I was drawn to the gun, I believe, because my Dad was a WW II veteren and owned an M1 carbine. I suspect this was the basic model for the gun, with much more power.
I remember the giant gorilla ad but had forgotten about it. The one I remember was about a guy taking the legendary orangutang from Southeast Asia. (I don't think they were very well known in those days; the ad led you to believe they were a rare animal.) I can still remember where I was when I read the ad in Outdoor Life; eating lunch on a summer jobsite where my dad was building a new chimney on a 2 story farmhouse. I was 14 or 15 at the time. I may remember it because while I was reading the magazine, the 70+ year old farmer had climbed the scaffold during our lunch break to see the work and managed to fall off. He was saved because he hit on the roof of his brand new (very large) Health Department approved outhouse, the first one built in our county. He simply hopped off the outhouse roof and went inside with no effect. Old farmers raised during the depression were tough.
Everyone has happenings in their life that you simply couldn't make up if you tried. This was one of mine.
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