The Gun Digest 8th edition – 1954 | |
| Table of Contents | |
| Collectors Section | |
| Collecting Old Winchesters, Bill Depperman | 2 |
| Colt Display Board | 8 |
| Firearms vs. Armor, Stephen V. Grancsay | 9 |
| Tokyo Treasure, John T. Amber | 12 |
| Bullard Firearms Catlog, circa 1887 | 16 |
| Rifle Section | |
| Bears I Have Known, Warren Page | 31 |
| Winchester Model 70 Stocks | 34 |
| The Rifle in the Field, Jack O'Connor | 35 |
| Used Guns, Henry M. Stebbins | 43 |
| Big Game Rifles, models and prices | 47 |
| Rifles of American Make, Maj. Gen. J. S. Hatcher | 57 |
| The Big 450 Rifle, H. E. MacFarland | 61 |
| Big Bore Bullet Trajectory Data | 63 |
| Records of North American Big Game | 64 |
| Small Bore Rifle, models and prices | 66 |
| Shotgun Section | |
| Retrievers for Your Hunting Pleasure, Leonard S. Florsheim, Jr. | 78 |
| Shotguns of American Make, Maj. Gen. J. S. Hatcher | 82 |
| Shotguns, models and prices | 85 |
| Choke Devices, models and prices | 95 |
| Safe Shotgun Shooting – Tap Good-enough and Dick Shaughnessy | 96 |
| Choke Patterns | 100 |
| Handgun Section | |
| Pistols and Revolvers of American Make, Maj. Gen. J. S. Hatcher | 105 |
| Six Gun '53 Style, Warren Page | 108 |
| Pistols and Revolvers, models and prices | 109 |
| Match Pistol Shooting, Lt. Col. Charles Askins | 117 |
| Raw Steel to Smith & Wesson | 123 |
| Foreign Firearms | |
| Foreign Arms, models and prices | 134 |
| Spain, the Shooting Man's Mecca, Lt. Col. Charles Askins | 142 |
| The Ten Commandments of Safety | 146 |
| Special Articles | |
| The Criminal Investigation Laboratory, Col. Calvin Goddard | 147 |
| Mountain Men and Mountain Rifles, John Barsotti | 153 |
| Outwitting a Mountain Sheep, Howard Hill | 157 |
| The Story of European Proof Marks – Part II, Development of Proof in Great Britain – A. Baron Engelhardt | 160 |
| Cartridges | |
| What's New with Winchester? – Warren Page | 184 |
| Remington Shot Shells, with prices | 185 |
| Table of Comparative Ballistics, Pistol and Revolver Cartridges – Warren Sperbeck | 185 |
| Ballistic Tables, with prices | 187 |
| Foreign Cartridges, with prices | 191 |
| Sights – Telescope and Metallic | |
| The Scoop on Scopes, Warren Page | 193 |
| Telescope Sights and Mounts, with prices | 195 |
| Spotting Scopes, with prices | 200 |
| Metallic Sight Chart, with prices | 201 |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Obsolete Metallic Cartridge Arms, Lou Ostendorp | 207 |
| Reloading Tools, with prices | 211 |
| Cleaning and Care of Firearms | 215 |
| The National Rifle Association, Paul B. Cardinal | 215 |
| The Powder Flask Book | 216 |
| Gun Book Reviews | 217 |
| Manufacturers' Directory | 221 |
| Contributors | 224 |
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