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The Colt Huntsman points the way to gun fun!

What can match the fun of plinking a t cans and bottles (against a safe backstop!), or of target shooting, with your own rapid-fire automatic? Or match the challenge of hunting varmints, trying to get close enough for a handgun shot?

And what can match the shooting economy of that great American institution-the .22 caliber cartridge?

You get it all with the wonderful Colt Huntsman: plenty of fun, plenty of shooting features, plenty of accuracy, plenty of economy. Yes, with its forged steel parts, crisp trigger pulls, natural pointing, easy-loading magazine, and Colt Blue finish,the Huntsman's far and away the best gun for the money on the market. Choice of 4%'' or 6" barrels. See it today a t your Registered Colt Dealer's.

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n my library at home in New Mexico I have some good guns, and some good gun books. Books about the American west especially interest me, and when I go home during recesses of the Congress I always find time to do a little reading on guns and America. But more than this I enjoy hunting. My ranch near Albuquerque is within easy reach of some of the Southwest's best big game hunting areas, and my favorite hunting gun is my Winchester Model 70 in .30-06 caliber, with Leupold 4X Pioneer scope in Leupold adjusto-mount bases. Unfortunately, I don't have the opportunity to do enough hunting, not as much as I'd like, but I try to keep current with what's new in guns and hunting through the magazines.

Also, I have a Colt Peacemaker Revolver that was the possession of a Texas sheriff who became a member of the Texas Rangers, and who willed the gun to one of my friends.

In the process, he told a little bit about its history and the number of men who had been sent to their eternal resting place by the gun. Naturally, it has a little more interest for me than a less historical model.

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y favorite revolver is a .357 Magnum loaded with half-jacket, pure lead Harvey Jugular bullets that more than double the shocking power of factory fodder.

A Colt Super .38 Automatic is my favorite pistol for high velocity shock at long range, with my bullets. For varmint hunting with a handgun, I'll use the Harvey 224 KayChuk. For big game rifles, or dangerous game in cover, I'd choose one of the four Harvey Maglaska Wildcats I developed for that very purpose. The .429 Maglaska Junior, Senior, Super Senior and .358 Maglaska are all good for quick, clean kills.

Energy runs from 4,000 foot pounds to 'way over the 5,000 foot pounds of some big English doubles, and velocity is higher. If an apology is necessary for favoring my own developments, it's because they were designed to do a better job. In smaller bore rifles, I prefer a correctly loaded 7 mm to a 270 or .30-06. I've enjoyed owning most all rifle and handgun calibers since I started handloading the .38-55 rifle and 10 gauge shotgun when I was twelve. Of course, I'm a great believer in bullet accuracy and efficiency that has been increasing at a rapid rate in recent years.

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ast May a man shot a bear. Lots of hunters shoot many bears each year, but we think this one made news. For the hunter was Roy Rogers, "king of the cowboys," ,and the bear was one of the Alaskan brownies, unquestionably the king of North American big game. Our cover story shows an interesting side of one of America's most colorful entertainment figures who is, in addition to his activity as a celluloid cowboy, a genuine ranchman and a skilled outdoorsman and hunter.

For the man who perhaps cannot afford one gun for each type of game, Texan Bob Kindley makes out a good case for a rifle of 2 5 caliber. Both 2.57 Remington-Roberts and the .250-3000 Savage rate high with him as "one gun" choices. Knowing "whyn can make you a better rifleman.

Elmer Keith booms out with the story of his rhino trophy. With a blam-blam from his reliable Westley Richards double, Elmer drops one of Africa's "big five" which he has waited many years to tackle.

The shotgunner has a double barreled billing with "Patches for Pattern" and "The Story of the Parker Gun." Turn'to Calvin Dimm's article first, on the use of cross patches to protect the shot charged Qimm's trick has been proved as a practical alteration of factory-loaded shotshells, or could be applied when you roll your own. Then check on the Parker story-illustrated lavishly with those glowing photos from the old Parker catalogs. It's easy to see why these premier doubles still are in demand by trap shooters.

We slipped one little story into this issue about .22 rifles. The article came in "cold," and we read it over a couple of times, getting a little chillier each time. If you think of 22's only in terms of plinking and target shooting, this story may open up a thought channel. "Not pretty, but provocative," is one reader's evaluation.

Next "month we pay homage to a remarkable man, a foreigil inventor whose firearms are of great importance in International shooting. He is Mikhail Margolin, whose upsidedowii pistol, the unconventional 33. rapid fire automatic the Russkies uncorked at the Olympics, caused such a tempest in the ISU cup of tea. This unique scoop, the full story of a leading Russian arms inventor is presented for the first time in a "western world" firearms journal. The details and pitcures of Margolin's pistols will be of interest to every student of firearms design and to every American interested in the next Olympies.

True, Margolin's talents have been used by his country for war. But it is in .his role today as a designer of ~ e a c e f u l2 2 target pistols that we present him. It is the way we would like to present all stories of weapons, so that arms for war would become merely one curious part of history. But until the "millenium," the alternative is preparedness. We must know what "the other fellow" is doing. Margolin's designs give us an insight into his way of thinking and into the state of development of the Soviet small arms industry.

Lives there a hunter with soul so dead he never t o himself hath said, "Just once, I'd like t o lay sights on a b i g Brownie?" Roy King o f the Rogers d i d it -"the Cowboys" vs. the King of the Bears, with the Roy Weatherby "Rifle of Tomorrow" i n a starring role, o f course.

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Osnabrock. N. Dak. Hunter Ebba Nelson had his sights on a rabbit and was about to pull the trigger when there was a sudden swishing sound and the rabbit disappeared.

An eagle had pounced down on it and, before Mr. Nelson could recover from his surarise and fire, his game was sky-high and aut of sight.

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0 What's in a name? The Winchester Hotel s located in, of all places, Rifle, Colorado.

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Washington, D. C. A survey shows that the ottontail rabbit is the most fired-upon game a this country. Next in order come squirrels, mail, ducks and geese, pheasants, doves.

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GERTRUDE BACKSTROM Member of U. S. International Mayleigh Team, 1954, 1956,1957.

United States Women's Champion, 1955,1956,1957.

National Civilian Champion, 1957.

The only woman in the world to shoot over a 2600 grand aggregate.

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Three things control elevations of patterns with shotguns. Rib pitch is one; stock pitch is another; and the height of stock comb is the third. All shotgun shooters buying a new gun should first pattern it, either on paper on a pattern board or on some old signboard or barn, to learn where it shoots for elevation. This will save untold grief and ammunition when they turn to fast flying targets or game. Until I know where a shotgun shoots for elevation, I will not use it on game.

Some guns have neutral rib pitch, but all should have the rib pitched down some at the muzzle to compensate for the trajectory of the shot charge. Some have so much rib pitch that the top of the rib lies low between the gun muzzles on double guns and right down flush on top of the muzzle of singles with ribbed barrels. Such guns usually shoot high. For upland rising birds and for straight trap shooting, some rib pitch is necessary and desirable, and the gun should shoot with center of pattern about 8" high at 35 to 40 yards. For skeet and general shooting, some like patterns placed about 8" high at 40 yards, while others want them to center right over the top of the rib. Shotgun ribs are fixed and not much can be done to change rib pitch, but the gunner should pattern his gun and learn where it shoots.

If it shoots too low, then elevation can be corrected by addition of a Rowley pad on top of the comb, to hold the cheek bone higher up and the eye at a higher level above the rib or barrel. If the gun shoots too high, the elevation can be lowered by cutting down the top of comb to give more drop where cheek contacts the top of stock.

Elevations can also be changed by altering the pitch of the stock. I have a fine best quality Westley Richards 12 bore double with hand detachable locks, single trigger and ejectors. That gun shot so high I could do but mediocre work with it, shooting over most game. It has excessive rib pitch and was stocked very straight. I had Nate Bishop of Albuquerque, New Mexico, restock it.

Nate fitted it with just as straight and just as high a comb stock, but instead of zero rib pitch Nate gave the new stock almost 3" of down pitch. That cured the trouble.

Thus one can correct a gun's shooting if he will pattern it and give the subject a little intelligent study. The more down pitch

the gun has, the lower it will shoot; the less down pitch, the higher it will shoot. Guns may have zero pitch, neither up nor down.

Such guns, when stood up alongside a wall, with weight of gun square on butt plate or pad from toe to heel, the barrels will touch the wall full length. Such guns usually shoot high, and guns with up pitch always shoot very high. Pattern your gun and correct comb height or down pitch to bring the center of your pattern to desired elevations, and you will get more hits.

New Hornady Vermin Bullets J. W. Hornady of Grand Island, Neb., maker of fine 300 grain 375 magnum bullets in both soft point and steel jacket solids, is now out with a new vermin bullet. These come in 50 and 55 grains, .22 caliber, and are made with a thin jacket for explosive effect when they strike. This makes them very effective on small pests, as well as safe in settled communities, so long as they strike the ground. They simply explode on impact. They are very accurate as well in the .222 Hornady also makes the best 160 grain rounduose soft point 6.5 bullet we have tested.

Colt "Gold Cup" .45 Auto We have completed testing the Colt .45 National Match Gold Cup model, and it is one of the most accurate .45 autos we have ever fired. Judge Don Martin, Joe Houver, and the writer gave it the works. Joe fired it seven shots slow fire for group at 25 yards, making a long ragged hole in the center of the ten ring; then fired three more rapid fire with Remington Targetmaster and kept two in the ten ring, one a nine. Judge Martin and I shot it at 20 yards, and I also tested it at 50 yards. Five shots with good hold at 50 yards placed three in one ragged hole, the other two cutting each other just above the three. This pistol will, I believe, with any good full power match ammunition, stay in the ten ring and usually in the X ring of the standard pistol targets.

The new arm has Micro fully-adjustable rear sights and a non-glare finish to top of slide. Balance of gun is really polished and perfectly blued. The hammer is short, narrow, and never bites the web of the hand in recoil. Trigger pull is ~ e r f e c t , with antiback-lash stop screw. The grip has the old (Continu,ed on page 60)

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The hunter must be smarter than the hunted if he is going to bring home meat for the table or a trophy for the wall.

Smart hunters know their rifles because they sight-in regularly with Sierrasbullets whose accuracy and reliability are unquestioned.

Concerning your recent article on Joe Bodrie, he is no doubt an expert shot but I find little evidence of this from the claims made in the article. For example, to draw faster than a person could clap his hands would require only a draw speed of 5/12ths second (1/6 second for the actual clap, plus 1/4 second for the clapper's reaction time)this for the draw only, without aiming. To draw and hit the robot (distance not specified) in .45 second is not highly outstanding in my opinion, as any home-grown quickdraw artist can usually do a draw-and-hit in 1/2 second at say 10 feet, starting with the hand outstretched and a tin can resting on the fingers 48 inches from the ground as a timing device. I realize this timing method does not include full reaction time, but the hand has four feet to travel to reach the holster. Readers of GUNS should try this.

When they can do it faster than a can can fall 27 inches, they have really accomplished something. They should then try it at 20 feet.

J. L. Waring Calgary, Canada

Correspondents Wanted After reading through a few back numbers of your magazine GUNS I thought I would write and tell you how much it is enjoyed and appreciated not only by myself but by the chaps down at our local rifle range. We have no magazine of this calibre in England, which is unfortunate as there must be hundreds of chaps over here interested in all the aspects of shooting.

Could you, through your columns, put me in touch with a young American "gun-crank" interested in all things shooting who would correspond with me? I have a hobby of collecting the labels from different cartridge makers boxes; have any of your readers got similar hobbies apart from our favorite rifle shooting?

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1 t h i n k your attack on the Sullivan Law, in your June issue, is unjustified. You are looking a t it from the wrong angle.

First of all, the authorities feel (and rightly so) that the average citizen does not need a gun for his livelihood, but a criminal does. So they make it impossible for a decent citizen to obtain a gun, but make it easy for the criminal to have one. Makes sense, doesn't it?

Secondly, if crime was slightly dangerous in New York, a lot of yellow punks and hoods, who wouldn't take a chance if they thought their intended victim might be

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armed, would have to turn to honest work for a living, thereby creating an increased unemployment problem.

Last but not least, New York has the worst crime record in the whole world, not merely in the United States, and you would . not want the city fathers to relinquish such a great honor, would you?

I have been in the "Casbah" of Algiers, and in native quarters of other towns reputed as bad, but I always felt safer in those sinkholes than I ever did just one block off of Broadway. So three cheers for the Sullivan Law, protector of the criminal, and killer of the innocent.

Steve Matuch Ambridge, Penna.

One Way to Get New Readers I just feel like taking the time to write your magazine and mention how much I enjoyed Elmer Keith's article, "Simba."

Personally I think Mr. Keith is in a class by himself. This June issue was loaned to two friends of mine, with the result that each will send their $5.00 for subscription. Tell Mr. Keith thanks and keep his experiences coming. My family also looks forward to them each month. Your magazine is tops.

G. E. Murphy San Francisco, California

Those Gun-Happy Arabs When I picked up my copy of GUNS for May, 1958, I was more than a little shocked at the cover.

