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AR-10 ASSAULT RIFLE

Firearms dealers and jobbers please inquire.

ABOVE: AR-7 floats both assembled (as shown) or withbarrel, action and magazine stowed in stock. BELOW:AR-7 shown with major components disassembled.

ADDRESS ORDERS AND INQUIRIES TO:Armalite Division of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp.118 East 16th Street, Costa Mesa, California

For many years the Armalite Division of Fairchild Engine andAirplane Corporation has been designing and producing advancedmilitary firearms for governments throughout the world. AllArmalite production is keyed to the rigid specifications demandedin modern military weapons. The following are two of the modelswhich demonstrate the latest advances in small arms logistics.Both are .308 NATO caliber with major parts completely inter­changeable not only from rifle to rifle but between rifle andmachine gun. These weapons are at present available only tofriendly foreign powers.

A 20 cartridge capacity semi- and full-automatic assault rifleweighing less than eight pounds with advanced balance and recoilcharacteristics which allow it to be fired with one hand. Clickadjustable sight is protected and built into carrying handle. Thegas operated AR-10 embodies modern light alloys and fiberglassexcept in the actual firing mechanisms to achieve its unprece­dented low weight.

AR-10 LIGHT MACHINE GUN

A one-man load allowing beltfed machine gun firepower at lessthan the weight of automatic rifles in previous conflicts. In mobilesituations it feeds from a back pack, allowing a single man tooperate.

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ConCJressman GeorCJe Huddleston. Jr.Committee on Armed Services9th District. Alabama

THERE WERE TEN basic rights which, we are told, the founding fathers agreed toattach as amendments to the Constitution of their authorship so that it would beratified and accepted as the law of the land. It is significant that the second of theseamendments, known collectively as the "Bill of Rights," cites the "right of the people

to keep and bear arms."Considering the circumstances of that historical period, it is easily understandable

that the need of a "well·regulated militia" should be mentioned in connection withthat right. It is interesting, however, that there is no stipulation that those who"keep" arms must use them only for purposes of the' militia. (Emphasis supplied.)

In my opinion, that right is just as important to us today, as individuals and asa democratic society, as it was to our forefathers. We have, of course, a permanentmilitary force that stands ready to defend our boundaries against foreign attack and,in most communities, a trained police force obviates the necessity that each family beready to defend itself by use of arms. Nevertheless, there are still occasions andareas (and unfortunately not just in isolated, non-populated places) where one mighthave to serve as his own "militia" in numerous emergency-type situations.

Further, personal ownership and knowledge of guns have made thousands of citizensvaluable members of the National Guard, military reserve units, and Civilian DefenseCorps groups. These organizations have, of course, been declared by law to be vitalto the strength, safety, and general welfare of our nation.

Certainly, then, in my mind, there is no doubt as to the importance of the secondamendment to the Constitution as it affects us in the present-day situation, n o r ~ anydoubt that it must be actively retained as a major right of our people.

ConCJressman Daniel J. FloodCommittee on Appropriations11 th Dist.. Pennsylvania

THE SECOND AMENDMENT to the United States Constitution as­sures the American people the inalienable right to keep and beararms for their security and this right cannot be infringed with­out negating the purposes and principles of our free society.

ConCJressman Byron L. JohnsonCommittee on BankinCJ & Currency2d Dist.. Colorado

ALTHOUGH THE SECOND AMENDMENT has never been repealed, its original purposeof a civil militia, and assurance of the right of popular revolution, no longer holdstoday. Certainly, the legitimate use of guns is widely accepted. The abuses-bothdeliberate and accidental-should lead thoughtful citizens to a growing concern forsafety and the protection of human life and property.

In protecting the constitutional right to possess and carry arms, we must not over­look the need for a broader program of safety education in the handling of fire­arms to help reduce the tragic loss of life and great number of injuries.

'I:he constitution was also intended to insure domestic tranquility; and the publichas a right to reasonable protection against felonious use of firearms.

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ConCJressman Ken HechlerComm.: Science & Astronautics4th District. West VirCJinia

I BELIEVE THE Constitutional right of the people "to keep and bear arms IS stillsignificant in today's world of atomic bombs and guided missiles. In a limited atomicwar, the possession of small arms would enable our citizens to resist invading troops

more effectively.World War II dramatized the importance of the citizen's right to keep and bear

anus. The list of licensed gun-owners in the town halls of conquered Western Europeenabled the Nazis to more easily combat the underground. And one of Churchill's mosturgent requests of the United States was for the shipment of a half-million .30 rifles

for the Home Guard.But a somber responsibility goes with our Constitutional right to keep and bear

a r m s ~ t h e responsibility for stringent safety measures and proper instruction in

their use.

Readers' ote: .All Congressmen may be addressed as "House Office Building," and allSenators as "Senate Office Building," both at "Washington 25, D. c."

4 GUNS JUNE 1960

George E. von RosenPublisher

Arthur S. ArkushAss't to the Publisher

JUNE. 1960Vol. VI, No. 6-66

shooting .•."IF IT'S IN RANGE-IF YOU CAN SEE IT-

YOU CAN HIT IT" Bob Witt 16NEW TARGET HELPS DA GUNNERS Dick Simmons 22HOW TO BUILD A WINNING CLUB Robert Dyment 30

E. B. Mann Editor

Wm. B. Edwards Technical Editor

Elmer Keith Shooting Editor

Kent Bellah Handloading

Roslyn Wallis Editorial Ass't

IN TH IS ISS U E

Lew Merrell Ass't Art Director

Sydney Barker ..... .Art Director guns americana . • •HE RODE WITH WYATT.'. . Lea McCarty 19GUN OF THE MONTH: The Hamilton-Burr Duel. William B. Edwards 38

Marvin Ginn Advertising Director

Lee Salberg Ass't Adv. Dir.

Lou Weber Advertising Sales

M. Magnusson Classified Adv.

L. R. Pector Production Manager

Kay Elliott Ass't Production Mgr.

Lou Satz Circulation Manager

George Tsoris Promotion Manager

Editorial Advisory Board

Col. George 1111. Chinn Military

Carola Mandel Skeet

Stuart Miller Cartridges

Val Forgett " Collectors

Dee Woolem Fast Draw

Bill Toney : ..•............ Police

Les Field Legislation

THE COVER

Firepower for soldiers and the gun-funstory of Lucky McDaniel tie in with issueof M-14 rifle to 101 st Airborne at FortCampbell, Ky. "Firepower," story of M60machine gun is GUNS ex'e1usive review.But Lucky's own story will, help you im­prove skeet scores, get more fun fromgun sports, and may aid in using M-14just released to civilian marksmen throughthe D.C.M.

collector •..WORLD'S BIGGEST GUN MUSEUM William B. Edwards 24

new guns ..•GUNS GO ELECTRiC William C. L Thompson 27"THEY SAID WE COULDN'T DO IT" Clifton Camp 36

military ..•FIREPOWER FOR FOOT-SOLDIERS Herbert J. Erfurth 28

workshop .••NEW TOOLS FOR STOCKS Cliff Curtis 32

departments . . .KNOW YOUR LAWMAKERS 4GUNS IN THE NEWS.. 6ELMER KEITH SAYS. . Elmer Keith 8CROSSFIRE 10HANDLOADING BENCH. .. Kent Bellah 12

. PULL!. . . . . . . . Dick Miller 14SHOPPING WITH GUNS Roslyn Wallis 58THE GUN MARKET............................... 64INDEX OF ADVERTiSERS 66

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• Lewiston, Idaho: Through the cooperationof Dick Speer of Cascade Cartridge Inc., andthe Cascade Television Co., live trap shoot­ing was TV'd from the grounds of the Lewis­ton club to hundreds of thousands of resi­dents of northern Idaho and eastern Wash­ington. The program drew high viewer rat­ings. The camera covered the whole line ofshooters, with close·ups of interesting indi­vidual competitors. The members reportedthat the TV equipment did not bother themnor hurt their scores.

* "* *• Hollywood, Calif.: A fighting mad GeneAutry, miffed at TV Western heroes whoclaim they can outshoot singing cowboys,offers to bet 10,000 that "a 16-year·old boyworking for me can outdraw and outshootany TV actor." Anyway, Autry said, "I'vealways thought the quick draw was over­rated. I tried to sing myself out of situ­ations, rather than shoot my way out."

* * *• A dry, roasted bird is a thing of the pastin Argentina, according to Veterinary Medi­cine Magazine. An hour before a bird isslaughtered, it is force· fed a tablespoon ofcognac. The bird relaxes and tensions dis­appear. Cognac adds a slightly extra zest tothe flavor of the meat. Hunters have oneproblem: how to administer a toddy to ascary grouse or wary pheasant. We suggesta bit of sal t on the tail to pin the bird down.If this fails, #6 or #71fz shot, liberallyapplied, may turn the trick. If all else fails,shoot and dress bird, present to wife forcooking, take off boots by fireplace, force­feed cognac to self.

* * *• Eclectic, Ala.: Two bandits kidnappedEclectic's police chief, then forced Cashier­manager Carl Ray Barker to open the Bankof Eclectic. Then they held the police, thebanker, Barker's wife and small daughter, atgun point for an hour until a time lockwould open the bank vault. James FranklinBray, one of the bandits, forced Police ChiefMaxie Taunton to go with him to find ad­hesive tape with which to bind the captives.In their absence, banker Barker offeredWilliam D. Hayward, the other bandit, a cupof coffee. When Hayward held o u ~ biscup for filling, Barker threw the pot of boil­ing coffee over him, then grabbed his gun.When Bray returned with police chief Taun­ton he was covering the officer with drawngun. Fearing that a challenge would costthe officer his life, Barker fired. The gun hehad taken froJ;l1 Hayward was a 16 gaugeshotgun. The charge hit Bray in the chest,killing him. In an ensuing scufBe, Barkershot the other bandit, Hayward, in the leg.Barker has other non·banking connections.He is a National Guard captain and a fire­arms instructor.

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Rare Circassian Walnut-Imported from Turkey. For the first time in many years we now offerthis distinctively attractive, light weight, yet very close grained walnut. Takes smooth finish andsharp checkering. No other wood compares with Rare Circassian Walnut for stock making. Turnedand semi-inlelled Circassian Walnut stocks, $16.S0 to $BO.oo-Mannlicher length $5.00 additional.Rifle blanks $15.00 to $7S.00. Shotgun blanks $10.00 to $SO.OO. Pistol grip blanks (pair) $2.S0 to$7.50.

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44 Cal. Remington Army revthe Civil War to both NortCavalry units. With its top

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POWDER FLASH - designed tothrow the exact charge for allNavy Arms Co. revolvers. CoP.per body with brass fittings.Price ....•.'.....••.. -. .• 20.00In sterling silver. Price .. -90,00

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CW Cloth Haversack . m.$2.75CW Knapsack umu.uu 2.00

CW Carbine Slingw ISwivel .uum. .__ . 10.OO

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CW CSA Buckle. Square.Replica m....u.mmm . 2.50

CW CS. Oval Buckle.Replica mmm.uumumu__ 2.75

CW CS. 2pc Buckle. Replica 2.50CW Eagle Buckle. Replica 2.50

CW Round Eagle Plate.Replica m ••• m m... m 2.75

CW .58 Cal. Spr. Bayonet.. 3.00CW Cannon Worm. .u..m 5.00

CW Cannon Rammer m.n.. 7.001842 Bayonet .mm. Un __ 2.00

1822 Bayonet .__ . __ m u.... 2.5045-70 Bayonet & Scab.. 3.50

45-70 Ber Belt & Buckle . 3.5045-70 Ctg. Box __.um.m...._. 1.5045-70 Rifle Sling uumm. 2.0045-70 Wrench .... 00 •• 00 __ .50

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Colt Single Action .357Colts announce that they are again in pro·

duction of their famous old Single ActionArmy in caliber .357 S & W Magnum. Thiswill be good news to a great many Colt fanswho have wanted this gun in this caliber.The old gun frame is a bit small and thecylinder is a bit on the small side, 'diameter.wise, to produce a successful .44 Magnum,but it makes a very good .357, with amplestrength for the cartridge in all factoryloadings or equivalent hand loads. Priceof the new .357 Colt Single Action is $125with black composition grips; walnul gripsat $5 extra.

Custom Fast Draw& Hunting Gun Rigs

For over a year, we have been workingwith Edward H. Bohlin, 931 Highland Ave.,Hollywood 38, Calif., on a combination fastdraw and hunting rig for all sixguns. Bohlinhas made fancy outfits for a great many fastguns and movie stars.

The first Bohlin rigs that I tried out car·ried the gun far too low to suit me, eitherfor comfort or fast work. They also carriedthe gun either vertical or with the butttipped to the rear, to suit some of the fastguns who use the hammer draw with thesingle action. This was all wrong for me, asI like the gun butt tipped forward, so I canthrow the gun toward the target as I draw,and fire only when it lines up with the target.I also like a belt and holster that will carrythe gun higher, where it is less in the wayand not flopping against the leg when walk·ing. A tie·down is fine on such rigs whenriding, but damn uncomfortable when climb·ing steep mountains on foot.

For years, I have favored the holster witha loop to slide on the gun belt, and havealways favored a gun belt of 2V2" width.This type of belt, however, means carryingthe belt rather loose, below the top ofthe hip bones, to get the butt of the gunabout half way between elbow and wristwhen arm is· hanging naturally. This isthe best height for me for fast work. Ridersfind that, when the cartridge belt slantsdown to a holster carried thus, the cart­ridges tend to rub a high cantle, and thetop of the cantle, unless you ride a lowroper, can push the cartridges out of the

loops.Bohlin made me a visit here at Salmon,

Idaho, and we decided to combine ourideas. This resulted in a drop-loop belt,but with the holster loop right on a line withthe bottom edge of the belt. This permittedwearing the belt squarely around the body,in line with top of the hip bones or just be·

low, and the holsters were streamlined as toskirts, so they could be interchanged on theone gun belt, thus permitting the use of anumber of different quick draw holsters onthe same belt, for either single action ordouble action guns.

Bohlin has long produced the finest of allsafety straps for all guns. This consists ofa tab of chap leather with a knot on the end,fastened to a small coil spring and with aslit to go over the hammer spur. In use, youcarry the gun with the strap over the hammerspur; but when the gun is needed, yousimply grasp that knot at end of the strap,pull upwards, turn it loose, and it flies awayclear of the gun. You can ride buckinghorses (as both Bohlin and I used to do),turn somersaults, or fall in the river, andcome up with your gun still in the holster.It simply cannot get out of the holster withthat spring-loaded tab of leather hookedover the hammer spur. Yet it is the fastestsafety strap of all to clear when you needthe gun in a hurry, and to my notion themost practical ever devised.

My own long-tab safety strap with glovefastener, or the thong loop over the hammer,or the safety tab with a hole in it throughwhich you let the (Single Action) firing pindown, will all hold the gun in the holster;but only the old A. H. Hardy design withfiring pin let down through a hole in a nar·row strap will clear the gun quickly. Withthe Hardy rig, you simply draw the gun,cocking it as you draw and thus freeing thegun. My safety tab and the old thong loopover the hammer spur are both slow to clearin an emergency, the thong loop being theslowest of all. The Bohlin spring-loaded safe·ty strap is the answer to a lot of problems.

Bohlin made up a 21h" belt and severalholsters, for S & W .44 Magnums w i t h ~ v a r ·

ious barrel lengths and also for the DragoonRuger .44 Magnum. These rigs hold the gunjust as I like it, with the butt tipped forwardat just the right angle and with the top of gunjust above the top edge of the belt and justbetween wrist and elbow. These have proventhe most comfortable rigs I have ever worn.. Both belt and holsters are calf lined offinest leather. The holsters fit the differentmodel guns perfectly, leaving trigger andhammer clear of the leather but coming rightup to the target sights on the rear of theframe, for protection. He furnishes tie downstrings, but they are not necessary at all.A small strap and buckle fastens the backskirt to the holster proper, and a thongalso ties them together at the tip. If you wishto change guns and holsters, it is a simplematter to unbuckle the strap and untie thethong, remove the holster and replace it withanother for a different model gun. Holsters

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are at the front of the sleeve, which com·pletely covers most of the scope barrel. This

aluminum alloy shield makes this the moststreamlined mount we have seen: Adjust.

ments are positive and stay locked, but we

believe the elevation screw would have beenmuch simpler with a plain 40·pitch screw

instead of the differential type. The price

of this new streamlined mount for one inchnon adjustable scopes is $29.50.

Dave Bushnell's 4X Scopechief makes anexcellent glass for this mount, on most high

power rilles.

