GUNS Magazine April 1956

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You'll Shoot Better With SHOOTING-MASTER Whether you're out for Ducks, Pheasants or a round of skeet- Shooting-Master Chokes give you the ultimate in fine performance. Instantly variable. Ventilated. No BLAST , Killing patterns from 15 to 50 yards. Short compact and good looking. Most moderr , of all chokes. $17.50 installed. 24 hour service. Return postage paid. Writt 1 for free shipping carton and pamphlet. Of 1 SEND IN YOUR BARREL TODAY FOR THI WORLD'S FINEST SHOTGUN CHOKE. THE SHOOTING-MASTER CHAMPION. 12, 16 and 20 ga. only DEALER AND GUNSMITH INQUIRIES INVITED writ* to MASTER CHOKES INC. GARDNER 7, MASSACHUSETTS It's easy to carve your own Gun Holster with Tandy's U-DO-IT Pattern, only 35c ppd. or send 75c for Pattern Book of 50 dif- ferent designs. On.. 1 tea- - , - 'Ã I TANDY LEATHER CO. (Since 791' 9, P.O. Box 791-TX Fort Worth 1, Tex as - or - y u GUN i c u Displays Yo ur Gun* Protects YO ur Family Gum and Ammunition Are Locked In This handwe sturdy gun rack safely locks sum in display pesitien. Large drawer locks UP ammunitt on, huntino knife. aistel. eleanino near. etc. One kev unto cks drawer and guns. Guns canriot fall or be taken o ut. Childnn friends cannot tamper with them. Ho Ids antique er modern suns, with or without scopes. Fin ely hand-crafted in satin smooth, honey-tone knotty pi ne. or lovely maple or mahogany finish. 4.Gun Rack (24"x2Ã‡N illustrated $19.95 Exprea @-Gun Rack (24"x.W) taller $29.951 Chas. Col. IN KITS for easy, I-hr. home assembly. Prefltt ed, drilled, sanded, etu., with Ã§imgl instructions. 4-Gun Rack $11 50 portpaid Add 10% Weft 6.6un Rack W'.W postpaid 1 of Mississippi Immediate delivery. Money-baete guarantee. No C.0.D .'Â¥ NOW- CATALOG showing our large completi ~in&~mn&~~~~ $y;eKit~pdyocmhmg~mm&W;; 1 T k '" Be retta, a pocket .25 Ortgies and a Walther P-: 38, given to Roosevelt by Allied officers as he toured the war theaters or attended im portant conferences such as the one at Ya lta in 1943. Prototype to these later guns is a primitive Shulhof repeating pistol, a fin ger-operated repeating pistol. This was gi\ 'en to Roosevelt in January, 1945, by Jot nah Lindley of Sacramento, California. 'In the year 1900, when the transport 'G. rant' took the Sixth Cavalry to Tientsin, Ch ~ina," wrote Lindley, "I got a pistol from thi i arsenal which I am sending to you for YO ur museum. At the time I got it. General Sh abby wanted it for Washington. Take off ' the plate on the left side and see the wa iy it works. The shells are conveyed up th, e stock. I do not have any shells, for I sh ot them away at sea." When Lindley found the Schulhof pistol in the Tientsin arsenal, the idea of a ca rtridge magazine in the butt of a pistol WE is new to arms design. The Schulhof was ai Forerunner of the automatic pistol. Whether R< ~osevelt understood the importance of the pi: st01 is an open question. The letter of an ipreciation was formal, polite hut non- CO mmittal, written by Grace Tully, his pri- - Â¥ . - -, I 4 "The Hit of the '55 Grand" vate secretary. The note had none of the informal feeling of his earlier reply to Hugh Grant. There are two more guns at Hyde Park: an old musket used by the G.A.R. and given to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 for preservation by the four surviving members of McPherson Post No. 4, G.A.R., Kansas City, Mo. Lastly, is an undistinguished Forehand & Wadsworth single barrel break open shotgun, 12 gauge, once owned by Warren H. Delano of Roosevelt's mother's family. It was given to the President by Mrs. Elza Twigg of Alegany, Maryland. The battery of fine shotguns he used ducking, and the little bird-collecting gun of his boyhood years, are nowhere to be found. The special Springfield rifle is un- known now by the experts at Springfield Armory. There is no record. But the small gun collection at the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, established by the President in 1939 as a repository of "source materials for the study of our era," gives a brief glimpse at the unrecorded sportsman-hunter side of a versatile man of our time. Were it not for polio, there might have been more to tell. @ Announcing the Amazing New ACME SHOTSHELL LOADER DE-CAPS l RECAPS l SIZES and reforms Brass to the Rim LOADS and CRIMPS All Makes and Any Condition 100 SHELLS PER HOUR Complete only $6 9 ACME INDUSTRIES 625 W. Lawrence Appleton, Wisconsin MAY RESULT IN AN AC- CIDENT THAT COUW HAVE BEEN AVOIDED.KOLPIN ZIPPER TYPE GUN-TECTORS FEATURE A LOCKING RING AS SHOWN. Quilted gun cloth with til handle-sling and 16- Kolpin GUN-TECTORS combii beautiful craftsmanship, fine ap pearance and faithful service at a price that brings complete protection for fire arms, within the reach of every gun owner. All have famous VPI rust inhibitor. All have reinforced lips. with Alt riff* siin fit lo-niount ~opM. teHfltht: W, un, W, W, SWi AND MANY OTHER STYUS AT YOUR FAVORITE SPORTING GOODS DEALER OR WRITE TO -- 1 I KOLPIN BROS. CO. INC., DEPT. G, BERLIN, WISCONSIN 1
