GUNS Magazine March 1956 - Jeffersonian

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Their muzzles plugged with clay, a set of two barrels is brazed in gas furnace which joins them at breech lumps. doms of India are liberally sprinkled with gift sets of Holland guns. Former King Farouk of Egypt received a magnificent pair of double 12-bore Hollands from King George VI in 1937 as a wedding @ft-something of a shotgun wedding as it turned out. Patrons of Holland & Holland are the great, wealthy and noble from many lands. Customer names are highly confidential. Once in writing about an obsolete black powder express in my collection, works manager Jacobs advised me that he would only tell me "in strict confidence that your rifle was made for a Mr. Van- about 1890." Respecting his confidence, I omit the name. More than that he would not say, though the roster of satisfied customers for the famous works includes distinguished sportsmen: H. R. H. the Duke of Connaught, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Mohammed Ali, prime minister of Pakistan, King Hussein of Jordan, and H. M. Bao Dai of Viet Nam. Handicraft experience of 54 years is being lavished on a Smith & Wesson revolver now being decorated by William Heckford, engraving foreman, for the King of Iraq. An- other customer who displays a Holland "Modele De Luxe," the creamiest of the "creme" in gun making, is the Ecole des Arrnes at Liege. The Belgian center of gun making is . an historic rival of the English gun trade. There, a "best English gun" serves as the model of perfection toward which the young gunmaking students aspire. On the stocky shoulders of Walter Jacobs, factory manager, rests the responsibility for the perfection of a Holland gun. Each gun is made by hand, and the last hands each one passes through are those of Jacobs. He has long experience as an action fitter, and critical judgment of gun making in all other branches of the art. Each gun which leaves the factory, whether of the relatively inexpensive Mauser rifle type at about 90 pounds ($2701, or a better, double rifle at Â£350-40 ($1200), is personally checked by him. He knows where faults are to be found, but rarely does he have to set aside a gun for anything more serious than perhaps a screw-slot filed a few thousandths too wide. With over 30 years experience at H & H, Mr. Jacobs has Fine wood and expert engraving grace .240 Apex Mauser sporter which carries scope adjusted for shooter.
Shotgun chambering is done with rude hand reamer. Sold 1 barrels are regulated by micrometer reading. . Mauser rifle sights are blank until notched for shooter. ,Barrels are polished with emery cloth on point of tool.
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Page 3 and 4: SWISS VETTERLI RIFLES Latest model
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Page 7 and 8: SEMI-AUTOMATIC PISTOL: Now Repeater
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Page 16 and 17: it- PRETTIEST PETITE, PRETTY CAROLA
Page 18 and 19: With her custom-stocked L. C. Smith
Page 20 and 21: grouse I ever shot at. Through the
Page 22 and 23: Interior view of the vast main hall
Page 24 and 25: Andy's favorite gun is fine Rigdon
Page 26 and 27: HE SPLITS CARDS AT 100 YARDS ^NOW 7
Page 28 and 29: FABULOUS REPUTATION AS MARKSMAN WAS
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Page 35 and 36: TARGET RIFLE SHOOTING than half the
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Page 39 and 40: AMERICA'S PRETTIEST SHOTGUNNER SOLD
Page 41 and 42: WHAT'S WRONG WITH TARGET SHOOTING?
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Page 51 and 52: THE GUNS OF BUFFALO BILL (Continued
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Page 55 and 56: THE GUN MARKET classified ads 15c p
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