The man on the extreme left, intent on the mechanism of his new Soviet shootin' arn, will surely send his friend at the extreme right to Allah's Paradise if there's a round in that gun of his. He himself is in considerable danger from the happy-go-lucky comrade in the middle foreground, who apparently has a bead on number one's wishbone; and the lens louse in the middle of the picture is likely to slice an ear off the far right lad if the left-hand comrade doesn't shoot him first. The only persons in the whole shootin' match who seem to have any gun sense are the camel trooper in the background and the man whose foot and leg appear lower right. They at least have their guns pointed up in the air. I don't give the doubly menaced lad just behind the second cautious citizen credit for much savvy, for if he had any sense he'd get out and away from the careless three in the middle foreground.

Altogether, the cover is a wonderful object lesson as to how not to handle firearms in company.

Joseph F. Morris Selah, Washington It's a news photo, not a lesson in gun safety. In fact, the most dangerous aspect of the picture (and story) may be, not the way these lads handle their n w guns, but the fact&& t h e have the&-Edi~s. ,. .

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In my opinion your magazine is the leader in its field and is enjoyed in this section.

However your article on "Pistol Pete" seems to be highly inaccurate and would tend to stir up bad feeling about issues which should be forgotten. Your union veteran died in 1958 at 95 years of age. That would make him 2 years old when the war ended and by f a r the youngest member of the GAR. He was given a .4,5 with metallic ammunition when he was 10 (in 1873) which must have been about the first of its type to arrive in Okla.

Keep up the good work with the magazine but leave the manufacture of history to the fiction writers.

Olaf Otto, Jr. Savannah, Georgia Better read the story again. It was Pistol Pete's father, Frank Eaton ST., who was the Civil War veteran. Pistol Pete was 97 when he died, a few weeks ago.

As to the .45 with rnetdlic ammunitionwe noted the date, decided it was possible.

Whether probable or not is a matter of opinion. Glenn Shirley (no fiction writer but a highly regarded researcher and historian) took Pistol Pete's word for it. What else could he do?-Editors.

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Verification Your article on the Sullivan Law in ths June, 1958, issue hits the problem right on the head. My own experience parallels Mr. Mann's in the acquisition of a pistol permit.

After two years, I tired of the privilege of owning a pistol; I could not afford the time off the job required yearly to renew my permit. Today, I just collect antique firearms, cap and ball, and flint. They tell me that New York City is now endeavoring to create laws constricting this hobby also.

Thanks to GUNS,a very wonderful magazine, these conditions are brought to light and people are made aware of them. I've been a subscriber since your first issue and will be for ever more.

Samuel Weiner Flushing 54, N.Y.

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Here's A Place T o Shoot The Tri-Boro Rod & Gun Club of Brooklyn, N.Y., has openings for a limited number of new members. The club shoots both .22 rifle and .22 to .38 special pistol at our own range, and we have arrangements for big bore rifle shooting at other" club and public ranges. Interested shooters please communicate with: David Youner, 50 Lenox Road, Brooklyn 26, N.Y., for further details.

David Youner 50 Lenox Rd. Brooklyn 26, N. Y.

A Keith Disciple May I take this opportunity to thank you for a fine and grand magazine. I especially like your fight for sensible gun laws. And as for men knowing their guns and what they will do, I do not think there is anyone equal to Elmer Keith. I agree with him 100 per cent about big bores and heavy bullets. Although small bores and light fast bullets have their place, it is not in stopping big game, be they of the four or two legged variety.

Ernest Roy Best Dallas, North Carolina (Continued on page 50)

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ROY ROGERS vs. T H E KING VETERAN HUNTER ROY ROGERS. JUST BACK FROM AFRICAN SAFARI. GETS HIS BIGGEST HUNTING THRILL-A

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Sighting-in .300 Weatherby Magnum, Roy Rogers checked his gun from bench rest at guide Kris Helgason's range before going out for bear. Marshy tundra (right) made heavy walking.

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THOUGHT you knew the man on our cover, it's only because you do know him-as does practically everybody else on this spinning globe we call the world. It's Roy Rogers~appearingin a role that may seem new for him to you, but a role in which he is thoroughly at home, for Roy is an experienced hunter. He bagged 29 fine trophies on a recent African safari, had hunted extensively before that. But one major hunting challenge still remained unanswered: Rogers wanted a "big brownie9'-one of the great Alaskan bears popularly known under the misnomer of "Kodiak" because of the great numbers of them on Kodiak Island which lies south and east of the Alaskan peninsula, named for the first Russian colony in America which was founded there in 1784.

The bear's habitat actually includes the entire peninsula plus a band extending halfway down the Canadian west coast, as well as Kodiak Island.

The Alaskan brownie has been called "the world's biggest carnivore," but this too is technically a misnomer; the bear is omnivorous, eating grass and kelp as well as fish and flesh. But this dietary technicality hardly warrants a hunter to forsake caution; the beast is heavily armed and unpredictable. Ever since the days of Russian occupation, reports have come down out of the north-

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land of raging charges, mauling attacks, bloody death in the wake of these Pleistocene Age survivors. And they are big! Conservative estimates place the average weight of the Alaskan brown at about 800 wounds: but trovhv, animals have been weighed at twice that figure, and over. A big one, on his hind legs in fighting posture, may tower eleven feet or more from heel to ear-tip. And few living things pack the power that lies in those huge, pelt-hidden muscles.

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Spring hunting at Kodiak starts April 5th and lasts through June. Rogers' return from Africa was so late that it left only two weeks to get their equipment together. Guns were no problem; Roy owns a fine battery of hunting rifles, including the .300 Weatherby Magnum which he had used on his African safari: and of course Rov Weatherbv has guns for every possible purpose. But the clothes needed for Alaska were not available in Southern California, and the

From a high spot above the bear, Roy took his shot. Range was about 200 yards; Rogers fired when bear rose suddenly from brush.

Johnnie, a guide, and Rogers pause t o examine trail of bear. They spotted big animals from an airplane, then landed t o stalk them.

Prone beside glacial stream, Ro ers takes a drink of icy water cowboy style. Day was unusualy warm for May in Alaska.

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party decided to wait and buy cold weather gear in Alaska.

The outer garments must be correct, they were warned, or they would suffer. You have to be sure to get a parka that comes well down over the kidneys, for example, a vulnerable point in this cold climate. There are other items important to maintaining comfort in this kind of hunting, but more of this later. Right now it was important to make plans, confirm reservations, and send the hunting fees to Helgason.

Hunting on Kodiak Island is carefully controlled and only a limited number of bears can be killed during a season. The fee for each hunter is $1,000.00. This charge covers the plane trip from Kodiak Bay to Terror Bay and back, plus lodging, food, and boats for two weeks. Your personal effects and transportation from home to Kodiak and back is not included, nor are guns and ammunition. If you should wish to bring a non-hunter, the fee is $350.00 per person. Husband and wife, both hunters, pay only $1,500.00 for the hunt. To secure a reservation, one-third deposit is required.

The hunting periods run from April 5th to April 18th, April 20th to May 3rd, May 5th to May 18th, and May 20 to June 2nd. In the spring, the big bear's fur is heavy, glossy, and long because of his extended hibernating

period. The fall season of two week periods starts September 15th and lasts through November 14th. During this time the bear gets a new, short, but rich-looking coat to cover him during the approaching winter. Hunting is a bit easier in the fall, as the bears may be discovered feedingalong salmon streams and on the lake shores.

Roy and his party were scheduled for the two weeks starting May 1st. They flew from Los Angeles to Seattle, where they transferred to the splendid Pan American Clip-, per Fleet Ship with its vista dome. Upon arrival in Kodiak Island, they were met by an experienced bush pilot, a representative of Kris Helgason, named Vince Daley. He arranged for their hunting licenses at $50.00 each, and helped select the other gear they needed. Temperatures were ranging about 30' or a little higher, so cold weather clothes were essential. Roy and Lee got long parkas, but Weatherby felt he could manage with his short one. They bought warm mittens and also some Jon-e handwarmers-small pocket stoves that are mighty welcome to cold-stiffened fingers.

Vince also explained that they would need hip length rubber boots, Shupac hunting boots, light weight rain coats, and Arctic "longjohn" underwear. They got all these items together and soon were flying in Daley's Grumman Goose amphibian toward Terror Bay.

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O n the trail of supper, Rogers checks Clara Helgason's famous caribou stew before sitting down to dinner (below).

At base camp, the Helgason family was there to them and show them to their cabins. Clara Helgason is a good housekeeper and an excellent cook, as they were soon to discover. Good barley soup, sour milk biscuits, and moose meat, topped off with apple pie and coffee, were followed by an hour or so of talk and then-bed. Morning starts at 3 A.M. here, and early to bed is the custom.

The first chore the following morning was to sight-in the guns. Kris has a bench rest and target setup two or three hundred yards from the cabins, and here they all gathered to make sure the scopes had not been jarred off setting in shipment. They listened carefully, too, to Kris' (miet tips on bear and how to hunt them. A man doesn't want to make a mistake after coming this far, on a target that can make a mistake disastrous.

Having proved the guns, the party rowed out to one of Kris Helgason's two fine power boats.

Bears have been known to lurk within a few hundred yards of Kris' camp, but the mountain slopes along the shores of the sea and lakes and channels are the best prospects and,as the boat slid slowly up along the beautiful northern coast of the Pacific, the hunters got out their binoculars. The water was very still and everyone spoke in a whisper, if they spoke at all, for the Kodiak is so sensitive to sound that he can hear the snap of a twig several hundred yards away, and in this still land even the soft sounds of the water lapping on the boat travel up the cliffs surprising distances. They scanned the countryside for a tiny black spot or a hint of a movement in the thickets, and it soon became a contest to see who would spot game first: the guide with his experienced eye, or the hunter with his lenses glued in anticipation. Bears usually appear quite high up, rolling in the tundra grass or in the snow, or just below the snowline as they come down for food or water.

They did not spot any bear the first day, and on the second day it was decided that they would fly over Terror Bay in a small Piper Super Cub equipped with floats. From the plane they could see whether or not 'the bears had moved down out of the high towering mountain terrain. Flying over jagged peaks, with the plane skimming the snowy slopes so low that passengers can easily spot the piepan-like bear tracks, is a nerve-wracking experience in itself, but the hunters soon forgot allelse when they caught sight of a path of such tracks.

They followed them to trail's end and there discovered several big bears. One ROYestimated to be approximately 12 feet long. He reared in defiance when they roared over him twenty feet off the ground, and the hunters gained a healthy respect for this monster which defied an airplane.

Eventually, bear were spotted all over the island.

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CCORDING TO SOME of the experts, it's against the rules to use the same rifle for both varmints and big game. It seems to be a sort of writer's law that you must have a different rifle for every target. This is fine, if you can afford it. However, a lot of ordinary "joes" who have to watch the shooting budget are limited to one centerfire rifle, and they are looking for one caliber that will do a satisfactory job on both woodchucks and deer.

For shooters who are financially restricted to just one "all-around" rifle for everything from ground squirrels to medium big game, one of the good .25's will get the job done. If you don't intend to reload, a Savage 99 lever gun or a bolt action sporter chambered for the .250-3000 are excellent choices.

The 87 grain factory loads for the .250 are murder on varmints, while the 100 grain loadings are potent medicine for anything up to and including mule deer. The long popularity of this caliber proves its usefulness.

Case for virtues of .25s is made by Kindley who shows lineup of his favorites: .2503000 in 99 Savage and FN spoder; Remington 722 and Model 70 in .257 Roberts.

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For the reloader, a good sporter chambered for the .257 Roberts is a better bet, especially if his once-a-year deer hunt takes him into territory where he might run into something larger than deer. With a .257 and handloads, he can handle anything he is apt to encounter in the States, always providing, of course, that he can place his shots. The -257's 1 in 10 twist handles 117, 120, and 125 grain bullets efficiently, and when these are handloaded to 2850-2900 feet per second they qualify as big game loads!

The -25's have an interesting history. Before the advent of the .22 Hornet, the .25-20 was the most popular varmint cartridge. And for a very good reason. During this period, any rifle shooting 2" groups at 100 yards was considered really "hot." Many run-of-the-mill 25-20's shot much better than that. The little cartridge in a good Model '92 Winchester or a 23-D Savage can be depended upon to hit varmints up to 150 yards regularly.

The only .25-20 I owned was a long-barrelled Model ' 9 2 Winchester. Handloads in this lever gun, using a bead front and Lyman peep rear, were surprisingly accurate.

The Ideal 85 grain gascheck bullet backed by 10 grains of #4759 shot into 2" groups consistently. The same bullet, hollow-pointed, killed jackrabbits very efficiently. The little cartridge just didn't have enough "poop" to break up slugs on ground contact, and for that reason wasn't very satisfactory in settled areas; but it was fun to shoot and an accurate game-getter.

For a long time, the .25-35 and the -25 Remington rimless were favorite light deer cartridges. Rifles chambered for both cartridges were light, handy, easily carried, and

Good for varmints but obsolescent are (L) .25-20 and .25-35. Rimless .25 Remington is less common now, came in old M I41 Gamemaster. Two silvertips are .2503000 and .257 Roberts. Right: .25-06 Neidner, .25-06 Hicks, .257 Weatherby.

Three .250-3000 loads grouped I '/2" x 2" a t 100 yards without sight change.

