vere — ge ue él. ee ae @ ie Qatr-~ GUNS and DEC. - ARMY 24, 1958 CHARLES Mitt Tittle On the Line 9 January ASKINS That’s right. <A I have been shooting the Nylon rifie. shooting iron made of the same gossamer stuff that goes into Whumped up, so say the boys milady’s unmentionables. down from in DuPont’s nothing more a dollop of coal, a dash of water, plus a jet or two of purest ozone, Nylon. In this case. given the trade name “Ny*-Ion 66” by the Remington Arms Co. who birthed the revolutionary fire. even Laboratories, tangible than #8 s i.e. the stock represents one major fraction, the receiver is another, the barrel is an important third, and many times the fore-stock can be counted as a big fourth. These major components are bolted, screwed, locked or otherwise joined together. These joints in the last analysis are admission of weakness ii design. : : = — _ASKINS 87 Fort Benning FORT BENNING, Ga.—Only nine points separate the Ist BG, 29th the third TKO or the evening when he stopped Clyde Tisdale of the ous fight for the major unit boxing crown at Fort Benning. The 29th’s lead was cut last week. While the 29th picked up three points fora total of 88. Trains, with the aid of a forfeit, managed to gain eight points and now has a total of 74. | The deciding smoker Hag peer scheduled for Briant Wells Field House 8 January. In what turned out to be the only victory of the night for the 29th, light- heavyweight Clarence Rogers lost little time in disposing of J fohn Howard, 2d Div. Trains, in the evening’s opening scrap. The bout was stopped after only 1:15 of the first round with Howard obviously stunned and dazed from crushing rights to the jaw delivered by his free-swinging opponent. : halted the action at 2:41 of the first’ round after Tisdale visited the canvass five times, twice on slips, ~ A dioudlification ended the next fight, ‘The victory was awarded to Joe Faison, 14th Ini., over Bill Morgan of the 28th when the referee ruled Morgan disqualified after his protective head gear slipped off Inf., and 2d Div. Trains in the furi- 87th By COL. TIMES Not only is the accuracy adversely effected but the weapon is more given to malfunctioning. x by ue - THE NYLON 66 rifle has a steel barrel, a steel breechblock, tubular Not only a piece of ordnance magazine, and, of course, the trigthat really shoots even though it ger and safety assemblies are of isn’t made of anything more sturdy} metal. Too, there is a metallic shell than the: stuff that goes into what over the receiver, placed there, I used to be referred to a bit imele- suspect, as a sort of sop to the gantly as a pair of drawers, but old-fashioned who are going to be has successfully withstood 75,000 plumb shook when they see the test rounds. Now don’t jump to breechblock moving in its Nylon hasty conclusions. This musket is guide-ways! Other than these com‘no research and development pro- paratively few metallic concessions ject. No drawing board Buck Rog- to a past age the Remington is a ers dream gun. Not a fusee to see futuristic eye-opener! the light in 1970. This is <a .22 The new Remington, while a auto-loading rifie, a plinking gun, standard model and to be offered scheduled to go on sale next month. for sale in all sporting goods emThe rifle is a streamlined duzy, poriums, is infinitely more than a 39 inches in length and tipping the beam at a skinny four pounds. It || holds 14 cartridges, contained in a tubular magazine which passes through the stock of the gun. WASHINGTON ——- Warren Page, 1% Re ce I editor of Field and THERE ISN’T anything especi- firearms - ally new about a weapon built with Stream magazine was selected by some plastic parts. Even before a committee of fellow sportsmen. War II the Savage Co. regularly made shotgun stocks of Tenite. for the award of the Roy weathSince the Big Fracas, such bits and erby Big Game Trophy for. 1958, pieces as buttplates, pistol grip at a dinner 6 December in Washcaps, fore-end caps, trigger guards, ington’s Mayflower Hotel. The selection committee was and some floorplates have been fashioned of one or the other of composed of ranking sportsmen: Klein, Dallas Oilman and ‘the synthetics. But to