One of the world's adjustable to your kind of let-off.

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that are hand-honed and hand-fitted for
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Colt's target automatics: The Gold Cup accuracy.
National Match, in .45 midrange and Colt's Guarantee: All Gold Cup National
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To help make possibles possible, Gold Cup at 50 yards from machine rest. Only those
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ized by Colt gunsmiths. Select shooting offered for sa Ie. The test target accom-
machines were shaped by adding special panies each pistol.
parts and processes to the familiar frame If you're interested in better centerfire
and failproof action of Colt's service auto- match scores, these are the ones. They're
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With both models you get: A trigger that's And worth it.

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We're proud of our factory-loaded ammo~ And well we might be! It's set the standard of excellence for over
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-of loading his own. That's why Remington offers individual cartridge components-produced by the same
technical skill and ultrasensitive equipment that turns out millions of extremely uniform factory loads
each year. You can choose Remington brass (unmatched for reloadability) ... Remington primers (so good
they were used by over half of all competitors at the national Bench Rest Championships) ••. and
Remington bullets (many with exclusive"Core-Lokt" construction for peak accuracy and shocking power).
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GUNS • MARCH 1963 3

HOW DOES THE
MARBLE
((GAM E- GETTER"
SCOPE AT THE COLT SINGLE-ACTION
DIFFER FROM By SHELLY BRAVERMAN

ALL OTHERS?

From all outward appearances, it

looks the same as every other
telescopic sight on the market.
And, like most better quality
scopes, it's lightweight corro-
sion-proof ... fog-proof has a
lO-lens optical system self-
centering reticle ... is parallax-
free and is 100% American made.
But, all similarity ends, the min-
ute you look thru the "Game-
Getter". Why? Marble Arms has
developed a new "common sense"
approach to using a scope ... be-
cause here's what you see E9
It's called the 'right-side-up"
reticle. Here's what happens! EXCEPT for the disruption caused by 359,000 were made: 312.000 of the
Now, you only have to bring your World War II, and a few subsequent "standard" model. 2.000 of .44 rim-
rifle "down" on target. Shoot! If years, the magnificent "Single Adion fire, and 45,000 of the "Bisley" model.
you miss . . . the rifle naturally Army" or "Peacemaker" has been The modern version is produced In
recoils, and again, you merely
bring it "down" on target (not manufactured since 1873 without basic .22, .22MR••38 Special, .44 Special,
"down" and then "up" again as design change. Minor changes such as .45, and .357 Magnum.
with other scopes ... there's a the spring base-pin catch have ap- So great is the appeal of the origi-
time lag). Because the field of peared. but the principle of this world- nal guns that even the large quantity
vision in the lower half of the
Marble scope is always open, you with a renowned action remains. produced does not lessen their value
"find" your target as you bring MARBLE An old shop-foreman's work book as colledor's Items. Many were en-
your rifle "down". There's no describes this gun as, "A heavy single graved (frequently for presentation)
time wasted. It's only common SCOPE
sense! adlon revolver charaderized by rod and their value Increased. The City of
You get ejedlon, cylinder turning on a remov- Fort Worth presented a superb Single
See a Marble Scope with the on target
"right-side-up" reticle at your able base pin, loading gate in the gen- Adlon to Major Bowes, who in turn,
dealers and try it yourself. Re-
faster _ eral form of the ball-shaped rear of presented it to the New York City
member ... it has all the preci- shoot the frame, and continuing the de- Police Department Ballistics Squad.
sion features of every quality
scope ... plus one other thing ... better mountable straps and trigger guard of Most of the components are still
common sense. They're available the preceeding cap and ball models:' available. The fad that parts for a
in 2t;.X, 4X, 6X and, of course, Originally issued with hard rubber gun, soon to be a century old, are
the Variable. grips (plain walnut on guns sold to available, is in itself remarkable. The
the U. S. Government), hand check- fact that the modern version consists
ered walnut with medallions were of parts, mainly interchangeable with
available on special order. Original the original, Is a tribute, absolutely
guns under # 165,000 are not suited unique In the handgun field.
for use with modern loads. About -Copyright "The Firearms Encyclopedia."

MARBLE ARMS CORPORATION

GLADSTONE, MICHIGAN, U. S. A.
Division of Bell & GOBBett Company
4 GUNS MARCH 1963
 MARCH. 1963
Vol. IX, No. 3-99

George E. von Rosen

Publisher

Arthur S. Arkush
Ass't to the Publisher

IN THIS ISS U E
E. B. Mann Editor

R. A. Steindler Managing Editor

special . . .
THE MAN WHO MADE MURDER DANGEROUS ....•.. James A. Larsen 16
Kent Bellah Handloading MAKE A PHOTO RECORD OF YOUR GUNS Bob Tremaine 24
PROTECT WHAT MAKES US STRONG James E. Serven 40
Roslyn Wallis Editorial Ass't
hunting . . .
RANGE FINDER FOR THE HUNTER Albert E. Groody 19
LEARN TO SHOOT OFFHAND .•••....•••...••....•. Col. Charles Askins 30
Sydney Barker Art Director WITCH OF THE SiERRAS Russell Annabel 33

Lew Merrell Ass't Art Director arms development . . .

MEL JOHNSON'S NEW SPiTFIRE R. A. Steindler 22
COLT'S NEW SERViCE Ray Bearse 32
Lee Salberg Advertising Director REMINGTON PRESENTS THE NEW M-1I00 E. B. Mann 39

western .. .
BELT GUNS ON THE RIO GRANDE Charles A. Skelton 20
Sanford Herzog .. Production Manager KNIVES OF THE FRONTIERSMEN James E. Serven 28

Kay Elliott ..... Ass't Production Mgr. shooting . . .

OLD PRO POPS "TOY" TARGETS George N. Hebert 26

technical . . .
Donald M. Partrick Circulation Mgr. "GO MODERN" POWDERS FOR BIG SiXES Edward M. Yard 36
Sally Loges Subscription Mgr. departments . . .
AN INSIDE LOOK Shelley Braverman 4
George Tsoris Promotion Manager ARMS LIBRARy...................................................... 6
GUN RACK 8
CROSSFIRE ...........•..••••.••••••.•...••.•..••.•.......•••••••••• 12
Editorial Advisory Board HANDLOADING BENCH Kent Bellah 14
PULL! ........•.•.......•........•••.•••••..•.••.•••....•.. Dick Miller 38
Lt.· Col. Lymon P. Davison Military SHOPPING WITH GUNS Roslyn Wallis 56
Carola Mandel. AI Schuley ..••........ Skeet THE GUN MARKET .. : .••.•.••••••••••••••••••••••.••...•••......•••• 64
INDEX OF ADVERTISERS •••..•.•.••..•••••••••••••••••.••........••.. 66
Dick Miller Trap
Harry Reeves Pistol Competition MEMBER or T'1f

Jim Dee Junior Hunters

Dee Woolem, George Virgines " . Fast Draw
Bill Toney, Frank J. Schira Police
EDITORIAL OFFICES: E. B. Mann, R. A. Steindler, BI50 N. Central Park, Skokie, III., ORchard 5·5602.
Kent Bellah, St. Jo, Texas.
,REPRESENTATIVES: NEW YORK, Eugene L. Pollock, 210 East 53rd St., New York 22, N. Y., PLaza
THE COVER 3-1780. WESTERN, Michael R. Simon, 8640 West Third St., Los Angeles 48, Calif., CRestview 4-2939.
MIDWEST ADV. OFFICES, 8150 N. Central Park Ave., Skokie, III., ORchard 5-6967.
For some of us, the side-by-side is an
old friend not to be supplanted by johnny-
come latelies - the ultimate in sleek
gun elegance. It is not merely by accident
that the most ornate guns are doubles;
men adorn what they love. Witness this
beautiful example in our cover picture
taken for us by Carlyle Blackwell at the
well-known Aqua Sierra Club, in Chats-
worth, California.

GUNS MARCH 1963 5

 FIREARMS IDENTIFICATION
By J. Howard Mathews
SMALL ARMS OF THE THE SHOTGUNNER'S BOOK (U. 0/ Wisconsin Press, Madison 6, Wis.,
WORLD by W. H. B. Smith. by Col. Charles Askins.
Revised and enlarged by JoselJh The complete picture on shot-
2 vols., 1962. $40.00)
E. Smith. The most authori-
tative reference ever published
guns ... design, manufacture,
shooting form, ammunition ... A mon~mental work, easily worth the some·
on military small arms. Spe- all in one neat package. Not a what startling price placed on it. Parts of
cial emphasis on U.S. and dry chronology of these items.
U.S.S.R. weapons. 711 pages, but a highly readable story of
shotgunning spiced with ad-
the material presented have been under study
more than 1700 1llustraticns
covering identification. cali- venture ~nd humor. 365 pages, for over 20 years, the procedures for firearms
bers, ammunition. stripping, more ~han 100 illustrations. A
assembly. safety and history, "must" volume for the shotgun identification deriving from the author's lab-
enthusiast.
$15.00 $8.50 oratory. In case you did not know it, Dr.
Mathews is one of the pioneers in criminal
THE PISTOL SHOOTER'S firearms investigation and has an interna-
BOOK by Col. Charles Askins. THE PENNSYLVANIA - KEN- tional reputation among experts. Volume I
A noted expert shares his TUCKY RIFLE by Henry J.
wealth of gun handling "sav- Kauffman. details the methods of laboratory examina-
vy" with you. A book that An intensive and exacting re- lions of small arms, description of rifling
will definitely aid you In be- search that brings to light a
coming a better shot. perhaps tremendous ar.tount of infor- in handguns, and exhaustive notes on auto-
even a champion. Authorita- mation on America's first great
tive description of methods, rifle. Much light is thrown on matic pistols. Volume II contains almost
techniques, handguns of all the Identification and the de-
types. Knowledg-cnble shooters sirability of varIous rities. 3,000 photographs of handguns made in 23
wl11 need this book. For the Many photographs and different countries, with detailed yet concise
beginner and expert alike. sketches.
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1963 GUN DIGEST edited by
on handguns.
PISTOLS-A MODERN ENCY-
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World's finest gun 'authorities, bins with A. J. E. Shay and to be published on this subject, and is of
have again created a sparkling O. R. Hammond.
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ures, illustrations and tables ContaIns eIght chapters on the
on every facet of guns and choice of pistols . . . the cur- with firearms identification and forensic
shooting. The only complete, rently AmerIcan made models,
unique and up-to-the-minute the most useful or challeng- ballistics. My only regret is that relatively
gun book. Fully priced and ing old-timers and the most
illustrated Catalog Section of worthy Imparts; plus six chap- little space has been devoted to rifles and
all domestic and imported ters on the often neglected shotguns, but it is to be hoped that Dr.
guns and accessories. Includes topic of ammunition. 26 chap-
32-page section of handgun. ters in all covering every Mathews will find time to write that book,
rifle and shotgun exploded pistol interest.
dra.wings. $12.50 too, in the not too distant future.-R.A.s.
$3.95
THE VARMINT AND CROW HUNTER'S
HANDLOADER'S DIGEST ed- THE STORY OF COLT'S RE- BIBLE By Bert Popowski
ited by John T. Amber. VOLVER by Wm. B. Edwards.
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catalog section of tools and drawings and designs. The
components, self-computing most complete volume on Colt covers camping, upland game hunting, and
bullet energy chart, die and ever published. Nearly 500 various types of fishing, and similar topics
shell holder chart, cartridge large pages.
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notes and shortcuts from ex-
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handloading tools.
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HATCHER'S NOTEBOOK by
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U.S.A., Ret. and some uncommon breeds of varmints, and.
THE BOOK OF PISTOLS AND
REVOLVERS by W.H.B. Smith. New revised edition of a great
classIc. Contains definite and even ventures into the intricate field of boun-
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Bellah. A brand new 1962 edi- sands of questions that puzzle
tion of this comprehensive weapons enthusiasts ... much sense of humor is excellent, and best of all,
handgun refernce book for the of it has never before appeared
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of the world's handguns. 774 into arms and ammunition be-
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____________ Pte~~~~~~~~~ ~
(Continued on page 65)

6 GUNS MARCH 1963

 Cash or Credit
NO
MONEY DOWN
30 DAY FREE TRIAL

U. S. SPRINGFIELD M1903-30/01
SPRINGFIELD MI903'$! LIMITED QUANTITY! Most popular mili..
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i~9g~~~~~:'e~~t'Ar~~~':.I~u,.:::~:':'~kr:t.;~1~~.~C~~"i:d~·3J~I~~ ~~i~~~~ l-~~:i
Made
magazine. Adjustable rear leaf sight, blade front sight.
::o~~~-;':.:tn~~~~~~: . ?~~ .~ .~~r~. ?~~ ~~~~t:~~
431/4" overall. 8.69 lb•.
Prepaid $36.38 ~iI.i •••••" Famed
30/06 Caliber
E20·T1000. AMMO••30/08156 g'r. 120 Tounds ••• •••••••• • $7.20 . The U. S. Model 1917 Enfield
IS the lowest price rifle in the most desired
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AUTO. Top gun authority Major General Julian S. Hatcher in
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a typical Mauser~ it was improved in several respects, and has a bolt and receiver
U. S. M·l GARAND RIFLE of high grade Nickel steel that gave it a superbly strong action." General Hatcher
Finest lot we've seen! Limited quantity.!- Famous World War II ~'I~::: ::l:;~;t~:Y.~;S:pr~~:~e~~e b~~~:is.have shown the Model 1917 barrels will Order No. C20-T33
automatic rifle in popular 30/06 caliber. a-shot, 24" barrel.
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C20..T33. M1917 Rifle made by Eddystone •••• $29.88. C20..T34. Made by Remington or Winchester •••• $34.9
E20·TI000. Military 30/06 Ammo., per 120 rds. $7.20.
.30/06 WITH NEW TASCO HIGH POWER SCOPES INSTALLED READY TO SHOOT
6.5 ITALIAN C20-TI296. M1917 Rifle made by Eddystone mounted with a Tasco 3/4 " 4 power scope •.••••••.••••••• $39.9
C20-TI297. M1917 Rifle made by Remington or Winchester mounted with a Tasco 3/4" 4 power scope •••. $44.9
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CARBINE C20·TI293. MI917 Rifle made by Rem. or Win. side mounted with the big 1" Tasco 4 or 6 power ..•••. $64.13
C20-T669. Leather lace-on cheekpiece & sling •• $3.95 E20-TI000. 30/06 Metal jacketed ammo. 120 rds .. $7.:1
Only 36" overall, weighs only Sl/2-lbs. Shows
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__
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~~:... ----~:!~RECOIL
THESE
PADWith
••
SWIVELS •• SLING
MARLINS ABSOLUTELY
models ':i~~Nf~11 N:~iin f~~~~~nt:.ac~:~ou~eM~~I~~
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adjustable open rear sight, receiver drilled tapped for all popular scope
mounts. 20" barrel, 381/2" overall, 7 Ibs. Included FREE: factory fitted recoil pad,
sling swivels and oiled leather sling with brass-fittings. State choice of 30/30 or .35
~:~_~~;~~ c~~i~ifi~d $94.95 Mfr's List. State 30/30 or .35 cal ••••••••. $69.88
MARL I N 336C WITH 4X SCOPE-Mounted • • • Read~ to shoot! Famed Tasco fine
quality 1" diameter 4X Scope with hard coated magnesium fluoride lenses, click stops
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MARLIN 336C WITH 2l/2X to ax SCOPE. Mounted • • • Ready to Shoot! Tasco fine quality variable power SCOJ:
changes power from 21/2 all the way up to 8 instantly. Nitrogen filled, magnesium fluoride coated lenses, croSI
hair reticule, leather lens caps. Tip-off mounts. State caliber choice.
. SALE! New Matador 10 Gauge Magnum ~:~-:~~9alt$T::.~~Ne~s~~«;:e~r~~~~3S0C/~~E:n.~~5U~~~: .~~~~I.~ .p~.~'.?~~~~.. ~~. ~~~~.P: • ~~.I~~~~: $104•.8:
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C20-T72. Certified $189.50 Mfr's List . . • • . . . . • . • . . . . . . . . . • . • •
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Gaugie:a~i1iii;lii!i~~~~~~~::~:"''":::
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packed. Latest Model. 12 gauge, 30" barrel. full choke, 3-shot. lot of Enfield No. I, Mark III Rifles we've seen • • •
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long, long time! Buy with complete assurance your gun will be mechanip
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balances well-permits fast handling. Rear sight adjustable for windage and elevation,
BRAND NEW! U.S. Ml .30 CALIBER CARBINE blade front sight. Turned-down bolt handle, solid brass butt-plate. 10-shot removable
The Rifle
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•• ••
NEW HI-STANDARD
.22 DERRINGER
.38 S & W ENFIELD M1917-eOLT .45
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Shoots .22 rim-fire
F20-T52. 15-shot Magazine, 3 for $1.00; . • • E20-Tl192 • •80 cal. MiUtaTJ/
ffi';O'"!T51.8Jtlh~l:lgg::i?i~ ·$2:9~~0:T.5~.'::bti~~~A:::'deo,.$l.5?J'o~er 30 nls.; •••
t~~m =i~e~a"a~~ Double action
only. 26 oz. 6
U. S. Government
M19l7 Service
merYess. Two Shots.
Listen to London •• Tokyo •• Moscow •• Ships at Sea •• Planes •• Astronauts.
Dual Extraction.
Weighs only 11 oz.
:~I~tHfn~Yt~rc:.~~: ~C';.OI::I~t·er·~:
break-open action, fixed half-moon clips
FAMOUS VISCOUNT E20.T1340 $29.95 sights, hard rubber grips.
Good condition outside.
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Primers for Target-38's without scope. Scoped with the BALvar 8 ference when you are climbing at 8,000 or
Additional testing of the fine Speer Tar- and mounted with the help of Maynard 9,000 feet, when you left camp at 4 AM
get-38 plastic bullets and cases has produced Buehler's new aluminum mount for non-ad- and get back to it at 7 PM.
some interesting results. Certain primers pro- In shooting the gun from the bench, it
duce head separation in the plastic cases, was fired in 3 shot strings, with one minute
but this is not the fault of the cases. For periods between shots. Accuracy at 100 yards
some, as yet undetermined reason, certain from the bench was 1% inches, and rapid
primers affect the plastic cases aversely, but fire groups of five shots spread that out to
justable scopes, the test gun weighed in at
the following primers give perfect results: 1%, inches with cartridges being single
7 lbs. and 4% ounces. This is a considerable
CCI # 350 Magnum, Remington # 2%, and loaded. With a cool tube and shots spaced
weight saving, and with the 22 inch barrel,
Winchester #7-111-alllarge pistol primers. five minutes apart, the three-shot groups
the gun is ideally suited for mountain hunt-
Misfires can occur in guns with specially shrank to a very respectable 1% inches.
ing and scabbard use. Over-all length of the
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thOat the CCI # 350 primers worked very Winchester, is just under 42% inches. and Buehler's dandy and brand new light-
well. Accuracy is not affected by the brand Standard equipment on the gun includes weight mount make this a hard-to-beat moun-
of primers you use. . sling swivels, ramp bead sight with cover tain rifle combination that should do just
and adjustable Lyman 16 A folding sight. dandy for next year's elk or sheep hunt.
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 (Continued from page 8) E. ·Erie St., Milwaukee 2, Wis., will take
wide, or for take-down guns, 36"x3Y2"xI2". those hides off your hands, exchanging them
Riflle case is 48"x4"x9". Pistol case is 15" for merchandise, from wrist watches to
x3"x9". Rifle and shotgun cases retail for electric frying pans for the lady of the house.
$59.95; pistol cases, S34.95. H you have deer hides awund, drop Hunters
Incidentally, you can buy one case, get Hide Exchange a note and get their folder
extra polyethylene inserts which can be cut and shipping instructions.
to fit different guns, use the same case for
whichever gun you want to take with you. Large Powder Hoppers
Full-length tifle and shotgun cases can b~ Fred Huntington's RCBS powder measure
adapted to fit two guns at a time, with care- has been on our loading bench for a long
ful cutting; or a scoped gun with accessories. time. 'Every so often, when filling large ca-
pacity hulls, we wished that a larger hopper
Browning Gun Oil for the measure were available. After one
Browning Arms Company has greatly di- particularly frustrating evening of filling the
versified their line in the last few months. hopper constantly, we got in touch with
Presently being tested in GUNS Magazine's Fred and asked if he could make a 12 inch
laboratory are two of the new telescopic hopper for us. He had them in stock! The
sights_ Now on the market is an ultra-fine large hopper is a special order item and is
gun oil, either in a spout can (60 cents per not furnished with the powder measure,
can) or in an aerosol can (51.00). The oil, but if you plan to load much, it would
according to Browning, has a high viscosity certainly be worthwhile to have a large
reading, thus resisting gumming at high hopper on hand.
temperatures, yet protects and allows func- Working up some loads for a way-out wild-
tioning of arms at 30 0 below zero. cat, we had to resize a bunch of G.L cases,
Also new is Browning's 5 shot automatic then trim and neck-size them. All of this
shotgun that is known as the Buck Special- was done in a jiffy on the RCBS A-2 press.
complete with carrying sling, 24 inch barrel This is a rugged tool that can do any job
and rifle-type sights. This gun is available that it might be called upon to do, and ours
in 12 and 16 gao standard weight, lightweight has been in use for a number of years with-
in 12, 16, and 20 ga., and also as 12 gao out the least bit of trouble. Even the paint
3 inch Magnum_ Those who own Browning looks like new, and it is one of the first
Automatic-5 shotguns can purchase the extra tools we got when it was marketed some
RElOADER SPECIAL barrel from their Browning dealer. years back.
In doing a large scale job like this, we
RCBS IlJR" PRESS Hayes Rifle Slings found it best to start with the resizing,
Includes "Jr" Press, Primer Catcher. Several of our rifles are equipped with working from the left to the right. That is,
Removable Head·Type Shell Holder, Head Hayes slings. Tom Hayes, 925·G Cunning- the cases are lubed, run through the sizing,
ham St., Corpus Christi, Texas, is a long-time and piled up in a box to the right of the
and Universal Primer Arm, plus your
hunter who became disenchanted with the tool. Trimming is done by reversing the
choice of one set of Reloading Dies in process, and piling the cases up to the left of
then available slings and designed new ones
the following calibers: 222 REM / 243 to suit his type of hunting. Tom has a num- the A-2. Necksizing and priming with the
WIN / 270 WIN / 308 WIN / 30·06 ber of models, and we have put them through automatic primer feed mechanism installed
WCF / 30·30 WCF / 357 MAG / 38 some rather strenuous tests over the past on the A-2 is next, and that's it. Throw your
SPEC / 44 MAG / 45 ACP. Ask for the few months. Tom carefully differentiates charges, seat the bullets and you got a batch
RCBS "Reloader Special" and specify between carrying and shooting slings, and of ammo to shoot. Because the mechanical
caliber. Reg. $45 $39 90 regardless of the style, they work like
greased lightning. Why not write Tom for
advantage is all on your side with the A-2,
even prolonged sessions at the bench won't
RCBS JR. PRESS less Reloading Dies. details about his slings? tire you out nearly as much as will the use
Specify caliber. $ 50 31 Deer Hides
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 Fast Draw In England The simplest method to eliminate this
variable would be to use only cases fired in
I buy your magazine regularly and like it
the same rifle and load the cases in the
best of all the publications of its type which
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I have seen. I am particularly interested in
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articles on quick draw, collecting, and west-
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Here in England there are not, so far as
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I know, any fast draw clubs, but there are or slightly eccentric.
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Thank you for your fine article on the From Down Under
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Model 92 .25·20 which has seen a lot of your magazine much later than its publica-
service; also a Savage Model 99 in .303 tion date, I am very fond of it. I belong to
Savage caliber which is also well worn. a rifle club where we use .303 Royal Enfield
My home is in the Northwest Washington Mk Ills. I am very much interested in shoot·
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is excellent bobcat hunting and an occa- several types of guns, am going to make
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out of hunting when I am following a hound my own .303 in the near future.
on a hot cat track. I use the little .25·20 for Although many of the guns I read about
the cats; the .303 is my deer and bear rifle. in your magazine are foreign to me, I am
I enjoy your magazine very much and am learning about them.
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White. Weston. Shockey. Clark, Gibbs, Davison in the October issue.
Hebard. These alone worth many dollars of a year's subscription to GUNS, sent to me
if published in book form. National Rec- by my son Major Bryce Poe II, U,5AF, For those who would like to take the target
ords, all latest products and prices, hun- along in their car, I got the idea of adding
dreds of score improving items and tips. presently attending the Armed Forces Staff
Clark, Shockey. Pachma;yr. Colt custom College at Norfolk, Va., GUNS is interesting folding legs. The legs fold upward alongside
guns, Ruger, Hammerli, Hi-Standard, S&W, the frame with the use of 2 strap hinges 3%,"
Colt, Sig, Browning, lver Johnson, Cros- without inflicting on the reader articles that
man target and field guns. are either excessively technical or are patent· long, and two 3" hooks·and-eyes to hold the
The Pistol Shooter's "Bible" and stand- ly fiction. legs rigid when fully extended. With legs
ard reference book. No catalog like it! A
MUST for competitive pistolmen or anyone Lt. Col. Bryce Poe, U.S.A. Ret. folded alongside of frame, I put a P/2" hook-
interested in handgunning. Kansas City, Mo. and-eye on leg and frame to prevent the leg
Double your money back guarantee if from flopping down when carried. Both legs
you don't agree it's the biggest pistol shoot-
ingvalueever for $1.00. Mailed Immediate- "How Fussy Need You Be?" got the same treatment.
ly in protective envelope. Postpaid '1.00. This makes a compact folding target that
With reference to the above-titled article
ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY! by Lt. Col. Bryce Poe (Nov., 1962) obviously can be taken along in the car and set up in
all of the loads were not made up from cases a moments notice. Thank you for your fine
GIL HEBARD GUNS fire-formed in one rifle; if they were, they
would all wobble or they would all be
articles!
Pastor C. Geramita
KNOXVILLE 6, ILLINOIS
concentric. Cadillac, Michigan