(in spite of what you may have heard), many a .25-35 Model '94 carbine will shoot with eye-opening accuracy. A buddyof mine regularly shoots a beat-up .25-35 carbine with a 4X Weaver in the local offhand turkey shoots. His fodder? Factory ammo right off the shelf. And it is seldom that he fails to tak6 home poultry. This same .25-35 has dropped five shots into many a palm-sized group at 200 yards, which is good shooting forany game But most of the .25's have sort of slipped

ground as varmint calibers in favor of the host of hotshot .22's. And the .270,7 mm and .30 calibers have pushed the .2Ss aside as big game rifles. Rifles are no longer chambered for the .25-20. The .25 Remington rimless was discontinued some years ago. Marlin's .25-30 is a dead turkey, and Winchester no longer chambers their Model 70 for the excellent .250-3000.

True, the center-fire .22's have distinct advantages over the -25's as varmint rifles. Most have less recoil. The light, thin-jacketed .22 slugs break up upon hitting the ground, thus eliminating the ricochet problem. And practically all of the hot-shot .22's are cheaper to reload, due to their smaller case capacity. For big game, the larger calibers are a much better choice. The .270, 7 mm, or any of the 30 calibers throwing a heavier bullet hit a much harder wallop, punch a bigger hole through heavy game, and leave an easy-to-followblood trail.

However, for the man who must make one rifle serve both purposes, a good, accurate .25 has many advantages over either the .22's or the larger calibers. As the varmintdeer combination, for the rifleman who sharpens his eye on' chucks and crows during the summer months in anticination of that big ~ovemberhunt, the .25's are hard to beat.

They have a sharper, louder report and more recoil tha the -22's. None, however, have more than a mild kick, i eluding the souped-up wildcats. The little .250-300

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T WAS A TENSE MOMENT as Willard Chappel lined his Redfield-mounted 330 Weaver on the spot at which we expected our quarry to appear. Crouching beside him, my own scope in careful alignment, I could see the varmint-bits of him, gleaming like yellow metal between the verticals of jungle-like growth that shielded him. This was a big one! Big and ugly, with heavy jaws and curving claws that, through the glass, looked powerful enough to crush a man's bones.

Deliberately, it stretched its long legs and lurched forward. It stopped, and for just a moment 1 thought it had seen. us. But then it moved againy following the exact course we had predicted. It seemed heavy and awkward; but we knew that it could move with frustrating suddenness. One careless move on our part now could spoil the shot which we had set up so carefully.

''N0w.f'' Chappel's whisper was hardly a breath of sound beside me. "Now, if he'll just hold still for a second-!"

The crack of the gun was starthgly loud in the stillness and? in my glassĂ&#x201A;the raider vanished. But there was a dark blur on the white back-drop against which we had trapped him, and I knew that the 100 grain 6 mm Sierra slug9 traveling on the "shock wave" of 43 grains of 4831 powder, had accomplished its purpose. No living thing could take a wound like that, and live. We'd find him, in the deep grass below the backstop.

Eagerly, we scrambled up and ran forward. "A gravid female," Chappel said, as we scanned the remains. "Glad I got her before she started chawin' on my grapes! And the sex don't matter; there's no season on 'em, no regulationsĂ&#x201A;and no limit. Fact is, the more of 'em you shoot, the better folks like you. Colorado folks just naturally hate

grasshoppers. So do I-except as targets. They do make real tricky targets for a man with a rifle; small enough at 75 yards to make you hold carefuly and real tricky. You've got to bide your time and then shoot when you got 'em where you want 'em; they can sure jump sudden." surirised? You mean you've never hunted grasshoppers with a rifle? You ought to try it. Here's a game target you can stalk and shoot in your own back yard (if you're luckv enough " to have that kind of a back yard), . . . or on any hillside. You can use any rifle you happen to have, or the rifle you like besty or the rifle with which you need practice. Or, if you're real sharp with a pistol, you can use a handgun. Here's fun-shooting that adds hunting factors to mere plinking; and there are no bag limits.

Yes, hunting grasshoppers is a lot of fun. Their number is infinite and-the season is open, spring, summer, and fall, everywhere. I admit that you do not need a -243 or a -250 to kill them-a Daisy Red Ryder carbine will do it-but hitting them at 75 yards with a lightweight sporter? as Willard B. Chappel, the Dean of Colorado's Fun Shooters does it, is nice shooting. The number of clean, one-shot kills you'll get at that distance won't make the sport

monotonous, I assure you.

Of all the many rifle and revolver addicts I have known, no other was as crazy over rifle and revolver shooting as my friend Willard Chappel. Last spring, I spent four days with him at "The Ranch" east of Pueblo, celebrating his 80th year. The first three days, a dust storm kept us cooped up in the house and not a shot was fired. Chappel isn't used to three days with no shooting, and he was restless as a range stallion in a high corral. But on the fourth day the storm blew itself outy the sun shown agaiu, and Chappel said, "Let's get going!" There was no question of getting ready; guns and ammunition had been waiting since the time of my arrival.

Now it happens that Chappel got his start as a shooter when ammunition was cheap. Two boxes of -22 Long Rifle cost 25 cents; -30-30 cartridges cost about 60 cents per box; a -30-30 Winchester carbine sold for about $12, and the first Savage -303 rifle I ever bought cost just $18. This was 50 years ago. In those good old days, we could shoot to our heart's content with a "high power rifle" for about what it costs you now to shoot a -22 rim fire. As a result, (Continued on page 37) we shot a lot, at all kinds of

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ROM MY COTTAGE overlooking Upper Chesapeake Bay, I watchedyyear after year, the activities in from six to ten duck blinds facing decoy spreads.

With ducks flying thick and hunters volleying at singles? doubles? and flocks, the results I saw were disappointing to say the least. Andyseeing the cripples in all stages of disability afterwardy I didn't confine myself to saying the least-I made many a nasty crack about the inept gunnery of waterfowlers.

So I tried a bit of waterfowling myself, and 1 apologize. I had had 40 years of trap and upland game s~attergunning~ where anything from the -410 to the 12 gauge will bust the clays or kill the small upland bird targets. I know now that waterfowl-big birdsy flying high and fasty with down armor that prevents deep shot penetration-are a different kettle 0' fish entirely. Knowing that the gunnem I watched were using the best guns and ammo obtainabley I blamed the misses and the cripples on bad shooting. To some extent? I was right; but I'm convinced now that part of the trouble? even a major part7 was in the ammunition. This is the story of my own weeks of studyy of trial-and-error reloading and shooting, to find better loads for waterfowl shooters.

I took my first duck hunting trip in the season of y54ywith a wildfowling veteran who knew his stuff and had complete equipment. Doc said it would be a good day for ducks because it was so miserable for humans; cold7 wet7 and windy. He was right. Eagle eyed? he was soon picking out ducks as they rounded the horizon. We had lots of shots; eighty shells went up in smoke. We picked up eight ducks. We were both using twelve gauge gunsy with extra-long-range loads7 (1% oz. No. 4 shot) -the best the man had in the store.

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On the long drive home I expressed my disgust with our shooting. Doc, from long experience, seemed satisfied.

He pointed out that when the targets were low over the water the shot splash was usually on target. "We were hitting them, all right, but not with enough stuff to knock 'em down. A duck is a tough customer.''

His fowling piece was an Ithaca Featherlight 12 gauge, plugged for three shells. Mine was a Browning Superposed? full and modified choke? 26" barrels. After taking a few shots, I knew it was inadequate on ducks at more than 25 yards-or at least this was as good an alibi as 1 could think of. Doc and I are both above average with shotguns, and we felt the need for a good excuse.

The equipment of riflemen has been improved so much in the, past 50 years through constant intensive research and experiment that nothing in the way of ballistics and performance surprises us. Not so the scattergunner. Little has been done to improve his smokepole since the introduction of the choke over a hundred years ago; and the fodder is basically the same since they substituted smoke-

less for black powder just before the turn of the century.

Present dav shotgun shells do not set the woods on fire as crandPa'?s u s e l t o do, but other than that, there's not too much difference.

Thinking of Grandpa and his hatred of crows gave me an idea. Grandpa used to shoot crows out of an old wildcherry tree on the farm, at distances that seemed incredible. Taking the trouble to verifv it when I started experimenting, stepped off 60 to the base of the tree from where he stood with his old double-barrel muzzle loader. To do as well now would be an achievement.

To load, Grandpa would "measure" a good sized pile of black powder in the palm of his hand and pour it down the barrels. Before ramming in a couple of balls of paper from Sears, Roebuck's catalog, he would bump the locks with the heel of his hand to fill the tubes. Then he would center a five-inch square of tough paper over each muzzle and form cups by ramming them just inside the muzzles.

These were filled with shot and rammed down onto the wads. With a half page from Sears, balled up and rammed

Guns checked by Dimm include Browning 5-shooter and O/U with barrels of various borings; 32" full choke trap and field single Lefever, and fancy 32" full Ithaca single trap. Reloading was done with elementary equipment.

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down each barrel to hold the shot, Grandpa put a couple of caps on the nipples and was in business.

The tight pattern from this old blunderbuss, totally innocent of choke, was amazing. He was banned from the local shooting matches because Old Betsy literally riddled the targets. He had to use any one of the newfangled breech loaders he could borrow from reluctant friends.

The more I tought, the more convinced I was that Grandpa's tight patterns were a result of his trick of enclosing his shot in those cups of tough paper. But the cups wouldn't work in a breech loader; they wouldn't go through the forcing cone in front of the chamber. (Old Betsy had no cone.) The problem of getting a tight, hardhitting, far-reaching pattern had to be solved inside the shell itself.

My though was that a cup that would insulate the shot from the barrel would serve two purposes: (a) prevent the shot charge from touching the bore, and (b) hold back the wads till the shot could get away. Friction with the inside of the bore of a gun is terrific, due to resistance against the sudden acceleration of the shot charge. This causes the outside pellets to wear flat and fly erratically. This, together with the spin imparted by rolling down the barrel, causes pellets to curve and stray, producing ragged fringes in the pattern. And strobe photographs prove that wads do get into the shot string after emergence from the barrel, kicking the shot off course and causing blown patterns.

Choke tends to hold the wads back just long enough to allow the shot to get ahead and stay ahead of the wads.

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I tried using heavy, stiff paper, sections of 16 gauge shells, 35 mm film, and other materials in many tests over several months. Patterns improved greatly, but results were spotty. Sometimes primers indicated high pressures, or patterns were dense in streaks. One gadget produced a pattern in the shape of an "X." But the device herein described seems to have everything. The pattern is dense and even, with the few strays confind to those rare pellets which are malformed in manufacture. Pellets cannot spin and curve because they do not

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20 yards out from the gun. The deep indentations left by the pellets on the hard fiber patch indicate the great pressure the explosion imparts on each pellet. The bottom layers of shot show the greatest pressure. Without patches, this would cause disruption of the charge.

The photos of patterns are selected from dozens to show that the patched charge will produce a tight, dense, even pattern from short guns with little or no choke, and that such patterns are much smaller than unpatched similar loads from guns specially designed and known to be efficient at long range. Improvement of high-potency shells shells like the new 2%" Magnum is strikingly apparent.

Penetration is slightly deeper with patches as we proved by shooting at old Sears catalogs and noting pages to deepest penetration.

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By ELMER KEITH

A TON AND A HALF OF HARD HIDED. HARD HEADED. ILL TEMPERED, POWER PACKED UNPREDICTABILITY, THE AFRICAN RHINO IS. TRULY.

No Target for Pipsqueaks!

Every day in Africa was a memorable experience because of variety of game seen, whether the wanted trophy was taken or not. A t left, Keith examines Thompsons Gazelle trophy buck.

Below, giraffes march as safari (above) halts to let them pass.

guardians, making him difficult to stalk. It is said that he will fight a buzz saw at any time, and he probably will, if crowded. Most of those I saw were more anxious to get away than to fight. Yet, in killing the big five of African dangerous game, a cheeky young bull rhino was the only animal that took me on.

My first sight of rhino was one that crossed what went for a road in the elephant country while we were on our way to a distant village to pick up a local tracker. He was a quarter of a mile ahead of us, and we left the car and proceeded on foot, trailing him back into the dense thorn bush.

We had not trailed him more than a quarter to a half mile when we came up with him. He heard us and turned, facing us squarely at 30 yards. I could see only the head and horn and the little ears, and held my aim just under the nose, with my.476 Westley Richards double rifle loaded with 520 grain solids, while John looked him over. John said, "Horn's too short and too thin," so we stood perfectly still and soon the rhino blew a couple of miniature steam-whistle snorts and took off in the opposite direction.

That evening, while the native boys were driving the big Austin truck back to the village, they saw a huge bull rhino with a horn well over 20 inches cross the road ahead of them. Even in Africa, it is often the man without the gun who sees the trophy game. If we had seen this one, we might have saved ourselves many days of hard hunting.

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On the 22nd of November, we started hunting rhino in earnest. We had no luck that day, but, coming home in the jeep at 30 miles an hour through solid thorn, we ran smack into a big bull giraffe as we rounded a corner.

Luckily for us, John had just tightened the brakes that morning, and was able to stop six feet from the big bull.

He was an old residenter. His tail had been chewed off, also his left ear, probably by lion. He showed no inclination to get out of the way or even give us the road and calmly looked right down our shirt collars as he towered over the jeep. John told him exactly what he thought of his ancesters in the best British army vernacular, and finally he moved off the trail barely enough to let us pass.

