GUNS Magazine July 1958

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JULY 1958 50c
FINEST IN THE FIREARMS FIELD
SHOOTING THE
NEW ARMY RIFLE
HUNTING SunnTING ADVENTURE
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FRONTIER SCOUT
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FAMOUS IN THE PAST.. FIRST IN THE FUTURE
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By WALTER ROGERS
Author, trapper, cowboy
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AISED in the Southwest
with a gun on my hip, I
grew up with the fast-action
Winchester repeating rifle. My
favorite is the Model 1892 lever
rifle, and it was with great re-
gret that I learned of the dis-
continuance of this once so
popular model. In fifty years of
experience as a cowboy, profes-
sional hunter, and trapper, I
have worn out many rifles, but
as long as one of the old Mod-
el 1892 remains, or parts are
obtainable for them, I'll be us-
ing one. In the old .25-20 cal-
iber, with the orginal 24" bar-
rel cut off four inches, this is
the most accurate, sweet-shoot-
ing rifle I have ever handled. It
is still being used on my daily
trap line in New Mexico. I
could write reams and reams
about this old gun, but reckon
most of it would be laughed at
by the moderns. Nevertheless,
the old '92 is still my favorite.
FAVORITE
VERSATILITY ,
QUICKLY DETACiiuu. By FRANCIS SELL
One scope can be used on
Noted Firearms Author
two or more rifles with
extra mount bases And sev- -4 S A HUNTER, I have two favor-
eral scopes can be used on
the same rifle with inter- ite rifles. One, a .348 M71
Winchester using a 200 grain bul-
changeable rings. Mounts
let I carried as a timber rifle for
low on rifle. Easy to adjust.
deer and elk for years; still use it
occasionally. My present favorite for
EXTENSION
all around shooting, from heavy
FRONT RINGS cover to the more open deer and elk
Designed to correct ranges, is a .300 Short Ackley Mag-
critical eye relief 4 num. Here, again, I use a 200 grain
problems. Can be bullet pushed at around 2700 feet
used in either rearward or forward per second for timber. For the more
open ranges I favor a 180 grain
rings of comparable diam bullet at around 3100 f.p.s. muzzle
HIGH RINGS velocity. My present 300 SAM is
Designed to accom- stocked in beautiful myrtlewood. It
carries a Redfield Sourdough front
large objective lens sight and a Cascade Snapshooter
rear sight. For scope use I have it
fitted with an Echo side mount.
See your Dealer Generally, the iron sights are used in
or Gunsmith today brush, with the scope in readiness
for longer open ranges. Action is
Folder on request. Give
the improved Husqvarna Mauser,
make and model of rifle.
which I particularly like for a scope-
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Guns
THE COVER
The riders of our western range,
J
ULY IS A MONTH Americans look whether by jeep or on horseback,
forward to with beating hearts and have always been gun-fanciers,
thoughts of the deeds of our forefathers. strongly opinionated as to the FINEST IN THE FIREARMS FIELD
guns best suited to their needs.
Patriotic rallys, flag waving, characterize
Our cover cowboy's rifle is not
that first week. Often noted speechmakers
much like the traditional .30-30;
rattle on for hours about the "Founding but the .30-30 is still popular,
Fathers" and the "destinyw of the country. as is the old-new Single Action.
And then once in a great while some quiet,
deeply sincere man with an humble earnest-
ness arises from the multitude and witli
words simple and direct so expresses the
feelings of a nation that his words, rather ...
than the deeds of those men who died at
military
Gettysburg are the things "long remembered."
Yet Lincoln's talk to those dead men, Blue SHOOTINGTH E NEW ARMY RIFLE.. ............ Herbert J. Erfurth 12
GUNS FOR A NATION OF RIFLEMEN.. ....... .William B. Edwards 32
and Gray, in Pennsylvania many years ago ...
expressed the sentiment which dominates hunting
our lives today, "that this nation, under TRY A SHORT RIFLE FOR LONG RANGE.. ......H oward W. Bailey 16
God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and PICK THE GUN THAT SERVES YOU BEST.. ................B ob Bell 29
that government of the people, by the people, ...
and for the people, shall not perish." police
To that sentiment is this July issue of .............
GUNS dedicated, with two stories. First, LET'S TE.A.CH. O UR COPS TO SHOOT.. , .Bill Toney 19
citizen-soldier gun-enthusiast Herb Erfurth western
appraises the M14, the new American rifle, "COWBOY. WHAT'S YOUR GUN?" Richard Elton Maxey 22
heir to the mantle of the Kentucky Long ...
