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D eer. a nd hu ndreds o f Hawk s and Eaat es on th eir dry runT ho u san d s 0 1 the se ca l l s I n u se ev ery .....h·c re l ett ers tell u s otamaz i ng r esll 1ts- " V ery first t ime I u sed your cal l i ca ll ed up5 C o yo l es"-P T C. , Ne w M @)(ico. BURNHAM calls mu sl g iv eYOu c lose sho t at above mentio ned ga m e o r you r money back!FREE Ca lling Stories a nd bes tinstruct ions 50 yea rs of call ingex perience can produce.Dealer Inquiries Invited"W E WUZ ROB BED" is th e standardlament around a trap or skeet clubwhen th e local sports pages hit th e streetaft er an event at the club. Shoot er s feel thatlarceny has been done becau se their wellstagedtrap or skeet mat ch rated not mor ethan one paragraph on th e sport page, andthat paragra ph is more often than not "outin left field" between an account of a tiddlywinks match and an outing of a birdwatcher's club. (This is not to belittle bi rdwatchers and tiddly-winks pla yers, who ar egood fellows, even if they do enjoy a bett erpr ess than shooters.)Wh en the paragraph or two reporting theshoot does app ear in a newspaper, chancesar e that some very non-shooting term s willhave been used to describe events in th epro gram . Lik e, for example, th e item in anI ndianapolis newspap er crediting Mrs. EdnaStark with br eaking 196 clay targets fromthe two-hundred yard lin e. Now, Edna is ari ght good lad y trapshoot er, but, 200 yards isa pr ett y fur piece to break a clay tar get witha shotg un.This little item didn't further th e causeof tra pshooting in Indianapolis, although I'llthe tw o-h~;n d;~d - -;~ ;d -li ~ e .nN'o ~ ,- -E d~a -;s--;ri ght good lad y trapshoot er, but, 200 yards isa pr ett y fur piece to break a clay target witha shotg un.This littl e item didn't further the causeof trapshoot ing in Indian apolis, although I' lladmit it should have. Had I lived in Indianapolis,I would have present ed myself atthe club th e very next Sunday, to see thisunu sually fine bit of shotg un marksman ship.I might even have tri ed to buy th e shotgunwhi ch would shatter clay targets, or any kindof tar get, at a range of 200 yard s.Capt ion writers have been known to goof,too, when wri tin g head s for shoot ing stori es.Witness th e Ch icago newspaper which crediteda winn er at th e ATA's Grand Ameri cantournament of trapshooting with a sk eetchampionship.And-the saddest part of thi s tal e is thatshooting's lou sy pr ess can be lai d smac k dabon th e doorstep of th e gun club s.My new job br ings me into close contactwith man y of the very sports and outdoorNEW!A MustforEveryHunterLEELOADERFOR SHOTGUN SHELLSL ee Lo ader is a complete setc onsistin g of po wder & shotm e a.s ur-es, decapper, cappe r , a ndin s t r uc ti o n s plu s e xcl us ive Tripl e A ction Cham -$9 95 bel'. Fi ve load combin ations withthewriters who are verbally lambasted for failingto give coverage to shooting events. Someof my fellow shooters will be sur prised tolearn tha t most sport and outdoor writersar e not ulcer-rid den, dour, savagely snarl ingcharac ters, determined to keep tr ap andskeet stories from clutt ering up th eir pr eciouspages. T hey ar e in reality good fellows,with th eir own problems to solve.Aski ng most sports wr iters to wri te a storyon a skee t or trap, would be lik e asking thewriter of thi s column to write a story onatom ic energy. And he would approach th etask with about as much enthusiasm as Iwould have for writing th e bit on somethingabout whi ch I know next to nothing. If youmention skee t to many sports writer s, theguy will wonder wheth er you eat it, bat it,or ki ck it. When th e same writer is assignedto cover a major at hleti c event, he will begiven charts covering th e pla yers. ·Thosecharts will tell him th e man's age, hometown, weight, height, parent's nam es, ta stesin girls, and what he had for breakfast, andwhat th e guy thinks about suhjects rangingfrom hopscotch to Freud . If the game is aprof essional gam e, the play s will probabl y0 - · - - - 0 - - · - - - - - 0 . - - - ~-_ .