Guns Magazine

Someone on another blog linked to Guns Magazine having posted a few of their archived magazines online. I love looking at old stuff like that. Gun articles from 50 years ago. Just looking at the ads from way back when dirt was young and rocks were soft can hold my attention for hours (A British Sten or Enfield for less than $40!!! I guess that was about a weeks pay then, so the Enfield for that isn’t far off.)

One article was about the then new interest in .50 caliber rounds as a sniper cartridge. Ah, everything old is new again. And then you could buy a single shot .50 cal surplus anti-tank weapon for about $150. It was determined that the rifles were heavy and clunky and kicked like a mule, but very accurate up to a mile away. Pretty much today’s verdict.

Lots of articles on women shooting, but there was some mixed signals there to a 21st Century reader. Nice that they were trying to get women interested in the sport by highlighting successful woman shooters, but the prose describing them was a bit dated, mentioning that, "they could whip up some ammo just like whipping up some cake batter with their electric mixer" kinda stuff. Jeez O'peas.

Everyone shoots pistols one handed like they had never heard of Gunsite or the Weaver stance (well I guess they hadn’t) and some Marine Colonel was bad mouthing bolt action rifles in a way that Colonel Jeff Cooper would find laughable.