GUNS Magazine March 1956 - Jeffersonian

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With her custom-stocked L. C. Smith, Carola relaxes beside pile of shells she fired in winning gun dub shoot. Recent nomination as one of Chicago's Ten Best Dressed Women is only one of many awards won by shooter. ? IS L . ~ Complete safety is assured with Carola's guns at home as she deans each gun after firing and must unload it. the charming, reserved and beautiful lady to whom you were being presented was in fact' one of the world's foremost athletes. Token of another element of Carola's versatile . personality is her recent nomination as one of "Chicago's Ten Best-Dressed Women." Carola has been interested in shooting since she was a small girl of 10. "My big brother-oh, he was much older than me," she spoke in her clear voice with an engaging touch of Latin accent to it, "he taught me to shoot. He.was captain of the Cuban national pistol team, and he gave me a little Smith and Wesson, one of the .22 revolvers on the light frame. He would teach me how to shoot this gun, you know, and it was a lot of fun." But sometimes Carola would get on her big brother's nerves. Then he had a cure for that. He gave her a rubber ball and told her to squeeze it, to develop her grip for pistol shooting. "I was surprised," she smiled, "to learn this is good practice and is done by pistol shooters today in training. But it is not much for the shotgun." Actually Carola got into shotgun shooting after marrying Col. Leon Mandel, Chicago department store owner who is himself an accomplished shooter. The colonel relates: "We'had just been married, and Carola had liked shooting, so I thought she might enjoy it again. We were on a trip through the Carribbean, a scientific expedition for the Field Museum. I got Carola one of those 'Mo-Skeet-0' shotgun outfits, the smoothbore .22 bolt action rifle. She used it in collecting small birds and mammals for the expedition, and pretty soon I realized she was not just any ordinary plinker. So I got her a 20 gauge shotgun-and 'then the trouble started." Carola laughed at the memory of the trouble, but it wasn't $0 pleasant at first. She (Continued on page 39)
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Page 14 and 15: Lapping to smooth bores is done whi
Page 16 and 17: it- PRETTIEST PETITE, PRETTY CAROLA
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Page 22 and 23: Interior view of the vast main hall
Page 24 and 25: Andy's favorite gun is fine Rigdon
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Page 51 and 52: THE GUNS OF BUFFALO BILL (Continued
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