Guns & Ivory: What better way to embellish a collection of colts than with Ivory grips from a Tusker you shot.

American Handgunner | March 1, 2002| | Copyright

Nothing feels quite so good or looks so attractive as elephant ivory gracing the frame of a classic handgun. But the look and feel of a handgun was the last thing on my mind back in September of 1970. Facing an elephant standing less than 30 yards away made the Winchester Model 70 .458 Win. Mag. rifle seem small in my hands. A handgun would have felt like a toy. And yet the outcome on that autumn day in Kenya, East Africa, would influence the look and feel of several handguns more than 30 years later.

My father and I were elephant hunting in the game-rich country of ...

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