find an en- Herb tire gun is a hoss of another col- first winner of the award; Jack O’Connor, firearms editor of Outor. What’s maybe almost as extra- door Life magazine, and last year’s ordinary about the Nylon rifle is recipient; Coleman Jonas, the taxiPete Brown of Sports ‘the further fact that the stock, the dermist; receiver and the fore-end are all Afield magazine; Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Chief of the Joint Chiefs; in: one-piece. Conventional rifles and shotguns Brig. Gen. “Bob” Scott (Ret.), auare made | in -several major pieces, thor of “Between the Elephant’s “Hey — This one is ticking!” clever innovation whumped up to catch the eye of the gadget-happy sportsman. This is a revolutionary firearm. The forerunner, veritably the pilot model, of great guns to come. Remington’s research and development chief, Wayne Leek, while showing me the Nylon 66 spoke guardedly of the presence of a Big Brother. A rifle, identical to the ‘‘66” but made for our highintensity, centerfire rifle cartridges. And of a shotgun, an autoloader, to fire the 12 gauge shell. % . * % Chemical Co. The referee. several times during the tussle. In the windup of the five-bout card, Hunter Ragland of the 151st Inngineer Gp., foreing the action all the way, gained a decision over Dick Woodley of the 29th. Weightlifting Champ FORT AMADOR, C, Z.—PFC THIS RIFLE has a remarkable Albert Shima of Ist BG, 20th Inf., potential, military speaking. It is won the “best lifter” trophy in the quickly fabricated by forcing the 1958 Canal Zone weightlifting conae a & molten plastic into a high-precision test. Shima broke all local records die under tremendous pressures. TRAINS squared things with the in the bench, squat and dead lifts. The left and right hand portions 29th when David Duerson scored a of the stock-receiver-fore-end are TKO over Buddy Harris in the next. The 23-year-old soldier, who weighs moulded separately, then the two match. The two featherweights took 130 pounds, has been hfting for segments are slapped together and turns staggering over each other in bonly a year and has had no eoachbonded permanently with carbolic the first round, but Duerson gained ing. He hoisted a total of (885 acid. And, Presto! the rifle is fin- the upper hand midway in the sec- tay in three lifts. ished. ond when he decked Harris with a The Nylon 66 rifle is made in stinging left hand. conventional brown. Leek says it Duerson kept his man in trouble can be manufactured in any color with a solid rightto the head and desired. Arctic white for the snows when Harris reeled into a corner, Special Deals to Military. Personnel ie Immediate Delivery of the tundra, green for the jun- the Trains fighter pinned him there - © Volume Dealer gles, or desert sand for the Sahara. and connected with lefts and rights - @ No Finance Problems until the bell. It was during this @ Bank Rates exchange that Harris received a Cali, write or wire Ed Ured, cut over his left eye which caused Military Representative the refere to halt th fight at 1:27 Eyes,” and finally Weatherby him- of the final round. 30000 FORD RD., GARDEN CITY, MICH. self, West Coast firearms manufacGeorge Robinson of Lawson 5 Min, from Detroit’s Airports LO. 5-9600 turer. Army Airfield Command registered Page, by reason of hunting around the world, was, in the opinion of more than 100 sportsmen gathered to do him honor, deserving of the award. He is a hunter’s | 2 z4 - Yes, accounts of $5,000. hunter, a sort of India rubber-man _or more now earn 514% . in the world of safari and shikar, 4 others earn 3%.. “with: bouncing from the African bush : ay . at Nevada's Largest! Ais to the Iraq steppe, from the gla_ mail postage prepaid. Funds ciers of Alaska’s Brooks Range to - geceived by the 15th of any month earn from the set the lush greeness of New Zealand’s Southern Alps. He whipped home from an elephant safari to accept the kudos as No. 1 among the sportsmen of this continent. Gen. Twining made the award. Brig. Gen. “Bob” Scott acted as master of ceremonies ¢ ASKIN S. Page Receives Weatherby Award -FORD-— EDSEL THUNDERBIRD — ENGLISH FORD NORTH BROTHERS, 6.€., INC. SAVINGS | BY MAIL —