting accuracy . However, Iwas never one to seek a possible extreme invelocity, when what I'd alr eady achieved wassufficient for the job .

It has, these days, become somewhat thefashion to th ink and talk only in terms ofdownin g animals at extreme ranges- eitherin fac t or fancy , and generally the latter­and therefore tr ying to squeeze the last atomof velocity out of a cartridge, often at pres­sures to mak e your hair stand on end. HereI must go along with that wise old veteran,Elmer Keith, whose 'wisdom in such thingsis the result of a great deal of first hand,practical experience. Elmer has long statedthat veloci ty up to a point is desirabl e, butbeyond that point bullet weight is moreimportant. For mass is a constant, whilevelocity is a variable, beginning to diminishthe moment the bull et leaves the muzzle.

In thinking back over close to 40 years ofhunting deer in the western country, wherethese long, lon g shots may come up moreoften tha n in the more wooded east andnorth , for example, I ha ve found that forevery kill made at what might be calle d trulylong range, a vastly grea ter number weredowned at ra nges not exceeding 150 yards,and with most of these within 100 yard s.Th erefore, I feel in no way handicapped

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Thi s Ideal bull et is not th e only one th e.375 handles well . The Hensley & Gibb s spirepoint bull et # 506, in weight 210 grains,ahead of from 32 to 35 grains of # 4198(or # 4198-data) powder shoots beautifully,having given me a five shot, bench restgroup at 100 yards of % inch. Another groupin thi s same loading went one inch exactly.point bull et # 506, in weight 210 grains,ahead of from 32 to 35 grains of # 4198(or # 4198-data) powder shoots beautifully,having given me a five shot, bench restgroup at 100 yards of % inch. Another groupin thi s same loading went one inch exactly.Anoth er Hensley & Gibb s bullet, a roundnosed job of about 255" gra ins, has gone assmall as 1~ inch with 45 gra ins of # 3031or # 4895 powder. A very light , yet conceiv­ably useful load und er cer tain circumstances,the Ideal plain base bull et # 375248, the oldstandard low power .38-55 bullet of 255 grainweight , ahead of from 15 to 18 grains of#4759, gave one group of 1% inches at100 yards.

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smithed, to stick in the gro und and be dri vendown to the proper height. As many as 100buffalo have been kill ed from one stand. Usu­ally, however, the h unt er kill ed ju st whathis skinners could tak e care of for the day.It was the most shameless and useless wasteof grea t ga me ever perp etrated; but don't letanyone tell you th ose old hid e hunter s couldnot shoot.

Th e Sha rps was the finest lon g ran ge ri fleof its era, and good ones will still shoot to­day if properly loaded. Th ey wer e very finelymade rifles, even in plain pattern . The finerSharps were often simply custo m jobs andwer e stocked and sighted as meti cul ously asthe finest in custom r ifles tod ay.

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Having hunted and shot with severa l of th em,I know th ey could put any bu ffalo down at600 yards with a few shots. The heavy slugsth rew up mud or dust, locating their strike ;one or two ran gin g shots would te ll tho seold boys how to make th e next slug land.

As the West sett led up and the buffalowere exterm ina ted , most ' of those fine oldrifles were left lying aro und for the kids toplay with an d soon the stocks were off, andthe breech blocks removed , and many of theleft-over barrels were driven into the groundas picke t pi ns for saddle horses. Today, fineSharps rifles are to be found only in collec ­t ions or in the hands of gun cra nks. M. C.Clark has the finest collec tion of th em that[ kno w of, incl udin g many that belon ged tofamous bu ffalo h unt ers and fronti er smen.

With fine buffa lo or Creedmo or-type Sharpsrifles bring ing up to $200 each on the buf­falo range, and with their factory loads sell­ing for two-bit s each in a day when 25 centswas money, it is no wonder those old hidehu nter s learned to make every shot coun t.They preferred to get a stand on bu ffalo ataround 200 to 300 yards and down wind . Th eywould then shoot a cow or bu ll through th elu ngs. The others would smell the blood andstar t butti ng the wound ed anima l. Then th ehunt er would caref ully pick off the ones onthe outer edge of the herd and would downa ny ani mal that att emp ted to leave. Thebrutes would simply stand and take it, solong as he did not make a bum shot. Thiswas calle d "a stand." Stand hu nters oftenused rest sticks and the heavy ba rr el gu ns,with set triggers on man y of th em. Reststic ks could be anything from simply a pairof st icks crossed and hand-held to form a V

Coma nche, Cheyen ne, and Kiowa tr ibes, sa idto have num bered bet ween 700 and 1000 war­riors, led by Quana h Parker of the Cornanch­es, White Shield and Stone Calf of th eCheyenn es, and Lone Wolf of the Kiowas.The fight lasted three days. Th e stores heldplen ty of ammo to feed th e big r ifles, a ndthe white men fought fr om behind the thi cksod wall s, firin g out through tr an soms andwindo ws.

Th e Shadler br oth ers were asleep in th eirwagon outside th e post when th e attackcame, and they were kill ed and scalp ed.Billy Tyler was also shot through the lu ngsat th e very star t of the fight as he was rnak­ing his way int o the store. William aids wasclimbi ng a ladder to the roo f when his bigSha rps accidently went off and almost de­capitated him. Tho se four were the onlywhites killed at the post . Nobody know s howmany Indi an warriors went down under theheavy pap er pat ched lead slugs of the buf­falo r ifles, but it was a ma tt er of hi storythat the steady, accura te fire of th ose r iflesbroke the heart and the back of th e In dianattack.

On the th ird day of the fight , some 15warriors rode out on a distant bluff, and th ehunter s sugges ted that Bill Dixon try hi s big.50 cali ber Sharps on them. Billy set hissights and, from a rest, fired one carefulshot. One Indian fell from his horse, andthe rest rode out of sight. The distan ce ofthi s shot was lat er carefully measured andfound to be 1538 yards.

Some writers of today belitt le th e mark s­man ship of these old hid e hunters and statethat th ey could not hit a buffalo at 600 yards.Having hunted and shot with severa l of th em,I know they could put any buffalo down at600 yards with a few shots. The heavy slugsth rew up mud or dust, locating their strike ;one or two ran gin g shots would te ll tho seold boys how to make th e next slug land .

KING OF THEBUFFALO KILLERS(Continu.ed from pag e 27)

the old 18 pound .45·100·550 formerly ownedby Han k Wat er s; one is a 16 pound .45·120that was al so used through the hide huntingdays ; and th e other is a 17 pound .40·90bottle neck. The three buffalo gu ns are allon the '69 ac tion, wh ile the '77 model is, ofcourse, on th e graceful small hammer actionof that model, with single trigger. Th e threeheavy rifles all have double se t trigger s andvernier sights .

