GUNS Magazine September 1959

MODEL
30
The action's fast!
... you're faster with the new
featherweight Savage 30!
Fast action? This featherweight pump is so beautifully
balanced it points and swings as if it were part
of you. Fine gun performance from the dependable
slide action - proved by years of rigorous testing in
the field. Ventilated rib and decorated receiver are
standard on the Savage 30 (custom features that
ordinarily cost $30 extra) . 6 quick shots (with plug to
reduce to 3 shots) - 12 gauge only. Popular barrel
lengths and chokes.
Also be sure to see the Savage 30-AC with adjustable
choke (see insert below) at your sporting arms dealer.
Write for your tree catalog of '
Savage, Stevens and Fox firearms.
Savage Arms, Chicopee Falls 75,
Mass. All prices subject to change.
Slightly higher in Canada.
$82.50 Model 30 illustrated. 30-AC $87.50.
(vent rib included)
• Gallup, New Mexico. Indian Uprising? ...
In Gallup an 88 Winchester, a hunting knife,
and a Navajo rug were reported stolen from
a residence, police said.
* * *
• Cleveland, O. When an armed thug and
his companion walked into a food store at
2539 Woodland Ave. owner Sam Melluso, 56,
was waiting for them. Melluso pointed his
own gun at the two men and ordered them
out. They turned and trotted off. A year ago
Sam was robbed of $300 in his store. Since
then he has kept his gun handy.
* * *
• Radium, Colo. Henry Hinton runs a ranch
in these parts but spends most of his time
making guns, especially heavy muzzle-loading
rifles like those used by the early settlers.
Mr. Hinton spends so much time on the old
f1int-and-ball muskets that no one could
afford to buy one, so he occasionally gives
one to a friend.
* * *
• Los Angeles, Calif. At a Hollywood party,
Adolph, a Boxer dog, came dressed as Wyatt
Earp, replete with frontier hat, tin badge
· .• and a holstered pistol at his side.
* * *
.Phoenix, Ariz. It turns out you can spend
your time under water and still be no land·
lubber with the rifle. The Arizona Rifle
Association Officers Trophy was won by a
team from Submarine Flotilla 1, a Navy out·
fit based in San Diego.·
* * *
• Wells, Maine. It wasn't always healthy to
be handy with a rifle. A fellow named George
Burroughs was executed for witchcraft here
in 1692 because he could support a heavy
musket at arm's length by sticking a finger
into its muzzle.
* * *
+Ardmore, Okla. Fifty years ago Buck Garrett
Carter County sheriff, left a .45 revolver
with Polk Anderson, then a bank president.
The weapon is still on display at the bank.
It was last fired Nov. 11, 19l8-in celebration
of the first World War Armistice.
* * *
+Fort Smith, Ark. Pretty Helen Lommasson
is proof that you can be adept around
the house and still know how to take care
of yourself. The high-school teen-ager, whose
skills include embroidery, cooking, and dressmaking,
and who was recently selected as
the nation's "Young Homemaker of 1956,"
is also a crack shot. She is president of the
town's Girls Club Rifle Club.
+ New York City. * Robert * * Frielich, Manhattan
gun dealer, paid $5100 for a rifle
cartridge-and it was an empty one at that.
But no ordinary one ... it was hand made
84 years ago by the famed rifle maker, Oliver
Winchester.
6 GUNS SEPTEMBER 1959