12 GUNS MARCH 1963

AR-15 versus M14 Ml Garand 1929-36 front-locked forced-un-
GUNS October 1962, page 37, carries "The
locking-camshaft tum bolt, same fundamental
New Block Buster" on the .223 AR-15 auto- system as the 1912-14 Lewis Gun, and no,v
matic rifle. Having personally fired over 4,000 the AR-15. This basic action is seen also in
rounds in the AR-15 during its formative pe- World War One Canadian Ross and Austrian
riod, not to include the .30 AR-I0 and T20E2- Mannlicher "straight-pull" bolt-action rifles.
1'44 (now M14), perhaps these comments, on First M14s (then T44s) were directly made
the basis of my own purely technical inter- up from Garand 1944-45 T20E2 20-shot cal.
est, may be of interest. . .30·06 automatic rifles, almost adopted. The
0) The AR-15 .223 55-grain cartridge in T44-M14, with some 0.80 pound whittled off
its 20-inch barrel gives closer to 3185 foot the MI-type barrel, uses a 1921-29 White "ex-
seconds, not 3300 foot seconds. The compara- panding-gas" piston-cylinder system. The
ble .222 Magnum gives 55-grain 3300 foot White rifle was rejected by Ordnance in 1930.
seconds in a velocity 24·26 inch barrel. There This gas system has very tight tolerances. The
is an inevitable proven loss of over 30-35 foot expansion theory does not mean much. It is
seconds per inch, 24 versus 20-inch barrel. actually a means to delay forced unlocking till
The .222 Magnum or .223 AR is a fine higher- the residual chamber pressure drops for easier
power varmint-type cartridge, some 700-800 forced unlocking. Lewis solved this very seri-
foot seconds behind the .220 Swift 48-grain, ous problem simply for the British .303 Lewis
some 400 foot seconds over the .218 Bee 45- by increased dwell time before unlocking.
grain. It will not do for machine gun tactical (See Chinn's The Machine Gun). The AR·15
use, such as the .30 Browning or 7.62 mm uses the earlier French-Swedish gas'pipe sys-
M60 class, and would mean two calibers, one tem for gas-flow delay of unlocking. Having
for rifle, one for machine gun, in small pure no primary extraction provision, this is espe-
infantry units. This would make logistics peo- cially vital for function in the AR-IO-AR-15
ple very unhappy. The AR-15 is too heavy system. There were gas-pipe systems in ex-
and clumsy for use as a holster side-ann or periment long before World War Two. One
sub-rifle for the many NON-riflemen or spe- was made "crooked" to increase gas·action
cialists of which there are now nine per rifle- impact delay. Nothing new under the sun?
man. At 500 yards, the 7_62 NATO auto-rifle As of I Ocotber 1962 M14 difficulties have
and machine gun cartridge h~s 3.5 times the not prevented new orders for over 300,000
.223 energy. Only 300 foot seconds M.V. slow- added to some half million or more already
er, the 7.62 has 2.7 times the bullet weight. made. Not counting 7.62 mm NATO M60
machine guns. Because Norma brass is made spe-
Strongs winds will have a much more adverse cifically for reloadingl It's virgin
effect on the 55-grain versus ISO-grain bullet. My most valuable 20-year-old unrewarded
recommendation now for both AR-15 and brass, painstakingly drawn and ex-
(2) The AR-15 cal. .223 weighs: (a) With truded in more stage operations than
magazine empty, no accessories, 6 pounds 10 M14: THROW AWAY FULL AUTOMAT-
IC; instead use fast controlled semiauto- ordinary cases. Not worked as hard
ounces or 6.625 pounds; (b) without maga- • • • less likely to crack during
zine, 6 pounds 5% ounces or 6.34 pounds. matic fire; unless you want to make a
noise. reloading.
The AR-15 magazine is 5.5 ounces; bipod,9.5 And for additional case life, all
ounces. Melvin M. Johnson, Jr.
New Haven, Conn. Norma brass gets a special neck
(c) The M14 without magazine weighs 8.75 annealing in high frequency electric
pounds, 2.41 pounds heavier than the AR-15. furnaces.
(d) The .223 cartridge weighs 173 grains, Even Norma primer holes get pre-
the 7.62 mm about twice as much, the .30-06 ferred treatment. They're drilled, not
(M2) some 396 grains. Without ballistic con- punched. That's why the Norma Man
siderations, this is a distinct AR .223 advan- is seldom bothered by torn flash
tage for the soldier's load. holes that enlarge and ruin brass.
(e) "You've got some (AR-15) 200 rounds with Extra bonus: Norma brassisshipped
ready to fire beforc the Ml4 soldier ever picks 1 shell
up a cartridge." 200 .223 rounds weigh 5
pounds. Facts: less than 100, far from "200
rounds . . . ." versus an unloaded M14.
$6 95
Express
Collect
unprimed for lower rates.
Just how many extra reloads will
Norma brass give you? Naturally it
varies. But many Norma Men regu-
(f) Ten AR-men each with 500-round mag- Additional shells $.75 each
You're alway~ \.\on guard l l against robbers, mashers larly approach the hundred mark.
azines "would carry fire-power of 7500 rounds and. other cn.mmals when you carry this innocent- Does your present brass do as well?
per minute. . . ." Most of these automatic lookmg fountam pen type TEAR GAS Device. Used for
poll.ce and Clvll,lan defense. Causes no permanent injury. See for yourself. load and reload
rifles have cyclic rates (not deliverable) of Sprlng·sleel clip. Nol a firearm. with Norma, world's most advanced
about 750 R.P.M. All this really means is that SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDEL NO COD~
Registered Colt Distributors - Suppliers for line of-
just above one dozen 02.5) shots are fired . O.fficial !,olice Equipment
ThlS.product.ls not Intended for sale in states or
in one second of trigger yank. Who's hurt is localities which have laws forbidding their sale. • UNPRIMED VIRGIN BRASS
a question. Unless it takes zero time to reload • PRECISION BUllETS
PUBLIC SPORT SHOPS Est. 1918
the 500-round "magazine," somewhat less than • LOADED AMMUNITION
DEPT. G 11 S. 16th ST., PHI LA. 2, PA.
750 shots per man could possibly be fired in
Want more handloading
one minute; closer to 500 rounds in 40 sec-
onds, reload in 10 seconds, and perhaps fire
120, or 620 rounds. However, I would like to I=::
.
---T-H-E----~.-::.----------~
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info? Send 25¢ for
"Gunbug's Guide:'
be in the new-barrel (AR-15) and .223 ammo
en J.~elon
Pc
u.s. and Canadian Pat. Box GM-3
supply business on this basis! The AR-15 Complete job as shown
for Most guns $25
barrels would be kind of worn out! Also, the
targets may have shoved off early in the shoot. Anti-recoil Gun Barrel
(g) The AR-15 .223 is an interesting new The de-kicker de luxe that is precision
machined into your rifle barrel, avoiding
weapon in the carbine-submachine gun cate- unsightly hang-ons. Controlled escape for
gory. But "fire power" is wastefully pumping highest kinetic braking, minimum blast ef-
fect and practically nOJ·ump. All but pre-
bullets. Fire effect is bullets hitting enemies, vents jet thrust (secon ary recoil). Guar-
the most hits for the least shots in the least anteed workmanship. Folder. Dealer dis-
counts~
time. "Fire power" is a "Hollywood-TV" mis- SOUTH LANSING, NEW YORK
PENDLETON GUNSHOP l~~~p~n"i~;o~.a~~e:.
conception. Licensed fitter for Canadian customers
Div. of General Sporting Good. Corp.
Contrary to much misunderstanding about IAN S. DINGWALL. Custom Gunsmith
Hudson Bay Co. Vancouver, B. C.
In Canada: Globe firearms ltd., Ottawa
the "new" M14, it is squarely based on the George L. McNicol ltd., Vancouver
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GUNS MARCH 1963
 Need a reloading
tool that will
TAKE IT?-A
tool built to
withstand the By KENT BELLAH
toughest jobs of
the handloader? Excessive Velocity
cal troubles in interior ballistics. A .224
Look no more. High velocity is a wonderful and terrible
$74 50 killer with the right bullet. Velocity alone
is not enough. Some handloaders get exces-
Sisk-Bellah H.P. revolver pill at Hi-V in
rifles may be open in flight. Swift pills in a
includiAf Hornet give the "deep penetration" some
frame, tOffle, LOOK TO THE sive velocity in hot-shots. No obtainable
writers think is the only yardstick to judge
handle nd rams velocity, in a normal pressure range, is ex-
SUPER MAG for: the relative worth of bullets. Expansion, if
cessive with proper bullets. Let's look at
• Leverage that is unsurpassed in any other any, is poor. Such loads are worthless for
some factors that can cause grief with the
metallic press.• Top of frame connected to varmints.
toggle block linkage which equalizes the wrong pills, and learn how to detect it and
Weatherby Magnum fans, including this
force on die column and rams.• Swaging correct it.
one, place a high value on Hi-V for fast,
and core cutting made easy.• No changing Proper bullet expansion is necessary for
adequate shock on all game of any size. clear game kills. W. M. ammo is hot as a
of dies during loading operation.• Hard
chrome lifetime rams.• Famous Pacific It's controlled for all practical purposes by $2 pistol, with good bullets. Most com·
built-in Up or Down stroke action. plaints on the rifles are from chaps who
the type of bullet and velocity, with range
never owned one, or from lads who use im-
also a factor. Your .30·30 pills expand well
.!?oJ,/bz- ~ .?}?>aaPo?dJ~ at .30-30 velocity, but blow up like a bomb proper bullets in reloads. A few are from
beginners who expect any hit to drop any
in hot-shot .30's. This excessive velocity
Available through better distributors and game in its tracks. Good as the hot·shots
gives poor accuracy and poor interior bal-
dealers in U.S. and Canada are, they can't do it every time. Neither
listics, with other technical troubles. Such
MANUFACTURED IN U.S. BY can big bores with huge, slow bullets. For
pills may explode on twigs before they
PACIFIC GUN SIGHT CO. reach the game. Or explode on contact with faster kills, 111 take the tissue destruction of
Box 4495 Dept. G·3 game, without penetration. On the other Hi-V with any reasonable bullet, and I love
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA hand, non·expanding bullets, such as G.I. that flat trajectory. Some writers who
types, can't he driven fast enough to be praise big, slow pills have been in a nice
comfortable rut since black powder days.
Free effective, in any gun.

(}3edfl'A Spring
Catalog
Some writers brag ahout extreme range
kills. It isn't sporting to attempt it or admit
it. The odds against putting a slug in a
vital spot are terrific. Consider the wind,
trajectory, accuracy, and your error of aim.
Ready February 8
Velocity has slowed until bullets have poor
. ~ Fully illustrated
100 pages, shows
expansion, or nearly none. Limit your hunting
range to about half your "accurate" range on
380 items of in-
terest to both targets. Few people shoot half as well under
men and women the excitement of hunting. Get closer and
-special fishing you'll bag more game with cleaner kills with
tackle, footwear any rifle.
clothing, leathe; Hard cast bullets in revolvers give more
and ca'nvas spe- penetration and less expansion than is de-
cialties, many of sirable for stopping man or game. Before
our own manu- Varmint hunters want the ultimate in ex·
facture. pansion or explosion. That's fine. Soft core, Jim Harvey's soft core, half-jacketed bullets,
thin jacketed pills make clean kills at that I consider one of the great inventions

Chamois Cloth Shirt

Looks and feels
Hi-V with hits in non-vital areas. Drive 'em
too fast and "flyers" appear, and accuracy
is erratic. 1£ the core becomes semi·liquid
since gunpowder, I tried many ideas to in·
crease cast bullet expansion and shock. All
ideas had been tried in some form before I
like high grade in flight you have excessive velocity. was born. Only the methods were new.
chamois leather. "Comet tails" are spirals of shed lead A good idea was drilling a hollow point
Machine wash- around bullet holes. You may find them at in bullets. It gives faster expansion than a
able and is more
100 yards, but more often at closer range. cast cavity. Drill too deep for .357 Magnum
durable than
wool. Mr. Bean Test hot loads by firing 20 rounds at 25 velocity and you may get a 10" one·shot
personally uses yards. A lead smear means the velocity is group! The bullet opens in flight or deforms
this shirt on his too high for that type bullet. Rotational in the bore. This only happens when you
hunting and fish· velocity, that increases with faster twist drill through considerably more than half
ing trips. Colors: rifling, contributes to the smears. This is
Tan and Bright the bearing surface. For Magnum revolver
indicated in my tests with identical loads in
Red. Sizes: 14 1/2 loads, use the 1/8" drill in the Forster H.P.
," two Swifts of different twists. A Swift has
to 19. Price $5.85 a rotational speed of over 200,000 revolutions accessory, that I designed for their superb
Postpaid. Send case trimmer. Adjust it for a 118" to
for free sample per minute (rpm) while a puny .38 revolver
pill spins 30 times faster than an electric 1/4" deep cavity. Drill to about 3/8" for
and Free Spring
Catalog. drill! A .38 Colt hits some 45,000 rpm. .38 and .44 Specials. This drill works for
Good Hornet pills are designed for veloci- 1/8" deep cavities in .30 caliher and larger
L. L. Bean, Inc., 245 Main St.,
ties under 3200 fps. Loaded flat out in a rifle pills. The 1/16" drill is better for
Freeport, Maine
Mfrs. Fishing, Hunting and Camping Specialties Swift they may give comet tails and techni- small bores.

14 GUNS MARCH 1963

 r!l!!J(([j{j!JTffJ PRECISION
Phil Sharpe's original .357 Magnum bul-
let, the Hensley & Gibbs No. 51, is still the
best naked cast pill. Ray Thompson's newer
Lyman No. 358156 Gas Check is superior
for Hi-V. It's equally or more accurate, and
reduces leading. The upper crimp groove is
for .357's, the lower for .38's, making it
versatile. For .357 loads I suggest lubri-
cating the lower crimp groove, Lyman
HYDRAULie
the world's ONLY...

doesn't mention it, but they can supply this

mould in a plain base on request. Naked, it's
about equal to the Sharpe for .38 and .357
Magnum loads.
Lyman's No. 429336 was designed about
Reloader & Swager!
1911 by a man named Heath. Weighing
250 grains, it has fine long range accuracy RELOADER to de-prime, neck,
in .44 Specials or Magnums. Two well de· size and seot bullels of all caliber
(rifle and revolver), up to .600 nitro
H RA Firearms Exhibit express; for rim & rimless center-
Over 10,000 gun enthusiasts are ex- fire cartridges (no rim fire)
pected ta attend the National Rifle
Associotion's 1963 Firearms Exhibition
in Washington, D. C., from Soturday,
March 23rd, through Wednesday, March
27th, in the Sheraton-Pork Hotel.
One of the largest collections of
priceless antique and modern sporting
orms ever assembled in one hall will
be on display during the show. Unique
historic guns, knives, powder horns, and
flosks will be exhibited olongside mod-
ern rifles, pistols,· shotguns, scopes, re-
loading equipment, and other accesso-
ries, Rounding out the show will be
disploys by the ormed services.
During the business meetings, dele-
gates representing more thon 500,000
individual NRA members and 11,000
'affiliated local clubs win initiate and
approve NRA's 1963 program for Amer-
can Target shooters, hunters, and other QUI C K CO N V E R SION
gun-sportsmen. from swager to reloader in minutes
On the agenda is a discussion of the
NRA Hunter Sofety Program, which is
corried out in cooperation with stote PRESSURE CONTROL
conservation agencies throughout the gouge and regulator
country. The place of small arms
marksmanship in notional defense, the
establishment of additional recreational 2-WAY FOOT CONTROL
shaoting facilities, firearms legislatian,
leaving hands safely free to handle
and other tapics of special interest to
gun owners will be cansidered. components while operating
The Exhibit Hall and business meet-
ings will be open to all NRA members
without cost. Non-members will pay a
nominal fee for admission to the Ex- Reload 25/ MINUTE, save 80 % retail price
hibit Hall.

signed grease grooves have round bottoms 10,000 Ibs. (max.} Applied ram pressure
and no sharp edges. Heath designed it for
long range target work. It was modified by
eliminating one grease groove and adding
RELOADER & SWAGER, COMPLETE WITH
a crimp groove. Some lads load this modi- 1 H.P. ELECTRIC MOTOR, READY TO OPERATE
fication with lube in the crimp groove for (F.a.B. Wichita, with one shell holder of your choice)
better lubrication, and crimp just fonvard
of the groove to eliminate bullets turning
in cases. For lighter recoil or higher veloci- F I. Is any san
I da rd II8 "
7/ x 14 0 r I '/4" x 18 Die
ty you'll like Lyman's No. 429215 pill,
weighing 215 grains. It has longer range ac-
curacy than you can hit man or beast. LEAD CORE CUTTER For more information, write
Cast bullets with a cross cut in the flat
nose are more deadly, especially hoU~w
$19.95
points. Old-timers used a knife to make
WICHITA PRECISION TOOL CO., INC.
non-uniform cuts, Even shallow cuts cause 450 "N. SENECA
faster expansion at Lo-V, just as cloth
tears easier with a starting cut. Try it WICHITA, KANSAS
and see.
(Continued on page 59)

GUNS MARCH 1963 15

Dr. Mathews .invented many of the devices used in his won. Files cont.in his large handgun c:oIec:fioL

WHAT HIS A R~S FROM BULLETS.

GUNS. AND CARTRIDGE CASES CAN SAYE A MAN
.:
WHO IS INNOCENT. OR DAMN A GUILTY ONE

Collection of more th.n 2,300 handgun photos

w.re compe'" by Dr. M.thews' for new boo..
By JAMES A. LARSEN

W HEN Dr. J. Howard Mathews' monumental or a cartridge case than even its makers knew!
Dr. Mathews' first appearance in court as an
work was published, late in 1962, in two large
volumes by the University of Wisconsin Press under .expert witness against crime was the Chapman bomb
the title, "Firearms Identification," is was applauded case in Wisconsin, in which a man named Mag-
by the experts as an epic addition to the literature nusson was accused of having built the bomb which
of guns. Julian S. Hatcher, head of the technical killed John Chapman's wife. Mathews proved, by
department of the National Rifle Association, hailed means of pictures from a metallographic micro-
it also as "An event of utmost importance in the scope camera that a fragment of metal pipe coupling
field of firearms investigation"-.high praise from found in Magnusson's shop was a part of the cou-
a man whose own book, "Firearms Investigation, pling found in the bomb. (Coincidentally, the wood
Identification, and Evidence" has been the accepted used in the box in which the bomb was shipped
textbook in this area for many years. was identified as identical with wood scraps found
Who, then, is Dr. J. Howard Mathews? in Magnusson's shop-identified by Arthur Koehler,
He is a Professor Emeritus (Chemistry), Uni- the man who, 13 years later, traced the wood used
versity of Wisconsin, a former major in the Ord- in the Lindbergh kidnapping ,ladder to Hauptmann's
nance Department of the U.S. Army, a fellow of attic. )
the American Association for the Advancement of Mathews' first appearance in a case involving
Science-and the man whose testimony is accepted guns was one in which John Dietzler was accused
as gospel in criminal cases across the nation where- of having killed his wife's lover with a bullet from
in weapons identification is a part of the evidence. an ancient .32-40 Winchester rifle. The police were
He is the man who has invented devices with which unable to find the empty, ejected shells from the
he can tell-and prove-more about a gun, a bullet, rifle, but they did find the lethal bullet. This

Mathews at comparison camera that takes one picture of

two bullets. Bullet photo, right, identified murder gun.
GUNS • MARCH 1963 17
 was not as good a piece of evidence as bullets sometimes are
-the rifle was so worn and rusty that its lands and grooves
were not cleanly cut-but it proved good enough for Mathews.
He found that the corroded spots in the barrel had left their
own distinctive marks on the· bullet, was able to show similar
markings on test bullets fired from the gun.
But the defense questioned whether or not the bullet' was
even the same caliber as the rifle, suggested that it might be
a .30-30. Mathews answered that argument with typical precision.
"If a bullet is deformed," he said, "one can identify it better
by weight than by measurement. On the average, .32-40 bullets
of this make weigh 164.4 grains. The metal jackets average
19.9 grains. We found by tests that bullets fired through Dietzler's
rifle uniformly lost 13.7 grains of weight because the barrel was
so rusty. Some of the jacket of the bullet in question was missing,
so we cut the missing amount off a new jacket and found that
the missing part weighed 13 grains. The lethal bullet weighed
137.7 grains. That weight, plus the weight of the missing part
of the jacket, plus the weight stripped from the bullet by Dietzler's
rifle-137.7 plus 13.7 plus 13 grains-totaled 164.4 grains."
That made it, beyond question, a .32-40 bullet. Dietzler agreed
to plead guilty.
The Magnusson and Dietzler cases made Mathews' name famous
in criminological circles. In true scientific fashion, he began
reporting on his methods in technical journals, among them
the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Realizing the
importance of suitable equipment, he proceeded to outfit a lab-
oratory at the University of Wisconsin for the identification of
weapons.
This laboratory was the forerunner of the Wisconsin State
Crime Laboratory, the formation of which Mathews urged as
early as 1925 and which was organized finally in 1947. During
Rifling meter determines angle of rifling in the 1920s and '30s, a dozen murderers in Wisconsin alone were
handguns. To make identification of guns more convicted solely on the basis of scientific evidence; the first of
scientific, Mathews invented device himself. a score or so grimly surprised killers convicted by Mathews'
direct courtroom testimony. Many times this number, faced with
incontrovertible evidence, confessed and were sent to prison.
As he sits in his laboratory today, Mathews has behind him
more than a quarter century of experience in the rough-and.
tumble world of crime and detection, a strange world indeed
for an academic chemist, but one in which cold logic and a
few scientific tools have worked miracles.
There are only a few great names in the early history of
laboratory crime detection. Calvin Goddard, founder and chief
of the crime laboratory at Northwestern University, was one.
He was the first man in this country to make use of the fact
that bullets are "fingerprinted" by the gun they are fired through,
and that they bear the marks of the particular barrel through
which they were shot. (Speaking of fingerprints, it was an
English criminologist named Galton who first recognized the
fact that an individual's fingerprints are his and his alone, no
two alike.)
To Mathews, however, belongs the credit for having developed
the laboratory tools-the instruments-used to identify guns,
bullets, and other objects-knives, for example-frequently in-
volved in crime. Nearly every apprehended murderer today is
convicted on the basis of scientific evidence.
To a visitor in his laboratory, Mathews is a small man, now
gray-haired, surrounded by a maze of equipment: special micro-
scopes, cameras, glass-enclosed cases lined with books and chemi-
cals. He is a cheerful, good-humored, unassuming man generously
endowed with compassion and "the quality of mercy." You
would never guess him to be a man in any way concerned with
Comparison microscope allows two bullets to murder!
be rotated at same time for study of marks. Yet to Mathews, the un'ravelling of the (Continued on page 41)
13 GUNS MARCH 1963
 IF A DEER IS AS TALL AS YOUR FRONT
SIGHT POST. HOW FAR OFF IS HE?

-Ll!~ . ~
:r=li. ~1I0Y~
:t ~ ~150'~
By ALBERT E. GROODY =:t==-~ ~200 ,ds.
OST HUNTERS have one problem in common-
M range estimation. For the average hunter, the
business of estimating the distance between him and the la---~ ~300yds.
game is a matter of guesstimating rather than estimating
more or less accurately, give or take a few yards. Seldom,
if ever, is there time to use a mechanical method, and a Figure 2
means of learning range estimation is needed.
While the optical range finders-similar to those found
on a good many cameras-work well, I was looking for Range in inches + Height 0/ object covered by full
a method of actually learning to estimate distances. One sight post" (in inches) = Your eye-to-sight post distance
of the oldest tricks for this is the use of the rifle sights. in inches -:- Your sight post's height in inches.
This can be done either with a scope, using some part of For example, if you have a rifle with a 32" eye-to-sight
the scope reticle, or with iron sights, using some part of distance, and a lh"-high sight post, and wish to know
the front blade. The height of the deer or other game the height of the object covered by the sight at 100 yards:
relative to the height of the front sight post can give you 3600" 32" 3600 x .5
an excellent idea of the range. If your rifle has an eye-to- X- = .5" X = 32
front sight distance of 27 inches (carbine distance) and X 56.3".
a front sight post 7/16" high with a 3/32" bead, Figure If your target is a full gr-own whitetail buck, which
2 shows how your deer would look next to your sight post. runs around 60 inches from feet to top of head, your
The mathematics are simple. At 27 inches from your sight post will cover him from feet to the middle of his
eye, your sight post makes a small angle with your eye. head at 100 yards. At 200 yards, the sight will cover
As the range to the target increases, the distance between slightly less than twice the deer's height. Some hunters
the arms of the angle increases. Sinj::e the deer's size have filed notches in the trailing edge of their blade-type
remains constant, the deer appears to grow smaller com- front sight and filled them with white paint to make a
pared to the sight as the range increases. convenient gauge.
If you wish to figure sight post ranging for your own A similar mathematical formula gives range informa-
rifle, use this simple equation: tion with telescopic sights, but (Continued on page 60)

GUNS MARCH 1963 19

 Iriecl ~
IeCtI,he go 'iJDe Of tie ..un: 1t9W118"
Magdalena and sign on as a part.time policeman.
My first meeting with Gabriel came while be was doing the
badge toting honors in a small Mexican village. Frontier Colts
were selling like hot cakes in Arizona, and a partner and I
decided on an expedition into Mexico to see if we could rake
up a few to use as trading stock. But pickings were slim until
good fortune led us to Gabriel and an arrangement with him to
guide us to the remote desert ranch country.
Gabriel carried his own gun in the common Mexican fashion.

Carrying a gun is second nature to a

lot of men living on the border. Gun
action and caliber are dependent on
penon" choice. but the U.s. trend is
toward revot-.,." end heavier abbers.

20 GUNS •• MARCH 1963

Mexican plainclothes carry of the Colt .38 Super auto consists
of simply clipping pistol inside waistband over the right hip.

thrust butt·to-the-rear in a thin leather holster clipped inside the

waistband of his trousers over the right hip. It was a worn Smith
& Wesson .32-20, with a slightly loose cylinder and wooden grips
rubbed smooth from years of constant handling. "Not a very
powerful pistol for a law officer," I commented.
"It is sufficient, senor," he grinned, and proceeded to entertain
my partner and me with stories of three men who had fallen to
the little gun. One was a butcher-knife wielding Indian who
attacked Gabriel. "I spent three cartridges on thi!3 man," he
reflected, "and he stopped."
"Couldn't 'you have stopped him better with a .45?" queried
my sidekick, eyeing the lead·bulletted .32·20 shells in Gabe's
cartridge loops.
"I didn't want to kill him, only to stop him. Besides, I can't
hit what I shoot at with a .45-too big," answered the burly
Mexican. He raised his misshapen left hand, exhibiting the rough-
edged scar that immobilized his knuckles. "A .45 did that. The Typical Mexican favorites, from top down
soldier that did this couldn't shoot one either, and he is dead." are: Colt .25 auto. Llama .32, Colt .38,
"The .32-20?" I asked. M191 I A I .45 favored on both sides of Rio
"Si, senor, he hit me once in the hand, and hit the wall twice. Grande. U.S. choices include: S&W .357 M,
Then I shot him six times with my little izquierda." S&W .44 Special 1950 Model, Colt .44-40
"lzquierda" means "left" in Spanish, and refers to swingout S.A., S&W .44 Magnum, Ruger .44 Magnum.
revolvers of the modern Colt or Smith & Wesson type.
During the course of this and other pleasurable gun hunts all
over Mexico, I found that the small caliber izquierdas were second
in popularity only to Colt automatics, called "esquadras" because
of their comparatively square dimensions. The Colt .38 Super has
for years been the most desirable handgun in Mexico, followed
closely by the .32 and .380 automatics. The Colt .45 automatic
is also well liked, but can under federal law be possessed only by
army officials. This also goes for possession of the .45 ACP
ammunition.
Contraband .45's are frequently found in the hands of civilian
police and private citizens, and like other center-fire guns, aren't
shot much because of the prohibitive cost of ammunition in
Mexico. There is also the federal law requiring registration of
arms, which discourages, but by n'o means prevents, private own-
ership of firearms. I knew many pistol toters all over Mexico
10 years ago and, as far as I know, none of them complied with
the registration law. Things may have changed down there since
then, but if I know my pistoleros, they have not.
Despite the number of handgunners (Continued on page 50)
GUNS MARCH 1963 21
 By R. A. STEINDLER

EL JOHNSON'S new 5.7 mm Spitfire carbine and

M cartridge promises to stand varmints and varmint
shooters in the U.S. and abroad on their ears. Mel, in,case
you did not know it or had forgotten it, is one of our top
firearms designers and machine gun experts, and from this
font of knowledge, comes the new Spitfire. What will it do
that other center-fire cartridges, existing or now in semi-
retirement, won't do? Well, the cartridge is highly accu-
rate, is loaded to sane ballistics, produces little or no recoil,
does not sound like a clap of thunder rolling through the
country side-and it functions liked greased lightning in
Mel's new semi-automatic conversions of the standard .30
caliber U.S. carbine.
Before Mel's Spitfire was created, there was no high
velocity varmint cartridge that would function in a semi·

Inventor Mel Johnson holds M I carbine that has

been converted to. MMJ 5.7 Spitfire. Wire stock
MEL JIHNIIN!
folds upward and forward to form a solid grip.

Views of right side of Johnson's

converted carbine. Gun is handled
like a regular handgun, with two
hands, like rifle with the wire
stock unfolded. Clips for 5, 15,
and 30 rounds will be available.
-
The custom sporter is made on
the Sako action, has simple, yet
pleasing lines. This gun, with a
Lyman scope, was fired for tests,
gave superb groups, performance.

22
I, GUNS MARCH 1963
 auto between the calibers .22 RFM and the Winchester .243. muzzle velocity with the short tube is still a very respect-
The new 5.7 mm fills the bill, and it gives new life to able 2825 fps, with a 100 yard velocity of 2175 fps.
thousands of surplus carbines now floating around. It is Loaded, the tiny Spitfire cartridge measures 1.68 inch,
no secret that this .30 carbine load was, and still is, one weighs 120 grains, has the standard rimless base of ·the
of the most over-rated cartridges ever. As a sporter, its use carbine brass. Mel has tested practically all of the existing
is limited to knocking off jackrabbits and tin cans, and 40 grain pills that mike .224-all of them giving super-
those only at ranges that make shooting the carbine a sheer lative accuracy in the test guns available as of this writing.
waste of ammo. All of the bullets were of the jacketed variety and Mel's
Let's take a look at the cartridge and ballistics of the present loads have Sisk pills in them.
Copyright MMJ 5.7 Spitfire. The case is the necked-down Basically, the shooter will have three separate choices.
carbine case, and is loaded to Mel's specification with a 40 You can either ship Mel your standard U.S. Ml Carbine,
grain pill. Pressures, according to H.P. White Laboratories, order a new Carbine-Spitfire, or Mel and his associates will
run a sane 36,000 psi. Muzzle velocity from a 24 inch tube build you a custom sporter in the new caliber on the Sako
averages 3050 fps, while the 100 yard chronographed veloc- action. The conversion of your carbine to the MMJ 5.7 mm
ity is 2400 fps. Chop the barrel down to 18 inches, and Spitfire will set you back $73; (Continued on page 55)

NEW''I1ITIIRE''

Mel's '.'family." light .30 cal. machine gun, semiautomatic rifle in The MMJ 5.7 Spitfire loaded with three
.30-06 and .270 interchangeable (both '41), and the new Spitfire. different bullet types. Cartridges are
shown larger than 2x the actual size.