M. C. Clark and I are probably the onlymen living today who have kill ed buffalo wit hthe old Sharps rifles. I used my 16 po und.45·120 in killing my first one. I kn ew manyof the old buffalo hunters as a boy in Mon­tana, and hunted with them when I was asmall kid. As a cla ss, they wer e th e finestgame sho ts thi s countr y ever produced. Th eywere riflemen in every sense, and perfe ctlycapable of kno cking off a buffalo out to 600yards. Their demand for ever heavier riflesled to the Big Fifty. I had one of th esegreat rifl es a lso. It was not perf ect in th ebor e, but shot very well. Th ese wer e in grea tfavor in the last stages of the buffalo slaugh­ter , for long range work, All the buffa lohunter needed was a supply of lead , powd er ,pa tch paper, and Berdan cap s to keep hi slon g hulls reloaded and read y for use. Th ebuffalo runner carried a cleaning rod andusua lly a canteen or bottl e of wat er so hecould swab the bore wit h a wet patch everyso often, to keep the barrel from getting toohot and to keep the powder-fouling fromcaking in the bore.

Many times too the old bu ffalo and Creed­moor rifles were used in hot Indian fights.P robably the greates t of th ese was th e 'DobeWall s fight, June 27th, 1874. Th e litt le trad­in g post in the hear t of the buffa lo countryknow n as Adobe Wa lls was occupi ed thatt,;aAU I~ J 11 u n :: UV1G.

Many times too the old bu ffalo and Creed­moor rifles were used in hot Indian fights.P robably the grea tes t of th ese was th e 'Do beWall s fight, June 27th, 1874. Th e litt le trad­in g post in the hear t of the buffa lo countryknow n as Adobe Wa lls was occupi ed tha tday by 28 men and one woma n. Mr s. Oldsa nd her hu sband, Will iam a ids, with someseven oth er men were l iving at th e post ; therest were buffalo hunt er s in for supplies andammunit ion. Practicall y all were armed withSharps buffalo and Creed moor rifles.

At 2 A.M. , a lou d cracking sound from thecottonwood rid ge pole in Ha nra han 's saloonwak ened Mi ke Welch and a man namedShephard. They wak ened a numb er of th eircompan ions to help repa ir the r idge pole,which suppor ted the heavy sod roof. Thenoi se they mad e wakened the res t of th ecamp, and thi s incid ent alon e saved th e livesof all in the l ittl e post.

Wh en the job was done, it was too lat eto go back to sleep and Billy Dixon had j ustpicked up his r ifle to go out a fte r the horseswhen he saw h undreds of Ind ian s on ru nni ngponies. He gave th e ala rm, and th e hunter spil ed int o three bu ildin gs to defend th em­selves, Many had on only th eir und erw ear.Hanrahan 's Saloon held J ames Hanrahan,Willia m Dixon , Bat Mas terson, Sheph erd ,Mike Welch , Hiram Wa tson , Bill y Ogg, J imMcKinley, and Berm uda Carlysle. Meye rs& Leonards store held " F re nchy,' HenryLease, Mik e McCabe, Keeler , F red Leonard ,Jim Campbell , Ed Trevor, Frank Brown,Harry Armitage, Dut ch Henry, and BillyTyler. Ra th and Wright s store held J amesLangton, George Eddy, Tom O'K eefe, wu.li am Olds and his wife, Sam Smith , and

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No. 3. Back to target , walk away and onsignal given between 12 and 21feet, draw, turn and fire 5 shotsDA. Right-handed men turn left,left-handed men turn right .

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of comrrussron at around 900 yard s with aSha rp s Creedm oor .45-120-550.

Surely the incident s set down here, includ­ing th e winnin g of the Wimbledon Cup in1900, document the acc uracy of th e Sha rpsas a long ra nge rifle. Up unt il t he recentadvent of the .458 Winchester , th e Shar psBig Fifty .50-170-700 was still our most pow­erf ul American commercially manufacturedrifle and cartridge ; and I have had far bett erkilling power on elk from th e .45-120-550than from any smalle r modern Americanca rt r idge .

T he Sharps Borchardt ha mmerless r iflewas fir st produced aft er the fine Model '75expe rimental and the Model '77; but whilei t had a much better action for smokelesspowders later on when the anvil pr imer wasused , it never attained mu ch pop ulari ty onthe buffalo ran ge. This was beca use theBerdan cap pr imers of th e time would setba ck in the firi ng pin hole, locking up theBorchard t acti on. You had to take out thescrews and remove the br eech block to cleara pierced or blown-bac k prim er. The newac tion was much stronger and also safer withanvil primers, but practically all the earl ierSharps loads carried Berd an caps. Then Win·chester br ought out solid head modern prim­er cases and with these, the Borchard t-act ionSharps became very popular and ' is stillwidely used toda y in vermin and bench restrifles. It is an exce llen t action if th e firingpin hole is bushed for many modern highveloc ity load s.

Tim es change and so do men and rifles ; butle t us ever remember tha t, from th e Seven­ties to the turn of the century, we had longrange rifles in th e famous Sharps- ~and men who knew how to use th em. ~

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E VEN T No. 2- T 1.7 1.8 1.9 2. 0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7

T C 5.0 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2. 5 2.0 1.5 1.0 .5 .0

E \ 'E\1T No. 3-T 1.8 1.9 2.0 2. 1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8

T C 5.0 ~ .5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 .5 .0

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E \'EN T No . 7- T 3.5 3.6 3. 7 3.8 3.9 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5

TC 5.0 4. 5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 . .5 .0

Although the police quick draw course is of the tar get can be observed. Oft en a ma nfired in dayl ight, it can be shot at night. at night will appear as a darker bla ckness.F loodlights illuminati ng the range can be Such skill can easily be accomplished byturned off. Th e officers' eyes can be permitted the averag e peace officer th rough prescribedto become accustomed to the darkness, or practice with proper instru ction. Thi s willthey can be required to shoot whil e still develop that high degree of confidence in" blinded" from after-effec ts of light. Ac· one' s own ability for defe nse und er th e mostcurate hip level shooting in day light hours dangero us cond itions. P rac tice can r.;gives equal proficiency at night , if an outline and does save li ves.

No.4. Draw on signal with righ t hand .fire 3 shots DA, shift gun to lefthand, fire 2 shots DA. For left­handed men, reverse above. Recorddistance on score sheet. OS ')

FIVE TARG ETS:POLICE MAN-SIZE SILHO ETTES

No. 5. Draw on signal and fire 5 shots DA.one shot at each target. Recorddistan ce O S') on score shee t.