Rifle and the American Tradition. Obscurely shooting
technical articles on the M14 have been A R~NGECO ULD MAKE YOU INDEPENDENT.. ... .Eugene M. Hason 26
.................
published, but this is the first unofficial "gun WHO'S T.O.O .YO UNG TO SHOOT?. Eleanor Dunn 3-6.
crankn test of the new rifle to be made. e.
In the same July spirit is "Guns For A collector ,.
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presentation. MY FAVORITE GUN. ............................................... 4'
sWurAines,c hfieots'srt er"'Was nhopotrh'os e rHT oekoribd sY-Poaanurdnsog-gn usTn oss a Syshsto,o ro"ytS.? h"o-A ws . . -~ , .TGCERLRUMIOGNE SGSRSE FIRKINR E EITTT HAH.LE .K S. .NA.YE..SW..... S....... ............................................................................................................................................................................... .... .5 ,:.+I
me a boy who likes to shoot, and I'll show HANDLOADING BENCH ...........................................
you a good American." So if toddlers with SHOPPING WITH GUNS. .......................................... 56 . .
stock-chopped single shots seem beneath PARTING SHOTS ..................................................6 5
your dignity, and you holler for more
magnums, more elephants falling dead at the
thunder blast of a double rifle, just remember George E. von Rosen E. B. Mann Art Arkush
your own cap-pistol days when you weaned PUBLISHER EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
EDITOR
over to real guns. Those six- to ten-year-olds
are the key to future generations of enjoy- William B. Edwards Elmer Keith %klen
ment of guns and shooting. Barker TECHNICAL EDITOR SHOOTING EDITOR FrfT
ART DIRECTOR
Our cover story is one we're proud of.
Rancher-gunsmith-writer Maxey in Texas Louis Satz Marvin Ginn Jack McMahon L R. Pector
came up with this one on cowboy guns, and CIRCULATION ADVERTISING SALES ADVERTISING PRODUCTION
touted the shotgun-rifle combo as a favorite
with some. We thought the pitch of what Editorial Advisory Board -
cowboys were using today had a new slant. CROOGL.E RG EMOARRGSEH M. CHINN CRAORYO GLA. DMUANNLDAEPL SVTAULA RFTO MRGILELETR1 2.; ' ALFREKDE NJT. B6E0LELRAH6
Then, going to press, we took a moment to
leaf through Theodore Roosevelt's "Hunting
Trips Of A Ranchman" (Scribners, 1885),
and noted where TR usually took his rifle
out except when near the ranch; then he
took "the little ranch gun," a double 16
gauge with a .40-70 rifle barrel underneath!
Upcoming issues have some pretty unusual HREilPl R5E-6S7E6N0.T ATMIVIDEWS: ENSTE.W M YaOyRiKn. GEiungne n8e1 5L.0 PNo. lloCcke.n t4r0a lE Pasatr k4 0Athv eS., t.. SNkoekwie .Y oIrlkl . lbb RN& rYd M6U-6r9ra6 2 -
stuff laid out. One, we ~romisedY OU a while CALIFORNIA, The Ren Averdl Co., ken Averill, 232 N. Lake St., Pasadena, Calif. Ryan 1-9291.
ago-aboift guns that don't shoot cartridges.
As any rocket engineer will tell you, a little
hydrazine.goes a long way, especially behind
a bullet. You'll find this one in GUNSs oon.
And if you don't want to miss it, or any of
the exciting, fact-packed different issues of
GUMS,g et your five bucks to our subscrip-
tion department right away for the
next twelve big issues.
'
X-5 LIGHTNING Sarnac Lake, N. Y. It wasn't the hand-
some six-point buck deer that was brought
down here that attracted the most attention.
It was the hunter*, Pa*u l *Le mieux. He's 94.
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Detroit, Mich. When three hoodlums
tried to rob their store, the brothers Cassidy,
Bill, 78, and Joe, 75, promptly went into
action. Bill pitched into them, while Joe ran
to a back room and got a shotgun. He fired
one shot into the air and the would-be
bandits fled empty*- ha*nd e*d.
+
Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Wyatt Earp is
learning to shoot a .45 automatic. He's a
U. S. Army private, and a fourth cousin of
the famed frontiersman whose name he bears.
