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Gun Digest Annual TOC: 1954
The Gun Digest 8th edition – 1954 |
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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 |