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hunter in taking the game at the utmost disadvan- 

 tage and destroying it most thoroughly. The big- 

 game rifles are of the highest power, the longest 

 range and the greatest rapidity of fire that modern 

 inventive genius and mechanical skill can produce. 



Every appliance and assistance that money can 

 buy, the modern sportsman and gunner diligently 

 secures to help him in destroying his chosen game. 

 The deadliness of the automobile in hunting is 

 already so well recognized that North Dakota has 

 enacted a law forbidding its use against the game 

 of that state. The superior deadliness of the auto- 

 matic and pump shot-guns is thoroughly and 

 widely acknowledged by the popularity of those 

 weapons with the men who wish to kill all that the 

 law allows. Look carefully at the published photo- 

 graphs of game-hogs and their masses of slaugh- 

 tered ducks, geese, quail and other birds, and in 

 about nine out of every ten of them you will find the 

 automatic shot-gun or the pump-gun, or both. 



The grand army of men and boys who hunt 

 according to law assails the game during the annual 

 open season. The poachers and the resident 

 hunters kill it all the year round, and rarely are any 

 of them caught and convicted. I am convinced that 

 this class of killers is doing far more toward the 

 extinction of species than is done by sportsmen. 

 It is the market-gunner, however, who is most 

 deadly of all. He works early and late, at least six 

 days a week, and the game he seeks knows no 



