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For Red heads Nos. 6, 7. 



41 Canvas back " 5,6. 



" Blue bills " 6,7. 



" Pin-tails " 5, 6,4. 



" Widgeon " 6,*7. 



" Teal " 7, 8, 6. 



" Prairie chicken " 8, 7, 6, as season advances. 



" Ruffled grouse " 6,7,8. 



" Snipe " 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 7'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. 



POWDER . 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, 



