Posted February 7, 2018 3:07 pm by Comments

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Cover of Guns & Ammo fall issue 1958 Volume 1, Issue 2

The article re-published below, “Scientific Buffalo Hunter,” published in Guns & Ammo’s second issue described the exploits of Civil War-veteran Frank Mayer. Mayer used a .45-120-550 Sharps fitted with a German-made 10X scope to allegedly kill thousands of bison until he re-enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1875. He retired 35 years later as a colonel, then served as a law officer in Colorado. He continued hunting until he turned 100 in 1950.

*Originally published in Guns & Ammo, Fall 1958 Volume 1, issue #2.

Scientific Buffalo Hunter

By Norman B. Wiltsey

A weird assortment of gun-toters were busy hunting buffalo in Texas when 22-year old Frank Mayer arrived G&A-60th-logothere in the spring of 1872 to try his hand at making a fortune in “buffalo dollars.” Young Mayer became an object of curi­osity immediately upon his arrival, for he carried with him a fine 10-power, German-made telescope sight; an unheard-of accessory on the buffalo plains.

Mayer found the world’s greatest slaughter of wildlife literally booming around him; the thunder of gunfire re­sounding daily from sunrise to sunset on the rolling Texas plains. Veterans of both the

Civil War-veteran Frank Mayer

Civil War-veteran Frank Mayer

Union and Confederate armies were banging …Read the Rest

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