GUNS Magazine April 1956

ADIES COMING first, we are proud to
L introduce Mrs. Carola Mandel to
GUNS readers as our new scattergun
editor. Profiled in our last issue, she
is one of the top names in the skeet
(world and is well known to shotgun enthusiasts.
One of ..three new GUNS editors,
she will undertake to answer
reasonable inquiries from readers.
Please enclose a stamped, selfaddressed
envelope for reply. Make
your questions brief and to the point
and Carola will do her best to hein vou.
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Ladies' shooting problems are, as they
say, "the specialty."
Taking over as our shooting editor
is Colonel Charles Askins, with whom
our readers are quite familiar for his
frequent articles on these pages. A
colorful, hard-hitting writer as well as
a top marksman who has won national
shooting honors, the colonel is also
open to queries. An active colonel in
the army, he is stationed in Texas
where he is continually active in gun
sport. Next month he will tell his
adventures hunting on the continent
in an article on "A Texas Duke Hunts
in Spain."
Our new Western editor is Herbert
Brayer, a leading authority on the
old and modern west and one of the
founders in Denver a decade ago of
the association of frontier enthusiasts
known as The Westerners. Herb is
"sheriff" of the Chicago "posse" of this
club. His article on western badmen
and cowboys, and how poorly some of
them could shoot, was published in
our January issue. It raised static from
San Francisco to London, for Associated
Press columnist Hal Boyle
picked up the article and put it on the
AP wire with his remarks. It went to
1400 newspapers and aroused much
comment bcluding editorials in the
Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Daily
News and London Dgly , Express in
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England. A> ' -. . ;a
In the hopper for next month are
several articles you will not want to
miss. In the Western department is a
comprehensive story on "The Guns Of
Annie Oakley" while handgunners will
enjoy an article on the Webley, The
Colt Of England.
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