GUNS Magazine December 1955 - Jeffersonian's Home Page

ANTIQUE GUNSThese Colt replicas are about actualsize of the original guns.Colt Wells Fargo.31 Cal. 1848The Guns That Won The WestPaterson, Walker .......... $6.95 eachWells Forgo, Army, Navy,Frontier. ................ .$5.95 eachAuthentic reproductions of the rarest andmost popular Colt hand guns ever made,look and feel like the real guns. Made ofstrong metal, like real blue finish, walnutcolor grips.Order now. Send check or money order direct to:VALLEY GUN SHOP7784 Foothill Blvd. Dept. G Tujunga, Calif.Send for free brochure''The Guns That Won the West."RELOADERSNew England Headquarters forEquipmentÑCornponentUNDERWOOD'SPost RoadShrewsbury, Mass.narily thick as well. The primer was theNo. 1% Remington, and I noted the car-:ridges had been loaded by the old UMC Co.I wrote my friend "Pancho" Kahrs, thenshooting promotion wheel for Remington-Peters, and asked him if he had any cartridgesremaining in stock. The cartridgewas the 5.5 mm Velo Dog.Kahrs replied by bundling up and sendingme all that remained in stock, some 6500rounds. Just what the hell I was to do withmore than six thousand cartridges and abusted-up, worn-out Frenchman's boudoirgun, sporting an 2%-inch barrel and notworth a tinker's hoot even when it was shinynew, I didn't know. But I had an idea.I pulled the bullets on several hundred 5.5cases, dumped the powder and then chuckedthe empty cases up in a jeweler's lathe andshortened them to exactly the length of the-22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge. After thatI made a jig and turned down the head ofthe shell until it had a rim that conformedto the dimension of the .22 LR.After that came an interchange betweenJ. D. Buchanan, the West Coast gunsmith,and myself. Buck, one of the finest andmost skilled pistolsmiths, told me to sendout a pistol and he would do the necessarywork. I shipped Buchanan a Woodsman...RUDY ETCHEN king ofU. S. trapshooters, says. .."DEAD DUCKS AT 100 YARDS"that had been given the full treatment byD. W. King, the hombre who made theraised, ventilated ribs, barrel weights andother target accessories.Buck altered the firing pin so that insteadof striking on the rim of the case it wouldindent the No. 1% Remington cap squarelyon the nose. He countersunk the face of thebreechblock so it would accept the extrathick rim on the 5.5 case. He then had tomake a new extractor and refashion theejector, both of which he accomplished successfully.Minor feed troubles developed andthe clip was altered about the lips.Since it was my intention to load thestandard .22 Long Rifle leaden bullet in the5.5 case, and since I was especially carefulto obtain an overall length that would conformto the length of the .22 rimfire, Buckfound it unnecessary to make modificationsto the chamber-throat but he was forced toenlarge the chamber somewhat due to thethickness of the 5.5 case. The gun wasreturned to me for the firing tests.While Buchanan was accomplishing thechange of sex operation, I was busy at homewith Peters, El Paso gun-making wizard.Pete made for me an entire set of reloadingtools for the 5.5. The powder charge I hadto work up. Since the case, as I've pointed^ your dealer tor free,?-.~f EkhmSee the NEUMANN 10-Gauge Magnum at these leading dealers:Albany, Ore. BILL'S SPORT SHOP Great Falls GR. FALLS SPTG. GDS. Pendleton ... C. C. ANDERSONArlington, Wash. . BROOKS HDW. Harrisburg ... PERCY HOFFMAN Pittsburgh .. ARMY SPTG. GOODSBaltimore ... SPORTSMEN'S OEN Hollywood HOLLYWOOD GUN SHOP Portland,Ore. . MEIER 8 FRANKBeverly Hills ..... KERB'S Houston OSHMAN OUTDOOR STORE Salt Lake City ..... ZCMIBuffalo, Wyo. THE HAT RANCH Kansas City . GATEWAY SPT. GDS. Son Antonio .. TOEPPERWEIN'SCentrolia, Ill. .. HANSEMAN'S Lacrosse, Wise. HELINVSSPT.GDS. Son froncisco ... ROOS BROS.Chicago . MARSHALL FIELD 8 CO. Los Angeles ... 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