Mike Irwin
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A few weeks ago I brought home some boxes of gun magazines that I had amassed while I was living at home before and during college.
Mainly there are issues of Guns & Ammo from the late 1980s back to the late 1960s, but there are some Shooting Times and one or two others.
I've been using these as "Reading Room" material while... well, you know.
Anyway, it's been REALLY fun to pull out some of these articles...
In the first several magazines I pulled I found:
Reloading for the .41 Mag.
A Color History of the Handguns of Webley & Scott
Introduction of the S&W Model 24-3 (just bought one of these last year)
Shooting the Japanese Arisaka by Robert Shimek, one of the only reasons I continued to buy G&A after about 1985.
A proof house article on the Iver Johnson PT-22, which came up here recently, and an example of which my Father owns.
And perhaps the most interesting, an article from 1970 on .40 caliber handgun rounds, and how it was a "forgotten" chambering in the United States. Looks like we've remembered!
Oops, also forgot the great column by Elmer Keith on large-bore African rifles. That was pretty nifty, and also from the early 1970s.
G&A was by and large pablum and didn't require a lot of thought to process, but it still had its fun points.
Mainly there are issues of Guns & Ammo from the late 1980s back to the late 1960s, but there are some Shooting Times and one or two others.
I've been using these as "Reading Room" material while... well, you know.
Anyway, it's been REALLY fun to pull out some of these articles...
In the first several magazines I pulled I found:
Reloading for the .41 Mag.
A Color History of the Handguns of Webley & Scott
Introduction of the S&W Model 24-3 (just bought one of these last year)
Shooting the Japanese Arisaka by Robert Shimek, one of the only reasons I continued to buy G&A after about 1985.
A proof house article on the Iver Johnson PT-22, which came up here recently, and an example of which my Father owns.
And perhaps the most interesting, an article from 1970 on .40 caliber handgun rounds, and how it was a "forgotten" chambering in the United States. Looks like we've remembered!
Oops, also forgot the great column by Elmer Keith on large-bore African rifles. That was pretty nifty, and also from the early 1970s.
G&A was by and large pablum and didn't require a lot of thought to process, but it still had its fun points.