Gun Digest 2011. Dan Shideler

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СКАЧАТЬ and “Precocious Pellets,” in the Dec. 1946 The American Rifleman , are characteristic examples. Modern readers are apt to find these tales rather more tedious than entertaining, but they serve to illustrate something perhaps unexpected about the personality of Tedmon: far from being the humorless moralist which the occasionally scalding vehemence of his tirades might suggest, a broad sense of country-boy humor percolated through much of his work, particularly that of the ‘20s and ‘30s. Refined wit it wasn’t, but rather the kind of good-natured cornpone that made Hee-Haw a hit TV show in the ‘70s. He also occasionally ventured into fiction, as two known examples in Ace-High magazine attest.

      Whether because he believed he had said enough, or because his editors thought so, Tedmon wrote less about small deer and sporting ethics in the years after WWII. In five pieces published between 1945 and 1952, he promoted a new (or rather, revitalized) interest – offhand, free-rifle competition, a modern derivative of the Schuetzen matches that had captivated him as a youth but had since died out due to anti-”German” sentiment. The last published work of his known to this collector was, most fittingly, a return to a “favorite” >subject, “The Stevens Favorite Rifle,” in 1959. He permanently left the range on November 28, 1969, at 85 years of age, and now lies among other family members in Grandview Cemetery of Ft. Collins.

      Allyn Tedmon originated the tell-it-as-I-see-it, “straight talk express” the first time he put pen to paper; he never mastered the fine art of equivocation. For this reason, his charismatic voice would probably prove unpublishable today, or not, at any rate, without editing so severe as to oppress his distinctive spirit. Fortunately for anyone who cares to sample that spirit, much of his work appeared in Arms and the Man and The American Rifleman, which – because they tended to be preserved by NRA members – remain the most widely available today of pre-WWII sporting periodicals.

       PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALLYN H. TEDMON

1902	“Recommend No. 44 Stevens,” Recreation, July.
1914	“Differs from ‘Antipop,’” Outdoor Life, Jan.
1915	“That New Rifle,” Outdoor Life (reprinted in Gun Writers of Yesteryear by Jim Foral).
	“Horse Play Out West,” Outing, Dec.
1916	“Rifle Notes,” Outdoor Life, Feb.
1917	“On the Trail of the .250-3000,” Outers’ Book, Nov.
1919	“Random Hunting Re flections,” Outdoor Life, March.
	“Rifle Notes,” Outdoor Life, April.
1920	“The .250-3000 Savage on Big Game,” Arms and the Man, June 1.
	“Looking Backward,” Outdoor Life, July.
	“Start the Boy Out Right,” Outdoor Life, July.
	“What You and I Can Do with an Inexpensive Arm,” Outdoor Life, Aug.
	“Rifles What Was,” Arms and the Man, Dec. 1
1921	“Small Deer,” Arms and the Man, Oct.1.
1922	“Lest We Forget,” Arms and the Man, Feb.15.
	“Hunting the Little Bears of the West,” Arms and the Man, May 15.
	“The Fable of a Rifle Nut,” Arms and the Man, June 1.
	“There Were Others,” Arms and the Man, June 15.
	“Coyotes,” Arms and the Man, July 1.
	“The Days of Real Sport,” Arms and the Man, Aug. 1.
	“The High Power,” Arms and the Man, Sept. 15.
	“Milkin’ Her Dry,” Arms and the Man, Nov. 1.
1923	“What Would Pat Garrett Have Done?,” Arms and the Man, Jan.1.
	“Canis Latrans,” Arms and the Man, Jan.15.
	“Ramblings of a Nut,” Arms and the Man, April 1.
	“If You Can’t Buy It, Make It!,” Arms and the Man, May 15.
	“A Law for the Outlaw,” The American Rifleman, June1.
	“Beyond the Dollar Sign,” The American Rifleman, Sept.1.
	“The .250-3000 on Lion and Bear,” The American Rifleman, Sept.15.
	“Truth is Mighty and Shall Prevail,” The American Rifleman, Dec.
1924	“Popping Prairie Poodles with Chauncy Thomas,” Outdoor Life, Feb.
	“The Single Shot Rifle, Outdoor Life, Feb.
	“Not for Pistol ‘Antis,’” The American Rifleman, Sept.15.
1925	“It Reminded Me,” The American Rifleman, March 1.
	“Them Awful Boys,” Outdoor Life, Dec.
	“Those Stevens Rifles,” The American Rifleman, Dec.
1927	“Not an Hour Off, But an Off Hour,” The American Rifleman, April
	“The Scope Sight You Can Afford,” The American Rifleman, July.
	“Boys and Rifles,” The American Rifleman, Nov.
1928	“Where Peterson Barrels Were Born,” The American Rifleman, Jan.
	“A Man at Stake,” Ace-High Magazine, August 1.
1929	“A Red Letter Day,” The СКАЧАТЬ В начало < 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 > В конец