S & W .22 Magnum on CougarWhile I was attending the Winchester·

Western Seminar at St. Louis and later the

N.S.G.A. Show at Chicago, I loaned Jack

Nancolas my K Model 6" barrel Smith &Wes·son for the .22 W.R.F.Magnum cartridge, to

see how it would perform on cougar. He is

an excellent pistol and rille shor,. a govern·

ment hunter, and one of the best mountain

men alive. His dogs treed a big bob cat andJack shot him between the eyes, the slug

going back through the skull and penetrating

to just under the skin between the shoulders,The FolkMount perfectly mushroomed and with considerable

For several months, we have been check· loss of weight; an instant kill of course,ing out a new and very streamlined, fully and excellent .penetration.

adjustable mount designed by Folke Dahl· Next, his dogs stopped a big ld tom Bohlin "Gunfighter" Buckle, 3x4" forberg of. the Folke Gunsight Co., 2073 E. cougar. In the melee that followed, the big Ph or 2" belts, priced from $19.50. FreePender St., Vancouver, B. c., Canada. The cat got Jack's best lion dog down and was brochure of Western style buckles andmount has a fixed front base, attached to the working him over when Jack started pour. large selection of improved designs of

"Worlds Finest" holsters for the Sports-receiver with the usual two screws in hole's ing the tiny soft·point slugs into the cat to man, including Gunslinger holsters thatfurnished by the makers. The rear base is save his dog. The bullets were going through have no equal for "Superfast" drawing,attached to. one of the bridge holes and in· the head and back into the body. The one priced from $18.75.

corporates the elevation adjustments on a dif· that killed the hig lion hit just over the EDWARD H. BOHLIN ~3~IIY~OO~i~~I.an~al~f~~~~:

krentia~~~h Kre~ Windqe a : d : j ~ u : s : t m ~ e : n : t : s ~ ~ __ ~ ~ ~ ( ~ c : o : n ~ t ~ i ~ n ~ u ~ ~ ~ o ~ n ~ p ~ a ; g ~ e ~ 6 ~ 5 ~ ) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

fit very tight in the belt loop" with a lIangeof leather on the skirt at the edge ofthe loop, so they cannot move. Bohlin can

make these rigs in either plain leather orthe finest of hand carving, and with either

plain nickel buckles and leather keepers orthe finest hand engraved sterling silver

buckles and keepers. The resulting gun belt

and holster rig hold the gun in exactly thesame position at all times, and is the neatest,

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some crack-pot by the name of Gallup saysthat fireams cause juvenile delinquency.Well, they took all these other things away;now they are trying to take our guns. Onething I can't figure out. Why do we still havejuvenile delinquency?

At this stage of the game, I hope some­body doesn't say anything about cars. I live16 miles from where I work and it wouldsure be a long walk.

Lyndon B. JohnsonRecently, several of my friends and I,

numbering close to 40, sent a letter to Lyn­don B. Johnson, our Texas Senator, Demo­cratic party leader in Washington. We re­quested that he fight any law which mightalready be in effect or might be proposedthat might tend to take away our rights toown and shoot our guns.

I received his reply yesterday. He assuresus that he will carefully consider any suchlegislation in the light of views and thosevoiced to him by many other Texans.

I sincerely urge everyone who loves gunsand shooting to write to their lawmakers­now!

David H. RosenGlen Oaks, N. Y.

Hubert HumphreyI was pleased to see Senator Hubert

Humphrey's statement in your "Know YourLawmakers" department. I would like toknow what other presidential candidateshave to say about the subject of firearmscontrol. It is vitally important that we knowwhere any candidate for any public officestands on this subject, and. especially acandidate for the Presidency. We must ex­ercise constant vigilance.

John H. LinneyChurchville, N. Y.

Keith NewmanFt. Worth, Texas

Howard CampNewnan, Georgia

WarningThis is to inform you that the antigun

cranks are at it again in Georgia and thatthey will attempt to strip the people of theirConstitutional rights at this session of thelegislature. Please alert all your readers andask them to write to Governor Vandiver andthe members of the State Legislature, pro­testing gun registration laws, laws requiringpermits to carry guns, and laws againstcarrying concealed weapons.

Wallace H. C. Colly Jr.Atlanta, Georgia

We ·cannot help but feel that we havecome up with the answer to the birth con­trol controversy and the crowded world con­ditions we face today. All we have to do isarm the populace with sidearms, and havethe Old Master Elmer Keith himself teachthe art of Combat Quick Draw.

Bill HartleyNewnan, Georgia

Certain evidence in addition to the identi­cal address suggests that both these postal.card comments came from the same writer.However, one of them was addressed "ToThe Best Darn Gun Magazine In The World"-and we can't resist jlattery.-Editor.

Messages To KeithThere is no doubt in our minds that

Elmer Keith's .44 Magnum pistol shot thatkilled a deer at 600 yards was a good one.But we know of a pistol shot that toppedthat one.

Our story concerns our friend, Mr. ---,from Pennsylvania, who killed a deer at 150yds. with a .44 Mag. The amazing part of hisstory is not the pistol he used, nor the range. .. but the fact that he is a double amputeewith no hands.

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You can call every shot if youknow your rifle and yourbul­lets. Follow the advice of theold pros: "Sight in beforeevery hunt! Shoot severalgroups at the ranges you ex­pect to see game! Reload withSIERRAS, the most accurateand destructive bullets made!"

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Don't all speak at once. We'll publish oneanswer.-Editors.

Tim AndersonSanta Barbara, Calif.

Wild Pig.In answer to a letter inquiring about wild

boars (Feb., 1960, issue) around Monterey,California, the existence of these pigs isconfirmed by the booklet Big Game of Cali­fornia which is published by the CaliforniaDepartment of Fish and Game. These areEuropean wild pigs that were released inCalifornia late in 1925 or early in 1926.These pigs may run to 600 pounds, but a300 pound boar and a 200 pound sow are

large in California.The book states, "Because of the common

occurrence of feral pigs (domestics in thewild) in the foothills of the State, and be­cause the European wild pig interbreeds withdomestic pigs, it is probably that much ofthis stock is of mixed blood."

I don't know if the European wild pigsare eaten or not, but I do know, since I've 'eaten some, that the domestic pigs in thewild that are common around Santa Barbaraare eaten by many.

"for every action there is an equal and op­posite reaction." This means that the punchyour bullet delivers to the game is no greaterthan the recoil you get from the butt ofyour rifle. Actually, the impulse transmittedto the game is far less, because the bullethas lost velocity and momentum. Also, thebullet penetrates in a manner much lessabrupt than the sharp jab of the rifle stockagainst the shoulder. Does this mean thatyou should try and kill an elephant withyour .308 Winchester? It sure does. Holdfor the same spot you would aim at withthat .470 double-barreled cannon, and Mr.Pachyderm will fall like lightning. Just re­member to use a solid bullet around four orfive diameters in length. (You probablywon't even recover the bullet because mostlikely it will pass clean through friendelephant.)

Do you think I'm suggesting that everyhunter of dangerous game commit suicide?Or maybe you think a guy might get awaywith it once or twice only. Well, it has beendone-over a thousand times by one man.W. D. M. Bell killed over eleven hundredelephants with nothing more than a 7mmRigby Mauser or 6.5 Mannlicher and per­haps, occasionally, the .303 British and .318Rigby. He always used a solid bullet, usu­ally the round nosed military load commonto the early nineteen hundreds, and heldfor the brain. He found there was no suchthing as bullet impact, just penetration, andthat the small bores killed just as dead asthe heavy cannons without all the accom­panying disadvantages.

The point I'm trying to make is that hunt­ers should cut the malarky and print onlywhat they know to be true when it comes tokilling power.

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0/ our basic civilian-military relationships, inwhich every citizen must be ready to partici­pate in the defense 0/ his country. For thatreason I believe the Second Amendment wiltalways be important."

No Such Thing?The term "energy" has been overworked in

regard to the so-called killing power of thebig game rifle. Usually, the author uses theword in reference to the amount of "energy"required to knock down a large game ani­mal, and goes to -great lengths to extol the

number of foot pounds his rifle bullet trans­fers to the beast he has killed.

There is one small flaw in this theory ofenergy·-transfer, "lind that is there isn't anysuch thing or anything remotely like it. Thetheory that a bullet from a rifle designed tobe fired from the shoulder can physicallyknock over man or beast is completely er­roneous. The belief that a bullet from a .470caliber rifle is more effective than a 160grain 6.5mm projectile is completely withoutfoundation. The hunter who says his .338Magnum delivers a greater wallop than the.303 British is either ignorant or so filledwith prejudice that he is incapable of makinga logical deduction in the light of commonlyknown physical laws.

Newton's third law of motion states that

Senator Stuart Symington repliedthrough his Administrative Assistant, Stan­ley R. Fiske, that "He has a very heavy out­of-town speaking schedule on week ends, andthis, in addition to his regular work 0/ theSenate, just does not allow him enough timeto comply with your request and many sim­ilar ones he receives."

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Watch Your Fingers!I think the fellow on page 29 (Feb. issue)

is about to give his gun hand a good pinch­ing by loading his magazine while in thegun. All the Lugers I've seen ram the slideforward when the magazine follower is de­pressed, and it goes forward fast.

You fellows have a real nice magazine andI'd like to see it stay that way so ... let'shave more on the military and the gun col­-lecting angles. -If you do ... I think you canhold yoilr title, "Finest in the Firearms Field."

You've printed a lot of letters requestingmore on "the rifleman in civil defense" andI'm sure the -readers would like to know ifmore on this subject will be in future issues.

Frank H. MillerGrand Rapids, Michigan

We'lt give this man what he wants, if allthose who wrote in ,concerning their ownparticipation in the volunteer "Rifleman"movement will again write to us. We'd liketo learn the state 0/ the rifleman in CivilDe/ense concept and activity to date, sinceGUNS first published its revealing article.Please address to Bill Edwards, TechnicalEditor, GUNS Magazine, Skokie, Ill. As forLuger slide closing, the slide stop holds thebolt open until the toggle is jerked a secondtime, releasing slide stop and allowing toggleto snap /orward.-Editors.

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M ou TAl S OF SHOTSHELLS arenow salvaged by hull fillers, who

bust more caps and have more fun at lesscost than ever before. Cost is a major mo­tive: you can rcload for around $1 per box.That's a real bargain, these days! And manyscattergun fans get as much kick out ofbrewing their own fodder as in shooting it,with no pun in tended.

In the mid 1930's I clobbered up fodderwith crummy tools. My Eureka set was worthno more than the $2.50 it cost. Loading wasslowly done "by guess and by gosh." Someswollen shells wouldn't chamber even in aloose-chambered double gun. Factory 12gauge loads cost from 70c to $1.10 per box.By careful testing I learned the factory Hi-Vloads could be exceeded, to gain a few yardsrange. This is not true today. Standard:\1agnum fodder is pregnant with powder.loaded to full max, or maybe more for rou­tine shooting.

Semi-production loaders are now plentifulas fleas on a dog. Some early ones got outwith a few "bugs" in the rush to hit a newmass market, created mostly by novice hand­loaders. A few fell by the wayside because of

of operation,rapid rate.

The DL-I00 comes set up for the gauge,load, shells and primers or caps you desire.A novice can use it the day it arrives. I likethe fixed charge powder-shot bar. You can'tinstall it backwards or goof-up. Each bar isfor a definite charge, with extra bars $3.50.Lads who know what 'they are doing canream the charge holes, or bush them, to filltheir needs for different charges if desired.Altered bars should always be stamped forpositive identification. At extra cost, it's easyto change to a different gauge, or fromprimers to caps.

The DL-I00 loader is a good value. I paidfor it, and have now passed it on to a friendnearby who helps me a little with loadingand shooting. Like others of the same gen·cral pattern using a charge har, only theone correct powder may be used. Substitu­tion of a powder with different burning andpressure trends is an idiot trick that hasblown up three guns in this area. Threewords-Don't Do It. Stick with what thebook says and you'll be safe. Factoriesspend a million bucks keeping the right

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My machine has a No. 12-B charge bar,equal to factory "3 Drams Equivalent, Pisoz." loads. It throws 23 grains of Red Dot,and approximately 1Vs ounce of shot. Thisis a dandy quail or clay load, wit.h near topvelocity for Red Dot., about 1175 feet persecond. The same weight charge of Uniquegives about. 1200 f.p.s., but can not. be sub·stit.uted in a charge bar. The charge wouldbe about. 31 grains, an excessive load. AgainI say it., Do not substitute powders. If youdo not have the correct charge bar, weighor measure all charges. This is the only timeyou need a measure or scales with this loader.

If the charge bar goos up, clean it and thehousing with a dry cloth. Clean and dry thecharge holes. Reassemble with a bit ofgraphite for lube. This area is always keptdry. Keep other moving parts lightly oiled.

Five steps in shotshell reloading demonstrate easy working of moremodern tools. At left, deprime over hole in plate; next, prime; thenthrow powder, insert wads, shot; size and crimp; eject loaded shell.

sloppy workmanship, or because they werenot perfected or developed. One good loaderwasn't advertised much.

All currently advertised semi-productionloaders I've tried do a good job. The maindifference is in speed, convenicnce and price.They are practically foolproof. The mainthing is to use the proper powder and followsimple directions.

The Deitemeyer DL-I00 Loader is such amachine. It's complete, specdy, safe andgood. Simplicity and production considered,the 49.95 price tag makes it an excellentbuy for himters or clay shooters who wantto bust more caps at lower cost. They ad­vertise a reload in 20 seconds. You can doit, but not for continuous production. It takestime to sort tubes, open powder and shot,wads and primers, and keep the hoppersfilled. It also takes time to inspect and boxloads. But it's fun. When you get the "hang"

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I loaded some once-fired Xpert hulls fora test. The 23 grains Red Dot and 1% ouncemeter of No. 8 shot (which weighs slightlymore than larger shot) made a neat reload.The Alcan wads were one .200" nitro card,and one 112" filler wad. Wad pressure was75 pounds. Loads compared favorably withequivalent factory fodder in both patternand penetmtion at 40 yards. They functionin pumps or autos. Primers were the de­pendable CCl make that I've preferred forseveral years. The chilled shot were DlVCObrand, made by Division Lead Co., Summit,Illinois. They supply dealers with high gradelead products of all kinds for handloaders.Alcan wads are too good and too cheap tofool with cutting your own for small pro­duction. The old hammer & punch cuttersoften cut wads at an angle, which isn't good.

All components were of fine quality andwell mated, factors as important as properloading technique with good tools.

Listed loads in the directions equal equiva­lent factory fodder, that you can use for acontrol check, and I recommend them. Shot­shell loads are not as versatile as rifle andpistol ammo. You can't increase velocity togain range, as with some metallics. You arenot apt to improve factory or suggested loadswith your own creations today, as you coulda few years ago. Overloads have long beentried without much success. A good writerand fine lad wrote a story on "Dead Ducksat 100 Yards," that was real interesting. Heshot ducks (in the story) at nearly twice therange you and I will consider it sporting. Ido not know of any gun, load or man thatwill consistently kill ducks at anywhere nearthat range.

The DL-I00 works much like other loadersof this type. The five steps with 21 operationsper shell include final inspection, but notsorting tubes or boxing loads. For new casesyou'll need a Crimp Starter Die and Bracketat $5.00. The five simple steps are: 1) De­prime. 2) Reprime. 3) Throw powder, insertwads, apply wad pressure, throw shot. 4)Size and crimp. 5) Eject load from the sizedie. I highly recommend a sixth operation,using the Taper-Loc Die ($4.00 extra). Itmakes a tighter crimp and tapered nose forbetter feeding in pump and auto guns.

A $6.50 Cap Converter Set allows reprim­ing the old battery cup primer with cheapcaps, at considemble saving. CCI started capproduction several years ago to relieve theprimer shortage. A few lads had misfiresbefore good tools were made to use them.Cocked anvils were the major cause. The CapSet does an excellent job, and caps are wellaccepted today, although loading is a bitslower. I've used caps since they were firstavailable, with never a misfire.

The built-in wad guide is a good feature.All operations terminate with a dead stopwith a full stroke of the handle. This, andthe charge bar for fixed charges practicallyeliminate the human error. The wad pres­sure control is good. Correct wad pressure, aslisted for various powders, makes qualityammo, eliminating "low loads," erratic orblown patterns. You can not eliminate theover-powder (or nitro) wad, nor reduce thesuggested wad column to increase case ca·pacity for improved ballistics. That is, someloads list a minimum length wad column, andresults will be best with this length or more.Shotshell loads are pretty well standardizedfor listed components.

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Colt Army .44 Cal. 1860

morial St. Valentines Olympic Handicap'"event, which was won by ROLLA BOUGHAN..... JOHN MATHIS celebrated the day byshooting a 24x25, and NILE BAKER came upwith a 40x50 on doubles .

JOHN BRIANT from Alamogordo is breakingground for a new tra,!> range at HollomanAir Force Base. Real glad to see this, as itshould generate lots of interest (Editor'snote: the newsletter can help generate com­petitive interest between clubs, and helptoward getting leagues organized). We willhave some new competition from over thehill. We are working closely with John andwill help all we can. Will announce theopening so as many of us as possible fromhere can go over and give the club a bang-upsendoff.

