GUNS AND AMMUXTTI' 101 



CAMP OOXVENTEXCES, 



which he has for years taken with him, and now 

 deems almost indispensable on fishing, hunting and 

 collecting tours. 



GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 



As there are still "many men of many mind- 

 would be impossible to restrict any sportsman as to 

 what arm among the many he should use. Xow-a-days 

 there are no poor guns made, comparatively speaking. 

 N man should take two guns into this country un- 

 less he can take two in one. He will find that with 

 one and his pack, a tramp of some sixteen miles will 

 give him all he cares to carry. A shotgun is of no 

 earthly use in caribou hunting you might just as 

 well shoot into a sand-bank. Their covering of short 

 thick hair on a thick hide is almost proof against 

 buckshot. On the other hand the beautiful ptar- 

 migan or willow-grouse are plentiful, of superb flavor. 

 and serve as an agreeable change in diet ; but it re- 

 quires a shotgun to get them. The conditions thus 

 stated suggest the proper gun either a Daily three- 

 barrel or a gun suggested by the writer, invented and 

 patented by Prof. Win. B. Hall, of Lancaster, Pa, 

 This gun weighs but eight and one-fourth pounds. 

 and meets all the requirements of any hunt, after any 