Greater Kudu and giraffe were quite plentiful here, and on a 100 mile circle with the jeep the next day, we found plenty of fresh elephant tracks, and I got a very fine boar wart hog that crossed the trail ahead of us. We trailed him a quarter of a mile or so through the brush before Old Songi, one of our trackers, spotted him and I was able to give him a 300 grain soft nose, off hand at 140 yards. He had beautiful wide-spreading tusks fully 11 inches out of the skull on each side.

On the 24th, we cut a whale of a big rhino track and, with the sun boring down on us and a temperature of about 140Ă&#x201A;°we trailed that big bull into dense thorn for two and a half hours and never caught up. Finally we found where he had joined a group of four or five more rhinos, one a cow with a young calf. The bush was so

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We moved camp some 65 miles to the west, and here saw numerous rhino tracks, some of them good big ones.

One old bull left his tracks right through camp, and we set up tents on both sides of his trail, knowing that these brutes have regular trails to their water holes. I slept with my .476 loaded with solids by the side of my cot, but he never came back.

This was the worst tse tse fly country we encountered, and it was hotter than hell every day. It was nice open bush on the ridges, but the bottoms were choked with dense thorn and the rhino would water near camp at a muddy surface water hole, then trek off for miles, down those thorn-choked bottoms. No professional hunting party had ever penetrated into this section before us and we saw a myriad of tracks at the water hole: lion, zebra, Kongoni, sable, kudu, wart hog, elephant, buffalo, and rhino. It was great game country, but the tse tse made life miserable from daylight until dark. Rifle barrels got so hot each day that they would burn the &in if we tried to grasp them.

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them hour after hour through dense brush, only to lose them for one reason or another. Disgusted, we moved camp again, this time some 65 miles north into greater kudu country.

Here we learned that a rhino had killed a native man a short time before; caught him going home after dark and charged him. The horn hit the man in the seat and wentclear up through his heart. There were rhino all around this camp and, at one water hole some five miles northwest of camp, we found the largest rhino track I saw on the trip; but we also jumped two native poachers out of their hide-out a few feet from the water hole. With rhino horn worth ten dollars per pound and the skins worth $40 or more per animal, poachers keep these rhino on the move. This big bull had watered the day before and the natives had kept him away from the water.

Next day, we went back again, and again found fresh fires still burning where the poachers had hidden on a high bank above the water hole. The rhino, of course, had not come in.

It was near this camp that I saw the last seven feet of a very large black colored snake going quite fast into a thorn bush. The boys said it was a big cobra. This was the first of the only three poisonous snakes I saw on the whole trip.

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PARKER: HALLMARK OF EXCELLENCE

By FRED COPELAND

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HE GRACEFUL PARKER SHOTGUN, as a collector's item, has now surpassed even the intense popularity it earned in the exciting days of America's early game and trap shooting. So keenly is it wanted, especially in the 20 and 28 gauges, it took me on a six months search in over 30 gun marts in three states, and five in Canada, before one was discovered. Even then, it was listed at almost four times its factory new price, despite the fact that it was several times second-handed.

Since the halt of production in 1942, the Parker gun has steadily fetched increasing prices, for collectors and gunfanciers have made it an eagerly sought art object. From its inception, it turned out to be what we call a "natural," 30

and it has nestled deep into the affection of American sportsmen with its subtle charm of balance, grace, sheer beauty, and masterful effectiveness in the field, and at the traps. Hundreds of thousands of Parkers were built for men who knew fine guns.

Where are all of these thousands of orphan guns now?

Clear down to the lowest grades, they are in the hands of collectors, or as cherished single specimens in family homes. Eight grades of the Parker gun were produced in 1900 'and were continued to 1942. In 1900, the top grade A.A.H., factory-new with two triggers and simple extractor, retailed at $300. In 1942, it had risen to $950 with selective single trigger and automatic ejectors. Today this gun, many

times second-handed, might run into fantastic figures in a collector's cabinet. The lowest grade, the V.H., was retailed at $37.50 in 1900.

In 1942, with automatic ejectors, it achieved a price of $140; and even today a non-ejector model, battered and many times secondhand, is offered by collectors at around $125.

And where, most exciting of all. are two special Parkers so fantastically beautiful when made they were then objects of art, the supreme expression of the gun-builder's hands? No one can answer.

If in existence, and they must be somewhere on the globe, their price might wring the tears from a millionaire's pocketbook. One of them I missed seeing by a single day, the other I held in my hands.

Both had an alluring history. Here's the story: In a long-ago spring, I called at the Parker factory in Meridan to be measured for a high-grade gun for trapshooting. The day before my call, a hammerless gun, ordered by the Tzar of Russia, had been shipped to Parker's showrooms in New York. It was never delivered, for it was at just this time that the royal family of Russia was forced into a cellar and murdered. The gun was not only of the highest grade but it had also unusual adornment in the inlaid Russian Eagle

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in different carats of gold on the side locks. Up a skeleton staircase and into a lofty Arabian Nights nook in the factory I saw the clever hands of the artists who had done this work. Today, not even a factory executive who spent 50 years in Parker's office can recall the purchaser of this gun, or its present location.

The other gun, a 28 gauge of the highest grade, was made not for sale but for the factory itself. It was handfinished by the most skilful craftsmen for photographing for reproduction in the factory's art catalogues, which themselves fetch a handsome price. This slim, graceful 28 gauge I had the pleasure of holding in my hands after the elderly superintendent had removed it from its little chamois skin nightdress. Even a novice would have recognized that he was standing in the presence of greatness, the ultimate in the art of gunmaking. No one today steeped in the most intimate history of the old factory knows where this gun has a home. But whatever owner has it must realize he is in possession of a priceless jewel.

For shooters the history of the Parker gun is fascinating.

But not all Parker guns were as "high-born" as that for the Tzar. Curiously, the ancestor of the Parker gun was a lowly coffee mill. In 1832, Charles Parker founded the Parker Company for the manufacture of coffee mills. In 1860, the establishment added vises, and the firm took the name, Parker, Snow, Brooks & Co. At the outbreak of the Civil War, the company made Springfield rifles at the rate of 100 a day for the Federal Government. In 1865, the company changed its name to the Meriden (Conn.) Mfg. Co., with Charles Parker as president. In 1868, the firm re-organized, taking the now famous name, Parker Brothers. It was headed by the three sons of the founder, Wilbur, Dexter, and Charles Parker. For over three quarters of a century the firm was wholly owned by the Parker family, until the gun business and assets were acquired by the Remington Arms Co. Inc., June 1, 1934. At that time, members of the Parker family were still in active control.

Wilbur F. Parker, a grandson of the original Charles Parker, was vice-president, while his son, Charles, was president.

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In 1868, the first Parker shotgun was made and sold under the name Parker Brothers. It was a hammer gun with lifter bolting mechanism. In 1874, Charles A. King joined the company, coming from Smith and Wesson. He was responsible for the mechanical development of the early Parker guns.

After King's arrival, the now-familiar top lever action came into being in 1882. Then, in 1889, Parker Bros. adopted the hammerless type of lock which persisted to the end. The year 1902 saw the automatic ejector designed and fitted to the Parker gun. In 1905, the first 28 gauge was produced by Parker Bros. The single trigger came on the gun in 1922, and the next year saw the first beaver-tail forend. Then, in 1926, came the first ventilated rib. And in 1927 Parker Bros. brought out the A10 gauge.

Over the years the old brick factory with its giant lettering, "The Parker Gun," beside the railway track at Meriden, lured the finest workmen of the gunsmith's art to this traditional center of gunmaking in New England. The artisans and artists liked to be known as the Parker Family. The specialized skill and craftsmanship was handed down from father to son. Many of the skilled gunsmiths in the. early days were trained in Germany and England, and a large majority of the workers in the Parker plant were taught their trade by foreign-born predecessors. They made the Parker gun by hand, except that, instead of slowly and imperfectly producing the component parts by hand, they were carefully prepared for the fitters who used the most accurate of jigs and gauges. When finally machined, proper allowances for filing were left so that the expert had a sufficient amount of material to work upon, and the action parts could be fitted as accurately as if the workman prepared them himself.

When the Parker family carried the gun with flying pennants into its hammerless form, first popular in the 189OYs, no manufactory had to speak for it. It spoke for itself. The gun won First Prize at the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893. In the great wave of trapshooting in the first years of the century, the Parker banner flew at the top of the mast. In 1914, in the National (Continued on page 46)

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D.H. model had medium engraving, was available with ejector also, in all gauges. Bottom, simple engraving of GH qrade circles grouse scene on side.

HE ARTICLE T "The Real In ". . . titled Our Waters,"

By ALFRED J. GOERG

THIS LITTLE STORY HAS HAUNTED US FOR WEEKS. MAYBE IT WILL SET YOU TO THINKING TOO..

.WANNA BUY A .22 RIFLE?

by Victor Lasky Menace: Red Subs

recalled to us the dark days subsequent to Pearl Harbor when Japanese submarines roamed somewhat at will off our Northwest coast, sinking merchant vessels and even lobbing a few shells in the direction of Fort Stevens in Oregon.

"Our local 'Navy' at the time consisted of less than half a dozen World War I destroyers and some fishing vessels hastily equipped with depthcharges and manned by raw naval reservists.

"Of course those Japanese submarines were nothing like the modern Russian submarines, now numbering over 500 according to the best estimate.

And the Russian submarines . . . can lob something more than shells."

By R. E. O'REILLY

"CHINESE COPY" OF COLT .45 AUTOMATIC WAS ACTUALLY MADE BY AMERICAN SAILOR ABOARD SHIP STATIONED OFF ASIA I N KOREAN WAR

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HEN MOST GUN enthusiasts tell a friend they are "going to make a gun," it usually means they are going to spin a pre-threaded sporter barrel into an old Enfield, or whittle out a Bishop or Fajen stock, already carved to within a shaving of a fit, and make up a "custom sporter." But in spite of the satisfaction they get, such handymen do not come near to making a firearm.

A somewhat more enthusiastic gun fan was seaman L. Johnson, U.S.N., on duty aboard ship somewhere off the Korean coast during the "police action." He wanted a .45 automatic. Serial-numbered frames and slides were impossible to obtain, but all other parts could be talked out of the gunnery officer if necessary, so sailor Johnson set to work.

With file and hack saw, and then using the tools in the ship's machine shop, he chopped out the missing two parts: a frame and a slide for a Colt .45 automatic pistol.

When he finished, Johnson took up a couple more pieces of cold rolled steel and made a second set to match. With standard .45 auto pistol parts, the two guns were completed and finished outside to a bright polish.

Later, on leave in Japan, before the ruling that no more guns were to be engraved by Japanese artists for U.S. forces personnel, Johnson had both guns decorated. Japanese engravers do not generally use the ball vise, and hence their curves and floral patterns are often broken, one side of the curve meeting the other side in a slight, imperfect

Engraving done in Japan shows broken curves because Nippon artists don't use ball vises.

angle. This can be seen in some of the engraving of Johnson's .45 pictured here. The sailor wanted both guns engraved alike, but the engraver did not understand the curious western notion of "a matched pair," cut different designs on the two. Fine ivory grips are fitted with dragons deeply carved on each. On the trigger guards "L. Johnson" is engraved.

Whether these pistols saw action is not known, but Johnson later traded one gun to a gunsmith, Burt Tillman. As soon as he got the pistol, Tillman checked it with a regular Colt .45 automatic and saw how close it was in dimension. The slide and frame are very nearly the same as the Colt all over, except only about one in five magazines will work in it as the clip hole is a trifle snug.

Gunsmith-collector Tillman gave the bright gun a careful polish, as it was beginning

to show finger spots and rust, and blued it.

This pistol is an unusual addition to Tillman's Colt collection, which includes Dragoons, army and navy models, sidehammer ~ o c k e t~istols,M1849's, derringers, revolving rifles and shotguns and all the Colt Lightning rifles, as well as many mode? Colt autos and revolvers. But of them all, Tillman justly prizes his handmade .45 automatic, shaped up by a sailor to pass away the long hours far from home.

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(Continued from page 22) targets. Chappel still does. He loads all his shots. On my last visit to "The Ranch" there center fire ammo, thus is able to shoot it at I was a 15 to 20 mile 7 o'clock wind whipping I POWERFUL a fairly reasonable cost; which is a good back and forth across the prairie, and it was thing, because he really burns it. "See that late in the afternoon, but he set up four 1.38 S&W CALIBER I shotgun shell?" he'd say as we walked along. targets; a quart bottle at 147 steps; a twoI Before I could squawk, he would start shoot- quart bottle at 210 steps; a gallon glass jar I ing. As fast as he could pull trigger, he'd at 294 steps; and a metal container-cover, I pour lead from his souped-up pocket Colts light yellow in color and 22x26 inches, at ALSO A FEW 2" SNUBNOSE MODELS .32 Long at an empty 12 gauge case half 403 steps. The light was such that I could The same ,313S&W model as above but with 2" 1 Isnub-nose barrel available in limited quantities. 1 hidden in the leaves 20-odd feet away. A Price $29.50; 2 for S55.00; 5 for S125.00. barely make out the most distant target.

1 .38 S&W ENFIELD COMMANDO 5" barrel,) minute later, he would repeat the show at Chappel rested over the car hood with his $16.50-2 for $30.00. (V.C. to Excel.). an old .30-06 case, making it jump as the hands on sandbags. He fired both the .25 1 only Free Holster.

I 98 grain bullets clipped it.