ONE OF AMERICA'S TOP DESIGNERS OFFERS TO TURN

YOUR M-l CARBINE INTO A NEW-LOOK VARMINTER

FOR HIS NEW 2825 FOOT-SECOND 5.7mm. CARTRIDGE

GUNS MARCH 1963 23

 I T IS AXIOMATIC that one picture is worth
a thousand words. But when it comes to in-
surance losses, a picture may be worth a thousand
dollars. Gems, silver, paintings, valuable stamps,
rare books are often photographed for insurance
records, but few gun collectors ever take the time
or trouble to photograph their treasures. But even
if you don't have a gun collection worth thousands
of dollars, you should have pictures of your guns, for identifi-
cation. Suppose you lose or someone steals your American
Eagle Luger. How many policemen or insurance investigators
could identify your gun at sight from that data?
Purchase, sale, or barter provide other reasons for having
pictures of your guns. Let's say you want to sell a certain gun.
You can describe it as being in "excellent" condition. But
"excellent" is a word subject (in spite of NRA definitions)
to personal interpretation. The man who reads your ad may
have been burned in the purchase of a gun described as
"excellent" but which, on arrival, showed extensive holster
wear, poor or damaged checkering, or other flaws. Your ad
with a picture of the gun will cost a little more, but it will
win more attention and show beyond question that your gun
is as specified. The prospective buyer will be more willing to
pay your price if he can see for himself that the gun is worth
the money. The big Sears Roebuck catalog with its thousands
of pictures isn't just a monument to company vanity; it is a
proven device for fast, complaint-free selling.
Getting pictures of your guns does not necessarily require
calling in a professional photographer. Taking sharp, clear
pictures of guns is not beyond the skill of the average amateur
photo-hobbyist providing that he takes some care getting set
for the picture-taking session-and providing he has the right
camera for the job. A good many cameras on the market take

24
 A little talcum on stamping, good camera with Proxar lens,
even light, produced a needle-sharp picture of Single-Six.

neat photographs of the family, or bring back photographic

memories of your last hunt and of the one that did not get
away. But for close-up work, you need special lenses, and
Using one of four Proxar lenses, it's easy
to make a complete record of each of your some cameras just. won't do the job. As a professional outdoor
guns. Long guns are placed on two sheets of writer, I use three cameras: A 4x5 Speed Graphic, a 2:14x2:14
cardboard or you can use the dowel bucket. Yashica, and. for all-around work, a 35 mm Contaflex.
The large view camera is used primarily in still shots that
can be composed at leisure, or for color work where a large
negative is essential. The intermediate Yashica is mostly used
for color shots outdoors where I cannot control action or light,
and in some black and white photography. Action photos,
close-ups either indoors or out, telephoto, and wide angle
shots are taken with the Contaflex. This camera, made by the
famous Zeiss Ikon outfit, comes with a standard Tessar f2.8,
50 mm lens. A wide angle Pro-Tessar f3.2, 35 mm lens, and
a set of Proxar close-up lenses, do very nicely for all my gun
photography, from long guns to detailed studies of gun parts
and actions. Many other cameras will do the work satisfactorily.
But even if yours won't, all hope is not lost, since many dealers
will rent used photographic equipment to customers they know.
Consult your camera dealer about this.
In setting up for taking pictures of guns, keep in mind that
your light must be spread evenly over the gun, that shadows
and "hot spots" (actually areas of greater light reflection from
your photo floods) must be eliminated or reduced as much as.
possible. Next is the'matter of back-(Continued on page 54)
GUNS MARCH 1963 25
 PS.

.
II
IN BASEBALL YOU IIHIT 'EM WHERE THEY AIN"T
ON CLAY TARGETS YOU SHOOT WHERE THEY"LL BE!

Uy WARD WAS a smooth-faced, rig," pomtmg to the Mossberg with

G 19 year old youngster when he
stood on the trap field in Indianapolis
the trap attached to the barrel, "keeps
the sport within my budget." '
and called for the bird. That day he Guy's first experience with a shoot-
won the first North American Amateur ing budget was acquired at the age of
Trapshooting Championship. Fifty-six seven in Walnut Log, Tennessee. He
years later, after 42 years as a pro and made a deal with his Dad, P. C. Ward,
exhibition shooter, he is still busting proprietor of the Sportsman Hotel on
birds, but, on this day at least, they Reelfoot Lake and a wholesale dealer
were the pint-sized Mo-Skeet-O discs in fish and game. He was presented
used with the Mossberg Targo outfit. with a "hand-me-down" Flobert rifle
Now 75 and retired since 1948, Guy .<0 chambered for .22 shorts. With it, he
lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and popped bull frogs along the lake, sell-
shoots for fun. But ask him to put on ing the frogs to his father. With the
an exhibition, and it's an even bet proceeds, he'd buy more ammunition
that he will be at the range before you and spend the remaining funds on Use of hand trap allows shooter to
get there. "I still get a bang out of licorice sticks and jaw breakers. concentrate on target, man who'
shooting," Guy says, "and this little "Believe me," Guy recalls, "I had to handles it controls the flight.
25 GUNS MARCH 1963
"T V"~ TAR ET ••• By GEORGE N. HEB'ERl

make every shot count to earn a profit, 1,960 targets, Ward broke 1,875 for ber seldom reached by trapshooters of
but I managed to collect enough cash an average of 95.7 per cent. the day.
to ease the sweet tooth of a seven-year- When professional gunners from all He thrived on cOplpetition. Again
old 'professional' hunter. over the United States gathered at in 1909, in Atlanta, Georgia, he met
"Dad made me earn my way, but he Marion, Ohio, in 1909 to participate the fabled H. D. Freeman in a chal-
gave me two things that I've never in a tournament sponsored by the Queen lenge match at the Atlanta Gun Club.
forgotten. The first was a single shot, City Gun Club, Guy was billed as "the The two shot for 1 hour and 55 min-
20 gauge Hopkins & Allen as an eleventh boy wonder." He earned this tribute utes at 600 targets each. Guy Ward
birthday present. Market hunting for by breaking 124 x 125 targets and, at broke 490 and Freeman ran second
ducks with that gun developed the the same time, setting a record for 200 with 484. In Birmingham, at the Ala-
accuracy which was to make shooting straights without a miss, a magic num- bama State (Continued on page 46)
a way of life with me. The second gift,
at the same time he gave me the gun,
was this bit of advice: 'Son, don't ever
shoot at a flying target, shoot where
the target's going to be.' "
Young Ward used both gifts to the
best advantage. He developed an ex-
cellent reputation as a guide among
the wealthy hunters who migrated to
the Sportsman Hotel during the sea-
sons. One of these, W. A. Dailey of
Indianapolis, was so impressed by the
youngster's shooting that he made it
possible for Guy to make the trip to
Indianapolis to compete in the newly
established Amateur Trapshooting
event in the Grand 'American.
In the next 42 years, Guy Ward
fired an average of 15,000 rounds a
year at "where the target was going Guy Ward keeps his shooting eye and coordination between eye and trigger'
to be." He racked up several national finger in shape by dusting the inexpensive birds, alone and by the hour.
championships, left records riddl~d and
forgotten as official scorers posted his
hew ones. The~day he won his initial
championship ''Was the first and last
time Guy Ward shot in competition
as an amateur. Several weeks later, he
accepted an offer made by a repre-
sentative of the Nobel Explosives Co.,
Ltd., of Scotland, manufacturers of
Ballistite powder, to shoot for them as
a professional.
It didn't take long for the youngster
from Walnut Log to become the topic
of conversation wherever the nation's
greatest marksmen gathered. In Wil-
mington, North Carolina, at the annual
Inter-State Gun Club Tournament, GuY.,
Ward, shooting for Ballistite, scored
as high professional with 199 x 200
and a straight run of 143 targets. Next
came the North Carolina State Shoot,
and Guy won it with high professional The tiny target can be missed easily with the small shot size and charge.
average score of 492 x 500. Of the last Fast action is required, and Ward 'can supply that with the greatest ease.
(.;UNS MARCH 1963 27
 Knife made by M. Price, San Francisco. Hilt is
bound with engraved silver border, gold studs
and the shield are fastened to the ivory grips.

Green River Russell

skinning knives, top,
were considered the
best. Grips were horn,
checkered ebony, hard
woods. Late hunting
or sheath knives, at
right, are Russell's.

Will & Finck knife is

typical of fancy work
sold to Californians
in the early 1800's.
Knives cost over $50.

28 GUNS MARCH 1961

OF THE By JAMES E. $E-RVEN

GUN AND KNIFE WERE PARTNERS

AS MEN BATTLED FOR SURVIVAL
ON OUR EXPANDING FRONTIERS

HE USUAL quiet of Fernandez de Taos was shattered

T by screams and angry shouts from within the house
of Alcalde Don Cornelio Vegil. Here what started out to
be a gay fandango had erupted into a mad melee of flash-
ing knives and twisting bodies. Grouped in the center of
the room were a half-dozen buckskin-clad Mountain Men.
About them swarmed a score of vengeful Mexican peleados.
When the room was finally cleared, the Americans were
scathed but definitely in command of the situation. On
the floor lay a number of the Mexicans. Two were dead, Heavy-Bladed .Chevalier California knife, top, was
others were badly wounded. ve~y po~ular In west. All purpose sheath knife by

So wrote George Frederic Ruxton, traveler _of note in Will & Finck was a rugged California-made product.
the untamed West of the 1840s, and an able observer
whose writing have provided much important on-the-spot
information about the people, the events, the customs, and
the speech of the time. Ruxton wrote that a knife thrust
from the brawny arm of a Mountain Man was no minor
incident, seldom failing to strike home "up to Green
~iver"-a cryptic phrase that becomes chilling to the
reader who knows its meaning.
Actually, "up to Green River" had two special meanings
among that hardy group of frontiersmen who opened up
our western trails and whom we generally describe by the
nicely alliterated words Mountain Men. The sanguinary
meaning of "up to Green River" indicated that the blade
would be thrust deeply, right up to the "Green River
Works" stamping of J. Russell & Co. on the knife blade
near the guard. It should be considered that deep thrusts
of the knife were not always acts of mayhem but often
saved human life in encounters with savage animals. The
second "up to Green River" meaning as used by the Moun-
tain Men was to indicate quality, the equivalent to sterling
on silver. "Up to Green River" in this sense meant up to
highest quality. ."
On the frontier, a man's rifle, pistol, and knife were
his most important possessions. His knife was indeed more
than a weapon; it was an all purpose and indispensable
piece of everyday equipment-used for skinning, preparing Bowie knives were not of standard size, shape, were
food, eating, and all other purposes requiring a sharp made by a number of cutlery companies and by some' /
edged tool. We are told that, in the (Continued on page 44) individuals. These are in the G. G. Fox collection.
GUNS MARCH 1963 29
 YOU CAN'T HIT WHAT YOU CAN'T SEE,

AND YOU CAN'T SEE MUCH WITH

YOUR CHIN IN THE GRASS!

Keep gun at shoulder when operating the bolt.

For that one fast shot in the

field, the off-hand position
is the one to learn, practice.

Kneeling position is useless for the

hunter since it is much too unsteady.
Fine for the paper puncher, prone
position is poorest for hunter.

By COLONEL CHARLES ASKINS

HEY TELL the story of the sportsman who, on a mule deer hunt in the
T Southwest, returned from a day's adventure to report that he had seen
several fine bucks but hadn't shot one-"because there wasn't any place to
lie down."
The story is probably libelous, but it does cartoon a fact-which is that a
lot of shooters have been so nurtured on prone practice that they can't get off
a decent shot at game under hunting conditions. And you sure don't find many
occasions in game hunting where you can assume the belly-whopper position
and still see anything to shoot at.
It's true that the prone position enables a shooter to learn more quickly the
fundamentals of rifle accuracy. It's a fine position, provided you can point that
rifle out over a few hundred yards of manicured Bermuda. The trouble is that,
whether from sheer laziness or lack of urging, too few shooters ever get up off
30 GUNS MARCH 1963
 their belt buckles and learn to shoot the way they'll have to shoot in
game country. Game just doesn't very often stay in country naked
enough to let a prone gunner see much beyond the end of his ba,rrel,
and a hunter with his chin down in the grasses is about as useless as a
Commie promise.
The same is true in combat, in spite of the fact that recruits get
little else than prone practice in training. Only in rare circumstances,
in combat, can the prone rifleman command a sufficient field of fire to
make his prone accuracy potential payoff. This is not to say that the
combat rifleman is not stretched flat on his face plenty often. He is!
But this is to keep the other laddie from hitting him. It is not com-
monly the position from which he can hit the enemy.
For the practical shooter, be he combat rifleman or hunter, bench
rest and prone position shooting are good for just one thing: to zero
the rifle. When he was a novice, these positions doubtless did help him
to learn the mechanics of sighting, of trigger control, of familiarization
with the rifle; but if he is to graduate from paper targets, he should
graduate to practical methods.
What is a practical shooting position that will enable a rifleman to
perform effectively under field conditions?
The best position is sitting. It has many advantages. In a high per-
centage of circumstances, it provides enough altitude so the shooter
can see over grasses, rocks, logs, and brush. It is a steady position-not
as secure as prone, or as rock-like as bench rest, but certainly steady
enough, with practice, to enable the shooter to deliver his bullet where
he wants it. It is a stance that can be assumed in a twinkling, and it is
one from which the marksman can get back on his feet quickly, moving
forward or to either flank with the same movement.
Yet it is indicative of the bad advice given hunters that most men-
forgetting the chap who couldn't shoot at all except from prone-ignore
the sitting position and drop instead into some adaptation of the
kneeling posture. Kneeling is, at best, a sorry, wobbly, insecure shooting
position. Nine target riflemen out of ten will make better scores sitting
than kneeling-yet when they beco~e hunters, they forget this and
kneel when they could sit. If a man is afraid to get his backside in con-
tact with cold, possibly even wet, terra firma, he had better stick to
paper targets!
During WorId War II, the Army whumped up a brand new position
which they called squatting. It is a pretty ridiculous posture, and it
is not worth a plugged peso for shooting purposes. It is unsteady,
muscle·binding, and even less likely than kneeling to provide firm
support for the rifle..
There is still another way for a hunter to shoot, and that is standing.
It is also called offhand shooting, and the average target rifleman hates
it worse than poison. But it just happens to be the way a lot of shots
have to be taken, in the game countries, if you expect to ride home
with game back of your saddle or over your fender. There is no quicker
way to get a shot off than from the standing position; and many times
"quick" is the difference between getting and not getting. The trouble
is that hardly one rifleman in a thousand can hit a saddle blanket,
shooting offhand, from a distance of as much as 200 paces. It is not
strange that this is so; shooting offhand is a rough, tough, he-man way
to shoot, and many men refuse to give it the practice that is necessary
to become good at it.
Nevertheless, it often happens that game must be shot offhand if it
is to be shot at all, and the belly-flopper, however expert, finds his
method useless. In brush that is hip-high to a moose, or in grass up to
your eyeballs, or when the critter you want is going like a jet-goosed
skyliner, the prone position won't get the job done.
Last spring, up on Kodiak Island, I watched a gent who most likely
You can become a good off-hand shot, has not popped off a dozen caps offhand in the last decade, try to
but it takes much time and practice. connect with a half-ton bruin'which I reckoned (Continued on page 52)
GUNS MARCH 1963 31
 ACCORDING to Charles Coles, Colt collection con-
1"\.. sultant at the Connecticut State Library in Hart-
ford, about 350,000 New Service guns were made
by Colt, including 151,700 which were manufac-
tured for the armed forces during WorId War I.
Serial numbers on all guns ran consecutively, and
each revolver, in addition to the government num-
ber, carried the Colt serial number. Government
orders were stamped "UNITED STATES PROP-
ERTY" on the underside of the barrel and directly
Colt's New Service guns were chambered for a variety over the ejector rod, and Government serial num-
of different calibers. These were marked on the left bers were stamped on the butt. British military and
side of the barrel and included tradename of the gun. commercial models carry British proof marks and
military guns are also marked with the broad arrow.
Several of the commercial models chambered for the
.455 Eley have a rather crude stamping "Not Eng-
lish Made," but this is not an original Colt marking.
By RAY BEARSE ThroHgh the cooperation of Lt. Col. Harry W.
Craig, technical liason officer of the Ordnance De-
partment, the following production data for the
Model 1917 were made available from the report of
Assistant Secretary of War Benedict Crowell "Amer-
ica's Munitions 1917-1918."
Colt Smith & Wesson Total
6 April-29
December 1917 20,900 9,513 30,413
January 1918 8,700 7,500 16,200
February 1918 8,800 8,550 17,350
March 1918 11,800 12,400 24,200
April 1918 10,400 10,650 21,050
May 1918 11,100 12,150 23,250
June 1918 11,100 14,250 23,350
July 1918 11,600 11,555 23,155
August 1918 11,300 13,358 24,658
September 1918 11,100 12,650 23,750
October 1918 13,500 16,675 30,175
November 1918 11,900 12,660 24,560
December 1918 9,500 11,400 20,900
Total 151,700 153,311 305,01l
Caliber designations on the New Service are
stamped on the left side of the barrel, about one
inch ahead of the frame. Typical are these mark-
mgs:
NEW SERVICE .45 COLT; NEW SERVICE .38
SPECIAL; NEW SERVICE TARGET .45; COLT
SHOOTING MASTER .38; and NEW SERVICE
.455 ELEY.
The Model 1917 chambered for the .45 ACP
cartridge and the later standard commercial model
chambered for this cartridge was marked COLT
D.A..45. One New Service Colt is known to be
marked CALIBER .45 COLT AUTOMATIC, but
no further information about this gun was obtain-
able. .
The most common barrel marking, reading front
to rear and placed atop the barrel was:
COLT'S PATENT FIREARMS MANUFACTUR-
ING CO. HARTFORD CT. USA PAT AUG 5,1884.
Later the following additional dates were added:
June 5, 1900; July 4, 1905; and Oct 5, 1926.
Army Model 1909 sixguns were marked with the
These are a few of the cartridges the various models government serial number on the butt and also were
of the Colt New Service were chambered for. Some of stamped ,U.S. ARMY MODEL 1917. Navy Model
the models also accept ammunition of another caliber. 1909's were marked USN 45 (Continued on page 51)
32 GUNS MARCH 1963
Witch of
the SierraS
By RUSSEL~ ANNABEL

"IF YOU don't kill meat today,"

the cook said grimly, "I'm quitting
three hours without seeing anything
that would make a meal for five men
him within 80 yards of me, but that
wasn't close enough, and I started
this outfit. It will not grieve me to and six dogs, when the mule halted easing down the mountainside. Sud-
depart; I have never in my whole life abruptly, his big ears waving. The denly, far below me, a .voice lifted in
had a worse job. Crazy gringo, crazy hound uttered a low "whuf whuf," and song. This was crazy enough, consider-
hunting for things no man wants, whined a little. Only the sight or scent ing where I was, to remind me of the
crazy country - all crazy, including of a meat-worthy animal would have cook's comments.
me!" earned that reaction, for Pilot was a It was nice singing, but the buck
I couldn't blame him. We had been dour dog, not given to loose talk. didn't like it. He started to run, pound-
out six months, trying to kill an onza, I hastily surveyed our surroundings, ing hell-for-leather up the slope toward
picking up specimens for a museum wondering if the dog had caught a me. I ran to get within range-tripped
to help pay expenses; the roughest, hot scent or merely sniffed something over something and fell; a catclaw
toughest hunt in my experience. To from afar on the eddying breeze. Then, thorn ripped my cheek; a rock rolled
make matters worse, we were pres- several hundred yards down the slope, under me as I struggled up and I did
endy in barren country from which the huaraca birds started screeching and a comedy ballet that might have earned
game, if there had been game, seemed I caught, beneath them, a fleeting applause in another setting. The buck
to have disappeared completely. This glimpse of a tan shape moving through heard me, of course, and set a new
was the Sierra Madre above Pueblo the San Juan brush-a whitetail deer, course. He was 40 yards off when I
Juarez, in the state of Colima, Mexico. angling toward me. laid the muzzle-loader on him and
So I told the cook that I would get·' I slid my muzzle-loader out of its pulled.
meat even if I had to bushwhack a cow, boot, and got down. The deer, a small With the impact of the heavy charge,
if I could find a cow; and I set forth buck, appeared in full view in an open- he whirled, made a long lunge, came
on a mule, with the spotted, battle- ing, and I saw that he was looking down on his knees, and rolled. I sprint-
scarred hound who led our pack of back, making a typical whitetail get- ed toward him without bothering to
cat dogs beside me, to fulfill my away. Something below had started, reload-if he got away, the cook would'
promise. I had prowled the ridges for him moving. His course would bring quit! But the (Continued on page 47)
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 IME WAS when the handloader
T had only one choice of powder in
building reloads for the .44 Special or
.44 Magnum. That choice was 2400.
That powder gave, and still gives, excel-
lent performance in many loadings.
with a wide variety of bullets in the big
handguns; but it is no longer the only
powder that will do this. Today, you
choose from a wide variety of powders
to produce loads for every need, wheth-
er you are seeking high-accuracy with
low recoil for target shooting, or
smashing power for game, or long-
range accuracy for varmints.
This report is based upon three years
of work in testing hundreds of different
load combinations in search of true re-
Unique, 2400, and H 240 are fine powders for the magnum handguns. loading flexibility for the heavy hand-
gun. All of these loads have been ac-
curately chronographed on electronic
crystal controlled counter-type instru-

4tGO MODERI\I' ments, and the results should give you

the basic information needed for years
of personal experimentation.
Powder at;ld load development for

POWDERS the big handguns lagged behind bullet

advances for many years. Half jacket-
ed, zinc based, gas checked, flat or hol-
·low pointed pills, in forms too numer-

For .Big Sixes ous t'o list, made news, making the big
revolvers the most effective handguns
in the world. But for as long as Jesse
Owens has held the broad jump record,
all of these bullets were loaded ahead
By EDWARD M. YARD of just one propellant, No. 2400. The
accepted top .44 Special load was
Experimental Ballistics Associates, Trenton, N. J. around the 18 grain level of 2400 be-
hind any of the 240 to 255 grain bul-
lets, and more or less of the same stuff
powered every other fireball.
START LOW IS THE RULE. AS After three years of experimenting
and chronographing, I can now report
ALWAYS. BUT HERE ARE SOME TESTED on some "new" powders. Three Alcan
powders (ALS, AL7, ALB), Hercules
GUIDE LINES FOR "NEW" Herco, Unique, 2400, Hodgdon H240,
and Winchester-Western 295HP make
up an octet of versatile lead heavers
POWDERS IN MAGNUM HANDGUNS unparalleled in previous years. Unique,
I n tests, 295
HP did well.

Double quartet of .44 slugs with new loads do better ballistic job than· ever before. Loads were years in coming.
36 GUNS MARCH 1963
 ity, and heavy .357 bullets. ALS is
excellent with heavy bullets to maxi-
mum velocities. Its bulk makes acci-
dental overloads improbable. All are
clean burning.
Herco is a disc grained powdoc, like
H240, 2400, Unique, and Bullseye. It
is close enough to AL7 so that it is
often impossible to plot loads for both
powders on the same graph. It is a very
uniform performer, doing well with
either light or heavy bullets, and gives
very little velocity variation. If you
had a single choice, Herco is one of
the best.
Unique bears a superficial resem-
blance to Herco, as does Bullseye. Both
are faster burning powders. Unique, in
Although not new, use of these powders in handgun loads may be new to you. modern guns capable of taking mag-
num pressures, is an excellent propel-
lant for light bullets-even to maxi-
once relegated to medium power loads should ever be fired in altered or con- mum velocities. It is also a versatile
only, can now assert its authority in verted revolvers or pistols, or any.thing medium power propellant with any
new and stronger guns when assigned but modern guns designed for these weight of bullet, giving very uniform
to accelerating light balls to fancy pressures. A word of caution to the velocities under wide variations in load
velocities. Winchester-Western's high inexperienced: load development work density.
power entry, 295HP, is joined by a and ballistics experimentation is play- Hercules' 2400 is physically not dis-
target load partner, 230HP. Both of ing with gunpowder. Unless you know tinguishable from H240, except for its
them are ball powders. Herco, like what you are doing, leave it alone. almost black color. Care must be taken
Unique, is an old timer that just re- Alcan's AL5, AL7, ALS, as well as not to confuse them in loading as H240
, cently came to full recognition because Herco, are shotgun powders designed is faster burning and must be loaded at
of stronger guns and modern chrono- to accelerate heavy shot cha'rges to least 10 per cent below 2400 data. 2400
graph facilities. Amateur ballistics ex- handgun velocities with short pressure is about as slow burning a powder as
perimenters, u'ntil very recently, have peaks. Unique has similar character- can be used successfully in short bar-
not had accurate chronograph equip- istics and is also used to load shotshells. rels, and is best used for heavy loads
ment. Those few hardy souls who This similarity with pistol powders led with large bullets.
worked with pendulums were, drastic- me to start an extensive load develop- H240 is faster and burns more com-
ally curtailed in the amount of work ment program which began in 1957 pletely than 2400. It can be used for
they could do. Progress was painfully and is not completed. So far, more a greater range of loads, overlapping
slow. Most of us, including the writer, than 400 different load combinations the AL5, AL7, Herco area. It appears
were just out in the dark. Now, counter have been chronographed and over to be similar to the powder loaded in
chronographs are available to us, and 5000 rounds were fired in the .44's the Remington .44 Magnums ammuni-
light is available where once all was .alone. tion. Winchester-Western 230HP, a fast
darkness. The Alcan powders, made by Bofors burning ball type powder for match
. Some combinations in .44 Magnum in Sweden, are of the flake type and are loads, is comparable to Bullseye and
and .357 Magnum run pressures up to excellent. AL5 and AL7 have burning 5066. These powders are designed for
40,000 p.s.i. or higher and are safe characteristics similar to those of target loads, are quick burning and
only in guns designed to handle these Herco. They are best with medium small charges ignite easily. They are
pressures. No heavy load of any kind weight .44 bullets at maximum veloc- (Continued on page 43)

1400 1600

1200 1400
en cri
a.: 0.:
u.: 1000 ~ 1200
i:: ~
g
-l
800 g 1000
-l
W W
> 600 >
800