TWO TARGETS :POLICE MAN-SIZE SILHO ETTES

0.6 . Draw on signal, fire 5 shots DA,two a t first target and three atecond tar get. Record distan ce.O S' )

0. 7. Load revolver with 6 shells. Dis­tan ce to be from 15' to 21' fromtarget. Have shooters walk fromr ight to left without look ing attarget. On signal dra w, fire one shotat each ta rget. Holster gun. Recordt ime. Walk from left to r ight andduplicate. Walk stra ight at targetsfor firin g last two shots. Add thethr ee time part s for tota l time. (T)

The scoring method inclu des: 1) RecordTim e (T) ; 2) Record cred it for time (TC) ;3) Record Hits (H); 4) Record cred it forhits in vital ar ea (Ih Po int) ( HC) ; 5)Record Total score for each event (S) . Th esema y be column headings across a printedform recording the proficiency of th e con­testant. Th e meth od app lies to all sevenevents. Each shot with in the vital inn er areaon Police Silh ouette Target scores .5 (% )point ad diti onal in Total Score.

In a typi cal shoot, Monro e police officerOtwell , one of our fastest shooters , made th ehi ghest possibl e score on the first, secondand third events, but lost one point on th efour th event due to T ( time ) and having

~,:e ~!~? t._?~l t. ? f. ~! t~~_~:~~ _~~ ~ ~ _~!1_, t ~:~_ ~~r~.~~hi ghest possibl e score on the first , seco ndand th ird events, but lost one point on thefourth event due to T ( time) and havingone shot out of vital area but on the tar getwhich gave 2.0 for HC (h it cred its) . He lost% point in fifth event du e to one shot not invital ar ea. One-half point was lost in the sixihevent. In the seventh event, two shots wereout of vita l ar ea but on ta rget resul tin g in aloss of one point. His total score was 86.0, orthr ee point s und er the possibl e score of 89.As to percentag e, 96.6% places him in th eMa ster class. Had he placed all shots fired invital area, his score would be 2.5 point s moreor 88.5.

For example, officer Otwell perf orms EventNo.1 sta nd ing at a distance of 15 feet , facin gtar get. On flag signa l, he draws and fires 5shots in 1.6 seconds, all shots inside vitalarea of tar get. His score ca rd for Event No. 1would read:

Event No. I-Otwell:T TC H HC= S

1.6 Second s 5 5 2.5 12.5He has pr odu ced the highest possibl e scorewhi ch shows :

TC (5) is 40% of 12.5H + HC (7.5) is 60% of 12.5

Th is holds to the meth od of scoring, placin ga 20 per cent pr emium on accuracy but also.re quiring good tim e.

Should his tim e (T) be 1.8 seconds. histime credits (TC) would be 4. Each shotnot in vital area would red uce hit cred its(HC) % point. Shots off the target costthe shooter 1% points each. T he time cred itsfor var ious tim e records in the seven ma tchesar e figured in when computing the part icul arabsol ute score. Th e values we use in theLouisiana course tim e credits (TC) are:

QUES TIO S concern ing proof marks andtheir meanings ar e an everyday part of

til e mail that flows over every gun editor's. -

QUESTI O S concern ing proof marks andtheir mean ings are an everyday part of

t ile mail tha t flows over every gun editor'sdesk. Only rarely does a magazine att empt toan swer these qu eries with an article, becau sethe subject of proof mar ks (cover ing as itdoes the laws and the gun history 01 ma nynati ons over a couple of centuries ) is toocomplicated, too heavily laden with intricatedetail, to be tr eat ed adequately in magazinespace. Currently in preparat ion by Th e GunDigest Company is a book titl ed " ProofMarks Of The World" which may do the job.

But the recent pub licat ion of a rt ides inoth er magazine s regarding proof marks andalleged "proof" loads-art icles designed toprove tha t all military r ifles, and part icularlyall imported milit ary rifles, are junk, dead lydan gerous to the user- have so increased ourmail on thi s subjec t that we feel we mustmake a publ ished answer , alb eit this an swermust be in th e most genera l of term s.

First , the load s spec ified in the art icles inquest ion a re not proof loads ; they are blow­up load s. Some ar e questionable even in thatca tegory, since th e qu antity of the powderspecified cannot be loaded into the statedcase. But there is a vast and dan gerous dif­ference between proof load s and blow-upload s.

A proof load is a charge heavier (ge n­era lly, from 25 to 40 per cent heavier) thanthe max imum standard load intended for th egun. Such loads are fired once (in mostcases; sometimes two are fired ) in new gunsto "prove" that the guns are sound. Somecountr ies have laws stipulating exactly whenand how this proving must be done; oth ercountr ies have no such laws. AIter the pr oofload s are fired and the gun is inspected and

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found sound, a " proo f mark" is sta mped on.A proof load is not int end ed to blow up thegun ; it is merely to pro ve that the piece is

found sound, a " proof mark" is sta mped on.A proof load is not intend ed to blow up th egun; it is merely to pro ve that the piece issafe for intended pr essur es pl us a statedsafety mar gin of structural strength.

A blow-up load does blow up the gun. Youcan blow up any gun, if th at is your in ten­tion. But the fact that you can blow it up bydelibera te massive overload ing does not meanthat the gun was unsaf e for any reasonablysane usage. Publicat ion of factory and mili­tary proof loads (from 25 to 40 per centabove standa rd max imum pr essures) is con­sidered dangerous and is held as " restricted"information in the trad e. Publica tion of th emassive blow-up overl oad s in the articlesabove-men tion ed is, we think, sufficientlydan gerous to deserve a strong warning tohandloadin g shooters and gun smi ths : DON'TUSE THEM!

Militar y firearm s of thi s and oth er nationshave, from the earl iest days of gun making,filtered out of the military into th e civilianmarkets of thi s and other nations for use assporting arm s. Our ational Rifle Associationhas for man y years sold countless th ousandsof "o bsolete" Enfield and Sprin gfield riflesfor hunting (and target ) use. To say that allmilitary rifle are " no good" is to imp eachthe integri ty of the Association which hasdon e more for hooti ng in this country tha nany other age ncy. Beca use they ar e oft enavailable at low cost, such r ifles have con­tri buted considerably to the growth of shoot­ing as a sport, and particularl y of hunting, inth is and other countries. Th ey are not idealsporters, as issued. But they have kill ed aworld of game for thousan ds upon th ousan dsof hunt ers, without alteration ; and they haveprovid ed unendin g delight to the thousands

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powder load ed tight into lar ge rifle car­tridges, may even deton at e, go off lik e dyna­mite. Nothing can stand that test. But thefun ction of proof loads is to reveal inh erentweakn esses in guns. Even American gunmakers rely on thi s positi ve test-a gun hear­ing the WP proof stamp is safe for allnormal cartridges of its cal iber .