Stevens R. F. S&W Model '91 pistol with His idea of handgun shooting is not the Peterson barrel, and the .44 Special Colt. punching holes in paper at 50 yards. Like The wind was too much for the light 65 his friend and mine, the late Chauncey grain .25 caliber bullets, and it played with Thomas, Chappel is all for practical pistol the 253 grain .44 Special bullets, too, as if work. For instance, 50-odd years ago Chap- they were made of cotton. Chappel fired a pel got the smart idea that shooting slow series of shots in an effort to "figure the fire at a black hullseye at known distances wind." Then, broke the three quart bottlesWHEN ORDERING REVOLVERS enclose signed was not the best possible kind of pistol fired four shots at the gallon jar, breaking statement: "I am not an alien. have never been practice for police officers. His argument it with the fourth shot after three scratch convicted of a crime of violence. am not under indictment or a fuxltive. I am 2 1 or over." was so persuasive that a number of the men misses. Then, as the sun slid lower and the on the local force agreed to try out what he light got worse, the wind seemed to ease up All Orders Shipped Promptly. Send Remittance. saw fit to call, "Pistol practice to prolong 1MMEDIATE.SHIPMENT I a bit and Chappel fired three shots at that I the life of cops." far-off yellow target. The first just skimmed Leading the way to one of the wide-open the top. The second was a bit low but spaces adjacent to old Pueblo Town, he set ricocheted into the bottom of the target face. up a half-gallon can. Some of the men were The third smacked home, almost center. quite amused at the thought of being shown Without the wind, I am convinced that Chaphow to shoot a pistol; they knew. chappel paid no attention to the smiles and smart cracks. "Just stand with your back to the ran, 25 or 30 feet from it, gun in holster.

I will count slowly to three. You turn, draw, and fire one shot before I finish counting.

Point the gun; forget the sights."

A young officer volunteered to take the first go at it. "The first shot he fired missed the can by two feet," Chappel told me. "But after half an hour of practice, he was hiti-_ting said can pretty regular. As he moved back for the next man, he said, 'Mister, this .+ is just the stuff for our kind of work.' And he was dead right," Chappel continued. "Not dead, as he might be if he depended on paper target practice and found himself up against a hoodlum who could use a gun."

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Chappel added, "The chief fault one is apt Model K 4 Weaver-Scc to fall into is to treat this exercise as trick shooting and spin about and let off the pistol r hurriedly."

Now-a scope with a fixed, constantly centered reticule c "Well. that's the idea. isn't it?" I asked as b i n d with windage and elevation adjustments inside the scope.

I cocked the little pocket Colt in readiness.

K Model fixed reticule scopes require no costly double adjus*'"In a way, yes," he said smiling. "But, the mounts. Use any rigid or pivot type mount. main idea is-to hit!"

All threaded joints sealed with Neoprene 0 rings-a positive "Like this?" I asked. I spun-and missed compression seal. All lenses hermetically sealed. the can.

These new features are Weaver developments and only He laughed. "All you need is a little .pracWeaver Model K Scopes. tice. Some of the things I've seen Ed McNew optics-clear, sharp, brilliant. Better than ever.

2. ' Givern do this way would make most people .I See the scopes that or* way out in front-Model K Wen call me a liar."

Scopes. r , Later, he took the gun himself, his pet Colt Police Positive .32 Long, ammo souped-up Model It crosshairs are l o more off-center always accurately cenwles like this when to around 1100 feet per second, and showed tered; only the image ,se the Weaver Mod me how it can be done by a real gun man. moves when you turn with fixed reticule The can he fired at was a little Prince Albert the adjusting screws. nternal adjustmenti tobacco can, and he riddled it. I've done some practicing since that first effort, and " E x c e p t M o d e l s K1 a n d 0 1958 W. R. Weaver Co. 6 I'm improving. It's first-class combat or selfdefense pistol training, and-it's fun. Try it.

The .44 Special New Service Target Colt is another of Chappel's pet handguns, and he can do things with that young cannon.

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ith all due respect to the paper target game, and I've done quite a lot of it, th<i fact remains that if you can beat the onetwo-three count and hit small objects quick fir1e, if you can hit tomato cans in the air or roll them on the ground with a sixshiooter, your chances of survival will be gr'eater when the chips are down.

Back in 1909, during the Alaska-Yukon Ex.hibit in Seattle, Chappel and a partner PUt on a show of their own on the Board alk alongside Lake Washington. He used a Bisley Model Colt S. A. fitted with target sig;hts, caliber .38-40, using the 180 grain "b all" with what he says were target loads.

Arnong the stunts they put on was a fivefinger breath-taker. The partner, witb an emp t y 12 gauge shell on each finger, would Id his arm out with fingers spread. Chap1 would knock the shells off of his fingers!

Tkiis, remember, was with 180 grains of lead ea'ch, not pee-wee 30 grain .22 Short pills.

Hi: says, "We were very particular as to how miich each finger extended into each shell.

BLit it was a dam-fool stunt, not 'fun shootin;;' by any means. Anybody who would try it should have his head examined. You can do the same thing without risk by just standins; five empty shells on a two-by-four or SO1mething. The skill is the same." They did otlier typical exhibition shots, too, like snuffins;candles, lighting matches. They were not Pa rt of the big show, so they passed the hat.

Thley always had a good crowd and did Pr'itty well financially. But Chappel still gn.limbles about one thing. He said that the crowd generally knew so little about pistol she~otingthat, if he missed a really difficult she#t, they would boo him, and when he WOIaid pull off an easy one, they would cheer.

Thieir ignorance irked him.

IIe has killed antelope, deer, at least one elk. and two bear with his .44 Special Colt.

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Pe 1 could hit a man or an antelope, three sh,ots out of five, at 400 yards with his 7% in(:h .44 Special Officer's Model.

Chappel's "fun-shooting" includes aerial tai.gets, too. Walnuts, empty cartridge cases, biis of coal tossed in the air-he takes them all with skillful ease. One tough item I saw hi]n smack, first witb his .22 caliber R. F. ss!W '91 target pistol and then with his .22! caliber R. F. Low Wall Winchester rifle (1'yman aperture rear sight), was a 14 gauge leaid ball measuring approximately 19/32".

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The load he uses is 18% grains of 2400 powder and either the 253 grain Ideal #429251, or the 250 grain solid or 253 hollow point Keith bullets. The last named, at near 1200 fps velocity, is "a real knock down load," he told me.

Thirty years ago, he was in charge of a crew of men on a rock job and had to leave his car up a hill a good 100 yards from the work. The men got to talking guns one day and, to quote Chappel, "I was fool enough to tell them I had an awful close-shooting .44 Special in the car. One chap piped up that pistols didn't have any range at all for accuracy, and I said that up to 100 yards they were really very effective. He snorted and opined that 'A Jackrabbit would be perfectly safe at that distance.' I said, 'When we go down to my car for lunch, you set your jackknife up here, and I'll shoot, with rest, from my car witb the .44 Special, and bit it.'

"When the time came, he backed out on the knife but set up instead a bag of tobacco.

I was lucky enough,to blast it the first shot.

They all said it was 'wonderful.' I t wasn't; it was luck." Chappel chuckled. "But it cured them of one error a lot of folks make about pistols. They'll reach out further than most people think, if a man knows how to shoot them."

The other day, Chappel sent me a card that has three .44 caliber bullet holes in it.

He fired the three shots at a tack, at 50 feet, with the .44 Special, from a hand rest.

The first shot is % inch out at 11 o'clock.

The second is 9/16 inch out at 11 o'clock.

The third smacked the tack. I can't see a tack at 50 feet without a scope. His load was 9 grains of Unique and the 243 grain Ideal bullet.

In aerial shooting, Chappel follows a regular routine of movement that he calls "rhythm." With a walnut or other target in his left hand, and his cocked gun in his right, be raises and lowers his body from the hips up several times, until his mind, eye, and hand are coordinating. Then, rising in the established rhythm, up goes the walnut, up goes the gun, and-Bang! Usually, the walnut vanishes.

Chappel is ranch born and raised, with a University of Colorado education. His eyes are comparable to the wonderful eyes of his one-time coach, the late C. W. Rowland, the King of bench rest shooters 60-odd years ago.

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1898, made a trip to the Philippines at the expense of Uncle Sam, where he used both the rat-trap .45-70 Springfield and the .30-40 Krag. Both rifles performed well for him.

He weighs about 175 and stands 5'8". He goes buck hunting every fall regardless of the weather.

I've talked a lot here about handguns, but Chappel's love of guns includes rifles. The 243 Model 700 Winchester had hardly hit the market when he bought one of them. He was and still is a great admirer of the .250 Savage, having owned four or five of them in both bolt and lever actions. I was kidding him about this switch and the following is an almost exact quote of what he told me: "I like the .243,"he said, as we shot his 6 mm and my .250 from the bench. "But I like the .250-3000 too. Guess I told you of killing bison with one for the City of Pueblo years ago, using the 87 grain ball? The men didn't think the gun was big enough, but I shot two running at 80 yards and both tumbled like jackrabbits with one shot apiece in the neck. Then, as the rest of the herd circled around us, the boss man pointed out a two year old bull and said, 'Take that one too, Chap.' As he spoke, the animal stopped for a moment in the corner of the dividing fence, maybe 15 feet away. I jerked out the .380 Browning pistol I had in my pocket and put a shot behind its ear. The 83 grain ball put it down for good, too. And did those men open their eyes."

For a moment or two we talked something else, and then he continued: "The same day, I dropped two big elk with the same .250 rifle and load. Until I got my first .220 Swift, 1 considered the .250 the best deer rifle I had ever used. The only thing the .243 will do that the .250 factory loads won't is shoot devilish flat at long range. However, at 1200 yards I'd prefer the .30-06 with the 225 grain ball." At 1200 yards, the man says, yet!

On one '57 "prairie poodle" hunt with his friend Herb Ritchey, W. B. C. pulled off another of his really uncanny trajectoryjudging "impossible" shots. As they were stowing away the rifles in the car and getting ready to pull out for home, Ritchey said, "There's a prairie owl out yonder. See what you can do for it with the .44 Special."

"Hell," Chappel grunted as he turned his head to take a look. "He's clean out of range for me."

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I could go on and on about this fellow Willard Chappel and his shooting. Speaking of a back yard safari, did you ever try sprinkling a little sugared water on a paper target and then swatting flies with rifle or pistol bullets? A good fat red ant on a target card makes a real tricky target, too. The game possibilities are endless, and so is the fun.

A week or so ago, Chappel sent me a card that had once held a "little red bug!'

To quote his note, "I clipped him three times in five shots at 36 feet with the .25 caliber '91 S&W pistol, and the last shot took him dead center." The &to1 has a 10 inch A. W, Peterson barrel, .25 Stevens R. F. caliber. "It's the most accurate pistol I ever owned,"Chappel told me. Of course, he used an arm rest; and Harold Largent witnessed the shooting.

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looking a wide acacia covered valley.

Finally, when we knew we were close, he turned down wind into very dense thorn.

We crawled in anyway, hardly daring to breathe, and soon we heard him; but before we could crawl far enough to see him, he blew his miniature steam whistle and went crashing off through the thorn bush. The tricky wind had given us away again. How I wished one of the dim witted brutes with a good horn would charge so we could get it over with.

On the 31st, we picked up the trail of a big bull near where the native had been killed. We trailed him from 8.30 until 12.30, when he circled down wind, got our scent, and departed. Visibility was not over 15 feet and we never saw him at all. This made the seventh rhino we had trailed without getting a shot.

Here again we saw great quantities of game each day. One thing about African hunting, when you leave camp in the morning you can be sure something unusual will happen or some odd animal be seen during the day. For example, we saw many mongoose, always travelling in parties of six to a dozen and always going as fast as they can run. More power to them! They are snake killers, and that is fine with me.

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Not a week passes but from one to a dozen pistol and rifle shooters gather at his bench for a Fun Shoot. "The Ranch" is located on the south edge of the little hamlet of Vineland, about 10 miles east of Pueblo.

If you ever drive through that beautiful valley, stop at "The Ranch" and see for yourself. And if you ask Chappel, "What do you do when you're not shooting?" he'll tell you, "I cast bullets and load more ammunition!"

He lives for the fun of shooting pistols and rifles. When a new rifle, a new cartridge, powder, bullet, or what-have-you shows up, he can't wait to try it. He has shot 'em all and owned most of them. He is a walking encyclopedia on therifle and pistol shooting of the past 70 years. If you, too, shoot for fun, maybe his work will give you new ideas.

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had the cross wire of my scope on the dog, due to my numb fingers. It was a very easy shot at 60 yards. From then on I proceeded to pound some life in my fingers before attempting a shot, or else kept my trigger finger out of the guard until sights or scope was centered.

We saw a great deal of plains game from this camp, and Francolin, sand grouse, geese, and guineas, as well as Dik-Dik, were very plentiful. We shot just enough for the table.

On December 7th, we drove across the wide valley and crossed the river of a 70 mile circle under the east scarp of the Serengetti plain. We cut a couple of old rhino tracks, and finally found a fresh one of generous size near some small hills. While a rhino will weigh two or three tons, they can travel over this hard sun-baked ground, without leaving more than a bare trace, and we had to track carefully. We trailed this animal, but it turned out to be a fine old cow with a young calf, so we left her to her maternal duties and slipped away.