600
4.0 6.0 8.0 10.0 12.0 14.0 16.0 18.0 8.0 10.0 12.0 14.0 16.0 18.0 20.0 no
POWDER WT. GRAINS POWDER WT. GRAINS
GUNS MARCH 1963 37
 to shoot side-by-side with our opponents,
even if we are beaten, than to shoot at them,
and to have them shooting at us. And, medals
won under ISU rules come easier than med-
als earned under Geneva rules.
* * *
Since it's beginning in 1958, your Pull!
column has had only one purpose. That pur-
pose has been to mirror the doings of trap
and skeet shooters in the national shooter's
magazine, and from time to time to interject
some comments of interest to those shooter~
who follow the great games of skeet and
trap. Your Pull! conductor whiled away
many a pleasant day shooting in tournaments
of both sports, after many years as a small-
bore shooter, rifle variety (I blush to admit),
P ULL! salutes the performance of
United States men and women in the
of the current crop of hot juniors by that
comparison. Ron Ford's performance at
Montreal, the first time he saw the inter·
and thus can claim to speak the language
38th International Shooting Union Cham- of the clay target games, and also to under-
pionships, held in Cairo, Egypt. Yank gun· national game, showed that juniors can stand (so far as is possible) the workings
ners, despite some handicapping illnesses, shoot 'em when they call for 'em or at any of clay target shooter's minds.
gave a good account of themselves in all later interval. This background prepared me in some
of the games, with pistol, rifle, and (of I do mean that scores under ISU rules run degree to weigh the comments received as a
special interest to readers of this column) consistently less than under domestic rules. result of an invitation to speak out on atti-
in the unfamiliar international-style clay The old saying of "break 'em all, then tudes toward international clay target games
target matches. outlast the rest of the gang who broke 'em included in Pull! for December 1962.
While the International Shooting Union all in a shoot-off," does not hold in the Mail received as this column is written
Games are certainly, like the Olympic ISU game. As Russian Durniev's record- indicates that domestic shooters have no
Games, not set up for, or designed for, breaking 200 shows, a perfect score under really strong opinions on the international
propaganda advantage to either Communist thcse rules usually will let you rest in the games, but that they did avail themselves
or Non-Communist nations, human nature clubhouse until time to award the trophies. of an opportunity to speak out on those
being what it is, the performance of na- The United Statcs ladies showed up bet- domestic games that are near and dear to
tionals on both sides is closely watched and ter at Cairo than many of our female rep- their hearts.
evaluated. resentatives in other sports. Marjorie Annan To no one's surprise, especially mine, mail
It was apparent in the recent ISU games from Aspen, Colorado, took second in the from the December issue indicates that:
at Cairo that the concern for performance Ladies individual event, won by a Vene· 1. Skeet shooters, in the majority, are not
of our shooters in international competition zuelean. Charlotte Berkenkamp took second interested in shooting for cash or merchan-
on the part of all responsible shooting or- for the U.S. in International trap, just one dise prizes, and attach more than a little
ganizations in this country is being reflected target behind the winning Russian.' affection to the trophies usually awarded
in better scores. And, if an explanation is needed that ISU winners in skeet events.
The United States skeet team won the skeet rules differ from the domestic version, 2. Trap shooters, by and large, feel that
team event in this portion of the games with it is needed even more in the trap game. suitably engraved photographs of Presidents,
a score of 394, and set a new world record. ISU trap bears only a slight resemblance to on green paper, and easily negotiable, make
Team members were Thomas Heffron, Rob- the game we see near almost any American dandy prizes.
ert Rodale, Ed Calhoun, and Kenneth Pend· town. The ISU game calls for faster, longer, One former skeet shooter, whose job
ergrass. The USSR team was second, Sweden and much more difficult targets, thrown from change took him from a town with a skeet
third, West Germany fourth, and our sister 15 traps instead of one. About the only real range, to a town that offered trap as the
North American nation, Canada, fifth. similarity between ISU trap and the domestic clay target bill of fare, did come up with
Yank shooters had to share some of the version is that both are long-range clay some observations that should be noted by
skeet glory with a shooter from Russia, who target games. conductors of trap programs.
won the individual competition with a perfect American men also recorded a very credit· While he was willing to grant veteran
200, also a new world record. Another able showing in the trap games. Our team trapshooters the right to cash in on their
USSR shooter took second, Heffron and of Lt. Bill Brauer, M/Sgt. Dave Duns- shooting abilities, gained from long ap-
Pendergrass nailed down third and fourth moor, Sgt/Maj. Harold Grewe, and Lt. prenticeship over the traps, he sincerely and
places in the individual rankings, with Gordon Horner, placed fifth in team events, fairly presented an observation that the
Rodale and Calhoun accounting for 7th behind USSR, East Germany, UAR, and sheep should not be thrown to the wolves
and 17th places, respectively. Caliber of Italy. Team score was 764, against the quite so quickly.
the competition is shown by Calhoun's 17th winning Russian effort of 777. Sgt. Grewe, In other words, he made the point that
place score of 194, just six targets away whose shooting efforts have made Pull! in trap might gain more converts from the
from the new world record. more than one earlier issue, posted a 293 shoot-for-fun boys, if the neophytes were
Not as an alibi, because no alibi is score, good for fourth in individual stand- squadded only with those of comparable
needed, but only in the way of explana- ings, and just two targets off the 295 posted ability during the learning process. This, of
tion, as this column has previously ex- by Russia's Zimenko (winner) and second course, refers only to club shoots, and not
plained, the international skeet game is not place Singh of India. Horner's 292 gained to tournaments sanctioned by the ATA,
the skeet game you see at your near-by him seventh place. Scores of 287 and 283 where shooters are grouped by known ability
skeet club. The gun stock in ISU skeet brought 22nd and 37th places to Brauer and record.
games must be at hip level, can't be placed and Dunsmoor. What this writer objected to -was having
on the shoulder. A shooter must also be Tryouts for the teams and individuals a few hotshots spotting themselves with
"steady to point," because the target does who represented the United States in the beginners, and walking off with the loot.
not come on call, but at any instant up to clay target events at Cairo were held at the This is a just complaint, in my opinion.
three seconds later. Air Force' Marksmanship Training Center, Fortunately, few clubs are operated in this
Some of the skeet old-timers who read this·" Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. fashion, but even a few is too many. Club
column will remember variable timers, and This column again expresses the opmlOn officials should make sure that their clubs
will also remember with some relief the that fielding teams to represent the United are not among the offenders.
advent of the instant timer. Waiting for up States in international shooting events Observers from the ranks of all other
to three seconds for a target to appear, under ISU rules is far better than fielding sports have always marveled at' the sports-
and with the gun butt not on the shoulder, larger teams for bigger shooting matches manship displayed by clay target shooters.
had a way of separating the men from the under rules laid down by a Geneva con, Let's keep it that way, and help both ~.
boys in skeet. And, I mean no downgrading vention for international warfare. It's better these great sports con~inue to grow. ~