Int ernational conventions have establishedstanda rd pr oof loads. All reputabl e foreigngunmakers, even arsenals of warring powers,subscribe to these intern ational rul es ofproof. Th e shooter, when he obta ins a foreignrifle, should look knowin gly for the foreignproof mark s. Interestin gly, some U.S. gunsare strong enough to stand pr oving twice orthree times. As the U.S. has no governingauth ori ty or law which makes proof testin gmand atory (often .22 revolvers, for example,are not proof tested) , the U.S. pr oof mark sare not usually recognized by foreign coun­tri es. Briti sh law requires American firearms to undergo proo f before being sold.

No proof load s are published for U.S.arms, but you can be reasonably sure th at

mandat~ry '(often .22 revolvers, "for exampl;'are not proof tested ) , the U.S. pr oof marksare not usually recognized by foreign coun­tri es. British law requires Ameri can firear ms to undergo proof before being sold.

No proof loads are published for U.S.arms, but you can be reasonably sure th atmodern U.S. guns are entirely safe. Foreignrifles, espec ially milit ar y rifles, must conformto the strictes t govern ment standa rds. Checkfor the proof marks-they are the user 'sguara ntee to himself that his rifle is safewith its or iginal standard cartridge load . Ofcourse, all proof mark s are invalid if re­barreling or barr el slimming or rebori ng hasbeen indulged in by some gunsmith. But th eempirical rul e that one action for a cartr idgeof given force can be fitted with a bar rel fora similar powered cartridge is fairly safe.

Th e best bet is to keep facto ry-made riflesin the calibers in which they ar e issued . Letthe Gun Makers do the rebarrelin g. For onlythey have access to standard pr oof cartridgesto make sure , scientifically, th at what ~they are doing is safe for you. ~

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powder, more than the cart ridge case willnormall y hold, was reported fired from onesuch Enfield. "Head of case blown off, boltlugs set back, bolt channels in receiverdistorted," was the terse report. It must benoted that while the gun was rendered un­serviceable, the action did not actually failor burst und er thi s extreme blow-up test.

Of course any gun can be blown up, andtoo much powder, such as small ·case pistol

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times. Th e first is the proof in the roughstate, in which a cart ridge without an ex­tractin g rim is used, and a cylindrical bulletheavier than the pointed bull et. It is alsoproved as an assembled rifle, with a cartridgegiving 25% greater pressure. Th e many in­spections to which the SMLE is exposed arereflected by the dozens of mark s placed oneach part by the indi vidual inspector. Th eoverload tests usuall y employ the lett er "P"in the symbol for proof, combined with theBriti sh royal crown.

Some rifles made to military standards,with the high quality control demanded inthe old days by governments whose soldierstru sted their lives to their guns, have pr ovedunexpectedly strong. A report of an attemptto blow up one .303 American Enfield , of th etype made by Remin gton, Winchester , orRemin gton's Edd ystone, Pa., factory, from1914 to 1917 for the British, failed to burstthe gun. A charge of 68 grains # 3031

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upon thousands of home craftsmen who havereworked them int o " things of beauty and ajoy forever."

I recall my own many pleasant hours in­lett ing Bishop stocks, using some importedchisels from my school shop, and a waste­basket filled with newspap er gripped betweenmy feet as a "vise." I won't dwell on therecollection: I must have looked like a Darratribesman as a stockmaker, but it was fun,even if a little blood did flow. Now, suchneat items as Versa-Vice tak e care of whatwere then big problems-how to work on theold rifles at home.

But perhaps the most striking thin g aboutmilitary rifles, beca use most obvious, are thepr oof marks and inspectors' mark s. U.S.made firearm s bear many marks : those suchas the int erlaced "W P" in an oval, for Win ·chester Proof, or the REP in an oval forRemin gton Extra Proof, ind icate these corn­mercial guns have been fired once with ahi gh-pressure cartridge. These cartridges arespecial tinned-case ammunit ion so loaded asto develop pr essures 25% to 40% higher thanthe maximum sta ndard load. In the U.S., theSporting Arms and Ammunition Manufac­turers In stitu te, to which association some ofour gun manufacturers belong, have estab­lished standard pr oof loads. Th ese loads arenot availab le for publicat ion, but Remin gtonand Win chester make ammo "For use onlyby gun makers for test ing strength of guns."Th e overl oad , if th e gun stands proof, con­firms that no inherent weakn esses have es­caped the inspectors.

Abroad , govern ment regulati ons govern theproving of firearms. In England, both over­load firing and physical examination are partof the tests. Th e old SMLE Enfield .303 rifle,or Rifle No. III , which is composed of about130 parts, is subjec ted to 1250 ga uges, mostof which judge the closeness of the work toone or two thousan dths of an inch. Th e bar­rels, of manganese steel, noted for toughness,

load firing 'and 'p'hys ical 'ex~minati~~ are partof the tests. Th e old SMLE Enfield .303 rifle,or Rifle No. III , which is composed of about130 parts, is subjec ted to 1250 gauges, mostof which judge the closeness of the work toone or two thousan dths of an inch. Th e bar­rels, of manganese steel, noted for toughness,are proved with overloa d cartridges two

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WORLD'S FINES T E ngra vin g. Fo lder $1.00. E . C. Prud­homme, w ard B ldg .• Shre veport. L a.

B RIT IS H MK . 5 303 Lee-Enfield J ungle carbines. Verygood-$24.95. Exc ellent-$29.95. German Mod. ~8 SmmMa user ri tles. Very good--$39. ~5 . P erfect-$44. aO. I s ­ra eli Mod. 98 8mm Mause r n fles. (Cze ch made ) Allmille d parts. Perf ect-$49.50. E gYPti an 8mm Mause r.10 shot serm- auto mati c ritl es . All milled par ts. (F.N.made ) Very g'ood-$69.50. German G-43 8mm Maus~r.10 shot semi- automat ic r ifles. Excell ent- $62.00. Swed~shMod. 96 6.5 mlll Mau ser rifl es. E.xcell ent- $21.50. Swedis hKar 38 6.5 mm Ma user carbtnee. Ex cell ent - $32.50 .Swed ish Mod. 94 6.5m m Ma user carb ines. Very good-

~.fgn~~· b~:~ g7u~~~tetri~;e~ ~i~~s i ist~xc;~~eenJI;;l::r~sCo.. 34 Park .Row, Ne w Yor k 38. N. Y.

