4 kas Out: of Your Hunting With a WEAVER SCOPE “Model, from +4757, 336 both, RIFLES and io o \Giy FAST STURDY ACCURATE ANT More more game inder and piston if the rifle is to be kept from rusting. The barrel can not he cleaned from the breach, which means that the chamber is very liable to be neglected unless particular care is taken. A special tool is supposed to come with the rifle so that the chamber can be cleaned. A couple of items on the safety side are worth considering. Because the rifle gets so hot and because it automatically feeds a shell in the chamber after firing, when the gun is to stand for any length of time without firing, it is necessary to see that the bolt remains open or that it goes closed on an empty chamber. Otherwise there is some danger of the shell in the chamber firing itself from the heat of the barrel, or at least of building up dangerous pressures. We also noted that when the action slammed shut, but before the trigger was pulled, the primer of the shell in the chamber showed a slight indentation, indicating that the firing pin was too long or not held back properly. Ii that got bad, it might have some serious consequences. So there’s the dope, from our own experience with two late M/1 rifles, and not counting all the good and bad things we've heard about it. Frankly we were disappointed in the way it behaved. Perhaps the rifles were new and stiff. We put several hundred rounds through each and they behaved as poorly at the finish as at the start. Maybe we had the wrong lubricant. No good military rifle should depend so heavily on the right kind of lubricant. Maybe we didn’t have the right ammunition. We used peacetime Ml and M2 ammunitions of various years, all made by Frankford Business in the end bottom Arsenal. of the Garand. of the barrel Certainly A hole lets gas into the gas cylinder. Bayonet ing swivel and front sight are the cylinder. war drilled down stud, stackattached to ammunition would be no better. Maybe we were too dumb to understand the rifle. Think we’ve got something there! But none of the other experienced riflemen around had any better luck. And a hastily-trained soldier isn’t going to know too much about the gun—not when we sent men into the last war who didn’t even. know how to load their rifles. Maybe these rifles are not representative of the whole M/1 tribe. We sincerely hope not. Later on we hope to run some accuracy tests. But meanwhile we suggest to the boys that they take the rifle gently but firmly by the scruff of the neck and carefully fumigate it. Maybe they can get rid of some of the bugs that way. this fall? bull’s-eyes on the target range? Better, faster, more accurate shooting. all around? The WEAVER SCOPE is the answer. 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WEAVER COMPANY, EL PASO, TEXAS Your Own Gun H™: something for you fellows who want to put your dollars in a gun that is just right for you. The Hoffman Arms Company, down in Amarillo, Texas, tells us that they are at last ready to go into production on special guns of one sort or another. Briefly, they’ve got a near-complete gun factory and can make up almost anything you want. They will furnish almost any popular action, although they’d rather you used the Mauser actions they import. But having once selected a barrel, they’ll let you pick out the cartridge you want in the gun. They lay claim to being all prepared to make almost any kind of a barrel you want, both inside and outside, to suit your taste. With a barrel made and mounted on your action, then you can let yourself go on the stock sit- uation and they’ll give you the shape of stock and type of wood you want. In other words, you can just about design your own rifle. And if you have any hankering toward the scatter gun they have a line of imported double guns which they’ll fix up to your taste. For a fellow who wants to do some experimenting with his guns, or who knows just what he wants and can’t find it in the standard catalogs, this sounds as if it might be a golden opportunity. Prices? Well now, that’s something else again and will depend on the amount of work and the sort of gun you decide on. If you’ve got anything in mind, you’d better contact the Hoffman folks. No, we haven’t seen any of their work, but from the correspondence we’ve had, it sounds like an interesting set-up. Lou Smith, Philanthropist Kore our pet Jinx of old, we threw a spare gun in the back of the car that morning when we went over to the skeet shoot. Sometimes we’ve found two guns not enough, as last year up at the Nationals in Frisco, when we had both guns struggling for life on the operating table under the skilful hands of gunsmith Barney Worthen. But, as we started to say, this particular morning we figured two guns should see us through the 100 bird event. Sure enough, as we were finishing up our second round, the durn Ithaca started to give trouble in the extraction depart- ment. It wasn’t particularly serious in the singles, but we had to give up in the doubles and get the spare. And so we wrote Lou Smith a wrathy letter and dumped the gun in his lap. Pretty soon he sends the gun back, and along with it a letter we thought you’d be interested in—particularly if you’re the owner of a M/37 Ithaca: ‘Dear Jim: Your gun just blew in. The serial number tells me it is one of the first repeaters we built. “Since that blooming gun left the glorious east and headed toward the setting sun, we have added several improve-