Need help from older folks here......

[Bob Wright]

I'm trying to remember an early gun book I had. I was thinking it might have been Hy Hunter's catalog, but the more I think about it, believe it might have been a Weatherby catalog.

The book was about the size and thickness of a Gun Digest, had a slick black cover. Pictured on the cover were two rifles made for some sultan or emir of an Arab country. The rifles were bolt actions, plated and engraved. The fore end tip was ivory, in the shape of a ram's head, with the barrel running between the horns.

Any help? This would have been around 1952 or so.


Bob Wright

 

[Colonialgirl]

WAY WAY before my Gun time (except for a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun.)

 

[gunzo]

The back cover of the dust cover on the 1955 Guns, Antique & Used Modern (by Gun Digest). They were titled "The Maharaja Rifles".

Curious to look for it, to dumb to link it. Try Biblio.com under rare books.

 

[gunzo]

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[Bob Wright]

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Thank you for that!

Bob Wright

 

[Bob Wright]

WAY WAY before my Gun time (except for a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun.)

ONE "WAY" WOULD HAVE BEEN SUFFICIENT.


Bob Wright

 

[RSIno1]

Guns had their archives online in PDF form at one time. I don't know if it's still available.

 

[blume357]

Gunzo seems to have found it with his link:

 

[Thumbcocker]

So how did they shoot?