Show 19 1 9 f I 1 RHODY rifle search on I 1 A nationwide naton wide search for rae raie old oci rifles of 0 the has just been sparked sr irked by the american rifleman official publication of the national i rie association the guns are the only ones ever made of the little known one of ore thousand variety of the i i model 73 lever action repeating repealing rite rifle which western pioneers said could be loaded on sunday and fired all week in its current issue the american rifleman describes derc ribes in detail deta il lor for the first time this high accuracy rine rifle a bout about which few of the count rys leading gun experts even know about the magazine asks gun lovers and collectors who own lever action rifles to examine them carefully tor for the words one of one thousand engraved on the top of the barrel just ahead of the receiver owners of these rifles have been asked to notify the magazine giving the serial number of the rifle and any historical facts about it th they ey aly may know the year 1950 Is the seventy fifth anniversary of the introduction of the one of one thousand which was made by winchester from the years 1875 through 1879 how holy many of these rifles are still in existence is not known the one of one thousand is a variety of the famous model 73 the gun that won the west of which the new haven company made from 1873 until t 1 1924 when the model was discontinued it w was s the second rifle to bear the name of oliver F r winchester pioneer firearms manufacturer in announcing the one of one thousand the company described describe e d it as follows the barrel of every sporting rifle we make will be proved and shot at a target and the target will be n numbered u to correspond with the barrel and be attached to it all of those barrels that are found to make targets of extra merit will be made up into guns with set triggers and extra finish and marked as a designating name one of one thousand and sold at one of the few known rifles of this variety was loaned by new haven firearms manufacturer for use in the motion picture winchester 73 in which it plays the leading role with such stars as jimmy stewart and shelly winters appearing in supporting parts A A A bird painter ra 41 I 1 some of the worlds rarest and most unusual al c canaries are arc being painted by dilger graduate student and artist alth the lie depa department r ciment of conservation at cornell ile he does other birds too the southpaw artist Is shown at on the painting of while throated birds of lie mountain area A A A one for ripley aven with ith the hunting season over dod yarns continue to the rounds weve had quail and rabbits to kick all albie e in our hunting coat but this ON cant compare to 0 o a story relayed by chambliss pierce from knoxville oville tenn it seems a clinton drus drugg elst kt it K C llo hoskins k ns returned late from roni a hunt one friday evenitz and placed five undressed undre sed quail in the refrigerator friger ator on sunday the missus us baked a pie and placed it in the freezer pomp come time a hit later fl opens the door to find a supposedly dead quail ohn hn refused to be fold turkey calmly pecking away at the pie pic A A A chudars in in oregon the washington state game com mission which has been in its efforts to establish tle tie tl e cartr partridge dge in that state slate has agreed to furnish the oregon game commis sion with chuhar eggs this season the eggs will be sent to the hermiston game farm arm to be hatch hatched d and most of the biros raised will be held for breeding stock to provide birds tor for future plantings suitable habitat li is believed available |