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game. The rifle barrel, which is on top, may be 

 made to any calibre to suit the fancy of the owner, 

 from 50 down. The action is strong and perfect. 

 The shot-barrel is a 20-bore cylinder, shoots shot well, 

 and does good execution with a patched round ball 

 at seventy-five to one hundred yards. This would be 

 the ideal gun with jacketed bullet for rifle and 

 smokeless powder. A repeater is not necessary ex- 

 cept in war. As each hunter is allowed to kill but 

 five bull and three doe caribou, he should shoot for 

 fine specimens. On small game there is no restric- 

 tion. As lead is heavy, it is well to take only what 

 ordnance stores are necessary. Forty rounds of rifle 

 cartridges are plenty and, if a shot-barrel is used, 50 

 assorted sizes of small shot is quite sufficient. Mr. 

 Kepler carred his Daily 3-barrel gun the one he 

 has been using for the last fifteen years ; shot-barrel 

 12-bore; rifle, 45-70 Govt. Mr. J. W. Davis, "The 

 Kid" owned no gun, and used the author's Hall gun, 

 20-bore shot, rifle 40-82. The writer used a 40-65 

 Winchester with a Malcolm telescope sight. 



A small, light tent is a necessity. Having exam- 

 ined carefully the Protean tent, manufactured by A. 

 S. Comstock, of Evanston, Ills., we were not long in 

 selecting just what we wanted. Size, on ground, 7x7 

 feet; height of rear wall, 2 feet; height at the only 