Lots of new shooters got started. Dr. BENHAINES came out with old pro FRANK PAPEN.JACK FERDIG is coaching his boy VINCE. DONLAW has his wife and son 8ARRY practicingregularly. The TURRET I ES are representedby one or more members of the family eyerySunday. Also most encouraging is the turnoutamong the ladies. MRS. WALLY CARROLL, MRS.CODY, MARY VAN NOY, BETTY WILLIAMS, andseveral others are getting active. Stick withit, gals, the wind can't blow forever! Andremember, this is a "discreet" range. Yourscore as well as your age is kept confiden·tial. ....

Among the regulars we have seen lots orBOB AMMONS, GENE GRAHAM, 8ILL SCHWART­ING, SKIP CHAUVIN, and 808B BUTTS. HENRYCICERO, DENNIS and' BILL HOLDEN, B. W. VANHOY, HUGH NEWMAN, and CHALMER ALFREYrarely miss a Sunday....."

The Micro Trap Range Newsletter con­tains many names, much information, andhas all the ingredients for keeping a clublive!

We salute this month another shootingclub's newsletter. This one is from the FallCreek Valley Conservation Club, at Markle­ville, Indiana. The Fall Creek Valley news­letter announces a record hop, a chickenbarbeque, and a regular business meeting.The results column reads:

"'Twas a miserable day but neverthelessfive squads of eager target busters bravedknee·deep now for this one. Earl Reed andLawrence Tolley finished in a dead heat toshare first place honors with 70 broken lar­gets to their credit. Tom Mann and SlimMathers held down lhe number two slot with68 each. For third place it was Jesse Butler,Charlie Koehler, Bob Addison and BobFoust each with a score of 67. With 66's forfourth it was Earl Howard and Owen Gross_Harold Bender latched on to miss·and-outmoney with 15 straight hits."

(Continued on page 63)

N EWSLEtTERS are good gimmicks forgun clubs.

Every club has at least one member whocan get out a chatty, informative, monthlynewsletter. The newsletter or bulletin neednot be a masterpiece of prose, or a work ofart. It can be done by mimeograph or anyother duplicating process, and mailed thirdclass, to keep down costs. Its purpose-toinfoQIl members of coming events, give rec·ognition for good shooting performances (ev­eryone likes to see his or her name in print),and give the club an identity or esprit decorps which it would not otherwise enjoy.

The newsletter should list new memberseither by a simple listing or with a bio·graphical sketch, to promote better fellow·ship at the club. When a new member ap·pears at many clubs, there are murmurs of"who's that." A good club bulletin can ans·wer the "who's that" queries in advance,so that the new member can be absorbed andbecome an effective member more quickly.

In last month's PULL column, we men­tioned and saluted the new Micro Gun Club,at Las Cruces, New Mexico, for the club'sbulletin. To give other clubs an idea howa good bulletin might be put together, Iquote parts of another Micro Trap RangeMonthly Newsletter:

It begins: "Hi shooter!February set a new attendance record at

the range in spite of the faithful gustybreezes that never fail to blow Sunday after·noon. A lot of new shooters out, and muchinterest in coming registered shoots, nowthat schedules have been approved. I willcover these later in the letter.

True to their promise, Mr. Trapshootinghimself, ARNOLD RIEGGER, and his charmingwife stopped by early in the month on theirway to the Florida Winter Chain Shoots.....

On February 7th, DURWARD and Mrs. LINKcame up from El Paso to shoot with us.From the North, WALTER BERGER, LES BRIGGSand BOB TINNEN stopped by for a few roundson their way from Albuquerque to some·where in Mexico where the ducks are thick.They were careful to keep the location asecret. JOHN VAN 'OY celebrated his birth-'

day by shooting a 49x50 but never told ushow old he is.

On February 14th, Mr. and Mrs. E. C."BUD" AXLINE and BRUCE AXLINE came downto shoot. Bud, who is president of theAlbuquerque Trap Club, helped us set upour schedule for registered shoots duringMarch and April. He was quite impressedby the attendance and enthusiasm, andwent back to Albuquerque to warn thefellows that they had better get busy orstart shipping all their trophies south!

Valentines Day we shot the "annual me·

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"Extending man's visionthrough optical science."

"

LUCKY McDANIEL TEACHES INSTINCT

SHOOTING THAT MAY BE FIRST NEW WAY

TO HIT SINCE DAYS OF MUSKET

By BOB WITTNashville Banner

SEEING, THEY SAY, is believing. And when I saw theunbelievable, saw Lucky McDaniel teach tyros to

become proficient shooters within one hour, I had to

believe.McDaniel's copyrighted system is "Instinct Shooting,"

a method which thousands of his students, men andwomen, will swear by. Everywhere, shooters testify to

new enjoyment of their scatterguns, new success a-field,and higher scores at trap and skeet. For Instinct Shooting,mechanically, is as simple as pointing your finger. Theresults, however, stagger the imagination.

For example, how long do you think it would take you

to learn to knock a paper wadding from the center of aflying one-inch washer with a BB gun? At least longenough for your arms to become numb from trying, most

likely.As an instinct shooter, though, you would probably be

separating the paper from the washer in 15 to 20 minutes.McDaniel's younger pupils with good vision, who think

that isn't enough, are usually shooting tossed BBs with aBB gun after no more than half an hour with Lucky. In­credible? It sure is ... to everybody but Lucky McDaniel.

Lucky starts pupils oft with a BB gun mainly becausethey can quickly develop the habit of seeing the shot asit leaves the barrel. There is no disturbing noise or recoilwith the BB rifle.

As soon as you can see the flight of your BB, the nextstep is to learn the proper gun position for InstinctShooting. Rather than have you employ the conventional

cheeking of the gun, Lucky insists that you lock it firmly

in place with the side of your chin against the stock. Aboutnow, you may notice that there are no sights on the gun.

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McDaniel and promotor Mike Jennings examine spe­cial Daisy sightless air-rifle of Instinct Shooting kit.

"Most patient coaching ever was opinion of expert about Lucky's teach­ing methods. Kids learn fast, have few bad habits of "sighting" to unlearn.

Targets ranging from clay birds down to BBs are hit as student improvesskill. McDaniel's teaching denies aiming. Head is high, gun is not sotightly cheeked as with regular aiming method: eyes watch the target.

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Originator of Instinct Shooting was oncetobacco salesman, outshot dealers on betsin order to overcome their sales resistance.

Air rifle begins new gun skill. anduse even by kids will help shoot­ing with all arms. At left, exper7imental BB gun Lucky made be­fore arranging t.o use Daisy riflesin kit. System of aimless hitting,Army researchers hope, may offernew way to use rifle in combat.

Lucky brushes this off by simply stating that "they'd

be in your way."Now that you can see most of your shots and know

how to position your gun for Instinct Shooting, youare ready to begin with the moving target.

Your first target is a solid metal disc about twoinches in diameter which Lucky, crouched near your

shoulder, tosses into the air about 10 to 15 feet high.Most people will miss the first few and, all the

while, Lucky will be quietly demanding, "Look at thetop, look at the top of the target. Keep both eyesopen."

"Most everyone," he says, "shoots under an aerial

target because the gun is lower than the eye. I offsetthis by telling my pupils that if they're gonna miss,then miss over the top."

Remember, while you are shooting at this disc,you are not aiming, because there are no sights onthe barrel. You actually have the gun chinned sothat all you can do is look out over the barrel, notalong it.

Your first surprise comes when, after a few misses,you suddenly hear the sharp little ping that signalsa hit. "Now, we're in business," Lucky usually quipswith a reassuring smile.

After the disc comes a metal washer, about 1%"diameter. Soon, hitting this, your confidence soarsto new heights.

Here is where McDaniel slips you a fast one. He

pauses briefly, pulls a piece of paper from his pocketand stuffs it into the center of the washer.

"Now look at the paper and hit it," he says, usuallyrepeating those words as he tosses the washer skyward.Before you know it, you've scored again-anothermilestone with Instinct Shooting.

Gradually, the size of the washer is reduced untilyou are down to one about (Continlled on page 40)

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PAST IS CAPTURED

BY PAINTINGS OF WESTERN

By LEA McCARTY

AD. YOF·M::KifLg (who worked with Wyatt jar LA Chiej Detective Flammer

about 1900) taped his memories of the famous lawman for 'western artist Lea F.McCarfIJ. King, now retired in Santa Rosa, Cal., "recalled extraditing culpritsfrom across. the border at San Diego; told 01 working lor the borax people OILt onthe high Mojave Desert "at a time when we had to get OILt and push the oldFranklin over the lamous SawgILs Grade." Artist McCarty's search jar traces ofvanished heroes of the Old West had· led him to interview King. His strikingpain' or westemeJ:$ capture the dash and fire pf these men as they lived.Re.f$l: we herft ~eoord the passing of McCart;r, who died i1} March. His.inter ings Us the. words he spoke with King... . .

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Standing in front of another Earp portrait and one of DocHoliday, McCarty and King listen to cameraman's question.

"TELL ME, MR. KING, how long did the shoot-out era

last? ""About twenty years_""And how many of the old West gunfighters did you

, k ~ o w ? ""I worked with Wyatt and did know Bat Masterson. I'd

heard much about many of the gunslingers throughmy friend Wyatt, although he was not a big talker.But when we were alone, under the stars, and a bigfire blazing on a cold night in those altitudes, Wyatt

talked some.""Did he ever mention such a famed outlaw gun­

fighter as Jesse James? I understand that Wyattwas born about the same time, in 1848."

"I don't really recollect. Wyatt hated men whobroke the law, though, as his Pa had brought him

up in a family of lawyers and judges of proud Scotsdescent. Yes, I do remember that he once said that

Jesse James had been a poor shot due to his eyesand impetuousness; that he wore a Navy Colt of the

cap-and-ball variety like his big c01!sin Cole Younger.Wyatt also laughed, and told me that Jesse was the cousinnot only of those who rode with him, the Youngers, butalso the Daltons who raised Hell around Southern Cali­fornia about that time, robbing the Southern Pacific; and

that even gunfighter Johnny Ringo was related to Jesse.

Deputy King displays .45 Colt Single Action he carried as Earp's deputy, says Earp oncetried to borrow the gun. "I refused to lend it," says King. "and we had a falling out."

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New Target Helps

By DICK SIMMONSSheriff, Montesano, Wash.

D OUBLE ACTION HANDGUN SHOOTING is the most im­

portant pistol firing system in use today. The policeman

stopping a criminal on the "get away," or the peaceful citizenpreventing a crime by effectively resisting assault, needs skill in

this combat technique. And as the problems of such skill becomeevident, practice at DA firing becomes a sport, taxing nerve and

control of even experienced slow-fire pistol men. The bullseye willshow up inaccuracy. But to analyze poor shooting, a novel cross­

style target can reveal trigger jerking and other causes of inac­curacy; can allow the shooter, even without coaching, to perfect

his skill.

Best targets for double action practice are painted boards. Ifpainted white in the center and light green on the sides, the bulletholes will immediately indicate if sights are being pulled sideways

during the pull of the trigger. DA pull may be from 10 to 17pounds in modern service revolvers. Though not a heavy pull, itdoes seem heavy by contrast with the 3-4 pound single pull. It i

this sideways pull that will cause more misses, in DA shooting,than are caused by errors in elevation, whether sighting or point­

shooting.Practice raising or lowering the pistol with the sights trained

on the center stripe. Learn to keep all shots in the center stripe

at close range. Then move the board back five yards and practicemore. Keep practicing until you know how to squeeze the shotoff correctly. If the sights drift off target, hold the pressure and

when the sights are aligned again, continue the squeeze to fire.

Repeat, even if your aim wavers off target three or four times,before you finally snap the shot. Soon you will be able to 1doubleaction very fast, and very surely, even when not looking at the

sights.The "hold" of the gun, the styles of grips used and the trigger

squeeze are all different from target single action shooting. For

accurate control DA, the fingers should grip hard. The thumbalso grips, the end of· the thumb resting down on the middle

finger. The strong grasp is necessary to keep the pistol fromtwitching sideways and to keep the same "hold" on the grips

during recoil of five or six shots.Custom grips can be an aid to DA shooting. One design by the

late Walter Roper, pioneer pistol scientist, had a built-in trigger

stop for DA work. Part of the stock extended into the guard. Ashooter with long fingers caught the trigger in the first joint

crease. As the trigger is pulled back the tip of finger comes in

contact with the stock wood surrounding the back of the trig­ger guard, forming a brake or ·stop. (Continued on page 65)

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DA GUNNERSCROSS TARGET PLUS SOLID HOLD ON PISTOL

WILL HELP YOU TO LEARN ACCURATE

DOUBLE ACTION COMBAT SHOOTING

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WORLD'S

Mf,$. Kit Flannery and guide tvt. Coessens are dwarfed in vast Hall of King Alb.,t:!. Nine gaReriesholt:f military reliCl of nUlny atRrns. Museum is lifework of lOllis leconte, who is the director.

GUNS • JUNE 1960

Photos By John S. Flannery Cannon shells mingle with Zeppelin gondola cage in WWI hall. Germanmachine gunner armor, lances, festoon walls. French MG is on AA mount.

By WILLIAM B. EDWARDS

BIGGEST GUN MUSEUMAMERICAN GUN COLLECTORS WEREt-- AMAZED

WHEN VISIT TO WORLD'S BIGGEST ARMS MUSEUM REVEALED

WEAPONS TREASURE HOUSE WAS UNKNOWN

25JUNE 1960GUNS

AS I WALKED INTO the foyer of the museum, I looked in awe at the fan­.tl- tastic array of guns, swords, cannon, uniforms, airplanes displayed in theworld's biggest and best military museum, the Belgian Army Museum inBrussels. Housed in the Palais du Cinquantenaire, the palace built to commemo­rate 50 years of Belgian independence, is the most magnificent collection ofweapons in seven countries visited by the "Gun Tour." If West Point's guns,the Colt and Winchester museums, the Smithsonian arms, the Marine Museumat Quantico, Harold's Club and Aberdeen Proving Ground's collections, wereall rolled into one, they might equal this huge arms array. And, for the mostpart, the arms you would see in these mentioned displays will not be duplicatedin this Brussels Museum.

Superlatives fail in describing this museum.. We eight Americans were theonly visitors there, though visiting days, except Friday, include Sundays andholidays, 10· 12 :30 and 1 :30· 5. But even Belgian tourist guides don't knowof this collection. The road to Waterloo routes by the Roman-like building butof the thousands who pass daily, few enter. This is their loss, for there is muchto see at leisure. The history of northern Europe is written there in actual armsused to create moments of history now studied on the dry pages of indifferenthistory books. The burnished weapons blossom like flowers, displayed on the

Huge Brussels Army museum displays weapons of Belgium's armies through centuries. Fusil Auto­matique Leger is official name for Fabrique Nationale light assault rifle in NATO caliber.

Dazzle-paint Krupps crowd floor. High trunnionstyle carriage preceeded recoil absorbing type.

walls. The brilliant gold and silver of bullion-embroideredHussar uniforms, the dull gleam of bronze guns, dazzle

the eye. In this museum the guns make history come alive.Never have I seen so orderly a profusion of weapons, many

of them identical rare specimens by the hundreds. The

artistically balanced displays keep the eye from beingoffended, though every square meter of space is crammedwith rare guns, uniforms long since rotted to dust else­where, and paintings by recent great masters of Europe,

depicting the most spirited and accurately detailed battlescenes of military and heroic figures.

The entrance to this "Musee Royal de L'Armee et d'His-

toire Militaire" is flanked by grim Krupp cannon of the

1870 war, and great guns of an earlier period. Inside,cameras are forbidden. After three years of effort, GUNS

finally was able to secure permission for our photographer

John S. Flannery to picture this archive arsenal. Throughthe courtesy of Monsieur Louis Leconte, Army Museum

Director, every facility was afforded to John Flannery tophotograph the great collection. But still there is no cat­alog in English, no listing of the arms there, no guidebookbut this article, for the ever-increasing tide of U.S. gun­

bug tourists to Belgium. The museum does publish aquarterly journal "abundantly illustrated." Membership in

La Fourragere museum association costs 75 francs annu­ally, $1.50, including the quarterly journal.

The weapons are displayed in historical order. First youpass through the "Austrian and French Period" wherebronze Napoleon field guns are flanked by tall glass cases

containing figures in full uniforms of the period. The wallscarry panoplies of swords and muskets of various models,

1717, 1763, 1777, circled like the petals of flowers aboutlifelike marble busts of battle heroes. And rising, high asthe eye can see, to the vaulted (Continued on page 60)

In quirk of history, museum profited by two Germaninvasions. Nazis ·took Lebels, left relics behind.

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MAY ELECTRIFY 1960 OLYMPICS

M- AN AND MACHINE proceed together in assaying the results of

any shG;9ting match. Our US shooting stars are as good as any

in the world,]{ut certain specialized shooting sports have needed spe­

cialized guns not ordinarily used here. Such a sport is the gruelling rou­

tine of the International Slow Fire or "Free Pistol" .22 course. And to

complement the skill of Yankee pistoleers at the 1960 Olympic ISU

shoot, High Standard has built a Free Pistol.American shooters years ago started international shooting matches.

