Pulp Fiction, 1934 · page 144 of 148
Western Story Magazine, May 12, 1934 — page 144: what you’re looking at
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# Page 142: Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine This page contains **prose text and reference material** — specifically, reader letters about firearms and ammunition, interspersed with anecdotes and advertisements. The visible content includes: technical discussion of shotgun design and .45 cartridge reloading; a brief crime statistic about Chicago police; an account of a Chattanooga tea room owner who shot an armed robber; advertisements for rifle sales and manufacturer booklets; and an "Arms Alphabet" providing definitions of firearms terminology (Hand Gun, Ignition, Jacket, Keyholing, etc.). The page is primarily instructional and promotional content aimed at gun enthusiasts and readers.
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142 back sight, but this carries your eye away from the stock, so you must have a butt with its comb about one quarter inch higher than _ be- fore. All of this means that the shotgun ought to be especially de- signed if it is to be used with a com- pensator efficiently. This does not mean that a compensator will not improve any gun for which it is de- signed, but it does mean that one hundred per cent success with fire- arms requires harmony in design. Reloading .45 cartridges, H. F. Henverson, Shreveport, Louisiana: The C-454 has a hollow base, cuts a “wad-cutter hole” in the target pa- per, and was designed for all-around 45 Colt use. As you know, these can be cast at home with simple, inexpensive tools, and loaded into empty cases, using a maximum load Modern’ Bond ~ Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine of 13.7 grains weight No. 80 pow- der, which develops 1,116 feet per second velocity. Go Chicago! In one year, according to the Chi- cago Tribune, sixty-three criminals were slain by police and citizens. Police knocked off thirty-seven, and citizens or private watchmen pol- ished off twenty-six. Nine police officers were beaten to the draw by criminals who killed the policemen, but the police were still ahead when the whistles blew for the New Year. ‘Tennessee tea trap. J. W. Pocur, who owns a tea room in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was held up on December 23, 1932, by an armed bandit. When the rob- ber left, Pogue grabbed a gun and shot him three times before he took him prisoner and called in the police. Peters’s and Colt’s have resumed sending free booklets to our readers. If you have not received these interesting pamphlets, write us now, and we will put your name on the mailing list. The government supply of Krag and Russian rifles is exhausted, but the U.S. Rifle (Enfield), Model 1917, Caliber .30, is sold to citizens of the United States for $8.85, under certain restrictions which will be explained to readers who send us a stamped and addressed envelope. AN ARMS ALPHABET HAND GUN: A pistol or revolver. HANG-FIRE: Delayed discharge. HEEL: The rear, upper edge of the butt. iF IGNITION: The starting of combustion of the powder charge. IMPACT: The act of striking. J. V.: Instrumental velocity, the actual, recorded velocity of a bullet, as con- trasted with the theoretical velocity. © * JACKET: A whole or partial covering - for the bullet. K. KEYHOLING: The act of the bullet striking the target sideways as the result | of not traveling on its axis. KEEPER: A leather loop used to adjust the gun sling. comicbooks.comi