| Welcome to the 83rd edition of Shooter s Bible.We ve updated and improved the book considera-bly, always with your best interests and needs inmind, and we invite you to browse through all 576pages. You ll note that after a year s absence we vebrought back a popular feature, "50 Years Ago inShooter s Bible," which includes a dozen pages re-printed from the 1942 edition of this annual pub-lication. To give readers a better persnective this time around,we re included a chronology of major sporting and news events of that same war-torn year in our nation s history. Next comes the fourth in a series of heavily il- lustratea articles on sporting art by 5tepnen Irwin. This time, the author--who practices medicine inMontana when he isn t out hunting, fishing or col-lecting more memorabilia--offers a fascinatinghistory of the duck decoys in America, completewith a portfolio of marvelous photos. The third in a series of company biographies byWayne van Zwoll tells the story of Samuel Colt andthe now famous company he founded more than150 years ago. Accompanying van Zwoll s piece isanother by Bill Clede on Colt s thriving CustomGun Shop. That s followed by Sam Fadala s articleon the African safari and a chapter from his newbook, Great Shooters of the World, about TeddyRoosevelt, who was himself a safari hunter of somenote. Our old friend Ralph Quinn writes about theadvantages of mild cartridges in hunting big game,and we conclude the article section with Wilf Pvle s |
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