Then we backed out; refused to have any part or branch of competitive

shooting. Great names they once were, American names: men like Ira

Paine, who was knighted by the King of Portugal for his shooting

prowess; men like Walter Winans, who pushed the traditional skill of

the American sharp shooter to new heights and probably did as much

as any man in forcing the perfection of handguns into target pistols.

Champions like these. were known and respected in the great shoot­

ing "salons" of the Continent. If their presence (Continued on page 48)

U S FREE PISTOL

IS NEW DESIGN WHICH

GUNS GO ELECTRIC

First Yankee free pistol of modernera has screw at trigger guard toadjust for finger position to fire.

Electric trigger is magnet-operated; releasesconnector to free rotary sear. Striker underspring compression flies forward to hit pin.

Fluted barrel is accurateand stylish on new pistol.

By WILLIAM C. L. THOMPSON

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EXCLUSIVE GUNS TEST REPORT OF AMERICA'S NEW MACHINE GUN

SHOWS M60 IS STURDY.

CONTROLLABLE ON FULL AUTO.

SERVES MANY ROLES

By HERBERT J. ERFURTH

W ITH THE RETURN this winter ofthe first General Purpose Machine

Gun M60 from its varied test and display

career to Fort Benning's museum, amodern saga has come full cycle. It isthe project culminating in producing 6800of what Ordnance calls "the world's best

light machine gun."Dubbed "M60," the new welded and

stamped link-belt fed LMG weighs 23pounds, compared to the (dry) water­cooled M1917 Browning at 40.7 and later"light" versions scaling over 30 poundseach. For fixed firing, M60's tripod oftitanium alloy weighs but 25 pounds: theold familiar M1917 tripod hefts at achunky 48. With M60 gun on mount, theweight is still not so much that a mancan't lift it. I took the gun by its carryinghandle and lugged it easily about withone hand though it did clip my shins alittle. Such mobility might be valuable ifall but one man of a crew were dead.

The caliber of the new volley fire armis of course 7.62 NATO, and the sightsintroduce novelty in American small arms-the leaf is graduated in meters so ourown fire-control charts could be integratedwith those of our metric-measuring allies.The tripod of M60, though light, is anelaborate structure. Legs lock individually

in any position allowing the gun to settleon hard, uneven terrain, while the guncan pivot a full (Continued on page 54)

Butt removes when you push.a detent with bullet; then re­coil stop plate is pried upreleasing buffer; bolt body.

Firing pin in bolt isheld back until gasoperating rod closesaction, locking boltand then firing cap.

Trigger group is easyto take off; is neo­prene covered forcold weather. Sightis marked in meters.

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100-Match Winners Tell

HOW TO BUILD AWINNING CLUBBy ROBERT DYMENT

New members in SOD-man Buffalo, N. Y. gunclub must take instruction from experiencedshooters. Fine points of winning are passedalong, help beCJinners take share of trophies.

WHAT DOES THIS

CLUB HAVE THAT YOURS COULDN'T

FOUR INDOOR TARGET shooting seasons-more than100 consecutive matches-without a single defeat!

That is the record of the Buffalo Revolver & Rifle Club,Buffalo, New York, in competition with 16 other teams inthe Niagara Frontier Pistol League, covering the westernNew York area and nearby Canada.

What has made this club so successful in so manymatches, shooting against clubs with equal advantages sofar as membership and facilities are concerned? That's the$64 question, of course, and I asked it of tall, friendlyHarold Dudley, Pistol Executive of the Buffalo R&R Club.He gave it some careful thought before he answered:

"It's not an easy question to answer, because it involvesa number of things. Even trying to state the factors innumerical order is tough, because they seem to me to beof equal importance. Each factor dovetails into every other

factor."Practice is essential, naturally. And we are able to-and

do-practice three nights a week. We have our own indoorrange, which gives us excellent practice facilities. Tuesday,Thursday, and Saturday nights are open for pistol shooting.Monday and Friday nights are for rifle shooting, andWednesday is Ladies' Night. Sunday afternoon is set aside

HAVE IF YOU TRIED?

THERE'S NO SECRET TO

SUCCESS EXCEPT HARD WORK

Scores are kept on file, show competitors' standingweekly. Here club exec Hal Dudley checks 90 target.

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Rugers are popular inBuffalo club. New menlike lower first cost,often customize them.

Basic shooter's kit includes .38 or .357 (Python, above)revolver, .45 and .22 pistols, shooting glasses, tools.

On Buffalo Revolver & Rifle Club indoorrange George Young, president Bill Sutton,Harold Dudley and Matt Kuhn await startof timed fire. Ceiling is soundproofed.

Big Colt National Match.45s vie with revolversIn B.R.&R.C. matches.

as Juniors' Day, which IS always well attended.

"To develop topnotch shooters, a pistol or rifle club

simply must own or have free access to good range facili­ties. It's the only way members can get the necessary prac­

tice. But it goes further than that. The frequent get-to­

gethers at the range build club spirit, which becomes team

spirit when we compete with other clubs; and shooting to­

gether night after night produces member-against-memberrivalries which provide incentive for each man to work to

improve his scores. This means that a club must set asidespecific nights for practice, and the members must be keen

enough about shooting to devote those nights to it. We'relucky in having that kind of members.

"Another thing that has helped us make the grade com­

petitively is-we provide plenty of competitive shooting.There's no way to make a competitive shooter except by

competitive ·shooting. You have to get used to competitionin order to shoot your best scores (Continued on page 50)

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SIMPLE IDEA IN TOOL DESIGN

IS MAJOR STEP FORWARD FOR HOME

GUNSMITH IN SPEEDY

STOCK SHAPING FROM BLANKS

New ToolsFor StocksBy CLIFF CURTIS

FAST BECOMING POPULAR with gunsmiths, and

equally popular with the sportsman who is interested.

in shaping his own gun stock or in making alterationson a present gun stock, is a new line of tools, called

"Surform" tools, made by Stanley Tools, division of TheStanley Works, New Britain, Connecticut. These tools,made up of blades with hundreds of individual hardened

and sharpened cutting teeth are available in two basic

styles: plane and file type. Flat and half-round bladesare available. Working essentially like a wood rasp, theStanley "Surform" tools cut all types of wood-soft

woods, hard woods, decorative fruit woods-faster than aconventional wood rasp or any file hitherto available.

The secret of this remarkable performance lies in thefact that each blade is ·made up of from 250 to 500 in­

dividually hardened and sharpened teeth. Each pass ofthe tool over .the stock, results in the removal of actualchips from the wood. The chips are cleared through the

individual "throat" or opening above each tooth.Because of the diverse shapes and styles-flat, half

round, round, as well as convex-practically any area ofa fine gun stock may be quickly and accurately dressed

down to desired size with a "Surform" tool.As a testimony to the effectiveness of these tools, many

manufacturers claim that they do 90 per cent of the form­ing and shaping job after rough, hardwood billets havebeen cut out. Equally appealing to the "purist," is the fact

that he may remove as much or as little stock as desired.The pressure exerted by the user accounts for this versa­

tility. As a result, if the sportsman desires to remove a

small amount of stock from any area, the "Surform" toolwill provide a fast and ready answer for him. Similarly,

if he is starting from his own rough billet, he can work

Surform black blade takes big chip, ·cuts fa.st for firsthogging-out of stock from the rough blank, works like rasp.

Holders include file (above), plane, and rocker or convextype to form all kinds of flat, curved shapes in hard wood.

his stock down to the desired shape quickly and easily.Two blade patterns are standard. The regular cut, the

blade with the black finish, is especially designed for the

speedy removal of softer materials, such as all types ofwood. The second is a fine-cut blade, the blade w'th thesilver finish, for the final finishing strokes. The cutting

edges of the fine-cut are set so that they take half the biteof the regular cut, give a smoother finish.

New shapes now added to the blade family include the

half-round and the round file type. They fill a need fortrimming and forming concave surfaces and enlarging

holes, as in the inletting for trigger or magazine.Holders for the blades include the file and the plane,

the pocket or block-plane type holder, and the "rocker"or convex. Favorites with gunsmiths are the file and pockettype holders using regular, fine-cut, and half-round blades.Retail prices range from $1.79 each for the "Surform"

pocket tool, $2.69 for the regular and fine-cut file type,to $3.69 for the convex with fine-cut blade. They are

available through hardware retailers nationwide.

"Surform" tools, unlike other files, remove chips, ~not dust. They cut clean and leave a clean finish. ~

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Finer cut Surform is white-finished, leaves wood smoother before sanding, filling, varnishing or oilfinish. New gun gadget makes practical use of expensive blanks by casual arms hobbyist.

GUNS JUNE 1960

Set in file-type holder, Surform shreds off long curls of wood as if by many tiny blades, does notclog like wood rasp because teeth are open at back. Final comb height is shaped with Surform.

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New pistol seems high in hand butis comfortable; triggers pelletsas fast as your finger can move.

Crosman engineers believed the me­chanical achievement of a gas-poweredauto-loader might be based on the pat­ented swing-feed mechanism of theCrosman bolt action repeating rifle.Their interest in the problem was stim­ulated by an imtependent survey ofmore than 11,000 pellgun owners, deal­ers, and distributors who believed that

a semi-automatic gasgun would "opena new era for shooters." New era or

not, they felt that they had a ready­made and waiting market among thetarget pistolmen who have long awaiteda gun with which they could practice athome without arousing the ire of policeor neighbors.

There were many technical prob.

lems. Basically, there had to be builtinto a pistol a loading and recockingdevice which would deliver with light­ning rapidity a solf, pliable, .22 caliberlead pellet without deforming it-andreturn to receive and load subsequentpellets. The popular demand was "thefaster the better." This had to beaccomplished by using the carbon­

dioxide gas to activate the semi-auto­matic mechan- (Continued on page 56)

tical, successful semi-automatic actionfor air- or gas-fired guns. The newCrosman C02·powered auto-loading"Model 600" is an ingenious solution

of a long-standing problem. Crosmanreleases call it "an engineering mir­acle", and maybe it is. At least it is aneffective reply to the demand of targetpistolmen for a pellgun of high accu­racy and fast-firing efficiency thatwould enable them to practice (athome, without objectionable noise)

not only slow fire but also the timedand rapid fire stages of pistol targetcompetition.' It is also a fun-gun forplinkers and the hunters of lesser var­mints. If you miss him the first time,shoot him again!

T HE QUESTION, "Which camefirst, the air- or gas-fired gun, or

the firearm?" is as tricky as the simi­lar question about the chicken and theegg. Say "blow-gun" for airgun, andyou have a clue to the antiquity of theairgun principle. A 15th century fre"E0at Angers, France, shows a blowgunbeing aimed at a pigeon. In many partsof the world, the air-powered blow-gundates back beyond written history.Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) mayhave concealed his invention of a com­

pressed-air-powered gun behind histall tales of "a smokeless, flashless,noiseless powder."

But in all those centuries, nobody(until now) has come up with a prac-

By CLIFTON CAMP

Not one but three pistols were tested under constant barrel pressure firinga hundred thousand times each without leakage or any mechanical failure.

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W HEN ACCIDENT OR NATURE leaves a man with but one hand,

his shooting days need not be over. This was the view of one·Maryland duck hunter who ended up at our gun shop with problems:

his favorite Model 11 Remington autoloading 12 gauge, a yen for con­tinuing duck hunting, and a prosthetic hook where his right hand shouldbe. His right eye was master. The steel hook, manipulated by the rightshoulder moving slightly rearward, made aiming and firing difficult. Twoshots at a time were often fired because of insensitive trigger "feel",

using the hook to pull the trigger, And with the right eye the mastereye, he couldn't shift to his left shoulder for firing. Skipping over many

ideas which were rejected one by one as impracticable for some reason,

we arrived at a final solution. We installed a vertical fore grip with trigger

and guard, and a means of linking the fore trigger to the regular trigger.One limitation to alterations was that the gun (Continued on page 52)

A SHOTGUN FOR A ONE­ARMED HUNTER

By CHARLES L. UNIACKEand

JAMES H. VEEDER

Forearm detaches if owner wants to restore gun tooriginal condition. Star pistol frame was fitted; linkedto trigger by choke cable for left handed triggering.

Pistol grip was put inspecial forend of old Rem­ington I r shotgun to en­able r.ight-eyed man to pulltrigger with his left handproviding gun support.

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THE OLD • THE NEW • THE UNUSUAL

ONE OF THESE GUNS KILLED

HAMILTON-AND RUINED BURR

As Burr's bullet struck Hamilton in chest, theTreasury secretary fired his pistol in the air.

Authentic pistols used in duel came from duelling expertbrother-in-law of Hamilton; then through family to present de­posit in New York City bank. One was altered in Civil War.

Typical of arms claimed to be "the ones" is set by Booth,Philadelphia, taken from Burr at Treason Trial by Caesar Rodney.

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By WILLIAM B. EDWARDS

WHEN MY GREAT-UNCLE AARON SHOT Secretaryof the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, he killed one

enemy but made thousands. Among the thousands are themany gun collectors who have claimed ownership of thepistols with which the deed was done.

No duel ever proved the fallacy of duelling as a settle­ment of disputes more conclusively than did this one foughton the greensward of Weehawken Heights on the Jerseyside of the Hudson. Alive, Hamilton would have ruinedBurr if he could. Dead, Hamilton ruined Burr more com­pletely than he had ever yet succeeded in doing-for vic­tory in the duel brought Burr nothing but condemnation,scorn, and defeats that led to political oblivion.

Yet even the guns seem almost to have been a part ofa deadly destiny aimed at Hamilton. They were Wogdonduellers, bought in London in 1797 by John B. Church,Alexander Hamilton's brother-in-law. Church himself hadused the guns in a duel with Aaron Burr-and missed, thussaving Burr for a later and more deadly engagement. And,in 1802, one of these same guns, (Continued on next page)

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(Aaron Burr's mother was the daughter ofthe Rev. lonathan Edwards, early New Eng­land theologian, from whom the author isdescended. The pistols are occasionally 011

display in the museum of the Chase Man­hattan Bank of New York City.)

lead an army into Mexico, annexing thiS'nation to the American West. Many U. S.statesmen and generals wanted to do the­same thing. Jefferson with his principle ofManifest Destiny, General Andrew Jackson,.Sam Houston in Texas, and even leadinggenerals after the Civil War, were in favorof this move. But Wilkinson carried the tale­to J eflerson that Burr planned to separate thewestern states from the U.S. and declare him­self emperor. The resulting Treason Trialrocked the country. Colonel Burr was ad­judged not guilty, but the strain was thereand the talk finished him. His decline inpublic esteem and affection, begun when hefired the Wogdon dueller at Alexander Ham­ilton, was now complete.

Meanwhile, the Wogdon guns remained inpossession of the Church family. Major Rich­ard Church, grandson of John B., convertedone to percussion and carried it as a militiaofficer in the Civil War. Why did he notcarry both, as saddle pistols? The flint lockis in good condition, as ready for use as itever was. Could this signify that the flintpistol was recognized as the ill-ornened gunthat slew Hamilton, and for that reason waS'not used? The pistols, unlike other WogdonS'of the same form, have heavy brass fore­stocks. Target shooters have long recognizedthe benefit of a little more weight forward.As Aaron Burr proved at dawn one ~July day, it helps steady the aim. U.

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wholeheartedly for a strongly united groupof these "free and independent States."

Did Hamilton see a future when commerceand communications would knit the countrytogether so strongly that even the strife ofCivil War could not shatter it? Perhaps thismay have given him cause to resent Burr,for Burr was an extremist in favor of States'Rights. He was also a believer in coloniza­tion and expansion. He put this latter beliefto practice by planning to colonize land hebought and paid for in the Louisiana wilder­ness.

Land speculation was the temper of thetimes. The lean frontiersman with his LongRifle is acclaimed as the settler of the con­tinent, but it was the townsite speculator inhis search for "the Long Green" who reallyfilled up the land. He surveyed towns, soldlots and, if too optimistic (as when the emi­grants found their town underneath somehitherto unmapped wilderness lake), washanged in effigy or for real if they could laytheir hands on him. But Burr's plan was asober one, to develop a new State.

To credit this ill-fated figure of historywith any more dastardly plan is absurd.Even as vice-president and President of theSenate he presided "with a fairness and dig­nity recognized even by his bitterest ene·mies." As Senator from the most powerfulState he had great political control withoutresponsibility. But he did have the misfor­tune to gather about him some odd friends,including General James Wilkinson.

This blot upon our national record soldout his own country, Spain, France, andBritain to each other, simultaneously, collect­ing money as secret agent of all! Burr, somethought, planned to build his State and then

provided by Church, killed Alexander Hamil·ton's son, Philip. This was in a duel foughtat Weehawken with one J. G. Yeager. WhenHamilton took these "Wogdon·s" into hisown duel with Burr, he was sorely temptinga fate that seemed pointed straight at theHamilton family.

