SHOT, POWDER, SHELLS, WADS AND LOADING. 331 
Ome Redgnead Siete ole en - NOEL Gh Ye 
WanvaseDacke ts aa.0 ae : = 6. 
Vat, NCARON ee ee “« 67 
LEA Ei 10 Cla Rn OSiSae 6 See : is 6, 4. 
See AWiIdGeOnG Satake >. cde 6, a 
Lo a eee 7, 8, 6 
‘** Prairie chicken..... ¥ 8, 1, 6, as season advances. 
‘* Ruffled grouse. .. : Guanes 
SHO. c0e0b 68 atepstocneeeee : 10, 9, 8. 
The sizes in numbers underlined are best to use. You 
will find your gun, like many human beings, eccentric, 
and you must get acquainted with it thoroughly and 
find out its peculiarities. Some guns will throw a cer- 
tain size with great closeness; then another size will 
scatter over a vast space. You should target it at 40 
yards, with the different sizes you think of using, and 
select the size that makes the most uniform target, 
with sufficient closeness to kill regularly at distance 
tested. Your gun may throw 5’s better than 6’s or T’s. 
If so, the reason is unexplainable, yet it will always 
remain true in fact, and you must cater to it by shoot- 
ing that size. 
PowpEer .—The grade of powder used throughout 
the Western States is noted more for the price it can 
be bought for than for the particular brand used. A 
certain brand will be used in a given locality,—some 
one acknowledged to be an excellent shot will use it 
with splendid results, his friends use the same, and al- 
though not perfectly successful themselves, still, basing 
their conclusions on results attained by their friend, 