38 GUNS MARCH 1963

REMINGTON
Presents The
NEW M~1100 ALL THE PUNCH - HALF THE KICK

By E. B. MANN IS CLAIM MADE FOR NEW SHOTGUN

HEY SAY that "Everybody talks about the· weather,

T but nobody does anything about it." In guns, every-
body has talked about recoil; but here, practically every-
body has done something about it-muzzle brakes, butt
cushions, even complex stock mechanisms to absorb the
force with which a gun comes back against your shoulder.
Now Remington announces a shotgun which, without
any of these devices, cuts recoil approximately in half-
or, as Remington states it, reduces recoil "up to 40 per
cent with magnum loads as compared to other automatics,
and 55 per cent less recoil than 'fixed action' models."
Top matted solid steel receiver and bolt on new
This is a startling claim, but a number of pretty skep- gun are engraved, walnut stock has the standard
tical gun editors and writers who fired box after box of dimensions, is checkered, finish is weatherproof.
heavy trap and wildfowl loads through a battery of
M-UOOs at a recent Remington seminar came away con-
vinced that the .Bridgeport boys had scored a break·
through. If we hadn't seen high-flying geese fold and
fall when we hit them, we'd have thought we were
shooting pip-squeak loads in sub gauges.
The Model UOO is a five-shot gas-operated gun (three-
shot plug furnished), with a cross-bolt safety operated
by a button at the rear of the trigger guard. The receiver
is solid steel, top matted, with scroll engraving on both
sides. There is scroll work also on the bolt. Stock and
fore-end are of rich American Walnut, standard 14" length,
2l;~(' drop at heel, 1%" drop at comb. The weight is about
7112" pounds, subject to variations in the wood.
In addition to the metal engraving, stock and fore-end
are both checkered with a fleur-de-lis pattern. The stock
has a full grip with custom-style cap. Both the grip cap
and butt plate are provided with white spacers. The grip
cap has an inlayed white diamond pattern.
A new, more durable wood finish, "as tough as that
used on bowling balls," was developed especially for this
gun. Weatherproof and oilproof, it is chip and scratch
resistant and color-fast. A new, high-gloss, rust-resistant
finish is used on metal parts.
Remington claims too that the shooting life of the
M-UOO is "up to seven times longer than that of other Detail of Remington 1100 shows gas port closer
to breech where gas pressures are highest. Thus,
automatics," due to its light recoil, its buffered impact smaller orfice is adequate, there is less kick.
areas, new barrel extension (integral with the barrel)
new receiver, and other factors. More than half a million
shot shells of all kinds were fired to prove the rugged-
ness and dependability of the Model UOO action.
Because gas for operating the action is taken off near-
er the chamber, where pressures are higher and more
consistent, a smaller take-off orifice has been used. In
addition, the piston is located (Continued on page 43)
GUNS MARCH 1963 39
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HERE IS a saying that you can
T insure against loss by fire and
theft but you can't insure against loss
WE NEED THEM BOTH by legislation. This is only partly true
-there are steps you can take to pre-
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All efforts to educate and influence
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let us first analyze the factors which
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may not enjoy firearms ownership.
The United States Supreme Court
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the laws originate primarily in the
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latures, and in some municipalities. It
is presumed that these laws are en·
~~~ acted in response to proposals in the
-Courtesy "Chicago's American'· public interest. Unfortunately, demo-
cratic process at this point runs into
tricky waters. Through hysteria, pres-
sure, or selfish interest, unworkable or
unjust restrictive laws like the Volstead
Act, the Sullivan law, and various
others are occasionally hung around
PARTNERS IN OUR PAST. GOSPEL AND the public's neck. Many unwise pro-
posals have been enacted into law be·
GUN MUST BOTH BE KEPT TO
. ,:
GUARD OUR FUTURE cause a majority of the lawmakers were
misinformed, not because they were
unresponsive to their legislative duties.
If we are to prevent unwise measures
By JAMES E. SERVEN in the field of firearms legislation, we
have a job to do in creating the true
public image (Continued on page 61)
4.0 GUNS MARCH 1963
 THE MAN WHO MADE MURDER DANGEROUS duced from measurements of a bullet fired
through it.
(Continued from page 18)
One of the first cases in which Mathews
tangled skein of evidence to find the thread and noted the number of grooves and the
turned to his file of information on guns to
that will lead to the killer is the intellectual direction of the twist of the rifling. To meas-
pinpoint a killer occurred in Milwaukee. In
exercise that surpasses all others. It is a test ure the slope of rifling in the barrels of pis-
this case, there was no evidence other than
of wits and skill, giving him the same satis- tols, he and a skilled mechanic named Lee
two fatal bullets and two empty shell cases.
faction some men get from unravelling a Henke built the world's first-and possibly,
complex mathematical formula. It is a game even today, the only-rifling meter. A horse trader named John Schili had
of chess on the grand scale. gone to his barn one evening and failed to
In his early years of scientific crime detec- return. His wife became alarmed and inves-
tion, Mathews developed improvements in tigated, and found him lying on the barn
the dermal nitrate test to determine by ex- floor, a gunshot wound in the back of his
amination of the hands of a suspect whether head. At the autopsy, the pathologist re-
he had recently fired a gun. He perfected the moved two 6.35 mm jacketed bullets. These,
comparison camera for recording evidence along with two shells found on the bam
that test bullets were-or were not-identi- floor, were brought to Mathews' laboratory.
cal to bullets fired from a murder weapon. "Measurements of the widths of the grooves
He developed a photographic technique for on the fired bullets showed that they could
taking stereoscopic pictures of identifying not have been fired from any gun of Ameri-
marks on fired shells or edged tools-a three- can make, but there were four guns of fo,-
dimensional view is often essential for the eign make that had lands capable of produc-
portrayal of true shapes. ing the extremely narrow grooves found on
"In one case," he recalls, "an accused man the bullets," Mathews relates.
was cleared of a murder charge through an Mathews takes the land and groove The Milwaukee police were alerted to look
application of stereomicrography. The photo- measurements of a Colt automatic. for a 6.35 mm Bergmann or three other gur.s
graphs showed conclusively that the test and of similar caliber named by Mathews. Nor!'
evidence shells could not have been fired This meter is designed to force a lead disk of the guns were by any means common, but
from the same gun, since the firing pin through the gun's barrel. It engages the rifl- three months la~er an enterprising detective
marks were different in shape. Ordinary ing and is turned as it moves through the learned that a certain bartender was believed
photography had failed to show any differ- barrel, acting in much the same way as a to have once owned a Bergmann. He inves-
ence, and without the- stereophotos the man bullet. A calibrated dial then measures the tigated.
would almost certainly have been convicted." distance required for the rifling to make one "Sure, I've got a Bergmann," said the bar-
Mathews' mind is an instrument of pierc- entire revolution - the standard method for tender, producing the gun promptly.
ing logic, reflecting a lifetime of work in two measuring the twist of rifling. The lead disk "Has this gun been in your possession
fields where logic is the basis of all things- can also be used to measure the distance continuously for the past six months?" asked
science and crime detection. It works for an across the lands and grooves within the bar- the detective.
accused as well as against him. Many men rel. With this instrument, Mathews rounded "Except for a few days," said the bartender.
and women who might have been damned out his complement of exact measurements "A friend named Harry Moore said he
by circumstances against them, have reason by which a gun's type and make can be de- wanted to buy it, and I let him try it out.
to be eternally grateful to the complex in-
struments Mathews has devised-and to the
mind behind those instruments. get improved accuracy for your .22

W.AV.~COP.
By the late 1920s, Mathews saw the need
for a wide variety of measurements of the
rifling in all existing handguns. With this
with a Model B
information in his file, he knew that the
make and caliber of any pistol involved in
Weaver precision optics and Seal-Lock protected adjustment turret
a crime would be identifiable from a bullet
fired through it, or at least the search could offer you dependable accuracy for your light-recoil rifle-at a budget
be considerably narrowed down by this in- price. Weaver B Models help you aim quickly and accurately because
formation. Such measurements of these guns, they give a clear, sharp, magnified view of your target. With a Tip-Off
if available in book form to all law enforce- Mount, you can mount your Model B in seconds without tools, on any
ment agencies, would enormously expedite
.22 with a factory-groove.d receiver.
their work. Measurements of this kind would
be particularly valuable, he saw, as more and
more foreign guns of literally hundreds of
makes and types - began finding their way
into the United States. Without this informa-
tion on file, the police and he, himself, would
be faced with the impossible job of identi-
fying guns whose names, makes, and possi-
bly even calibers, were unknown.
"Many cheap guns," he explains, "were
not made according to any known specifica-
tions, and probably none existed in a great Model B4 (4·power; shown
many instances. This is particularly true of with Tip-Off Mount), $9.75;
the many Spanish guns made before Franco B6 (6-power), $12.50-at most
limited production to three manufacturers. dealers. Both prices include N or
Also, even when accurate specifications Tip·Off Mount.
have been adopted by manufacturers, these
specifications may not have been followed"
accurately by the men who actually pro-
w. I
R. WEAVER COMPANY DEPT. 43 EL PASO 75, TEXAS I
Name _
duced the guns."
So Mathews began to compile records of
I FREEl New 1963
Address, _ : full-color catalog of the
the measurements of every gun he could get
his hands on. He measured the diameter of I world's most used, most
City zone_State' _ I proved scopes.
the bore from groove to groove and land to
land. He measured the slope of the rifling, @1963 W. II. Weaver Company -

GUNS MARCH 1963 41

He kept it a couple of days, and then he nursing an infatuation for the victim's wife. him." The man then went home, shot his
brought it back, said he didn't want it." He hoped to take over where Schill left off. wife and children, set fire to his house, and
The bartender agreed to let the gun be In murder, as in nearly everything else, committed suicide in his garage. In his
taken to Mathews. Three test cartridges were it does not pay to take anything for granted, pocket was a gun of the same caliber that
fired. The test bullets all bore markings that says Mathews. This was never more clearly had killed Brenden.
matched those on the two evidence bullets. brought out that in a multiple murder in "The police called it an open and shut
The marks on the test shell cases were iden· northern Wisconsin. case," continues Mathews. "The man had
tical to those on evidence shells. An Eau Claire filling station operator time to drive from Eau Claire to Chippewa
Moore was taken into custody and con- named Brenden was shot in his car while Falls, if he drove fast. It seemed all the more
fronted with the evidence. He confessed and parked in a cemetery one night about 1:30. logical because filling station operators were
is serving a 'life term. The bullet which killed him passed through involved in both shootings." ,
"This case was of particular interest," his head and was stopped by the glass of the An astute district attorney, however, was
Mathews says, "because the murderer was car window: It dropped on his coat sleeve. not entirely satisfied with the evidence. He
at no time a suspect. He had completely "Twenty minutes later, and 10 miles away," brought the bullet and suspect gun to Mat·
barned investigators. There existed no appar· Mathews relates, "a filling station was held hews. One' glance told Mathews that the
ent motive for the crime." up in Chippewa Falls by a man who ran bullet could not have been fired from the
What police did not know until Moore from the station to his car, firing upon some gun. "The rifling twist on the bullet is left-
confessed was that he had apparently been truck drivers who, he believed, could identify handed," he said, "and the twist on the gun
is right-handed. You must look farther for
your murderer."
EXCLUSIVE ~QUALITY The search for the murderer of Brennen

from FLAIG'S ~
was resumed-but there was no evidence
PRODUCTS other than the bullet. A 17 year old boy
became a suspect, and the police found a
revolver in his dresser drawer. The gun was
NEWI TRIGGER GUARDS SPECIAL LOT OF sent to Mathews. This time, it was a different
FOR LARGE RING CIRCASSIAN story. Mathews positively identified it as the
gun used to kill Brenden. Faced with the
MAUSERS WALNUT evidence, the young man confessed.
First time ever offered, this Mathews adds: "There was no other evi-
fine wood at the extremely dence against him. If he had known it, he
could have reached over and picked the
low price of American Wal- bullet up from Brenden's sleeve. Without
nut. Fully dried to below 7% that, we would have had no case."
moisture content. Takes In a great many murder cases such as this
with Hinged smooth finish and sharp one, knowledge of the caliber and make of
Floor Plate gun from which a fatal bullet was fired will
checKering, lead to the killer. With this in mind, Mathews
Modernize your Mauser '98 Military
began work some 15 years ago on an enor-
Rifle. Flaig's new ACE TRIGGER R 1:=~dE s~;r,??n~:iteau:~~~$1 0.00
AND UP mous project. He began a collection of photo-
GUARD, with hinged floor-plate, RIFLE STOCKS: Blanks. $7.00
graphs and measurements of the rifling char·
comes complete with follower and
AND UP acteristics of every handgun known to exist.
SHOTGUN STOCKS: These pictures and measurements fill the
Turned and semi-in- $10.00
follower spring; fits any large ring . letted AND UP monumental two-volume set of books recently
Mauser. Be sure to specify caliber SHOTGUN BLANKS: $500 published by the Wisconsin Press.
Blank only AND' UP

when ordering. Some of the guns pictured in Mathews'

Send 25c for Color Chart volumes date well back into the last century,
JOBBERS & DEALERS: showing all Flaig's stocks in but information on them is important, since
natural COIOTS.
WRITE FOR TRADE DISCOUNTS. Dealer inquiries invited many are still in circulation and quite cap-
able of firing a bullet. As Mathews points
ACE ---
---
~~~
-----
---------~
out, an old gun may serve a criminal purpose
Med. Heavy Weight 26"-4 lb •. 4 au. at least as well as a new one. In the volumes
BUTTON RIFLED are photographs of some 3,000 guns, with
Sporter-weight 24"-3 lb•. rifling measurements on more than 2,300
BARRELS &
BARRELED ACTIONS .I!!I==~Li~9h=tw=e~ig~h=t 2§2~"-~2~I=b'=,6~0=x=.
(in the White)
===-
Twist &. Calibers: Ace barrels come in standard tWist as follows: Cal. 243. 244.
[.5172 . 26~1'. ~~I_l\J50~02~g, a~~022~~~_~t.l~ 30.06, 1-10. Cal. 244, 250, 300 and 308,
guns from 23 countries. Hundreds of trade
and other identification marks which might
aid in identification have also been photo-
graphed.
ACE BARRELS are made for Flaigs by a nation- tions only $22.50; with ears milled like Rem. 30 and
tri~~er Ruard finished, $7.50 additional. In his work on handguns, Mathews has
ally known manufacturer of precision barrels.
They are 6-groove with smooth. hard-swedged been far from the front line of criminal in-
"BUTTON RIFLING", a patented process that ~'r~.):u~~~:3 ~~EY~~rO Win~6;0~ar~~~ef~~I.H?:h8g~J~~
assures unexcelled accuracy. Your satisfaction Springfield, FN or '98 Mauser-no others-headspace and vestigation, but his inventions and his com·
guaranteed. test-fire, $40.00. FN Deluxe-ACE Barreled Actions, (in
the white). Cal. 338 or 264 Win.• SH4.00; using Series
400 Actions, $89.00. pilation of handguns are among the world's
Threaded for '98 Mauser. FN Mauser, HVA, major contributions to law and order.
Springfield. U.S. Enfield, Win. 70. Rem. 721 & ·We furnish ACE barrel for other calibers, stamp caliber
722. Norwegian Krag, Mex. Small Ring Mauser,
Jap 6.5 & 7.7. ~to~ 19~rE~At~Y3t.h~~sg~~~X~A~:tB~~~el~a9A~~io~~~·8~ Techniques he has developed have helped
the White), $75.00; using Series 400 FN actton, $80.00.
Chambered for all standard calibers including NOW! ACE BARRELS threaded & chambered for SAKO
make murder a dangerous business ~
the popular Win. 338 & 264. They must. of L-46 and L·S97 Actions. Same price $24.00 each. Also
SAKO L-46-ACE Barreled Actions In 222 Rem., 222 indeed. ~
course. be fitted by a competent gunsmith. head-
~yte"r~dflrllgg~"e"rt;f~~i~. before using. Flaig's ':c~g'A~~e~bft~~ r~ee~f~~~e~i~2\~5·~~oA;~3SA2~~ L2~f1l
257 or 308 Win •• $75.00. • , , • ,

~~~?I ~~~~~~B(~~~~d~~~O~~-:?l!J~?~5~~a~e~egli~1ti~::3 Specify weight, calibe" twist when ordering

blue this unit, $10.00 additional. Eddystone-Enfiel4, ac- ACE 8ARRELS.

ALL PRICES F.O.B. MILVALE, PA. For the most authoritative

ACE TRIGGER SHOE Po, residents add 4% sales tax. ACE DOUBLE-SET

and handguns.
Specify model &
$250
for most rifles, shotguns
Write fa'
Free List
#38
Illustrated
Catalog
2S¢
TRIGGER ......$10.95
WITH KICK·OFF
Fitted to your Mauser 98
or FN Action (no others).
reports on guns •.•

caliber of gun.
54.00 more. Ace Single
Stage Trigger, $10.95. Read GUNS
Magazine Monthlyl

42 GUNS MARCH 1963

 REMINGTON PRESENTS THE NEW M-IIOO
(Continued from page 39) DEALERS-GUNSMITHS
outside of the magazine tube instead of full variety of barrel lengths and chokes, FIREARMS - ALL MODELS
inside, permitting freer venting of excess gas. with plain or ventilated rib barrels. It Get everything you want NOW. Shot, Wads,
This results in reduced carbon deposits in will be offered in 16 and 20 gauges in 1964. Powder, Primers, Bullets, Loading Tools, etc.
the orifice and on the gas cylinder, making Price is not yet fixed, but we were Our stocks are most complete.
for the cleanest possible operation. promised that it would be well within the • WINCHESTER • REMINGTON
• HI-STANDARD • SAVAGE
A new magazine spring makes loading market. If so, this gun will be a seller. • RUGER • REDFIELD
far easier. Magazine capacity is 4 shots. Recoil is a major factor against shotgun .S&W • R.C.B.S.
• PACIFIC • CH • WEAVER
With one shell in the chamber, total ca- effectiveness on either clay or feathered • SAKO • FN • FINNBEAR
pacity is 5 shots. A 3-shot plug is fur· Ammunition
targets, even with shooters who claim not
nished for use when hunting migratory to be bothered by recoil. Maybe you don't REMINGTON - NORMA
Same Day Delivery
waterfowl. flinch, but the punch of a hard-kicking
The action spring is located in the gun certainly does interrupt the smoothness
stock, where there is plenty of room. This of your swing, after the correct positioning
makes it possible to use a better designed of the gun, on repeat shots. Lessen the re-
spring, easing manual opening. coil, and you will score more hits. This
Takedown of the noo is simple. The gun reduces recoil. If Remington can sell
barrel can be removed with the action that to hit-hungry gunners, they'll find their
either opened or closed and the fore-end new M-lIOO breaking sales records. BADGER
can be removed separately if desired. Bar· The Remington boys have some other new SLING KEEPER - BOLT HANDLES
rels of different chokes and lengths can be items in their ammo lines about which BADGER SLING KEEPER Made of special 1'/."
interchanged within gauges without any we'll report in "Gun Rack" later . . . And hard anodized alloy extrusion-black wilh plaled
clamp & screw. Poslpaid $1.25.
special fitting or tools. don't look now but, later this year Reming· BOLT HANDLES Unpolished $1.25, Pol ished $2.50,
The Model lIOO will be available in 12 ton will have another surprise for you. It's Knurled $3.00. We weld 10 your boll body and
polish $8.00, w/knurled handle $10.00, or aller
gauge in early 1963 in models chambered in the works now; watch GUNS for ~ your boll for low scope $6.50. Jewel boll $6.50
for either 23;.1 inch or 3 inch shells, in a the unveiling. ~ exlra. Buehler Safely $7.25. Mark II $4.25. One
day service.
FREE CATALOG-Discount sheet ONLY to es-
"GO MODERN" POWDERS tablished dealers and sporting goods stores-we
will not honor post card or rubber stamp
(Continued from page 37) requests! Phone CAstle 9-210l.
not suitable for heavy "loads, and are not in· AL8 16.0 Grains lI20 F.p.s. 99% Orders Shipped ?ame Day Received.
cluded in this report. 18.0 Grains 1310 F.p.s.
Winchester's 295HP is a slow burning ball H240 15.0 Grains 1015 F.p.s. BADGER SHOOTERS SUPPLY
type powder that is approximately equivalent 17.0 Grains 1300 F.p.s. Lew Bulgrin, Owner. OWEN, WIS.
to 2400. It is suited only for heavy and mag' 295HP 15.0 Grains 920 F.p.s. Serving Sportsmen 26 Ye.ra
num loads with large bullets, and is easily 16.0 Grains 975 F.p.s.
and accurately measured. It is so slow burn· 17.0 Grains 1050 F.p.s. DECAL CHECKERING PATTERNS
ing that most of the other powders do better Harvey Jugular Jacketed-263 Grain
in the .44 Speci~l. Its best potential is in Decal Checkering Patterns simplify the difficult
AL8 18.0 Grains 1310 F.p.s. layout problem so that anyone can prepare
the .357 Magnum and .44 Magnum.
Ideal 429421-246 Grain Keith his gunstock for checkering in a matter of
The tabulations of representative loads for minutes. Shown below is just one of the designs
AL5 11.0 Grains 1045 F.p.s.
these eight powders is a sampling of the best available for both amateur and professional.
12.0 Grains lI25 F.p.s.
results obtained in my tests. A complete com· PATTERN No. 23
13.0 Grains lI85 F.p.s.
pilation of all tests would be unmanageable. AL7 Styled in the German
12.0 Grains lI40 F.p.s. manner, this pattern,
The load velocity charts demonstrate how
13.0 Grains 1200 F.p.s. while smart and strik-
these powders perform, and the graphs will ing looking, is fairly
14.0 Grains 1250 F.p.s. easy to carve and
be valuable in guiding your load development
work. The tables of loads for various powders AL8 14.0 Grains 1070 F.p.s. checke,.
16.0 Grains lI90 F.p.s. Price $1.25
and bullets are presented to show how these
18.0 Grains 1310 F.p.s. STAN DE TREYILLE
components work together in big handguns. H240
All listed loads were chronographed on 15.0 Grains 1070 F.p.s. P. O. BOX 2446 SAN DIEGO 12, CALIF.
accurate, counter·type instruments, and test 17.0 Grains 1300 F.p.s.
fired in my guns. The velocities given are .44 SPECIAL
actual velocities fired from a revolver, and not Ideal 429421-246 Grain Keith AL7 14.5 Grains 1650 F.p.s.
pressure·test-gun values, which are usually Herco 11.0 Grains 1050 F.p.s. 15.0 Grains 1705 F.p.s.
high. 12.0 Grains lI90 F.p.s. 148 Grain-Wadcutter
Although no hot loads are listed in the 13.0 Grains 1290 F.p.s. 2400 16.0 Grains 1445 F.p.s.
tables, it is quite possible that one or the Herco 12.0 Grains 1550 F.p.s.
other load might prove to be so in your gun.
.44 MAGNUM 12.5 Grains 1650 F.p.s.
The data presented here are to be used as Odeal 429421-246 Grain Keith) Half Jacketed-155 Grain
guides only, and you must develop your load Herco 16.0 Grains 1385 F.p.s. Herco lI.5 Grains 1360 F.p.s.
to fit your need and your gun. And with 18.0 Grains 1510 F.p.s. 2400 16.0 Grains 1420 F.p.s.
some experimentation, it is quite conceivable AL8 22.0 Grains 1540 F.p.s. H240 15.0 Grains 1550 F.p.s.
that you'll hit on a load that will be even H240 20.0 Grains 1380 F.p.s. 16.0 Grains 1675 F.p.s.
better than some of the ones I used. That is 21.0 Grains 1490 F.p.s. Ideal 358429-170 Grain
what makes hand loading and load developing 22.0 Grains 1545 F.p.s. AL5 12.0 Grains 1360 F.p.s.
interesting, worthwhile and fun! 24.0 Grains 1610 F.p.s. 12.5 Grains 1405 F.p.s.
Ideal 429220-175 Grain 2400 15.5 Grains 1375 F.p.s.
CHRONOGRAPHED LOADS Unique 14.0 Grains 1735 F.p.s.
295HP 23.0 Grains 1400 F.p.s. .38 SPECIAL
.44 SPECIAL ~,
Ideal 429303-205 Grain Gas Check 127 Grain-Half Jacketed
Ideal 431244-254 Grain Thompson Gas Check
AL8 24.0 Grains 1535 F.p.s. AL8 11.0 Grains lI45 F.p.s.
AL5 11.0 Grains 1020 F.p.s.
H240 22.0 Grains 1560 F.p.s. Unique 7.0 Grains lI50 F.p.s.
12.0 Grains 1085 F.p.s.
146 Grain-Half Jacketed HP
13.0 Grains lI55 F.p.s. .357 MAGNUM
Herco 10.5 Grains 1350 F.p.s.
Herco 11.0 Grains 1050 F.p.s. Ideal 360302-130 Grain
12.0 Grains lI60 F.p..s Herco 12.5 Grains 1590 F.p.s.
13.0 Grains 1280 F.p.s. 13.5 Grains 1665 F.p.s.

GUNS MARCH 1963 43

 PROFESSIONAL
KNIVES OF THE FRONTIERSMEN
(Continued from page 29)

GUNMEN CHOOSE
early days of the '4gers, a crowbar, a sheath
knife, and a gold pan wcre considered a full
Knives from Sheffield, England, were im-
ported to America in great quantities. Many
set of mining tools. were very fancy, their blades etched with
HOLSTERS BY
I have purposely given immediate atten-
tion to "Green River" knives of the Russell
mottoes and figures. h is significant that
some of these Sheffield knives were marked
JOHN BIANCHI. Company because this firm holds a unique GREEN RIVER KNIFE, in an effort to capilalize

COMPLETE ALL NEW position as a pioneer in the manufacture of on the excellent reputation of Russell's
CATALOG American cutlery, and it has enjoyed pre- Green River Works. I have seen no knives
2S~ eminence in this field from its founding made in the world-famous cutlery center of
PROTECTOR BRAND HOLSTER right up to the present day. John Rus~ell Sheffield (or elsewhere) which surpassed the
S09 HACIENDA DR., MONROVIA, CALIF. founded his Green River Works in 1834. best grade of the American·made product.
Russell knives became known generally as The belt (sheath) knife was given a
The FIREARMS HANDBOOK "Green River" knives, and some confusion rather prosaic place in American life until
New Illustrated Reference Book for hard·to·find
has surrounded this "Green River" deriva- the early 18oos. Then tales of the prowess
aun parts which we can supply by return mail.
The FIREARMS HANDBOOK is $4.00 postpaid. tion. The most prominent Green River is of the legendary James Bowie, one of the
SHEllEY BRAVERMAN, ATHENS 12, NEW YORK that tributary of the Colorado which wanders heroic martyrs at the Alamo, were spread
down through Wyoming, runs briefly into about the land and the belt knife suddenly
the northwest corner of Colorado, and then was elevated from its commonplace role to

5000 flows south through Utah to its junction a position of dramatic prominence. Jim
with the Colorado. The valley of this river Bowie's brother, Rezin P. Bowie, is credited
was a favorite hunting and trapping ground with designing Jim's first knife, and some
of Kit Carson, James Clyman, William Sub- claim that James Black of Washington,
lette, Jim Baker, and other Mountain Men. Arkansas, made the big Bowie knife that

FIREARMS Baker had two hair-raising encounters with

grizzly bears in the Green River valley. In
each case it was deep thrusts with his knife
was used in many of Jim Bowie's knife-
wielding encounters.
There is an interesting chapter in Harold
L. Peterson's excellent book, "American
BARGAINS that saved Baker's hide. Probably as many
"Green River" knives were used along this
stretch of country as anywhere in the world
Knives," which treats with the question,
"What is a true bowie knife?" It is pointed
Are you a gun trader? Gun collector? Or are -but this was not the river which gave
you just plain interested in guns? If you are,
Russell knives their famous Green River
trade·mark. They came by their name be-
you'll profit from reading the bargain·filled
cause of a small stream called the Green
columns of SHOTGUN NEWS, now pub· River that ran past the Russell Works near
lislied twice each month. It's the leading Greenfield, Massachusetts.
publication for the sale, purchase and trade Despite a fire, destructive floods, and
of firearms and. accessories of all types. country-wide financial panics, John Russell
SHOTGUN NEWS has aided thousands of guided his cutlery company in a successful out that there are four schools of thought
gun enthusiasts locate firearms, both mod· manner right up to the time of his retire- on this subject. Some nominate only very
ern and antique - rifles, shotguns, pistols, ment in 1868. In that year, the company large, heavy knives with a clipped point (a
revolvers, scopes, mounts ••• all at money· moved into a new plant at Turners Falls, concave arc from point to top of blade).
saving prices. The money you save on the
Mass. In 1935, soon after the Russell Com- Some say large sheath knives of any kind
pany merged with the John Harrington Com- qualify. Others say any sheath knife of the
purchase of anyone of the more than 5,000
pany, the manufacturing efforts were trans- 1830-1890 period is a bowie. And still an-
listings twice a month more than pays your ferred to a more modern plant at South-
subscription cost. You can't afford to be
other group will classify a bowie knife as
bridge, Mass., the present home. any sheath knife with a clipped point, re-
without this unique publication. In 1868, the Russell Company was incor- gardless of size. It is apparent that these
porated and the name changed from J. Rus- various views cannot be reconciled, and the
Free trial offerl sell & Co. Green River W orlcs to John Russell definition of a bowie knife may always be
Money Back Guarantee. Manufacturing Co. In 1873, the company was subject to personal opinion.
reorganized and the name changed to John In the early days, there may have been
As a special introductory offer, we'll send Russell Cutlery Co. In 1932, through merger, some distinct features to identify a true
you the next issue of SHOTGUN NEWS free the firm name became Russell Harrington bowie knife. We learn in Edwin Bryant's
of chorge with your one year subscription. Cutlery Co. 1847 description of a frontiersman that "a
That means you get 25 big issues. What's We are told that, in the period 1840-1860, leathern girdle surrounds the waist, from
more, if you're not completely satisfied, just the Russell Co. shipped 5000 dozen knives which are suspended a bowie and a hunter's
tell us. We'll immediately refund your per year. Most of these went west to such knife." Bryant was a newspaper man; a keen
money in full and you can keep the issues prominent outfitters as Pierre Chouteau in observer, and a man who knew frontiersmen
you already have. Fair enough? You betl St. Louis. Cost at wholesale was $1.50 to from long association. This statement not
$3.50 per dozen. The common type of skin- only suggests the bowie was a special type
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for 50 cents apiece at retail in St. Louis, but
out at the remote trading posts they cost
of knife, but it also indicates that "bowie
knife" had by 1847 become a common term.
It is certain that with the passing of the
Columbus, Nebraska f $1.50 to $2.00 each. Here sometimes a beaver years an ever-increasing number of knives
Yes, send me the next issue of SHOTCUN I skin worth $8-10 would be traded for a knife. of various sizes and shapes were called
NEWS FREE and start my subscription for one I The few pages devoted to this story do "bowie knives." We can be reasonably ac·
year. $3 enclosed-to be refunded if I'm not I not permit extensive or very detailed dis· curate in assuming that a bowie knife, in
completely satisfied. cussion, as interesting as that might be to popular parlance, was a good-sized knife
I some; but I shall attempt to provide, by the carried in a sheath (scabbard) at the belt
Nam _ II accompanying illustrations and this text, and capable of hard, effective usage for all
pertinent data about four of the prominent the various purposes to which a knife might
I
Addre _.................................... i manufacturers who gave to American·made be put on our rough frontiers. In general,
knives a quality at least equal to that of belt, sheath and bowie are here used as
I knives made by the older European manu- descriptive adjectives meaning very much.
!.~~:~~.=.=.=.::::::==.=.:::==:..J facturers of Sheffield, Solingen, or Toledo. the same kind of knives.

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 A good example of this general "bowie thereafter he was a cutler with Frederick
knife" class is a knife John D. Chevalier Kesmodel at 817 Kearny St., San Francisco.
designated as his "California Knife," so let After having a go at making cutlery on his
us now turn our attention to John Chevalier. own during 1863, Frederick Will entered
We have good reason to believe that a knife into partnership with Julius Finck (earlier
marked "Chevalier's California Knife" in the spelling-Fink) in 1864. Their little shop
Gerald G. Fox collection, also bearing pres· was at 605 Jackson Street.
entation inscription and dated 1849, was one Julius Finck had been associated with
of a group of five or six knives purchased by A. Browning, well known as a San Francisco
Rezin Bowie and presented by Bowie to gunmaker and locksmith. Together, Fred
important people of that period. Will and Julius Finck started a business
I have two Chevalier belt knives in my destined to gain great prominence and to
collection, and these are two of the best· continue well beyond their lifetime-up until
made knives I have ever seen. They are the 1920s.
stout in construction, nicely finished, and During the existence of the Will & Finck
well balanced. That kind of '''orkmanship
could be expected of a man like Johri
firm, the address was changed from 605
Jackson to 613 Jackson; then to 821 Kearny,
140 Montgomery, 769 Market, 818 Market,
The names that
Chevalier, who was expert not only in the

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making of standard cutlery but who also 57 Third (factory 72 Jessie), and finally to
produced precise dental and surgical instru· 1686 Market (factory 65 McCoppin). The
ments. address (and in later years the ownership)
The earliest Chevalier listing in the New
York City directory is that of 1835·36, and
at this time J. D. Chevalier's place of busi·
ness was at 169 William Street. By 1853,
Chevalier had moved to 360 Broadway. My
Hunting in Turkey
Turkey, we are told, is a veritable
are all in the
presentation Chevalier knife illustrated here
and dated 1857 bears the 360 Broadway,
happy hunting ground for feathered,
smoll, and big game, and now has a
hunting season .for native and foreign
WESTERN C5
New York, address on the blade.
Several years after the sales office was
moved to Broadway, the Chevalier manufac·
hunters. Wild pigeon haunt the marsh-
lands, meodows, lakes, and rivers, and
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from September until November. The
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states, the sales offices were moved to 639
territory in northern Turkey, and in all Alcan Marble
Broadway. The last listing for the Chevalier
the lake districts. Bausch & Lomb Marlin
firm was in 1871·72, and this showed the
address as 7 East 20th Street. Benjamin Michaels
During the 35 years or so of John D. Berretta Mossberg
changed, but the quality of Will & Finck Brownell Navy Arms
Chevalier's operations, he changed the firm
name from John D. Chevalier to John D. knives did not. The Will & Finck bowie C·H Norma
Chevalier & Sons, ·and then to John D. Che· knife illustrated indicates the ruggedness of Cajun Nosier
one of their standard grade belt knives-- Converse Olts
valier & Son. John D. Chevalier, Jr., was
associated with his father in the latter years knives made for long and hard use. They Crosman Pachmayr
of the business. made a wicked·looking short blade push· Daisy Pacific
dagger, too, said to be popular with western DuPont Peters
The excellent products turned out by John
Chevalier and his sons were very popular gamblers. There is an excellent specimen in Faulk R.C.B.S.
the William Shemerluk collection. I doubt Federal Redding
in the West, where knives were so widely
used. An official of the Pony Express, in that this type of knife was looked on with Fitz Redfield
describing Pony Express riders, stated "they much general favor since its only employ- Forester Remington
ment was less than praiseworthy. SAECD
were girt occasionally with a brace of pistols, Fox
but almost always with a heavy bowie knife." Of the knife·makers in the period we are Savage
Hahn
discussing here, none was more colorful than
By the 1860s, the bowie knife had become a Hercules Schoellkopf
Will & Finck's principal competitor, Michael
common part of western attire and was Hi·Standard Sheridan
Price. In addition to noting his great skill
widely used in other parts of the country Hodgdon Sierra
by outdoor men; some men hung a bowie as a cutler, the San Francisco Call stated on
Hodgman Smith & Wesson
April 3, 1889, the day after Mik~ Price's
on their belt for self defense-some for less Hoppe's Speer
death, "There were few men in San Fran·
noble motives. Hornady Stevens
cisco better known than Michael Price. He
A number of small knife·making establish· Hunter Swift
ments turned out knives throughout the East was indeed a character, and what he did not
know about sporting in all its phases was Iver Johnson Texan
and in the South during the 1800s, but I Jaeger Thermos
know of none in the1;e areas who could ap· not worth knowing. He will be sadly missed
by all those who enjoyed his caustic humor Kinfolks Unique
proach the stature of Russell and Chevalier, Lee Weaver
and ready wit."
with the possible exception of the Ames Leupold Williams
Mike Price arrived in San Francisco in
Mfg. Co., who made blades primarily for Lyman Wilson
1857. Like Frederick Will and Julius Finck,
military use. MEC Winchester
Price tried other endeavors for a few years,
The west coast of the mid 1800s, feeling
but by 1863 we find him hard at work with
the effects of our most dramatic migration,
his grinding wheel and other cutler's tools
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." The 415 Kearny establishment was last listed ~

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in the San Francisco directory for 1887·88.
in 1859, bound for San Francisco from his There were many stories about Mike Price
native New York state. It didn't take Fred and his knives. One author of west·coast
Will long to make up his mind about two reminiscences wrote that he knew Price well,
things-the girl he wanted to marry, and the and that one of Price's high grade bowie
trade he wished to follow. By 1861 we find knives never sold less than $50.00. Some Dept. G-3
him married to Anna Wright, and soon were said to have cost as much as $250.00 3730 N. 56th • Lincoln, Nebraska
GUNS MARCH 1963 45
 and were ornamented with gold, silver, and door American life.
inset diamonds. The Price knife in the well- Accounts of the sanguinary use of cold
known Robert Abels collection, and my own steel give most of us a chill down the spine.
fancy Price knife, are enriched with gold We live in a time when a trip to the happy
and silver on the hilt. The tempering of the hunting ground can be provided in a more
steel was as great an art with Price as the scientific manner-by nuclear bombs. Care-
beautifully wrought ornamentation. Truly ful analysis, however, will show us that the
Mike Price was an artist-a master in the bowie knife was used far more as a useful
cutlery trade. His fame was not limited to tool than as a deadly weapon.
the Pacific slope or to America; Price cut- We have so many conveniences in modern
lery won high awards at exhibitions in Lon- living that we have come to accept them
don and Paris. Yes, Mike Price was a without much thoughtful analysis or a back-
superior craftsman-and quite a guy! ward look. We know we'd really be set back
My nominations of Russell, Chevalier, if we didn't have the wheel. Ever think of
Will & Finck, and Price as the "big four" what life would be without a knife?
among 19th century American knife-makers At the dawn of history man found the
may not completely agree with the thinking knife was one of his very first needs to sus-
of some, but anyone familiar with the quality tain life. In the nineteenth century, practical
and importance of their work must certainly employment of the belt knife was at its
rate them very high. heighth. And it was then that John Russell's
We may pick up any book devoted to the Green River Works in New England, the
history of our great migration westward and New York shop of John Chevalier, and the
we'll not turn many pages before we'll find San Francisco manufactories of Will & Finck
a bowie knife in the belt or in the hand of and Mike Price brought the sheath knife-
men who played vital roles. The bowie knife the American bowie-to its high ~
became one of our national symbols in out- degree of perfection. ~

OLD PRO POPS "TOY" TARGETS

(Continued from page 27)

-----POWLEY----- Fair Grounds, he treated spectators to a run During a break in shooting, Guy joined
of 142 straight hits while breaking 246 out us and the talk turned to guns. "A lot
COMPUTER for HANDLOADERS of 250 targets. In New Orleans, in 1910, he depends on your gun. I've shot just about
YOU NEED THIS ••• finds CHARGE, and Harry Gibbs of Union City, Tennessee, every kind of shotgun made in America,
MOST EffiCIENT POWDER and the and Walter Huff of Macon, Georgia-three including some that most people never heard
VElOCITY for ANY CENTERflRE RIfLE of the most famous trapshooters in the of. Some of our hot-shots of today would
$3.50 at your Dealer United States-shot an exhibition with have had a little trouble back in the old
Marian Powley famed John Phillip Sousa who, in addition days with some of the firearms I've used in
17623 Winslow Rd., Cleveland 20, Ohio to being a great band leader and composer, competition. I'll guarantee you one thing!
was an ardent trapshooter. I'll guarantee that not one of them will be
"Trap shooting, where clay pigeons are able to blame our new crop of guns if they
THE used, is as clean and healthful a sport as miss their pigeons!" ,

Chicago DERRINGER any in the world," Sousa was quoted in the

New Orleans Times Picayune, "I am follow-
ing it now because I love it and because it
Unlike most old-timers, Guy offers very
little resistance to change.
"Heck! 1£ I were that old-fashioned, I'd
affords me the opportunity for rest and rec- still be shooting that old Model '97, solid
reation. It requires endurance, concentra- frame Winchester I won the 1906 Champi-
tion, and steadiness of nerve and eye; and, onship with, or poor old Charley Young's
like dying, you have to do it alone. No bastard pump."
A modern replica of a one can help you." This was a 12 g<:uge shotgt:n manufactured
gun that once made
history. For .22 lR, with extrac- Guy returned to New Orleans the follow- by the late Charles A. Young of Springfield,
tor, finely blued, sturdy bronze ing year representing DuPont, who had Ohio. The gun, according to Ward, was
frame, plastic grips. This four
barrel derringer groups 3" at
15feet. Dealer inquiries invited. $3495 bought American sales rights to Ballistite
powder. In the City Park Gun Club compe-
beautifully proportioned. He remembers that
it closely resembled the streamlined pump

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MADE IN THE U.S.A. tition he broke 296 targets out of 300 with a guns of today, but with one big difference:
UNCDNDITIONALLY GUARANTEED continuous run of 233. it worked in direct reverse to all other
Record after record was broken by Guy pumps! To open the action it was necessary
Ward and, as he matured and gained more to shove forward on the forearm and to pull
experience, he became more and more pro- back to close. Although several of the guns
'
ficient. He won First Place in 22 of 29 were made for investors, the American

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registered contests in 12 different states in shooting public rejected the radical design,
1920, collecting four Seconds and three and it never was a commercial success.
' Thirds in the other seven. Guy completed "In some respects," Guy Ward says, "shot-
the year by becoming the first person to guns haven't changed in the last hundred
DAHL RAMP SIGHTS, GRIP CAPS, POWDER FUNNElS win both Amateur and Professional Trap- years. They were and stilI are short-range
Discriminating shooters can again obtain the Dahl shooting Championships by breaking a guns. Even the basic proportion of shot and
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$9 75
• total of 6,249 out of 6,425 registered targets powder hasn't changed much, although the
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each. ' to become the Professional High Average quality of the charge has undergone great
Champion. refinements." He speaks from experience,
In 1924, he repeated the Championship having worked in the Western Cartridge
CUSTOM GUNSMITHING performance with a score of 97.8 per cent Company ballistics department in East AI-
and STOCKING .lln 1,050 targets, and tied with two other ton, Illinois.
Authorized Dealer and Warranty Center For contenders in the Grand American with a "In addition to improving shot patterns,
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97.77 per cent average.
ety of guns suitable for every sporting need,
at prices that put the great outdoors within
the reach of millions of Americans." Guy feels
that the Targo outfit ca~ make "a great
46 GUNS MARCH 1963
contribution to sports-minded youngsters and there have really been some changes in tar·
those of us who couldn't afford to shoot as gets and traps. The name trap, as most
