GUNS Magazine March 1958

FINEST IN THE FIREARMS FIELI 

HUNTING SHOOTING ADVENTUR 

ratner or me 

interchangeability of gun parts 

KEITH 

MARCH 1958 50c 

ON 

R1C RII 1 1 ETC 

U E V UWhULEJ 

THE GUNSMITH 

TOO TOUGH TO DIE 

HOW YOU CAN BE 

A "TRICK" SHOOTER

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Save 80% 11 1 

Guns Â Ammo Â Guns Â Ammo 

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WARNING! American shooters! You may tybjd 

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purchasing your gum from non-American sourced 

Ye Old Hunter illustrates all weapons by actual unretouched t 

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- Cal. 11MM Mauser Only $9.95 

When this one speaks, there's thunder in the hills! Yes, Ye Old 

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6 . 5 SWEDISH ~ ~ MAUSER $5.45 

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~ M MAUSER M (WIN. CTG. CO.) .$3.45 

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.30-06 US. COMMERCIAL .... $5.95 

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U.S. .30 L30-40) CALIBER KRAG. -- $7.45 . - 

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.303 BRITISH ISSUE LOADS . . $4.45 

8MM GERMAN MAUSER ISSUE. . $4.95 

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9MM F.N. STEYR PISTOL $4.95 

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11MM MAUSER RIFLE ("Bia I I") $9.95 

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Don't be tram Into wing a fortune elsewhere for 

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386 saa n lead bullet makes ideal mrtinc" load for 

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.43 (1 1MM) REMINGTON ...... $5.95 

Who else but Ye Old Hunter would have found this 

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-44-40 WINCHESTER BY U.M.C..$4.95 

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MY 

FAVORITE 

GUN 

By CORNEL WILDE 

Star, "The Devil's Hairpin" 

Y FAVORITE gun 

M is my Weatherby 

.300 magnum, which I 

used this past year for 

hunting elk. I fired it 

only once after sighting in 

-the shot that killed the 

elk. I was very impressed 

with its killing power and 

the flat trajectory. I hit 

my elk in the neck as he 

was running away, and the 

best part of him is in the 

freezer. This is the first 

rifle I ever had made to 

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one luxury I think every 

hunter should try to allow 

himself.

HE GRAND MASTER of fast and fancy 

T pistol shooting is now the past master. 

-. Dead is Ed McGivern, at his home in Great 

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Falls, Montana, at the age of 83. Born in 

&. 1874, McGivern grew up in a west that was 

struggling not to be "wild!' His father, when 

asked to buy the lad a gun, derided young 

Ed's wish with "Ye want to be a thug; ye'll 

be in the penitentiary." But the boy worked 

hard and saved enough money for a gun, 

apparently a cheap .22 rifle. Practice and 

more practice was McGivern's secret formula 

for his phenomenal skill. "When I first set up 

a target against a roll of barbed wire," he 

recalled, "I was lucky to hit the wire in two 

shots out of a box." But his skill improved 

with the years until he was without peer in 

the field of handgun wizardry. 

His letters to the last were full of dry 

humor ... "I have never been a debunker, I 

have just sought the facts," was the gist of 

his approach to speed gun handling. Instruments 

developed by McGivern helped settle 

many claims about speed in gun handling, 

and his students today continue the studies 

he began. Gathered about him in his home 

town in the last days of his life were many 

friends, members of the Ed McGivern Gun 

Club. But his passing will be noted with 

regret and sorrow by friends all over the 

world, friends he never even knew, shooters 

who found inspiration and knowledge from 

his writings. Taking up his main fast gun 

research late in life; publishing his book 

"Fast & Fancy Revolver Shooting" when he 

was 61; he remained a vital and amazing 

character in the winter of life till his death. 

Coincidentally, in this issue, GUNS had 

long ago scheduled the appearance of You, 

Too, Can Be A "Trick" Shooter. By Clyde 

Howell, who was greatly influenced by Ed 

McGivern's book, this article, showing that 

the life-long study of Ed McGivern will be 

continued, is more fitting than any tribute we 

could make in his name. 

For scattergunners we present an unusual 

personal account of "Gunning Europe's Live- 

Bird Races." Flyer shooting is an accepted 

and justly popular sport in most parts of the 

world, and Chicago's distinguished "top 

guns," world champion woman shot Carola 

Mandel, and Colonel Leon Mandel, present 

some of their experiences in the Colonel's 

unusual article. 

This seems to be a "foreign" issue: Col. 

Mandel's story, plus one by our globe-trotting 

Elmer Keith, now busting bull elephants on 

Africa, plus another by Bob Parkyn, who 

toured the arsenals of Europe (west Europe 

only!) on the Gun Tour, plus Alex Kerr's 

profile of August Heym, gunmaker extraordinary, 

"The Gunsmith Too Tough To Die" 

. these plus a couple more including Bill 

Edwards long look at the Civil War make 

this issue of GUNS one of the fullest we have 

presented in some time. 

Scheduled for the next issue are a couple 

you'll not want to miss, including more fuel 

to the "Fastest Gun" fire. This one is illustrated 

with the most remarkable picture 

ever taken of a genuine and fast "quick 

draw!' See it and more in next 

month's GUNS. 15 

T H E C O V E R 

The world knows Eli Whitney as 

the inventor of the cotton gin, 

but it was Whitney the gunmaker 

who gave America an even great- 

er gift- the concept of inter- 

changeable parts which is the 

essential keystone of all our mod- 

ern mass-production methods. 

IN THIS ISSUE 

guns americana. 

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MARCH, 1958 VOL. IV, NO. 3-39 

GUN TRADITIONS NEVER DIE. .................... .Joseph B. Stephens 12 

CIVIL WAR GUNS BLAZE AGAIN.. ............. ,William B. Edwards 28 

. . . 

KEITH ON BIG BULLETS.. ........................... ..Elmer Keith 16 

hunting 

competition 

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GUNNING EUROPE'S LIVE-BIRD "RACES'. .Colonel Leon Mandel 

.. 

19 

YOU, TOO, CAN BE A "TRICK" SHOOTER.. ..... .Clyde G. Howell 22 

WHY NOT SHOOT AT HOME?. ................. .Herbert J. Erfurth 

shooting 

collector a . 

handguns ... 

departments a . . 

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THE GUNSMITH TOO TOUGH TO DIE. .John Fisher Kerr 26 

A GUN-NUT'S TOUR OF EUROPE. ..................... .Robert Parkyn 35 

GUN OF THE MONTH.. ......................... .John L. Boudreau 38 

MY FAVORITE GUN ........... 

TRIGGER TALK ................ 

GUNS IN THE NEWS.. ........ 

WHAT'S HAPPENING - ON - . THE .- 

CROSSFIRE ................... 

ARMS 'LIBRARY ................ 

SHOPPING WITH GUNS,. ...... 

GUN RACK ................... 

PARTING SHOTS .............. 

George E. von Rosen 

PUBLISHER 

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EDITOR 

William B. Edwards Elmer Keith 

TECHNICAL EDITOR SHOOTING EDITOR 

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FRONT. .................... 

Art Arkush 

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Louis Satz Marvin Ginn William Conner 1. R. Pector 

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HIGH STANDARD SENTINELS in the Nickel Finish . . $42.50 

10X RIFLE COATS ............................ $20.00 

FN Mauser #300 Rifle ........................ .$170.00 

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WINCHESTER Model 88C Rifle .243 or .358 Cal. ... .$135.50 

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WINCHESTER Model 70 Standard, asst. calibers. .... .$129.95 

WINCHESTER Standard 52 22 Caliber rifle. ....... .$115.95 

WINCHESTER Heavy Barrelled 52 22 Caliber rifle. . .$129.95 

WINCHESTER Sporter Model 52 .22 Caliber.. ...... .$176.95 

Marlin 39A or 39A Mountie rifle. ................ .$ 72.95 

Marlin 336A Regular Rifle or Sporter. ............. .$ 89.95 

Remington Model 721A .30-06 or 270. ........... .$ 95.25 

Remington 722 244 and 222 Caliber, Standard. .... .$ 95.25 

Remington Model 4041 Standard 22 target rifle. ... .$152.75 

Thalson Shortshell Reloading Set, 1 gauge. ......... .$ 22.50 

Redding Powder Scale. . .$14.00 Powder Measure. . .$ 16.00 

Lyman 310 Tool complete 1 caliber. .............. .$ 16.50 

Lyman EZY-Loader ........ $35.00, Rifle Dies. ..... $ 17.00 

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Sometimes things are black or white. 

Within a period of a few minutes, Joseph 

Lunny Jr., Inverness, Calif., hunter, bagged 

a pure white deer and a black one. 

+ Alfred W. Saunders of Holt, Mich., shot a 

rabbit and a pheasant with a single shot. 

Harold Pope of Oklahoma City bagged a 

quail while hunting without firing a shot. 

Flushed by a dog, the quail flew low on the 

takeoff, collided smackdab with Mr. Pope 

and broke its neck. 

... 

+ Upon returning home from his high school 

teaching job, James Petcher of Utica, Mich., 

found an officer with a drawn revolver wait- 

ing for him. Someone had seen a pistol 

sticking out of Mr. Petcher's pocket and re- 

ported the matter to police. It turned out to 

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+ From now on there's a certain Detroit 

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When a passenger pointed a gun at him and 

demanded cash, the driver chuckled, "I know 

a toy pistol when I see one. You'll have to 

show something better to scare me." The 

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From the Lena, Ill., Star: "Hear about 

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Legislative Convention Called By Treasury ATTD 

N THURSDAY, December 5, 1957, a 

0 conference was called of persons selected 

to be representative of the gun interests of 

America, to discuss with the Alcohol & Tobacco 

Tax Division of the Treasury a revised 

set of revised regulations. The original revised 

regulations contained several requirements 

which proved to be generally unpopular 

with a large number of dealers, sportsman's 

conservation groups, association and 

industry leaders, and Congressmen speaking 

for their constituents. 

The first hearings on the revised regulations 

were held in Washington August 27-28. 

For some months thereafter no comment 

was forthcoming from the Treasury as to 

the outcome of the hearings. The initial 

session became an almost 100 per cent 

blanket indictment of the Firearms Branch 

of the ATTD. It is supposed that this had 

something to do with the fact that the 

December 5 conference was held by telegraphic 

invitation, and no public notice 

given. 

According to one important witness present 

at this conference, the intent of the ATTD 

seemed to be to present further revisions 

of the already-nine-times-revised regulations, 

and thus induce an assent by a small group 

of gun people. In the words of that observer, 

"I think we showed them again that their 

regulations were no good." Yet coming to 

GUNS shortly after the termination of that 

conference was a telegram from the Director 

of the Department stating: "Revised Regulations 

Still Being Considered." 

Significant fact emerging from these conferences 

is the confusion among pro-gun 

people as to just what the Treasury's intentions 

are in this whole matter. A leading 

Treasury ATTD enforcement officer in the 

field, in whom we have confidence, states his 

own views of the Firearms laws as "I'm 

here simply to enforce the law. I have no 

personal views; I'm only here to carry 

out the wishes of Congress. After all, I 

didn't enact the damn thing." Another 

spokesman for a leading trade association 

expresses the understandable view that "We 

are willing to accept any reasonable regulations," 

recognizing that public good may 

require some degree of regulation for the 

gun trade. Other, more rabid and regrettably 

misinformed pro-gun men, both publicly and 

in print, wax nearly hysterical about the 

Treasury's "evil minded attitude" and sob 

about "They (Treasury) want to make it 

so your boy and mine can never go hunting 

with his shotgun, etc., etc!' Actually, the 

present Treasury regulations are not unduly 

restrictive of shotgun and ammunition sales, 

but would hit hard at pistol and revolver 

sales. If crime prevention and aiding police 

officers is the Treasury's intention with 

stricter regulations, then they take an odd 

way to go about it, since the majority of 

"firearms" seized by police include rifles, 

shotguns, and children's BB guns. 

Existing proposed regulations as revised 

since August, 1957, now include provision 

for keeping records on pistols and revolvers 

"for a period of not less than fifteen years 

from the date the transaction occurs . . ." 

This is an odd change for the ATTD, blowing 

hot or cold according to their pleasure. For 

in support of the former regulation as 

proposed, that records be kept perpetually 

for the life of the company, the Treasury 

Secretary's aide, R. E. Train, wrote to Sena- 

tor Homer Capehart of Indiana that this is 

"clearly required by the word of the statute," 

that records are to be kept perpetually. , 

Now, if the records are "clearly required" 

to be kept for all time according to the 

wording of the Act of Congress which the 

Treasury ATTD is charged to administer, 

by what authority does the Treasury later 

declare that the wording of the Act no longer 

means "perpetually" but now means 15 

years? Why not ten years? Why not just 

leave the record requirements as they were 

before? The statutory limits already in ex- 

istence are adequate, claim most pro-gun 

people. Pretensions by the Treasury Fire- 

arms Branch to any other interpretation or 

creation of new regulations are discrimina- 

tory, dealers claim. 

The realities are that firearms records give 

much comfort to the book-keeping per- 

sonalities in government and law enforce- 

ment work, but are functionally of little 

use in most cases involving criminal uses 

of firearms. Guns employed by professional 

crooks are not registered to them. Factory 

records, although in some cases quite com- 

plete, show only the jobber to whom 

shipped, nothing more. Elements which make 

a conviction in any case, including those 

involving firearms, are far more concrete 

than the shadowy record of gun shipments 

which lead to a blind wall. The concept of 

firearms records for crime detection, while 

theoretically neat, in practice lacks merit. 

Another proof of the Firearms Branch's 

lack of adequate technical information 

occurred in the Dec. 5th revision. A "revised 

revision" stated the name and model and. 

serial stampings would not be required "on 

antique or obsolete firearms incapable of 

firing commercially available fixed ammuni- 

tion." The function of this exemption is not 

clear, except by using the catch words of 

"antique" or "obsolete" (without definitions) 

the clause might soothe the more fervid 

pro-gun guys. The concept of "incapable of 

firing commercially available fixed ammuni- 

tion" was pointed out to them as being 

pointless, since there is no firearm made, 

regardless of vintage or type of ignition 

system, for which ammunition is not now 

"commercially available!' 

For example, the Colt Revolver, Model 1909,

U.S. Army, caliber .45, does not function 

well with currently available .45 Colt 

revolver ammunition. Modern ammo has toothin 

a rim to work with surety in firing 

and extracting from the M1909 revolver. 

Ammunition for this - gun, now obsolete bv 

military and commercial standards, is the 

Frankford Arsenal-made M1909 revolver 

cartridge with a special big rim. This 

revolver by definition would be excluded 

from the provisions for name stamping and 

numbering, and by inference from the 

record keeping requirements. Other examples 

can be found of firearms perfectly suitable 

for criminal purposes that do not use 

"commercially available" ammunition, but 

do use government calibers which are NOT 

"commercially available." And distinction 

should be made to avoid confusion on the 

interpretation of "commercially available." 

For modem, current list ammo from US. 

factories is considered different from ammo 

imported in limited lots, no matter how 

large, if the ammunition is "war surplus." 

For example, the .45 target automatic 

ammunition put up by our big companies is 

"commercially available." But is Frankford 

Arsenal or other US. or Foreign contract 

.45 automatic pistol ammunition "commercial- 

ly available?" There is a lot of it in circula- 

tion, but it is certainly not "commercial" 

ammunition. 

Further modifications of the August- 

disputed regulations were made in the 

attempt of Dec. 5. As the telegram cited 

indicates, the revised revised regulations are 

still not in effect. Significantly lacking in all 

attempts from government to regulate guns 

and ammunition are regulations immediately 

affecting small bore sporting rifles, hunting 

rifles, and shotguns. Yet the percentage of 

these weapons figuring in any police depart- 

ment's annual statistics of crimes involving 

firearms, including murder, holdups, and 

robbery, are very high. When many crimes 

involve shotguns and sporting rifles, regula- 

tions aimed at "firearms" to curb crime 

should logically be aimed at all guns, from 

the consistent police point of view. Again, 

regulations affecting solely pistols and re- 

volvers, and ammunition for them, dis- 

criminate and are non-functional. 

Major powers in the arms field include 

the Sporting Arms And Ammunition Manu- 

facturer's Institute. While the work of their 

legislative officers is good, and their 

educational program worthwhile, many pro- 

gun people get the impression that SAAMI 

is not pushing the anti-gun crowd as hard 

as it could. This, if true, may reflect the 

greater importance of shotguns and sporting 

rifles to Winchester and Remington, the 

two big firms in SAAMI. As long as shot- 

guns and sporting rifles are not threatened, 

SAAMI may not feel it needs to take steps 

to combat the anti-gun legislation movement. 

This failure to consider the problems in the 

pistol business was one of the reasons which 

gave rise recently to a move among handgun 

makers to form their own trade association, 

with emphasis on combatting bad gun laws 

and educating the public to an appreciation 

of the enjoyable lawful uses of handguns. 

After all, a pistol can be used more 

easily on an indoor range than a rifle, and 

the storage and ammunition costs are 

generally less. But the pistol makers have 

yet to show the collective spirit so necessary 

in this legislative business. Meanwhile, such 

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"Setting the Record Straight 

Reference the column 'Trigger Talk," 

which appeared in the November issue of 

GUNS Magazine, I wish to take exception to 

certain statements and quotes which appear 

therein regarding the Director of Civilian 

Marksmanship's stand relative to the National 

Firearms Act. 

This article reads "A resolution condemn- 

ing them* was passed, and the Army Secre- 

tary Milton communicated to Treasury Secre- 

tary Anderson, the Defense Department's 

strong opposition to the regulations and their 

effect . . ." 

The Board at its meeting in August went 

on record as opposing the implementation of 

regulations promulgated by the Alcohol and 

Tobacco Tax Unit of the Treasury. The Board 

took ho exception to the basic law. This point 

must be made extremely clear-the NBPRP 

has never taken a positive stand against the 

National Firearms Act or the Federal Fire- 

arms Act, and it is unlikely that it will ever 

do so. It is true that Mr. Milton (erroneously 

referred to in subject article as Secretary of 

the Army and a cabinet member) Assistant 

Secretary of the Army (MP&RF), did have 

a conversation with Treasury Secretary An- 

derson, indicating the Board's exception to 

the proposed implementation of it as a regu- 

lation and its effect. This must not be in- 

terpreted as constituting an exception to the 

basic law. 

The National Firearms Act and the Federal 

Firearms Act are matters which require the 

obedience of the National Board for the 

Promotion of Rifle Practice and every United 

States citizen. As an agency of the govern- 

ment, the Army cannot take a stand against 

such laws. If this implementation is ordered 

into effect, the Board will have no recourse 

but to comply with this law. 

The interpretation of the "quoted" remarks 

of Lt. Colonel Ellis Lea, Assistant Executive 

Officer (referred to in article as Assistant 

Director of Civilian Marksmanship) as repre- 

senting Army policy on this subject is errone- 

ous and unauthorized. The National Board is 

an Army Agency under the direction of the 

Assistant Secretary of the Army, and such 

statements regarding Army policy must come 

from that office or the Chief of Staff, United 

States Army. Hugh W. Stevenson, Colonel, GS 

Executive Officer 

National Board for the Promotion 

of Rifle Practice 

The word "them" referred to the Treasury 

revised regulations affecting the Federal Fire- 

arms Act of 1938. GUNS apologizes for in- 

correctly titling Mr. Milton and Lt. Col. Leu. 

