American Handgunner March/April 1981

Another leather care product I havetried is Lexo!. This is a .liquid leatherpreservative using neats foot oil as a base.It is easily available, often seen wherevershoe polish is sold. While Lexol works wellin preserving leather, I have had troublewith it becoming contaminated. It appearsto become contaminated from rust formingin the metal can it -comes in. While nota problem when used on dark brown orblack leather, I often used Lexol on newnatural leather, and the finished articlewould have dark streaks in the finish.Lexol has recently appeared packaged inplastic bottles. This should prevent the rustproblems.If you have a favorite belt and holsterrig, give it the proper care and itwill last a lifetime. Any of the aboveproducts will keep itlike new for you.INDUSTRY INSIDER(Continued from page 6)West Coast outfit that will make the guntells us that a production model is at least ayear away, and that no magazine writerswill get prototypes, only Jeff.The first stainless steel guns from CharterAnns are now being produced. TheseTheliltare special limited edition guns with only500 being made, but they are sure to beforerunners of things to come. ' ' ..The .25 auto from Sile/Seecamp should ' IIW....IIbe in production and hitting the market bythe time you read this. The delay, we hear, at Hornadywas 'caused by a decision to up production-betterthe customer should wait a bitso that dealers would have a continuing WHEN you open a box ofHomady Match bullets, you'll find not onlyflow after the initial shipments.a premium match bullet, but a lot of care and confidence as well.The .357 Magnum auto by Coonan It's put there by the "Matchmakers" at the Hornady plant in GrandArms may be in production by the time Island, Nebraska. They're dedicated shooters, too.. .interestedin helpyouread this, but this is based on some ing you score better and keenly aware of what it takes to do the job.additional financing. Bill Coonan is hop- They know that uniformity is the key to accuracy in bullet producingfor a February start-up, and advises tion...and that every step in the Homady bullet making process mustthat the second prototype is functioning be performed with unvarying precision. Every jacket must be drawnbeautifully.to the exact same thickness...every tiny point must be carefullyWe have, on the desk, no less than three formed and the concentricity of the projectile must be maintained. ".separate drawings of prototype .45 autoJoyce Homady said it best: "Accuracy is our business and it doesn'tpistols. All are just paper guns at this time,and only one is what could be calledjust happen. You have to make it happen by minding those fewthousandths or ten thousandths ofan inch."revolutionary in design. One is from a very Hornady makes 113 bullets for handloading and 5 of thesetalented designer in Canada who is workingto get ajob in the U.S. Another is frombear the exclusive MATCH label. Pick one ofthem for your nextcompetitive shoot.a Californian who spent a lot of time and30 cal.money testing more than two dozen autos 22 cal. 7MM New National Matchin both .45 and 9mm and concluded that adesign utilizing the best points of many of IE $the test guns could be worked up; nothingstartling here, and from the drawing it 52 gr. BTHP 53 gr. HP 162 gr. BTHP 190 gr. BTHPHseems that from twenty feet it would lookjust like a Colt Government Model .45._#loIg;elo(9Q iti tu Ai Jko!Ii@jjIn the "Anything is possible" Depart- d 168 gr. BTHPment, watch for a report on a .375 Win. Or:K1B yMag. revolver in a future issue ~ II B""lle"'s Hornady Manufacturing Co. Dept. AH-3of American Handgunner. ~ ......., Box 1848 Grand Island, Nebr. 68801AMERICAN HANDGUNNER· MARCH/APRIL,1981 31