often as we'd like with the regular equip- gunners know, originated from the fact that
ment." the first trapshooters used live pigeons which
His reference is to the unique feature of were liberated from a series of traps.
the Mossberg Targo guns and trap units. "Many ingenious devices have been in-
Model 340TR is a 7-shot clip repeater, and vented for throwing targets. Traps have im-
Model 320TR is a bolt action top-loading proved from the simple throwing arm of
early days to complex, automatic, self-load-
ing mechanisms being manufactured today.
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buck died before even the hound could reach me the packhorse's lead rope. "Have a good
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Below me, two riders and a packhorse came strange blonde, and takes off at a high rate Empties nearly upright, not 90 de·
grees - prevents .powder sticking.
into view, apparently following a trail. They of speed! There ought to be some kind of
Automatic powd.r knock. Only m...•
saw me and waved, and I recognized the insurance a man could take out! Not that I've Shp. ure with bearing on drum. No long
horses. The man riding in the lead was Car- got anything against beautiful blondes, but, wgt. tube to catch powd.r. Doubl. pow·
men Sandoval, a long-time friend and the holy mackerel-" 6lbs. der chamber.
owner of the vast acreage on which we were "Don't blow a fuse," she said. "Everything Stand to work ov.r tabl. not edge.
Comes with 4 drop tub.s for all siz.s
hunting. The other rider was the singer-a will be all right." She had a nice voice; I had of rifi., pistol end shotgun cartridg.s.
slender, dark-eyed girl in jodhpurs, orange to admit it. HERTER'S FAMOUS MODEL 3 •
blouse, and a buckskin charro jacket with Anyway, I know when I'm licked. I dressed SUPER RELOADING TOOL
silver buttons. Her blond hair shone gold in the deer, saving everything the dogs could

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the sunlight, and she was a stranger. eat, and lashed the carcass behind my saddle. @ • Full length resiz.s and swag.s bul.
"Hola, amigo," Sandoval shouted. "We were Then we headed for camp. I.ts with eas••
looking for your camp. I have brought you a W e came out in a little rabbit·ear pass, and • Lathe bed c..t iron frame not
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Sandoval had told her about our adventures Policarpio, was working the dogs today, while
;Ill Shp. wgt. 23 lbs.
in quest of an onza, and she had decided that two other crew members stood watch at a
she would join us to gather material. Sandoval couple of bait carcasses. I dismounted fast !Jiiij;i,Uf,t.lik'jliH'·liiii·lii
shrugged. "My sister met her in New York," and put a leash on my dog. The pack was STANDARD CONVEN.
he added, as if that took care of everything. bawling the hound dog "view halloo," and TIONAl TYPE MARK IRE.
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"But it's impossible," I said. "Flattering, Pilot was quivering with eagerness to join
but impossible. We haven't any-uh-facili- them.
$A'19 Famous throughout t h.
, world, Herter dies ar.
ties. We camp under trees and in caves. AI- "They are chasing a cat, aren't they?" equal or better than any
ways short of grub. The mosquitoes are terri- Patricia asked. "Will it come into the pass?" reloading dies at any price.
ble at night. Also, a spell of bad weather is" "It might, if I had any luck," I said. "But 2 pc. set Finest precision m.chin.d,
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coming. Look at the sky." I Houndered and I haven't, so probably it won't." I wondered Shp. wgt. 2 Ibs. .POPULAR CALIBERS.
ran out of words. Sandoval was grinning. He how she had guessed that the dogs were trail-
had found himself stuck with the chore of ing a cat. They were, but how could she know
squiring this gal about the country, and was it?
palming her off on me. She stepped down and stood beside me. She
"She knows all that," Sandoval said. "This was taller than I had thought. Her hair was
girl will fool you; she can take it." He handed naturally blond, and she smelled the way a HERTER'S INC. SINCE 1893 WASECA. MINN
GUNS MARCH 1963 47
girl ought to smell. Staring narrow·eyed down Patricia was examining the kill. Presently, "Of a truth," he said above the clamor of
at the boondocks, she clasped her hands and as the dogs came tearing up to us, she patted the dogs, "it appears that you have had a busy
whispered, "Come on, cat. This way, cat. Come the lion's head and said, "Good kitty. You day. Perhaps this region isn't so barren after
up into the pass." did as I asked you." Eerie? This girl was fey! all."
It was sort of eerie. I started to ask her if Nobody pats a dead lion's head and talks to I introduced him. "The girl is a bruja-a
she thought she could communicate with the it. Nobody whispers commands to a fleeing witch," I said. "She talks with animals and
cat, but at this instant I saw the animal. It lion. their ghosts."
was a mountain lion, and it was coming into The dogs were slamming into the open We took off the lion pelt, and secured it
the pass, making for a jumble of cliffs and space, yelling with all the wind they had left, and the carcass behind the pinto's saddle.
rimrocks behind us. I grabbed Pilot's muzzle each dog trying to establish credit for the Cathounds thrive on lion meat. Then we rode-
and held his mouth shut, and the rest of it death of the cat, and Pilot was yowling back on to camp. Tiberio and Ernesto were there.
was easy. The lion came into a stony opening at them. Policarpio on his sweating pinto A skunk had come to one bait, and an opos-
30 yards distant, loping easily, not even look· came up over the loose rocks. He is a lean, sum to the other. Otherwise nothing. Every
ing back, confident that he had it made. dignified, three-quarters Aztec who never dis· hunter in this state had sighted onzas recently,
I cut down on him with the muzzle·loader. plays emotion. But his jaw dropped now, and or so they said; but we drew a blank.
The buckshot belted him off his feet. He he shook his head like a fighter recovering The crew members, dumfounded by Patricia's
screeched, somersaulted, then piled up against from a haymaker. Deliberately, as if he presence, mumbled their, "Buenas tardes, Se·
a boulder and died. "This is the way to hunt," wanted to make certain that he really was norita," and busied themselves with camp
I said. "Stand still, make a wish, and let the seeing what he saw, he examined Patricia, chores. "She is the new cook," I said, "in
cat come to you." the deer, the lion, and the new packh~rse. case our Tarasco still thinks this is the worst
job he ever held and decides to leave."
The day was declining, and giant thunder·
heads stood in the south, with rain streaks
slanting down to Sierra peaks in the middle
distance. I asked Tiberio, who was born in
these parts, if he knew where there was a
handy, commodious cave. He said that he did,
and we moved camp.
The cave was large and wide, with an over-
hang at its mouth. By nightfall, we had a
pine fire burning, and racks of deer ribs roast-
ing. When we had eaten, Patricia opened her
baggage and brought out a box of cigars, a
brick of cactus candy, and a guitar. Ernesto
strummed ranchero songs and everybody sang.
The cook had a fine tenor voice. Patricia was
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pillow. I don't believe she had spoken a dozen

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"I think you must really be a witch," I
said. "Because nothing like this ever happened
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cost gun insurance; an opportunity to purchase from the Army such firearms as the left to take up their vigil over the baits.
Springfield and Ml (Garand) rifles and ..45 caliber pistol at cost-to·government Patricia, in jodhpurs and boots again, was
prices. You cdn participate in year around shooting programs and be eligible for sitting outside the cave gazing at the sunrise.
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We had our coffee, and ate venison steaks and
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beans. Tiberio rode in through the timber,
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"I have seen a white buzzard," he said. "It
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Policarpio and the cook stiffened visibly.
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zard law or, sometimes, sentences them to "Who are you? Where did you go to school?
death. Humans almost never sight the white You have an accent-what is it?"
buzzard, you are told, but when it is sighted She said, "You bave answered those ques-
one can be certain that powerful magic is be· tions yourself. I am a witch, of course. But I
ing worked in the area. am tired; even a witch needs sleep. Good-
I said to Patricia, "I was right. Occult night, senor."
things are going on. But this white buzzard In the morning, rain was falling again, and
would make a novel museum exhibit. You got this time it continued for two days. Policarpio
any objections to killing it?" rode to Sandoval ranch and brought two more
Maybe she didn't know I was kidding. May· bait goats. We remained in camp and relaxed.
be I hac! been laying it on too heavy with the The third day came bright and calm, and we
witch business. Maybe she thought I was an· hunted with the dogs but found nothing.
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raccoon-striped tail browsed in the foliage ward the spot where Tiberio was planted
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I thumbed back the hammer of the muzzle· Tiberio dismounted at the ledge and ex- shoulders, he was so well camouflaged that
loader. The next time the bird came around, amined the dusty earth under its sheltering he was all but invisible except when he moved.
it was in range, so close that I could see the overhang. "A cat slept here-a guinduri, I
I put the muzzle·loader on him, and cut
eye it cocked at us, and the toes of the foot it think," he said. "If it was the cat that fed at
dragged to kill speed. I swung with the bird, the carcass, its stomach will be full and it will loose. The charge of shot blew him off the
limb and he crashed, squalling, down into the
and fired. not run far."
midst of the waiting dogs. Policarpio and
The gun bucked, black powder smoke bil· "Next to an onza," I said, "we need a
lowed, and the white buzzard dropped in a Ernesto waded in, throwing dogs right and
guinduri."
crazy spiral, dead when it hit the rocks. EVC'I'ybody talks about having killed guin- left, to save the pelt.
Tiberio retrieved the bird, holding it by a duris, but the pelts of the handsome little When order was restored, I picked the dead
wing-tip and looking unhappy. I gathered that jungle cats are scarcer than truth at a Liar's cat up and carried it over to Patricia. With-
brujos, even when in disguise, were supposed Club convention. The dogs were belling a out looking at me, she took it in her arms.
to be invulnerable to powder and shot. quarter of a mile ahead, and we lined out getting blood on her shirt, and stroked the
Patricia took the buzzard and smoothed its after them. Within minutes Pilot let out the animal's fur. "You were a good guinduri,"
feathers, looked at its eyes, and opened its excited yow-yow that meant he had the cat she whispered. "You knew you were going to
beak. "You were a good white buzzard," she bayed. When we reached the dogs they were die, but the dogs and the noise frightened
whispered. "You came down to us, flying so at the base of a towering wild·fig tree. A dozen you."
low and slow." cats could have taken sanctuary in the massed "I give up," I said. "Maybe it's an act, and
I told myself that this girl with the gold- foliage without exposing a square inch of maybe it isn't. But I never saw anything like
bright hair was ribbing me as nobody else hide. We walked around the tree, trying to it before."
ever had, or else she was nuts and needed a take it apart limb by limb. No luck. At last Next morning Patricia asked me to ride to
psychiatrist. "What happens now?" I asked Policarpio removed his spurs and prepared to Sandoval ranch with her. She was going home.
her. "Is there a payoff to this? Should I con· climb the tree. I glanced at Patricia, and she We rode without talking, but when the ranch
sider myself hexed for having killl'<l. the great was putting on that narrow-eyed, whispering house was in sight I broke down. "Look, don't
white king buzzard?" routine again. leave," I said. "Until you came, I thought this
"Why, no," she said, smiling happily for "Are you telling the cat to show itself, was barren country. I thought my crew didn't
the first time since Sandoval unloaded her on please, and give us a shot?" I asked. know how to laugh and sing. Stay with us
me. "Now I can go home. But first I want to "Wait," she said. "He needs time. He knows until we kill an onza."
make one more hunt with you." ·'that he is going to die, and is afraid." Patricia looked at me a long moment, then
We returned to camp, where I weighed and We waited. Policarpio stood there with his said, "No. I must go home. But you will kill
measured the white buzzard, skinned it, dusted spurs in his hand. The dogs stopped bellering. your onza. Goodby."
the skin with arsenic and stuffed it with cot· It occurred to me that she had us all be· She rode on to the ranch house, and I
ton: This chore finished, we made a cast with witched. Suddenly Tiberio jerked up his arm, turned back to camp. I never saw her again.
the dogs, but had no luck. pointing. The guinduri was on a limb 30 feet But you know what? If witches exist, beauti-
After a venison dinner and more singing, up, trying to ease around to the other side of ful witches, I'll bet that she was one. .--I
I said to the shadow-.hape that was Patricia, the tree. About the size of a terrier, long-tailed Anyhow, I like to think so. L.-
GUNS MARCH 1963 49
 BELT GUNS ON THE RIO GRANDE
Beautiful, (Continued from page 21)
custom - finished
shotgun stocks by BISHOP ... south of the Rio Bravo, not too many good My job in those days was riding horse
for three generations, makers of shots are found among them. This is not patrol for the U.S. Immigration Border
the world's most famous gunstocks! due to lack of ability on the part of the Patrol. Our little three-man station in the
Ask your dea ler for your free copy of
the all·new finished shotgun stock catalog Mexicans, but mainly to the fact that a box Santa Cruz River valley cut for sign and
. . . or write direct! of .38 Super ammunition will cost the followed up illegally entered aliens over an
E. C. BISHOP & SON, Inc., Warsaw, Mo., Dept. nc area of roughly 1600 square miles. The ma-
average cop or vaquero the equivalent of
two or three weeks' pay. Shells are scrounged jority of the alien Mexicans we apprehended
and hoarded like gold nuggets, and a cele- were not of the pistol packing breed, but
HANDGUN brant would have to be very drunk before just simple farmers looking for work.
indulging himself in firing exuberant shots An occasional pistol did turn up on a
STOCKS prisoner however, and the calibers of these
Target, Si ngle at the moon.
Action, Trooper, In the less affiuent municipalities, where hideouts ran to the popgun variety. Frisk-
Hunting, Jordan the city usually owns the policeman's guns, ing one pachuciJ, I came upon a new Berna·
Fast Draw. FREE the police armament can sometimes be delli .25 automatic in his right sock, and a
Brochure for ludicrous. I once bought a pretty good 4%" tobacco sack half full of shells in his left.
postcard, .45 Frontier from a policeman on a down- My partner ran his hand over the back
of another prisoner's shirt. The lump there
Herrett's Sto,cks town beat under the condition that I give
him a ride back to the police station so
Box 741, Twin Falls, Idaho that he could get another gun. The .45 I
got was loaded with four .38-40 shells, and
the officer refilled his holster with an old
"WORLD'S MOST VERSATILE Smith & Wesson K-22 for which he had no
shells at all!
WEAPONS CENTER" But don't be misled. There are some swift
pistoleros in maiianaland. One such was the
bodyguard and constant companion of a
*UNSERVICEABLE young army colonel I knew in Irapuato,
MACHINE GUNS Guanajuato. This iron-eyed gent carried a turned out to be a pearl handled .32 sus-
pended by a string from the Mexican's neck.
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new, slick, well-oiled automatic in a well-
purposes or as a prized decorator for collectors. made shoulder holster. My only objection to In years of contact with gunmen operat-
Miscellaneous parts & accessories for these & other the auto as a defense gun was that it was a ing inside and outside of the law, on both
machine guns in srock. Write lor free catalog. sides of the international boundary, I have
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caliber. When I mentioned this to the observed that the tastes of the two nation-
colonel's protector, he quietly invited me be- alities in hardware is at opposite poles.
hind the old army barracks where we were The Mexican police favor the .38 Super
working and showed me some of the dead- Colt auto. Three shoot-outs of which I have
U.S. M-3 "Grease Gun,t' cal. .45. Used by U.S.A. liest draw-and-shoot work I bave ever personal knowledge, let men be carried
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He first lined up six empty beer bottles jacketed slugs in them-badly hurt, but
(and they come half size in Mexico) alive.
against an adobe wall, and backed off a A railroad special agent in New Mexico
full ten paces. Facing away from the took four hits from a Super after emptying
targets in the manner used in the Mexican his .38 Special into a thug caught breaking
Defense pistol course, he shouted, "Ya!" into a boxcar. He spent his recuperative
and jerked his Woodsman, wheeling and period looking for a bigger gun.
shattering all six bottles in a fast sweep The border country is still rough and
of his gunhand that couldn't have taken tough, and, to quote the old Border Patrol
more than four seconds. To the oLes of circular describing the work to prospective
the watching Mauser·armed soldiery, he Patrol Inspectors, "Shooting affrays are not
threw a bottle from his right hand about infrequent." The men on the north side of
30 feet into the sky, then drew from under the border, men who know guns and
his coat and broke it in the air. He re- use them every day on behalf of law and
,~. AUSTRIAN MODEL 95M SERV· order, chose the big sixguns almost without
$7.95 ICE RIFLES. $7_95 plus $2.00 peated this trick, throwing two bottles at
sive piece that youP~anH~~';~iS~ u~~dueinai~:x~r~ once and shattering both of them. Ed Mc- exception. One old timer I knew took a
handsome "Mantle Decorator" or exotic lamp stand switchblade in his lung, then drew and dis-
for your den or gun room. Chambered for obsolet<> Givern could have done better, but I was
8MM rim cartrid~es and offered as "Decorators"
only. Full 50" in length. A few 95M short rifles
convinced that this man's colonel was in patched his two attackers with two shots
available at $8.95 plus $2.00 ppd..
safe hands. from his .44-40 Colt.
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~~~:~~; :tnf~r ~jo.~~.a~de $~83 ~~~ terrific beating from her burly husband.
gun for ppd.. large caliber revolvers. Although they have When the man refused to be arrested and
PENQUIN DARTGUN WITH DARTS largely been picked up by Yankee collect- grappled for the officer's gun, he was
An excitinR' space age version of THE PRIMITIVE
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games, picnics, patio parties. tars;tet shouUnR".
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outdoors. Just insert dart and pUff • • • ! Any card·
board. carton makes ideal tar~et & backstop. Over four
feet IonR', sanitary mouthpiece . • . All aluminum-
the small pueblitos and ranchos of Mexico Many of the Border Patrohnen I ad-
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~i~c~f;~~~iWe~~~bl:l:~~iC~ :~ ~c:::~~s m~i-G~~ called "Tejanas" (Texans) by the Mexicans, situations the border had to offer with a gun
to be carried like a walkin~ staff. Only $6.95. Extra
Darts; 6 in Holster-$1.49. Add 8Sc for ppd.. delivery. could be bought for the equivalent of five at their belt and grit in their hearts, are
HANDGUNS & AMMO MUST BE SHIPPED EXPRESS or ten dollars U.S. in those days. gone. MyoId Chief, Carson Morrow was
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In 1951, I picked up a mint .41 Long one of them. His walnut.gripped Colt
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Box 35 • 200 South Strand St. Old-timer Frank "Pancho" Edgell 9f
Alexandria 2, Virginia installed a new .45 barrel and cylinder Amado, Arizona, had retired from active
for me, and the gun was my companion on service when I knew him, but he still.
a hundred desert horseback trips. packed his beautifully engraved, flat top

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Frontier .45 Colt with its yellowed, carved him a box of hollow-point handloads to try
ivory grips. in his light framed Magnum, I explained Beautiful,
Good natured Doug Shute, who had many that I had loaded them down to a mere custom-finished:~~~'
shotgun stocks. by •• "~
hours of WWlI combat time in both the 1200 fps to reduce recoil. He gave me a BISHOP ••• for three gen-
erations, makers of the world's
RCAF and USAAF was a postwar Patrol quizzical look and drawled, "What did you most famous gunstocks! Ask your
Inspector, as quick with a smile as he was want to load 'em so light for?" dealer for your free copy of the
One thing all of these men have in com- all-new finished shotgun stock catalog
with his short Smith triple-lock .44 Special. . . . or write direct!
His Border Patrol observation plane took mon is their love for guns and shooting. E. C. BISHOP & SON, Inc., Warsaw, Mo., Dept. J2C
him to his death in the rugged Texas Trans- They are wonderful hunting companions,
Pecos country. tough competitors on the firing line. And
My partner and shooting competitor, Bob- they are men who will use their guns if
by Jarratt, Chief Patrol Inspector of the called upon, to defend themselves or you
Chula Vista Sector, in California, still car- when it becomes necessary.
ries the target sighted .44 Smith & Wesson Like all men, they have their particular
he got from me. Another tough man I likes and dislikes, and they don't hesitate
rode with, Buck Smith, packs a pair of .45 to express them. As long as there are guns
automatics on the Pacific island where he is· on the border, you'll hear endless arguments
now stationed. about calibers, actions, and makes. And
Bill Jordan, fastest gun in the Patrol, there'll be guns on the Border-and work
favors his cutdown .357 Combat Smith & for those guns to do--for a long time to ~
Wesson for everyday wear. When I handed come, if we are to judge by the present. ~

THE COLT NEW SERVICE Instantly shows true range I

(Continued from page 32)
and government serial number, plus an Bill Toney, former national handgun
anchor stamped on the butt. Marine Corps champion and currently chief firearms in-
1909 Models were marked: USMC followed structor, U. S. Border Patrol, and James F:
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ment number. Colt was awarded another contract and
During the past several years New Service made up about 400 revolvers to Border
revolvers in .455 Colt and .45 Colt, bearing Patrol specifications. This is a .38 Special
the markings R.N.W.M.P. or RCMP, or in a with fixed sights, a four inch untapered by SWEANY
few instances MP, have been offered for barrel which is .770" in diameter throughout, ASSURES PERFECT BORESIGHT
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more recent Colt was adopted only because
the New Service was no longer available.
The .38 Special ew Service was the stand-
~.- ..
Service succeeded the Enfield service revolv- ard model but has a square butt and
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lectors are the Model 1917 New Service ago the NYSP retired this model and cali- age.
revolvers, caliber .4·5 ACP or the .38 Special ber, adopting the .38 Special. Bill Keeler, NAME .
marked on the backstrap, top to bottom, former New York State trooper, recalls that ADDRESS .
"U.S.I.B.P." for United States Immigration some of the guns were stamped along the
CITY lONE STATE .
Border Patrol. backstrap or on the butt N.Y.S.P. The

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retired .45's were sold to a New York City Officer's Model frame, and no Colt is made These things are only good for one thing,
gun dealer. in .44 Magnum. The dropping of the New in my opinion: to catch in the brush and
The Postal Service had about 20,000 Service from the Colt line is to be re- get wound around your neck. They have no
Model 1917 Colt's and S&W's when the gretted, and handgunners are fervently place on a hunting rifle of mine. When I fire
standardization program commenced. These hoping that Colt will produce, in the not a shot from the sitting or the offhand, I
guns were recalled and sold in lots to too distant future, a new and perhaps some· won't be wasting precious seconds winding
certified gun dealers through competitive what improved version of this model. These that snaky thong around my arm!
bids on the open market, the average price improvements could take the form of a wide In many years of game shooting, under all
being $10-11 each. Dealers have been re-selling trigger, wide hammer spur, short action, and imaginable conditions, I have found offhand
these guns for $10.00 to $37.50, depending an adjustable rear sight. A more readily to be the most useful of all the shooting
on condition. visible bead front sight would be greatly positions. It offers advantages over all the
S&W Model 1917's usually have some- welcome. others, none possibly more conclusive than
what smoother finish than the Colts, but most If you are the lucky owner of a New the fact that the marksman is standing at
of these guns should be re-blued. The Model Service, you can add an adjustable rear his full height and may thus see the better.
1917 New Service makes a fine peace sight and either a fast draw or target type Practically as important is the speed with
officer's sidearm when equipped with an front sight. A trigger shoe with built-in which the shot may be delivered. There
adjustable rear sight and a ramp Baughman trigger stop and custom grips will help in need be no dilly·dallying; the gunner
"Fast Draw" front sight. the score department. And even if you leave simply whips up the musket and lams away.
Today, Colt's does not manufacture a your New Service in "as is" condition, you When follower shots must be slugged home,
large frame, double action sixgun. The .357 still have one of the finest handguns ~ he has his hand free to operate the bolt. If
Magnum is built on the lightweight 41 ever made. ~ reloading is in order, he is in the best po-
sition to do this. If the target dodges,
LEARN TO SHOOT OFFHAND charges, ducks, or hides, he may instantly
(Continued from page 31) shift to one flank or the other, back up, go
forward, or climb a tree.
was a mite over 200 yards from his muzzle. should be flexible enough, too, so that the But the average hunter-marksman cannot
There wasn't, you understand, any place he feet can remain flat on the ground, or nearly be sure of hitting a deer at 100 yards from
could lie down, so he had to shoot standing. so. That's the best sitting position. the offhand position. At 200 yards, he will
His first slug plunked into the muskeg a But even a mediocre sitting position can oftimes miss a 15OO-pound moose. At 275,
good eight feet over the bear's ruff. The sec- be better than kneeling or squatting-and he is apt to miss a middling to large house!
ond hit a good 20 feet this side of what must lord knows, a man who can't assume the What does he do about this? Nothing! It
have been the most startled Kodiak on the sitting position is going to have a bad time is too much work, requires range practice,
island. After that it was ridiculous. The bear attaining a good kneeling or squatting pos- .the burning of many hulls. Even then, prog-
got into top forward speed, and when a ture! Fat men can, with practice, work out ress is so slow that he puts the chore be·
Kodiak pushes the panic button he can sitting positions that will give at least a hind him . . . But it can be done!
really move! Our friend's third and final relatively steady rifle platform; and men At the tryouts for the International Shoot-
blast missed, I calculate, by about 40 rods. with stiff ankles can drive their heels into ing Competitions, the winner, a member of
There was an article in this magazine reo the ground for firm foundation. the Army's Marksmanship Training Unit
cently advising hunters to shoot from a rest The marksman should practice going into at Ft. Benning, scored 221 out of 250 on a
whenever possible. This is fine. I'm all for the sitting position, so that when he plops course of fire involving 50 shots at 110 yards
it, when it is possible. It would turn a lot his butt down he does not do a lot of screw- on a running deer target. This target flashes
of misses and a lot ·of wounded-but-Iost ani- ing around on the ground attempting to across an opening of 24 yards, moving at a
mals into clean·killed trophies. But there find a secure position. When he wangs the speed of 6 yards per second-the cutout of
are times when no rest is possible. These are old backside onto terra firma he should be the whitetail is exposed for 4 seconds.
the times when a man must make do with ready to shoot. If he cannot do this, he is Imprinted on the deer's shoulder is a
what he can do, sitting or standing. If he not ready to go into the game fields. 6-inch bullseye. Our trooper plunked 4·2 of
can't, he should keep his finger off the A lot of rifles are all prettied up wi th a his 50 shots into that 6-inch black bullseye
trigger. leather strap which is fastened at one end while it whipped by at a speed of 18 feet
I have known shooters with lardy middles to the forestock and at the other end to the per second. If you do not think this was
who tried the sitting position, found that it main stock. I never could figure out what some exhibition of marksmanship, just back
pushed their bellies up under their short this thing was for so I take 'em off and use off 110 yards and try panning a 6-inch bull,
ribs, crowded their lungs, made them huff the leather to patch bridle reins. The army slow fire and immobile. Few indeed are the
and puff until they couldn't hold on the tar- likes its troopers to get all wound up in hunter-marksmen who can notch it even
get. It's true that the sitting position works this piece of cowhide-and then shoot that as much as half the time!
best for people with less than forty-odd way. This has carried over to hunting Shooters complain that they are not good
inches around the middle; to make it work sportsmen who, deluded by the niilitary game fields marksmen because they can
best, you need to lean far forward, with long-hairs, would sooner be caught at Holly- neither afford the time nor the moola for
your elbows inside your knees and well wood & Vine without pants than afield practice. These are poor excuses. To develop
down along the shin bones. The ankles without a sling on the favorite .270 rifle. acceptable skill, the gunner need resort to
nothing more costly than dryfire practice.
If the marksman will give 20 minutes every
NEW/ lindMllde ONL Yby FITI// day, year-long, to sitting and offhand snap-
ping, he will gain immeasurably in skill.
Some actual firing is necessary, of course;
ACCU-RISER but most of this can be done with a .22 rifle.
Forty shots sitting and forty offhand, the
ADJUSTABLE TARGET GRIPS gun empty, will suffice. The target for the
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52 GUNS MARCH 1963
gotten away in a period of not less than 5
seconds per round. This is rapid fire.
This is likewise necessary when doing
dryfire offhand. Half the grind should be
rapid, the rifle held at the shoulder and the
trigger squeezed in not less than 5 seconds
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Many marksmen, even gents who profess
to be Old Hands, cannot hold the rifle
at shoulder height and operate the bolt!
They want to lower the piece to hip level
.:
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GUNS MARCH 1963 53
 MAKE PHOTO RECORD OF YOUR GUNS hardwood dowel or steel rod set upright in
the concrete, is placed on the floor, and the
(Continued from page 25)
gun muzzle is slipped over the rod or dowel.
ground. Take a look at the Ruger Single Six Then take one photo flood on a piece of The bucket is then touched out of the nega-
photographed against a dark background. broom handle and start moving the light tive or prints.
A lot of light from the photo floods is lost, around in slow circles and ovals while you If you have a strobe light, you can use
yet four 250 Watt lights were used. Now keep the shutter of the camera open. You this quite effectively for your gun photog·
slip a piece of light cardboard under the may need a bit of practice with this method, raphy, but be certain that camera and light
gun-and, presto, there is your sharply con- but it works. unit are directly above the gun-othetwise
trasted picture. There are a number of tricks that are you'll get shadows which require retouching,
Long guns can be photographed the same used by the professionals. If you want to and that is expensive and not always satis-
way. Use a larger piece of white cardboard, show the markings of a gun, you can use factory.
obtainable from art stores; place tbe gun angled light so that the depression of the die Just a word about films. Kodak's Plus-X
the way you want to show it; set up your or stamp throws a shadow. Better yet, some will do very nicely for most uses. This is a
lights, and take the picture. Naturally, the talcum powder rubbed over the marks will film with very little grain and, when the
longer the gun, the farther you must get make them show up sharp and clear against print is enlarged, the grain of the film will
away from it with the camera. Your view- the blue of the gun steel. not interfere with the picture. For ultra fine
finder will not only give you a picture of Another device that is often used is the grain, I like to use Adox KB 14 in my
what you will record, but will also show you illuminated glass table. This runs into money Contaflex. With the excellent Carl Zeiss
faulty lighting. and is only worth while if you do a lot of lenses and the fine-grain film, negatives are
If your camera does not have a built-in gun photography. Simply build a coffee table sharp and clear, can be enlarged and cropped
light-meter, be certain that your light-meter as long as the longest gun you will want to to my heart's content.
readings are taken from the reflected surface photograph. Instead of a table top, get a Cropping, by the way, is nothing more
of the gun. In extreme close-up work, read- piece of ground glass (don't faint at the than looking at the contact prints and mak-
ing a light meter under the hot photo floods price), and then place your photo floods ing marks with a grease pencil that will
with the lens of the camera only inches away around the table. A piece of old bed sheet show the studio what part of the print you
can become a miserable job. That is one of or white cardboard with additional lights on
the reasons why I use the Contaflex almost the underside of the table, so that they re-
exclusively for close-up work. This camera flect through the ground glass, will give you
has a built-in light meter, and setting the a completely shadow-less picture.
camera is a cinch. Another way to photograph long guns is
If there is a lot of gun photography to be to hold them uright and take the picture
done and you want to' avoid using the hot with a light background that is far enough
photo floods, there is an easy technique for removed from the gun so that your lights
evenly distributed light. The pros call it won't create shadows on the background.
"painting with light." Set up your gun, set The simplest way to hold the gun upright is
the shutter of your camera for time expo- the device known as a dowel-bucket. A five
sure, hook the cable release on the camera. gallon can filled with concrete, with a small

want enlarged. If you do your own work,

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made of the finest quality leather ... the
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rubbing and chafing ... hand stitched by print, he marked down from whom he ac-
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54 GUNS MARCH 1963

 MEL JOHNSON'S NEW "SPITFIRE"
(Continued from page 23)
and the face-lifting your gun will get is Elihu Lyman to mention only a few. On the
shown in the photographs. A brand·new 30th of September of last year, Elihu
Carbine-Spitfire goes for $130 complete. Lyman fired a Johnson-Sako sporter rifle in
The carbine-conversion Spitfire can be 5.7mm Spitfire at 200 yards, 15 rounds with
handled like a handgun with one hand, can shifting 15-25 mph winds. Sighted for 100
be fired with a two-handed pistol-like grip, yards, the center of impact was six inches
or with the folding wire stock extended, can or three minutes low, and the group mea-
Close Range
also be fired in any of the standard rifle po- sured five inches extreme spread. The same Fox Call
sitions. The safety of the carbine is retained, day, Leo Zieller fired five shot groups at SPECIAL OFFER: Both Fox Calls Plus
and the sights are the Ml carbine post and 100 yards. This was witnessed by Charles $2 Instruction Record (78 or 45 rpm)ONlY $5
adjustable or "L" rear peep. If you want Lyman. The mean radius of the group was Surefire unbreakable BURNHAM ci.llls fec.tured in Aug. '51
TRUE "The CRITTERS Come When CAlLED .... Burnham
other sights, they can be installed, providing 0.304 inches with a total spread of 0.75 calls lured up 121 FOlC, 33 Raccoons. 156 Coyotes. 11 Bobcat,
42 Deer, and hundreds of Hawks and Eagles on their dry run.
they are of standard commercial U.S. make. inches. Al Mason of the Blue Trail Range Thou.sands 01 these calls in us.c everywhere. Letters tell us of
amazIng results-"Very first time I used your call I called up
fired the carbine conversion, and groups 5 Coyoles"-P.T.C .. New Mexico. BURNHAM calls must give
The barrel of the carbine is relined, the you close shot at above mentioned game or your money back!
averaged 2.25 to 2.50 inches at 100 yards.
gas port altered and the action balanced
Two MMJ 5.7 Spitfire target, bolt-action mEE Callinr Stories and best instructions
to handle the MMJ 5.7 Spitfire cartridge.
rifles, with 6x Lyman scopes were fired 50 years 01 calliIII experience can produce.
You'll have yOllT gun back in about 30 days,
by 3 shooters at 100 yards, all men shoot- Dealer Inquiries Invited
and you can buy ammo for the gun from
ing 5 shot groups_ The largest group mea-
Mel for $15 a hundred. Your newly stream-
sured 1.5 inch, the smallest 0.625, and the
lined carbine will weigh 4.8 pounds empty,
majority of the groups measured one inch.
and you'll have a choice of magazines for
One consecutive group of four shots mea-
5, 15, or 30 cartridges. As with all magazine-
sured 0.50 inch, the fifth shot producing a
fed semi-autos, it is a smart idea to reduce
flier, thus enlarging the group to 0.9 inch.
the actual number of cartridges loaded into
Now, that is pretty impressive accuracy, but
a clip. The 30-rounder is best loaded with
as the saying goes: "You ain't seen nothing
25 cartridges, while the 15-shot clip will do yet."
nicely with 13-14 rounds. The standard five Sever be-
rore has an
Barrel heating and subsequent wander- achromatic tel e-
shot clip can, of course, he used as is. scope sold for an,..·
ing or spreading of the group has been the where near this amazln~
Over-all length with the 18 inch barrel Jow pricel You )eet clearer
major bugaboo with light weight sporters sharper pictures at all powers
because of the ~:;uper compoull,1
is 27% inches with the wire stock folded, and slim tubes. At one time, it was standard Achl'o Lens. No color no fuzz. Varl·
unfolded the total length is 35 inches. ~~~e~~er.~~:radjoU~~~~lee~~en;nt41' oru?r~et
procedure to talk about groups in terms shootln::t and wfde angle vlewinR'. er :owers
Although kick is a highly subjective matter, of five shots, and with the light guns and hot ~~r2 l~gFesr~~~t'i,ea'b1atks~~~CO'"8YYd~. tee to :r~~lng
the general consensus of opinion is that it loads, three shot groups have become, more g:.~':J~~e o:J:~~ns.p~l~tme~)ai~e~ieamin~brass~~ ~~:gl~iO~
lenses. A precision American made instrument. uncon-
appears to about balf that of the standard (Continued on page 59)
ditionally ~uarantced. Carrying case included. Send only
56.98. Cash, check or money order. We pay pOstage.
Criterion Co•• 313 Church St., Hartford, Conn., Dept. TSA-86
Ml carbine, or practically nil. Ejection of
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undeformed and unstained brass that is
suitable for reloading. Loading dies are
being made hy the Lyman Gun Sight Cor-

EVERY DA~h
poration, Middlefield, Conn.
Your third choice, as previously mentioned,
is to have Mel Johnson (Johnson Guns, Inc., *
formerly Advanced Developments, Inc., Room
308, 152 Temple Sireet, New Haven, Conn.)
Nuhville,
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WE GET LETTERS * Runnemede,
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make you a custom sporter. This will set you *
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Salt Lake City,
back $160. The Sako action used in these Utah
sporters is presently in short supply, but
when you get your custom sporter in the MMJ
5.7 Spitfire, you won't be sorry about the AND MORE LETTERS • • •
delay. Slap a scope on the gun, sight her in,
and you'll be able to hold your own in any
(
and all varmint competitions. What will hap-
pen when Mel puts the 5.7 Spitfire into a
benchrest gun will cause headlines.
Lysle "K-Hornet" Kilbourn describes the
MMJ 5.7 Spitfire as a super K-Hornet with
a case that will hold more powder. Balli- I have used a couple of thousar'ld of your We have been using different make primers and
primors and I havo NEVER had a misfire yet. find yours to be far SUPERIOR and MORE IN
stically, the Spitfire is just below the .222
- John D. Darden, Palatka, Florida. DEMAND than any others. _ James W. Richards,
Remington and above the .218 Bee, and the I like your MAG·NUM pistol primers' for my .44 Runnemede, New Jersey.
loaded 5.7 mm round is 0.58 inches shorter Magnum. Thoy do MUCH BETTER than any regu- I havo had a good deal of success with yqur
than the .222 Remington Magnum. The cart- lar primer.-Willis l. Hobart, Nashville, Oregon. products and to the time of this writing I
ridge is ideally adapted to semi-automatic I have used over 5,000 CCI Primors and l'tI HAVE NOT had a misfire yet. _ Ronald L.
firing, and the carbines sent in for Spit- say one thing for them - just keep making them Kellmer, Spokane 4, Washington.
fire conversion have about 20 per cent more -THEY ARE TERRIFIC - not one bad ono in the I have been using CCI Primers for two years
power in the driving spring and about twice bunch. I also use thom in all of my custom with not a misfire. THEY ARE O. K. IN MY
hand loads for my customers and ALL ARE O. K. BOOK. - Forrest D. Smith, Ashland, New
the operating gas compression ratio of the - John R. Pease, Salt Lake City, Utah. Hampshiro.
original .30 carbine. Cartridge design of WATCH FOR MORE - MAYBE YOU KNOW THEM! MAYBE IT'S YOU!
the MMJ 5.7 Spitfire consistently improved
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GUNS MARCH 1963 55
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ried easily in pockets, gun kits, or glove to take the rigors of travel encountered in
compartments. Grease lubricates from 65 de- outdoor activities. Made of aluminum, it
grees below zero to 300 degrees F. Effective features a contoured enamel seat. The 4-lb.
as rust and corrosion preventative that re- unit folds to a flat I %" for easy carrying.
sists water, salt spray, oxidation. "Two-Way" Portalet is furnished complete with six
kits manufactured by Wright & McGill Co., sanitary, moisture-proof disposable plastic
Denver 8, Colo. bags and retails at 9.95. Six-packs of extra
disposable bags are also available at 1.25
per pack from the manufacturer: Island
camper, it will sleep two in a conversion Sales Co., Dept. G-3, 473 So. Franklin St.,
time of approx. two minutes. Sleeper has Hempstead, N. Y.
two nylon screen windows with covers that
may be dropped from the inside, as well as
nylon screen doorway with double-pull zip-
per. Manufactured by: Holsclaw Bros., Inc.,
Dept. G-3, 408 North Willow Road, Evans·
ville, Ind.

XF-IO SUPER GUN SOLVENT. Fast·acting, WALKIE·TALKIE KIT assembles in two

deep penetrating gun solvent does a clean- hours with soldering iron, pliers, and
ing job in seconds on old, dirty sporting DEERSKIN SHOOTING GLOVES have screwdriver. Fun to assemble and operate.
equipment. Effectively lifts and removes soft fit and "bare hand feel" necessary for Press to transmit, release to listen. Operates
embedded lead, rust, and other foreign proper trigger pull. Cut from tan colored, on 27MC citizens band-no license, no
matter. XF-15 5-in-1 Dry Graphite is a light soft, light weight deerskin, gloves offer pro- examination, no age limit. Fully assembled
deflector designed to prevent glare. For use tection from cold and brush. All fingers unit just 5" high, weighs 8 OZS., range
on barrels of all guns as well as on sights, ." have reversible seam for smoothness. Elastic to % mile. Case high-impact, shock resist-
it seals and water-proofs all metals provid- gathering at wrist, cut I ]h" longer than ant. Circuits subminiaturized and alI-trans-
ing utmost protection against moisture. standard gloves to slip under shirt or istorized. Spacephone kits available for
XF-20 is the magic gun and reel lubricant. coat sleeves. Men's sizes 7 thru 10%; wom- $21.95 each, less battery from Semi-Conduct-
Complete cost of all three preparations is en's sizes 6 thru 8. Priced $6.95 from: or Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of Electro-