No inference was made nor intended that 

Army policy is contrary to the laws of the 

United States. We reported the comments of 

Col. Lea because in trying to report on the 

Treasury hearings we would be telling only4 

half the truth were we to omit pertinent 

comments of individuals with whom we 

spoke. The views of the Army, officially and 

unofficially, certainly must be considered if 

one desires to find the facts which exist in 

the relationship between the NatwnaL and 

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ments of National Defense.-Editors. 

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T H E NEAT BRICK BUILDING 

1 carrying the mark "Whitney 

Firearms Company" seems at first 

glance to be far removed from the 

ancient, many-storied works that 

was the old Eli Whitney factory. 

Inside, arranged on a clean, solid 

concrete floor, are crisp new machines 

and the quiet whirr of electric 

motors-all vastly different, you 

think, from the old days when 

flickering gas jets gave light to 

workmen on 14-hour daily shifts. 

From each machine, then, black 

belts of oxhide rose slapping to the 

ceiling from the machines, to take 

power from a swiftly turning drum 

driven by the big overshot water 

wheel in the mill race outside. 

Different? Yes, but not as differ- 

-- ent as you think. Here, and in all 

the gun factories in Connecticut, is 

much that is similar, too. Take off 

the belts; gear in electric motors; 

spray the machine frames, the lathe 

beds, with glossy gray enamel; and, 

over all, now that the overhead 

shafting is out, put a gleaming array 

of fluorescent lights. Those are the 

basic differences. For in external 

details only does today's arms industry 

differ much from that begun

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by Eli Whitney so many years ago. 

Machine manufacture of firearms 

with interchangeable parts began little 

more than a century and a half ago in 

Hamden, Connecticut, in 1798, when 

Eli Whitney contracted to make 10,000 

Model 1795 flintlock muskets for the 

government. Whitney cared nothing 

about firearms and he approached the 

problem as an inventor. Gunsmiths of 

the day believed that Whitney was 

attempting the impossible. hey knew 

that only skilled hands and sharp tools 

could build a gun, and anyone who 

thought anything different was crazy 

. or didn't know much about guns. Coins 

might be struck by machinery, and 

each one might be exactly the same; a 

coin was just a cold, dead piece of 

metal, an object to be exchanged for 

something worth having. It was fitting 

that a dumb machine should strike 

coins. 

But a gun was something else. It 

needed the firmness and skill of a 

man's hands to bring it to life. It 

needed attention to its own little 

peculiarities. It needed a sacrifice of 

time and patience and skill. In a way, 

it was like a birthing. It took time and 

labor to make a gun, and when it was 

finished it was nearly alive. A machine 

could never be made that would build 

a gun. . . . But Whitney did it. 

Today, almost within the shadow of 

the old overshot waterwheel that turned 

the machines in Whitney's original 

mill, seven modern gun plants use 

Whitney's methods to make rifles, 

pistols, and shotguns in such volume 

that they are shipped to the most re- 

mote corners of the earth. , Proudly, 

they bear the names of their makers: 

Ruger, Colt, Winchester, High Stand- 

ard, Whitney, Mossberg, and Marlin. 

The same basic methods of production 

set up by Whitney in his manufacture 

of the 10,000 Charleville pattern flint- 

lock muskets with interchangeable 

parts is used by them all. Even with 

new machines for precision casting of 

high-strength steels and light alloys; 

even with broaching and button rifling 

far faster in production than the sine- 

bar rifles of the Whitney factory during 

Mexican War days; still the work of 

Eli Whitney underlies modern produc- 

tion methods. The mark of Eli Whitney 

is in the milling machine, basic ma- 

chine tool of every factory. The mark 

of Eli Whitney is in the double-spindle 

profiler, used by Whitney's son, Eli 

Junior, when the young man just out 

of Yale undertook a contract from 

Samual Colt to make big revolvers in 

the Whitney Armory. From Whitney, 

through a dozen shops still existing 

and a hundred factories long since 

tumbled into dust, did the mark of Eli 

Whitney touch the manufacture of fire- 

arms and, ultimately, every other manu- 

tured article of metal produced by 

machines anywhere in the world. 

Tools from Robbins & Lawrence, 

tool makers of Windsor, Vt., and Hart- 

ford, Conn., founded the industrial 

might of the Mauser works, and built 

the production power of England's 

Enfield Arsenal. Tools from Pratt & 

Whitney built rifles for the Empress of 

China, and ground out tens of thou- 

sands of revolvers made by names now 

forgotten, such as Hopkins & Allen and 

Forehand & Wadsworth. And in all the 

factories, including those now in busi- 

ness, tools of Whitney's basic invention 

and use, improved by the genius of a 

thousand Yankee mechanics, shaped 

the arms of America. 

When Whitney began turning out 

his machine-made muskets, he was 

confronted with the problem of pro- 

ducing, by machinery, a weapon with 

workmanship equal to that of the same 

muskets being made by hand bv other 

contractors. The gunsmiths had set the 

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standard for the manufacturer long before there was a manufactory; 

and, even now, seven generations later, standards established by 

custom gunsmiths still persist, more or less, in modern arms 

manufacture. 

As the concept of machine-made guns with the interchangeable 

parts was accepted, plants began springing up throughout Connecticut 

like mushrooms after a warm spring rain. Some of the plants 

lasted scarcely longer than a mushroom on the plate of a gourmet, 

as shooting men spurned guns that were poor in workmanship, 

design, or reliability. There were plenty of good gunsmiths around 

to provide a man with a gun he could depend on and be proud of. 

But the machine-made weapon was gaining in public favor. If the 

marriage of wood to metal was slightly less precise in the mass 

production gun, the shooter might still accept it if it cost substantially 

less than the product of the gunsmith's shop. But workmanship could 

not deviate greatly from the uncompromising standards of the gunsmith 

or it would find no acceptance at any price. 

The manufacturer is keenly aware that he must provide a weapon 

which is not only functional but which will be a source of pride to 

its owner. The gunsmith's pride in his product still lingers about the 

modern gun plant, just as the old time gunmaker looked on himself 

as a mechanic apart from other workmen. So do the top executives 

and the young sport-shirted lathe operators in gun plants today 

consider themselves a breed apart. 

66 Its 9 a business for gentlemen," was the way William B. Ruger 

summarized his feeling toward the gun industry. With those words, 

the head of Sturm-Ruger & Co. paraphrased an intangible feeling, 

seldom voiced, that forms a common bond among the mass production 

gun makers of Connecticut. By the word "gentleman" Ruger did 

not refer to the nolished dilettante with a studied set of manners. He 

used the term to denote a type of man possessing the spirit, pride, 

taste, and sensibilities of an aristocrat. He classed gun making with 

ship building, aircraft manufacture, and other crafts associated with 

romance and adventure. This does not mean that Ruger or any other 

gun manufacturer in Connecticut has a completely visionary approach 

to arms manufacture; there is nothing intrinsically wrong with 

making money-and guns must be designed and built with profit in 

mind if the manufacturer is to stay in business. 

In a young enterprise like Sturm-Ruger, where it is possible to talk 

directly with the founder and designer, it is not hard to uncover a 

philosophy of gun making. That philosophy is incorporated in the 

Centers of gun bugs' interest in Connecticut arms. . - - - 

factories range from the newest modern sho s like 

Whitney's to older firms such as Marlin's, Moss E erg's, 

Colt's, and the small Ruger works headed by one man.

Gun - making machines, by 

858 when Colt sidehammer 

thinking of one man. But in the large, old plants, like 

Colt's and the five other production gun plants in the state, 

the men who direct the activities of the companies seem 

also to be aware that they are in a business different in 

certain respects from other profit-making endeavors. 

Though primarily manufacturers and businessmen, they 

sense the strong ties with the past that still exist in modern 

firearms manufacture. Unanimously, they aim to make 

good, reliable guns that can be competitively priced, and 

. . 

they try to sell as many of them as they can. From a strict 

business point of view, they approach the problem as 

clinically as if they were marketing shoes or safety pins. 

But they are not out for profit at any cost. Like his proto- 

type of yesteryear, the ruggedly independent gunsmith who 

would sooner let his guns stand in the rack than sell to a 

man he personally disliked, most gun manufacturers prize 

personal relationships as well as sales. 

I became aware of this at Colt's one day while discussing 

an entirely unrelated matter with Tom Turner, director of 

customer relations. The day before, Turner said, the com- 

pany had received an abusive letter from a Colt dealer who 

had used obscenity in his communication. "He'll be dropped 

from our dealer list" was told. "We don't want a man 

who can't control himself handling our guns." 

Just as Colt's expects its dealers to reflect credit on Colt 

guns, the dealers expect Colt guns to reflect credit on the 

dealers who sell them. Colt's public relations director, John 

Millington, says, "The philosophy at Colt's is to turn out 

Mass-produced revolver made during Civil War by first 

Whitney Armory was all machine-made like today's guns. 

the best product possible. I definitely believe that the 

attitudes of Sam Colt have lived and left with us an abiding 

desire to keep the Colt name second to none." But more 

than the attitudes of Sam Colt are at work among the 

Connecticut gunmakers-behind it all, as the first mass- 

production arms manufacturer, is Eli Whitney. 

Eli Whitney's success with interchangeable parts and the 

advent of the percussion system of ignition, ushered in the 

day of the inventor and the era of the firearms oddity. The 

U. S. Patent Office was kept busy with applications from 

inventors who were granted patents on 540 firearms vari- 

ations for single-shot breech-loaders alone between 1836 

and 1873. There was a corre- (Continued on page 62) 

Simeon North flint contract pistol made for U.S. was 

interchangeable in all its parts as required by Army.

NEVER SEND A BOY TO DO A MAN'S WORK, 

OR A SMALL BULLET TO DO THE JOB OF A BIG ONE. THAT'S KEITH'S GOSPEL 

Big double rifles like Woodward & Sons bottom-lever 577 above have long been choice of European 

hunters for dangerous African and Indian game. Note comparison of .577 loads with 150 gr. .270's. I1 

By ELMER KEITH XPERIENCE is the best teacher. When you learn the hard way, you don't 

E forget. 

During 45 years of big game hunting, during which I guided and outfitted 

hunters from Mexico to Alaska, I have seen just about all manner and types 

of rifles and loads used on the various American game animals. I am not one of 

those hunters who boast of having killed thousands of head-I have taken only 

140 big game animals for my own use, for meat and trophies-but, in addition, I 

have seen between 700 and 1,000 head killed, And since hunters all have 

different ideas about equipment, these animals were taken with a representative 

variety of rifles and loads. 

Over the years, people have gotten the idea that I have used nothing but 

heavy calibers and heavy bullets on game. This is not true. I have used nearly 

all of the small bore, light bullet, high velocity rifles also; or I have seen them 

used by men I was guiding. It is from experience, not just from prejudice, 

7

Leading gun writer Keith, who says "I like the big ones best," shows preference by racking four big-bore 

express Sharps rifles on wall of room. Author holds a tang-sighted .32-40 Pope Ballard, favorite for accuracy. 

that I say without reservation, "I like the big ones best." 

Today, only Col. Townsend Whelen, General Julian S. 

Hatcher, and myself are left of the old school of Gun 

Editors. Together we have seen the high velocity era from 

its beginnings: first, the .30-06-150 grain. the .22 Hi-Power 

Savage, the .250-3000 Savage, the .280 Ross; then the 

famous Newton series of .22, .256, .30, and .35 Newtons. 

Except the .22 Newton, I used all these rifles and loads 

personally on game; and in 30 years of guiding, 1 saw 

hunters use them all many times on the various species. 

About 1924 or '25, the Super .30 came out in Britain, 

later to be changed in shoulder shape and known as the 

.300 H & H. I had two fine Hoffman rifles built for the 

old abrupt-shoulder Super .30, and later owned several 

more rifles for the .300 H & H. 1 worked with John Dubiel 

on his .280 Dubiel and .276 Dubiel made from the .300 

H & H and the .275 H & H cases. Still later I helped C. M. 

O'Neil and C. V. Schniitt develop the first .250 Magnum 

in the .250 O'Neil. Following this, in conipany with O'Neil 

and Hopkins we developed the .265, .285, .333, and .334 

O.K.H., and later the A24 and .475 O.K.H. During this 

time I also used most of the old calibers on game for 

comparison. 

One season on mule deer and coyotes convinced me 

the .22 Hi-Power was not my kind of weapon, and I 

dropped it. Then I tried the .250 Savage with 87 grain 

loads. Three mule deer each required two well placed 

shots to kill. A cow elk facing me at 60 yards took the

little pill square in the center of the neck, 

but the 87 grain bullet blew up. Part of it 

came back out the brisket; I saw another 

fragment kick up dust between her front 

feet; part of the bullet went back into the 

chest and broke two ribs after it blew up on 

the neck bone. The cow dropped, but was 

up again instantly. I then shot her broadside 

through the neck. Again she dropped, but 

I had missed the spine. After each shot, I 

walked up about 20 yards and, when she 

jumped up again at 20 yards and whirled 

to run, I chucked the rifle and pulled my 

old sixgun. Using both hands, I planted a 

slug just back of her right ear that went on 

through the brain and did the job. 

That, and two coyotes I lost shot through 

the body, was enough for me. In comparison, 

the little 6.5 Mannlicher with its long 160 

grain slug at 2000 feet or less velocity, 

killed well for me, on deer, elk, and bear. 

Next, I tried the .280 Ross with its old 

143 grain copper tube bullet. It was dynamite - 

on deer and coyotes and all similar size 

game if it hit almost any place in the body, 

but on elk it would kill when the chest was 

hit but failed miserably when a raking shot . 

was taken. It simply blew up in the paunch 

or hams. One grizzly I saw shot with it, took 

one in the left shoulder. It broke the shoulder 

but did not go on into the chest cavity, and 

he was one mad (Continued on page 44) 

Record bison bull (above) was killed by 

Keith with big .45-120-566 Sharps shown. 

Huge Colorado elk (left) was taken by 

H. B. Marett of Urbana, Ill. Antlers have 

spread of 58% inches and each is 12" 

in circumference at base. Rifles lbelowl 

are (left) .333 O.K.H. and .476 double 

taken by Keith on current African hunt.

fibril"

"FLYER" SHOOTS 

are familiar with "Flyer matches" 

shotgun match shooting with 

pigeons as targets-yet it was the 

first and is very probably the 

world's toughest shotgun competi- 

tion, and it is certainly one of the 

most popular of the shooting sports 

in Europe. 

The average pigeon ring is a 

semi-circular arena with five traps, 

set five yards apart, from which 

the birds are released. The shooter 

stands on a walk which is gradu- 

ated in yards so that handicaps can 

be set up. Distances of shooter 

from traps range from about 28 

to 35 yards. The shooter is allowed 

two shots (if the second shot is 

needed) at each bird. He must 

drop the bird inside the fence 

which surrounds the shooting area 

and which is never less than 16 

yards from the traps. The average 

match is a 10. 20. or 25-bird 

"race," and typical winning scores 

are 23 or 24 out of 25. Scores of 

25 x 25 are rare. An average of 

90 per cent is very good. 

In the European Live Bird Cham- 

pionships held between September 

14th and 23rd at the Lido Venice. 

Italy, Giovanni Bodini, Italian, was 

the only one of 208 shooters to 

kill 20 x 20 and thus won alone. 

Lindsay Donaldson, U. S. A., was 

one of 12 shooters with 19 x 20 to 

tie for 2nd through 13th place, and 

Homer Clark, U. S. A., with 18 x 20 

divided the rest of the prize money 

with fifteen others. 

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In the Women's ~dropean 

Championship, five women tied 

with 9x10 at the end of the 

regular event, which necessitated 

a five bird shoot-off. Despite 

having shot 20 birds with the U. S. 

team that finished fourth in the 

Match of Nations. Carola Mandel. 

U. S. A., went five birds straight 

in the Barrage to win alone, 14 x 15. 

Maeve Wallis, France, present 

Women's World's Champion, was 

second with 13 x 15. 

This final victory over most of 

the best women shots in the world 

culminates an amazingly successful 

European trip for Carola Mandel. 

She has won six major men's 

championships, shared in the top 

prizes over twenty times, and won 

the women's prizes nearly every- 

where she has competed. 

. . 

Dapper Count de Talhouet used side- 

by double to win Prix de Trouville 

at Deauville, southern France, shoot. 

Gala day of flyer shoot at Venice club finds the 

spectators lining the balcony of club .restaurant. 

Big shell in background is pavilion for betters. 

Pigeons are kept in roosts 

at Deauville Club until put 

in traps at time of shoot.

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^ 

Finishing fourth in Match of Nations at 

Venice was US. team. Smiling top guns 

. are Homer Clark of Alton and Carola Mandel 

of Chicago, Illinois, and Lindsey Donaldson. 

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Accepting Grand Prix of Deauville from 

city's mayor is Monsieur Crocco, while 

-h gun club president looks on. Flyer shoots 

. , are important gunsport events in Europe. 

Prince Caraman - Chimay 

of Belgium, the author and 

Frence's M. Blanc split 

I st in PrixM de Woot bout.

By CLYDE G. HOWELL 

Quick draw is riding a high wave of public 

interest today, but it is little more than 

a window dressing for exhibition shooters, 

who must attain almost incredible accuracy. 

HAVE 

FUN 

WITH 

GUNS

problem of accuracy, and I'm not proud of the way I got 

over that hurdle. But a boy's conscience can be pretty 

elastic when it encounters something he wants very badly. 

My father was Captain of a National Guard company, 

and the armory contained thousands upon thousands of .45 

cartridges. Through certain channels (not exactly "through 

channels" in the Army usage) some of those cartridges 

began to filter into my possession. The immediate difficulty 

was that those short, rimless .45 ACP rounds wouldn't 

work in the Single Action. But I had seen the half-moon 

clips that held three rounds of rimless ammunition for use 

in a revolver, and I "found" some of those for my purpose. 

They were too thick "as issued," but a session at the 

grindstone cured that and there I was with a whole 

armory full of ammunition waiting to feed my hobby. I 

fired a few rounds by remote control (by means of a string 

pulled from behind a tree) to make sure the gun and 

ammo really would fire safely, and then I .sneaked out 

behind the barn to start my post-graduate course in 

gunslinging. 

My method was one I had worked out as the best 

possible way to shave split seconds off the draw time. I 

started cocking the instant the gun started up from the 

holster, and released the hammer by letting the hammer- 

spur slip from under my thumb. This was supposed to 

happen at the instant the gun came into line with the 

target. This was "slip shooting," said to be the fastest 

possible way of firing the Single Action in the quick draw 

and (also allegedly) the method used by all the great 

gunmen. I had the trigger tied back to save another fraction 

of a second by eliminating the need for finding and pulling 

the trigger. 

But one of those half-moon clips stuck slightly as I 

drew and cocked-the hammer slid from under my thumb 

too soon--BLAM!-and my leg buckled. I histed up my 

pants leg to stare at a long but fortunately shallow wound 

through the meat of my upper leg, and another in the 

calf. That second gash held the bullet, visible as a blue 

bulge less than an inch beneath the skin. 

My father had some pungent comments to make about 

"this foolishness." So did my mother. So did everybody, 

including the doctor who cut the slug out of my leg. I 

began to wonder if some of what I'd read and some of 

what I'd figured out for myself might not be in error. 