Pointing straight seems to have been acharacteristic of the Wogdon pistols. A poemtitled "Stanzas On Duelling," published in1782, began with a reference to Wogdon:"Hail Wogdon, patron of that leaden death,Which waits alike the bully and the brave;As well migh t art recall departed breathAs any artifice your victims save."

Wogdon's duellers are as distinctive, withthe curve of butt, the graceful gooseneckcock, and the large guard bow, as is Wog­don's signature in flowery script on theirlocks. So noted were his products that anyserious quarrel came to be known as "aWogdon case."

The Burr-Hamilton quarrel was definitelya Wogdon case. The animosity between thetwo men seems to have dated back to thetime when both served on the staff of youngGeneral Washington. Burr was transferred,but Hamilton continued as Washington'sright-hand man, and this increased the en·mity. In 1791, Burr added fuel to the fireby defeating Hamilton's father-in-law, Gen·eral Philip Schuyler, in a Senatorial elec­tion. Later, Burr's influence in the pivotalstate of New York carried the Democraticticket (on which Burr was running for Vice·President under Jefferson) to victory. Un­fortunately, Burr received the same numberof votes as did Jefferson, and the electionhad to be decided by the House of Repre·sentatives. There, Hamilton's strength wassufficient to throw the decision in Jefferson'sfavor. Still later, Burr ran for Governor of

ew York and was defeated, partly becauseof Hamilton's bitter opposition. Hamiltonpublicly branded Burr "a dangerous man,"of whom he could "detail a still moredespicable opinion."

These were the words on which Burr basedhis challenge that Hamilton face him "on thefield of honor." Hamilton accepted the chal­lenge, and the result is history. They meton July 11, 1804. Hamilton died the follow­ing day. But Burr was dead, politically,from the instant the shot found its target.

The nation lost on both counts. The coun­try needed Hamilton; it needed Burr. Burrwas a dreamer with a talent for organizationand a genius for leading men. He had provedthis years before. in the Revolution, when hedefied the orders of his superiors in the re­treat from Long Island, but saved his men.He commanded a brigade gallantly at thebattle of Monmouth. In January, 1779, hewas assigned to command the line from theHudson through Westchester County, N. Y.,to the Sound. It was a lawless district, plun­dered by the rabble of both armies. Heestablished martial law, a system of patrol,and restored order. This is not the recordof a dissolute or heedless man, but that of acaptain of firm moral principle.

Hamilton had risen in the tradition ofWhig liberalism. Then Revolution gave riseto abuses of liberalism: factionalism andStates' Rights dissent which, even today, aresore spots of conflict in the American patternof organization. Hamilton, worried throughthe weakness of the Articles of Confederationthat the young Republic should fall, becamespokesman for the Federalist party. fIe was

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Frank Connor, a civilian technical aid on theDownrange missile project working out ofPatrick AFB, thinks McDaniel has "got it."

"He taught me how to quick draw and hipshoot a handgun," Connor says, "somethingI had been unable to learn with thousandsof rounds of practice." Connor is pretty typ­ical of the average "gun nut," a better thanaverage shot, who cut his pistol teeth on anickel plated .32 Hand Ejector which heused to toss into his bicycle basket alongwith hard-earned ammo and peddle out tohis folks' place in the country for some shoot­ing. When he's not working to aim theheavier kinds of missile hardware, Connorworked with Lucky; was once Lucky's shoot­ing helper. "I know there are several peoplefloating around who demonstrate or teachthe quick draw and hip shooting, but I neverknew any of them who could teach the wholeworks in four hours."

Another man sold on Instinct Shooting istough, experienced Col. Lyman Davison, ofthe USAF security set-up. In teaching AirPolice to shoot and hit, Colonel Davison haslearned a thing or two about practical shoot­ing. "If there's any defect in Lucky's teach­ing," he says, "it is that he over simplifieswhat you have to learn and be aware of ingaining real skill with a handgun. But I doknow this much: we have taken men whoshot all over the paper and, applying Lucky'sprinciples, brought their groups right downlike this," he reported, making a circle ofhis two hands, "and not only I but othersin the outfit have found we are shooting alot more over-90 scores with the pistol as aconsequence. There's no doubt about it, thisman has a system that works."

Whether the hunter and rifleman can prof­itably apply McDaniel's instinct shooting isa natural question. Veteran Idaho guide andoutdoorsman Howard Sarvis, initiator ofTrainfire, now studying small arms trainingsystems at Fort Benning, not far fromLucky's home base of Columbus, Ga., unoffi·cially checked out Lucky when the lattergave a demonstration at a turkey shoot of thePost Fish & Game Club. "Lucky spent about10 minutes with me. I couldn't hit anythingwith the air gun at first; then I began to seethe shot going and get the idea of the thing,under what I consider the most skillful andpatient coaching I have ever witnessed. Igot so I could hit that washer almost.JIll thetime, and then stepped aside as others werewaiting..."

Sarvis noted that Lucky started with hisBB gun throwing up a 2" washer about 5 feetin the air and hitting it. Then he switched tosmaller objects, Alka Seltzer tablets, Life­savers and then aspirin pills. "He hardlyever missed," the Benning experts agreed.As to practical applications of Lucky's tal­ents in these uneasy days, Sarvis is uncertain,

not doubtful.

"Am I enthusiastic?" he asks. "I don't

know. This ... reminds me of Old Bill down

at the service station who does my car work,

hunts squirrels, claims to beat shotgunners

though he uses a .22, doesn't even know

what kind of sights are on his "raffie," not

even sure he uses sights...

"I want to see McDaniel do some shooting

with an M-l on a silhouette at 100 yards;

603-06

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THE LUCKY McDANIEL STORY

as small as a dime.After this, you get the BB test if he thinks

your eyes are of sufficient strength to followits flight when he throws it up. "This is thesupreme test of vision, confidence, and con­centration," he explains.

Leaving the BB gun, McDaniel advanceshis pupil to the shotgun for the "graduation

. "exercIses.The steps are basically the same. He starts

slowly with clay pigeons gently tossed intothe air. All the while, he is constantly urging,"look at the top of the target and shoot."

As you begin to hit with the shotgun-andit's usually a matter of one or two shots-thetargets become more difficult. Lucky has bynow picked up a hand trap and is sailingthe clay pigeon out in every direction: duck

shots, dove shots, quail shots.Finishing touches are applied with small

charcoal bricks. For one thing, they offer asmaller target. Also, Lucky can throwdoubles, even triples, easily by hand.

And when you get your triple, what elsedo you need to know about how to shoot?

Stories about Lucky have been so numer­ous, a good deal of scepticism has beenaroused among differently-trained shooters asto "how good" this man really is. Perhapson the target range Lucky doesn't have achest full of medals, for he has never fol­lowed the routine of competitive rifle, pistol,or shotgun. But some pretty hard-headedscientific shooters find his ideas and his re­sults"- something a lot more than "luck."

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"Brooker and I immediately saw that hewas shooting under everything that I threwinto the air. It didn't take us long then tocorrect his faults and he soon developed intoa darn good shooter.

"Word began to get around. Before lOng Ipicked up more money teaching on week-endsthan I made in a week with my traveling job.Two and two soon began to add up to four,

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then I want to see him do it with movingtargets at that range or closer. I see norea'son why he shouldn't. Those aspirin tab·lets figure out to around ten minutes ofangle, which is a man at 200 yards... It maybe there is a way to shoot the rifle at shortranges and, say, up to 15-20 moa targets,still or moving, that we have overlooked allthese centuries.

"It will be quick as lightning and easy aspie. You don't even think about aiming;you just watch that target intently, eitherthe bottom edge or the top edge, dependingon whether it is on the ground or in the air.Your eyes are way above the barrel, just theend of your chin on the stock, and you hadbetter forget how that barrel looks (thatwas my trouble, trying to watch the barreland shoot it like a shotgun.) If you do noth·ing but watch the target, let everything elsetake care of itself, you will hit.

"If this works all the time, we had bettertease it out, write it down, and learn howto teach it," concludes Trainfire Sarvis. Andif Lucky's principles can be proved to workwith heavy-caliber arms on a teachable basis,it may be that he has already done just that!

This incredible sharp shooter was bornBobby Lamar McDaniel on Nov. 9, 1924, ona farm near Thomason, Ga. The nickname,"Lucky," didn't come along until years lateralthough, surprisingly, perhaps, it has noconnection with his ability to shoot or teachshooting.

"I sorta grew that nickname around thepool halls back home," he modestly admits."I never lost."

That, in a nutshell, goes a long waytoward describing Lucky McDaniel. He is aman whose confidence takes second placeto nothing in his total make-up.

He figures his shooting this way:"If it's within range and I can see it, I

can hit it!" It is amazing, too, how suchself assurance rubs off on his pupils. This,no doubt, has a lot to do with the rapidway in which the beginner catches on toInstinct Shooting.

Six years ago, this blond-headed bundle ofenergy who, with his medium height andbuild resembles a college halfback, was atraveling tobacco salesman in South Georgia.But Lucky's switch to shooting might havebeen expected.

"An uncle gave me a 41O-gauge single shotwhen I was five years old. I guess I developeda reputation as a fail' shooter as I grew,"he told me. "I began to capitalize on shoot­ing, to some extent at least, while I had that

salesman's job. '"Peddling snuff and tobacco, I remember

times when I would go into a store, get I

turned down on an order and then resort toshooting to finally get the man to take anorder anyway.

"If there was a rifle handy, I would useit. If there wasn't, we'd make arrangementsto borrow one. Later, I learned to carry arifle and BB gun' along with me all the time.Anyway, the shooting deal went like this:

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but an obvious addition is a rifle. You wouldexpect to hit with it what you could witha BB gun. Side arms are still another part ofthe tools of his trade. He has taught quick­draw and hip shooting to law enforcementagencies all over the southeast.

One patrolman in Prichett, Ala., creditsLucky with saving his life. The officer cameupon a burglar trying to enter a store windowby prying it open with a screwdriver.

When approached from the rear, thewould-be burglar swung around, with theintention of planting that screwdriver firmlyin the officer's chest.

Instead, the policeman put Lucky's fast­draw and hip shooting technique into actionto drop his opponent right in his tracks.

With rifles and side arms, Lucky teacheshis pupils to look directly under a stilltarget.

"With either a pistol from the hip or arifle against the shoulder, it doesn't make anydifference," he says. "If that target is justsittin' there still, drop your eyes right underit and pull the trigger.

"Take a BB gun, for example. Step outinto the yard, if it is large enough for safeshooting, and throw out a small match boxor some other such object. Now, chin yourBB gun, look to the bottom side of thetarget and pull the trigger. It should be ahit."

While he freely talks pistol and rifletarget shooting, and will teach it if the occa­sion demands, you can't be in Lucky's pres­ence long before learning that it is the elusivemoving target that captures his fancy. Whentalking, his movements fall unconsciouslyinto a rhythmical pattern of gun handling.He gestures frequently to explain his methodof quickly spotting the moving target, chin­ning the gun and firing.

(Continued from page 41)as the saying goes, so I took the big fling,

" quit my selling job, and began teaching In­stinct Shooting full time.

"Needless to say, I haven't been sorry onebit," he added.

A top shooter with skill like Lucky's,and patience to teach, didn't have to worryabout a living. His talents were "a natural"for exhibition shoots under the guidance ofMike Jennings, a local promoter whose famein the sports world is as wide as McDaniel'sis in the shooting world. Jennings, who hasLucky under contract with his UnlimitedEnterprises promotion firm, put a lot of bigshows on the road including the Patterson­Rademacher heavyweight championship fight.Mike, no slouch with words, put Lucky'steachings into a book, "Instinct Shooting,"(Dodd, Meade & Co., publishers) ; now mar­kets a BB rifle kit which is almost as goodas a personal lesson from Lucky.

Boxers and baseball players as well asfootball player Blanton have profited in theireye-reflex skill from Lucky's training. Lastspring, Lucky gave lessons to members of boththe Cincinnati Redlegs and Chicago WhiteSox teams while they were in training in Flori­da. And in a sensational season, the Sox wonthe penant. Their hitting may be due partlyto Lucky McDaniel, the man with the "mostskillful and patient coaching ever..."

"I wasn't the least bit interested in themechanical parts of baseball such as battingstance, grip, and other phases," Lucky toldme. "My aim ..." (and it's seldom he usesthe word since it doesn't fit Instinct Shoot­ing,) "was to improve their concentrationand batting by teaching them to shoot myway, looking at the target."

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straight left jab with his right cocked fora followup," he points out. "He is slightlyleaned forward with his left arm out (grip­ping the fore·end of the gun) and his righthand cocked just at his chin (where onegrips the comb).

"All the while, though, his eyes are on

Wyatt told me that Wild Bill was the finestshot that ever lived, barring none. He saidBill wore a brace of ivory-handled cap-and­ball equalizers which had been presentedto him by Vice-President Wilson, rather aSenator Wilson then from Massachusetts, Ibelieve. In Kansas City, I believe, or was itSaint Louie, the boys used to hang aboutwhat they called 'The Square,' after sellingoff the season's robes of buffalo and such.Then Wild Bill would unlimber to back upa bet by drilling a playing card across thestreet-wide street, mind YOU. He could alsohit a coin in mid-air and draw-shoot withunfaltering speed and skill. He wore bothguns, said Wyatt, butt inwards, and drew byhooking the forefingers in the trigger guards,then spinning the guns over and lifting thehammers at the same instant. Odd way toshoot, wasn't it? Earp never made any com­ment on it, however. It must have suitedWild Bill, and killed a lot of men. He saidthat Hickok was a fine specimen of a man,haughty, proud, and he'd hunt a manthrough the streets like a tiger if his hackleswere up."

"Did Wild Bill Hickok go blind of glau­coma? They say that he visited Cheyenne'spost surgeon and has his eyes examinedfor the terrible disease. He shot his owndeputy, you know."

"I don't know. It might be a cock·and-bullstory."

"Mr. King, did Wyatt ever speak much offamed John Ringo?"

King shook his head. "I don't righfullyremember. But I know that Ringo has beenplayed up by TV and film to a point wherehe looked like a damned fool. Men wore theguns high on the hip, in the old days. Takea look at all' the old photographs; they don'tlie. And I never saw the kind of hats theywear on TV either. I met Bob Hope in Holly·wood and also Hugh O'Brian on his set. Thedirector asked me to watch them take ascene, and so I sat down and watched. Thenthe director asked me how I liked it. 'Well,'I says, 'it's all right I guess.' But when thesheriff said he'd confiscate them guns, thatwas wrong. I don't believe they'd haveknowed what the word 'confiscate' meant inthe Old West. No. Wyatt only referred toRingo in relationship to Jesse James .asbeing a cousin. The name 'Ringo' has agood sound to it, and the writers and TVmen would eat this one up!"

"You said a while ago that most of thegunslingers were blue-eyed."

"That's what Earp told me; about ninetyper cent of them were of the light.skinned,blue·eyed type of men. Bat was that way asI remember, for one. Did you know that helater became a sportswriter for the NewYork Morning Telegraph? Speaking of Mas·terson, he killed a man with a pistol- in afight over a girl, lind got. a slug in the leg.

the target," he concludes with a demon·strating pose.

How about leading the moving target?"Never," Lucky barks with trigger-like

response."The only-and I mean only-time you

lead with Instinct Shooting is when youlead that dead game back to the stove ~after a good day's hunting!" ~

This made him limp. So he bought a caneand became nicknamed 'Bat' because he usedthat cane on the heads of rowdy cowboys inthe cowtrail towns of the early West. Batalso carried a second gun, a Frontier Colt.He wore it in a shoulder holster."

"Mr. King, Doc Holliday is about the mosttalked about gun-fighter of the Old West.How come? Did you know him?"

"Know him! How. could I? I worked withWyatt when he was in his fifties and I inmy twenties. Doc Holliday died at GlenwoodSprings in '97 I believe-in bed, mind you,of the T. B. bug. Sure, Wyatt talked of him.Doc was his best friend, and Wyatt oftensaid that nobody, just nobody, was a matchagainst Doc when he whipped out that oldnickle plated .45 Colt. You see, Doc wasdying of tuberculosis anyhow. He alwaystold Earp he had nothing to lose. So hehad the nerve of the devil himself at agambling table or bar, and Wyatt said thatnerve was half the battle in a showdownwhen the play was about to be made. Hesaid Doc could kill a man over the slightestirritation. Many a man failed to die, however,due to Doc having respect for his friend, notwanting to cause trouble in Wyatt's baili··wick."

"Doc was a lawman too, a deputy toWyatt?" I quizzed him.

"Never heard of it. As a matter of fact,Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp, his full name, wasnever a U. S. Marshal, as most people wouldbelieve. If you don't believe this, write S. A.Andretta, Assistant Attorney General of ourJustice Department, and he'll tell you. Wyattwas a deputy U. S. Marshal in Tombstone."

"Have you ever heard tell of a gamblingman by the name of Ben Thompson?"