$3.50 retail. Manufactured by: Rice Prod- Gokey Co., Dept. G-3, 94 E. Fourth St., solids Corp., 12740 San Fernando Road
ucts Co., Dept. G-3, Palm Beach, Fla. St. Paul I, Mj"u. North, Sylmar, Calif.
56 GUNS MARCH 1963
 SILICONE SPRAY makes things slide and
glide easier. Stainless, odorless, waxless,
DAISY C02100 gas operated semi-automatic colorless, and non-inflammable. Dries fast
pistol. Yields in excess of 100 shots, all at and leaves no greasy or oily film. Lubricant
same velocity, with each 8.5 gram C02Jett is heat stable, will not freeze or melt, and
"LILLIPUT" KEROSENE LAMP. Highly cylinder. New C02 valve eliminates "0" is not affected by water, oil, or solvents.
styled lamp throws ideal projection of light rings, usual cause of gas leakage. Shoots for Claimed to retard corrosion by protecting
for cabin, lodge, den. Of unique classic Jh cost of other C02 guns. Price, $15. From battery terminals, tools, guns, skates, alumi-
design, it is constructed of rich gleaming the well-known line of the Daisy Manufactur- num windows and doors. Waterproofs igni.
solid brass. Light gives off mellow, soft, ing Company, Rogers, Arkansas. tion systems and spark plugs. Handy 6 oz.
relaxing light. May be used either standing can retails for 98c. Manufactured by Spray-
on a table or suspended, via a hook, from way, Inc., Dept. G-3, 7644 S. Vincennes Ave.,
NEW MOTOR SCOOTERS in Standard and Chicago 20, Ill.
the ceiling. A product of Gloy's Import Deluxe Wren models, manufactured. by
Co., Inc., Dept. G-3, II Addison St., Larch- Bird EJ;1gineering, 206 So. 19th St., Omaha,
mont, N. Y. Neb. Standard Wren features a powerful
Clinton A 500 2lh hp engine with auto-

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LITENITE AMBER SPORT GLASSES cut watches, credentials, transistor radios, and
through haze and fog to enable sportsmen everything he carries with him on his out-
to see accurately and clearly in target door trips. Should his boat capsize or a
practice or any outdoor sport. Designed to sudden rainstorm come up, his valuables will
prevent accidents by helping to quickly matic recoil starter. Light. weight, speeds be saved. Unit is also life preserver, an air
identify moving objects. Regular style $2.98; can be attained up to 30 mph and up to 100 pillow, and a seat cushion. Made out of blue
Clip-On style $2.25; Deluxe style $5.00, all Egyptian cotton material, it has two layers
mpg. Other features include polyfoam up-
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holstered seat, pneumatic tires, automatic
remittance to Stuyvesant Trading Co., Inc., partments. Further information supplied by
clutch, finger tip throttle and brake con-
130 West 42nd St., Dept. G-3, New York the manufacturer: Kayak Corp. of America,
trols, and two coat· baked on metallic blue
.36, N. Y. Inc., Dept. G-3, 133 West 45th St., New
finish. Wren sells for less than $100.00.
York 36, N. Y.
POCKET-SIZED GUN CLEANING KIT. 22
Cal. and larger field kit contains essentials
to clean, rustproof, lubricate firearms. Utiliz-
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contains plastic squeeze bottle with spout
and leakproof cap; heavyweight canton flan-
nel for patches; a sheepskin wiping pad;
and a braided nylon pull-through cord.
Packed in an oilproof vinyl pocket-case, to
be carried in pocket or packed with gun in
case. Priced at $1.95 from Lenz Products
LEISURE BOOTS have warm, comfortable Company, Inc., 649 Vincent Road, North
design with genuine shearling Oambswool Canton 20, Ohio.
linings} and long-wearing nylon suede up-
pers. Soles of sponge crepe with serrated MILITARY & POLICE shoulder Holster for FREE CATALOG from Walter H. Craig,
bottoms for sure footing. Light in weight, .45 Colt Automatic. Detachable leather Dept. G-3, 413 Lauderdale St., Selma, Ala.,
flexible and sturdy, boots are popular among harness, holster may be worn on belt or as lists about one-third of his shooting goods
skiers, all sportsmen, spectators, and for a cross draw. Gun held securely in place items. It is on best grade, slick paper and
casual wear. Men's model available in sizes without springs or clamps. Three holsters in contains about 100 pages and pictures of
6 to 13 in narrow, medium, and wide widths; one. Heavy weight leather, tan or black. literally hundreds' of guns. Cost of catalog
women's boots in sizes 4 to 10 in narrow and Plain finish, priced $14.50. Other attractive printing and mailing is $1.00 and amount
medium width. Available in an array of models in line. A Combat Action Holster by would be appreciated, though not necessary.
popular colors. Retail for $19.95 ppd., from: Protector Brand Holster Co., 509 Hacienda Makes good reference book for weapon
Riedell Shoes, Inc_, Red Wing, Minn. Dr., Monrovia, Calif. identification.
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 (Continued from page 55) now being put together by Lysle Kilbourn
and Mel Johnson, promises to be a tackhole NEW MARK III BSA. MARTINI INTERNATIONAL .22
or less, ,the standard. Reason behind this is Caliber Target Rifle, the Supreme in Accuracy,
the fact that most shooters will shoot from a driver giving MOA groups with, standard comtort and workmanship, for RIGHT HAND or LEFT
cold barrel -and won"t have a chance to get ammo. Mel and Lysle are now'. working on HAND shooter~ without, sights. , . $210.00 '
off more than 'iwo or' three shota.'before the some special target loads that could, and
game leaves the county. Rapid firing heats this is nothing ·new to handlo'aders, increase FREElAND
the slimmer barrels too rapidly to hold the accuracy to 'an incredible degree. .30 Cal. Kit
original point of impact. A Johnson con· Mel Johnson, in designing the conversion $13.50
version carbine in 5.7mm Spitfire was tested carbine, kept in mind some extremely rugged
for rapid' fire spread. All shooting was at 100 . function tests,. a,nd, ljll conversions leaving
yards, and record groups were fired for five the plant are tested with a fully loaded 30
and ten' shots, The 'first groups averaged· round -clip, and are fired, loosely held,
with a completely dry firing me'chanism. The 48" RiflE
2-3 inches, the 1O-shot group averaged 3
TRUNK $26.25
inches. Five shots in a smany seconds mea- little gun spits out the empties with great
mred 2.35 inches, while timed fire prodnced ease, and the bullets home in on the target
2 inch gronps. Normal fire, again with five as if they were radar controlled. KNEELING PAD $5.25
shots, produced a 1.9 inch group. About This is not a big game cartridge, but a BIPOD $17.50
80 per cent of the 10, 20, and 30 shot groups fine varmint load that is extremely accurate
averaged 3 inches at 100 yards. and flat-shooting when you consider the 40
Extensive accnracy tests by Mel and his grain pill. Although Mel has experimented GALLERY BIPOD $18.90
staff, by members of the Lyman Gun Sight with different bullet weights and powders,
Corporation, and by" shooters who were ballistics performance was most satisfactory NEW! FREELAND
at the Blue Trail range when the MMJ 5.7 with the current load. Neither does Mel be· "SUPREME" BENCHREST
Spitfire was tested, proved two or three lieve in boosting up pressures to the point ALL ANGLE STAND $30.00
TRIPOD $15.25
points worth considering. First of all, the where the law of diminishing returns
FORE·END STOPS. except M37 & 52.0.$ 3.00
inherent accnracy of the cartridge-gun takes hold, when a few feet per second in- Fore·End Stop, 52·0 4.00
combination, even in the streamlined carbine crea~e means internal pressures that will FREelAND Kneeling Pad '.' . . . . . . . 5.25
version is outstanding. Compared with ac· shorten the life of the brass or the gun. FREELAND B Shooting Mat ........•... 18.00
curacy obtained from .30 caliber Ml car· As yet, Mel and Fitz have not worked FREELAND v.. opening Acces. Kit 20.00
bines, groups a~ 100 yards were consistently up hand-loading data, but these should " Foam Padded Shooting Glove..... 5.25
one-half the size when the Spitfire was pitted be available shortly. When you get your FREELAND Sling Keeper.............. 1.25
against the .30 caliber gun. The carbine Spitfire carbine or custom rifle, you'll have " Mid-Century cuff Comb......... 8.50
" Alum. butt plate from.......... 10.50
conversion is accurate enough for all prac· to buy ammo anyhow. By the time this is
" Schutzen hook for above.... . . . . 8.50
tical varmintlng and plinking and could, in gone, complete loading data and dies will OLYMPIC PALM REST from 13.50
case of need, be used as survival gun, espe- be available from Lyman and probably also lOX SHOOTING COAT ............••• 20.00
cially when you consider that 300 rounds from other companies. SHOOTING Jersey 3.30
weigh only 5.1 Ibs. In this conversion, the The Spitfire in field tests was poison on Win. 52-0 Target rifle Std. or Hvy 145.00
carbine is an excellent pest gun and affords jackrabbits and other varmints, and could Rem. 513TR target rifle 88.95
Prices Subject to Chang~ Without Notice
ample fire power. A gun like the Spitfire do real yeoman service for the camper who ALL eUN5 _ SIGHTS - GUN CASES - SCOPES
RELOADING SUPPLIES
can easily be carried in any vehicle as sur· wants to pot a rabbit or blue grouse for the WRITE FOR PAMPHLET

vival arm, especially in airplanes flying pot. Matter of fact, the Spitfire is sheer FREELAND'S Scope Stands. Inc.
over desolate _ areas. The J ohnson-Sako poison on any small critter - either from 3737 14th Avenue Rock Island. III.
custom rifle is, because of barrel length the rifle and from the carbine conversion.
and stocking, more accurate than the car-
bine version of the Spitfire and the bull gun
And what else do you want from a ~
varminter? LillI
FREE CATALOG
HANDLOADING BENCH HQuick-Draw" Holsters.
(Continued from page 15)
I designed a cruciform sizer punch to do a bullet caneluring tool, at $8.50. With the • CUSTOM MADE
a perfect job as bullets are sized. Cross tool screwed on a bench, place a bullet in • THE BEST
knives are eut in round steel stock and in· the rollers, set the adjustment screw for
serted friction tight in the punch. James a canelure in the desired place, press down SINCE 1897.
Gibbs, of Hensley & Gibbs fame, made me the handle and turn the crank a few turns.
a couple that I value highly. He doesn't do
this commercially. But anyone handy with
In three seconds yonr. pill looks like it was
factory canelured! Real clever. You or yonI'
S. D. MYRES SADDLE CO.
a file can do it. Fairly soft alloy starts ex- dealer can obtain it from SAS Dies, Box 205, P. O. BOX 9776
panding at less than 900 fps in H.P. pills, North Bend, Oregon. EL PASO, TEXAS
adding a lot of punch to .38 and .44 Specials, It's for chaps who swage rifle bullets, or
and more to Magnums. Anyone is welcome pills for tubular magazine rifles, or if you
to use my idea commercially. Drawings desire to crimp case mouths. It puts a lube
show details for .38-.357 pills in Lyman's groove in handgun pills. The best .38 wad-
top punch. cutters are swaged and lubed factory types
Shooters Service, Inc., Clinton Corners, with a hollow base. One firm has made
N.Y., have a new line of Newline handgun swaging dies for such pills without lube
bullets. (Two-bits b;ings thelr catalog with grooves. The alloy requires a high tin con-
details on all bullets, loading data and cus· tent to prevent excessive leading. This isn't
tom ammo.) Newline pills are a modification too good. GEO. BROTHERS. GREAT BARRINGTON. MASS.
of Harvey Jacketed Jugulars. The shoulder Bullets could be swaged with a softer
is eliminated, so, the tapered nose helps ,~tart alloy and lube grooves rolled in the bearing
bullets in alignment with the bore, as in surface before running in a Luhri-Sizer.
rifle types. I believe it has an accuracy ad· Accuracy might equal or exceed factory
vantage, plus reduced leading. Prices are types. I don't say it would, but it might.
$4.25 per 100 for .357's in 100, ll5, 130 and Only extensive testing will tell. Swaging in· FAST DRAW
"WORLD FAMOUS CUN"
150 grain, or $4.95 f1)r .429's in 215 or 245 creases metal density and "squeezes out" in- COLT FRONTIER REPLICA for
colleclors. QUick draw prac:lIce.
grain, plus postage on 4 pounds. terior defects. This, plus a fairly soft hol- WeRt~l"n TV fans. Looks and
feels like real gun. .
Ted Smith, of Little Dripper and Electric low base may account for the superb ac- Blue finish 54.00. lJeluxe
56.00. Add-SOc shlpplnit.
polished

Dripper fame, has invented another "first," curacy of factory pills. Yet they are handled VALLEY GUN SHOP ~~r:n.r:",~=m:

GUNS MARCH 1963 59

 REIVER GUN BOX KITS roughly, have exterior nicks and considerable
weight variation, that could be eliminated in
flat trajectory pieces. Ballistics are superior
to a .300 H&H Magnum, extraction is easier,
hand-made bullets. a shorter action is an advantage, and the
Bench resters use great care in swaging case is superior for reloading. A screw-ball
bullets superior to factory production types. .300 H&H, designed for extremely high
Results are reflected in groups that go nitroglycerine content (58.00%) English
almost (but not quite) in the same hole. powders, is not ideal for modern U.s. pow·
Handgunners may fire 20 rounds for every ders. Norma's design is superb in every way.
one fired by bench resters. Why do pistol A top load is 70.0 grains 4350 backed' with
shooters think any old slug is OK in a a 180 grain bullet and CCI Magnum primer
short tube, but only the finest is fit for (specified) for 3100 fps. Or 76.0 grains 4831
rifles? It doesn't make sense. Results are is tops with the same primer. It is best to
reflected in lousy grou ps. start with 2.0 grains less powder, giving you
Some .38 factory ammo groups 1.0" to a load adequate for all shooting.
2.0" at 50 yards in test barrels. The S&W Norma's cases are superior to excessively
.38 Master nearly holds the accuracy in trimmed and formed H&H hulls in short
1.0" to 2.5" groups. It takes good reloads Magnum wildcats, that filled a void before
Model 1016
to do 2.5". Crummy ones give 6.0" shotgun the .308 Norma Magnum was created. Good
$16.45
patterns. Yet we can sort and trim cases as they were, they are now dead ducks
Gum 16" kif for more uniformity, use more uniform in my book. Norma's hulls fit the .300 Apex
charges, and primers designed for reloads. Magnum, a "Wildcat of Merit," by sizing
ORDER BY MAIL in the usual manner for reloads. Case
I'm sorry our bullets do not exceed factory
.JULIUS REIVER CO. type accuracy.' Perhaps this sad situation capacity is reduced a bit. Use 2.0 grains less
4104 MARKET ST. WILMINGTON 99, DElAWARE will change before long. powder. Both, 4350 and 4831, are the best
Norma's .308 Magnum, in a strong, belted powders in either version, with CCI Magnum
case, is going like wildfire in velocity and primers. For slightly reduced loads I like
Shotgun Barrel Polishing Head

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sales. Let's hope we have more factory guns HiVel powder, that ignites OK with standard
.~. . A new fool designed bv: a for this superb cartridge. Most gunsmiths primers. Do not fire greately reduced ~

e~,Gum
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chamber for it, turning .30-06's into potent, charges of 4350 or 4831. ~

~
RANGE FINDER FOR HUNTERS
let your electric (Continued from page 19)
handdrill,polisher 'j ~
or grinder do the ,,;-h,T/7, __ ~._ this is a little more complicated. Rather than matched against the height of your target.
polishing. Centrif· trying to figure it out, it's best to choose an The first Range Guide was developed for
ugal force of fast revolving polishing head forces 4 centrally object as high as your target, pace off 100 whitetail deer. It shows the height of a deer
fastened strips against the barrel wall, removes lead and
polishes to a mirror like finish, from breach through choke yards, and check its size in the scope, as com- at 50, 100, 150, 200, and 300 yards.
to muule without resetting the head. Use it in 12, 16 or pared to some part of the reticle. If your scope The Range Guide, used during the off-
20 gauge barrels. No overheating of barrels. Get a mirror has, for example, a 3-minute dot reticle, season will keep your eye sharp by checking
like finish in a short time. Polishing head with 34" long
steel rod and 4 sets aT polishing strips for only $4.75
that dot will cover 3" at 100 yards, 6" at the distance to posts or bushes that are
Gunsmiths, this is the tool you have been 200 yards, and so on. These measurements about deer height. And carry it in your
asking for. Send for it Now. can give you a close estimation of range pocket during the hunting season. You al·
MAIL SOc FOR BIG NEW 52 PG. CATALOG when measured against an object of known most never will have time actually to gauge
FRANK MITTERMEIER, INC. size, such as a deer's head. Remember, al· the range to your deer, but you can use it
(Est. 1936) ways use the same scope power when check- when you are on a deer stand. On your way
"Gunsmit" Supply Headquarters" ing ranges. in, check the distance of a few bushes and
In the days of black powder guns and tree branches about five feet high. When
3577 E. Tremont Ave., New York 65, N. Y.
lobbing trajectories, many hunters used the you get to your stand, check the ranges to
sight post method. The hunter would place to your marker trees so that you have a
the sight post on his game'target, quickly good idea of the distances you may be shoot-
judge the range, hold two or three sight post ing at.
heights above its shoulder, and blast away. The Range Guide math was figured on a
Sometimes it worked, and those are the ones Guide-to·eye distance of 27 inches, which is
we hear about; but sometimes it didn't. about the average arm length for a medium-
The point of learning range gauging is to sized man. If you have shorter or longer arms
enable you to glance at your target and say, than average, your accuracy will be improved
"He's between 175 and 200 yards away." if you hold the Guide so that it is exactly
There is a New Shooter's Range Guide now 27 inches from your eye.
on the market which will help you to be- Shooter's Range Guides 04 East 34th St.,
come just that nonchalant about your range New York 16, N.Y.) are now being devel-
estimates. oped for most of the big game animals of
The Shooter's Range Guide works on the North America, including moose, elk, bear,
same principle as sight·post ranging. The only antelope, sheep, goats, and mule deer, as
difference .is that it has standard animal sil- well as ducks and geese. Get yours soon and
houettes as they would appear at various practice range estimation with it during the
ranges, printed on a clear plastic card. The summer. Come fall and hunting season,
guide is held just as if you were shooting a you'll be able to mumble casually, ~
handgun and the height of the silhouette is "Oh, he is 250 yards off!" ~

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 PROTECT WHAT MAKES US STRONGI excellent Shoemaker cartoon which pictures
a Bible and alongside it a gun. The Bible
(Continued from page 40) is labeled "F~ith of Our Fathers," and the
gun is labeled "Courage of Our Fathers."
of our firearms pOSItIOn. It will serve our reported in "The Armed Citizen" columns The title of the cartoon, "WE NEED THEM
interest best if we present our views fair- of the "American Rifleman." You can remind BOTH."
mindedly, calmly, and convincingly to our news reporters and legislators of cases like The various ways of establishing a true
friends and neighbors who are chosen to this: In Chicago recently a knife-wielding public image of firearms ownership and use
determine what laws are desirable. This, thug broke into the rectory of St. Patrick's are well known. Here we wish to center our
of course, is a generalization, but it is an church, stabbed the housekeeper to death attention on the men who make our laws.
over-all formula and we can take the details and seriously wounded the cook. Hearing To understand these men and their views
from here. screams, Father Stephen O'Donnell rushed clearly I interviewed a number of legislators.
The public image of firearms ownership, downstairs. The thug lunged at Father O'Don- It is useful to know what kind of back-
influenced by reporting media such as news- nell, intent on killing him, too, for Father grounds these men have. Members of the
papers, magazines, radio and television, has O'Donnell could identify the thug as a mur- Congress, must devote the major por-
a changing face. How good or how bad this derer. But Father O'Donnel did not come tion of their time to the task of law-making.
image may appear at a given period has a down the stairs with hands clasped in suppli- On the other hand, state legislatures meet
great influence with legislators. Thus, it is cation. In Father O'Donnell's hand was a for much shorter periods, the pay is not
vital tha~ all firearms owners observe faith- .45 pistoL When the thug lunged at him, sufficient to provide an adequate income,
fully the rules of safety and restraint, bring- Father O'Donnell knocked him down with a and these citizen lawmakers usually combine
ing no discredit to firearms ownership. It is bullet in the leg, and held him for the police. other interests with their task of state gov-
always helpful to establish a friendly liaison If this attack on innocent women and a ernment. A study of the composition of one
with the reporting media. to prevent over- priest had happened in New York City, state legislative body recently revealed that
dramatized or one-sided accounts of firearms where citizens who desire a pistol for self- among its members were: accountants, attor-
incidents. Many cases can be cited to dis- protection find permission almost impossible neys, real estate men, insurance men, teachers,
credit claims that the sole use of firearms to obtain, probably all three would have farmers, a retired Navy captain, a retired
is to take lives. More often firearms save been killed and the murderer far from the police officer, a newspaper publisher, an
lives. Incidents where guns were used to scene by the time "protection" arrived. industrial relations man, a labor relations
preserve the law and save lives are regularly Possibly Father O'Donnell had seen that man, a social worker, an economist, an oil

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 one-page letter. If a brief statement of your
views needs supporting data, it is better to
Plans & Ready·Cut Kits Now attach that data to the letter rather than
Available for the All·NEW make it a part of the letter. It is important
"Modern Marksman" Cabinets that you mention the bill by number and
Can be used separately or combined section· the name of its author.
ally to form a complete wall of gun cabinets.
Full Gunberth® line of 32 models from 5 to Legislators tell us that sincere personal
24 gun sizes available. BIG, NEW, fUlly iIIus· letters have much greater influence with tqem
trated "Handbook" ·Catalog lists all details on
Plans. Kits and Finished Cabinets. than a flood of form letters, petitions, or
Send for your NEW copy TODAY! resolutions. It is wise to minimize reference
Only $1.00 ppd. (Refundable first order) to others in your expression of views, steer.
COlADONATO BROS. ing clear of the impression that your letter
Dept. G4R, Hazleton, Pa. is sponsored by some special interest organ.
ization.
In the field of firearms legislation, thou·
distributor, an engineer, an actor, a securi- sands of hours of study have been devoted
ties broker, a pharmacist, and men and to the perennial proposals to regulate, reg-
women from several other fields of endeavor. ister, or restrict firearms. The National Rifle
Attorneys are by far the most numerous and, Association maintains a far.reaching legis-
as a general group, are more politically con· lative advisory service, has prepared a num-
scious than the average citizen. ber of informative booklets, published spe-
You must' know who your district repre· cific articles in the "American Rifleman"
sentatives are. Most of the state legislatures and provided careful reports and analys~s
publish a free booklet which lists members for gun owners.
of both houses, provides home addresses, and Criteria for the basic formula of accept-
tells on what committees the various legis· able gun laws have been often mentioned
lators serve. Your local newspaper also can but I shall repeat them here for your con:
help you with this information. At the Fed- venient reference. They are: (l) Is the law
Custom-made for eral level, the most complete and reliable enforceable? Constitutional? (2) What is
your gun-exact fit
Easy Draw! roster of members of the Congress is' the the true purpose, and will it accomplish the
Fast Draw Congressional Directory. intended purpose? (3) Is it necessary, or
KEITH HOLSTER These lawmakers worked hard to get that does it serve only to impose a web of
Hand·molded from top grain Horwrable before their name, and your letter costly, burdensome entanglements? (4) Is it
saddle leather. Exposed trig-
may have a less cordial reception if you an effort to accomplish by prohibition what
ger belt loop and safefy
could be done more effectively by education
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strap. Holster for Buntlines address the Han. fohn Smith as Mr. fohn
$3.25 extra. . and training? (5) Is it a foot in the door by
Write For Free Catalog Smith. The impression must be given that
Over 100 holster styles. Also you are familiar with the background and which the unscrupulous might extend their
sc.abbards, cartridge belts,
policies of legislator John Smith, not that own power? (6) How have similar laws, if
:~~e~OI:teSreSbel~~~le slings,
you think of him only when you want some- any, proved effective or desirable?
THE GEORGE LAWRENCE CO. thing. A member of Congress told me that To use a simplification, we wish our law-
Dept. G3, Portland 4, Oregan he was always favorably impressed when a makers to be sure that any firearms law
Ask for Lawrence Holsters at Your Dealers
letter started out something like this: "I am given favorable action is aimed at the wrong-
aware of your reputation for soundness and doer and not the law·abiding, that it is aimed
sincerity as a legislator, which is assurance at the unlawful act and not the instrument,
AMERICA'S New, Exciting, Illustrated and that the law will do the job for which
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FINEST Now 84 Pages Each Issue! to the matter I wish to lay before you." it is intended without infringing upon basic
Thousands of antique Colt Let us assume now that a bill comes before rights of the American citizen.
ANTIQUE revolvers, Kentucky rifles,
pistols. muskets, swords,
daggers from all over the
the legislature which you consider to be a
bad one. First, be sure you fully understand
We can help materially in providing in-
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ARMS world: uniforms, helmets,
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(Continued .from page 10) Tell us the make
and model of your shot- "
are available as either a fixed 4X power,- gun or rifle. _.' type of stock 'or forend .
or a 2lhX - 8X Vari-power. The 4X scope you want-semi-finished, 90% finished, standard
finished or custom finished. We will send you literature describing what we
retails for $50, while the Vari-Power Con- offer for your needs. Or, ask your dealer or gunsmith, he also can furnish free catalog.
tinental VIII will set you back $75. E. C. BISHOP & SON, Inc. WARSAW; MO., U.S.A:--Dept. JIIC
When our Vari-Power arrived, we put it.'
first through the various lab tests-fogging, •••••••••••••••••••••••••••
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drop· test, and so on-and found that it took
the "worst beating without any ill-effects.
Having often wondered if scope tests on
such guns as an '06 were adequate, we took
·:·AMMUNITION!• NEW LOWER PRICES
the Vari-Power Continental and gave it a
wringing out that few scopes will normally
MILITARY ••
.30'06 CARTRIDGES per 100 $ 7.50
encounter. We started with a .35 Whelen, 7.35 Italian Military Rifle Cartridges
Per 100 . • . . • . . . . . . . • • • • • • . • • • 10.00
worked up and down the caliber scale, and 6.5 Italii\n Military Cartridges
10.00
nothing effected the performance of the 32 W~~~h~~~r'Self ''':o'aditi g Soit P«iint' .• 10.00
Per 100 .•.••...•••••••••.••••
7x57 Mauser Factory Loads
scope. Per 100 •..•.•...••••••.•••••• 17.50
Clicks are 1,4 minute at 100 yards, optical 9 MM,.~~\~OP~ ••t~l. ~~~t~i.d?~~ •••••••••• 8.00
338 Winchester Magnum Rifle Cartridges
definition is excellent, lenses are hard 458 ~?~c~~:i:rOM:~nn:~.Rifie' Car'tridges'
5.00
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SO rd• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 6.00
and gives a bright, clear image. The scope • •3S1 Wincllester Self. Loading Metal Patch .
8.00
furnished us for tests had the standard cross 250.:3001'i~;-~~ISo1tl;o~~t· .
8MM P:~l;'s~~ MiIHn"r;.·Cart:··········· 15.00.
hairs, and changing of power while shooting ::~.fnOg~on 'Soft 'p~int . 8.00 •
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did not effect either the point of impact nor 762 :::Si~~OM·i1·.tarY· Hifi• • . . . . . . . . • •
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FO~ T'NAr UEAN (JQN &11MB. 10.00 :
the visual picture. These are fine scopes, and .25.20caR:~:~T~a ~Tfte Ila~i"'ldtie" .
the Continental VIII passed the scrutiny of 30'40P~rra'gO~iank Cartridges' .•••••••• 8.00.
two other testers with fiying colors. Per 100 .••.....•••..•...••• 10.00·
32·40 Soft Point.
Per 100
270 Winchester Soft Point.
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Quails Fargo Per 100 , ••••••••• 17.50 •
30"40p~r~,~I~~.~.~I~: . 17.50 •
Run, don't walk, to the nearest gunshop An All Weather Bullet Lubricant 32 R~,:~nf6~n.S.O.f~ ~~~~t: . 12.00 :
and take a look at this little sweetheart. It For cast rifle and handgun bullets a.r Defender. MSA for the Shooter. Brand
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for the powerful 3-inch 20 gauge Magnum. Fits All Type Lubricators and Sizers Send 10c covering Postage, Printing of.
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The over-all length of the gun is but 38%, ASK FOR IT AT YOUR FAVORITE DEALER new low-price list of ammo and reloading •
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Barrels have open bores, are topped with a LITERATURE ON REQUEST
Simmons ventilated rib and the Glow-Worm THE BULLET POUCH
front sight we l.ike so much. The gun is P. O. BOX 4285, LONG BEACH 4, CALIFORNIA
available with either double triggers ($150)
or single trigger, which will set you back
another $10. The safety is automatic, and SHOOTING GLASSES GRAPHWHITE
Used by marksmen and The Clean Dry Lubricant
the center of beft is where it should be. Iii hunters to get clear
Ejectors are non-automatic. ~ sharp vision on target. For guns, brass sizing, locks-a
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This is perhaps the fastest handling shotgun
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Using. Federal 20 gauge, 3-inch loads, we
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Guaranteed
was in the dove field. With the Quails For All American, Many Foreign Cun.
Fargo, Ernie Simmons has a winner-fast
(Continued on page 65) Non-slip and precision-fitted, FRANZITE GRIPS are
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GUNS - SWORDS - Knlves- Daggers - Flasks. Big list 280 - 303B - 8mm - 38Spec - 9mml - 45ACP -
25c coin. Ed Howe. Cooper Mills 10, M.alne. 30Carbine - (Formed - 257R - 244 - 243 - 7mm professionally interpreted. Research data needed. Uni-
- 7.65 - 7.7Jap - 6.5x55 - 38S&W - Others - Rifle versity Testin& Institute, R-19, Box 6744, Stanford,
NAZI COLLECl'ORS: Nazi War Relics Handbook, De- 6t - Pistol 3t - Shotshells 2¢ - Micaron! - 65 Taylor California.
tailed Plates w/text ror easy identification, 92 pages $5.95 - East Meadow - New York.
ppd. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Wanted Nazi Daggers, RELOADINC EQUIPMENT
Tolan's Gunshop. Hillsdale, Mich. EARN $5.00 Per Hour. Blue Guns in Home 'Vorkshop.
Ccmplete Instructions, SI.00 Postpaid. i\Iailmart GM-6C,
SILVER - TWO Brilliant Uncirculated Mexican Silver Sebastopol. Calif. FREE CATALOG. 208 Pages. Sa"e on Reloading EQuip-
Dollars-$l.OO (Refundable). Universal Services, Box 866, ment. CaUs. Decoys. Archery, Fishing Tackle. Molds,
San Antonio 6-AC2, Texas. U. S. 30-06 high number Svringfleld rifles. Very good- Tools, Rod Blanks. Finnysports (SS). Toledo 14. Ohio.
$39.95. Excellent-$44.95. Perfect-$49.50. U.S. 30·06
ENCRAVINC low number Springfield rifles. Very good-$29.95. Excel-
lent-$34.95. U.S. 30-06 Enfield rifles. Very xood- SCHOOLS
$29.95. Excellent-$34.50. U.S. Ml 30-06 Garand rifles.
ENGRAVING BY P.RUDHOMME. Folder $1.00. 302 Perfect-$89.95. British Mk.8 303 Lee-Enfield ritles. Very
'Ward Building, Shreveport, Louisiana. good-$14.95. British Mk.4 303 Lee-Enfield rifles. Very ~nSSOURI Al:CTION SCHOOL. Free catalog. 1330 Lin-
good-$16.95. British i\fk.5 803 jungle carbines. Very wood, Kansas City 9-XI02, l\.Iissouri.
FOR SALE good $24.95. Excellent-$29.95. British M60 303 de-llIxe
Lee-Enfield sporter ritles. Perfect-$24.95. Persian :\lod.
98 8mm :Mauser ritles. 000<1-$29.9;). Very good-$34.95. TAXIDERMIST
FLORIDA l'A. acres $295. Within 960 feet a! higbway, 4 Persian Mod. 98 8mm :\Iauser carbines. Good-$34.95. Very
miles from Suwannee River. High, wooded, actual Vhoto. good-S89.95. Brand ne\\"-$49.95. Argentine Mod.1909 CUSTOM TAXIDER:\IY, Tanning, Fur Rug Speciallsts.
OnlY $10 monlblY. Hurryl Gilchrist. P.O. Box 163-L, 7.65mm Mauser rifles. Good-S39.95. Argentine Mod. 1891 'Vild Animal Rugs from jungles the world over. Large
Mla..1 37. Fla. 7.65mm Mauser rifles. Very good-SI9.05. Perfect-$24.50. selection for sale.-Free Illustrated Booklet-Taxidermists
Argentine Mod. 91 1.65mm )fauser sporter rifles. Excellent to the late :Frank Buck and discriminating sportsrnen.--
S'.fATE PISTOL LAWS, hooklet describing current piSlol -$24.95. Russian Mod. 1940 1.62mm Tokarev semi- Established since 1981-oUo Wanke's Safari TaxIdermy,
regulations of all states, $1.00. Henry Schlesineer, 211 automatic riftes. Good-$34.95. Very good $39.95. Ex- 309 "Vest Emerson Avenue, Palatine, Illinois.
Central Park West. New York 24F. N.Y. cellent-$4.4.95. nussian :Mod. 91 7.62mm Moisin rifles.
Good-$9.95. Very good-$12.95. Italian Mod.91 6.5mm
CANNON FUSE %2" dia., waterproof, burns under water; Mannlicher-Carano rifles. Good-S9.95. Very good-$12.95. MISCELLANEOUS
~uJ;"n,5~h:;. ft.• lOt, ppd. William Zeller, Keil Hwy.,
Italian Mod. 91 6.5mm ?\IannJicher-Carcano de-luxe sporter
rifles. Very good-$16.45. Italian Mod. 1938 7.35mm
Mannlicher-Carrano carbines. Very good-$14.95. Chilean DEALERS SEND license No. for large vrlce list New
Mod. 95 7mm Mauser de-luxe sporter rifles. Very good- Firearms-Scopes-Mounts-Reloading Tools-Comvonents
CANNON FUSE %2" dia., waterproof, burns under water; $27.95. 30-06. 808 British, 7mm Mauser, 7.65mm Mauser, -Leather Goods-Binoculars-Shop Tools. 3821 dIfferent
We':tyo:~.¢; 25 ft., 20t, ppd. Spreen Brothers, Tuxedo, 8mm Mauser. 7.62mm Russian, 6.5mm Swedish, 6.5mm & items on hand for immeJiate delivery. Hoagland Hardware,
7.35mm Italian military llmmunitlon, at $7.50 per 100 rds. Hoag!and, Indiana.
Free gun list. Dealers inquiries invited. Freedland Arms
CUNS & AMMUNITION Co.. 84 Park RO\v, New York 38, N.Y. HANDCUFFS. $7.95; Leg Irons, $7.95; ThumbculTs,
S9.95. Leather restraints. Collector's specialties. Catalog
LIMITED QUANTITY, Noncorrosive issue factory m!d. CUN EQUIPMENT 50c. Thomas Fenick. Box 12-G, Newburyport, Mass.
through 1958 .303 British ammunition, only $8.50 per 100,
$33.50 per case (500), $65.00 per 1.0001 FIrst time in NAZI ITEllS bought & sold, orig. only, 1 pIece or col·
Amerh.-a that this lot has been made available. It's going GUNS SCREWS. 6/48 or 8/40 assorted lengths 50t per lectlon; "Usts 250'·: Lenke!. 812 Anderson. Palisades. N. J.
fast ao order now from Blackhawk, G616 Kingsley Drive, dozen. Professional 2 flute Taps $1.20. Special hard steel
Itockford 99. Illinois. drills 45¢. All postpaid. Send for Catalog 16GC on all UNUSUAL PETS :-Monkeys. Skunks. Hawks, Talking
Buehler mounts (including New Micro-Dial), Low Safetys.
Maynard Buehler Inc., Orinda, Calif. Birds, Snakes, Turtles. Catalog lOco Ray Singleton, In-
AMMUNITION: .303 British bail (hard pOint). non- terbay POlitoffice, Tampa, Florida.
corrosive, recent manufacture. Excellent Quality. $7.00
per 100. $65.00 per 1000. Limited Quantity. Century Arms SPRINGFIELD BOLTS. Blue Finish. Kew With Extroctor
Inc.• 54 Lake. St. Albans, .Vermont. Collar, Two For $3.00 Post Paid. R. W. Wood, Box 295, CROSSBOWS for Target. Hunting and Carp-Shoaling.
Lineville, Alabama. Factary-Direct·Prlces. JayCo. Box 1355, Wichita, Kansas.
ADn'STABLE TRIGGERS $3.50. Handmade a! aircra!t FIRE.!.R)IS-MODERN & Antique, edged weapOns, mili-
alloys for Belgian, Egyptian, German. Mexican, Persian, tary Roods & accessories. Large Illustrated Catalog only
PoUsh. Spanish. Swedish Mausers, aU Japs and all Spring- 50t. Z. M. 1tUUtary Research Co.• Inc., 154 Nassau Street,
fields. Installed $5.00. Dealers inquiries invited. D. E. New York 38, N.Y.
10,000 GUN BARGAINS !I I Modern-Antique Guns- Hines. 11035 1tfaplefield, EI 1tfonte, California.
Accessories . . . Giant 12S Page Bargain Catalog $1.00.
Agramonte's, Yonkers, N.Y. WANTED
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Antique. Free List. Shotgun News, Columbus. Nebr. R. SOUTHGATE, Franklin. Tenn. Custom maker of Ken- AUTO)1ATIC PISTOLS-Rare, Unusuai, Odd. Par-
tucky rifles. Restoration and repair. Stamved self ticularly Walthers, Mausers, W&'S, Japs. etc. Sidney
FREEl KLEIN'S $1.00 Value 1963 All-Sports Bargain addressed envelope brings descrlvtive folder. Abennan, 1210 Beechwood Boulevard, Pittsburgh 6,
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64 GUNS MARCH 1963

 (Continued irom page 63) J ax rifle dies in caliber .257 Roberts to us
handling, well balanced, and fine perform- for tests. Built along the standard lines
ance when the shooter does his part, this and apparently made on a screw machine,
little double is certain to please upland the dies performed all of the sizing and Retail Special
hunters. Made in Spain, the gun is imported bullet seating operations in a satisfactory Weaver K2.5 or K3 Cross Hair or

by the Dakin Gun Co., 1739 Locust Street, manner. Dies are not plated but are solid
w~:~:~e*4 Post "Hai; '0; 'Tape~ed'
Weaver KG
'pose$ j~:g8
air or 'Tapered Post. 48.50
$ 23.95
28.75
30.95
Department G, Kansas City 8, Mo. steel, and locking rings are adjusted with ~~~~:~ ~~ ~f~~: «raJfu:oti~is:=::: ~::Eg 37.95
52.95
Weaver VB ettcule Com~

Primer Seater hex lock nuts. Dies are available for prac- W~~;,teer~jpMg~~fde'Mo~ni':: ::::: :::::: 8::ig ~6.95
7.95
tically all popular rifle calibers and all ~~:ver Pivot Mount ···· .. ··CH·or·TP:: ~~:g8 9.70
We have been using the Vamco Primatic Went eM or TP. lOO.50
74.95
82.50
Seater #300 on our loading bench for sever- pistol calibers. A three-die set retails for LculJ
Swif
89.50 67.50

al months. This little tool seats primers only $11, two-die set sells for $8.95. ~ ~.50 49.95
~~fi ,o,W n' Eye 37.50 23.95

and comes in very handy when priming gets Pieces] Tripod.. 89.95 53.95
Tradewind Zoom Scope Swift's Va
to 50X ('0.,.,,,1
Scope 20X
Trlpod-
near the mass production stage. Fully adjust- Tradewinds, Inc., P.O. Box 1191-G, Ta- r,OMM Objective , ....••• llO.OO 66.00
Lomb lUX Spotting' Scope...... 9.95 7.50
able for all cartri dge sizes, the Vamco Pri- coma, Washington, imports three different owder and Bullet Scale. .•••••• 14.00
aster Case Trimmer.......... 14.50
10.95
11.25
matic Seater handles large and small rifle scopes from West Germany. One is a fixed aster Powder r.leasure ••••••• 18.50
12.50
13.95
9.50
]6.00 11.95
and pistol primers of all makes without the power scope, two are variable power tele- 19.50 15.50
Pad 12.50 9.95
slightest trouble. In using. the seater, it is scopic sights. We tested the TW-Zoom I¥2X- Paci
Paci
13.50
74.50
10.80
59.50
necessary to be certain that the brass fits 4X scope extensively and enjoyed using it Pact
Pad
15.40 12.35
Co Icte'\V IDles ..•..•..••........•.. 49.50 39.60
smoothly and easily into the jaws, yet is held very much. This is a short scope with tapered Pacific DL 250 Shotsllell Loader
Complete 99.50 79.50
firmly enough to seat the primers deeply post and cross-hair that give excellent visi- Pacihe DL 350 Shotshell Loader
104.50
Complete 139.50
enough. The tool retails for $25, and full bility in brush and on the range. The scope Cli Super
CH 2 Dl
ess Up or Down Stroke... 12.00
13.50
9.60
10.80
CH 3 Di 13.50 10.80
information can be had from the Valley was mounted on our Ruger .44 Magnum 28.75
£~~i;~1 ',vinic;;::::::: jg:gg 13.20
Automatic Machine Co., Inc., Dept. G, Vestal carbine where it withstood the pounding Lyman T ••••••••••••••. 19.75 15.80
Lyman ru ne r. Dies................ 8.50 6.80
Parkway, Vestal, New York. of some very hot and experimental loads Lyman All American Comet Press •••••.• 27.50
Lyman All American Turret Press...... 54.50
22.00
43.60
Lyman All American Dies - Rifle or
lax Dies without either a change in point of impact Pistol ...••........•••.••.••.•••••••.• 11.50 9.20

or damage to the crosshairs. These scopes LYs:Nt~~ bOe\I~:~ ~;is~rbinoctiiars'with ~~~d Len~~s~O
Jack Ashurst of Jax Die Co., P.O. Box Unique Lifetime Guarantee!!
All Pri"es Include Beautiful Plush Lined Carrying Case
6238-G, Riverton Heights Annex, Seattle 88, have integral windage and elevation adjust- with Straps. Finest Center Focus Adjustment On All Models.
SOl "Sarato~a" 8 X 40 •••.••.••.••••••• 56.50 33.95.
Washington, recently submitted a set of his ments and fit all standard mounts and rings. 748 "Triton" 7 X 85
788 "Night Hawk" 7 X 50
48.50
56.00
28.95.
33.60.
This TW-Zoom scope is rugged and pro- 766 "Holiday Mark II" 7 X 35 Wide
An~le 120.00 71.95.
vided more than enough magnification on 802 "Neptune Mark II" 7 X 85 Light-
*Ad~lgibt~I~~~de::~iT~~d.fo·Si;ec·lai· P·r·lce 95.00 56.95*
seOPED HANDGUN the brush guns we mounted it on for tests.
Under adverse light conditions, we found Send For Our Fully Illustrated
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ing power when compared with a scope of SPECIFY HUNTING, FISHING OR BOTH
$25 00 similar power. LEADING DEALERS OF:
plus $1 pstge. Red Head, lO-X. Winchester. Browning. Remington,
Regular shoulder Trapshooters, Please Note Marlin, F. N. Mauser, Sako, Savage, Stevens, Mossberg,
Ruger, Smith & Wesson, Hi-Standard. All Major Gun
holsters: $18.75 Most of the confirmed trap and skeet Companies, Lyman. Hedding, Uedfield. Williams, Bueh·
ler, Pachmayr, Bausch & Lomb, Leupold, Unertl,
plus $1 pstge. Weatherby, Swift & Anderson, Hodg-man, Jon·E, Storm
shooters today load their own hulls. Time Queen & Kin~, Olt's, Stackpole Books.
Goerg Hollow was when reloading hulls was simply a mat- ALL MERCHANDISE GUARANTEED
Pointer $5.95 BRAND NEW 1963 MODELS
ter of a few mechanical steps and presto, ADD POSTAGE TO ALL ITEMS
The seoping of handguns our specialty. We here was your reload. Since early this year, PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE
cater to the handgun hunter. SHOWROOM OPEN DAILY
Goerg Explosive Bullet Kit for making explosive bul- a number of "protected" shot column shells
lets {(If .44 Magnum & .44 Special Calibers-$9.75.
have been possible for the handloader, and
GOEIIG ENTERPRISES po.i'~'l.9N~EL'E~~~EALSH. the latest to make its arrival is the Fordwad.
The Fordwad is a polyethylene collar that
resembles, in part, a paper shotshell that 3516 WHITE PLAINS ROAD (Dept. G-363)
has been cut in strips about half-way down. NEW YORK 67, N. Y. - Phone TUlip 1.1900
Decap and prime your case in the usual
manner, but reduce your powder load to 18
grains of Red Dot. Snap the paper disc that
comes with the Fordward into the plastic
ARMS LIBRARY
(Continued irom page 6)
wad, then set the entire unit into the
BONUS USE: Add to crankcase shotshell hull. The manufacturer claims GUNS ON THE EARLY FRONTIERS
to quiet noisy valve lifters ••• that hull life is increased, shot s'uffers less By Carl P. Russell
remove gum, sludge deposits! deformation, that the reduced powder charge (U. oi Caliiornia Press, Berkeley, Cal.,
THEH ADD ••• not only reduces kick but also offers con- 1962. $2.45)
siderable economy. This book is a fine example of scholarly
MOTOR-MEDIC ~ Fordwad can be used in any hull that research. Simply stated, Carl Russell has
EXTRA LUBRICATION . . . accepts a %" wad column, and since the written a history of the gun in the United
SMOOTHER PERFORMANCE use of Fordwad does not require any other States, from the very first report dated July
Both, at leading dealers everywhere! wads, it is a faster method of loading. H.P. 30, 1609, to the guns of the traders and the
White Laboratories tested the ballistics of Army around 1830. Unlike so many other

J
the shells. There is an increase in the fps, pieces of research, author Russell uses a
SPECIAL VALUES that is accomplished with a 25 per cent lively style that makes reading this book a
reduced powder load. pleasure rather than a chore. My only
LENSATIC COMPASS Personally, we cannot make a comparison complaint is that the book is not of the
~~~~~~ii~~al
Compass
$4.50
Value
$()jO .',.
,
I of the kick or recoil, since we are fairly hard cover variety.-R.A.s.
immune to this bugaboo, but others who
have shot shells with Fordwad claim that SMALL ARMS OF THE WORLD
PEDOMETER By W. H. B. Smith and Joseph E. Smith
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they did feel a difference. Fact remains, that
Value loading hulls with Fordwad does turn out (Stackpole, Harrisburg, Pa., 7th edition,
neat looking hulls at less cost-the main 1962. $15.00)
purpose in reloading shotshells. Fordwads With the death of Walter H. B. Smith, his
can be obtained through your gunshop. If monumental work on this book came to an
it is not available there, write to Al Siegel end and for a while it seemed likely that no
Associates, 3603-G Lindholm Rd., suitable expert would be found to continue
Shaker Heights 20, Ohio for complete ~ his work. The new edition is completely
information. ~ updated, and includes such U.S. arms as the