Maybe tied-back triggers, filed-down sears, slip shooting, 

all those tricks of the trade, weren't of first-rank importance 

after all. Maybe the first thing was to learn to shoot safely 

and hit what you shot at. (I still don't know the final 

answer about those "tricks of the trade" I mentioned, and 

all the other I've heard of. I do know that I got a lot better 

accuracy, in my later efforts, by using the trigger than I 

did by slip shooting or fanning or any other method; and 

I was suddenly a great believer in "the well-placed 

bullet ! ") 

The years slid by, and money became a little more 

obtainable, and I turned to more modern weapons. After 

a long and painful period of saving, I bought a Smith & 

Wesson K-22, a belt and holster from S. D. Myers of 

El Paso, Texas, and a case of .22 ammo through the 

Director of Civilian Marksmanship. After a considerable 

amount of practice, I found that a shot could be touched 

off pretty fast with this artillery, too, much as it might 

have been sneered at by certain western writers. I tried 

double action shooting, and practiced it until I could put 

five shots on a playing card at 12 feet as fast as I could 

count them. No slugs in my leg, either. This was pretty 

good, I figured. Who the heck was this guy, Wyatt Earp, 

anyway? 

Then I bought a copy of "Ed McGivern's Book on Fast 

and Fancy Revolver Shooting," and discovered there were 

people who could do things with a gun which I would have 

thought impossible. This book became my shooting Bible. 

McGivern undoubtedly knew more about handgun shoot- 

ing than anyone else and could prove it with scientific 

data. So it was his advice I followed, in place of the trial 

and error methods of the past, when I took up aerial 

shooting. It hurt my pride a bit to start with gallon cans 

as targets, but that's what McGivern suggested, and I did 

it. The size of the targets was reduced and practice made 

me more perfect, and soon I was shooting at one-inch 

pieces of coal. When I got so I could hit these hand- 

tossed targets with almost monotonous regularity, I ip- 

The mach - box trick - dropping tar- 

get from back of hand held shoulder 

high, drawing, firing before target hits 

ground -is a sure crowd pleaser.

. . 

George Krist uses a mirror to sight bullet on target. Trick 

lies in making the muscles move to suit the mirror image. 

?. 

Firing from spectacular "headstand," 

. Walter Walsh, ex US pistol champion, 

makes upsidedown shot the hard way. 

Author's kit includes 

rom top down) an 

?! 

&W K-22, a Colt Of- 

ficers Model .38, and 

a Colt Single Action. 

vested another small bit of savings in a Mo-Skeet-0 trap, 

manufactured by the Routledge Manufacturing Company 

of Monroe, Michigan. 

That Mo-Skeet-0 game turned out to be a pretty tough 

proposition. The targets were not large, they were goingaway 

targets instead of the near-vertical toss-ups on which 

I had become proficient, and they were hard to hit. 

Research was needed, and I turned to a .22 rifle to find 

some of the answers. I learned a good deal about sight 

settings, for one thing. Using .22 shorts, as I was doing 

for reasons of economy and range limitations, targets 

I 

flying . - within 10 or 15 feet were easy but those thrown out 

and away were missed often. I learned that, at targets 

1 " 

out around 25 feet-rising targets-I needed about an 

inch of elevation. At around 40 feet, when the targets 

were falling, sights needed to be lowered to hit two inches 

low. This data had to be translated from rifle to revolver, 

and this meant going back to practice at paper targets. I 

did this somewhat reluctantly, but it helped. When I tried 

my skill again on the Mo-Skeet-0 flyers, I could hit them 

more often. 

This combination of paper target practice and practice 

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on aerial targets gradually paid off to the point where I 

could score satisfactorily on (Continued on page 40) 

Man-and-wife shooting team, the Krisk, put on crowdpleasing 

program, using rifles, shotguns, and pistols. 

k. .

By JOHN FISHER KERR 7 

August Heym, master en- 

graver, today operates gun 

factory in W. Germany. 

NOT EVEN THE TERRORS OF A RED 

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KILL THE URGE. BORN 

IME WAS when gunsmithing was an art, so treated by its practi- 

Ttioners and so recognized by its patrons. Benvenuto Cellini, whose 

masterpieces in precious metals are among the artistic treasures of 

the world, was a gunsmith of sorts. Kings down through the ages 

have cherished and supported gunsmiths as "wards of the crown," to 

be honored on a par with poets, painters, and musical geniuses. Joe 

Manton, scion of the great family of gunmaking Mantons, was gun- 

maker to three kings-George 111 and George IV of England, and 

the King of France. 

Gunsmiths themselves have fostered this artistic conception of their 

craft, devoting their time and their skills to the production of per- 

fection and beauty rather than quantity and profit. Every European 

country has its honored list of master guncraftsmen, and America's 

list is itself as long as any, and as honored. Men like John Shell, 

Sam Hawken, William Walker, Harry Pope, Norman Brockway, A. W. 

Peterson, and A. 0. Niedner are among those who earned their places 

on the Honor Roll of American gunsmiths. Most of these men died 

poor, preferring to leave the world a few near-perfect examples of their 

PRISON CAMP COULD 

OF CENTURIES OF FAMILY GUN 

CRAFTSMANSHIP. TO MAKE GUNS OF QUALITY AND BEAUTY 

Example of Heym's skillful carving on .45 Colt automatic shows combination of the 

traditional floral arabesque with gold inlaid boar, American big game like sheep, cat.

Heym's work has lost no firmness 

despite imprisonment by Reds. 

Side lock engraving shows master's 

command of erspective in steel 

and lifelike s aping of animals. 

craft rather than many less perfect guns which could 

have made them wealthy. 

So dominant were these men in their field that. 

even today, gunsmiths are apt to find that they too 

are expected to wear the stamp of genius, including 

its idiosyncrasies. Because they refused to turn out 

a gun (or a barrel, or a part) until it was perfect 

by their standards, no matter how long it took or 

how impatient the customer, it is a standing joke 

in the trade today that "you can take a gun to a 

gunsmith but you can not get it back!" They were 

a breed apart, those old-timers; men dedicated to 

their craft, indifferent to profit, bent only on producing, 

somehow, a gun that even they themselves 

could call perfect. They were, truly, "artists for 

art's sake," and their tribe is decreasing. 

In today's world, the climate of business and 

manufacture is not favorable to the preservation of 

the individual who, solely by the skill of his hands 

and the craft of his brain, can evoke from wood and 

metal a perfect mechanism which is also an authentic 

work of art. Regrettable as this may be, there 

is no help for it. We cannot retreat to the old ways. 

The scientist and the production expert rule this 

age, and the craftsman cannot keep pace with mass 

demand. You and I are said to live better and fuller 

lives because of this. 

Nevertheless, here and there in odd corners of 

the world, the ancient skills are preserved, and one 

may find a man whose father and grandfather, and 

their sires before them, practiced a craft which now 

is all but lost. 

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The making of fine custom arms is one such art, 

and one of its foremost modern practitioners is 

August Wilhelm Heym, whose little factory in: -,-2'@ 

Munnerstadt, Bavaria, turns out some of the finesf'., -?.;:g ^ 

tinsmith's craft to be found in the :';+* 

2 - -4 ,'*& 

The firm of Friedrich Wilhelm Heym has occu;.: 1% 

ite for only a few years, since it-; . ' ^ 

m its (Continued on page 42) -., 

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Typical Civil War "Skirmisher" sports chin whiskers, 

fires old rifle, but bites latest 1957-designed "minny 

ball" from paper cartridge for loading prized musket. 

Battle near Lexinaton, Missouri, earlv in the War is annually re-fouahtby 

military schoof cadets who mix M~ s with muskets. ~ndekon house, 

pictured below, was Union hospital during fight, is now being restored.

REENACTMENTS OF OLD BATTLES. 

AND MATCHES PITTING MUSKETS AGAINST GARANDS, 

MIX MARKSMANSHIP WITH HISTORY 

By WILLIAM B. EDWARDS 

S AMERICA nears the centennial 

A of the bloodiest war in our history, 

it comes as a surprise to some and fun 

to others that the Civil War is being 

fought again. This is not just talk, this 

is action. Across fields where once the 

zip! of "Minny balls" kept soldiers' 

heads down, bronze field guns still lob 

their iron shot into "enemy" ranks, 

and Yanks in Blue compete with Rebs 

in Gray for the honors of the day. 

Muzzle-loading fans, historical and 

~ivic restoration groups, are all in the 

'fight." But instead of the bitterness 

vhich marked the fraternal conflict of 

1861, today's Civil War is one happy 

get-together as comrades wearing the 

Blue and the Gray reunite for another 

simulated battle. 

Current enthusiasm for fighting the 

Civil War over again is hard to "type." 

It isn't exactly kid stuff. The arms used 

are those once carried in the battles 

which dot our history books, but uniforms 

are hard to get. The old military 

goods firm of Bannerman in New 

York, has, they think, been pretty well 

cleaned out of Civil War equipment. 

Replica uniforms carefully sewn by 

wife or sweetheart, are as authentic as 

imitations can be of century-old 

clothes made when homespun was the 

rule. Leather holsters, cartridge boxes, 

are either original or accurate copies. 

And the refought battle may be planned 

with full comprehension of the original 

fight. 

At Lexington, Missouri, in May, 

students of Wentworth Military Acad- 

Man of Huron Rangers, in 1861 "Co. E, 

Fifth Michigan." fires M I86 1 Special 

musket at Greenfield Village shoot. 

Detailed replica 2v2" howitzer is loaded 

by men of 1st Mich. (Detroit) Volunteer 

Artillery. Gun fires cement-filled tin cans.

Cadets at Wentworth MA reenact surrender of Mulligan 

to Price after famous battle of the hemp bale '61. 

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emy put on ashow drawing visitors from miles away. The 

first occasion was the historic school's 75th anniversary. 

The refought battle was a decisive engagement of the Civil 

War. Some boys wore copies of original Confederate and 

Union uniforms; others decided the Wentworth cadet 

uniform looked "antique" enough. 

The pioneer jump-off town of Lexington (on Highways 

24 and 13,41 miles east of Kansas City) in the 1860's was 

a seat of the South's genteel ante-bellum life, complete with 

planters, slaves, and mansions. One great home overlooking 

the river and wharf, not far from Masonic College, was that 

of Col. Oliver Anderson. In September, 1861, Chicago's 

Col. James A. Mulligan with 2,780 Union troops occupied 

the key river port of Lexington to split Southern sympathizers 

in Missouri. Earthworks were thrown up around 

Masonic College. Confederate General Sterling Price with 

12,000 Missouri State Guard attacked Sept. 18, 1861. 

Using a moveable breastwork of hemp bales, they forced 

the Union troops to surrender. Anderson House was the 

" Rebs" I among cadets wore check 

bumme !r caps , inconqruol usly c 

blank-firing Garands to make noise. 

Skirmish teams have- fife and drum 

corps. 

tattoo 

Young 

during 

drummer 

the hectic 

beats 

stake 

Union hospital until captured by Price. 

Today, the combat reenacted by Wentworth cadets is to 

draw attention to the memorial and restoration drive to 

restore the old house as a museum. Artillery is fired carefully 

loaded with black powder blank charges. Anachronistic 

among the borrowed Springfield and Austrian muskets are 

the cadets' Ml Garand rifles. Shooting blanks, they supply 

the noise but lack the authenticity important to another 

group of gun fans playing Yank and Reb. These are the 

nearly forty competitive shooting teams which form the 

ranks of the North-South Skirmish at Camp Perry, Ohio. 

Recent Skirmishes have been the high points in the 

activity at Camp Perry National Matches. When a double 

file of men trains brisklv alone " the road from the hutmerits, 

led by the drummer. boy rolling a natty tattoo on 

the snare, and the battle flag of the Confederacy whips in 

the Lake Erie breeze. the Sundav visitors from town sense 

that they are about to witness a page from history. For all 

its dress up and make-believe, (Continued on page 54) 

'

Watching small muzzle-loading brass howitzer being fired at old frame house 

' is Frank Straker, self-appointed "Rebel" from South Jerse Ames swords 

. carried by artillerymen were used in War. Below, line of attle forms by 

Confederate battle flags as teams engage in stake shoot at Camp Dix, N.J. 

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Shooting at home is practical when baffle box ised to 

cut down sound. Cellotex slabs break up noise of gun in 

Illinois auto salesman Ralph Mead basement range. 

Heavy bullet trap which is moveable 

makes indoor shooting radical. Gun 

Mears uses is light-load J .44 Magnum. 

Author found boy's enthusiasm for 

shooting could be stimulated by indoor 

Pellgun practice at allowance money. 

WHY NOT 

I I

SHOOT AT HOME? 

A 

GOOD MANY YEARS AGO, a spindly, overalled, 

barefooted kid squinted down the octagon barrel 

of an antiquated .22 rifle and knocked a pine cone hellto-breakfast 

off a sun-bathed log. I was that kid, and 

I'll never forget the thrill of that moment. Since that day, 

I have fired some sort of gun at least once a month, except 

during the time spent in military service. (No, that's not 

a misprint. Like many GI's, I did less shooting in the 

Armed Forces than out.) 

It has been fun all the way; fun when I was a growing 

kid, fun in all the later years, in the field or at targets, 

with whatever gun happened to hold my interest at the 

moment. But it took a growing son of my own to teach 

me what I really wanted from the shooting game, and 

what I could get from it. 

By the time Ronny was eight, he had been out to the 

range with me several times, first as a spectator and later 

as a pupil. Remembering my own cartridge-starved youth, 

By HERBERT J. ERFURTH 

I spent plenty of time coaching him, making sure he got 

to burn up at least a box of cartridges every week-end. The 

small-bore target bug was biting me hard at that time, and 

Ronny spent many an afternoon tied into a miniature 

version of my own shooting sling, trying to punch out 

scores with his little single shot. 

I still have some snaps taken at the range, showing 

him with a brave smile on his face and a target in his 

hand. Maybe it was that smile that finally got through 

to me. At first, when it dawned on me that he was doing 

all this more to be with me, or more to impress the other 

kids on the block, that for the fun of shooting, I couldn't 

believe it. It was fun, darn it! It had been and still was 

fun for me; why not for him? 

We shot, and shot some more. We shot, and then walked 

down and marked the targets; shot again, squinted 

through the spotting scope, made corrections, talked some, 

and went on shooting. He was polite about it, tried hard 

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not to let me know how bored he 

was. I was nuzzled and hurt. almost 

angry. I remembered my own boyhood 

when I cut lawns and washed cars all 

week long just so I would have plenty 

g of .22 shorts (at 15 cents for a box of 

r 50) for my week-end shooting. 

t 

t What I was overlooking, of course, 

was that our formal shooting range, 

with its shooting benches, scopes, 

slings, pads, and target frames, was as 

E different from the cool green woods 

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Powder measure is screwed to peg 

block that fits in holes drilled in bench. 

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and grassy hillsides of my own child- 

hood as night is from day. I forgot 

that an old turtle sunning himself on a 

loghad been, for me, a Sioux warrior; 

that the stones, dead limbs, chipmunks, 

frogs, and occasional rabbits of my 

childhood had been bears and tigers 

and antlered bucks. each stalked and 

shot with pulsing excitement. Punching 

holes in paper targets under stiff range 

conditions was fun after the bug bit 

you, but for my boy it was like too 

many other things in life-all wrapped 

up in rules, with too much reality and 

not enough imagination. 

I shot mostly alone that summer, 

and I would probably still be shooting 

alone if it hadn't been for a trip we 

took two years later into upper 

Michigan. 

It looked like rain that afternoon, 

so we camped early, built a fire, and 

put some potatoes on to roast. The 

stream made a sharp bend just below 

the camp, and the opposite bank was 

high, perfectly designed for a bullet 

backstop. I had brought my Match 

Target Woodsman along, packed in 

with the bedding. I dug it out, sorted 

out a handful of twigs from our 

kindling, and set off downstream. 

Ronny was still busy unrolling his 

sleeping bag. 

I broke off three two-inch nieces of 

kindling and tossed them into the 

stream. I know the rule about guard- 

ing against ricochets off water, but 

the bank yonder was high enough to 

Handloading - bench refinements by 

Mears include scale board seated 

on peg to convenient eye-level. 

stop anything thrown at it. And 

floating targets are good fun and good , 

practice. They move; and the bullet 

splashes mark your hits for you. This 

spot was ideal for the purpose. The 

current was fast and tricky, and the 

little sticks. 50 feet distant. , danced . and 

spun as if they were alive. I threw 

five shots, fast. Two of those were 

pretty wild, but the next five were 

better. I emptied the gun, reloaded, 

fired that, and was just slipping the 

gun back into its zippered case~it 

was getting close to time to see aboul 

those potatoes-when Ronny spoke 

from behind me. 

"That looks like fun, dad." 

I didn't say anything; I was afraid 

that anything I might say would spoil 

it. I just handed him the pistol, showed 

him how to load it. I was too excited 

to do it myself; and, anyway, he had 

to learn, didn't he? 

We were still there an hour later, 

both of us with sore thumbs from 

working the magazine button but both 

exhilarated by the action, the fun, the 

renewed feeling of companionship 

with each other. We had burned up 

the ammunition I had figured would 

last me the whole trip, but there was 

a small town nearby and we stopped 

there next day and bought all the .22 

ammo the man had in stock. I've 

seldom spent money I was more willing 

to spend. (The potatoes were pretty 

well done, but we ate them.) 

After that, we stopped whenever 

the urge took us. On the shore of a 

lake so big and so lonesome that no 

ricochet could reach danger, Ronny 

learned about ricochets and why you 

shouldn't ordinarily shoot over open 

water. We pushed into woods .and 

swamps to shoot snakes and sometimes 

a rabbit. I missed the only crow I 

ever caught within pistol distance. 

Ronny's sight- and trigger-savvy from 

the rifle practice helped him develop 

quite rapidly into a fair-to-middlin' 

pistol shot. 

Meanwhile, I was doing a lot of 

thinking. Ronny was obviously having 

the time of his life. But what about 

when we returned home? Range work 

would be work again, not like these 

games we were playing. 

I was right. Ronny went out to the 

range with (Continued on page 57)

GUNS. PAST AND PRESENT. WERE THE PRIME OBJECTIVES OF 

s EE RARE GUNS, buy at low European prices, visit 

' museums and arsenals not open to the ~ublic, with 

the First Annual Gun Tour of Europe," was the promise. 

Exciting? Yes, and fulfilled. But not through any miracle 

by Sabena Airlines that all this was done-Sabena got us 

there but missed a connection-nor was it because our 

tour conductor Bill Edwards was such a whiz at tour 

arrangements-he wasn't, and he goofed several times-nor 

was it our golden key of dollars for travel. Instead, we found 

I 

a universal element of friendship among the hundreds of 

gun enthusiasts abroad who made our trip pleasant. That 

good will by gun enthusiasts may be one of the world's 

strongest common denominators for peace. Certainly, we 

found many new friends in lands that had since childhood 

been only romantic names-Venice, Monte Carlo, Brescia, 

Neuhausen at the falls of the Rhine, Saint Etienne . . . all 

these and more were on the Tour. To my wife, Stella, and 

myself, it seemed like a second honeymoon . . . plus guns. 

The Tour started from New York, where we had flown 

from our home in Burbank, California, to meet the others 

In neat, Modern Beretta factory guide 

Amadi (left) shows 9mm gun to Edwards. 

Hammerli was bought in Switzerland. 

THIS UNIQUE GUIDED TOUR THROUGH EUROPE'S ARMORIES 

By ROBERT PARKYN 

of the group. Our schedule was by Sabena Belgian Airlines 

to Manchester, England; then train to London. We met the 

others of the group-George and Agnes Whittington of 

Henderson, Kentucky; George Oberfell of Claremore, 

Oklahoma, and his son-in-law Bob Demming of Kansas 

City; Roger Dakin, of the Dakin Gun Company, importers 

of San Francisco; and Val Forgett, Jr., youthful proprietor 

of "Ma Hunter's: the machine gun seller. The Tour was 

arranged by Bill Edwards who had met many of the people 

we visited on previous trips to Europe, or knew of them in 

connection with GUNS magazine. 