On the way home, we collected a fine mess of guineas and sand grouse, enough for the whole party. Also picked up a fine Tommy at 250 yards with the .333 O.K.H. Driving through open bush and thorn, we jumped three beautiful Cheetah at about 40 yards and, had they been legal, I could have killed any one of them. One day here I also spotted a beautiful leopard in a tree.

He came down the bole head first just like a squirrel; sat for a few seconds in a crotch, then jumped out and ran about 70 yards and stopped while I looked him over through my rifle scope. It would have been a dead easy shot, but I had already killed a good seven-foot leopard.

On the 8th of December, we drove back to the east scarp of the Serengetti, picked up three Dturo natives for local guides, and again went on a circle for fresh rhino tracks. The natives told John that they had had a brush with cow-stealing Masai tribesmen the week before, had speared and killed one Masai, and the Masai had killed one of their men with an arrow driven into the mouth and out the back of his head. These were some of the finest looking natives I saw on the trip; very black, but clean, tall, stringy fellows, several of them well over six feet in height. They each carried two or three spears, sharp as a razor, the blades leaf shaped, with long hardwood shafts and a coil of iron around butt to give them weight. They were proud old devils, living on milk and beef from their own cattle.

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Then we worked in with the breeze in our face.

He must have heard us, in spite of all our careful stalking, for the first glimpse I had of him was his hind legs going behind some very heavy thorn. We left the trackers behind and I motioned for John to cut in to the right while we circled swiftly to head him off. A steep slope raised up in front of us and we knew if he elected to run up that, he could be out of the heavy thorn and in plain view.

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Just as we rounded a clump of thorn, we found him facing us in dense. heavy bush at 18 yards. He was a big-faated young hull with only a 14" horn, b u t I had hunted rhino so long that I was determined to get it over with. His chest was visible, but both shoulders were behind heavy thorn, so I decided to bust him through the heart with a 520 grain solid from the .476. If he charged, I would take my chances on dodging him or turning him with a shoulder shot, whichever seemed best.

By this time, however, the bull had decided to get me, just as I had decided to get him.

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I waited for him to get his front quarters up again and, when he did so, aimed for his left shoulder, intending to break it and turn him away from us. However, as I pressed the trigger with sights laying fair on the left shoulder, he again fell on his nose, his hind quarters still up, and my second barrel caught him in the ribs. His shoulder had simply dropped out of my sights. The heavy solid wests- back through ribs and kidneys on an angle, and lodged in the right hip.

I saw where my slug hit him, so told John to take him, as my last shot was too high. Instantly, John's old .416 Rigby cracked, hitting the hull in the right shoulder and angling through to the left flank. This turned him from us, and he came up on all four feet and took off at a hard run. John's

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By that time, I had reloaded and gave him one square in the right shoulder. This slug broke the shoulder and also shattered the spine. The core lodged in the left or off shoulder. He came down in a heap.

John said, "Give him the other barrel right between the ears, so no one will get hurt." I did so, shattering his brain.

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Had I been alone, I might have gotten the big rifle reloaded in time to handle the situation, but this instance shows the value of having a good white hunter right with you all the time and John did a swell job of turning that cheeky little 14" horn bull.

Even though I could have hit his eye each shot at such close range if he had held it still, it shows what can happen even with an old hunter, when the game moves just as you press the trigger.

I still had lion and buffalo to get, to complete the big five of Africa, so was glad the rhino was in the bag, even though he was not as good a specimen as I wanted.

We took the skin and horns and front feet, and also the hind quarters for additional lion bait. The boys took about all the rest of the edible meat for biltong. While most hunters get a good rhino without any trouble while looking for other game, I had to earn mine the hard way. He was the only animal to take me on during the whole trip and the only one of the big five that did not take my first slug through the heart.

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The 60 grain Speer bullet made a %" trajectory which, along with less wind drift, cuts down on the hold-over guesswork when group about 1" above the aiming point. The reaching out to smack a 300 yard c1111ck.

87 grain spire point landed dead-center, At present, the shooter who wants a fac- opening the group to 1" for the six shots. tory-made rifle in -25 caliber is limited to And the 100 grain Silvertip slugs printed the .250-3000 or the .257 Roberts. Either just 2" above the aiming point. All nine is an excellent choice, depending upon the shots landed within a 2" circle. This allows needs of the particular rifleman. Whether he me to shift from 60 grain varmint loads to chooses the lever action or the bolt gun, 100 grain bullets for deer without any sight the "one rifle" shooter won't be disappointed change. with the .250-3000. With the proper loads, If the .250-3000 shooter does not reload, the little cartridge performs eqnally well on his varmint load will be factory loads with anything from squirrels to mule deer. It is the 87 grain bullet. Winchester-Western one of the most inherently accurate factory loads an excellent 87 grain, thin-jacketed, cases ever produced. Designed by Charles spire-point slug that is poison for any varNewton back in 1914, the .250-3000 is the mints. It is very accurate, opens up on anyonly one of his cartridges that has s~~rvivcd. thing from ground squirrels to coyotes, and goes to pieces when it hits the ground. For deer, the non-reloader can select any of the 100 grain factory loads.

If the .250 man reloads, the sky is the limit. The 60 grain Speer, Hornaday, or Winchester factory bullets can be driven at 3300 fps by 36 grains of #3031. Ground squirrels hit with this load simply disappear; jackrabbits and woodchucks come apart at the seams; and coyotes go down like pole-axed steers.

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be driven at 3000 fps plus by 36 grains of #4895 with excellent results. All of the above loads will shoot 1" groups at 100 yards. Trajectory is flat enough so that any of these bullets, sighted-in to land 1" high at 100 yards, will eliminate any hold-over up to 200-225 yards.

Big-game handloads for the .250-3000 should be loaded with any good 100 grain bullet. My favorite is the 100 grain Hornaday spire point driven by 37 grains of #4320. This load is pushing maximum and should be used in bolt action rifles only.

Cut the load at least 2 grains for lever guns.

Lung-shot white-tails hit with this load are usually one-shot instantaneous kills. The load has performed excellent-on mule deer when shots were taken from the side so that the slug could be accurately placed in the chest cavity. But it just doesn't have the "soup" necessary to bust a big muley in the rear end and penetrate heavy hip muscles or smash through heavy bone.

In the ,257 Roberts the "one-rifle" man has a wider choice of factory weapons. For the bolt action fan the Winchester Mod. 70, the Remington 722, the little MannlicherSchoenauer, and the EN Mauser are available. If he uses a pump action shotgun, the Remington M760 is a good bet. This particular rifle is fast as lightning and, loaded with 117 grain round nose slugs, makes a very good woods rifle.

The .257 was originally designed by a group of woodchuck hunters led by Major Ned Roberts. These riflemen, having ex~eriencedremarkable success with the .25 Neidner Krag, were looking for a rimless version of the same cartridge to be used in bolt actions. The 7 mm case has just about the same powder capacity as the 30-40. So they selected this case, necked it to 25. The result was the .257 Roberts.

On the face of it, the .257 case should be the answer to a handloader's prayer. Actually there are several "bug-a-boos" to discount this. One is that factory .257's are made with shortened magazines to handle round-nosed factory ammo. Spitzer bullets must be seated very deep to work through these magazines. There is, therefore, quite a jump to engage the rifling, and accuracy suffers. The only remedy is to lengthen the magazine well so that sharp-pointed slugs can be seated out far enough to touch the lands when the bolt is closed.

Lengthening the magazine of the Winchester Mod. 70 or the FN Mauser presents no problem. Simply jerk out the filler plate in the back of the magazine and substitute a .30-06 follower. The Remington 722 presents a slightly different situation. The 722 action itself is short, and the only way the magazine can be lengthened is to have a competent gunsmith mill out some of the metal back of the lower locking lug recess.

Better yet, leave the rifle alone and load your spitzers out just as far as possible.

The other "fly-in-the-ointment" is the fact that the .257 case lengthens the neck after two or three full power loads. Cases must be carefully gauged for over all length and trimmed accordingly if maximum loads are used. If the case length exceeds 2.23" the neck mouth will be forced into the throat of the chamber and inaccuracy and sky-high pressures will result. The gentle shoulder slope of the Roberts case causes this peculiarity. Cut your max loads back 2 or 3 grains and cases will last indefinitely without trimming.

The standard twist for the 257 is 1 in 10 and the "one-rifle" man will do well to stick to it for his varmint-deer combination.

The 1 in 10 twist will stabilize bullets weighing 100 grains or more with excellent accuracy. However, lighter slugs of 60, 70, 75, or 87 grains may not shoot as well as expected. The one exception is the stubbv little 60 grain bullet. This tiny slug driven by 40-41 grains of #3031 shoots 1" groups consistently when used in my .257 Mauser.

The fast twist definitely over-stabilizes and over-spins this tiny bullet, but does it shoot!

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One of the best loads in my .257 has been 45 grains of #4350 behind the 117 grain Sierra spitzer bullet-a deadly accurate combination when the bullet is seated just deep enough to touch the lands. The long 117 grain slug at about 2850 fps is a real potent killer on mule deer and antelope.

The same load using the round-nosed Remington 117 grain Core-Lokt bullet is equally accurate and, in my opinion, is a much better game bullet, especially in brushy country. This particular slug has a tendency to ball up and holds together with excellent penetration on heavy game. Due to its shape, it does not retain velocity as well as the sharp-pointed spitzer bullet at long range.

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That evening they exchanged hunt stories.

They learned that the Kodiak is believed to be a descendant of the Siberian Cave bear, that the largest bear ever captured is to be seen at the University of Alaska and is thirteen feet tall.

While sitting around the big fire, Helgason examined Rogers' .300 Weatherby Magnum rifle and was convinced that its tremendous shocking power was excellent for hunting this big game.

The next morning they were beginning to feel like natives. It had snowed during the night, and consequently the temperature had risen considerably. Breakfast around 3 A.M., then out in a power boat, "ready for bear."

Soon Roy spotted one. A guide checked to free whether the bear could be reached. It is very important to know how far up you have to climb in order to get to the spot where you see your bear, and to map out a route by which you can get there before he sees or scents you. The guide goes with you on the stalk, but once there, it is up to you whether you get your trophy or not. The guide is there to protect you, if necessary, in case the animal should charge; and Helgason and his son are noted for their support of hunters when support is needed. But right now the question is,"Can we get this one?"

Everyone is anxiously waiting for the word as Helgason checks the wind's direction and consistency. There was a surge of excitement as Kris finally gave his nod of approval, and Roy and his guide took off, rowing to shore from the motor launch in a small skiff with oak locks wrapped in rags to prevent noises.

When beaching the craft, you jump into the water before the boat hits shore and then wade in with a long line to a rock on the beach. This helps prevent any further sounds.

This done, you're ready to make the ascent.

Once on shore, you lose sight of your game until you are practically on top of him, you hope! This is where the long time taken to carefully pinpoint the animal pays off.

Climbing in the tundra grass is not easy.

One sinks as in swamp land. The main objective is to get above the bear, to keep him from climbing, a n d t o get there within shooting range. Roy had spotted his animal around ten A.M. The climb through the thickets and over projecting rocks took two and a half hours before they reached a position near where they believed the bear to be. From a rocky vantage point, they looked down over the area where the bear was last seen-and there was no bear. But since the slope above them was almost vertical, they were quite sure that they would have spotted the bear if he had climbed away from them, and they were sure the bear had bedded down somewhere in the thicket below them.

The next 45 minutes seemed like an eternity. Then Roy noticed a stir in the brush about 150 yards below them. He focused the binoculars. Sure enough, the bear had started to make his ascent, almost directly towards them. The big concern now was, would the wind remain favorable.

Soon they caught their first sight of their target and knew that they had picked a bear of good size, worth taking. This was no dry run; this was the big moment.

The wind changed suddenly and, just as suddenly, a huge head appeared above the thicket. The bear had caught their scent, was standing erect. The tableau held for one split second and then the bear pivoted to run. In this second, Roy placed a well-aimed shot from approximately 200 yards that struck behind the left shoulder and hit the heart. The bear fell, rolling down the slope.

Roy and Kris made a direct descent through the rough thicket, spreading a few yards apart so that they would be in a better position to cover each other in case the (Continued on page 50)

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After a few hundred yards, they discovered their bear lying in a small ravine. Checking, they found his eyes open. This usually means that your bear is dead. Occasionally, a bear will play possum and close his eyes until you are within range, and then charge. But this hunt was over. It was a fine trophy: 9% feet of brown Kodiak bear.

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We find this particular article on plastic shotgun shells to be one of the most misleading articles we have ever had the misfortune to read in an American sports magazine.. Our files indicate the opposite results as are indicated in your article. The writer will readily admit that no direct misstatement of fact has actually been given..

Immediately following some information concerning the manufacture of special types of ammunition for the army ordnance department, you state that mass production of plastic cases is substantially cheaper than brass or steel cases. You also state that ease of manufacture is another important advantage of plastic cartridge cases. Then down the line following these statements, you further state that lower cost factory loads will be welcomed by all shooters.

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A few days later, Roy Weatherby and Lee Green got their bears in much the same fashion. But they were thrilling days, climaxed by thrilling moments, and it was difficult to realize two weeks had passed before they started home. This untamed wilderness had been an inspiration to these city folks, and it had ;iven each his greatest hunting adventure.

