GUNS Magazine December 1955 - Jeffersonian's Home Page

COMPLETEMOSSBERGCATALOGTO MAKE YOUR CHRISTMASSELECTION EASY.You'll find many features andconveniences on Mossbergs thatare exclusive or are foundelsewhere only on more expensivefirearms. When you giveMossberg you give top value.To make your gift selectionseasy, we'll send you ourcomplete illustrated catalogwhich gives full descriptionsand specifications of ourrifles, shotguns, telescopesand spotting scope.Just fill in the couponand mail it today. Yourdealer will have theMossberg you select,or can get it for you.II---------- I0. F. ~ossberg & Sons, Inc. I54512 St. John St., New Haven 5, Conn. 1Send me without delay your complete 1catalog of Mossberg Firearms available of 1 mv dealer's. 1, City1 Street. 1I4Zone-StateIToo Many ColtsI like your publication GUNS very muchand I think it picks up where all other suchmagazines leave off. However as of late, Ihave noticed that there is a tendency todevote too much of the magazine to thesingle action Colt revolver. It is very monotonousto read about the same gun in everyissue and to have to go through page afterpage of photos of the single action. Obviouslymost of the writers of the magazineare prone to this gun but I believe an effortshould be made to curb personal tastes whenwriting articles. There are a lot of guneditors for a lot of sporting magazines and90 per cent of them have the bad habit ofemphasizing their own favorite gun and cartridge.Don't let this happen to GUNS magazine.As far as the Colt single action goes, Ithink it is a fine gun which typifies theingenuity of American gun makers and itshall forever remain the symbol of the erain which America saw its most colorful andstimulating days but let's not overdo it. Weknow it is a nice piece but let's have somevariety. How about a nice big article onsomething like the Luger and all its variationsor an article on the mysterious Marsauto pistol, the world's most powerful, orthe little known Walther 9-mm ultra caselesscartridge auto.Stephen B. IckesNew York, N. Y.ED.: One Luger story coming up. SeeJanuary issue.Kudos For the Royal ColtsCongratulations on your story about the"Finest Colts Ever Made." I have seen thoseguns, the pair in Sweden, and they are everythingyou say they are. Give us more storiesabout these old guns. I like to collect gunsand have about ten Colts of different kinds,but I know anything as fine as those guns inyour story are way out of my line, even if theywere for sale. But I still like to read aboutthem, and the people who used them. Enclosedis my $5 for a year's subscriptionstarting with October. I bought all the otherson the newsstand, but now I'm "sold."Richard CruickshankHempstead, Long Island, .Wants Articles About .22Last August I started in reading yourmagazine, but so far you seem to have nothingbut big game hunting or shotgunningstories. What's the matter? I'm a .22 shooter-get over to my club about once a week,and shoot Sundays sometimes in competitionwith other teams around town. But I seeLETTERS TO THE EDITORnothing in your mag about small bore shooting.Don't people shoot .Z7s anymore outthere in Chicago? I'd like to see more on accuracy,working over .22's, sighting in andeverything about small bore shooting. You'dhave my subscription for sure if you'd havea feature on small-bore range or huntingshooting every so often.Walter H. Donne11Washington, D.C.20 Gauge Not For DucksI just got your October issue on the standsand boy am I burned up. That article byFrancis Sell was one of the silliest things Ihave ever read in a long time. Boy, whydoesn't he take a rifle and shoot ducks on thewing? I wouldn't waste my time in a cold,wet blind with nothing bigger than a 20-gauge to reach out and get them. I thoughtthese 20-gauge magnums which were talkedabout a year or so ago might be the thing,but never have seen any around so for thetime being I'll stick to my old 12. And maybego over to a Magnum 10 if I can scrape upthe dough.Charlie JohnstoneCarson's Landing, Mo.Sears Gas ShotgunOver at our Sears Roebuck store I saw acopy of your November GUNS. Was at thestore in fact to buy a shotgun, and when Isaw the new gas-operated autoloader samplewhich they had, I started asking questionsabout it. The fellow there didn't know muchabout guns, so be handed me a copy of yourmagazine with a story by Colonel CharlesAskins in it. There was a picture of somefunny gas spring affair inside the gun, andI took off the fore end of the Sears samplegun and looked for the "cushion spring."There wasn't anything like that in the samplegun-what gives? I want to buy the rightgun, not something that will jam or givetrouble.Don BurnettPhiladelphia, Pa.Checked with the Sears main office here,and it seems that some of the early "cushionspring-less" guns were shipped out to storesas samples to show the public just what sortof gun they would be getting. Meanwhile.development was still going on at HighStandard to make the best possible gun whichthis new gas system permits. The cushionspring is the later design, not essential to thefunctioning but still important enought towarrant changing the manufacture over to thecushion spring. Both kinds of gas operationwill perform satisfactorily.-Editor.-GUNS I8 publlshid monthly by Publisher's Development Corp., Inc. at 8150 North Central Park Avenue. Skokie. Illinois. 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