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Show - ' lt , .1t ' .4 1,017111111.1111:0,?MMOM..nongl..11.MOMMMIE....MM.... -- '' 1. 7 ce '''. ri, 77,X te DUG - ' E 'YPQ ED- E - ' G TA r,,I1:E . ' r113 MO . -- , 1.1 s' r-- , Gun and Ammunition Editor of Outdoor Life Chooses Home in Idaho, Believing frioisntain West Most Exciting Center for Big Game Hunting. . ' Bi CHARLES -- Photos by the Author . .. - --- ) - - 7- - C. NIEHUIS . It ' , ac- - particililive 'DAHO, AND LEWISTON in quired a new citizen of national prominence gun and this past year. for Outdoor Life, one-ii- t thenatioWs leading hunting and fishing magazines. Jack O'Connor has hunted big game all the way the Rocky Mountains from Old Mexico clear into up Alaska. He is one of the few persons who has hunted all the varieties of North American wild sheep, which the desert, the big hewn. the Stone and the inacill.ude: 1 I -- , ' I . ( 0 I, 0 O'Connor began his writing career while teaching English in Arizona State College in northern Arizona at Flagstaff. He wrote his first novel "Conpioneer quest," a piece of fiction based activities in 1929. In 1932 he did his firSt fact article on rifles which was published by Sports Afield , , , 4 ( ) ' ' :. r ' writing hunting stones in earnest and placing them with the big three of the national hunting and fishing magazines: Outdoor Life. Field arid Stream and Sports Afield. Raymond J. Brown, editor of Outdoor Life, offered him a staff writer's job in 1937. O'Connor developed this Into his present position of gun and am- -munitions editor for the magazine. Today he is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on American firearms. His fan Mail runs up to 2000 letters a of the world. They are month coming from from "gun nuts." big game hunters and people asking questions about hunting. firearms, cartridges, loading, and technical questions on ballistics 4 ' ' ' - , . , , ok ,,,,- , '',, . , - ' - .- - -- ,,, ' . , . ' , . , t ; - ' ; 41, L W,A,,..411441,Nzok, 44',44 .044.06.44 f't 1 ,, guns and ammunition field, O'Connor has written a number of books pertaining to all phases of big game hunting. They are considered to be outstanding authoritative works by the nation's big game hunters. Until this year,lack O'Connorhas been a resident of Arizona, teaching journalism at the University of Arizona. Two years ago he' went into full time writing. This summer he moved his family and center of activities to Lewiston,. Idaho. He considers the northern part of the Rocky Mountain states some of the finest big game hunting territory in this continent. He feels that being in the center of this activity will help him in his work. .. ,, orad , , , , Jock , O'Connor (loft) in his trophy L room with T. IChnbott; Arizona gomit thiC.-- - - 4 -- -s ,, ., 4 ,. ,,,f l' ' - ' ', - equipment - for life in ,s 0, -- -,' ' - - ' ' ,1 , - , Sportsmen O' Connor with jeep, gun ond -,, 4 t ., 44' ! i " . , ' ' .1.,'.,., ', '- i . .0 ,',",,,.. dr , of ; . . ' -- , - ' 1 4 ,. -- ' I 41-- .. . ' ' - , I ' - e o .4 ' , ,,,-,, '' :, - ' . 4, ,' ''''' '' O'4 - . , ' . ' .- -' ' - is reedy .. , .. . -- ' the wilds. - , ' , . r el" ,' . . .'- - ..,' 4 i..- - 111 OE 1 sir , ,- I 1 1 - 1, 4 . . i . .4. - SINCE ESTABLISHING himself in the hunting and 1 - . - . ., . ( , , .4 , I . , t . IT WAS THENhebegan . , : . , , , ly on-ear- 1 . 7' - - t' ',, , , .i., .. , ' 0 ,,, ,,:,: ' 1 , itl ......0.,1. t 4 ' 't , ,..,,,,..., ..4, ,,,,,, , . ,,,,,,r, po,..'''"4-.- 4 .. ,i ...", ". . . '. '''' .. ( , ' 1 '''''''- 4 '' ' '''' ' il Z .4 . ., ; ' ''1 ' 1 .' ) ,,,:X''''t44,1-4- I. .: - ' , 4 r 1 . I , , "; ,.. 44 , - ' '''' E. I ; k.. THI IISIIIIT NEWS MAGAZIN!' . I , ''''''.."1.11111111 . II ' ' ' ' ' 4 kwr....."111 ,, . , - , ."'..4 -- - , - . s ,, , . ,, - ,.., |