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We will have a big trophy for the International winner and also one ior the local high-point man (Bexar County, Texas). Instead of five places like last year, we will have small cups and merchandise prizes for 2nd through 10th place shooters. We have not decided for sure about the gun, but I imagine we will pick out the gun to be given and have it engraved before the shoot.

Our idea is to engrave a gun so the winner will have something nice to keep for the rest of his life.

The shoot will be July 27th, 1958.

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An interesting effect is noted when the cup choke barrel using regular loads. This is a great boon to the average guy who has only is made shallow. The pattern has a dense one gun that must do for any kind of shoot- center with a fringe of the usual spread.

The simple tools required to make the ing he likes to indulge in. For upland game and trap shooting, he can use the usual fod- patches and seat them are easily obtainable if not already in your workshop. A hardder in his "one and only." And when he's of wood or metal hlock about l"x4"x4" with a a mind to take turkey or water-fowl, he can just slip in a patched load and he's all set. %" hole, chamfered at the top, serves as a m o U C â ‚ THC This just about takes care of the boys who forming die for the cups. A punch of .725" are always contemplating the all-around shot- diameter will serve to force the cross through F/Nâ‚gun which the experts agree doesn't exist. the hole. A small hlock fastened to the corner of the die will help center the patch blanks atched loads will not cure poor shooting. over the hole. A drill press is perfect to force the blank through the hole. By applyIn fact, they will put the guy who just ing powdered graphite to the face of the "ups and shoots" in the general direction of his target at a disadvantage. A tight-shooting block, the patches 'will be sufficiently coated lo prevent sticking in the shell and aid pasgun must have a good marksman behind it. sage through the forcing cone.

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In appraising patterns by circles, one must keep in mind that by doubling diameters we enclose areas between three and four times as large as the small circle. Thus a 75 per cent pattern in a 12" circle is three or four times as dense as one in a 24" circle. Some photos show patterns in concentric circles, the outer ones of which have diameters twice the size of the inner ones.

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But the really significant part of the book is its structure, its organization, the thinking and system of selection of fact and rejection bf myth which went into it during the research and writing stage. Shumaker's methodology is worthy of the most skilled lawyer in preparing a case, or the most astute historian in checking facts against the lies of his contemporaries. Colt Pocket Pistols will, if read carefully, be of value to every collector. In points where he will get argument because he refutes longstanding prejudices, Shumaker makes no secret of how he arrived at his conclusions.

After reading Colt's Pocket Pistols, the expert may not really know much more about one specific model, but anyone will assuredly know more about the science of gun collecting. Shumaker is to be congratulated for having persevered in his study, and the many collectors who shared their knowledge with him are themselves due a share of the credit.

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(Continued from pagi. 35) man had ordered, received, and paid for and our laws on what we believed. The men :xactly four other single-shot .22 rifles in who drew up our Constitution and our Bill he past four weeks. One each week. With of Rights were, by and large, god-fearing :ach rifle, he had bought a carton (500 men. They weren't planning conquests, o r cartridges) of high speed, hollow point, Long invasions of other peoples rights; but they Rifle ammunition. were strong men, loo, and they didn't figure I laid the new rifle on the counter. we should be sitting ducks. They wrote in 'Ammo?" I asked him. the Bill of Rights that 'the right to bear "Yes. Only this time make it 500 regular arms shall not be infringed.' " 22 shorts."

He put the rifle back on the counter.

Now, what a customer buys in my sport "These are real handy little guns," he said. shop is his business, and I make it a "Man who knows how to shoot, who knows practice not to be nosey. But this was the country, knows how to get around in something else again. "You must he turning the woods a little-he could do a lot with vour whole family into expert target shots, one of these. He could feed his family, for one thing; birds, small game, frogs. If he with all these rifles and all the ammo," I said, chattily. was careful, he could do the enemy some damage, too. One of these little slugs will He gave me a long, steady look, and then kill a man, all right; kill him instantly, if you ie chuckled. "I don't blame you for being xrious," he said. "First, mind telling me hit him right; but, instantaneously or not, it'll kill him. The sound doesn't travel far low long you've lived here?"

"All my life," I said, "except for a few . . . I know; it sounds melodramatic, maybe me another one of mistakes that didn't last long or add up to even crazy. But-order these, will you? I'll be in again next week. much."

I'm getting my neighbors interested in this, He nodded. "So you were here during and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor." He too. You may sell a lot of these rifles- I hope." took my nod in stride and went on: "So was And he walked out.

I was in uniform, with one of the first outfits sent into this area. I did duty as a eah, it does sound crazy. I laughed some, machine gunner in one of the emplacements right after the man left. But what he said just outside this town a ways. Fell in love stuck with me. A few days later, target with the country and the people in itshooting in an abandoned air strip revetment n a m e d one, as a matter of fact-and now (another reminder of those "dark days sub['m making my home here. Got two kids." sequent to Pearl Harbor") I quit my usual He leaned forward, resting a big hand on careful practice on paper targets and took a the counter. "You know," he said, "things sort of refresher course on the effects of [ read worry me. Sputnik-intercontinental the lowly 2 2 rimfire cartridge. I shot into missiles-smaller missiles with H warheads logs, cans of water, piles of dirt. A few that can be launched from submarine* big, fast, jet planes and big, fast, jet subs days later the grouse season opened and I that can carry troops and . . things . I t went out to wander around a bit, carrying isn't that I don't have a lot of confidence a -22 Smith & Wesson revolver. I learned in our defenses. And I'm not what you'd call that the high speed .22 Long Rifle hollow point bullet will pin down heavy 2% to 3 1 worrying sort of man, ordinarily. But I keep thinking . . pound blue grouse at a distance of 50 yards "The way it could happen, a man might with body shots. The hollow point slugs break up and break hone, preventing escape. €e a slight earth-tremor-or he might not; The 2 2 shorts in the low speed loads withand if he did, it wouldn't mean much to us out hollow points would shoot on through.

West C o a s t e r e a n d the next thing he'd I can remember when it was still legal to know, the radio might be telling him to take shoot deer in this state with the .22 rim it easy and not worry but there's enemy fire, and I was recalling now that a lot troops landed let's all be sensible and not of people did just that, and killed deer. A panic and if enemy troops appear, don't resist them . ." good rifleman can place a bullet at the base His face looked sort of bleak, and I of the ear on a standing animal, into a was feeling sort of butterflies-in-the-stomach channel that leads directly to the brain. So hit, even a big buck drops instantly. again, myself.

"You know, I saw some places where I began to realize that I had let myself forget some old but still basic facts. I took people took advice like that, and didn't resist the invaders. I wouldn't like to have a copy of my own book, "Pacific and Northwhat happened to them happen to my west Hunting," off the shelf and spent an hour leafing through it. I had written this family." book and then let modern lore about high He picked up the little rifle and ran his speed ballistics crowd out of my memory the hands along the barrel. "A man is the most older knowledge of the potency of small dangerous game there is," he said, "but you bullets combined with accuracy. don't have to think of him the way you do Back at the store, I paged through some about taking wild game. War is not a sport.

You don't have to figure on 'clean, one-shot catalogues, studying the various .22 single kills.' And you don't have to figure on shock shot rifles. They're cheap, simple, not much and stopping power either, the sort of war care needed, not much to get out of order.

I'm thinking of. Because if the enemy gets It would be against the law, of course, a s things stand now, but a man with a hackthat close to you, you've had it." saw, in an invaded country, could turn some He stopped for a minute, and I was afraid he was through talking. But he wasn't. He of those rifles into very concealable handguns. I got to thinking what a rough time said, "The way I figure, if we fight again the Nazis might have had if every Norwegian, soon it will be-well, a religious war. What for example, had been able to dig up out of we believe in, against people who believe in (Continued on page 60) nothing but force. We built our government

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(Continued from page 58) his back yard and use such a weapon I ordered two rifles.

I've hesitated for a long time about this story, whether to write it or not. I know how fantastic it seems, at first glance. I t seemed fantastic to me, at first. ButA man can provide meat for himself and his family with a .22 rifle, i n the right country; that is proven. A rabbit or a grouse (or a chicken or a pig that used to belong to somebody but now doesn't) could be worth more than money under certain conditions.

Nobody is suggesting that .22's should be or could be the weapons of national defense, I b u t ~ e n o u g h of them, in the right hands, I I could provide a lot of harassment. Worse I weapons were used, used effectively, in Europe, against invading troops.

Anyway, this man I was telling you about was in again just a few days ago. He bought another .22 rifle and another carton of i1 ammunition. I've been selling quite a few shot .22's lately, to various ~ e o p l e . ! single Maybe the idea isn't so crazy, after all.

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The rear sight, like all Micro sights I have seen, is a bit tight for my old eyes and would he better with slightly wider rear sight notch, allowing a wider strip of light to be seen on each side of front sight. The trigger pull is as clean as breaking glass and there is no rearward movement after sear is released. Anyone wishing to take up match .45 shooting either timed or rapid or slow fire will find the new Colt Gold CUD as fine a .45 auto as is to be had anywhere.

Muzzle Covers I n Africa we found it necessary to keep the muzzle of rifles and shotguns covered except when in actual use. This for the reason that two kinds of "mud dobbers" will every so often fill the bore of the arm. One type uses leaves folded into a solid mass several inches deep, with their eggs down in the center. The other type will fill the bore with mud, then lay their eggs and tamp more mud on top, which soon dries out hard.

Once while having lunch, I left my .333 O.K.H. out of its heavy Boyt case, and before we took off for the afternoon hunt I opened the bolt and tried to look through it.

The bore was plugged solid and would have blown up the rifle had it been fired in that condition. John Lawrence, my white hunter, kept a heavy saddle-leather muzzle cover over the muzzle of his .416 while it stood in its rack in the Safari car at all times, for this very reason. Owing to the dust, mud, and the whipping of thorny limbs, I found by far the best way to protect all arms in Africa was in the Boyt fully lined heavy saddle scabbards that cover the arm full length, with heavy zipper closing. Both my rifles endured some 3,000 miles of the roughest possible roads in the safari car in these Boyt cases without getting a single major scratch on them, and both stayed ~ e r f e c t l ysighted in during my trip. You cannot shoot within 200 yards of a motor vehicle in Africa, so there is plenty of time to get the rifle, and we found it faster to unzip a rifle case than to unscrew the clamps of the rack. These heavy Boyt cases are made of heavy saddle skirting, with a heavy imitation fleece lining impregnated with anti-rust compound. They are made by The Boyt Co., of Des Moines, Iowa.

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Most Powerful .450 Rifle The Atkinson & Marquart Rifle Co. of Prescott, Ariz., have developed what we believe to be the most powerful .450 caliber rifle ever produced for sporting use. They employ a belted case larger than the .375 H & H Magnum, about the same size as the .416 Rigby but necked to .450 and with belt added. About the same thing as used

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This most powerful of all .450 calibers is not indicated for chip monks, pack rats, chucks, or jack rabbits, but should be ideal for the big pachyderms of Africa, American Bison, African buff, or really big Brown bear. It is a more powerful rifle than is needed for American game short of really large grizzly, polar bear, walrus, bison, or Brown bear.

Tests of The "Three Deuces" Magnum We gave the new Remington 222 Magnum a good workout yesterday. The cartridge is excellent in every way and we believe may well equal the famous .222 Remington for accuracy. While the Remington .222 case is just 1-11/16" in length, the new Magnum "three deuces" has a case length of 1-7./8".

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I have for many years recommended the Remington .222 as one of our finest little pest cartridges, and the new load is a further improvement of it. For years, many have been crowding the last grain of powder into the little case, and now they can load heavier and have plenty of room to do so. The new case is not enough larger, however, to offer Jacobs geared key chuck more than 150 to 200 feet more velocity; but AI makes tool changes quick and easy. 1250 RPM, even that much is quite an increase when 115 V, AC-DC; suitable combined with a five grain heavier bullet. It for drilling wood or will not put the little cartridge up into the metal. Beautiful rose.

Paid j Limited supply. high velocity class of the Swift and similar loads, but does offer a further velocity inSend check or m o n e y order. No C.O.D. crease, more room for the powder and a slightly heavier bullet at even higher velocity.

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I would say off-hand that it will give you Look! Here is the real McCoy! SPECIAL at least 50 to 100 yards more effective killing SALE o f that hard-to-get a m m u n i t i o n range on small pests, and that about lets it f o r D e r r i n g e r , etc. but. For average vermin shooting, chucks, REMINGTON RIMFIRE SHORTS Per Box. 50 Rds. jack rabbits, hawks, and owls, the old .222 Remington is good enough, and the new cartridge is even better; but it still does not make a coyote-and-eagle rifle, and neither is the Swift or any other .22 caliber with short bullets. All three kill coyotes very dead at 200 yards when placed right, but all fail miserably at times beyond 300 yards, even with well placed hits. Velocity has then dropped off to such an extent that you merely have a .22 rim fire in performance. I did 2onsiderable of this shooting with my various 222 rifles and found that, at the longer ranges, when expansion of the bullet stops, they do not kill as well as does the .22 L.R. RIFLE BARRELS ^So= a w t Surplus 24-inch. comvteteiy an- $5.00 hollow point soft lead bullet at normal tsheci. Value CzS.00. ........ R e d u d Iranges for that load.