He's never handle*d a *g un* b efore.
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^ North Adams, Mass. A seasoned rabbit
 Easiest take-down of any .22 you ever -, hunter, William Bushika has switched to
"iyX bigger game and recently brought down with
SEND FOR THIS BOOKLET When you ask for X-5 Lightning you his rifle a buck deer. William is all of eight
ore getthg the best for pleasure and
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simple, easy instructions. Detroit, Mich. When he discovered two
By special arrangement with ITHACA GUN COMPANY, Inc. intruders looting his store, Earl Stan held
, the author you con hove them at bay by a pistol-in-the-pocket act
this $1. booklet for only Dept. 53, ITHACA, N.Y. while he called police. He revealed later
50f coin (no stamps). that his hidden h*and hel*d a bana na.
Kirchgoens, Germany. "I guess we showed
them that there's a lot more to being a
woman than children, church and kitchen."
That was the remark of wives of United
States Army officers after they beat their
husbands at a rifle match, the seven-woman
team scoring 1893 points to their husbands'
1755. * * *
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Riverdale, N. D. Jerry Wilson says it was
. . .
sort of like a mirage dream but he'll
settle for it. Out hunting, he took quick aim
when he spotted two birds rising from the
reeds. But by the time he fired a whole
flock had taken wing and his shotgun blast
dropped six of 'em*. * *
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Rakitno, Yugoslavia. Mirki Milicevic con-
sidered himself Rakitno's No. 1 hunter, had
shot down any number of wolves, foxes, and
other such wildlife but had never bagged
a hare. Irked by the jeers of villagers, he
bare-handedly captured a hare as it sped
IG reater Accuracy W V from its burrow. He tied it to a tree with
string, backed off and took careful aim with
for Game Hunting And larget Shooting :j his gun. The bullet cut the string and the
rabbit escaped. * * *
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facturing top quality bullets used by expert game town is armed. Pop Clanton, a nephew and
hunters and championship match shooters throughout only living relative of young Billy Clanton,
the world. who was killed in the notorious gunfight at
0. K. Corral back in 1881, makes his home
NORMA bullets are available in more than 50different
in these parts, going around with a six-
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Also NORMA loaded ammunition and NORMA in a mixture of old west badman, prospector
and town marshal, Pop admits he never
special Reloading cases. Available of your loco
1 norma-precision uses the gun and it's mostly just for show.
Seems he just naturally likes the old west
and he can get folks to listen to his old west
yarns better all regaled up like this.
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:$ '.,<a. increasing number of sportsmen and
, Don't Shoot Both Barrels the hopes of getting two charges of shot or
.4- -, 5 -". their dealers. Many times we have heard old duck and two bullets on the target is impossible ex-
The arms we distribute are the goose hunters say they "gave 'em both .bar- cept at muzzle-blast range.
cream of the crop: F.N. Mauser rifles, rels at once" in hopes of making a kill at
sxtreme ranges. This is a fallacy and a Hunting Gun Slings
barreled actions and actions, in the
mistake. It is virtually impossible to fire A light gunsling is a great help to the
popular Deluxe model as well as in
two gun locks by mechanical means such hunter on long hard days. A rifle slung over
the new, terrific Series 300 line; Sako is two triggers at one and the same time. the shoulder takes the weight off the hands
rifles, barreled actions and actions, in- The end result is you get one pattern on and arms. It is also very useful for making
cluding the famous 6l/> Ib. super ac- point of aim and God only knows where the long, difficult shots from prone or sitting
curate Sporter model, capable of other one goes. positions. A heavy, cumbersome Government
A doctor once asked me to test a very harness-tug sling is not needed and such a
matching many target rifles with con-
high grade Fox double barrel Magnum heavy sling will sway to and fro if the rifle
sistent "under minute of angle" 1.2 bore with three inch cases, 1% ounce is mounted hastily for a quick running shot,
groups: Astra pistols, including the loads. I first made sure the safety was ON. thus spoiling the aim; but a light sling will
increasingly popular little "Cub" .22 [ then aimed at center of a 40" square of not do so. Slings with hook adjustments are
Short, the .25 caliber "Firecat" (Model paper at 40 yards and pulled or squeezed also prone to come unhooked when most
the single trigger. The safety went forward needed and laced slings are bulky.