CU~.rOMBILT nU'LES- our sole busine ss sin ce 1932.Custom mad e. as the name imp li es. to your specificati ons inmost cali bers and the famou s 7MM Express. Ba rre ls ofTimken Special rifle bar rel steel in any twist, length andweight. 'I'h croughly seasoned stock blanks are hand i.n l~ttedand shaped to in sure you per fect fit and balan ce. Flms~edr ill es cr oup- test ed to insure accura cy. ';I'he h}ghest 9ua!Ityi n every th ing but cost . Hoy C ra dle. Ri flesnuth . 20;) \\ es tI sl ay Stree t. Sa nta B arbara . Ca lif .

ENGRAVING

UU 'L ES. 303 B B. l ·l' I ~ H Eunelds , as issued . good condi ­tion. $23. 00..303 Br it ish Mil i ta ry Cartr idges . $10.00per 100. Pub lic Snort Shops . 11 S. 16th Street. P htla ­delph ia 2. J"3.

COLT FRO.:\"TIE Rt; , Colt an d Rem ington per cussion re ­volvers. W in Lever acti ons plu s man y other Modern an dAn ti que Guns. \Vill Tr ade. Stamp for li st. Chet Fulmer(Guns), Detro it La kes. Mi nnesota.

GUNS - S\VORDS - Knives - Da gger s F las ks. B ig list25c cotn. Ed H owe. Cooper Mills 10. Main e.

12 CEN TU RY MIL ITARY F lails: Comple te detatls uponrequ est. John's . 311 So. 4 St .• H arrison. N . J .

SMIT H & WE SSON, 22 Cal., brand new, model 41. t argetautomati c. $110.00. F ull y eng raved model. $285.00. PublicSport Shops. 11 S. 16th Street . P hiladelphia 2. Pa.

" ANT IQUE & MODERN Arms, Accessor ies at 'Recession'prices. Sa mple li st . 25c. La dd Arm s. Cat skill, N. Y."

l\HNIA TU RES. GUN li st, Kn ight , Box 294. Seneca Fall s.N. Y.

10.000 GU NS ! ! !- ·SWOUDS- Ken t uckies-Colts-Lug er s-c-H un tln g Gun s I ! ! Bargai n Cata log- 50c. .aa ranicntes.Yonker s 2-K , N. Y.

BRITISH MK. 5 303 Lee-Enfield jungle carbines. E xcel­lent - $24.95. F ree li st. AI' s Gunroom. 1 B eekman St reet .New York. N. Y.

NAZI AXD other mi litary collec tors it ems. P rivate . F orli sting 25c coin. C. B rownfie ld . 10820 Carnegi e, Cle ve­land 6. Ohi o.

GUN CABINETS

COLLECTORS

H OW TO Ma ke Money-Over 150 P lans $1. Catlin. 68Nor th E llswort h. San Mateo. 15. Cali fornia.

GU N CABI NETS. Ra cks. Complete Selectio n. Send 25cfor Cata logue. Dept. D . Kn ox w ood P roducts, Kn oxville.Iowa.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

GUNSMI THI NG

BIXOC{iLAR SPEC I AL IS TS . E xper t repairs to all mak esinc luding telescopes and riftescopes. Author ized Ba usch &Lomb. Zei ss, H en sold t , Bu shn ell deal er . F ree estimat es.'I 'ele-Optlcs , 5514 L awrence. Chicago 30. Illinois.

GUNS 6' AMMUNITION

17,000.000 G UN P ARTS Stoc ked mode rn . obsolete. for ­eig n. Se nd tracin g. de scri pti on for Quotation. NumnchArm s. \Vest Hurley 19. N. Y.

BINOCULARS 6' SCOPES

B RIT IS H MK . 5 303 Lee-Enfield J ungle carbines. Verygood-$24.95 . Exc ellent-$29.95. German Mod. ~8 SmmMa user ri tles. Very good--$39 . ~5 . Perfect-$44.aO. I s­ra eli Mod. 98 8mm Mauser n fles. (Czech mad e) Allmilled par ts. Per fect-$49.50. E gYPti an 8mm Mause r.10 shot serm- automa tic ritl es . All milled par ts. (F .N.made ) Very g'ood- $69.50. Ger man G-43 8mm Maus~r.HI <.h At " p m i_ ll.lI t fll ll ll.t. i c rifl es Exce llent $60.00 SwedIsh

BINOCULAR. IM POItTED. Hghtw et ght , 10.50. withcoated opti cs. central focusin g, brand new. Value $65.00.Sal e $29.50. Comp let e with leath er case and straps. PublicSport Shops. 11 S. 16th St ree t. Philadelphia 2, Pa.

SH OOTERS: If you are inter ested in learn ing Gunsmith­ing and are wil ling to spend a few hours in your home shopfor a handsome, accura te .22 ta rget p isto l. send 4 centsta mp for .complete information. P . O. Box 362, Terr eH au te. I ndian a.

g I NnJA N WAR !lrrnwhp~rl<: 1i'1i" . !'::"Ql n;nlJ' R'"nit",

-t fiji&-NEW .45BARRELS

•45 TAPEREDBARREL BLANKS

a u to , 1911 '" Al $6.95

(N ow fun 1 2")

Usab l e f o r B unU in e S . A. 's, muzzle l oaders . NeW'Se rv ice, 1 917' s , m in i a t u re cannon, cus tom r e ­volver bb l s . Rifled , n ew, $ 5 . 3 5 plus 50 C pp.

(0'. 4 4 CALIBER BA.RREL BLANKS

REMINGTON "MATCHMASTER".22 BARRELS

KNOCK OFF 75%! f

HEAVY .22 CAL. BARREL BLANKS

F or e xceptional qualt ty b arrel blanks o r for use onRem. ::;00 ser ies r ifl e s . Each te s ted & ser ia l n u m ­bered by Rem i n gton craftsmen. Made f o r 5 13 T a r g e tmodels-6 groove , c h a m bered, 1 3 / 1 6 " di a. FULL26" LONG! Sui tab l e for ce nter fire ca ncers . J u s t$ 4 .9 5 p lu s 50 ~ post. (Re m . f ront s igh t " ramp,r e ad y to insta ll o n abo ve , S 1.2 5 )

(t·F or exce ptional qualit y berret blanks o r for use o nR em. 5 00 s e r ies rifle s. Each tested &, s e r ia l num­be r ed by n ern tngtcn c ra f tsm e n . Made f o r 5 13 T arg e tm odels-6 groove , c ham bered , 1 3 /16" dia . FULL26" LONG ! S u i t a b le f o r ce n te r fi r e ca li b e-rs. J u s t$ 4 . 9 5 plu s SO C p ost. (Rem . front s igh t &, r a mp,r e ad y t o in s tall o n a bove, S1.2 5 )

F u ll 1 1 /1 6 " di a m eter, s t r a i g h t , r i fle d b l a nk-8groov e f o r s u per a cc u r ac y. 2 4" l o ng-la r g e d iameterm a kes ada p ta b le for m ost rim or center fi r e a ctio ns.1 t urn In 14" o n ly $6.95 plu s 45 ¢ po st.

