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THE GAME BREEDER 



wrong doing is absent. Our readers are 

 interested especially in having the laws 

 amended so that it will no longer be con- 

 sidered a crime to produce the wild foods 

 profitably on the farms and to dispose of 

 such foods in the best market. 



While we would gladly see many re- 

 forms in the game laws and we believe 

 that many fanciful crimes could be done 

 away with to advantage, we have not the 

 time nor the space to do more at present 

 than push the two ideas: (1) that it 

 should not be criminal to produce foods, 

 profitably: (2) that such foods should be 

 sold in the best markets without fear of 

 the police. 



The Dean of Sportsmen, Charles Hal- 

 lock, announced some time ago that our 

 fight for "more game and fewer game 

 laws" had been won. It is true that 

 many States have amended their laws so 

 as to permit the profitable breeding of all 

 or certain species of game; it is also true 

 that the food legally produced and com- 

 ing from other States can not be sold in 

 New York although similar game coming 

 from abroad in cold storage is sold in 

 New York. 



There are some ridiculous details to 

 be worked out and our policy now is to 

 see that these absurdities be made to dis- 

 appear in order that game breeding be 

 further encouraged. 



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Arrows Old and New. 



We once shot over a wide stretch of 

 ■excellent quail ground, in Ohio, where 

 many Indian arrow points were scattered 

 liberally in the fields. We picked up some 

 of the flints and preserved them. 



Recently we wandered with a friend 

 over a vast shooting area where practical 

 game preserving has resulted in many 

 thousands of quail, pheasants and ducks 

 being shot every season. The ground 

 was literally covered with "arrows" — 

 the empties of Remington U-M-C steel 

 lined shells. There were a few thousand 

 ^'nitro club" also, and my friend, as he 

 picked up one "arrow" after another, re- 

 naarked: "This must be a Remington 

 place." We replied: "It pays to adver- 

 tise. Practically all of our readers now 

 say 'Arrow' when they shop in the gun- 

 stores." — The Game Breeder. 



The Parker Try Gun. 



Parker Bros'. Try Gun permits of being so 

 adjusted that most accurate measurements may 

 be secured for a perfectly fitting gun. In 

 order to secure these measurements the makers 

 have designed a Try Gun with a grip which 

 moves in relation with the stock, thus giving 

 a perfect fitting grip, no matter whether the 

 stock may b.e made with very little drop or 

 with the maximum drop. This is accomplished 

 by means of a universal joint which is located 

 between the tang and the trigger plate and is 

 adjustable, both up and down or to right or 

 left. This permits any variation of heel drop, 

 from one extreme to the other, and also gives 

 any desired cast off, either to right or left. 

 These adjustments are secured by means of 

 socket headed adjusting screws, which are lo- 

 cated in the tang and trigger plate and also on 

 either side of the frame and are adjusted by 

 means of the small wrench shown in the illus- 

 tration. Adjustments of the comb are made 

 by means of knurled nuts which are let into 

 the body of the stock, and are held from turn- 

 ing by spring pressure. The rear end of the 

 comb may be raised or lowered so that a 

 Monte Carlo effect may be secured. The 

 length of stock is also adjustable by means of 

 similar knurled nuts, and the angle or pitch 

 of butt plate may also be changed at will, so 

 that any pitch desired, may be secured. A 

 still further refinement may be had by swing- 

 ing the toe of the butt plate either to right or 

 left in relation to the stock. This latter ad- 

 justment is made by means of a screw oper- 

 ated by the small wrench. After proper ad- 

 justments are secured, the gun may be used, as 

 all parts are amply strong so to permit the use 

 of the gun in demonstrating. In order to se- 

 cure the dimensions after the proper adjust- 

 ments have been made, a special measuring 

 device has been designed. It is firmly fastened 

 to the top rib of the gun by means of locating 

 pins and a thumb screw, and a vertical slide, 

 which may be moved from one end of the 

 horizontal bar to the other, gives the correct 

 drop measurements at any point of the stock. 

 The pitch is also read by sliding the vertical 

 slide to the end of the stock, and pushing It 

 down across the butt plate, swinging it in its 

 bearing so that the slide touches the butt at 

 heel and toe. The graduations on the vertical 

 slide holder are in inches and will show the 

 desired pitch of the gun. The cast off may 

 be also read by measuring the distance of 

 center lines, which are on the heel and toe of 

 the butt plate, from the end of the vertical 

 slide, which is exactly central with the barrels. 

 For determining the length of stock, the 

 measuring device is removed from the barrels 

 and is used as a pair of beam calipers, a small 

 finger attached to the bar being held against 

 the trigger and the vertical slide held against 

 the center of the butt plate. The horizontal 

 bar is graduated, and the length easily and 

 quickly read. 



More game and fewer game laws. 