200), the new, versatile "Falcon" with and both barrels went off with one report. For a straight carrying strap and also for
conversion assemblies permitting the The gun rose high in the air and I back- use as a hasty gunsling, the best I have
use of up to three different calibers pedalled and turned over backward into an used is the Williams Guide sling. This can
of ammunition in the same pistol; Star irrigation ditch full of cold mountain water. be adjusted to carry the piece over the
pistols, for every use, in calibers .22 We carefully examined the target paper, shoulder to best advantage and is then just
finding one good 75% pattern but no trace right for a hasty sling for game shooting.
L.R., .32, .380, .38 Super, 9mm and
of the other barrel. Nothing daunted, again The Hasty sling, while not quite as good as
.45 ACP; the AYA Matador shotguns, I loaded both barrels with 1% ounces No. 4s a regular arm loop sling, is very fast to get
offering features normally found only and this time braced for the heavier than into and is a distinct aid to accurate shoot-
on guns selling for twice the price. normal recoil. Again, with the safety on, 1. ing from either prone or sitting positions.
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FLASH.. safety went forward and both barrels went and slide on the shoulder. For short rifles,
There's an exciting new item in the off with one loud crack. This time too I the right handed shooter should carry them
. . . walked backward, but not quite to the ditch. muzzle down over left shoulder with left
Sako line a lightweight rifle
Again, we found but one pattern on the hand on the forestock. From this position,
built on a brand new action designed paper. A third trial showed like results. I they can be whipped into aiming position
specifically for the medium length tried it again on an old door at a few feet instantly. This old European carrying posi-
cartridges. Called the FORESTER, range, finding the two barrels several inches tion is very fast if practiced.
these rifles and actions reflect the apart, one way below the other. I advised For those who prefer a loop for their arm
superior design and manufacturing sending that gun back to the factory, which and a regular shooting sling, a very good
was done. one is put out by Bob Brownell of Monte-
abilities of the Sako factory. Next, I tried it with two-trigger double zuma, Iowa. This ingenious latigo sling is
guns, trying to pull both triggers at the also fairly narrow and so constructed that
Write us for more complete in- same time. The results were the same, one no hooks or lacings are employed. It can
formation. Send lOc for our new pattern on the board the other Allah knows be pulled tight with a jerk on one loop, or
illustrated catalog. where. Next, I broke out a Westley Richards ~ulledo ut into a shooting sling with a
double .450-400 with two triggers, aimed quick pull on two layers of the sling. It is
very carefully at a 200 yard A target at also easily adjusted for any carrying position
200 yards, and fired both barrels as close by simply pulling the loops back and forth
together as I could pull the two triggers.
To be sure- in the guides and connecting link. It is
One barrel registered in the 10" bullseye light enough that it will not sway back and
SHOP AND tahned ttahreg eot.t hWere ktircikeded thuips ddiorutb lhea-lrfi flew abyu stio- forth when the rifle is hastily mounted.
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ness three times also and always with the .38 Special Target Loads
COMPARE same results. Now I think I know why
W. D. M. Bell had such poor results on Dick Tonker, late of Montana, used to
elephant when he wired two triggers of his clean up the Montana state pistol matches
.450-400 together so one pull would fire with the Keith 160 grain hollow point
both barrels. backed by 3 grains of Bullseye for yard
FIREARMS This is learning the hard way, but it work and 2.7 grains Bullseye for 25 yard
INTERITATIONAL proved to me at least that one had better work from a King-improved Colt S.A. This
aim and shoot one barrel and then the other year, M. J. Houver of Salmon, Idaho, cleaned
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WASHINGTON 22, D. C. that trying to fire both barrels at once in (Continued on page 60)
The amazing unretouched photos barrel, greatly reducing accuracy. Rifling's light grip doesn't pile up
above-shot at two millionths of a Now look at the bullet at the bot- metal ridges that destroy balance.
second, just as the 30-30 bullets were tom. There's almost no gas ahead of And Micro-Groove Rifling makes all
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a conventional barrel. Escaping gas of four to six deep ones as with con- illustrated below. It's America's finest
can "flip" the bullet as it leaves the ventional rifling. Micro-Groove .22 caliber sporting rifle!