(Chn mbe r ing for . 2 2 L. R. on ly , add $ 1. 0 0)

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B ra n d new. s t r a ig h t le n g th s , 3/4" x 8 " , f o r extra lon~a nd / o r f a n c y b arrel s . S upp li ed cham bered for . 4 5a u to o r u nc ba m ber ed , state w h ich $ 3 .9 5 • • . -o r 2 f or $6.50 .

WINCHESTER M7S BARRELSBrand N ew, 6 7 % D I SCOU N T I Only $ 7.9 5 p lus .50 p o sta,.• .

J!l minu tes you conver t your Spr ing field 1903 into 0smoot h ac t ion, man -sized .22 repedter.

~. Bock '0 30 .06? Simp ly . Iip ou l barrel line' ond" " .22 bolt. ' .~. Smooth act ion , the some that'-s .,.,-on m.atch ofterc match-yea r after yeor as the U.S. M·2 Springfield .~-. " Shor t th ro w " bo lt and or d nance steel 6arre l inse rt ,ijjLco~_,! rob le 10 5137 .00 " 'Qr. ef ' ,2~~. """""""""_",,,,,.....t

ground .22 barre l inse rt, full size short act ion .22 bolt, new .22EXTRA magazines 51.75 each .

NEW 5 " S&W B A R ­R EL S. e i t h e r com­m e r cia l b lue orp a r ke ri sed - s tateWhich. . 38 Specia lo r .38 S& W Cal.Co m p lete w ith la tch ,pin &, s p r ing. F itsl\i &P , " K" and"Comb a t", a ls o .38Vi ctory. B u y a sparea t th i s b a r gai nprice. Limit ed Sup ­pl y .

[-~ ORDERNOW~r I '"' \ ONLY $34.50 PPD . , ' I

~LERS~I~

DOUBLES USE* DOUBLES UTILITY* INCREASES RE·SALE VALUE

ORIGINAL LYMAN

NOT $5.00

nU'l' 40

Stan d a r d d ove ta il - Intercha n g e abl e In sert s included.F or H t-po w er or s m a ll b ore s. From d is con tinuedT a rget r ifle o f larg e s t U . S . m aker. At a 70 0/0di scount! $1.49 e a . $12 .00 per dozen

THOMPSON PARTS & SERVICEFOR ALL MOOELS. SOLE MANUFACTURERS.NEW GUNS AVAILABLE to qualified purchasers,

(Send Stamped. Addressed Env.for FREE CATALOG SHEETS)

NOT $5.00

ONLY $7.49HOODED TARGET FRONT SIGHTS

EACIf UNIT con sists of pr ecision~al. trigger guard and magazine.

FITS ANY M1903 SPRINGFIElD.Your Springfield and our .22 Con­

version un it "lake a te rrific double -duty team.

"I'm ex'remely proud of our new .22 Springfield Sh ;pped prep a;d In

Conversion Unit, which too k over 2 years to de - coun t er d is p lay bo x .

ve/op. It offers 1903 Springfield owners double • F its a ll 1903 Model Springfields in 30-06.

utility by providing them with a man -sized, smooth. • Adju sta bl e h e ad spa ce plug for perpetual serv ice..

working .22 re·peater, .comparable to the popular • 1 st t im e availa b le i n ove r 55 y ears!

'but almost extinct U. "S. M·2 Sp ringfield .22." • il:e:p~:~v:h:~ac~:;k.~ ith 22 's-pays for itself

Geo. R. Numrich, Jr ., President

rear si ght for commerci alTh ompsons - fits mili ta rymodels too - beautifullym a d e - o ri g i n a I pri ce$14.00. new-boxed. S ig htladder ofte n in stall ed onEn field i ssue rifl es to givewinda g e which Enfieldsights lack- OKLY $1.95.

'RR

$2.95

CLOSE OUT16-20 Ga.a::::::::

GOV'T ISSUES ho tgu n ve nt, h an dguard&:. ba y o n e t attachme nt,as used in t re nc hes WW- l a n d fo xh o le s in ' VW· 2 .Fi t s W i n . 1 2 , & '9 7 I t h a ca 37 , S te vens 5 20 &:. 620,Re m . 10 &:. 3 1 r io t g uns. New supp ly a llows r e ­d u ced pr i ce- O N L Y $ 3 . 7 5 w / mounting screws!

SATISFACTION ALWAYS GUARANTEED!

REMINGTON MODEL 12Fir ing pi ns. Our new improved desig n __$2.75 ppd.

ANNUAL SALEISSUE

SEE DISCOUNT COUPON

SHOTGUN BEADSDO GET LOST

& BROKENHe re ' s a packet of 10 larg ebead (stand ard 4 / 40 t hread )s ights f or u su a l price of Ju s tone, ONLY $ 1 .0 0 per Pa c ke t(B uy 1 0 0 (10 p ackets) & n exttime a f ri end shows you h Is Pa t tersons how hi m you r s hot gu n s ig h tortce fo r t his purpose , 5 7 . 5 0

DO GET LOST& BROKEN

H e re ' s a p a ck et o f 1 0 largebead (s ta n dar d 4 /40 t hread)s ig h ts f o r u s u a l p ri ce of Ju s to n e , ONLY $ 1 .0 0 per Pac ket(B uy 1 0 0 (1 0 packets ) &, n extti m e a f ri e nd s hows you h i s P a t t ers on co l1ectlon,s how h im y our s h o t gun s ig h t coueceton . Specia lprice for t h i s purpose, $ 7.50 per 100 s ig h ts) . T a pfor above , 4 /40 - - - - - - - - - 50t

REMINGTON Mll !$IREC~•• •• ~

SPECIALLY PRICEDto cl o se o u t fe w r e maini n g . New r e cei vers , {u llyfin is hed, in w h ite , com p le te w ith fitted triA'ge rp late (g uard) $ 7 .95

WANTED: GUN PARTS

NEW BARREL FOR WINCHESTER M12

These shotgun barrels should cause one atthese prices! ABOUT 82% DISCOUNT-buyan extra, ideal for slug & brush work, 20"cyl . bore, all 12 ga., new, blued, Win-chester Mdl. 12 $4.95

(T hese can b e converted to ta kc -d own Mdl. 97 by ligh t la t he cut)

Winchester Mdl. '97 solid frame • . . . $4 .95Remington Mdl. 10 . . .. . •.. . .• . .. $4 .95Stevens Mdl. 520 . .. .. . •. . . . .... . $4.95

VERY RARE SPARE PARTSIN LIMITED QUANTITIES

We h a ve h ad. to disappoi n t m a ny of our cus tomerson the bel ow p a rts o ve r the y e ars-we n ow have thefollo w in g i n small s u p p ly -all n e w.

