50 SPORTSMAN'S HAND BOOK. 



This would seem to be the gun par excellence for antelope, 

 for they can usually be seen a great way, and it is necessary 

 to shoot as long as they can be seen. We frequently read 

 of hunters emptying their Westchesters at them and then 

 following the wounded game all day. This in itself is 

 enough to condemn the gun. We want a gun, the ball of 

 which, has an affinity for the particular game it is made for, 

 and which it will search out and corral without needless 

 waste of time and muscle. Some one wants to find such a 

 gun quickly, too, for before many days there will be no use 

 for rifles, except to show our children as weapons " we used 

 to shoot deer with before they were extinct." 



Such are my ideas on the "Choice of Hunting Rifles." 

 If they help any one in his dilemma caused by so many con- 

 flicting views published in Forest and Stream, I shall feel 

 that they have accomplished wonders. S. 