Mr. King sat up in his chair and rolled aBull Durham cigarette. A ring of butts wasaround his chair where he had' been sittingand talking. "Wyatt spoke of him many

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where they were ambushed. Yes. one mightsay that Ben started Wyatt Earp's fame,then the movies brought him to Hollywood inlater years, and we all know the TV build-upwe view today!"

"To get back to Doc Holliday, Mr. King,didn't Doc always carry his weapon, asawed-off shotgun, under an overcoat?"

"Hell no_ That is ridiculous. Wyatt toldme that Doc only carried a shotgun oncethat he knew about, and that was when hewent with Virgil and Morgan-Earp brothers-into the shootout with the Clantons at theOK Corral. Movie nonsense again. sir! Thegun Doc used was sawed off under 18 inchesand the stock cut off so as to form a pistolhandle-a formidable weapon."

"Was there much powder smoke at theGunfight at OK Corral?"

"How would J know that? I wasn't thereand I am not old enough to have been thereunless in swaddling clothes! I worked withEarp in the 1900's wherr" he was in hisfifties: I do know that the old-time gunsmokehung like a curtain in a room so that, Wyatttold me, a man had to get down near thefloor and peer into the recesses of a roomto get a shot when heavy shooting was inprocess."

"Did Earp ever speak about John WesleyHardin?"

Mr. King pulled on his cigarette. " Teverheard him mention anything regarding Har­din, but often talked about Hardin's cousinManning Clements, who was a heller forsure."

"How about this Hell-raising Clantonfamily? Ever hear Earp mention it?"

"Old Man Clanton? Many times! He wasa big-bellied, beef-eating rustler and gun­slinger, with gunslinging sons, who directeda rustling empire which stretched alongvarious watering holes from Galeyville andTombstone down as far as New ~ e x i c o , intoSulphur Springs Valley and beyond. Andthere was not a man in the Territory whodared raise his voice against the wrath andterror of Old Man Clanton. With Curly BillBrocius as his captain, Johnny Ringo, Frankand Tom McLowery, Pony Deal, and hissons Ike and Bill Clanton, all were killersand fast-draw arl ists. That feud betweenWyatt and Clanton went on and was settledin the OK Corral shootout."

"Wasn't Johnny Ringo a morose sort oftragedian ?"

"I don't know what you mean," :\1r. Kinglaughed. "Them words are pretty dressed upfor an old cop like me, and I don't knowtoo much about Ringo. I believe he camefrom Kentucky, and a fine family, and alwayswrote home that he owned a ranch nearTombstone, as he didn't want to worry hisMa. Funny thing about a killer, isn't it,always worried about his Ma. I once knewa killer who has his mother's name engravedon the grip of a .32 rim fire Sharps pistol."

"How about Clay Allison? Did Earp speakof him?"

"Yes. Said Allison was a killer when drunkand liked to pick fights with gunslingersin particular. He told me Clay once dug ahole with his neighbor and they got downinto it and fought a fight with Bowie knivesto the finish. He said Clay stood six feet, twoinches tall or six three in boots and remem­bered him well when he stood before Wyattin Dodge, only to back down when he foundEarp had the pushing end of a .45 in hisguts. Wyatt said he was a mighty tall I ~ a n

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with ambitions he never realized, and nevergave him any trouble after the play inDodge."

"Was Wyatt Earp a fancy dresser?""No, he wasn't. He was a plain man with

simple habits, a quiet man never given tobrag and swagger, and he seldom wore agun at all when I knew him. He usuallyleft it lying up in the back seat of the oldFranklin automobile. Wyatt's left eye wouldtwitch when he was mad and you couldhear him breathe. He'd fight you come Hellor high water, however. He was a fightingman first and always."

"Wyatt and I had a falling out in LosAngeles, in front of the old Hot RivetSaloon, on Spring Street. He got into analtercation with a couple drunks and cameoutside to borrow my gun, to buffalo themwith it. I thought he might get too mad andkill one of them, so I refused to lend himthe weapon. He went back inside and beatthe daylights out of both of them. However,from that time onward, our old warm friend·ship vanished; Wyatt and I were always onspeaking terms but never close again."

"Did Wyatt talk about Billy the Kid?""No."

"Was Billy the Kid left-handed?"King smiled. "That question has been

argued for years. He was photographed infront of the old Smith Saloon in FortSumner, in 1880 I believe, and the process,so I am told, reversed the image and gaveeverybody the idea that Billy was left·handed. Sounds convincing enough to me."

"Was the Kid ever in Arizona?""Oh, yes. I understand he killed a negro

at Fort Bowie, a couple more at Tucson.""What kind of holster did Billy wear?""I can answer that, too; he wore one

made out of an old army boot. Funny howhe could get his weapon out in huch a hurrY',a .44·40 according to Coe, with ammunitionto rna tch his Winchester."

"It would have been interesting had thetwo met. How do you think Wyatt wouldhave reacted to Billy?"

"How would I know that? He'd have re­spected his shooting ability. Wyatt stood inreverence to a gun like a preacher does thegood book, ·or like a painter of gunfighterportraits should the characters he portrays."

"Do you think these paintings look likereal gunfighters?"

"I never knew them all, but I know thatthose of Wyatt Earp and Bat Mastersonare corkers. Looks just Wyatt Earp, thisportrait, and the one of Bat is good, too.Lea drives all over the U. S. getting atgood sources or the old tintypes from whichto paint. He painted me, too, for that matter,and mine is hanging down at Elke, Nevada,along with the rest of the no·goods of history.Lea's got another set of gunfighters at theFrontier Inn, Rod PoW's famed spot in SanFrancisco, and at the Apple Valley Inn, atCalico, and in other spots where Americanswho love the West can have a good look atwhat made up come twenty years of Hell andguns on our frontier-all history now.

"Or maybe they don't want the truth. Mrs.Zoe Tilghman talked with McCarty when hewas painting her famous husband's picturefrom an old photograph she sent him, andshe said she had concluded that people don'twant the truth about the Old West; instead,they like the blood and thunder that theTV and the films dish out-which was ~not always the way it really happened. ~

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men who worked to build the pistol which theUnited States International Team will fire atthe Rome Olympics, perhaps for Golds, thesemen stand out.

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But Donovan is not a gunmaker, though heplasters a fine straight wall if he's a mind todo it. Unfortunately, the skill to lay plasterisn't what it takes to design guns, and HighStandard had to wait a long time for circum­stances to jell and a Free Pistol to emerge.

Another man chafing at the absence of anydecent American single shot was Col. TomHancock, chief of the Advanced Marksman­ship Unit at Fort Benning, Ga. It's an inter­esting truth these days that when commercialand civilian ventures don't procure a newproduct, it is often left up to the military tosomehow cadge the capital from Congress andaccomplish the needful. Maybe this is "com­petition" with private industry, a charge oftenleveled and perhaps with justice at some workof our military establishment. In this case,Defense and Industry perfectly supplementedeach other, and it happened this way ...

Sometimes truck drivers upon entering Ser­vice are sent to Cooks & Bakers School; andsome civilian ordnance men learn how to behospital orderlies. But sometimes the peg andthe hole are brought together, and if ever aman fitted his position in the Army, it isM/Sgt. Bill Gano, armorer and shooter atAMU. Bill Gano is a slight, wiry man, faryounger than the average shooter's conc.eptionof a "master gunmaker." But to those whoknow him, know his ability and his imagina­tion, he is tops in the field. Gano, under Col.Hancock's urging, got the green light, workedout some Free pistol notions that showed con­siderable promise. Hancock managed finally,from the work done at AMU, to himself getthe okay to publish a tender for bids to In­dustry, seeking a Civilian contactor to takeover a development and tooling job. And asDonovan puts it, "We have a pretty good repu­tation for .22 pistols, and we got the job." Now

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Suddenly, the very organization set up to mon­itor U.S. participation in International pistolshooting, The U.S. Revolver Association,dwindled almost to nothing just as it was get­ting started. The few pistols developed alongthe lines of the International Shooting Union(Stockholm) requirements are today's col·lectors' items: the famous Smith & Wessontop-break single shot with its "Olympic" ri­fling, and the lamented U.S.R.A. Model SingleShot Harrington & Richardson.

What chopped this spirit of friendly worldsports participation in the neck, what de­livered the rabbit punch of isolationism toAmerican shooting? Perhaps it was the "keepout of Europe" sentiment which plunged usinto World War II, or perhaps it was theshrinkage of Depression. The effect was cer­tain: the U.S. and the rest of the world drewfarther apart. The split was symbolized bythe schism in the shooting game and was ex­aggerated by our miserable failing on thefields of sport when we tried to compete.

Fortunately, this is a sport, a game, a hobby,a recreation. There is time to mend one's ways.And with teamwork, also typically American,industry, competitors, engineers, management,and military high brass, have clubbed togeth­er to do something about it. For want of abetter name, what they have created is calledThe High Standard International Free Pistol,Caliber .22 Short. It could just as well havebeen called "the Hancock pistol," or the"Donovan gun," or "Wilhelm's wonder," or"Gano's gat," for among many names and

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Mechanically, it resembles in some prin.ciples the trigger in the new Savage M99 orthe Model 70 or other "can't jar" sears ofcustom smiths. But the application of elec­tricity in this fashion is all new, imaginative,practical. And, above all, safe. In the me­chanical elements of the new trigger arescrew-adj ustments to permit the best triggerpressure, position of guard, and other con­veniences for the shooter. Barrels of 8", 9",and 10" are available, the latter weighing 50ounces. Mass production of the new gun willbring prices under the $300 of foreign makes,

"Donovan hopes.Right now the pistol is only for the Boys

from Benning, the men selected through stiffcompetitive shoot·offs to represent the U.S.at the Rome Olympics this September.Whether you will be able to buy one ofthese new pistols is pretty much up to you.If five people in the whole country want one,there isn't market enough to make it possibleto sell them. But Uncle Sam has underwrit­ten the cost of development. The marketmust exist in the U.S. Mere arithmetic saysthat those few Free pistol shooters before theWar-the 1941·45 war, to you youngsters­will have expanded into many thousands inthe next decade. Even without any promo­tion and formal competitive interest in Freepistols there would be a market of sorts.

But the type of man who enters a newfield of sport does so not for the game alone,but to match his wits and skill and nerveagainst his fellows. Come the 1960 Olympicshoots in Rome, win or lose, will the Ameri­can Fl"ee pistol at home prove itselfwinner with Stateside shooters?

comes forth Gary Wilhelm, the Hamden boyfrom Old Wien.

" Gary is sharp, no doubt about it. His workin completing High Standard's Trophy seriesof automatics produced a superior article allthe way, range-proved with wins. Because ofhis European background, and because ofhis realization that his adopted country waslanguishing behind the eight-ball of Inter­national scoring, he, too, had been puzzlingover the Free pistol problem. Now it wasdumped into his lap.

One requirement was tossed into the potby Donovan-safety. Mechanical pistols, eventhe admirable five-lever set trigger affairsnow made, were potentially unsafe. Mostfree pistol shooters set their triggers, nomi­nally adjustable to as light as one ounce pull,so that they will fire if the arm is raised45° above horizontal. The ISU rules requirethe shooter to begin with the pistol pointed45° below horizontal, then raise the pistol toeye level-and with good reason. Free pistolshooters develop a healthy respect for theirguns! They are temperamental as a Thor·oughbred yearling, and need a firm butgentle hand to master. But mechanical trig­gers so far constructed just aren't safe-atleast, not safe enough for the "home fun"angle taken by the pistol makers these daysin an effort to broaden the interest in theirsport. Donovan laid down the law-this gunhad to be safe enough to shoot indoors.

Another reason is the shyness of manyshooters. Nobody likes to be laughed at, anda Free pistol in good form will tie a solidcenterfire paper puncher in knots, trying towhip it. The club champ may not like goingto the range with all the boys hanging aroundand make a fool of himself. With the newpistol, the High Standard VP hoped, a goodpistol man could practice at home, until hewas expert enough to make his first publicshowing. Such a safety feature would tie innicely with the recently promoted scaled·down ISU targets proposed by the NationalRifle Association for indoor Free pistol shortrange practice.

Wilhelm hadn't been sleeping at the switch,either. And the simile is pretty appropriate,for the solution both Gano and Wilhelmagreed upon was-an electric trigger. Theresulting pistol package is no Buck Rogerscontraption of power packs and generators,but makes use of the obvious in moderntechnology-miniaturization of circuits andpower sources, applying it to firearm func­tioning. It is a neat handgun of conventionalfree pistol styling. The new stuff is inside.

Electric triggers are not new. The idea hasbeen kicking around, first in France beforethe turn of the century, and in later yearseven applied experimentally to the Model 52Winchester. But the practical productionuse of an electrical trigger is definitely new.

The striker is held cocked by a rotatingsear which is forced to pivot about its centerby pressure of the striker spring. But thestriker, forcing against a slope on the sear,is blocked in "cocked" position because therotating sear itself has a sub-sear notch intowhich the end of a long sear bar or connectorrises. The bar end is hardened, resists thedirection of thrust of the rotating sear. Butwhen the trigger is pulled, closing the circuitof grip-held 6lh V. batteries, an electro­magnet is activated. With the sear-blockingend of the sear bar or connector jerked outof engagement with the rotating sear bysudden magnetic force when the trigger is

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range and at home by dry-firing. Dry-firingis excellent, and essential for trigger control;.but of course it does not eliminate the neces­sity for practice with live ammo. Our Clubmembers also must practice match shooting,and every chance to compete should beaccepted."

The B.R.R.C. has 500 active members inits pistol, rifle and big bore club. CharleyWolff, a top shooter with the Club, has beena referee at Camp Perry and is a Directorof the N.R.A. and a member of the PistolCommittee.

New members to the B.R.R.C. must be rec·ognized by an existing member. The existingmember is responsible for the new member.Each year, the Buffalo Revolver & Rifle Cluboperates N.R.A. classes on pistol shooting,which includes marksmanship, gun-handling,safety, nomenclature, etc. All new membersmust attend such classes and are given aNational Rifle AssoCiation manual to study.

Dudley pointed out that good organizationis essential in the success of any shootingclub. An annual meeting of the B.R.R.C. isheld to elect officers, plan the spring and fallmeetings for the coming year, and electmembers to the seven-man board of directors.The Board meets once a month. At theseBoard meetings, new members receive a 90day probationary card, which among otherthings, requires that the member shoot dur­ing the probationary period. Dues are $5.00a year and the range fee is 35c a night. TheB.R.R.C. has been at the present club build­ing for the past eight years, having movedfrom Niagara Street in Buffalo.

With seventeen teams in the NiagaraFrontier Pistol League, each team fires amatch with each other team in the Leagueat least once in the season and with half ofthe teams twice on a home-and-home sched­ule, thereby making two divisions. Those thathave met once make one division, and thosethat have met twice make the other. (Simi­lar to the schedule of the National Pro­fessional Football League.) There are 23matches in a season. At the conclusion ofthe season, the winners of the two divisionsmeet for the League Championship.

An interesting feature of the indoor rangeat the B.R.R.C. is the interlocking steelbackstop. Any section can be removed andreplaced without interfering with the over­all backstop. This backstop was designed byAndrew Kreitner, a rifle shooter and archi­tect. It is formed by welding angle ironsoverlapping the plate. on the one side andshort of the edge on the other, so when it'sbolted the plates are drawn together.

The club uses the N.R.A. standard 50 ft.indoor target in slow and timed fire, theframe being 12" by 24". A new target timingdevice, designed by club president Sutton,has drawn favorable comment from manyexpert shooters. Basically, the novel deviceoperates as follows:

Targets normally are turned sidewise atthe start of course. "Start" button is pressedat command "Ready on the firing line." Inthree seconds, the targets turn 90°, facingthe competitors, and after a pre-set intervalof time 00 or 20 seconds) the targets re­turn to the "side" position. All this is ac­complished automatically by the one depres­sion of the "start" hutton. The targets may

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in competltJOn. Believing that, we enter asmany matches, large matches or small ones,as we possibly can. The Club pays the entryfees in team matches in registered shoots.Practice is essential, and we practice. Mem­ber-against·member rivalry breeds desire, andwe have that. But actual competition in a lotof matches, league and non-league, separatesthe men from the boys. If a man's matchscores are low, he knows he either needsmore practice-or better self control undermatch pressures."

Dudley paused, grinned half-sheepishly,and made a shrugging, hand-spreading ges­ture. "I've told this to other clubs, and someof them have said, 'Sure! We know all that;but-how can you get members to put in allthat practice, and attend all those matches?"

"Well, as I said, I guess we're just luckyin having members who have that kind ofinterest. But you've got to keep your mem­bers interested; interested in shooting, andinterested in the club. We try to do that hyrunning our club efficiently, by providing alot of shooting activity and a lot of good­fellowship-a lot of fun.

"We work hard for good attendance, bothat club sessions and at matches. We are allagreed that good attendance at matches givesus a definite edge on competition, becauseif one member doesn't shoot up to his par ina given match, his low score probably won'thurt the team score--some other team mem­ber will come through in your place with a'good' score.