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LETTERS T O THE EDITOR
Dennis, and he tells me that for several years
he kept an accurate record of the ammo fired
through his personal Colt OM 22. Shortly
Askins Got What He Went After after recording 500,000 rounds, his record
was destroyed. Since then, he feels confident
Have been returned from Africa some
that he has fired an additional 200,000
days now and had a very successful safari.
rounds through this same gun. He still shoots
Was so extraordinarily successful I actually
it with good accuracy. He is a good gun-
came in some days early because, having
smith, occasionally takes it apart and gives
killed all the major game species, I was re-
it a thorough cleaning and lubricating. He
duced to shooting stuff like bush buck. The
has handled it carefully, cylinder has never
other members of my party (there were
been closed by slamming, or other misuse.
four of us) remained behind to pick up
His gun still has all original parts, no re-
elephant and buf which they lacked.
placement of parts, no repairs.
I went to Africa primarily to kill a lunker
I would like to read an authentic article
of an old bull elephant, and I was lucky
on life of various handguns. Why not in
enough to do just that! I got an old bull
GUNS?S urely, someone has some records on
with 87 pounds of ivory on one side and 83
this subject.
on the other. The tusks ran 6' 8" in length,
Herman Lord
with a girth of 20 inches. I also killed a
Smethport, Penna.
good rhino, although his horn was not in a
class with my elephant's ivory. Killed two
buf; the second with 47-iich horns. (Any- Clarification
thing over 40 inches is mighty good.) None The association of the modern Whitney
of us killed lion; indeed I did not even see pistol and Eli Whitney on the cover of your
a male lion. All of us killed fine leopards. March issue and also on pages twelve and
I took over a new Winchester rifle, as yet thirteen of this same issue conveys a strong
unannounced, the .338 Magnum. With this but false impression that the modem Whit-
fusee I killed a grand total of 19 critters, ney is made by Whitney Company of one
13 of 'em with one shot each. The game hundred years ago.
Know your rifle ranged from the 50 pound Tommy gazelle The facts, of course, are there is abso-
to the 1800-pound eland. It was a fine dem- lutely no connection between Eli Whitney or
and your bullets onstration of the power of the new cartridge. the old Whitney Armory and the present
Sight-in with SIERRAS- Elmer Keith had just quitted Africa when Whitney pistol which was not designed un-
the most dependable bullets I arrived. I did not get to see him. Bill til 1950 or thereabouts while the Whitney
Ruger, the sixshooter tycoon, was hunting at Armory closed well over 75 years ago.
you can load-famous for match the same time I was there. Our trails crossed There are, undoubtedly, a great many of
accuracy, dependable up in the Northern Frontier. Bill had had your readers who will not realize this situa-
splendid success and, with three weeks left tion unless you publish an explanation and
penetration and
of his safari, needed only elephant and kudu. lthink it is your responsibility to both your
instant mushrooming Having hunted Indo-China and Africa in readers and advertisers to clarify this situa-
without bullet the past year, I am going next to Admiralty tion promptly.
Island for a whack at one of those piddlin' William B. Ruger
disintegration.
small brown B'ar they have up there. Stunn, Ruger & Co., Inc.
Colonel Charles Askins Southp"o. rt., Conn.
FOR TARGET Fort Sam Houston, Texas The article stated (page 6.3 .) . . The
OR GAME- Whitney Firearms Company is an en-
REMEMBER THE NAME... Request Anticipated tirely new endeavor with no direct business
I've enjoyed your magazine for a number connection with the old Whitney armory in
of years now. I look forward to its appear- Hamden."-Editors.
ance each month. In the issue of May 1955
you ran an article on rebuilding the double The Gun That Killed Garfidd
action variety of Colt revolver. Would it be Can your author of "Guns That Killed
feasible for you to have an article on re- Presidents" (April, 1955) (William B. Ed-
building their single action (Peacemaker, wards) say with certainty that no one knows
Frontier, etc.?) the serial number of the C. J. Guiteau gun?
J. Howe
If the serial number of this gun is known,
Kenosha, Wisconsin
why was it not published?
We published the June (last) issue espe- John T. Duncan
dally for you.-Editors. College Station, Texas
The serial number of the Guiteau gun
How Old Is a Revolver? used in killing President Garfield is not
In March GUNS,M r. Clyde G. Howell says known to us. The photo of the revolver in
that while learning to shoot the handgun, the Smithsonian Institution files shows, as
he "used over 150,000 rounds of ammo." I stated in the story, a black wood handled,
wondered if that went through the one gun. nickel plated "British Bulldog" of the Fore-
I asked our local chief of police, Leith hand & Wadsworth type. The gun has since