.Across the Atlantic at night, the trip was smooth, like 

riding in a bus. I didn't know then how apt the simile was, 

for we were to cover over 4,500 kilometers via our own 

17-passenger Chevrolet bus through seven countries, plus 

England, before we were through. 

In London, our first stop, we visited the Tower, and 

were welcomed by Mr. A. Norris Kennard, Assistant to the 

Master of the Armouries. Kennard knows the historical 

value of guns made since 1800. These plain weapons have 

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2. 

Huge factory Belgium is where Brownir guns ade. 0 I belts 

, . .,. .: %most 

machines. dosts at Fabrique Nationale were d~rector Laloux and young Brownmg. 

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Magnificent cased fowling piece made about I850 for 

wealthy Dutchman is preserved in Liege; was one of 

hundreds of rich specimens seen in Europe's museums. 

Rich garniture of diminutive flintlock coachgun made about 

I730 for Italian nobleman's carriage was among treasures 

preserved in London museums. The stock folds. Tower collec- 

tion including Students' Room proved fascinating to Tourists. 

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Merging of old and new was accomplished at Beretta works 

, in Italy where buildings are in form of Renaissance fortress. 

's gate are Agnes and George Whittington, my wife, 

Sellas By factox Bo Demming' Roger Dakin. Factory was very clean. 

Thousands of cheap pocket pistols were made 

in Liege, center of Belgian gunmaking since 

the 1400's. Bayonet pistol was useful item 

for defense by travellers against thugs.

THE OLD THE NEW THE UNUSUAL 

By JOHN L. BOUDREAU 

BETTER THAN RUSSIAN UPSIDE-DOWN PISTOLSl IS THE VERDICT OF 

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IGHT WEIGHT combined with almost total lack of recoil "jump" 

L make this five-shot semi-automatic even better than the Xussian 

upside-down pistols which helped wreck American shooting hopes 

at the Melbourne Olympics. Designed by John L: Boudreau (holder 

of Master ranking in pistol competition for 15 years; New England 

representative at the 1948 U. S. Olympic qualification matclies at 

Quantico), this gun weighs only 20 ounces, is 11%" in overall 

length (8%" between sights), shoots -22 Long Rifle, regnlar, or 

shorts without change other than swap of magazines, loads from the 

top from five-shot magazine. Barrel is in line with shooter's arm, 

eliminating tendency of high-barrelled guns to roll up and back in 

recoil. Slant of grip also helps control jump. Other target pistols, 

including Russian upside-down models, use weight as steadying 

factor, but this model achieves the purpose without muscle strain on 

shooter's arm. 

Test models of this pattern in 9 mm and .45 caliber autos indicate 

that the design can be equally effe.ctive on heavier sport and combat 

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TIN CAN ON A SHINGLE 

By Wm. Chapman White and Ruth White. 

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This book is a bargain: a bargain in 

diverting reading; a bargain in biographythat 

of John Ericsson, designer of the U.S.S. 

Ironclad "Monitor"; and a bargain, too, for 

the gun fan, for it tells many of the technical 

details of that history-making vessel of 

war which my Confederate grandfather spoke 

of in derision tinged with awe as "that 

Kill That Kick 

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The Diary of Robert Kean. 

(Oxford University Press, 1957) 

The fact that Robert Kean was chief clerk 

of the Bureau of War, a division of the 

Confederate War Department, may lead some 

gun fans to seek for firearms and ordnance 

material in this book. Aside from one excerpt 

referring to a rocket launcher in brief, 

scanty detail, and one or two passages 

mentioning arms captured or lost at Fredericksburg 

or Vicksburg, this book will be a 

disappointment to the arms collector. But 

for the student of the times in which many 

collectors' arms were used, this book has a 

greater value. Kean saw many men whose 

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hand under the stresses of a great war. His 

often terse but succinct comments on these 

men, their personalities, what the gossip of 

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have done, are welcome additions to our 

store of literature and information on the 

American Civil War. Perhaps of greatest 

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at the end of his diary on abuses of the 

Federal Constitution by the Federal Government 

after the War was finished. He quotes 

Article 2 of the Bill of Rights, ". . . the 

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cheesebox on a raft." 

Deriving their information from gbvernment 

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country and the hinges on which its fortunes 

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Edited by Robert West Howard 

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(Continued from page 25) 

or even on cardboard disks offering only 

their edges to the bullet. 

Splitting a flying disk edgewise with a .22 

bullet is not easy. It is a lot easier with a 

.38 or .45 caliber bullet. A lot depends, of 

course, on how the targets are thrown. I 

would say that nearly half of the success o'f 

aerial shooting depends on the proper toss 

of the target, whether it is done by hand 

or by trap. Bad throws can, in fact will, 

cut hits to a minimum. But let's look for a 

moment at this matter of bullet caliber and 

its effect on hits. It is a thing of basic 

importance to the exhibition shooter, yet a 

thing seldom considered by those who watch 

that shooter's performance. 

t is a matter of general knowledge that a 

1.22 gun (rifle or pistol) is easier to shoot 

accurately than the same type weapon of 

larger caliber. This is a result of lighter 

recoil, less nervous impact of blast, and 

perhaps other factors. But the situation 

changes in exhibition shooting, due solely to 

bullet diameter. If you shoot a .22 at a 

target half an inch in diameter, a bullet that 

barely grazes the target is as much a hit as 

one which hits dead center. Therefore, the 

actual diameter of the target area is in- 

creased by twice the diameter of the bullet 

(less a minute fraction). To demonstrate 

this visually, take a half-inch marble, lay a 

.22 bullet against it, and pass the bullet 

around the circumference of the marble with- 

out losing contact. A shot anywhere within 

that circle will score. 

Perform the same experiment with a .45 

caliber bullet and you will see that, 

although you are shooting at the same half- 

inch marble, the actual size of your target 

area has approximately doubled. A .22 bullet 

must fly within a circle of approximately 

three-quarters of an inch to score on the 

half-inch target, whereas the .45 will touch 

the marble if fired within a circle nearly 

1% inches in diameter. This principal 

applies to many exhibition shots. Suspend 

an object at the end of a thread; cut the 

thread with a bullet, then hit the falling 

object. That first shot, at the thread, requires 

good marksmanship but is a lot less 

miraculous than it looks when you remember 

that a bullet grazing the thread on either 

side will cut (or burn) through it. So your 

actual usable target is twice the diameter of 

the bullet; or, in the case of a .38, about 

.7 of an inch. (Think twice before you 

attempt to cut a thread stretched horizontally, 

however. Here you have the curved trajectory 

of bullet flight to consider, and the shot is 

many time more difficult.) 

This brings us, perhaps belatedly, to the 

matter of "trick" shooting. A lot of exhibi- 

tion shooters (amateur and professional) 

object to the term, "trick shooting," on the 

grounds that "trick" suggests deception, 

whereas their feats are feats of skill, not 

trickery. They have a point, because any 

worthwhile shooting exhibition requires a 

high degree of skill on the part of the 

shooter. On the other hand, some shots used 

in exhibitions require considerably less skill 

than the average person thinks-other stunts 

which look simple require far greater skill 

than some of the spectacular ones-and, 

finally, some shots featured by some ex-

uiijition shooters are tricks, dependent on 

sheer deception. Remember, please, that the 

exhibition shooter is, necessarily, highly 

skilled, even if (as is not by any means 

always the case) he deceives you on some 

of his shots. The magician deceives you a 

thousand times as often, and you like it. You 

don't question the magician's skill; don't 

question that of the shooter. 

The fact that the thread he cuts with a 

bullet is actually a wider target than you 

thought doesn't mean that the shooter 

cheated you; it means that you just never 

thought about the width of the bullet. 

Shooting a gun held upside down is really 

no harder than shooting one held right-sideup, 

except for possible awkwardness of 

position; you use the same sights in both 

case. True, the point of bullet impact has a 

different relationship to the sight picture, 

simply because the sights are set to allow 

for the pull of gravity when the gun is 

upright and this allowance is reversed then 

the gun is turned over-but you allow for 

this by holding a bit high and your shot 

scores. This, in itself, might be called 

"trickery," but it isn't; it's simply "gun 

savvy." 

On the other hand, hitting a mark by 

sighting through a mirror, or by target 

reflection in a diamond ring, are exactly as 

difficult as they look-not because the shots 

require more gun skill than shots normally 

sighted, hut simply because it takes a lot 

of practice to learn to move your sights into 

alignment while seeing them "in mirror 

image." Everything works backward! Try it, 

and you'll see. 

Almost without exception, you can believe 

what you see when the shooter starts busting 

aerial targets. Much has been made of the 

story, whether true or false, that certain 

showmen of the past "use fine shot instead 

of bullets~threw a 'pattern' so wide they 

just couldn't miss!" Some of the "debunkers" 

claim they shot "cartridges loaded with salt." 

The story needs to be taken with a grain of 

salt, truly-or at least with a seasoning of 

gun savvy. Even a .44 or .45 caliber cartridge 

loaded with the finest shot won't throw a 

pattern wider than a few inches at the 

ranges used in the exhibitions in questionand 

flipping shot within even a few inches of 

aerial targets requires some degree of skill. 

And nobody I know, certainly none of the 

publicized exhibitionists, use powder-shot 

today. They don't have to. They can, and 

do, hit with bullets. 

s ome exhibition shooters "spice" their performances 

with the element of danger. 

Whether the danger is great or small 

depends on the circumstances; the important 

thing is that the audience believes the danger 

is there. And it is. I question the need for 

adding "thrill" to skill by shooting targets 

out of a ~erson's mouth or fingers. No man 

yet born is totally immune to the possibility 

of either accident or error, and a very small 

accident or a very small error can produce 

tragedy when a gun is pointed within inches 

or less of a human body. It takes exactly as 

much skill to clip a cigaret held to a board 

by a spring clip as to clip one held between 

the lips of a pretty girl-and the former 

makes a lot more sense. One accident with a 

gun outweighs a million shots safely fired, in 

public opinion; and the shooting sports are 

heavily affected by public opinion 

To misquote a much quoted and some- 

times ridiculed advertisement, "You, too, can 

be an exhibition shooter." All it takes is 

practice. And practice. And more practice. 

And if you love shooting, the practice is 

almost as much fun as the accomplishment. 

If you want to learn to hit aerial targets, 

remember that "trigger control" is of just 

as much-more-importance here as it is in 

shooting at stationary paper targets. Any 

slight wrong movement of the trigger finger 

will produce a miss. To be sure, there isn't 

time for the slow sque-e-e-e-ze of paper target 

slow fire when you're shooting at flying 

targets; but there must not be any trigger 

ierk, either. You must learn to fire with a 

- . 

fast, smooth pull. Double-action shooting is 

Trap ti at all angles, lets 

shooter practice without an assistant. 

the best way I know to learn how to operate 

the trigger of a revolver quickly and 

smoothly. And remember, too, that the 

trigger release must be smooth also. It 

must be as smooth as the pull, else the shot 

will be deflected. 

Strengthening your trigger finger will help 

you a lot in double-action shooting, especially 

for fast double action. I spent many hours 

practicing with an old, worn out, double 

action revolver which has a trigger pull of 

nearly fifteen ~ounds. 

it is needed, not only in the trigger finger 

but in other parts of the hand where muscle 

is needed for fast, smooth, double action 

shooting. 

Position (stance) is important in aerial 

shooting. I try never to move my gun hand 

and arm independently after they reach 

approximate shooting position; I follow the 

target, making sighting adjustments, by 

moving my body. I lean back a little to 

follow a rising target, tip forward slightly to , 

follow a falling target. By so doing, I am 

able to keep my eyes aligned with my sights. 

Turning a little to the left or right makes 

the gun follow a crossing target. Body 

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AUGUST WILHELM HEYM-THE GUNSMITH TOO TOUGH TO DIE 

former and ancient home in the famous arms 

center of Suhl in Thuringia, as a result of 

the Second World War. August Heym, its 

present head, is the descendant of a line of 

worthy craftsmen who for centuries added 

luster to the fame of the old city as the 

home of fine weapons. Just over two centuries 

ago, in the year 1750, members of the Heym 

family organized the firm of Heym Brothers 

in Suhl; but for several hundred years previous 

to that, individuals of the same family 

had been famous craftsmen in the region. 

The steady success of a superior product, 

made of the best materials by men who 

would probably have been highly insulted by 

the suggestion that a slight relaxing of their 

standards of perfection might well effect a 

larger profit margin, resulted in a continuous 

growth and enlargement of the enterprise. 

riedrich Wilhelm, grandfather of the 

F present head, in 1865 organized on this 

solid foundation the firm that bears his name 

today. Springing as he did, from such a 

line of guncraftsmen, and with the "art and 

mystery" in his very veins, it is probably no 

more than might be expected that he should 

have devised and patented a type of arm 

perhaps more widely copied in Europe than 

any other sporting piece before or since. 

This was the hammerless "drilling" or three 

barrelled gun, beloved of the "jaeger" riflemen 

and down to the present day. Handy, 

short, and balanced like a fine shotgun, it 

provided shot for the feathered game or a 

true-flying bullet from the rifled tube at 

instant option and as the hunter's luck might 

turn. 

As the years passed, the little firm prospered 

and diversified its products, and the 

children and grandchildren of the original 

workers, brought up in the craft, continued 

to create masterworks in steel and walnut 

whose fame spread over the earth, from the 

court of the Russian Czar to the waste places 

nf Africa. and from the Arctic wilderness to 

- RUGGED 0 DEPEN 


the quail-haunted coverts of our own south- 

land, wherever fine guns were esteemed by 

knowledgeable gentlemen. 

Then there burst upon the world the ter- 

rible holocaust born in the mad brain of 

the Austrian housepainter. Europe flamed 

and exploded from the ocean to the steppes, 

and finally to Suhl came the American army. 

The war was over, but the terror and destruc- 

tion were not yet over for the craftsmen of 

Heym. For, as stipulated by the agreement 

between the Allies, the Americans drew back, 

and into their place flowed the devouring 

tide of the Red Army, and the crawling 

horror of the Secret Police. 

The thriving Heym factory was seized by 

the Russians, and the fate of the workers 

New Heym factory in W. Germany 

has centuries-old tradition of quality. 

may be judged by what befell August him- 

self. Thrown into the cellar of a small pri- 

vate house in the neighboring town of Zella- 

Mehlis with eight other prisoners, he began 

three months of maltreatment. Those months 

left their mark, for there is a look in the 

eyes of one who has suffered which is plainly 

to be seen forever after. Day followed day 

in the filthy dungeon, among the packed 

wretches huddled hopelessly together. Three 

times a week, in the hours from midnight to 

three in the morning, the time when the 

worn body cries most for rest, Heym was 

dragged forth to the inquisition. Questions, 

beatings, more questions. Each answer not 

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of the rubber hose across the head. Then 

back to the hopeless cell. Men died there, of 

abuse and by suicide. Their bodies were 

hauled away in wagons. 

Those of tougher fiber endured, as did 

August, until one day he was brought out for 

the last time. The Russians had a job for 

him. All during his imprisonment they had 

been trying clumsily to run his factory. 

Thirty men had labored in vain- thirty, 

where hundreds had worked before. But the 

number was probably ample, for a mere remnant 

of the machinery and tools were left. 

The rest had gone to Russia as spoils of 

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People's Paradise. 

But they misjudged him. Not broken in 

spirit as others had been, nor ready to buy 

freedom from abuse at the price of self respect, 

he bided his time, and one day, two 

weeks later, he slipped away. 

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best known to themselves, carrying with 

them no more than had their master, came 

the old workers from the factory in Suhl, a 

mere handful, but enough. 

stheim, Bavaria, saw the rebirth of the 

0 old firm on this tiny but staunch foundation. 

And probably of more value than any 

other possible bit of salvage from the wreckage, 

was the name and reputation of the 

business and its heir and head. Gradually, 

the business grew. The Heym plant produced 

a large percentage of the once-famous Daly 

Arms. These and other Heym guns were 

marketed in the United States under the rep. 

resentation, in the early 1920's, of Ray 

Riling, now famous as a purveyor of Arms 

Books old and new. 

A Germany rebuilding herself from' the 

rubble of war was sharply on the lookout for 

every scrap of economic potential to be 

found, and the Heym firm did not remain 

unnoticed. Under the artaistice terms, a 

police force was permitted the conquered 

nation, and the police needed arms, for as 

many a G.I. who saw and perhaps prospected 

the vast heaps of confiscated weapons 

in German cities and villages will recall, 

guns were about the scarcest item in 

the country. Police carbines then, on the 

"Mauser-Heym" system started to trickle 

from the improvised factory in Ostheim. A 

small beginning, but it was to be followed 

five years later by a move to a larger plant 

which was erected for the firm by the town 

of Muennerstadt. 

Here in a capable and neat plant in the 

hills of Bavaria, August Wilhelm Heym presides 

once more over the family enterprise. 

It is a factory now, makes arms on a modest 

production basis; but August Heym 

himself is still an artist, famous the world 

over for his fine craftsmanship in gun design 

and decoration. And again the traditional 

skill of the Heym craftsmen and artists 

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facilities result from a general public accept- 

Mice of pigeon shooting and from the sup- 

port that is given it by the various casinos 

ind resorts. Among Europeans generally 

there is a feeling that this is an attraction 

in the same way that golf, tennis or horse 

racing draw crowds to a city or community, 

and they are therefore willing and eager to 

defray expense in every possible way-by 

putting up money for cups, trophies, and 

even for cash prizes in addition to the money 

is available by the payment of entry 

from the shooters themselves. 

here is no more charming sight in the I: T world than a late afternoon at one of 

these flyer shoots, when the contestants have 

been narrowed down and about 20 are left. 

The other competitors are still there, cheer- 

ing their favorite, and family, friends, and 

spectators have gathered on the club house 

lawn to watch the event. There is an aura 

excitement about it comparable to our 

nnis or golf tournaments and, once savored, 

is easy to prefer it to the flyer shooting 

have in the Western Hemisphere. Much 

the excitement comes from the betting. 

this respect, it resembles horse racing or 

i alai, except that here many of the bettors 

e also competitors. 

, Each country has a very strict handicap 

stem, which is based on winnings. In 

ost countries, adjustment of the handicap 

made each day, either downward in ratio 

the amount of the entry paid out, or up- 

ard in the event the shooter has won. The 

rdage handicap also is increased by an 

ount in direct ratio with each win. There 

very little question ever raised as to the 

andicap. All the shooters know that this is 

the hands of the people who run the 

ots, that they are fair, and that the meth- 

s by which the handicaps are computed 

time-tested and equitable to all shooters. 

ile the technical difference of handicap 

rles from the minimum of twenty meters 

a maximum of thirty-five meters, in nearly 

ery instance the actual shooting handicap 

a spread between twenty-two and thirty 

eters. The exact handicap difference, of 

urse, applies only in handicap events. In 

andicaps, some shooters are placed twenty- 

o meters from the traps; others who have 

on consistently are set back to thirty me- 

rs; and other shooters are placed according 

their individual handicaps between the 

second type of competition is called a 

eries," where two or three distances are 

ot. Here the lower handicap shooters all 

oot from twenty-two or twenty-four me- 

rs. The next handicap group shoot from 

enty-six or twenty-seven meters, and those 

ith the highest handicaps go to twenty- 

ight or twenty-nine meters. 