"To be a successful shooter you mustpractice as often as possible, both on the

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New York State Indoor Pistol Championshipin 55, 56 and 57, competing in the New YorkState Pistol and Ri/le Association matches,all of which are held indoors. Three out offive members of the New York State PistolLeague team at the Camp Perry meet in 1957were from the B.R.R.C. They were Sutton,Wolff and Dudley.

The Niagara Frontier Pistol League wasorganized in 1938. There was very little orno activity during World War II, since dur­ing that period of world crisis the Leaguedevoted its time and effort to training plantguards, recruits and other war activities. Atthe end of hostilities the Niagara FrontierPistol League again started to function withteam matches. The League, with three Cana­dian teams, gives it an international /Iavorand atmosphere.

All of the Niagara Frontier Pistol Leaguematches are shot with .22 calibre pistols,but they do have an informal center firematch with the larger guns, but this is shoton an individual basis for record only.

Many consider this a four·season, over-1OO·match "string" a national record. Nationalrecord or not, it is a fine record, attributedby the Club officers and members largely tothe number of serious shooters in the Club,but at least partly to the Club's interest inshooters and the promotion of shooting. Cer·tainly the knowledge of more experiencedshooters rubs off on the beginners, and theClub has instilled a look, listen, help, andshoot policy that build scores and at thesame time builds fellowship and interest.Officers and members alike are justifiablyproud of their Club and its record.

"But," they will tell you, "there's nothingabout us that makes us different, and noth·ing we do that you can't do also. Goodfellows make a good club, and the two to­gether make good shooters. You can ~do it, as we have. Why not try it?" . ~

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be turned manually by separate push buttons.What kind of pistols are popular with the

B.R.R.C. members? They use High Stand·ards, Colts, Rugers, Smith & Wessons, andother varieties-with makes fairly evenly di·vided among the members. Do you need aspecial type of pistol to become a "good"shooter? Pistol Exec. Dudley says,

"A shooter can't 'buy' a good score. Hehas to earn it." His advice is not to pur­chase the most expensive gun when first start·ing to shoot, but to obtain a standard makeand learn the fundamentals of shooting first.Later, the shooter should be able to tellwhich type of pistol suits him best, and thenis the time to go overboard and purchase abetter pistol. But first, he says, "get a goodscore with a standard make weapon. Anyhand gun of good make will shoot betterthan the fellow holding it."

Who are the Club's top shooters, how goodare they, and what do they shoot? Well, BillSutton, President of the B.R.R.C., andHarold Dudley, Pistol Executive of the club,are two top pistol shooters, shooting up inthe 280's and 270's respectively. Other topscorers in the pistol department are:

Charles Wolff with a 273 average, using aColt M.T.; Donald Barber, 268 average,uses a Ruger MK1; Henry Tomczak, 266average, with another Ruger MK1; EarlJones, with an average of 266, uses a ClarkRuger; Marion S. Pagano, with a 266 aver­age, uses a Hi Standard Citation; GeorgeYoung, 272 average, favors a S&W-41; andAnthony Parker, 265 average, uses a Hi·Standard G. Lee H. Dierdorff, with his ColtM.T., was for years the Club's high man witha score of 275, but he recently moved away.

Besides winning the 100 league pistolmatches of the Niagara Frontier PistolLeague in four straight seasons without adefeat, the B.R.R.C. has gone on to win the

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First, a new forearm was fitted, that al­lowed proper recoil operation but permittedattaching the vertical foregrip with rearwardtrigger linkage. For the grip, a frame of theStar Model F pistol was obtained from Fire­arms International, and modified by millingoff the barrel lump. Pin holes, safety mount­ing hole and magazine hole in the bottom ofthe frame were filled with weld and finishedsmooth. The original Model F trigger wasthen replaced in the frame, and a booster­spring guide arranged in the recoil springguide hole. This spring, with the linkage tothe actual trigger attached, gave a control­lable amount of trigger force to prevent acci­dental doubling when the grip is held andtrigger pressed using the left hand. The bestfinal solution for trigger operation abandonedmetal rods and bars for the linking; usedinstead choke control cable with the heavycoiled outside fixed tube guiding the innervery light steel piano wire. Because the Rem­ington Model 11 is a bottom-loading gun, thecable was led along the edge of the receiver,clearing the loading port. A steel clampblock, milled to contour, was screwed to thereceiver with two 6 x 48 gun screws. If theone-handed shooter desired to sell the wea­pon later, these could be inconspicuouslyclosed by blind screws. With a trigger shoepinned to the trigger, the piano wire was led

to this shoe and, through a tiny drilled hole,set-screwed into place.

The final problem was to weld a smallgrasping hook onto the trigger guard. Thiswas for the prosthetic hook to contact. It gavethe right arm a d6gree of control and "feel"in handling the gun, but prevented thehook from interfering with the trigger func­tioning now that this had been changed toleft-hand forearm operation. The hook couldlater be easily removed by grinding, and theoriginal trigger guard reblued if the .,gun wasdisposed of.

Shooting tests of this modified Remingtonwere pleasantly surprising. The vertical fore·grip seemed to minimize the extra forendweight. After the test shooters got accus­tomed to triggering shots with the left hand,the gun was easy to use. Our now-ecstaticone-handed hunter hated to relinquish hisnew prize for the final steps of polishing andbluing, but the end results made him glad hehad waited.

Should other shooters have similar prob­lems, remember that ours may not be theonly nor indeed the best possible way tosolve them. But ours works, and has held upwell in the field. It's a guide to solving the di­lemma of a shooter who has no shooting hand.And don't overlook the good feeling that isyours when you have been instrumental in

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The most successful of them, the MG42,resembles the M60 in method of manu·facture, speed of barrel change, belt feed,and weight. It differs mainly in its extremelyhigh rate of fire, 1200 rounds per minute.This high rate is a distinct advantage for agun primarily intended as a squad weapon,around which the riflemen maneuver. "Tar·gets of opportunity," small groups of indioviduals at medium to long range, are coveredby a hail of MG42 bullets before they cantake cover, the way a shotgun pattern coversa bird.

The American army has always insistedthat the individual rifleman is the properbase of fire, and demonstrated that the Ml,backed up with a sprinkling of BARs, canbalance an LMG equipped 0pI\onent. Theobjections to the squad LMG are that it andits crew is vulnerable. to enemy counter-fireand that the gun itself is too heavy to keepup with the riflemen.

The M60s low rate of fire, 550 r.p.m., sac·rifices the shotgun effect of the MG42 toqualities more desireable in a fixed defensegun: conservation of ammo, mount steadi·ness, accuracy, and long barrel life. TheM60, according to policy at the time wetested it, will be issued two to a platoon,forming part of the weapons squad alongwith rocket launchers. It is in fact a heavymachine gun so lightened that it can performsome LMG roles, rather than an LMGadapted to defense uses. The M14 full autoshoulder rifle will assume some of the tacticalfunction of the LMG once served by theBrowning Automatic Rifle. At present, noneof the heavy barrel BAR·like Ml5s are beingordered. The M14 rifle paired with the M60general purpose machine gun will do the job.

In addition to traditional American atti·tudes towards the LMG, two other consider·ations must have effected the design of thegun. The first derives from the problem ofstopping mass attack of the "human sea"variety so effectively employed by CommunistForces in Korea, and by Russian troops. TheM60 is a better. gun for this purpose than theMG42. The other .consideration is currentU. S. thinking on the role of fortress defensein atomic war, where fast air transport ofattack will make every air strip, militarydepot, population center, or missile base, apotential front line position. A group of:\160s, carefully dug in and with interlocking

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In the M60, many faults of our older"Browning lights," the M1919 and A6, havebeen corrected. The 23 pounds includes anadjustable bipod. The Bren·type carryinghandle is right over the balance point, whereit belongs. Stocking and sights are excellen.t.I settled behind the stock in prone andpressed the trigger for a 40 round burst.The shots made a comfortable chug-chug·chugging and with no kick or bounce, thestring went ripping into the backstop. Thecombination of flash hider and high sightline, plus the straight line stock and low(550·600 rounds per minute) rate of firegives the gunner full control over the burst.

Designwise, there is very little that is newor startling about this gun. Automatic wea·pons engineering today is mostly a matterof selectively pirating existing systems, com·bining them into a working gun, and thenendlessly testing and retesting.

In the case of the M60, the parents andgrandparents are easy to spot. It is basicallya Lewis action, but front locked as in theFG42. The quick barrel change feature owesmuch to the MG34, as does the belt feedsystem. The receiver group, with its stampedand welded bolt raceway, is right off anMG42. If this cataloging suggests that rna·chine gun design is a simple matter, remem·ber that specifications for this gun wereoriginally laid down in 1935·1938, and designtesting has been almost continuous sincethat time.

The really interesting thing about the M60is the manner in which it points up a divisionof fundamental tactical thought between theU. S. and every other major power. The M60is a light gcneral purpose machine gun but,in the European sense of the word, not atrue light machine gun.

The distinction has less to do with pound·age rather than with projected tactical use.British and German arms research in theperiod between "The Wars" concentrated noton an adequate semi·auto rifle, as in America,but on developing a squad base of fire in theform of a 25 pound light machine gun. InBritain, this became the Bren; in Germanythe MG34 and MG42. Like the M60, allthree of these guns were conceived as generalpurpose weapons, to be fired from bipod ortripod, in fixed positions and in the attack.

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zones of fire, will be a cheap and effectivestop to operations "behind our lines.""During acceptance tests, the 1V160 fired

20,000 rounds in one·hundred round bursts,with one minute cooling between bursts. Thisis the same test as a watercooled heavy IVlGmust pass. Although the barrel was originallyplanned for "quick take down" to switch to afresh barrel when the first became over·heated, the test revealed this was not neces­sary. The first 9" of bore is of Stellite, analloy developed by Haynes Stellite Co. ofKokomo, Indiana, which has high erosionresistant properties. At incandescent heat,the Stellite rifling still carried the load. Itdid not wash out. Use of this metal plusCongressional thrift on research terminatedfurther design on the barrel group, althoughit is not the best quick-change barrel on agun in use today. Bipod and gas cylindergroup all are integral with the barrel,must be removed with it. Since the newbarrel needs an identical fitting, extra costand weight result from this design. The wordfrom Ordnance is, that with the Stellitelining, barrel life is so satisfactory there isno point in redesigning the assembly, whilepractice in the field suggests the gun willbe treated as a fixed-barrel arm.

To change barrels, I cocked the piece, setthe swinging thumb lever on the left sideof the pistol grip to safe, and hit the barrelcatch lever on the right side of the receiver.A friend who helped me in the shooting,but who would ordinarily be the assistantgunner, grabs the bipod (the barrel itself isHOT) and pulls barrel group includingbipod and gas piston assembly out the frontof the gun. Inserting a second barrel, onemerely flips the latch and the gun is ready.

The buttplate, feed cover and pistol gripare covered with neoprene, protection againstaccidental freezing contact of skin againstmetal.

Breakdown for field cleaning requires onlya cartridge as a tool. The catch on tlte buttgroup can be reached by the bullet point,releases the butt which slides straight back.The donble-wound springs, heavier andlonger-lasting even than IVlG42 springs, canbe removed. The bolt assembly and gaspiston can be removed from the back, afterrelieving buffer pressure upon a verticalcross plate. With the plate pried up by acartridge as lever, the back of the receiveris open for complete stripping. The trigger

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bly like the M14, a minor help in training.In manufacture, if quantity production isexpected, it should be hardly more expensiveto make than an Ml rifle. The receiver forg­ing is a simple figure 8, about two inches'long; the top holds the barrel and thebottom, the operating rod. Some of thesmaller parts are powder metal, and invest­ment castings would simplify production ofmany parts. The bolt raceway, feed cover,buttstock and fore-end, bipod. and pistolgrip are all stampings.

Considered as a member of our new familyof weapons, the M60 with its steady streamof "hot lead" will supplement the splutterof fire of our M14s. It will be used more inthe assault than our Browning Lights were,and there will, we hope, be more of them.At least lighter than ils predecessors, thoughperhaps not so light as it could be and stillbe durable, this rugged, accurate scattergunis a welcome addition to the Arsenal ~of freedom. ~

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"THEY SAID WE COULDN'T DO IT"( Continued from page 36)

each hand made unit was an improvement ofthe previous prototype.

Extensive field tests involving civilian andmilitary personnel were conducted in 1957and 1958 at the Camp Perry Matches, Na­tional Rifle Association conventions, numer­ous regional pistol meets, and at sportinggoods dealer shows throughout the nation.Each new and improved model incorporatedthe recommendations of gun experts andtop shooters, and the Crosman semi-auto­matic, (already being called by its makers"The Pistol of the Champions") was being

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and grip removes by un-springing a flatretaining plate, freeing the cross pins, much'like the earlier German designs. Sights are100 meter minimnm, and then graduations inhundred meters from 300 to 1200 meters.

Training will dispense with fire from fulldefilade; that is fire directed over the headsof our own troops from a rear positionhidden from enemy observation.

The new training table will require firingfrom bipod, tripod, hip and the shoulderwithout mount in kneeling and standingposition. In the latter positions, the newcardboard 100-round belt container will beused. The total package will weigh about 32pounds-not easily held and, it would seem,oddly uncompetitive in terms of most fire­power for least weight, with some otherLMGs available which in a similar fittingfiring from a 250 round back pack weigh notmore than a good target rifle held at theshoulder.

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regarded by shooters as the pistol that might

make champions.By early 1959, the long-sought mechanical

action had been perfected. The Crosman

semi-automatic had withstood all the severetests and punishment that especially de­

signed automation equipment could produce,and was designated Model 600. There now

existed a smooth functioning gas-operated

semi-automatic capable of being recockedand loaded as quick as a blink of the eye

... actually ten shots in two seconds with nodamage to delivery of the pellets. Achieved.

too, was an exhaust valve which dumpedthe C02 after forty shots, thereby assuring

consistent gas power control.Next, outstanding metallurgists and lead­

ing suppliers of prefabricated metals were

consulted and assigned the task of develop­ing especially processed metals and methods

of manufacturing for the 86 component partsof the semi-automatic_ Parts quality and per­

formance were to be foremost. At the sametime. the finished cost of the completed semi­automatic was to be within reach of all

shooters-in must sell for less than thirty

dollars.The metal experts responded by creating

a die-cast of the total gun frame. This

achievement, with the many complicated andconcentric parts, was not only a "first," buta casting phenomenon_ The intricacies of the

die casting eliminated many secondary ma­chining operations and improved tolerancesand surface finish. In addition, the physical

properties of the alloys in the castings con­tributed considerably to the fine balance,

sturdiness, and pointability of the semi­

automatic.The know-how of the Crosman Arms en­

gineers, and the miracle of the metallurgists,created the first successful C02 pellgun semi­automatic. Now, shooters can practice with

top target accuracy, slow. timed, or rapid-fire,within the confines of their home or limited

areas. for less than a penny a shot.This can be said about the "pilot" test

guns sent to GUNS for testing: they work.Part of our test firing was done (deliberate­

ly) in a room of our editorial building, with

the door open. There was no disturbance ofoffice routine; few people knew anythingunusual was transpiring. Accuracy was excel­

lent (exactly equal, so far as we could tell,to the ability of the shooter). And the auto­

loading action worked without malfunction,

smoothly, as long as we continued to fire

them.No function tests we could give them could

compare, of course, to the torture-tests al­

ready given them at the factory. Crosman's"automation test equipment" puts these gunsthrough long periods of rapid-fire operation

at the rate of 4,320 shots per hour. The rateof speed can be raised to 180 shots per

minute-three shots per second-and the

guns take it.Perhaps as great a miracle as the en­

gineering behind the Model 600 is its price­27.50 retaiL It's a lot of gun for that ~

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COLT'S POWDER AND SPIRITS FLASKSare unique collector's items manufactured byJames Dixon & Sons Ltd., Sheffield, England,and imported by the San Francisco Gun Ex­change, 75 Fourth St., San Francisco 3, Calif.Powder Flasks are equipped with an adjust­able screw-off charger throwing 63, 73, or 83grains of FFG powder suitable for rifle ormusket; or a non-adjustable charger, choiceof 12, 24, or 36 grains. The Spirits Flaskis highly polished Brittania metal, giving theappearance of silver. Has capacity of sevenounces, will not tarnish or leak.

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SHOOTING MITT padded throughout with1 ~" foam rubber designed for shootingcomfort and resulting increased accuracy forsmall bore riflemen. Mitt-type design is openat both ends and at thumb. Available forleft· or right-handed shooters in small, medi­um and large, retail·priced at $6.00. A prod­uct of 10-X Manufacturing Co., 405 E. Sec­ond St., Des Moines, Iowa.

QUICK DRAW CLUBS, for timet's, specialtarget boards and "trigger finger releases,'"the line offered by Fastime Co., 1761 Hamp­ton Rd., Grosse Pointe 36, Mich., is a goodselection of needed and useful gear. Timersrecord to 1/100 second. Safe indoor fun forfamily and friends, using primers and waxbullets, with Fastime timers.