MAGAZINESS AVAG E .3 2 o r .380 a u to. p i s tol $7.50

~~~~~~~ r 9SlCO "& -3-4- -(2 s- j);-3 2-i al;:i tiitel ::: ~:~:OR TGIES . 2 5 or .3 2 ca t .c-state-; 5 .75WALT H ER . ~5 , M od el 8 o r 9 - stat e - 5 .75B R OWNIN G M i1.-1 3 shot, 9mm 6 .50

;-~~:RBr~~:ting -(Waler plsto l )- :32 -:::::::::: ::~:FIRING PINS

OR T GIES . 25 or .3 2 ca l. -sta te- 3 .50MA U SER 1 910-34 (.25 o r .3 2_s tate) 2 .50MA U S ER H Sc 3 .95191 0 &. 1 92 2 Browning .32 2.25

1,00 0 ' s of o t h e r rare parts-write wantsl

12 go. only, 28" modified, or 30" full , statewhich. $12.60 ppd. (Almost 60"/0 di scount!!!!)

.RIOT

K'-UNIVERSA L MAGAZINESPRINGS. usable for Springfield,Enfield , etc . convert ible to Jap s,Mausers , Bolt Act ion shot gun mag ­az ines etc . New, packet of 10,SPECIAL ONLY $1.95.

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Ram s i h t s a s s how n

SUPER BUY 95c

.~SO% -NEW $4. S0

EXCLUSIVE AT NAC

SAVAGE 1 903 -0 6 -0 9 -1 2 .22 M AG­AZINES . R are m ag-a z i nes. un ava n ­a b le f o r y e a r s . o n ly $2 ,8 5 ppd ,

U. S. CARBINEMAGAZINES

FRE E Wat er (& dirt &tobacco) proof rub ber capgiven w/ ea. mag azin e.

HIGH SPEED MAINSPRINGS

tW'hn

SAVE ALMOST

LYMAN 57A REARSIGHTS-

for y ou r Colt 19 17 , NewSer v ice o r Offici a l Policer e vo lv e r s - r e duce s l ockume , scores l e a p , o u rm a ke , t e sted & approved__ _ n_ o n ly $ 1. 75 p pd .

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COLT REAR SIGHT

lMUlMIJ:F&lI~mr £mID1r~DISCOUNT COUPON

ANNUAL SALEISSUE

SEE DISCOUNT COUPON

22 CAL. ADAPTERS FOR .303

=::~:':~,:;,: ,~":::J22 RF./303 Brit ish-issue $1.00 ea .10 adapters $7 .S0

ORIGINAL SPRINGFIELDHAMMER

ORIGINAL S PRINGF I E LD PERCU S S IONmusket h amme r s , fit s a ll m o d e l s in ­c t u d tnz va r ious c ontr acto r s except Co lt-as n e w case harde n ed i n b eauti fu lco lo rs . SUPER SPECIAL ONLY $ 1 . 7 5 .

eas ily dovet ail ed into any r evolver. setscre w to lock winda ge. D imen sionA 25/32" or 11 / 16" $1. 00 ,

• 5 s hot capac it y- re quired by law for hun ting, fit sflush wit h guard-streamlines ap pea ra nce. Solidmachin ed bottom-not " raw" appear ing overs izedfold overs tha t some are se lling u $2.45

• 15 shot. in orig ina l wrap, only $I. OOea . or 2 for $1.7 5• 30 shot, " bannana" clips on ly $4.95 or 2 for $7.9 5!

~;I S~~Es~ht~~~h!~~r id ges on ram p m ake i tn o g lace-in w hite, . 5 2 5

I. D. N ote d es ign tha t p ermi t s u se on any r ifle b ytu rn i n g end of b a r r el t o . 5 2 5 a s s urin g smoot happ earanc e, Al s o m ake s fin e pi s t ol s igh t ,Ea ch 95 ~-Extra S pe c ial $9.0 0 per d o z. $ 6 5. 0 0 per 100 .

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adj u s t a h le f o r w l nd aze &e le vati on , fi l s a ll U. S . Ca r­bi n e s. s li des i nto rece tve vd o ve tail _ 2 m inu tes t o t n ­sta l l. as i s s u e d , $ 1 .85 pp d .

CARBINE REAR SIGHTS

GARAND RIFLE CONVERSION KIT

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WE HAVE OV E R 17 ,000 ,000 GUN PARTS *Mo d ern-Obsol ete- F o r e ign . F o r fr e e q u o -t a t ion se n d b ro ken pa rt o r rough ske tch .

r e d u ce s t o 5 s h o ts, only way tomak e Ga r a n d f u ll y le~al . forh u n t i n g in m o st s tates , (e as il yins t a ll e d & r emo ve d ) . Set , co rn ­pt ete Wi t h s peci a l f o llow e r &2 Jive s ho t c li ps , $3,95. Extra5 s h ot clip s, 9S¢ e a. S tandar dB s h ot c li ps, $2 .0 0 p er d ozen.

B a y on et &

s he a t h -$4,50 .Ba y ol1e t a ttac h­m e nt f o r gun­$ 1. 75 .S P EC I AL AL L 3for $5 ,3 5 ppd.

GARAND BARRELS-Verv !load to exe . $9.9S eoK eep shoot ing , a good invest ment. As Issued, Only$1.00 ea. ! (G ood to car ry wit h gun-new fir ingpin-$ 1.25, new ext rac tor $1.25)

GARAND BARRELS-Very good to exe . $9.9S ea .-

SEMI-AUTO ONLY

C02 PISTOL $14.95SMASHING POWER:Isa i~~£o~ a~s :jc:.tolca~s:sUI\n~~~et:~rvgeejoB.I.~e a n d ~ower~ ~~ful C02 (C arbon di o xi d e) ch arge r s . P istol l?ullt on. 2 2 T arg et pistol l in e s, r u g .ged m eta ! a lloy 1!1 blue ..bl a ck fini sh. Standard full s ized pi stol w eI ght &.

g~~~c:~ ~::aei~a~:g~~~nr~:~~~;;t~, ::d:v~~af:e~ ' ~.hc!~.~cylinder ee o tet nee ill t arget 5h aped gr Ip . QUlckly­SImply. re move d & r e placed.