The last type of competition is a. fixed 

istance. It is usually twenty-seven meters 

r such events as the world championships, 

hampionships of Europe, and all the most 

As a result of this type of handicapping, 

nd because pigeon shooting in Europe has 

een done on a large scale and has been 

opularly accepted over a very long period 

f time without interruption, there is a great 

eal of highly technical information to be 

arned by the American who comes to 

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pean shooter firmly believes that he must 

use a different gun, or one gun with two and 

very often three different sets of barrels, for 

distances varying by as little as two to three 

meters. And the guns used, of course, vary 

widely. The side-by-side is the most popular, 

although the over-and-under is also used a 

great deal and an increasing number of 

shooters are now using the automatics. The 

citizens of each country, of course, tend to 

the gun or guns produced in their own coun- 

try both because of expense of import and 

because of national feeling, or because they 

know the aptitude of the national weapon 

better. So the Italians usually shoot Italian 

guns, the Spaniards shoot theirs, and the 

Frenchmen shoot theirs; but there are a 

great many British Purdy and Boss guns in 

evidence. Also, a large group of shooters 

like the German Merkel, particularly be- 

fore it went back of the Iron Curtain. The 

Browning also has its many admirers. But 

here, just as everywhere else in the world, 

there is a strong difference of opinion as to 

which is the proper gun to shoot at the 

proper time. 

As a result of the study that has been 

made of flyer shooting in Europe by some of 

the experts and supposed experts, the ques- 

tions of the proper gun and the proper barrel 

at each distance are not the only factors get- 

ting the attention of the shooter. Ammuni- 

tion is a matter of equal importance. Theo- 

ries in this, as in other matters, are carried 

to extremes. . It is the generally held 

belief that one should never fire at a pigeon 

until after the gun has been discharged in 

the air, and that the same shells should be 

used in this preliminary firing that are going 

to be used when the pigeon is actually shot 

at. The reasoning is that the pattern will 

change from a clean gun to a barrel which 

has had a residue left in it. Many also be- 

lieve that there is a difference in barometric 

pressure at various shoots which affects re- 

sults when various types of shells are fired. 

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the pattern is more widely open and the 

pigeon is closer; while the further back, the 

tighter the pattern should be. Some of the 

shooters believe in lead shot, others in copper, 

still others in nickel-and there is only 

a limit on the amount of shot that can be 

used, not on type. There is little limit, if 

any, enforced on the amount of powder, and 

you often hear howitzer-like roarings from 

the field when some shooters are on the line. 

The ballistic studies that have been conducted 

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with a brain shot through the end of the 

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get up to shoot at a bird, there is pressure 

nose from another rifle. Then I learned of 

from prize winnings. They are the excepconnected 

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two fatal accidents caused by the Ross 

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the pool or added event is shot at the end. 

I promptly sold that Canadian rifle. 

people who enjoy shooting. Although there 

As a result of this miss and out system, 

The .256 Newton, was a splendid long 

is a hard core of a few top experts who 

the money prizes are usually much larger 

range rifle for deer, coyotes, and similar 

travel from country to country, the shoots in 

than those that are possible in the United each country are supported by the nationals 

game, and I also killed elk with it with 

States, where the prizes are split somewhat of that country. Then in the World Chamneck 

shots. But the meat destruction was 

differently. In France, for example, the pionship, European Championships, and at 

terrific. The bullet simply went in until it 

shooting usually is narrowed down until Monte Carlo, the various top shooters of 

hit a hone, then blew up. I soon found that, 

there are only four left and the last four each country meet and fight for supremacy. 

in thick brush, either the .256 or the .280 

split the top four purses. In Spain, on the The United States shooters who have come Ross bullets would blow up on the brush and 

other hand, if there are twelve prizes estab- to Europe have, for the most part, given a spatter the animal with fragments. 

lished, the shooters when they have come fine account of themselves. Over the last The .30-06 with 220 grain bullet was a far 

down to about eighteen usually have a meet- years, many of our top guns have done ex- better elk cartridge, but even this let me 

ing and decide that they will add six extra tremely well. The result has been, when a down in 1917 when I tried a raking shot, 

prizes, taking a certain amount from those new shooter from the States appears, he is all that I could get on a big bull at daythat 

have already been set. In this way usually handicapped fairly heavily. But this light. Range was about 60 yards and I put 

there is a little insurance for all of those also holds true for new shooters from any that 220 grain slug in as close to a tree 

who get through that far. They have a country, unless their known ability is low- bole as I dared. It raked a hip and went on 

chance to get back their entry money, their as in the case of wives of shooters who pay into the paunch, missing all bones. That 

bird money, and their shell money. Then, either half or no entry unless they win. The was on the West Gallatin, and the hull went 

when the field is down to six or seven, those attitude of the Europeans is generally very into Yellowstone Park, which was patrolled 

left have another caucus and again sweeten fair but can be easily misunderstood by us by soldiers. 1 let one soldier go by while 

the amount allocated by program to the because of the language barrier. Just as we I hid behind a tree. He looked at the tracks, 

lower places. 

often don't understand them, they often can- but went on down the trail. Then I tightened 

In Italy there usually are a few prizes not understand us. They believe it is polite up my belt and made a big circle around 

taken from the top money purses and added to shake hands at each meeting, to use the the elk, and gave him my scent and ran 

to the total called for. If, for example, there fork in the left hand, to tip the hat to him back out of the park just in time to see 

are ten money prizes and after eight birds another man. None of these customs exist in the next soldier load his Springfield, strap 

have been killed, fourteen shooters remain- our own code of good manners-but that on his snowshoes, and take my trail into the 

four prizes are taken out of the ten specified doesn't make one right nor the other wrong. Park. I followed the wounded bull around 

and added. But the top money prizes are So it is in shooting pigeons-if the guest Lightning mountain and finally killed him 

not usually split as they are in France and behaves as a guest, the host behaves as a with a neck shot as he threw his head up 

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host and both have an enjoyable time. When and charged me. After this and a few 

Despite the presence of this prize money, one criticizes the other and attempts to be- similar experiences, I went back to my old 

it is very difficult to come out even close to little him, friction must follow. 

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he faster you drive any given bullet, the 

between a dollar and a half and a dollar remember. First, do not expect to find a T more it expands on impact, and the less 

seventy-five cents. In Spain, which is the gold minenor even a silver mine. Second, 

the penetration. It will create awful wounds 

source of all the best tournament pigeons, when in Paris, remember that it is in France, 

hut often fails miserably to get into the vital 

they vary from forty to seventy-five cents not in the United States. Third, politeness 

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I next tried the load on a big mule buck 

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ountain. He stopped again 

aw at 250 yards, and this 

time I hit him in the heart; blowing it to 

shreds. But examination proved that the 

first shot had penetrated not over an inch, 

blowing out a crater of meat and hair and 

hide and leaving the shoulder blade exposed 

A magnificent trophy killed by Kern 

at long range with .300 H&H Magnum. 

but not breaking the bone. Though I saw 

110 grain bullets used on big game after 

that, but I never again used them myself. 

About this time, the 270 caliber was all 

the rage. One fall while guiding, I saw 

four bull elk each take a shoulder hit from 

the 130 grain .270 bullets, each breaking the 

shoulder but not even getting into the chest. 

One fall, Charley Snook guided five Cali- 

fornians, each armed with a .270, down on 

Moose creek in the cedar forest, where vis- 

ibility is none too good and the trees so huge 

(many of them from ten to fifteen feet in 

diameter) that shots are nearly all at close 

range. Those five hunters each hit and 

knocked elk down, some of them as many 

as three each; but they came home empty 

handed. Snook told them to stop and see me 

and get my recommendation for an elk rifle 

before they came back another year. They 

did so, and I told them to get .375 Magnums 

and use 300 grain soft nose bullets. The next 

year they all came out happy, each with an 

elk and each elk killed with a single shot. 

In 1927, I watched George Bates empty a 

.300 Magnum with 180 grain open point 

boattail bullets into a sow grizzly at reason- 

ably close range. The big bear took them 

all before going down, and was very mad. 

She never did locate us or I would have seen 

a good foot race. Bates' sixth shot put her 

down with a broken back, but Jim Ross 

made him shoot her again for safety. 

I once watched an old mountain goat take 

six 130 grain .270s, the first shot broadside 

behind the shoulder, the next five in the seat 

of his pants as he ran straight away from us. 

He then took a 180 grain '06 from another 

rifle, stopped, looked us over for a time, and 

decided to commit suicide by jumping into 

space and onto slide rock a quarter-mile 

below. 

Another time, in 1939,I watched H. Nelson 

Busick empty his .30-06 with 225 grain am- 

munition into a small sow grizzly in Alaska. 

Busick is a good shot, but she would get 

up after each hit. She finally located us and 

charged. Nelson's last shot stopped her, but 

entirely too close for comfort. Those 225 

grain bullets, instead of blowing up with 

insufficient penetration as so many light 

bullets do, had gone clear through the bear 

without doing enough damage to anchor her. 

They worked well on larger bear, but were 

no good foi blacks or small grizzly. 

I 

could write another 20 pages of personal 

eye-witness accounts of failures of small 

bore, high velocity rifles on American big 

game. I have also seen many phenomenal 

kills from the same calibers when the bullets 

expanded properly, were placed right, or 

when they struck brain or spine. The .300 

H & H Magnum, the .285 O.K.H., and similar 

rifles, with not less than 180 grain bullets, 

are very deadly on game up to around 350 

pounds weight, will also kill the larger stuff 

when perfectly placed if all goes well with 

bullet expansion. But they will also give 

many miserable failures if they do not hit 

just right; and at extreme range, when 

velocity has dropped off until the small bore 

bullet do not expand, they are all done as 

killers unless brain or spine is shattered. I 

do not recommend the 300 magnum for game 

heavier than about 400 pounds weight. 

In comparison, rifles of heavier caliber and 

with heavier bullets have shown a marked 

superiority in killing power on all game over 

the years. Rifles from .333 up to .40 caliber 

have proven by far the best for all our 

heavier game, and will not damage as much 

meat of a small deer as will a small bore, 

high velocity bullet that explodes on impact. 

When we turn to heavier game such as 

moose, elk, big bear, bison, or walrus, much 

heavier calibers and heavier bullets are 

needed for sure, deep penetration. I watched 

H. Nelson Busick shoot a big grizzly at about 

30 yards range with my old 3.33 O.K.H. and 

a 300 grain steel jacketed Kynoch bullet 

backed by 60 grains of 4350. The slug struck 

square in the shoulder as he stood broadside 

in a small salmon stream. 

At the shot, his front legs simply flopped 

out sideways and he came down in the 

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wiggle his ears. That 300 grain bullet had 

tom an entrance hole almost an inch in 

diameter, as it had started to expand on his 

heavy wet pelt. It had then smashed a two- 

inch wound channel through the heavy shoul- 

der bone, removed the aorta from the heart, 

and lodged, perfectly expanded, in the right 

or off lung. 

A big Alaskan brownie of the record class 

took two 250 grain thin-jacket 250 grain 3 3 ' 

O.K.H. slugs broadside in the shoulder and 

chest area, and both simply blew up under 

the skin. Then one of the 300 grain steel 

jacketed Kynoch slugs broke a shoulder, 

went on through the heart and brought the 

big bear down for keeps. Even the big bore 

rifles, when used with fragile, thinly jacketed 

bullets speeded up to 2600 to 2700 feet, may 

blow up their bullets and cause only surface 

wounds. The bullet must be heavy enough 

and jacketed heavily enough for the job. 

Even a 35 Whelen can blow up its bullets 

on heavy game. 

On the other hand, I used a 400 Whelen 

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dition, and have yet to see a better or more 

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it damaged far less meat when properly 

placed than a .270 or '06 with 150 grain 

bullets. 

Walrus are probably the heaviest game on 

this continent, and only head shots for the 

brain should be used on them. A frontal 

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the skull. Walrus in the Pacific may now be 

killed on license, provided that the meat 

and hides are given to the Eskimos. Steel 

jacketed solids are best for such shooting. 

I consider buffalo the toughest game on 

this continent. A huge old bull will weigh 

2500 pounds or more and reacts less to a 

bullet than any bear. I have killed two 

record bison, and I'm probably one of the 

few men now living who has killed a buffalo 

with the .45-120-550 Sharps. It did a good 

job. My first shot on the charging bull broke 

the left shoulder and stopped him, but that 

huge shoulder bone, some 4" in diameter, 

also stopped the big 566 grain paper-patched 

.45 caliber slug. The next two both went 

through the heart and lodged under the skin 

on the off side. Even then he stayed on his 

feet a good ten minutes after the first shot. 

The second bull I killed with the .476 

Westley Richards with 520 grain solids. He 

took the first one broadside in the lungs at 

60 yards and all the effect it had was make 

him jump, swing around toward us, and 

come full charge. That slug cut a rib and 

then turned back into the paunch, where it 

stopped and was never recovered. The next 

shot, I tried for the left shoulder but missed 

the bone by a quarter inch, the 520 grain 

solid carrying back until it hit a rib six 

inches under the spine, when it turned 

square across the body, cutting another rib 

and lodging under the skin on the off side 

perfectly mushroomed and with one side of 

the jacket tom completely away. This shot 

brought him down in a ground-jarring thump 

some 30 yards away. Ten minutes later, 

when Iver Henrikson ran in and kinked his 

tail, he exploded off the ground and whirled 

to get at Iver. I broke his neck with another 

520 grain solid as he came around and 

dropped him again. This slug went clear 

through the neck behind the skull, killing 

him instantly. I believe only solid bullets 

should be used against big bison bulls, and 

preferably from heavy caliber guns. 

The foregoing instances and literally 

scores of others taken at random from my 

lifetime experience on American game 

should give the reader a clear idea of why 

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fact, I much prefer a 300 grain slug for all 

the larger species; and for big bear, bison, 

and like animals, a .40 caliber with 400 grain 

slug is even better. 

For an all around rifle, the .333 O.K.H. 

with 250 and 300 grain bullets, or the .35 

Whelen with same weight bullets, or the 

.400 Whelen with 350 grain bullets, or the 

.375 Magnum with 300 to 350 grain slugs, 

are all excellent for everything from deer to , . 

the largest American game animals. The *\; 

various .40 and .45 caliber loads are not too 

big for elk, moose, really big grizzly or 

brownies, or polar bear, walrus and bison. 

The .400 Whelen, .405 Winchester, and .404 

Magnum are all excellent on our heavier 

game, and some use the .450 Alaskan and 

.458 Winchester with excellent results. 

I never did believe in sending a boy to 

do a man's work, nor in driving railroad 

spikes with a tack hammer. Similarly, when 

hunting big game I believe in using a rifle 

whose caliber and bullet weight is adequate 

for clean, one shot kills. 

w hen this is published I expect to be 

hunting in Africa. I plan to take my 

.333 O.K.H. Mauser, barreled and chambered 

by O'Neil and stocked by Iver Henrikson, and 

my .476 Westley Richards double ejector. 

I will be equipped with plenty of 300 grain 

bullets, soft nose and solids, for the .333 

O.K.H., and plenty of 520 grain solids for 

the Westley, with some soft nose for lion. 

These two rifles will, I believe, take care of 

my requirements, as I want to spend all 

available time on the big stuff while in 

Africa. The .333 O.K.H. with 250 grain 

bullets for light antelope at long range, and 

300 grain bullets for the heavier antelope or 

standing shots at lion or crocs or hippo. 

should do nicely; and the big double is still. 

in my opinion, the best tool for dangerous 

heavy game. Of all the British Express car- .' 

tridges I prefer the 3" .476 with 520 gr. slug. 

Big game should never be shot over 300 

yards if it is possible to approach closer, 

and the larger the game the closer should 

the hunter stalk, for certainty in placing that 

vital first shot. The first shot is worth a 

dozen fired after the same starts moving. 

Big bore heavy-bullet rifles are still lethal 

as far as you can hit a beast, for they cut 

a big entrance hole and go deep. A small 

bore, light, high-velocity missile is effective 

only so long as velocity is high enough for 

certain expansion, and then only providing 

the bullet does not blow up too soon. A cartridge 

large enough for certain results on 

our larger game is bound to be a bit strenuous 

on a 150 pound deer, yet you can shoot 

a small deer with a 300 grain .375 Magnum 

or .333 O.K.H. 300 grain bullet, or with a 

.405 Winchester, and eat said deer right up 

to the bullet hole; whereas you may have a 

quarter to a half of the animal all bloodshot 

if a 243, .270, or 300 Magnum is used. 

Each type cartridge has its own proper 

place in the hunting field. While the small 

bore, high velocity rifles are best for open, 

long range, plains shooting of light game, 

only the medium to big bores will give uniform 

certain results on all species. This is 

my creed, based on my experience. And, as 

the feller said, "111 stick with it until 

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A GUN NUT'S TOUR OF EUROPE 


' . couple of the P-H sub-caliber insert barrels had arranged for us to go through the 

-a) to change a 12-gauge to a rifle. 

museum, some parts of which were closed to 

. We bought a few guns which they bad put the public. The conservateur of the Museum 

' A out with prices, but Edwards made a slight of the Army escorted us through vast halls 

, mistake: in trying to speed things up for us, lined with hundreds of muskets and carbines. 

he wrote ahead to J. B. LeBretou, sales There was in this one museum a greater 

- manager of Parker-Hale, asking that "in- collection of exquisitely turned out Boutet 

teresting American guns" be put out for us duelling pistols than I ever knew existed; 

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to see. They did too good a job and dis- fine flintlock weapons encrusted with gold 

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them complete with American prices! for generals and marshals, and with silver 

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To travel thousands of miles to find Colt for lesser officers. One room contained him- 

Owners throughout 

the U.S. 

derringers at $50 to $100 was not fun, but dreds of tiny figures, about 10" high, uni- 

Outfit No. 5 Only $25.36 

we found some guns in the Midland Gun Co., formed in miniature equipment, swords, musan 

ancient firm recently bought out by kets, cutlasses, of French soldiers of all ages. DALE MYRES CO. 

Parker-Hale. John Scandrett, general Parker- All too soon the visit to the Museum of the 

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Hale export manager, took us over to what Army was over. 

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appeared to be bombed buildings, where in Later we visited the "Flea Market." You m 

sheds we found chests of Colt .45 revolvers. can buv evervthina from fine Cloisonne vases I 

I bought a pocket automatic for a few to ~ouis XVI furniture there. Grown up in 

shillings but Whittington, who likes modern a rambling back-alley fashion near the Porte 

guns and competition shooting, bought a de Clignancourt, north of Paris, this huge 

half dozen interesting early Colt automatics. open-air market-March6 au Pucycontains 

Forgett and Edwards really waded into the a subsection to the west known as "Marche 

piles of pistols, and found a few really Biron." Gun sellers' prices were high-all 

choice ones which had not been tagged by had Bob Abels' latest catalog and were in 

HAT 

Chapel's latest high prices. Certainly digging tune with the New York prices~but there 7 - a@ IUJ HAVE 

ALWAYS 

around in Parker-Hale's basement was a high were some fine things shown. One man ^_ ___ _.- HAT I WANTED 

point of the trip. 

offered a Bird & Co., Philadelphia, percussion World-famous "white hunter" hat in premium 

s 

, 

Kentucky rifleLord knows where he bad got @ ~ ~ ~ ~ o ~ . ^ ~ 

tella and I did not go to the Wallis & it. Maybe some touring French nobleman a A fine hat for hunting, fishing, camping and all 

Wallis gun auction sale the following century aso had picked it up as a curious O"gndEr 

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day, but Forgett, Oberfell, Demming, and specimen of American workmanship and now, M-P~E~ Catalog buckskin band. ....s14.95 

Edwards drove down to Lewes, in southern 

featuring Give regular 

at last, it was being offered to American handmade hat size. 1 g%%! 