SHOTGUN PATTERN (Continued from page 34) anticipated. For the shot charge expands into a cone-shaped flight and the further it travels, the larger the area it covers. True, the fliers may be so deformed that they'll not continue as part of the pattern-making string of shot; but then fliers are seldom dependable as killing pellets in any case. Their friction-flattened sides cause them to catch air pressure unevenly, sometimes sending them sailing off in wide curves so they miss the point of aim by 10 yards or more by the time they've traveled 40 yards. Figure 11: If the distribution of pellets in the 10-yard group is thin at the edges, while the center is completely blown out be- cause of pellet density, the 40-yard pattern will still be dense in the center and thin along the edges. That type of pattern may prove highly effective beyond 40 yards on game. But it takes an expert marksman to put that pattern's dense center on the target at under 40 yards. The indifferent shot may be killing his game with the fringe of the pattern, or shooting up his game quite badly when he occasionally gets the dense center on game that is under 40 yards away. Figure 111. If the 10-yard distribution of pellets runs from a very dense, but not shot out, center to a lighter distribution along the edges, the 40-yard pattern will show good distribution. However, its center will be slightly more dense than the edges of the 30-inch circle will show. This type of pattern is well above the average in quality. Figure IV: This is the "dream" pattern that results in clean kills on game, no mat- ter which portion of the shot charge hits the birds. Its 10-yard characteristics consist of a dense center, tapering toward the edges of the group, but showing very few fliers. At 40 yards such a pattern covers the entire traditional 30-inch circle with equally effici- ent killing effect. A shotgun owning such a pattern is a prize beyond price. Occasionally an odd pattern crops up that is a 1-in-500 freak. One of these is the so- called "doughnut" pattern that occurs even in a very fine patterning shotgun. This is usually the result of using shells loaded with the old-time non-frangible wads held in place by the long roll crimp. As its name implies, the center of the pattern is nude of shot, or very nearly so, but the edges of the patterning circle are quite densely shot-perforated. This odd phenomenon is caused by the shot- wad hitting the air just right to create maximum air resistance. The bulk of the shot charge then has to flow around this obstruc- tion, causing the doughnut-like pattern. Another, generally caused in the same manner, is the lopsided pattern, where the shot charge seems to be definitely diverted to one side, or high or low. In such cases the shot wad hasn't met maximum air resistance, but still has deflected the bulk of the shot charge to its out-of-line impact on the target. Any shotgunner getting one of these freak patterns had best ignore it and fire at least one more pattern for more accurate checking. In fact it's a good idea to always fire two shots per pattern, using one as a check against the other. In some cases it's a good idea to formulate an average of the two for the closest check of the shotgun's performance. But it is rarely necessary to fire three WITH THIS COMPLETE 1 EDITION OF . -\ Dl RECTORY n by SHELLEY BRAVERMAN \ REVISION SERVICE FOR CURRENT YEAR This is the only-of-its-kind Gun Encyclopedia which, since 1951, has been serving those whose vocation or avocation includes Fireorms .Collectors, Dealers, Gunsmiths, Libraries, Manufacturers, etc., throughout the world, ore finding the Fireorms Directory more and more valuable. Police laboratories from Scotland to Singapore use the Firearms Directory! Since its inception. 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