-charts will tell him th e man's age, hometown , weight, height, parent's nam es, ta stesin girls, and what he had for breakfast, andwhat the guy thinks about subjec ts rangingfrom hopscotch to Freud. If the game is aprof essional gam e, th e play s will probabl ybe calle d in advance for him. Does he getthis kind of coopera tion from a gun club?Does he even get invited out to th e club toburn up a few boxes of shells? Not oft en!If a gun club ha s not made sure that thelocal sports staff ha s been introduced to th ejoys of trap and skeet shooting, th at gunclub should not in good conscience moan andgroan when the writ er gives them less th ana half-page covering th e event. Don't expectth e sports staffer to personally cover yourshooting event. Contrary to an opinion generallyheld, sports-writing jobs ar e not cushyjobs awarded th e publisher's favorite neph ew, or son-in-law. Th e sports staffer or outdoorwri ter is most ofte n a workin g newspaper man , who carr ies out his editor's as-(Continued on page 49 )-Hunting - fi sh ing - fighting - Throwing - Skinn ing- Carving - Bowie's in 5 s izes. These World fam ousknives, 100 % ha ndcrafted from Swedi sh Too l St eel.15 mod els, var ious lengths - handle combination s.Coll ector's pi eces today; ofleg end ar y fam e tomorrow.Send 2Sc for descript ion s, prices and inst ructivebooklet . SOc for Fighting knife use manual.W. D. RANDALL, Jr., Box 1988 -C Orlando, Fla.ACE - Hunting & Target BulletsAccura t e, Cons istently g ood, Econo m ica l.Available in m ost popular sizes. L ust-A Loy a nd Tuft-A- Loy j a.c k ets.Price l ler 100 (1IOsfuA"e e x t r n ).224 D ia. 50 Gr. Soft Po in t . . . . . _. . $1. 95
HANDICRAFT WITHOUT HANDS(Continued from page 21)in g waln ut stock and silver ornaments,was a good adv ertisement. The gunsmith soonhad mor e work to do than he need ed andwas b usy at gunsmithing till hi s death. F ellow-shooter E. L. King of Winona, a bi gga me hunter who has often been to Africa,carried rifl es wh ich hi s rifl e teammat e Halvorson had mad e for him . As his fam e spreadamong th ose wh o ca n afford th e best in guncra ftsmanship, other sports me n obtainedHalvorson guns. Berwyn, Illinois, sportsma nRobert Hess has sixteen rifles built for himin the seven years since he has kn own Halvorson;used to fly up to th e gunsmith' s shopfr om Chicago.A typ ical d ay at Edwin' s shop, clutt eredwith th at orde rly liuer whi ch marks man ygunsmith's shops, where everything seems ina mess but actually everyth ing is easily 10·cated, would find severa l sportsmen arr ivingfrom se veral h undred miles away. Mostdrove by auto. All would have on e or severalguns to be repa ired, stock pitch changed,che cke re d or ju st generally overha uled.Ma ny new guns were rem ad e to fit customer'ssizes and per sonal iti es by Hal vorson. Ma nywould br ing in old guns no lon ger repairable, and th e gunsmith with out hands wouldshape th e deli cat e lock parts fr om steel a ndrep air th em. The gre a test chall enge to H alvorsonwas a real gun crank who wanted awild cat, some thing spec ial an d not r eadil yobta inable. To satisfy th e most discerninggun fan was alwa ys a test for Hal vorson'sin genuit y. Some of hi s per sonal ri fles andshotguns prove he has spe nt hi s life in meeting that cha llenge. Man y show alt era tionsallowing hi m to opera te their mech ani smswith hi s arm -stu mp s.H e li ved as an exper t gunsmith, one of t heshotg·uns ~ ro ~ e he ha's s p~ ~ t his li fe i,; m ~ et .in g tha t challenge . Ma ny show alterationsallo wing him to operate their mech ani smswith hi s arm- stumps,H e lived as an expe rt gunsmith, one of th er ar e br eed wh o co uld reall y r ep air a br okengun, rest ock from th e blank an old percussiondouble shotgun, or completely r emodelsome militar y rifle so th at as a spor ter itr ivaled th e best of mod ern gunmaking. B ewa s born without hands, but as he grew uphe d evel oped plentv of apprecia tion for th efaculties he bad. Without becoming a " mornrna'sboy," H alvorson was blessed wi th amoth er who, wit h the wisdom of t he age s,accepted her li ttle boy as he was, p hysicall yhandicapp ed, witb no cursing of fa te th at ithad been ·otherwise. In suc h a health y,matter-of-Ia ct atmosphe re, it never occurr edto young Edwin to despair. He had noha nds, his lef t foot was twisted, b ut developing as a norm al person in spite of thesehan di ca ps was hi s natu ral cour se. Learningto do thi ngs without han ds t bat