England, to the auction. About 400 guns 

tourists in France, to be taken home again. zxgz,' 

were on the block. Oberfell wanted to buy 

Norm I hompson 

The asking price was about (200Ã‘hig for EeF 

1311 N.W.21st 

a Scottish pistol for a friend back home, but 

a percussion Kentucky, but it was in fine eaul~t. . Dept'^J PORTLAND 9. ORE. 

he said the three Scottish pistols at the sale 

were poor specimens that went for fantastic 

prices. Generally, the prices were high because 

British law curbs owning modern 

8 

guns. Premium is on old guns - duelling 

pistols, muzzle loading rifles and the likewhich 

can be legally owned without all of 

Scotland Yard's red tape. 

Stella and I were excited at the prospect 

of flying to Belgium next day. But we didn't 

stay long: just time enough to get onto a 

small Chevrolet bus that carried us through 

Europe on the Gun Tour. Our driver, Raymond 

Lambotte, was a genial Belgian who 

didn't speak any English. That was okayneither 

Stella nor myself spoke any French. 

For languages we relied on Bill Edwards' 

French, George Whittington's German, and 

the fact that most everybody we met spoke 

some English and wanted to be friendly. 

Being friends is possible without knowing 

, languages, we found out. We drove all day 

, to Paris. 

Main attractions in Paris for gun people, 

we found, were three: gun shops; the "Flea 

1 Market" to the north of town; and the magnificent, 

breathtaking displays in the huge 

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Invalides is now a huge military museum. 

Connected to it is the mausoleum, the tomb 

of Napoleon Bonaparte. Maybe some of my 

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1 condition. But it was outrageous. of course. 

if one thinks of the value that was in 

French francs: 80,000 francs, or three months' 

wages for a working person. 

were not expected until the following week. 

A young Venetian, Luciano Amadi, conducted 

us around the plant. He brought out 

a cutaway Beretta 9 mm military automatic, 

Next stop beyond Paris was Saint Etienne, which Demming found interesting since he 

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a very pleasant morning at the factory of 

Monsieur Darne. The gun he makes is an 

unusual sliding breech design. It is very 

strong and has unusual camming power on 

could see how it worked by watching the 

parts move. 

I was impressed by the high quality of 

machining, and care which went into the 

production of the Beretta Garands. The , 

closing. French shooters in the tropics have pistols, too, showed this same attention to 

trouble with swollen paper shells. The Dame 

breech would solidly seat them, as Monsieur 

quality which seems a hallmark of Beretta 

guns, since about 1680. In their museum, 

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Darne showed us, vividly: by stepping heav- buried in the bottom of a display case, 

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ily on a shotshell until the brass was flat- Forgett found some "goodies" to delight him. 

tened, then placing it in line with a chamber 

and slamming - the breech lever closed. The 

gun closed perfectly, and the brass base was 

He likes experimental guns, and discovering 

pistols which resembled the Italian military 

automatic, the Glisenti, set him off on a train 

full-length resized. 

of wondering what the connection was be- 

The afternoon was spent in a visit to the tween Beretta and Glisenti. On short notice, 

public museum where we saw more examples no one at the factory could help us, though 

of fine craftsmanship, plus an unusually large great friendliness was shown us at every turn. 

assortment of the standard American per- Beyond Brescia was a high spot in pleasure 

cussion revolvers, all in fine condition. We of the entire trip, the water-bound republic 

then went to visit the research museum at of Venice. The square of Saint Mark, the 

the French government arsenal, where rifles, church with its inlaid gold glass mosaics, 

machine guns, muskets, and small arms have the colonnades along the sides of the squares 

been made for the Army for many centuries. where orchestras play at dinner in the 

We were surprised to find that St. Etienne, evening, all made pleasant memories. 

then in production on the new gas-operated And there was gun-interest in Venice, also, 

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semi-automatic military rifle, also made arms 

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they made boxlock shotguns. At the time of 

our visit, they were considering making the 

military automatic rifle as a sporter. In the 

though it took some digging to find it. In 

the armory rooms of the Doge's Palace were 

hundreds of mass-produced pikes, swords, 

and suits of armor, from the soldiers of the 

Venetian Republic three centuries ago. Hangmuseum 

itself were many guns, including ing from the walls were dozens of nearly 

many cut away for demonstration. The mu- identical all-steel wheel-lock "dags," pistols 

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senm displays were very well thought out and 

attractively organized, and the exhibits are 

used to instruct school children as well as 

with metal stocks that reminded me of the 

Scottish designs. And displayed in the somber 

panelled room lighted by the sun falling 

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As we left the museum, I noticed that a gun, made about 1450! 

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bayonet blades, the small feathers: locks drove on to Ferlach. 

and hammers. Every part of a musket went This little town, high in the Austrian Alps. 

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into this incredible fantasy bird in steel. 

After a long drive we came to our hotel 

was not far from the Yugoslavia border. 

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in Nice, on the French Riviera. There we 

relaxed from a fast schedule. We spent time 

correctly. To find out at last, we asked a 

native. His friend, the postman, came foron 

the beach, and visited Monte Carlo. ward and listened. Edwards tried his French 

Forgett, saying he was unlucky in love but with an Italian accent. alsn bad German. 

lucky at gambling, won 5,000 francs with Our Belgian driver tried French. Whittingfour 

straight passes. He kept the 5,000 franc ton, by popular vote, was pushed forward 

note-worth about $l4Ã‘an framed il as a and spoke in better German to the citizen. 

souvenir. We also went to the palace. Ed- Finally we were reassured it was the road 

wards and our English-speaking guide got as to Ferlach. As we drove away a gleam of 

far as Princess Grace's personal secretary, comprehension came over the face of the 

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plenty of surprises to the visit to Beretta. We got to Ferlach late in the afternoon. 

Stella was impressed by the cleanliness of But Edwards had written to master engraver 

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for the various machine shops were running 

full blast" making pistols for Egypt and 

Israel, Garand rifles for Denmark, and the 

commercial Berettas. But the red tile floors 

were swept clean, not a drop of oil on them, 

and while plenty of coolant was being used 

by the machinists, nearly every man we saw 

wore a collared shirt and tie. Shoes, too, 

were not scuffed and worn, but polished and 

new. These men were as they usually appeared, 

shined up and neat. They were not 

cleaned up in anticipation of our visit, for 

through some mix-up in Edwards' letters we 

pictured on one GUNS cover. As we drove 

along the winding cobbled street, we approached 

a short, burly man, and Edwards 

said, "Why don't we ask him?" With a broad 

smile he responded in German but nnmistakably, 

"I am Albin Obiltschnig." For 

dead reckoning we had done pretty well. 

The next morning we toured the workshops. 

We saw them make a Ferlach gun 

from the white-hot breech forging up to the 

finished gun. As a souvenir, Forgett bought 

a gun frame stamped with proof marks. 

The proof director was impressed and

gratified by Forgett's wish. He spun open the 

lock of a big safe, opened a smaller metal 

chest with a key; then with the reverence 

due their importance, took from a pasteboard 

box the proof stamps of Ferlach. His assist- 

ant proof master then stamped the dural 

frame, carefully, taking care to see that each 

stamp made a full imprint. Certainly Forgett 

wound up with a unique curio, the only un- 

finished gun that ever got out of Ferlach 

with the proof marks of completion on it. 

Next stop, Ulm and Walther, via Munich. 

In Munich the next day, a Sunday, was spent 

sightseeing at the Science Museum and the 

beer hall. Edwards' enthusiasm for cutaway 

machines got the final touch at the Science 

museum-they had a full-size cutaway steam 

railroad locomotive. But it was too big to 

take home. The next day we drove on to 

Ulm, which is now the center of German 

gunmaking since Suhl and Zella-Mehlis are 

in the Russian eastern zone. 

At the new Walther factory in Ulm we 

were shown about by Herr Wagner, formerly 

of Merkel in Suhl, now Fritz Walther's 

export manager. Wagner chatted non-com- 

mitally about gunmaking until someone 

touched him on the subject of Fritz 

Walther's escape from the Russians. Then 

Wagner became really upset, angry. The 

Americans had told Walther to "stay at 

home" in Zella-Mehlis. "You will be safe; 

we will come and get you before the Rus- 

sians arrive." So Walther stayed at home, 

but the Russians advanced. Walther fled to 

Switzerland with his drawings. Wagner was 

incensed at this cavalier treatment of a man 

who, in spite of his being on "the losing 

side," nevertheless had earned the respect 

and esteem of all gun enthusiasts. 

The new Walther factory combined rapid 

efficiency and expansion. We entered by the 

back door . . . there was no "front door," 

no building devoted to offices or "show." 

Buildings for production were being put up 

first. We watched the new P-38's being turned 

out for the West German Army as fast as 

they can be shot by expert pistolman Rau 

and passed by the inspector. We ordered 

four pistols at the factory, one for myself, 

one for Forgett, one each for Whittington 

and Edwards. The cost in Germany was 

about $45. Other Walthers included the PP 

and PPK. The Ulm-Walther pistols are 

French made under license, but stamped and 

finished by Walther with the Ulm marks. 

These pistols are exclusively for sale in Ger- 

many while the French guns are for world 

export. Walther also makes rifles. I watched 

one lathe operator take a blue chip a quarter 

of an inch deep off a barrel blank with a 

carbide bit. Full speed ahead with care was 

the theme at Walther. 

From Germany we went to Neuhausen in 

Switzerland. There is the Swiss Industrial 

Gesellschaft, or Company -making every- 

thing from 60 per cent of the country's rail- 

road equipment to precise target automatics. 

Mr. William Hurter, one of the directors, 

guided us on a brief tour of some of the 

manufacturing, then showed us final assem- 

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Ranged about the walls were examples of 

SIG machine weapons, from their latest AM 

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government, to some of their early experi- 

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blows forward. In examining their guns, I 

was impressed by the fact that no expense 

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By contrast with the mammoth SIG factory, 

we visited the Hammerli works in nearby 

Lenzburg the next day. Hammerli makes the 

Olympia pistol designed by Walther, single 

shot match pistols, target rifles, and Swiss 

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Back in Zurich, Stella and I and others 

of the Gun Tour did some sightseeing. 

Edwards and Forgett went off to visit the 

shooting club, the Schutzengesellschaft der 

Stadt Zurich. "Fabulous, huge,, big as a rail- 

road station," was their report. Not one but 

two big buildings occupied the club grounds. 

The shooting pavilion itself, a completely 

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ond floor, and a number of pistol points for 

short range from the first floor. The rifle 

shooters fired over the heads of the pistol 

shooters, and two matches could be run at 

one time. 

In Switzerland, the shooting clubs are sub- 

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on ammunition. Cartridges for big shoots be- 

tween clubs cost about 64 per round. But if 

the match is between competitors in one 

club, ammunition is only 44. And if for prac- 

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CIVIL WAR GUNS BLAZE AGAIN 

the men of the North-South Skirmish outfits 

have found close touch with the meanings of 

our country, through that study of history 

which emphasis on realism demands. 

Arms must be types used by North or 

South. Most used is the muzzle-loading .58 

caliber Springfield rifle-musket, Model 1861. 

Either Springfields or the identical contract 

rifles are shot in matches. Demand for 

shooting - condition arms has pushed up 

"minny musket" prices. Highly prized are 

the blue and brass -trimmed Remington 

Zouave muskets. Resembling Model 1841 

"Yaeger" rifles, these Remingtons were made 

in 1861-62. Improvements included barrels 

thicker than '41s, bored to .58". Also popular 

and cheaper are British Enfield rifles. Many 

were made by firms such as the London 

4rmoury Company for the Hon. Caleb I'use, 

Confederate arms purchasing agent to Europe. 

Few Confederate-association Enfields 

are known. Most were either burned as scrap 

by the US. or re-exported by arms dealers 

after the war. Enfields used for shooting 

now are often weapons recently re-imported 

from England, old British war surplus. A 

few lucky shooters use genuine Confederatemade 

rifles, Springfield-type guns made in 

Richmond or Southern copies of the Enfields. 

s kirmish rules say only original or accurate 

replica material may be used. But 

gone are the days when dealers offered cases 

of Springfields all in grease. Broken guns 

can be repaired, but rusted barrels cannot be 

replaced. The cost of making replica Springfield 

.58 barrels, it was found, would be too 

high for estimated sales. Meanwhile, shootable 

Springfields get fewer and fewer. Excellent-condition 

collectors' specimens are seldom 

risked in the rough camp life of a 

modern Skirmish contest. Shortage of rifles 

stimulated the Carbine Matches. Civil War 

cavalry carbines can be used. A shooter 

whose rifle-musket may not be in top shape 

can still compete if he can find a Sharps or 

Gallagher or one of the fifteen or more carbines 

bought in fair quantity in the war. 

Handguns are also used in matches. Holster 

makers offer replica Civil War belt scabbards 

for Colt and Remington revolvers: black for 

Yanks, russet for Rebs. 

Replica leather and uniforms can be handmade, 

as in the old days, but guns must be 

found. A virtually untapped source of authentic 

shootable guns still exists for Civil War 

and Skirmish fans. These are the foreign 

rifles, imported by both sides from '61 to '65. 

First of course is the Enfield, a regulation 

Confederate arm; the long, three-band riflemusket, 

caliber .577. A few for New York 

State were originally bored .58. Two qualities 

were made, "No. 1" and "No. 2." Differences 

were the degree of interchangeability 

of parts. Most machine-made No. 1 

guns had walnut stocks while the No. 2 handmade 

guns, being cheaper, often had beech 

stocks stained like walnut. Caleb Huse reported 

that he contracted for the total output 

of the London Armoury. This seems to be 

so. Kerr revolvers marked L.A.C. were issued 

to the Black Horse Troop, famous Southern 

cavalry (though the Black Horse riders had 

bays, sorrels, dapple grays, or any color 

horse they could find). Enfields were shipped 

to Wilmington, N. Car., via blockade runners. 

C.S.A. Navy Secretary Mallory sug. 


gested to Huse that he ship the rifles un- 

stocked. The shorter packing cases could be 

disguised as "machinery." 

Among the other -58-caliber arms are good 

weapons which give the knowing shooter a 

chance to pick up a bargain. Most common 

is the Model 1854 Lorenz rifle, known to 

Civil War soldiers as "the Austrian Enfield." 

The locks of these resemble the Enfield, not 

cut for the nipple bolster as in US. Spring 

fields. 

Two basic models of Lorenz exist: the 

short Jaeger rifle and the standard military 

three-band rifle-musket. Just 29,850 of the 

Jaegers were imported, and the arm is an offi- 

cial U.S. substitute standard, illustrated in 

the Official Records, War of the Rebellion. 

Union & Confederate Armies. The Yaeger's 

barrel is a shade under 25" long, full octagon 

except for about six inches at the muzzle 

which is turned round for the long, single- 

edge socket bayonet. The infantry rifle bas 

a 37" round barrel; is fitted for the ordinary 

socket bayonet. The Union brought in 226,294 

of these "Austrian rifles." Originally in .54" 

caliber, many were bored out in Austria for 

the U.S. .58 bullet. 

Four kinds of sights are found on these 

guns. Non-coms, skirmishers of the Jaeger 

battalions, and the best infantry marksmen, 

received Jaeger carbines with sights gradii- 

ated to 1000 yards. These guns have a peg 

inside the breech to prevent ramming the 

bullet too tightly on the powder; the peg is 

called a "tige." Plain Jaegers were sighted 

to 770 yards. The rifle-musket has no tige. 

Sights for regular Lorenz infantry muskets 

are graduated to 245 yards; those of "third 

rank" men, file closers, and skirmishers, are 

sighted to 820 yards. Original load for car- 

bines and rifles was a flat-base .54 caliber 

sugar-loaf bullet, two grease grooves, 450 

grains, propelled by 61 grains of powder. 

Bored-out arms used the .58 standard US. 

load. 

French and Belgian arms were basically 

the French Model 1846 "Carabine ti tige," or 

rifle with peg breech. These two-band rifles 

were made to exacting specifications in 

French government arsenals and less exact- 

ing specifications in Liege, Belgium, gunsmith 

shops. Light and heavy models were made, 

the heavy being caliber .71"; the "light" and 

more graceful arms, caliber .577jf. Distin- 

guishing lock design of both types is the 

back-action lock plate held by round screw 

heads drilled for a split screw driver. A 

heavy curved-blade bayonet, known to the 

French correctly as "yataghan" after the 

Turkish sword, and to American gun fans in- 

correctly as "saber" blade style, was issued. 

Sub-types of the French-Belgian pattern 

exist. The -577s for the "Voltigeurs," light 

infantry and sharpshooters, have long-range 

leaf rear sights. But those for regular in- 

fantry have sights fixed for a point-blank 

range of about 225 yards. By decree of 1857, 

all line infantry rifles were reduced to the 

short, convenient length of the Voltigeurs" 

"carabine," and fixed sights put on. Placing 

the thumb across the barrel and sighting over 

the nail gave higher elevation. Voltigeurs' 

rifles with elevating sights are preferred for 

shooting, though most Skirmish contests are 

at less than 100 yards. At the beginning of 

lie War, uniforms and equipments for 10,000 

of the crack French regiment "Chasseurs de

Vincennes" were imported. Their "carabines," 

the model with tige, were probably issued at 

the beginning of the war, later withdrawn as 

the natty Chasseurs' Zouave uniforms gave 

way to more sensible blues and fatigues. Most 

of the assorted European arms were withdrawn 

from service by 1863 when sufficient 

Springfields were being made. 

ost elusive rifle for Skirmishers to 

M seek out is one which survives in a 

single specimen, listed as "Rifled muskets, 

Springfield model, German.. . Cal. 58." One 

gun, interchangeable with the Springfield but 

marked "8" on all parts and "SUHL" on the 

barrel, is at West Point. How many were 

made, by whom, why, and where they are today, 

remains a mystery. Perhaps in some 

middle-European warehouse, unopened since 

the last century, are these remaining rifle 

muskets. Stranger things than this have been 

commonplace in the gun game, and certainly 

the Skirmish enthusiasts would not complain. 

The Skirmishers have made a step forward, 

ballistically. They invented the first new 

"minny ball" in a hundred years. The original 

Springfield bullet was deeply grooved. 

The Enfield used a smooth-surface bullet 

with either a plugged base, or "Pritchett," 

with concave base. To improve accuracy and 

provide a standard ball for all guns, the 

Skirmishers developed a new bullet, a little 

longer and with the center of gravity further 

forward. But something zestful has been taken 

out of the matches-the new ball no longer 

whines and zips with that old "minny" 

z-z-z-z-ing ! 

Replacing the historic picture of brother 

or cousin across rifle sights is a new set of 

targets. Easily visible, for spectator appeal, 

are gaily colored balloons, tethered at 50 or 

100 yards. A bullet just creasing a balloon 

will burst it from friction, but there are 

Skirmishers who swear they bounced the balloon 

and didn't break it. Bright yellow clay 

birds are good targets; hits are easily seen. 

For medal-winning competition, paper bullseyes 

are used. But the contest that gets most 

attention and offers greatest challenge is the 

stake shoot. It's realistic, and it takes team 

work. The two-by-sixes set in the ground are 

excellent combat marks. 

Historically, the match recalls such blazing 

fights as that at Sbiloh, when Confederates 

faced Yankees in rifle broadsides. Whole 

trees were chopped down by musketry, and 

the modern stake shoot recreates those moments. 

Eight-man teams are usual, but any 

number can shoot so long as the teams are 

even. First team to chop down its stake wins. 

