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...found himself astonished. Then, for the first time, he had an urge, as strong as a clenching fist, to kill them. His coat had a special change pocket cut laterally into the button flap. It was small, but large enough for a tiny, hammerless handgun he owned and sometimes, to his wife's horror, threatened to license and carry. In an instant, he moved his hand and, in a theatrical reflex, leveled a pointing finger at the retreating shapes. With the gun in hand, he knew, knew, he would have fired. Aiming for the legs. But he certainly could...
...science of remaining in business in the swift-changing war economy has produced many a weird result: gasless gasoline stations selling hardware, hammerless and nailless hardware merchants vending dry goods, autoless automobile dealers distributing food products. Latest business gallimaufry is a combination of steamship operations and egg dehydration...
...Civil War (then famed gun: the Harper's Ferry musket). His three sons Philo, Samuel and Eliphalet Jr., carried on, but 23 years after the Civil War Marcellus Hartley bought control of the company, and his grandson Marcellus Hartley Dodge is now its chairman. Remington first developed the hammerless, solid-breech, repeating shotgun and the hammerless unloading shotgun, introduced the paper shotgun shell and the metallic cartridge in the U. S. It made the deadly little Derringer short barreled pistol, carried in the sash of many a gambler. Newest Remington shells and cartridges are Kleanbore, with potassium chlorate eliminated from...
Provided there enough entries, the Shooting Club will hold a handicap match for a hammerless shot gun during the last three weeks in May. The handicaps will be made as generous as possible, so as to make all approximately equal. The matches, six in all, will begin on Monday, May 9, and will be held on Monday and Thursday afternoons following. The final score will be determined from the four best out of the six scores of each contestant. There will be prizes for first, second and third places and for the man making the best actual score in four...
WANTED.- To rent, two afternoons a week, a close shooting, hammerless shot gun. Room 1, 18 Story st., from 9 till...