GUNS Magazine April 1956

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FOR THE PROFESSIONAL
More and more professional stock makers are using Decal
Checkering Patterns, finding this to be the most efficient way
to apply the design to the gunstock. They have also dis-
covered that with Decal Checkering Patterns they can offer
their clients a much larger choice of designs. (Illustrated is
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FOR THE AMATEUR
A number of patterns are also available to meet the needs
of the novice, In addition to checkering, some of these designs
may also be used with the easier-to-do stippling techniques.
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MY HEART TROUBLE
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out restrictions of any kind at all.
I was remembering that brush with death
while I rolled down my sleeve and the doc
stowed away his pressure gauges. "Never
again," I thought, "grounded."
I was anything but happy, but I was con-
soled somewhat by the fact that now I'd be
home at nights and on weekends and could
go into bench rest shooting like I'd always
wanted to. But it was hard to grow accus-
tomed to being home all the time, too, after
20 years of touring the country. But bench
rest shooting helped me get over that help-
less feeling.
I found out there were a lot of other guys
in my shoes, too. And bench rest seemed to
appeal to them, also. For instance, there is
Ted Holmes of Mattoon, Illinois. Ted was a
farmer, I believe, until he had a heart attack.
He had always liked to shoot and was active
in bench rest shooting competition. After
his attack he opened a professional gun shop
and makes wonderful guns. He builds rifles
and makes bullets for precision shooting, and
is ranked among the first 20 in the country
in bench rest shooting.
Barney Auston of Tulsa is another fellow
with trouble in his plumbing. Oddly, Barney
was a plumber before he had to slow down,
but I don't mean this to sound funny. He
suffers from the reverse of my condition-
low blood pressure, and often has trouble
with spots before his eyes, breathlessnes and
an occasional blackout. He now has his own
gun shop and makes precision stocks and
equipment. He also makes a patented me-
chanical bedder which is used on the front
of the stock to maintain an even, measurable
pressure on the barrel. Barney shot a group
in competition last year that was almost a
world's record.
Then there is Joe Palmer, a cashier at the
First National Bank in Tulsa. Joe has some
kind of heart trouble, but it doesn't interfere
with his shooting. He's one of the guys
to beat at any target shoot.
Another wonderful gun interest for people
with heart trouble is collecting. I got in-
terested in collecting guns before my heart
trouble after visiting the Davis collection
in the Mason Hotel in Claremore. Oklahoma.
Davis has the world's largest collection of
firearms and keeps about a third of them on
display in the lobby and halls of the hotel.
I started picking up guns while killing
time between flights. The first one was a
9 mm Luger. Some of the best antiques
I've had were a 3rd Model Colt Dragoon,
an 1855 Springfield Dragoon pistol, a W. L.
Evans Valley Forge pistol, and a Whitney
Walking Beam Model revolver. The Whitney
was the only one I've ever seen, and like a
damn fool, I sold it.
I've still got a few old guns: a Philadelphia
Deringer, a couple of Remington Elliott
derringers, and some .45 caliber Colt single-
action revolvers. I think the one I like the
best is a 16th century Austrian air rifle that
still shoots. You pump the stock full of air
and it shoots a pretty good-sized pellet.
But the best 'antique' I ever had was one
I made. I was fooling around in my shop
one night and decided to make an old-looking
cap-lock pistol to hang on the wall. I used
a section of an old 45-70 rifle barrel and
some parts from several broken cap-lock ac-