GUNS MARCH 1963 65

 M 14 and the AR 10 and the AR 15. If you Booklets and foreign makes. There are 21 pages de-
don't have the 7th edition, you are missing voted to .22 rimfire cartridges in factory
something of value.-R.A.s. HERRETT'S HAND GUN STOCKS, Box
boxes. Price $1.00.
741-G, Twin Falls, Idaho. An 8·page folder
describing Herrett's stocks and instructions KODIAK MFG. CO., Dept. G, 112 Quinni.
TROPHY HEADS
on how to measure for the custom stocks. piac Ave., North Haven, Conn. Catalog fully
By John W. Moyer
describes Kodiak rifles, shotguns, barrelled
(Ronald Press, New York, 1962. $16.00) HERTER'S INC., Dept. G, Waseca, Minn.
actions, shotshell loader and bullet trap.
From Pudu to elephant, from bear to kudu, Free booklet, "How To Reload," by George
whatever your trophy, author Moyer has in- L. Herter. Also a complete 400·page catalog KRUPP-AMERICAN CORP., Dept. G,. Glen-
formation about it. Profusely illustrated, the for reloaders, covering Herter's comprehen. wood, Minn. Free reloading book on Euro-
258 pages of the book represent a complete sive lines of tools, scales, measures, etc. pean methods of reloading for all guns. Also
biological survey of game trophies all over Send 25c for this one. free catalog of reloading tools and supplies.
the world. Each animal is described, heads HIGH STANDARD MFG. CORP., Dept. G, GEORGE LAWRENCE CO., Dept. G, 306
are discussed, habitats and location are de- Hamden 14, Conn. Free literature, and S.W. First Ave., Portland 4, Oregon. A 20·
fined-and this is compiled for five con- "Great Guns" catalog. page catalog of leather goods for shooters,
tinents. Add to this that Mr. Moyer is associ· featuring holsters, slings, belts, scabbards,
B.E. HODGDON INC., Dept. G, Shawnee
ated with the Chicago Museum of Natural Mission, Kansas. Reloader's catalog and knife sheaths, cartridge boxes, etc. Free.
History and has written a book on taxidermy loading data, 1962 edition, $1.00. Also a LYMAN GUN SIGHT CORP., Dept. G, Mid-
-and "Trophy Heads" assumes even greater brochure on basic loading, SOc. dlefield, Conn. Fully illustrated catalog de-
importance. Noteworthy are chapters on scribes in detail Lyman scopes, mounts,
care of the trophy in the field, at home, and ITHACA GUN CO., Dept. G, Ithaca, N. Y.
loading tools, and cast equipment and Cutts
the selection of the gun for trophy hunting. The 1962 Ithaca catalog lists all their current
compensator. Free.
A worthwhile addition to the big game rifles and shotguns, with an 8-page supple·
ment giving a brief history of the company MARLIN FIREARMS CO., 79-G Willow St.,
hunter's library.-R.A.s.
and tips for shotgun shooters. Send 25c. New Haven, Conn. Reproduction of the
JACKSON ARMS, Dept. G, 6209 Hillcrest painting, "Danger Ahead," by Frederic Rem-
Ave., Dallas 5, Tex. A 64-page catalog (No. ington, size 20"x30" on heavy paper, price
19) describing and pricing more than 600 $1.00.
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AL KELLEY-JACK MALLOY, Dept. G, Mayville, Wis. Free catalog on reloading,
4 Dearborn Ave., Rye, N. Y. A 52·page cat- featuring special tips for handload- ~
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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS
GUNS and AMMUNITION R.C.B.S. GUN & DIE SHOP 10 RADIATOR SPECIALTY CO.....•..•....••. 65
ROBERT ABELS, INC ....••.••••••••••.•• 51 STAR MACHINE WORKS ......•..•......• 62
WICHITA PRECISION TOOL CO 15
STOCKS and GRIPS
AllEY SUPPLY COMPANY ..•.••.••.••..•. 51 E. C. BISHOP & SON, INC.••.... 50, 51, 63
CASCADE CARTRIDGE, INC•••••...•...•.• 55 C. D. CAHOON ., ... .,., .... .,., .. ., ... 64
HOLSTERS, CASES CABINETS
CHICAGO GUN CENTER ......•..•...•. .46 FITZ GRIPS •••••••••••••••••••••••••.•• 52
COLADONATO BROS 62
COLT'S PATENT FIRE ARMS MFG. CO.. Cover 11 FLAIG'S ••..•..•••••.•••••.••••.•••••.. 42
THE GEO. LAWRENCE CO•••••••.•..••••• 62
EARLY & MODERN FIREARMS CO., INC. 63 ANTHONY GUYMON, INC•••••••••••••••• 10
S. D. MYRES SADDLE CO.•.•••••••.••..•• 59
NORM FLAYDERMAN ANTIQUE ARMS 62 H'ERRETT'S STOCKS ., .50
PACHMAYR GUN WORKS •...•.•..••.••.. 8
GOERG ENTERPRISES .....•............. 65 SPORTS, INC•..•....••...••••.•.•••.... 63
PROTECTOR BRAND HOLSTER CO .: ••.... 44
GREAT WESTERN ARMS SALES CO•....... 62 YAMA WOOD ........•••...•.•......•.. 64
JULIUS REIVER CO•• ., . ., ... .,., • ., • ., .,60
GIL HEBARD GUNS •.................•.. 12
SHERIDAN PRODUCTS, INC•.......•...... 60 MISCELLANEOUS
HUNTERS LODGE 34, 35
TANDY LEATHER COMPANy ......•.•..••. 66 EDDIE BAUER •.••.••.•.••••••...••••... 12
KLEIN'S SPORTING GOODS, INC••••••••• 7
WHITCO •••.••..••.••.....•.••.••..... 54 L L. BEAN ...•••.•..••••..••.•.•..•... 14
THE MUSEUM OF HISTORICAL ARMS ••..... 63
NORMA-PRECISION ••••••..•••.••• ., ••.. 13 BURNHAM BROS ., 55
SCOPES, SIGHTS, MOUNTS DARE ENTERPRISES ..•.••••••••••.•••... 63
NUMRICH ARMS ..... ., ., •• ., • ., .61
CRITERION COMPANY .......•...•..•... 55 STAN DE TREVILLE 43
PARKER DISTRIBUTORS 65
FREELAND'S SCOPE STANDS, INC•..•..... 59 FEDERAL INSTRUMENT CORP••••••.•.•... 51
POTOMAC ARMS ...•••.•••••••••••••••. 50
MARBLE ARMS CORP. . .....•.••..••..•.• 4 FUNK & WAGNALLS ., . ., .. ., 9
PUBLIC SPORT SHOPS .,.,., .63
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REMINGTON ARMS CO., INC •••••..•.... 3
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 Roll your o-wn?
One of the basic reasons for reloading is to be able to do more shooting. Right?
But nobody wants a "second-best" shell, just because it's a little bit cheaper.
It's not good econc:liny - or good shooting.
A good example of Winchester-Western quality is the careful mouth annealing
of specialized straight cartridge brass - as you can see in the center of this
illustration.
This same individualized care goes into every item in the full Winchester-
Western component line - from primers to shot pellets. No shooter can do his
best, unless he's shooting the best. That's Winchester-Western.
And it always will be. Olin
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