people withha nds ofte n find d iffi cult was no pu shover.li e becam e ade pt beca use he applied hi msel fso wholehear tedly, never holding back withanyth ing. As a result , since he was a child,l Ialvorson had been doin g things withou thands bett er th an most folks do with hand s.JIe figured out " bes t ways to do things." Inschool he sha ped a metal wri st band , inwhich be fast en ed a pencil, and so wrote aswell and as eas ily as hi s classmat es. Fromtbe tim e he was a little lad, Edwin wasalways sea rc h ing for some form of rnechanicalexpres sion.Hi s first inter est was photo graphy. Man ylocal farms have lar ge panorami c views ofth eir farm st ead done by Edwin. He madesome of hi s own ph otograp hic eouinmen t. Inof winning ho rses at th e ra ces ; then afterdeveloping he'd identi fy the horses and tryto sell pr int s to the own ers. All thi s calledfor a lot of leg-work, for th e man with onl yone normal leg. This was before the da ys ofeasy tr avel by motor car. But shortly beforeWorld War I he becam e int er est ed in repairingguns, found in th e degr ee of finehandwork required th e most sat isfying challenge of hi s handless worl d.If a gun in th e nei ghborhood needed reopair ing, he'd repair it. He ada pted existingguns to his own abilities. Trigger s would befitted with large chec ke re d kn obs; operatingbandIes and slides wer e exte nded into hookseas ily snapped ba ck by Halvorson's forearm.Restocking military ri fles into sporters andfittin g chokes or crowning barrels was everyday work to th e Minn esota craft sman. Hespent hours in meti culou sly cbeekering th ep istol grip s of r ifles whi ch he co uld notgras p. Like the fr onti er gunsmitbs of hisboyhoo d days, he inlaid il ver stars andanimals on the stocks. Onl y in carving washe lacking- never ma ster ing the probl em ofgrasping cbisels a nd wood cutti ng tool s, hewas content to let his friend s, J oseph Scheinhergheror Ar t J ohn son, both of LaCrosse,Wi scon sin, decorate his gun stoc ks with flyinggeese or squirrels.The big ru sh for Edwin in gunsmitbingca me durin g World War I, when new gunswere unobtainable. Th en the man who th edoctors cla ssified as unfit for service ju st bylook ing at him, work ed long hours at gunsmithingmore detailed and difficult th an an yordnaneemen had to accomplisb. He wasswamped with work, alw ays risin g a littl eearl ier in the morning, workin g a little lat erat nigh t, to get th e job done.Th e story of Ed win Hal vor son the zunsmum ng more detar led and ditn cult th an-anyor dnaneemen had to accomplish. He wasswamped with work, always rising a littleearl ier in th e morning, working a little laterat night , to get the job done.Th e story of Edw in Ha lvorson th e gunsmithis remarkab le, but th e stor y of Ed winHa lvorson the man is an inspira tion, Hisdevotio n to hi s wife and litt le da urrhter thema terial succe ss and estee m of his friend sand customers, hi s affection for his par entswhile they lived was exempla ry. Some yearsbac k, while his mot her was still alive butqu ite old, a New York radi o show, th e" Ho bby Lobby," wa nted Ed win to mak e apersonal appear an ce on th eir pr ogram. Th eyoffere d to fly him to ew York a nd back .The gunsmith was willing to go but hismot her , wh o th ought flyin g was for th e bird s,began to worry about th e tri p. Out of respectfor her, Ed win cance lle d th e appearance .P erhaps he did not realize th e val ue ofpublicity. But he was not one to trade onwh at he did not have, but onl y on wha t hehad- a great skill for gunsmithing develop edin spite of th e imp ossible hard ship of nothavin g hands. It took the man to ~ma ke the gunsmith und er those odds. ~R£lOAD~~~~SAVE SO%PRIMERo n ly Sl'hx,.Pn. R e s. Ad d~ 01" Sa le s Ta x·DE ALERS &J OBBER STN OlfTRTF.SPOCKET CLEANER~~r~~t~ ~~~k~tssc 1~ i 'it~:: . ~~~~~ o~h and-driven chuck. Or ca n b emanually oper a t ed . Fin e steelWire bru sh. with m etal sleeve .On ly $ 1 .00 P pd. S p ecify whetherfor rarz e or smett primer s.GENU INE~~~~~ OR 5TAGG RIP 5Im pr ov e t hea ppea ra nce ofyour Revolveror Automa ti cw i t h a newpa ir of Selected Grip s in P la in Elephan tIvory. P earl or Genui ne Natural, Un brea ka ble Stag .Per Pa ir Pea rl or. 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