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Cheyenne, Wyoming. This rifle was a .375 Magnum, chambered for the rimmed ammo; a very fine all around cartridge for all American big game and a good small rifle for Africa as well. The rear sight was standard and the folding leaves were marked for 100, 200, and 300 yards and fitted with platinum center lines; but the three sights had never been filed down to correct elevation. They were left high purposely, so the owner of the rifle could fine them down to- suite his load and holding.

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Next we tried some 235-grain-bullet loads and these were terrible as we expected; shot a foot lower than the 300 grain at 100 yards and also spread the two barrels some six to eight inches apart. Then we tried some 270 grain Kynoch and these printed perfectly, with both barrels under a dollar and elevation the same for both barrels.

This fine rifle makes exceptionally fine groups with 270 grain loads, and we have no doubt it would do the same with a plain soft point 300 grain bullet load with correct powder charge; but the long hollow point copper capped do not shoot in it, and neither do the 235 grain high velocity loads.

In spite of the fact that Holland & Holland advertise their double rifles in this caliber for accurate shooting with all three weight bullets, it has always been my experience that these doubles shoot best with just one weight of bullet. I did have a best quality Lancaster .375 Nitro Express that threw both 270 grain and 300 grain Western soft points backed by 48 grains of 3031 into the same silver-dollar group at 60 yards, hut those two Western bullets both had the same length of bearing surface and evidently caused about the same resistance to the oval-bored barrels when fired. Most double rifles will shoot 270 and 300 grain well in this .375 Magnum rimmed caliber, but seldom will they shoot all three weights. It is best to find out which load shoots best and stick to that one load.

This fine .375 Coggswell & Harrison would give an excellent account on all American game with the 270 grain load, and no doubt when I get some plain soft nose 300 grain loads it will do the same with that bullet weight. Incidentally, this firm also makes some very fine magazine rifles in caliber .375 belted Magnum rimless and .404 Magnum.

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Lots of people don't know it, but it is quite possible for a rifle with a crooked barrel to shoot very good groups. Some hold their grouping fairly well; others "walk" their groups-change their point of impact-as they warm up from firing. Barrels that were originally crooked but have been straightened are also apt to "walk" their groups, due to the tendency of the barrel to warp hack into its original curve as it heats up from repeated firing. But in,the hands of a man who doesn't do a lot of shooting, a crooked barrel, properly sighted, may do all he ever asks it to do, and he may not guess the imperfection. Nevertheless, a straight barrel is better than a crooked one.

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3 INDIAN" WAR arrowheads. F l i n t Scalping Knife. F l i n t Thunderl~ird$4.00. Catalog Free. Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Arrowhead. Glenwoud. Arkansas - -.

obsolete, for17.1100.000 G F S P A R T S Stocked-modern, cimi. Send t r a f i n ~ . description for quotation. Numrirh

OLD COLTS, many othfrs, n e w storks popular antique r*.'!elvers. Win. Rifles, frontier colt parts. I m ~ glist 2%.

Laredo Gun Shop, 3110 San Bernardo, Laredo. Tcxas.

--GUNS & AMMUNITION V.S. 30-06 S P R I N G F I E L D R I F L E S . High numbers. Very euod - $39.93. P e r f w t - fll.S?. V.S. 42-711 Springfield rifles. Very ~ d - - $ 3 2 . . ' ; 0 . T . S . .ill-I16 Enfields. Perfect$3!l.'iO. German Mod. 98 Snim Alauser rifles. Very goncl?in1111 Mauser $37..50. ExcellentÑ$42..Xl (it'rnlan (:-Xi w n - a u t o m a t i c rifles. Ex~rllnit-$60 Oil. Swedish Mod. !I6 l..inirl~ Mauser rifles. fcsrt'llrn-$27.50.

British Mark 4 :lll;i Lec-Enfield rifles. Latest model. Excellent--$24.95.

Jan 6..311m Arisaka rifles. Good -~O.OO. Jau i.7nint h i saka rifles. Exwllent--$18.00. 31mev Imck m w a n t w . Fwe mi list. Freedland Arms Co., 34 P a r k liow, New fork, V

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J F S T I T B L I S I I E D ! Manual of Combat Kapid Draw.

Discusses weapons, equipment, techniques. F r e e Gift enl s e . %2.00 postpaid. Literature dime. L A F Gun Shop.

Box 425, S p a n m a y , Washington.

NAZI L'SIFORMS Booklet: "TIniforms-Badges-Intelligenre Data German ( N a z i ) Forces" 64 pages 35 plates some color. $1.00; Kingstons. 920 Third. s e a t h e 4 , wash.'

R I F L E SLINGS, leather, Army Surplus 1 % inch. Brand new. $2.00 each. Public Sport Shoos, il S. 16th Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa. TTST'STTAL IMPORTED Reading and Photo Books. List lOr. Olympia Books, 6715 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood.

Calif. "\VINE.MAKING." $1.00, "STOTlT, Beer, Ale Brewing." $1.00. Illustrated. Eaton Books, Box 1242-N, Santa Ilosa. California.

STONE ARROWHEAD making instructinns.

Complete. Ancient method. $1.00. Chief Kennewick 16. Wash.

Illustrated Blackhawk:

CROSSBOWS F O B Fish-shooting Hunting Target. Factory-Direct-Prices. Ja.vco. Box 1365. ~ i c h i c a .Kansas.

R I F L E SCABBARD Western Boots Clothing, Saddles.

Free Catalog: Silver ~ " u r .Box 1785 L L ~ , F o r t Worth, Texas.

F I ' R R F G S (tanning. selling. mounting) Bear, Cougar.

11. v vJ. Hofnlaiin-Taxidermist. 1025 Gates. BruokTiger.

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LEATHER C R A F T

EAGLE GIlADE Standard trapstwk fulchoke shotgun.

0!crlrtiuled by L. <'. Smith Company in 11147. Perfect II;IPC. A. .I. Shedivetz, O . D . , 614 Hales Blilg., Oklai~oma Citv. Oklahoma.

Arms. West llurlev 19. N. Y.

F R E E ! F R E E ! 72 pace photographic catalog. Write to 'Photographic Headquarters Since 1899.'' Dept. 1838.

Central Camera Company. 230 S. Wabash Avenue, Chic-ago 4, Illinuis.

ELECTRIC P E N C I L : Engraies all Metals. $2.00. Beyer Mfg. 10,511-Q Springfirld. Chicago 43.

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58F National Employment Information, 1020 Broad, Newark, New Jersey.

C.S.A. (CONFEDERATE) OR F . S (1:nionI buttons. New. Copies. 2.k. 6 for $1.25 ~ o s t ~ a i d . i V a d d e l l1625 , ~eoieia, Marysville, Michigan.

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net pair. Public Sport Shops, 1 1 S. 16th Street, Philadelnhia . ~ --2. - Pa

PEDOMETER. BRAND new by New Haven Watch Co. Measures the distance you walk. While They Last $5.95.

Public Sport Shops. 1 1 S. 16th Street. Philadelphia 2, P a .

ASTIQI'E AtIMS for Collertor or Shooter, a t Bargain Prices. luc fur List. Ladd. Catskill, X. Y. -

SHOOTER'S BIBLE. 1958, over 500 pages. Ready for shipment. Illustrated Modern Guns and Accessories, $2.00.

1!1,->SGun Dicest $2.95 Postnaid. Public Snort Shous. 1 1

Texas.

FREE "Do-It-Yourself" Leathercraft Catalog. Tandy Leather Comnany. Box 791-026. F o r t Worth. Texas.

LEATlIEIlCllAFT CATALOG Free. Kirkpatrick Leather Co., Itox 637-A10. G a i n e r i l k , Texas.

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OLD H A N D C I X F S . legirons, thumbfasts. shackles wanted.

Patternon Smith, 2FL, 269 Shepard Ale., East Orange, N. 3.

- --. . .- .- -. . . -MISCELLANEOUS .- -- ---- . .--. l'AllltV4T.T. P A S V A S Roll with strans and handle. larire &ie ii.l<->'jinihes for travelers, campers, baseball players, q c . Go!'tSurplus,' brand new. value $12.50-Special $2.% tach Public Snort S h o ~ s ,11 S. 16th Street, Philadelphia --

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-uses, for laying drains, ditches, foundations, touring, laying out of fences, piers, roads Fully guaranteed. $2.50 Postpaid. Public 11 S. Kith Street. Philadelphia 2. Pa. ~

model. many grading, cony and gardens.

Sport Shops,

B F Y S F P P L I E S direct from Government. Boat. motor truck. k e n . huntitis. fishine. camnine. soortine Eauinment.

B a d i o . l'hotographic, POW& took, mac-hinerf & hundreds others listed in our Bulletin "Surplus Sales." Price $1.00.

Box 169 V H East H t f d 8. Conn.

H A X U f I ' F F S , BRAND new, $15.00 Value, nickel plated, peerless type, iightweight. Special Sale $7.!13 pair. Leg Irons. Gnv't. Surplus, tiirkel plated. brand new. Value $21.50. Spcrial $5.35. Public Sport Shops, 1 1 S. 16th Street. Pl~lladelphia'2. Pa. 311-06 SI'RINGFIELD 01% Enfleld Rifle Stock, as issued. brand new. $2.95 each. A3-03 Springfield rifle barrels, cal.

30-06, brand new, Gov't. Surplus. 21-inch. completely finished. Value $25. Special $.5.00 Postpaid. Public Sport Shoos. 11 S. 16th Street. I'hlla. 2. P a .

"SMITH *.- WESSON l l i l i t a r y and Polire 38 caliber 3". 4" :". 6" h h l only $24.i'iO-two for $44.00. Snub nosed 2" hhl $29.3-two for $.').Â¥).Oil F r e e S e w Holster. Excellent o n d i t i o n . International Firearms. 22 Kingmati, St. Albans, Vt-rinont."

HT'ST & T R A P for profit! Make $$$ from valuable pelts, predator bounties. Gain experience for gov't. hunter trapper positions. B i g opportunity, most states. Free bounty, pelt prices listing. Write: Wildlife Counselors, Dept. C. 13015 Velltura Blvd.. Sherman Oaks. Calif.

J A P A N E S E 30-116 VAL. Conrrrted Rifles Excellent $23.50 Jao 7.7nlm Rifles T.G. $l4..:0. Excellent $16.50, J a p 6.5mm Rifles Excellent $19.00. Mans Others. Free List. J. B .

Firearms. P.O. Box 1826. Church Street Station, N. Y., N. Y.

L E G IRONS. $5.00. Genuine peerless $9.95; carrying case, $2.10. Extra 1" 95. Flexible handcuffs, $12.95, collector's specialties. Thomas Ferrlck, port, Mass.

handfuffs, surplus, heavy leg fetters, Leather restraints Box 12, Newbury:

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1 5 models, various l e n g t h s h a n d l e combinations.

Collector's pieces t o d a y o f l e g e n d a r y f a m e tomorrow. S e n d 2 5 c f o r d e s c r i p t i o n s p r i c e s a n d instructive booklet. 50c for ~ i g h t i n a k n i f e u s e m a n u a l W. D. R A N D A L L , jr., B o x 1 9 8 8 4 O r l a-- n d o ,

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Stock No. T10A Here's a special bargain in popular caliber 38 Smith & Wesson made by Colt 5" bbl. Usually a" $55 gun A good investment Condition Very Good Add $5 for select exterior Ammo at all gunstores Select Specimen Stock No. T10B.

NOW! 45 Cal Colt M I 9 11 Automatic pistols The blockbustine standby of the Army and the Marines m three wars These are in beau. tiful shape, guar. V.G. WE HAVE A FEW MINT (near new) .45's at $39.95 Ammo at all gunstores. Select Spocimen Stock No. X14D.

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288 PAGES! Jammed with stories on Russian Weapons, Flintlocks, All n e w material !

Since we are seldom able to ofti A 1000 paragraph glossary of such a fine and rare collection i gun and sword terms covering 400 years of ;e$ty; ;a;aa; ; ; ; ; ; ;;;;t sale On orders of $65 00 or moi weapons completely and authoritatively!

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ORDER BY STOCK NUMBER FOR FASTER SERVICE TO ORDER RIFLES, ETC. Send check, cash or M.O. For C.O.D., send % deposit or more. All items shipped F.O.B. Pasadena Expr. charges collect. Calif. resid. add 4% state tax. 10-DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE ON ALL ITEMS. TO ORDER HANDGUNS Enclose signed statement, "Am not alien, newer convicted of crime of violence, am not under indictment or fugutiwe, am 21 or over." Mass., No., Mich., N.Y., N.J., N.C., R.I., Omaha, New Orleans, require permits-enclose with order. Send check, cash or M.O. Vi deposit on C.O.D. Pistols shipped R.R. Expr., F.O.B. Pasadena, collect. Calif. m i d . order thru local dealer only. ALLOW 5 WKS. DELIVERY

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Stock N o . R47A These incredibly rare rifles made i n Egyptian factory built and staffed by Swedish arms industry through government agreement. None ever seen on the market before and no probability of further release. This i s a first line weapon, the only modern semi-auto rifle ever to be made by an Arab countrv in historv and the onlv one m a r mad* n n +he African continent! 2 5 " bbl., 10-shot magazine. Add $ 1 0 f o r ' s p e c i a i i y s e i e c t &e&i exterior. AMMO SPECIALS: 8MM Military (Israeli non-corrosive) $7.95 per 100. 8MM Softpoint. 40 rds., $5.90. Excellent for reloading.

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