Feverishly ramming torn cartridges, the 

blue and gray-clad marksmen labor in a con- 

. tinuous swirl of acrid white smoke and flashing 

muskets. Suddenly the target butts fade 

away, the distant shimmer of Lake Erie dissolves 

into a black mass of trees from which 

cough the screaming rounds of grape shot, 

bursting on the ricochet before your lines, 

sending their song of death through the 

ranks. The white paling 50 yards off becomes 

the frontal silhouette of a charging 

officer on horseback, and from the ridge of 

shadows which moments before were rifle 

targets, a line of men disengages from the 

woods and with a chilling yell borne above 

, the snarl of bouncing Mini6 bullets, moves 

forward on a run, bayonets gleaming. Sud- 

'denly a shout is raised and the Skirmish 

shooter snaps back to the present; the visitors 

behind the lines at Perry are cheering- 

his team has cut the stake first. Part of the 

attraction this Civil War reenactment has is 

its taste of imagined danger-danger borrowed 

from the past. 

Scientifically, the Skirmish has its appeal, 

too. As an eye-opener for the cynic who 

scoffs at "them quaint old minny muskets," 

teams of Skirmishers pit their skill against 

men armed with Garands. They have frequently 

done so, and consistently won. At 

Greenfield Village's annual turkey shoot last 

October, the Port Huron Rangers' first team 

championed over the First Michigan Artillery. 

Both are Civil War units, while in third 

place were Garand riflemen Sgt. Robert Dose 

(Keokuk, Iowa) and Sp/3c James Kessler, 

from nearby Army and Marine units. While 

the Mi's made each man the equal of eight 

single-shot riflemen, the muzzle loading mini6 

muskets won the match. The moral is obvious~good 

men skilled in using even obsolete 

weapons, are tough competition for the most 

modern arms made. And in addition to accuracy, 

Civil War rifles are not inferior in other 

ways to modern guns. 

For example, Springfield rifle-muskets of 

1855 and 1861 have a higher degree of parts 

interchangeability than most rifles made today. 

Each and every part of these guns will 

interchange with its like number in another 

rifle, with no fitting. Fundamental difference 

between the two is the 1855's Maynard tape 

primer. This was omitted as a wartime expedient 

on the 1861 arms. Since the Maynard 

primer was a favorite of Jefferson Davis, secretary 

of war in 1855, it may have been 

abandoned in the popular condemnation of 

anything to do with "the traitor" when be 

became president of the Confederacy. 

New in the War were two types of bullets, 

for Springfield and Enfield. Called the 

"mini6 ball," the Springfield version differed 

from the original design of French chasseur 

captain C. E. Mini6: The French bullet has 

grease grooves and a base plug which, on 

firing, drove inward, expanding the lead bullet 

skirt to fill the rifling. The undersized 

bullet could be easily loaded even if the bore 

was fouled by shooting. Experiments at 

Harper's Ferry Armory from 1853-55 evolved 

this principle of Minie's into the standard 

U.S. "minny ball," a conical slug of .58" caliber, 

with three grease grooves and a hollow 

base. The thin side skirt of the hollow base 

bullet expanded to form an adequate gas seal 

without the plug. 

At Harper's Ferry the ballistic pendulum 

was used to check bullet performance. Bullet 

velocity was figured by getting recoil velocity, 

calibrating it in terms of the gun's weight 

compared with the bullet's weight. With the 

new 510 grain bullet, the mean velocity 

backed by 60 grains of powder in the 1855 

rifle-musket was 963 feet per second. At this 

velocity the grease grooves produced drag in 

the air, but they were considered necessary 

evils, as the grease kept the fouling soft, 

allowing rapid shooting without cleaning. 

Modern shooters have improved on the invention. 

Recently a few New Jersey muzzle 

loaders seemed invincible-they never lost a 

match. Soft fouling which wiped down and 

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waxed cartridge wrapper protected the bare 

lead from contact with the bore. In combat, 

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battles were fought with bullets ladled 

around the campfire the night before, the 

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Yankee Springfield and Southern Enfield 

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shooting knowledge than did Johnny Reb or 

Billy Yank when the rifles were new. 

musket manuals told how to 

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placing the butt on the shoulder were 

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Southern farm boys which killed fifty of his 

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made of men accustomed to danger; which 

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front wide, and marched to the roll of drums 

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of the rear leaf is picked out for easy visi- 

bility with a white line, but the fact the leaf 

folds forward may be inconvenient to some. 

I carelessly let it fold forward and actually 

aimed with it that way! But it permits low 

scope sight mounting, since the stock is plain 

comb, without Monte Carlo, and well adapted 

to offhand snap shooting. 

The Savage Model 110 comes now in 

.30-06 caliber; will be available in larger 

sizes including magnum ,300's. It is de- 

signed to permit Savage, without entering 

into a high priced tooling-up race, to com- 

pete with the more expensively constructed 

Mauser-system domestic and imported rifles. 

The result is an exceedingly light arm 

(minor parts are made of light metal or 

plastic) but one that is impressive in its 

attention to important details. The tubular- 

section receiver is finely polished and blued 

with a rich deep blue lustre that looks al- 

most as intense as expensive heat blueing. 

Money has been spent where it will do the 

most good; on the all-new action, on the 

finely polished and rifled barrel, on the 

slick blueing. In shooting the gun I had 

. little chance to really put it through its 

paces. Standing at the crest of a hill-I had 

been firing machine guns into a gravel pit- 

I shot the Savage offhand in a bitter cold 

wind. Surprisingly, after shattering a num- 

ber of rocks at distances of about 100 to 15C 

yards, I realized I was taking a sight with 

the rear leaf folded down. But shooting 

about fifty shells, Ball M2 and some of the 

Savage .30-06 loads, I found it shot well 

enough. Scope tests will come a little later 

Meanwhile, as a light rifle, with slim stock 

and the whole works weighing exactly ( 

pounds and 6 ounces, Savage's gun de 

signers have come up with a lot of 

gun for not much money. 

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STANDARD OR SERIES 300 ' 

FN 

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243 WIN.-244 REM. 

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iemi-Fancy grades: $25.00, $30.00 and $35.00. Full Fancy grades: $40.00, $45.00 and $50.00. 

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ithers $10.00 to $12.00. Also Penno. burls and rare 

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BARRELS 

ENFIELD PARTS 

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^^ striped ~ ............. ~ ~ ~ 

Enfield New 5 Gr. Barrels. 

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iccurate-in the white, $45.00. .(Fitted to our action, 

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LGR. SPRINGFIELD BARRELS $7.00,Case of 10 $55.00 

~ E W SPRINGFIELD 4-groove BARRELS.. .... .$11.00 

qew! Kro 2 Groove 30-40 BARRELS 23" or less in 

length. ~ u lchambered l ~ threaded. Only $15.00. 

1-GR. ORDNANCE BARRELS 23" long. fully chamwed. 

threaded. blued. $20.00. -. . 

~ ' f~ ~ pf l ~ $ ~ e: : w : ~ ~ 

ENFIELD ACTION WITH 5-groove v.g. 

barrel issue ..................... $34.00 

~ ~ ~ ~ dmilled w i ears t h as on Rem- 30, 

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Stripped receivers 

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mlNgi&keyrts. ...................... s2s.m DOu=LE-s= 

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With new 2 @R barrels fitted 23" 300 Sav z&wto 

30-06. 308 SK ...................... $39.00 your Mauser 

With new 41 gr. SPR barrels same calibers 

or F.N. 

as above ............................ S44.00 action- 

OTHER PARTS IN STOCK. 

$6.00 more, 

New imported 1" leather military slings. Live select 

leather. brass keeoers ................. .S3.25 

FINISHED BARRELS1 

Made by a nationally known barrel-maker of highest repute, we now offer the patented "button rifled" 

smooth, hard, swedged, six groove chrome moly barrel of absolutely top quality, completely threaded 

wecision chamberedand crowned at a money-saving price. 

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Choice of Calibers: 220 swift.22-250. 243 Win.. 244 Rem.. 250 Sov.. 257-R. 270 Win.. 7mm. 300 

50;.,308 win., 30-06 and the new 280 Rem. 222 also available foithe 722 Rem. only. 

Only $24.00 complete. $2.50 additional if we headspace and test-flre to your action. ($2.50 additional for Enfleld 

only.) RETURN PRIVILEGE IF NOT COMPLETELY SATISFIED. 

ACE BARRELED ACTIONS: 

Mauser 98-ACE Barreled actions in any caliber or weight as above.. ................... .$49.50 

F. N. Mouser-ACE Barreled actions.. 64.50 

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Today's best buy in a low-cost, reliable carbine. Approved by the 

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Specifications: Overall Length: approx, 391/2"; barrel length: approx. 

21"; type: Mannlicher System; weight: approx. 7 Ibs.; magazine 

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Condition: Good to very good.. ........................ .$12.95 

Collector's Models (Limited) .................. 17.95 

Bayonets (Folding Blade Type) ................ 2.00 

Charge for tapping & mounting scope.. .......... 4.00 

Semi-inletted and finished sporter stock with 

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Ammo: Military 128 gr. (in clips) ............. .5-4 rds. 3.39 

Sporting 135 gr. ................ .box of 20 rds. 2.85 

Use onlyoriginal ammunition. Unlimited supplies available. 

straight pull bolt action type rifles in the world, 

the Ross ,303 saw service with Canadian troops in two wars. An 

excellent long range sporting and target rifle. Weighs only 8 Ib., 6 oz. 

Length 52". 

Condition:Good ...................................... 

spending interest in repeating weapons and 

in pistols and revolvers as inventors wracked 

their brains in efforts to circumvent Samuel 

Colt's patents and later those of Smith and 

Wesson. 

In Connecticut, centers of firearms manu- 

facture were Norwich, New Haven, Middle- 

town, and Hartford. From the flintlock era 

to a few generations ago, Norwich men made 

guns in the plants of Hopkins & Allen, 

Norwich Arms Co., Bacon & Co., H. Smith, 

Hood Firearms Co., Norwich Pistol Co., T. E. 

Ryan Co., Thames Arms Co., Thayer, Robert- 

son & Gary, J. D. Mowrey, and Smith & 

Wesson. 

During the same period in Middletown, 

guns came from H. Aston & Co., North & 

Couch, E. Savage, Nathan Starr, and 1. N. 

Johnson. In Hartford, the prominent names 

were Colt, Christian Sharps, C. M. Spencer, 

and Billings & Spencer. Eleven other Con- 

necticut communities had one or more small 

plants located beside brooks, streams, and 

rivers that powered their machinery. New 

Haven, where four of Connecticut's seven gun 

plants are located, always had its gun 

makers but at no early time was the fire- 

arms industry there the flourishing business 

that it is today. All of the shops were small. 

Even the New Haven Arms Co., destined to 

become the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 

employed only 40 men and eight women and 

had a monthly payroll of $1,000 a century 

ago. Others, even smaller, were Bliss & Good- 

year, Plant Mfg. Co., Morgan & Clapp, 

Reynolds & Plank, and T. J. Stafford. 

Sedate, gun-loving Connecticut men bought 

in their state. 

$19.95 

Ammo: Military, 100 rds. ............................ 7.50 

Custom loads, 150 or 180 gr.. ........... .20 rds. 3.50 

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But the country was growing fast and men 

moving west with it wanted guns, among 

them the famous "Whitneyville Walker Colt." 

The Whitney Armory was still operating 

in Hamden in 1848. There Samuel Colt 

worked at the Whitney Armory, making 

1,000 ponderous Walker Dragoon sixguns. 

With his profits from the .44 caliber Dragoons 

as a springboard, Colt founded his own ' 

armory in Hartford where it has been ever 

since. 

Six years later, in Norwich, Horace Smith 

and D. B. Wesson formed their famous part- 

nership and began making what was to be- 

come known as the Volcanic pistol. After 

patenting their first cartridge revolver, Smith 

and Wesson probably saw the end in sight 

for a lever action handgun like the Volcanic 

that required both hands to operate, so they 

sold out to the Volcanic Repeating Arms Co., 

and began to concentrate on revolvers and 

cartridges. 

The Volcanic Repeating Arms .Co. made 

pistols, rifles and carbines. Volcanic arms 

propelled a conical bullet at a lethargic 500 

or 600 feet per second at the muzzle, depend- 

ing upon caliber and the modest amount of 

propellant crammed into the hollow-based 

slug. Apparently the company finances were 

as low-powered as its weapons, for on Feb. 

18, 1857, it closed its doors and 50 employes 

went job hunting. 

Most of them did not have long to hunt, 

thanks to a Volcanic stockholder and New 

Haven shirtmaker, Oliver Fisher Winchester. 

He reorganized the Volcanic firm as the New 

Haven Arms Co., re-located in New Haven. 

B. Tyler Henry, the new plant manager. 

Verv rare. 

Swiss Vetterli Rifle. ................................... $12.95 

Bayonet with leather scabbard, metal tips (sold only with rifle) 3.95 

New oiled leather carrying sling. ........................ 2.50 

WEBLEY REVOLVER 

$12.95 Condition fair - $14.95 Condition good - $16.95 Select models 

WEBLEY COMBAT REVOLVER 

Caliber .45 ACP (Auto Colt Pistol) 

Here's one of the best values ever offered in 

handguns. From Webley, Britain's first name 

in pistols comes the Combat Revolver, most 

famous of them all. Adopted by the British Armed Forces. 

A natural for home protection, due to its combination of 

accuracy, high power and smooth action. May be fired either 

single or double action. Specifications: Overall length, 9%"; barrel, 

4"; weight, 36 0z.f top break frame; single or double action; fixed 

sights'; six-shot, caliber .45 Auto. (A.C.P.). 

Ammo: Caliber .45 ACP (custom-loaded, non-corrosive 

non-mercuric) ..................... .50 rounds $3.00 

Holster .................................... 3.95 

Clips .................................. pair .20 

NOTE: when ordering pistols, enclar o signed statementi "I am not an 

hove never b ~ convicted n of o crime of violence. am not under 

indictment or o fugitive. I om 21 yews Or over."

developed the ".44 Henry Flat" cartridge 

with a 216 grain bullet pushed by 26 grains 

of black powder. Muzzle velocity was upped 

to 1,200 feet a second. The Volcanic design 

was adapted to the cartridge and the Henry 

rifle was born, the first practical cartridge 

repeater. Six years later, modified by adding 

a loading part to the frame, it became the 

first Winchester, the Model 1866. 

Frontiersmen received the gun like a long. 

awaited sweetheart. By 1870, the shirtmaker 

had absorbed the competitive Spencer Re- 

peating Arms Co. Five years later, new 

competition arrived on Winchester's home 

grounds in New Haven-the Marlin Firearms 

Co. Both are still there. 

Factories were growing larger and offered 

many different weapons and calibers. The old 

tradition of the custom-made gun was still 

strong. The mass-production works offered a 

great variety of barrel lengths, checkering, 

engraving, plating, and other "extras" on 

basic models to cater to the taste of those 

who wanted something more than a plain 

assembly line gun. But with the growth of 

large factories, the small shops continued to 

exist side-by-side. 

Years before, in Hartford, Samuel Colt had 

built the largest armory in the state. In 

1859, Colt was employing 369 men making 

revolving rifles and pistols. Within two years 

the total was nearly doubled by war pro- 

duction. In the same city, 300 employees of 

Christian Sharps made the powerful, long. 

range rifles that would blast the buffalo from 

the western plains. But seven other small 

plants in the state shared less than 300 other 

employees at the time. The day of the small 

gun factory in Connecticut has never passed. 

Today Sturm-Ruger employs about 90 ,men; 

Whitney Firearms has less than half that 

number of regular employees. The number 

of men who work on Whitney automatics is 

difficult to estimate, since many parts of the 

Whitney are made outside the Whitney plant 

in various shops around the state. The Whit- 

ney Firearms Company is the newest and 

smallest of the Connecticut gun plants. It is 

an entirely new endeavor with no direct 

business connection with the old Whitney 

Armory in Hamden. But the philosophy of 

"a business for gentlemen" is there. 

The Whitney Firearms Co., at present, 

makes only one model, a 33, caliber auto- 

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1847 Colt WalkerÃ‘4 col. . . . . . . . . . . . .$6.95 

1873 Colt Peacemaker-45 cal. . . . . . . . $5.95 

1836 Colt Texas Paterson-40 cal. . . . . . . $6.95 

1848 Colt Wells Forgo-31 cal. . . . . . . . .$5.95 

1860 Colt Army-44 cal. . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5.95 

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Truly novel gifts that are intcrcsting conversation 

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VALLEY GUN SHOP, Dept. G 

7784 Foothill - Tujungn, Calif. 

Now! Sharoe & Hart 

Dares to be Different! 

SCHULTZ & LARSEN MODEL 60 / 

SPORTING RIFLE 

Chambered only for the 

7 x 61 

SHARPE & HART 

CARTRIDGE A 

ONLY ONE MODEL! 

Efficient !d ONLY ONE CALIBER! 

P- 

matic of futuristic design which has sold 

well. Planned are a target model and a 

center-fire model. 

Years ago, the 0. F. Mossberg plant was 

located in what was once an old gas storage 

tank. It is still there. The building, with 

tiny apertures and few windows, has been 

dubbed "the Roundhouse" by employes. 

From an unpretentious office in the Ronnd- 

house, Walter Pierson, vice-president of 0. F. 

Mossberg, directs the activities of his com- 

pany. "We aim at the mass market," he said 

frankly. It is no secret that Mossberg makes 

popular guns at popular prices. But here, 

too, it is obvious that Eli Whitney's methods 

do not eliminate all hand work. Mossberg's 

slogan is "More Gun for the Money," and 

considerable hand work is required on Moss- 

berg gunstocks. With the exception of a few 

power tools used in assembly, Mossberg guns, 

like all others, are assembled largely by 

hand. 

Conversely, the Winchester attitude is 

steeped in tradition, according to Robert 

McMahon, director of public relations. "The 

company's manufacturing philosophy over 

the many years has been to build shotguns 

or rifles that will function well," he said, 

"and, also, arms the shooter will be proud 

of. so well made they can be passed from 

grandfather to father to son, as millions 

have been." McMahon's statements are 

strikingly like the words of Oliver F. Win- 

chester, spoken many years ago about the 

Model 1873 repeater: "It is strong and dur- 

able and not liable to get out of repair, as 

its mechanism is simple and constructed of 

the best materials in the best manner, and 

thoroughly tested." 

The middle ground between Mossherg and 

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ONE NEW LOW PRICE! 

OTHER PRICES ARE GOING UP-BUT. . . 

Schultz & Lorsen prices are going down-sharply! 

f Why? Because substantial savings can be made b 

standardizing on ONE MODEL, ONE CALIBER, and ONE 

BARREL WEIGHT. And the growing demand for the 

popular Model 60 S&L Sporter - mostly wanted in the 

7x61 Sharpe & Hart caliber - convinces us that this 

is the rifle our customers want! 

WRITE TODAY FOR NEW PRICE LIST 

Don't pass up this op~ortunity to cash-in on Sharpe & Hart's "DARES 

TO BE DIFFERENT" plus value offer! 

The Sharpe & Hart Associates, Inc. 

4437-D Piedmont Avenue 

Oakland, California Emmitsburg 1, Md. 

CANADIAN REPRESENTATIVE 

CEO. L. McNICOL CO. Ltd., 1138 Homer St., Vancouver 3, B. C. 

Ask vow dealer~if he can't SUPPIV-WE WILL! 

Winchester is adopted by the Marlin Fire- 

arms Co., traditional competitor in the lever- 

action rifle field. Marlin's Lawrence B. 

Ferguson state's his firm's businesslike ap- 

proach to gun building. "We are not attempt- 

ing to reach the carriage trade market," he 

told me. "Our philosophy is to produce the 

best modern rifle or shotgun, made with good 

quality components, at a price range that 

will be attractive to the beginner or man of 

limited means." 