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CARRY·LITE PLASTIC COOLER weighsbut five Ibs., carries large load of benefits foroutdoorsmen. Made of expanded polystyrene,the cooler offers resistance to impact damageand weather. Maintenance free outside andin, for liner is stain and odor·proof. Avail­able in large and small sizes, cooler can beused as a seat. Manufacturer is MoldedCarry-Lite Products division of Pulp Repro­duction Co., 3000 W. Clarke St., Milwaukee10, Wis.

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MODEL 32 NOW AVAILABLE for skeetand trap gunners, as well as upland gunnerwho wants quality combined with right basicdesign and fast-handling feel. Manufacturedby Krieghoff in Germany and distributed byEuropa Corp., P. O. Box 47-576, Miami, Fla.,Model 32 sells from $340 Standard to $850Monte Carlo grade with superior selectedwoods and massive gold inlays. Guaranteedagainst defects of workmanship or material.Barrels 26Y2 to 30 inches, vent rib, whitebead sights, single selective trigger. Descrip.tive folder on request, or see the new Krieg­hoff Model 32 at your dealer's.

BOLT·ACTION RIFLES designed for 22caliber rim fire Magnum cartridge availablefrom O. F. M o ~ s b e r g & Sons, Inc., NewHaven, Conn. Designated as the 620K, asingle shot, and the 640 K, a 5-shot clip re­peater, rifles are "Chucksters." Barrel ofspecial, high-strength steel, receiver and boltare extra heavy and double extractors areprovided. Deluxe features of 620k and 640kare special satin, non-glare finish on receiver,breech cap, rear sight and matching triggerguard. Sights are "u" notch at rear of barrelwith adjustments for windage and elevation

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successive wars which have devastated littleBelgium have contributed richly to the com­pleteness of this indoor field of Mars.

To the purist gun collector the Te<;hnicalDepartment holds maximum interest. It isthe middle of three curved halls leading awayfrom the French·Austrian rooms, and con·tains a very complete series of all the fire­arms of all the nations, from flintlock to themost recent machine guns. There is a groupof edged weapons, sabers and lances, minia­ture battleships and naval vessels, and mod­els of artillery which have been used in -theBelgian army. The Library is also huge, onthe specialized topics of weapons and war­fare. It is a rich documentation of combatfrom the 18th century to date, and is wellknown to the universities of Europe whosestudents often travel many miles to examinesome volume which the Brussels Army Mu­seum alone may possess ..

In walking on fast-aching feet throughthese acres of arms I saw many unusualitems. One case in the Fifth Hall had flags,uniforms and many articles associated withGermany in WWII. But hardly noticeableon the floor of the case was a gray-steelP-38 auto pistol, perhaps Walther or Mausermake, with an odd barrel about 1" in diam­eter. The caption was inconclusive-the pistollooked "factory original" and seemed to bea silencer model, a hitherto completely un­known article for the American automaticarms student. In a chamber dedicated to theWorld War, among various early anti·aircraftmachine gun mounts, were several conescarrying Model 1879 Hotchkiss RevolvingCannon mounted as balloon-busters! These37mm naval and assault artillery guns, re­tired after 1900, were dragged out and placedagain into service to combat the Zeppelinmenace, the world's first rapid fire Ack Ack.

Some idea of the magnificence of this mu­seum may be gained from the fact that orig.inals of military monuments are also pre­served here as curiosities. The huge- "Boarof the Ardennes" erected near Bastogne inmemory of the Allied fighters who fell therein 1944 in the -Battle of the Bulge, 'is anheroic monument of· granite with a bronzeboar on top. The American paratroopers whofough t and whose comrades fell there can seein the Army Museum the original of thisgreat work, plus hundreds of arms and battlerelics from this great engagement. The stu­dent of Nazism, that black period of modernhistory, will find here preserved the trap­pings of barbaric splendour that markedthat movement: swastica flags and bannersof the "Standards" and other legion-likeunits o'f Nazi Party military organization.Here too are the daggers, the insignia ofrank, the dread death's-head badges of DasSchwartz Korps and other SS outfits. Andfor the more scientific minded, V-I and Tigertanks are poised as if ready to roll or forflight in the final room, the Eighth Chamber.In this long hall which lies to the right ofthe entrance on the floor plan, but whichcan only be reached after a long hikethrough other halls, is one of the outstand­ing exhibits of the museum, not oftenshown to the public. It is a monumentalpainting on canvas. Battle of the Yser River,by Alfred Bastien. This huge picture, fiftyfeet high and 350 feet long, took five yearsto paint. The painting's sections were brought

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glass dome of the roof are displays of armorand rifles grouped in such profusion it stag­gers you. Weapons finding eager bidders atsales, rifles and muskets which the collectorwishing to sell at a gun show may barelyunwrap before he has a dozen offers, cavalryand dragoon pistols that decorators stickcustomers fabulous prices for, are heregrouped in vast quantity as thick as flowers

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Three long curving halls extend away fromthe entry area, acres of weapons in glasscases or, for cannon and machine guns andother heavy gear, placed artistically so as topermit aisles and paths for the visitor, butright out on the floor accessible for study.While there are the usual "hands off" signsand individual cannon may be roped off toprevent prying fingers from taking home thebreech blocks, the brown-uniformed Belgiansoldiers who stand quietly on guard will notstop you if you merely want to take a closerlook. But so fine is their capability asguards, that even during the 1939-45 war(relics of which fill acres of a new halltoward the far end of the building) the oc­cupying troops both of Germany and laterof Canada and America did not get awaywith anything. Oddly, the Germans duringthe occupation removed rifles of the FrenchLebel Model 1886 pattern-why, has alwaysremained a mystery to the museum staff.Otherwise, this magnificent collection re­mained intact. The Germans left behind insurrendered rifles, pistols, machine guns,vehicles and fighter planes far more than thepaltry few French Lebels they took. Indeed,

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.44 Load Addenda

Some comments were received on the

velocities noted in my last column on hand­loading for the .44 Magnum. The 2,000 £.p.s.

with Jugular bullets is technically correct.All the Jugular ballistics are somewhat mis­

leading. They were obtained in laboratorypressure barrels of minimum dimensions. The

actual velocity of all these loads will be low­er in your revolver due to gas leakage be­tween the barrel and cylinder. Larger di­

mensions also reduce velocity with any load.Standard .44 factory loads are published

about as per this table:

HAND LOADING BENCH(Continued from page 13)

Machines are shipped adjusted for a given

load. Those bought by mail will not have the

plastic shot and powder hoppers installed.They are a very tight fit, difficult to insert

by hand. I slightly beveled the inside hopperedge with a sharp knife, and set it in place.

I put a block of wood on top and tapped itwith a hammer. Both hoppers drove homepronto. This tip should be in the directions.

Screws hold the hoppers in place, but arehardly needed when they fit this tightly. Thesize die is not highly polished, but slicks up

after a little use. When new, use a bit oflanolin or case lube on a few shells. Thisisn't necessary after a few loads, as paper

shells are waxed, to serve as a lube.Extra die sets (less charge bar) are made

for 12, 12 Magnum, 16 and 20 gauge at

14.00. The DL-l00 Loader has many fea­tures of the DL-200 Loader that sells for

$99.75. Both are manufactured and whole­saled by Western Gun & Supply Co., 3730

N. 56th St., Lincoln, Nebraska.

.44 Magnum Ballistics

8%" Bb 6%" Bb 4" BbMuzzle Velocity, fps 1550 1470 1360Vel. 50 Yds 1340 1275 1190Vel. 100 Yds 1170 1120 1060

Muzzle Energy, F.P. 1280 1150 985Energy 50 Yds 955 870 755

Energy 100 Yds 730 .670 600Hercules and H. P. White labs use tight

pressure barrels about 8" long, supposed toequal6lh" revolvers, but don't. Even differ­

ent revolvers with identical loads vary ~

over 100 fps. ~

into the museum by a special railway spur.For decades the task of arranging an!! pre­paring these tons of munitions has been the

'lot of Louis Leconte. Founder and Conserva-teur (director) of the museum, his bronze

bust now guards the entrance to one hugeskylighted room filled with captured German

trophies.The Kingdom of Belgium is small. But

its people have always been noted for theirindustry and energy. The extensive arms

trade flourishing at Liege since the 1400splus the shipping facilities of its great ports

of Antwerp and Ostende have all made Bel­gium a rich prize of war. Hence the warringnations of Europe have often waged their

battles on its soil. The great Napoleon methis end at Waterloo, and the trophies of this

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ANGLES AND STRAIG HTA WA YS

Richard M. Hartz, who operates The CabinRange, near Lockport, New York, writes thatfour years ago, he started a small gun shop

as a sideline. ext to the gun shop he erecteda rifle range, and also did a lot of clay target

shooting with hand traps. This went overso well that last summer he put in a regu·

lation skeet field. Last fall, he ran over 150skeet rounds per week, so now plans to add

two more skeet fields, a brush walk, andclubhouse.

Congratulations to Dick Hartz! Build a

better mousetrap or gun club, and theworld will beat a path to your door.

Bill Sager, who owns the Skyway Cafe andGift Shop, out at Custer, South Dakota,

writes with another problem. Bill asks howyou maintain year-'round shooting interest

at a gun club. I have answered Bill, and per­haps some of our readers will want to addtheir ideas.

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ized long enough to get the publications onthe various shoots around the area or the

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like to take in some registered shoots."

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YOU FROM DIXIE?

PULL!(Continued from page 14)

The Fall Creek Valley newsletter paidtribute to an often overlooked but very im­

portant part of a gun club, the trap help,with this item:

"We want to extend our congratulations to

a boy who has been associated with this clubsince it has been in existence. He's loaded

traps and/or scored at almost every shootwe've had. A fine "broth of a lad" and a

good-Iookin' son-of-a-gun, too. His name,Conward Bivens. Last month Conward won

the Indiana State Wrestling Championshipand was voted the "Most Outstanding Ath­

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and. aside from his wrestling ability, hasearned quite a name for himself on the foot­

ball fields around Indiana. We are all very

proud of 01' Conward here at Fall CreekValley and will be looking forward to his

further achievements at the college level acouple of years from now. So be careful

now, all of you trapshooters. When Conwardsays "lost," you'd better listen...."

The gun club which will give its faithful

workers a little recognition from time totime is most certain to enjoy good help and

smoothly operated shoots. And, it costs solittle.

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ELMER KEITH SAYS(Continued from page 9)

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A little more straight back pressure on thetrigger, the tip braced against the "stop,"would let-off the shot with no jar.

For short· fingered gunners, the specialRoper stock presented a smooth surface forthe tip of the trigger finger to slide on_Warned that the trigger was near the endof the pull by touching the stock, the shooterhad merely to press straight back and de­liver the shot without that score-wreckingjump. Roper grips are no longer made, butmodern grip makers know the secrets of hisstyle.

The most natural trigger squeeze for DAfiring is to rest the trigger in the first jointcrease of the trigger finger. Unlike slow-firesingle action "touch off," it is wise to use anypart of the trigger finger which feels mostnatural, causing the least effort to pull thetrigger. To build trigger control, practice dryfiring a lot so the muscles in that finger willbecome accustomed to the pull. Muscles infingers and hand must not tire or cramp ifyou are to do effective shooting.

Point shooting, double action accuracywithout sights by "feel," is the most popularpractice. Trigger squeeze in this phase isjust as important as when using the sights,so special grips can be an aid. This type ofpractice will teach you to shoot quickly,and hit.

The FBI point shooting stance is a crouch,the gun held ont front with elbow oftenbraced a little toward center from your hipbone. Others shoot effectively by holding thewrist of the firing hand tight against the hipon that side, or by holding the gun withboth hands.

In holding the gun in' front, you mnsttrain yourself to bring the pistol back topoint of aim after each shot, countering re­coil. When holding the wrist of the pistolhand against your hip, you will be able todeliver six fast shots into a small target areasimply by using pressure and arm musclesto control the recoil. Lastly, the two handmethod makes available even more bodystrength to hold down recoil, like holdingthe gun in a vise.

Invention of this two-hand system is cred­ited to Army Captain W. H. Sweet, and isregularly taught in some police departmentstoday. It is a good style for the wearer ofa shoulder holster, or belt cross-draw holster.For this sort of rig a variation can be used:

Draw the pistol from the left-side cross­draw holster with the right hand in theusual manner. Instead of extending it infront of the body, hold it close against theleft hip. As soon as the gun is clear of the

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little magnum 20 bore Model 21 for thiswork, and had my four ducks down withsix shots.

It was a pleasure to watch the work of theeager but perfectly trained labradors. I alsogot a kick out of the ducks, as everyone thatran the gauntlet would start quacking whenhe landed in the lake to tell all his friendshe had made it. I could see little differencebetween shooting passing mallards at Nilo,or the Pahsimeroi or Lemhi valley mallardshere in Idaho. It was a great shoot.

At noon, we were served a wonderfulbaked pheasant dinner with all the trim­mings at the club house on the farm. In theafternoon, we shot quail over some wonder­fully trained dogs. Each group of four menwould take in the aggregate 21 to 26 quail

and from two to five pheasants, and we allhad a wonderful time. On the quail, twomen moved up to the dog whenever he wenton point. On the next point, the other twowould move. up for the shot. They were fatheavy bob whites and very nice sport.

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That evening we had cocktails and dinnerat the Lockhaven Club, then returned to theStratford for the night. Our game birds werelater sent to us packed in dry ice by airexpress and arrived in perfect condition forthe table.

I saw Jim Clarke make a nice double onquail, but muffed the only chance I had for adouble; I missed my second bird. I was toldthat Pete Kuhlhoff made a triple on quail.

The shoots at Nilo were perfectly man­aged and ran without a hitch. Everyone pres­ent had ample opportunity for some excel­lent wing shooting. The program at the hotelwas handled equally well by Bill Talley, JimRikoff, John Dear, Jim Clarke, Tom Hen­shaw, Bill Woodring, and others. In a life­time of hunting and working with guns, Ihave never enjoyed the companionship of afiner group of gunmen. After breakfast themorning of the 29th, we regretfully partedcompany. The first Winchester-Western sem­inar was voted a success by all pres- ~

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The Winchester 1960 SeminarFrom Jan. 26th through the 29th, Win­

chester-Western brought a group of gunwriters .and editors to Alton, Ill., for theirfirst Seminar. They also brought the headsof their own various sales, promotion, andengineering departments. For the first timein history, a great arms and ammunitioncompany has seen the need of an annualget-together of their own technicians andsalesmen with the top arms writers andauthorities of the nation. Of the many in­vited, there were but two cancellations.

It was a great get-together. Neither sidepulled any punches. The Winchester-Westernboys gave us all the dope on their new armsand ammunition in a clear, concise, and wellorganized manner. They told us of theirproblems of manufacture and development,their headaches and successes. We in turngave them all the dope we could on thepractical application of their arms and ammu­nition in the game fields. I believe everyonepresent benefitted from the meetings.

We missed General Hacher of the "Rifle­man," and Lucian Cary of "True." I was theoldest writer-editor present, both in yearsand in length of service in arms writing.Jim Clarke of Winchester beat me by oneday for the honor of being the oldest man.

The evening of the 26th, we had cock­tails and dinner at the Stratford Hotel inAlton. The 27th, breakfast and a three·hoursession from 9 A.M. until noon on all newWinchester arms and ammunition. The after­noon of 27th, we were driven to Nilo Farmsat Brighton, Ill., for a pheasant shoot. Wewere teamed in groups of four shooters,each group with a dog handler and guide.We all shot the new Winchester Model 59with skeet barrel, and heavy duck loads byWestern of No.6 shot. In my group, O'Con­nor and I were paired 9n one side of the dog,and Bill Edwards (GUNS) and Bill Keltyof Winchester on the other side. The gunsand loads functioned perfectly. Jack and Iupheld Idaho tradition, as no pheasant es­caped on our side of the fence. The birdswere wet from an early morning wet snowand the going was slippery and heavy forboth guns and dogs. The guides and dogsknew their stuff and the shoot was a greatsuccess. Never have I seen such beautifulcover for upland birds as at Nilo Farms.We were driven back to Alton for cocktailsand dinner.

The 28th, after breakfast at the Stratford,we were again driven to Nilo Farms and en­joyed a very fine mallard shoot in the morn­ing. The fat mallards came in over thetrees and headed for a small lake below usand as they came fast and downhill, it wasvery sporting shooting. Bill Kelty and I were

squadded together in a small blind builtlengthwise of a deep gulch so we had timefor but one quick shot as the fowl cameover the trees and pitched out of sight behindthe seven foot blind at our backs. I shot a

straps to frame is also much better., The new gun was given a 14" twist to

, better handle the .22 Magnum ammunition,and an inch longer barrel to better burn thepowder. It burns enough to give the little40 grain jacketed hollow soft point 1550 feetvelocity, but it still leaves unburned powderin the bore and around cylinder. Hammer­draw artists wanting to use this gun as anunderstudy of their big center fire S.A. gunscan do so, as it is almost indestructible.

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