SO POWERFULThe pistol eannct be m a il ed (except to licenseddea le rs ) but will b e ru shed Expr:e u (n o t prepaId) .Dealers, ad d SO ~ post a g e . SpeCial d ealers p r iceson l o t.s of th re e o r more.

FREE EXTRAS: 10 C02 Car­tridges plus B Tubes of CopperPlated BBs. A $2.00 Saving I

NEW U. S" CARBINE BAYONETS

BREECH OIL& THONG SET,

For Springfield, Garand" Enfield & Krag , fits inbutt, nickeled brass, not plastic, as <issued, excellent,complete $1.00 ppd.

*

GARAND TRIGGER GUARDSFor replacing

~wartime tin "fin-

. Steel

ger skinning" $1.75guards-new-

GARAND EMERGENCY TOOL

$¥~W OR TH ANYTH ING WHEN NE EDED

In field or on ra nge, t his ord nance tool may beneeded at any tim e-for bolt di sassembly, be-ca use of poor ext ract ion wit h fouled chamber , or forr ifle takedown. F its convenie nt ly in butt t rap-K eep shoot ing, a good invest ment. As issued, Only$1.00 ea.! ( Good to ca rry with gun-new firi ngpin-$ 1.25, new ext ractor- $1.25)

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tJ.itt*.~"FOR JI.'IU LA 4 4 · 4 0 " NO W U SED T:-.J' EVE RYU . S. GU N PL ANT AN D MA:"rY AB ROAD .N EW H I G H -S P E E D FORMULA g ive s e ve nbe t t e r r e su lt s . . . takes seco n d s t o a pp ly. . . be a u tifies. p rot e ct s. Used co ld . n ()thin~com p licated. Deep b lu e p e r m a n e nt fini s h .Act u a l ly pe n et r a te s th e s t e ot , Us e d by gu nfa ct o ri e s and g uns m ith s ev e r yw he re . Gu rrr­an teed t o b e the h e st co ld b lu e y ou everu sed -or y o u r m on ey ba c k.3 G UN S I Z E $ 2.0 0 ppd.

IND U STRI AL G UNSMI T H S I ZE .1 p in t $ 7 . 5 0 p p d .

E l im ina tes a n n o y i n g two stagepu ll f ou nd in m i l itary mode ls .n euuce tn a ccur-a ct e s wit h s u ­p et-t o r- p ull-c-F't t.s a ll '\;)8's ,S wed ish, 7 M i\'! 'D:3. '95 etc,­New, F amous F. :\I. make, spe­ci a l l o w pri ce S 1.7 ;j f o r se t ,

38 ITEMS G I SHOOTING KITABOUT 7¢ EA. ITEM!

I n h a n d s o m e ca rr v ­in g b ox w /se l f lo c k ­i ng handle , 10 so li db r a s s ro es (wu rt.h 7:;cea. ) , b r is t le cleaningm-u shes. 2 co n t ai nerss pec ia l gun grease . 1 0s pe cla l screw drt vers& punch. Ant iques ty le d b ra ss o i l c a n(o fte n u sed f o r pri m ­i n g powde r on p ercus ­s io n & fl i nts ) , pa tc hcan . A ll fit ted for pi s t o l s . 3 2 Ca l. & up. G iv e o r se lle x u-a r ods & screw drive r s to f r iends .Wh i le they l a s t- O NLY - $2 .75 p lu s 6 0 c po s tag e .

SALEoMARLIN BARRELS0W e na v e t h e wo r ld 's on ly s u p p ly of t h e se 811(1

we are c k s in g o u t t h e f ew r e ma in in g ! A ll N e w .b lu ed . reactv t o i n s t a ll.

F ·:- f 1 8 9 3 & 36 M dl. M a r l i n s38 /5 5 2 8 " Fu ll Oct. $9 .9538 /5,1 2 6" 1/2 Oc t . ~ __ $9 .9 538 /f);'} 26" Fu ll O c t. ~ _ $9 . 9 5

38 /55 20" C arb t ne $8,25:12 /40 2 (; " Fu ll O ct. $9 .95:12 / 4 0 2 (;" l/2 O ct. $9 . 9 5:12 /4 0 2 0" Ca rb ine $8. 2 5:12/40 t n" r o u n d $3 ,50.:]2 Spec. I ;; " r-ound $3. 50

Fo r Mod e l 94 Marl in:12/2 0 2 4 " r o und $9,9 52:> /20 1 5 " rou nd $3, 50

F 'J r Mo d e l 9 2, 3 2 ca l ib e r24 ", 26" 0 1' 28" ro und $6 . 50

(Arlr l 5 0e ror p ost. & s h ip p ing t o abov e )S T RA IG HT GRIP STOC KS FOR ABOVE MODELM ARLI NS , ne w $5 .9 5

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MILLED T.& flOOR

SWEAT ON ~RIFLE RAMPS ~"'~· ·21"iEt §?,:;:. ======""'"

Un iv e r s al s ize , com p le te w ith go l d b ead s igh t­e a:,y to in s t a l l. No g la re r am p s u r fa ce , a ll rna -$~~1.12e~l~ $~~'.~~ ;:;u~oz . o nlY $ 1. 79 ea . , 2 for

"W& "" .... ~:.~~,~~:~,E LD 3 BLAD E Ie a:,y t o in s t a l l. No g lare r am p surface~- a ll -"'ma - ~chilled-a $ 5 .00 va l ue o n l y $ 1 79 ea 2 fo r$:L2 5 - $14 .60 p er d o z . ' "

SPRINGFIELD 1903

~SP RINGFIELD 3 BLADE

il screwdr lver s.___ as Issued , newuu$1. 50 pp d.

MA USE R OW NE RS :S ING LE STAG E F . N .T RI ,G GER A ND SEA R

Co m p le te w it h catch, p in & spr ing, s teel, n o t a lum i­nu m , s pe c i t y b t u e o r par-ke ri ae d __ $ G.2 0 co m p le te.(Guard al o n e , $:1.1)5, F . P late a lone , $2,2 5, m illedf'ollower-, $ 1.00 , s p l' in g 5 0 e)

UNIVERSALSTOCK BLANKS

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