The public demand also shaped the atti- 

tudes of the High Standard company, as well 

as its designs. Longer barrels, heavier 

barrels, slide locks, grooved triggers, all re- 

sulted from customer demand, says vice- 

president in charge of sales Bill Donovan. 

"The gun manufacturer who lacks flexibility 

in adapting his guns to the shooter's needs," 

said Donovan, "is going out of business." 

Eli Whitney, gnnmaker extraordinary, was 

first and foremost a gentleman mechanic, 

an educated, talented craftsman, and an en- 

gineer. Not only in arms factories but in 

every machine works in the world today are 

milling machines conceived by Eli Whitney. 

Prophetically, Whitney got his start by mak- 

ing 10,000 guns. Today's new firm bearing the 

Whitney name also started with an order 

of 10,000 guns. The cycle is 

complete. a 

PARTING SHOTS

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JAPANESE 30-06 RIFLES. Excellent-$18.60 

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IMPORTED MUZZLE Loading Percussion Cap 

Guns: Sculptured, engraved walnut stock. 30" 

barrel. Engraved silver nlountings, inlaid 

patchbox, lightweight. Single barrel, single 

hammer $29.50. A collectors item and an excellent 

shooter. Limited quantity. Send remittance. 

International irea arms Co.. 22 Kingman, 

St. Albans. Vermont. 

HUGE ILLUSTRATED Catalog Every Month. 

Most fabulous antique arms service ever offered. 

Hundreds antique guns, swords, uniforms, 

flasks, military items in each issue. Well 

described, illustrated. 12 catalogs. Only $1.00 

year subscription. Norm Flayderman (GM) 

Kennebunk, Maine. 

577/450 ENFIELD MARTINI: Famous Martini 

Henry lever action. A rare collectors item and 

an excellent shooter. Only $19.50 each. 577/450 

solid lead Kynoch smokeless cartridges $17.50 

per 100. Limited quantity. International Firearms. 

22 Kinsman. St. Albans. Vermont. 

German 8MM Mausers. V.G.-$35.00 Excellent 

~$38.95 German G-43 8MM Mausers. Excellent 

~$57.50 U.S. 30-06 Springtields. Perfect-$44.00 

Like New-$48.00 U.S. 45-70 Springfields. V.G.- 

$29.95 Japanese 7.7 Rifies. Excellent-$17.00 

U.S. 30-40 Krags. V.G.-$36.00 Catalogue lOc 

Northeastern Firearms 145 Nassau Street, New 

York. New York. 

U.S. 30-06 SPRINGFIELDS. HIGH numbers. 

Very good-$39.95. Perfect-$44.50. Low numbers. 

Very food-$29.96. Perfect-$34.50. Immediate 

delivery. Money back guarantee. Free 

list. Al's Guuroom, 1 Beekman Street, New 

York. N. Y. 

BSA .458 MAGNUMS $199.50. MATADOR 10 

gauge Magnums $189.50 FN Mauser actions 

$49.50, std, $61.50 mag, Sal; , short-actions 

$58.50. barreled actions $89.50 Itwt. $95.90 

hvywt, Magnum barreled actions $89.95. Coronet 

Arms CO.. Lons' Vallev. N. Y. 

FAMOUS BRITISH Commando Revolvers. .38 

Smith & Wesson Enfield. &shot 5" bbl. only 

$19.50. .455 Webley 4" bbl. $14.50.6" bbl. $16.50.. 

altered to shoot 45 ACP $2.00 additional. Excellent 

condition. International Firearms Co., 

22 Kinsman, St. Albans, Vermont. 

NEW GENUINE Training Rifies. Ideal for 

parades, color guards, legion posts. Regulation, 

weight and size. Clearing $4.50 each. International 

Firearms Co.. 22 Kingman, St. Albana, 

Vermont. 

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GUNS FOR Sale: Over 150 beautiful pin-fires. 

No two alike. Good to mint condition. All in 

perfect working order. $12.60 to $29.50 each. 

Satisfaction guaranteed. Will trade. Harry 

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OVER 500 ANTIQUE-Modern Guns-Powder 

Flasks-Swords-Edged Weapons. Large Printed 

List 25c coin. Cartridge tor Collectors List 

#66 25c coin. Ed Howe. Cooper Mills 11. Maine. 

RIFLES. 303 BRITISH Enfields, as issued, 

good condition, $27.50 each. 303 British Military 

Cartridges, $7.50 per 100. Public Sport 

Shops, 11 S. 16th Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa. 

MILITARY COLLECTORS: List long guns and 

miscellaneous United States items lOc; List of 

bayonets lOc. List Nazi items lOc. Sam Holmers. 

13503 Lakewood. Paramount, Calif. 

LUGERS! MAUSERS! Colts! P-38s! Kentuckies! 

Weatherbys! Antique-Modern Guns. Guncessories! 

Super Bargain Catalog only 60c. 

Agramonte's, Yonkers 2K, N.Y. 

GUNS! GUNS! Guns! Guns! Antique Collection 

-Kentucky's Colts. Winchesters. S.&W. Send 

lOc for This month's list. Pony Express Sport 

Shop, 17460 Ventura Blvd., Encino 6, Calif. 

ANTIQUE ARMS for Collector or Shooter. at 

Bargain Prices. lOc for List. Ladd. Catskill. 

x. Y. 

32 CAL. PEN pistol. Proven and tested model. 

Make your own for less than $1.50. Hand tools 

only needed. Complete instructions $1.00. Hurd 

Arms Company, Goode, Va. 

GUNS-RUGER 357 Serial 84-86. Never 

Fired. Ruger 44 $86.95-S.&W. 44 $124.95 List 

25c. Jimmy's, 570 Union Ave., Providence, 

Rhode Island. 

ENGRAVING 

HANDGUNS-NEW enlarged 1958 catalog 50c. 

Robert Frielich, 396 Broome St., New York 13, 

N. Y. 

FINEST QUALITY Gun engraving. E. C. 

Prud'homme, 305 Ward Bldg., Shreveport, La. 

MIDGET SIX .22 Revolvers $14.95 F.O.B. Outdoor 

Outfitters, Seneca Falls, N. 1. 

FOR SALE 

M-1 RIFLES $125. M-1 CARBINES $100. 

Sloper, Camp Verde, Arizona. 

17.000,000 GUN PARTS Stocked-modern, ob- 

solete, foreign. Send tracing, description for 

quotation. 44/40 Instant Gun re-bluer, takes 

seconds - largest selling - absolutely guarau- 

teed. $2.00 bottle. Junked guns wanted tor parts 

-$I-$5 each plus postage, any kind, condition. 

Ship off-check airmailed. Numrich Arms, 

West Hurley 19, N. Y. 

GUN CABINETS 

GUN CABINETS, Racks. Complete Selection. 

Send 25c for Catalogue. Dept. D. Knox Wood 

Products. Knoxville. Town 

WANTED . 

WANTED, DRILLING shotgun all barrels same 

gauge, double with barrels sliding ahead tipup 

underlever, w.m. griffit manchester single shot , 

rifie tipup', double barrel revolver, 600 double, 

Otto Dochow, Vergas, Minn. 

OLD HANDCUFFS, legirons, tbumbfasts, 

shackles wanted. Patterson Smith. 2FL. 269 

Shepard Ave., East Orange, N. J. 

FIRST FOUR "Guns" Magazines. One dollar 

each. Write Alan Walker, 99 Tyndall Avenue, 

Toronto, Canada. 

WANT: OLD Newton Rifles, Any caliber, Any 

condition from poor to perfect. Marion Andersen, 

Glenville, Minn. R#2. - 

MISCELLANEOUS 

ELECTRICAL UNIVERSAL 'Hand Tool. new. 

Revere-0-Matic. complete with 40 tools, bench 

bracket and portable case, precision built and 

guaranteed. Value $39.95 -While They Last 

$19.95. Also 1% inch Revere-0-Matic high grade 

precision electric drill, brand new, value $39.95 

special $19.95. Public Sport Shops, 11 S. 16th 

Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa. . 

ATTENTION: WINCHESTER Mod. 60 Owners 

At last-Custom designed combination Butt 

Stock Wrench and Spring Guide. Complete 

takedown in a jiffy. 12 and 20 gauge. Plain 

$2.95. Chrome $3.95. Check or Money Order. 

Maryland Research Co., 968A Radcliffe Rd., 

Towson 4, Md. 

30-06 SPRINGFIELD OR Enfield Rifle Stock, as 

issued, brand new, $2.96 each. A3-03 Springfield 

rifie barrels, cal. 30-06, brand new, Gov't. Surplus, 

24-inch, completely finished. Value $25. 

Special $5.00 Postpaid. Public Sport Shops, 11 

S. 16th Street, Phila. 2. Pa. 

CARRYALL, CANVAS Roll with straps and 

handle, large size, 54 x 22 inches, for travelers, 

campers, baseball players, etc. Gov't Surplus, 

brand new, value $12.50-Special $2.25 each. 

Public Sport Shops, 11 S. 16th Street, Philadeluhia 

2. Pa. 

HAND SIGHTING Levels, improved new model, 

many uses, for laying drains, ditches, foundations, 

grading, contouring, laying out of fences, 

piers. roads and gardens. Fully guaranteed. 

$2.50 Postpaid. Public Sport Shops, 11 S. 16th 

Street. Philadelphia 2, Pa. 

DUCK DECOYS, fine quality flber, life size. 

rafg. by Carry Lite. Mallards and Blue Bills 

only. Value $27.50 per dozen-special $12.95 

While They Last. Public Sport Shops, 11 S. 

16th Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa. 

SHOOTER'S BIBLE, 1958, over 500 pages. 

Ready for shipment. Illustrated Modern Guns 

and Accessories, $2.00. 1958 Gun Digest, $2.95 

Postpaid. Public Sport Shops, 11 S. 16th Street, 

Philadelphia 2. Pa. 

GOGGLES GOVT Surplus, for industrial use, 

skiing, motorcyclists and auto driving. Value 

$12.;iU. Sale $1.95 per pair. Public Sport Shops, 

11 S. 16th Street. Philadeluhia 2. Pa. 

- BUY SURPLUS Boats; Motors; Aircrafts; Jeeps; SHOOTERS: IF you are interested in learning 

Tractors; Walkie-Talkies; Shop Equipment Gunsmithing and are willing to spend a few 

Amphibious Vehicles; Radar; Camping equip- hours in your home shop for a handsome ac- NAZI UNIFORMS Booklet: "Uniforms-Badgesment; 

Typewriters; Adding Machines; Etc.- curate .22 target pistol. send 3 cent stamp for Intelligence Data German (Nazi) Forces" 64 

Buy direct from U.S. Government Depots-List complete information. P. 0. Box 362, Terre pages, 35 plates, some color. $1.00; Kingstons, 

& procedure $1.00. Brody, Box 8-GU. Sunnyside Haute, Indiana. 

920 Third. Seattle 4. Wash. 

4, N. Y. 

COLT S.A.A. OWNERS we specialize in re- RIFLE SLINGS, leather, Army Surplus. 1% 

FREE CATALOG! Tremendous savings. "Bus- building Colts to factory new condition. Cinna- inch. Brnnd new. $2.00 each. Public Snort 

cadero" betl-holster sets. scabbards. saddles. bar Rifle Shop, Petaluma, Calif. 

Shops, 11 S. 16th Street, ~hiiadelphiii. PC 

boots, whipa, powder horns, blowing horns; -- 

mounted "Longhorns," etc. Send today for Free 

SEND lOc FOR lists either shotguns, rifles, 

HELP WANTED 

Catalog. Dealer Inqiiiries Invited. Western 

hanclguns, ammunition: or send 25c for all 

Products Co., Box 762, Laredo 2-C, Texas. 

lists. Frayseth's, Wilmar, Minnesota. 

FREE INFORMATION: Earn high pay. All 

trades. Foreign and USA Job Opportunities. 

HANDCUFFS. $7.50. LEG Irons. $5.00. eath her 

GUNS 6 AMMUNITION 

Travel paid. Applications, Write Dept. 62D 

and canvas restraints Thomas Ferrick. Box 12, 

National Employment Information. 1020 Broad. 

Newburyport, Mass 

SWISS PERCUSSION Service Rifles: Famous Newark, N. J. 

CANADIAN BULLETIN of Hundreds of items 

Schmidt Rubin rifles, high power, 7.5mm (30 

hunting. fishing & marine.-lOc. Ellwood EUUE . - 

caliber) 12-shot detachable magazine, lightning 

INDIAN RELICS 

Clinton, Ontario. 

fast repeater. Ideal for altering to ,308 Winchester 

and ,300 Savage (N.R.A. excellent). 3 INDIAN WAR arrowheads. Flint Scalping ELECTRIC PENCIL: Engraves all Metals 

While they last $14.50. 2 of these fine rifles Knife. Flint Thunderbird $4.00. Catalog Free. $2.00. Beyer Mfg. 18511-Q Springfield, Chi- 

$25.00. Also available as finest lightweight Satisfaction Guaranteed. Arrowhead. Glen- - ... cago 43. 

sporter with 22" barrel, only $17.50. Ammuni- wood, Arkansas. 

tion $2.65 box 20. New Release: This model 

ODD, SCARCE, imported adult books. Send 

converted to a DeLuxe Sporter and to shoot the 

LEATHER CRAFT 

wants or subject interests. Bob Spencer, 1525 

popular 30-30 cartridge. 22" barrel. Only $29.95. 

Crossroads of World, Hollywood 28, Calif. 

Send remittance, immediate shipment. Inter- FREE "DO-IT-YOURSELF" Leathercraft WINEMAKING," $1.00. "HOW to Make Beer, 

national Firearms Co., 22 Kinsman, St. Albans, Catalog. Tandy Leather Company. Box 791-H24. Ale, Stout," $1.00. Illustrated. Eaton Books, 

Vermont. 

Fort Worth. Texas. 

Box 1242-N. Santa Rosa. California.

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* MAVSER MILITARY 

German Mauser Mlllta Pistol Cal. 

7.63 issued through %4 11. Very high 

velocity. Price Includes 20 rds. ammo 

free. Mdltional ammo $7.50 per 100. Same 

to Soviet Russia. N.R.A: Very.Gmd. 

OUR GUNSMITH S SPECIAL -- --- 

FRENC 

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Nm The seldom seen K-43 G e m seml-aub 

matlc gawerated carbine Cal 8MM 

jag< -- V ~ W Mauser. NRA very ow^ thr& oit. PW 

Good duced as the answer to the deagy Tokerev 

for use on the Eastern fmt. This gun was 

the features are st111 ahead of any standard arms in any country 

ated sights. ORIGINAL K.43 Nazi Semi-auto rifle t&shot mags, $5.95 each. if 

ordered separately add 50c per magazlne for postpald shipment. 

SEMI-AUTO 

I A really rare gun whlch you may never see 

again. 8MM Mauser. Only about 5000 made. 

Used by just one brigade before new model 

replaced lt ln 1943. Mauser made and designed. No other comblnatlon 

bolt and semi-automattc ever made. 

ve rifles . . . . . . . . . $1.49 each 

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BMM 4" bbl. 

~eautifu~ exteriors, peppery bms. 

Ammo: $6s par 100 r6s. 

GUARANTEED I mflf 

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Berthier 31" barrel hanoling the poweru 

8MM ~ebei cartrldp Purchase prlce ln- 1 all milled 

cludes clip. a simple rel~abie and sturd bolt 

action rifte'in very godd condition. $19.95 &cluding 

1CQ rds. of FREE ammo. Regulation long, Win 

bayonet, $4. W field 1s truly an unexceiled shooter's weapon. 

FREE! YEAR-END 

ROLLIN 

BLOCK 

RIFLES 

-22 CAL. 

3 DOUBLE 

d 

For the first time in 2% years we can again offer the famous 

u.S. spri ngfleld '03 Caliber 30/06. These are guaranteed very good lnslde,and out, clean sharp rifling. Thls is most 

accurate military rifle ever made, most popular huntin rlfle and caliber ~n world. Softnose ammo sold everywhere. 

as hizh as $75. Get yours nc IW whale they last. TYPE C ~ULL PISTOL GRIP STOCK $4.95 ADDITIONAL. 

LS: Box of 20 Fds, G.I. tirget,-$2.00; 100 rds, G.1: target, $7.50; 20 rds, professionaliy loaded softpoint hunting, $2.95; 20 rds, 

rn Commercial softvoint. $4.75. 

Slings: U.S gov't ieguliti'on cowhide new $1.95. Swivel handle cleanin rod 3 PC tip solid brass ov't issue $1.95. Brushesj 

U.S. trmy brass, official, bew, 2 for 25c; 011: G.1, gi~n oil, 6 oi. can, 25q Patche* G{. cdanlni patches,,flanne19($CQ) 75c; hen(: G.1. 

ciea"1ng solvent, 6 oz. 2%: ~ u case: n G.I. o!ive drab heavy-duty, brand new condition, heav gov8t spec. zyper, $1.95; Saddle Scabbard- iY 

official top quality cowhide, riveted and stitched, $4.95; G.I. web belts, new 9% each; {napon front slmt covers, 49-2. 

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"INSIDE" TNE FAMOUS U.S. SPRINGFIELO. In spittof the advent the Garand the Springfield has iliays remained the fivorlte of expert 

marksmen In all wars through Korea where Marine snipers used it with great sucbess and preferred It to all other available arms. There Is one 

type of Springfield whlch Is prized ibove all others. This, and only this, is the Sp!lngfleld we are proud to owe! you.ln this shipment. The finest 

Springfields were made alter World War I (with modern metallurgy) to highest spec~flcatlons and closest tolerances all milled parts. We uarantee 

that our entire shipment was made after World War I and before the late World War li 4dhurry-up7s roductlon. Y& will also find beautiful sel!ct 

walnut stocks on these guns of a quality not necessahly found on war-time production. Every ~merkan hunter !hould own a Springfleld, a rlfle 

which has never been amroached for deDendablllw and extreme accuracy by any of the new mass-produced seml-automatic weapons. The Sprlw 

CLEARANCE OFFER FREE EUROPEAN BAYONETS 1 

The on1 Derringer 

on tie American 

market designed 

specifically for shootln~ :22 cal. ammo. A 

brand new recreation of the orlgmal double barrel 

Derringer made In modem day steel by the finest 

European gunsmiths, Fires .22 short long and long 

rifle ammo, A rare conversation pie& and an accurate 

weapon for pllnking and home Protectlon. 

Order from this adv, or see your local dealer. 

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Ih or more deposit, All Items shipped F.O.B. Pas~ 

Fires easily obtainable 9MM IUgW ammo. (Para. dena Exp charges coll. Calif. resld. add 4% State 

bellum). Clip included. WW I1 German Army offi- tax. 'lo-diy moneyback guarantee on all items. 

cer's sidearm. 8-shot. 5%" bbl. Dealers tnqulre. 

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-- 

Due to a year-end over-supply we wiii ship you 

a European military 

- 

bayonet '(25 to 100 years 

old) from our choice of about 11 countries. free. 

wlfh ever purchase of $9.95 or more You must 

request tie free bayonet with your irder. 

, 

BOLT ACTION RIFLES 

Bores guar. N.R.A. Falr to Good. Full Eurwean walnut stocks. We have a few ~uns selected lor 

coeciallv zwd ex~eriors which we are selling for $14.96 AMMO WIR AEOVS **MU h+AUSER mIFLE, Spwial: 

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uestions about them. Take them to your museum. 2 for $14.95; 3 for $22.00; 

!.*or $28.50; 5 for $34.50. AII different.

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