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Post by toyfj40 » Sat Sep 03, 2005 1:44 am

Guns Magazine began publishing in Jan 1955. For their 50th Anniv,
they are making avail the first years edition, each as a .pdf file.
They have a link to the current-anniv-issue on their home page,
but after a little thought I figured out how to get the older ones ;)
Each issue is fairly large and is some 50-60 pages.
If you have the bandwidth, the articles are written with a long-lost
style and the ads do not contain:
"Area Codes", "Zip Codes", "eMail addresses" or "Web Addresses"... ;)
I assume the remaining issues will become available around
the first of each month.
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# http://www.GunsMagazine.com/G0155.pdf - 19Mb Jan 55
# http://www.GunsMagazine.com/G0255.pdf - 21Mb Feb 55
# http://www.GunsMagazine.com/G0355.pdf - 27Mb Mar 55
# http://www.GunsMagazine.com/G0455.pdf - 26Mb Apr 55
# http://www.GunsMagazine.com/G0555.pdf - 29Mb May 55
# http://www.GunsMagazine.com/G0655.pdf - 26Mb Jun 55
# http://www.GunsMagazine.com/G0755.pdf - 33Mb Jul 55
# http://www.GunsMagazine.com/G0855.pdf - 34Mb Aug 55
# http://www.GunsMagazine.com/G0955.pdf - 33Mb Sep 55
# http://www.GunsMagazine.com/G1055.pdf - 1-Oct
# http://www.GunsMagazine.com/G1155.pdf - 1-Nov
# http://www.GunsMagazine.com/G1255.pdf - 1-Dec
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Post by Bullseye » Sat Sep 03, 2005 6:34 pm

That's some interesting reading. I particularly enjoyed the article on John Brown's rifle.

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Post by Gary_W » Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:07 pm

In the "Guns for hunting" story it sure is nice to see the trusty Savage model 99 on the first page! I use my dad's circa 1953 savage to this day and it looks exactly like the one in the picture. Perhaps a 99-EG. What a beautiful rifle.

Thanks for posting these links!
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Post by Gary_W » Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:29 pm

In the "Guns for hunting" story it sure is nice to see the trusty Savage model 99 on the first page! I use my dad's circa 1953 savage to this day and it looks exactly like the one in the picture. Perhaps a 99-EG. What a beautiful rifle.

Thanks for posting these links!
Gary

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