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RECREATION. 



my mind about it. Now I stand in line 

 to protect game in every way possible. 



Therefore, I was sorry to see the Mar- 

 lin Co. and the Peters Cartridge Co. with- 

 draw their ads from Recreation. I know 

 from experience that both concerns de- 

 serve hearty praise for protecting our game, 

 as I will guarantee that anyone using their 

 goods exclusively will be in little danger of 

 getting roasted as a game hog. I was out 

 with a party one fall for a duck hunt, and 

 we were unable to kill enough for the camp 

 table, though ducks were plentiful. Four 

 of us were crack wing shots, but we had 

 no ammunition with us except Peters' 

 Quick Shot cartridges. Last fall I used the 

 U. M. C. New Club, and, although I am 

 a Winchester partisan, I had to acknowl- 

 edge they do execution. 



My gun is an old timer and will not do 

 good work with nitro powder, but makes 

 some record breaking kills with New Rival 

 or New Club black powder shells. 



F. B. Lamb, Washburn, Wis. 



REGARDING BULLETS. 



In reply to Amateur, whose letter ap- 

 peared in February Recreation, I will say 

 that lead bullets do not develop so great 

 a velocity as metal patched bullets. A metal 

 patched bullet will give ioo feet more ve- 

 locity than a lead bullet with the same 

 quantity of powder. Accuracy can not be 

 maintained with a lead bullet at over 1,500 

 feet velocity. Another reason is that 

 smokeless starts a bullet much quicker than 

 black powder and a lead bullet is likely to 

 jump the rifling at the breech. 



Some people use Recreation as they 

 would a tin horn, to talk through. Do not 

 write things that people will not believe. 

 Mr. Van Dyke, of Red Lodge, Mont., tells 

 of killing a number of elk and deer with 

 one shot each from a Stevens 22. He says 

 he shot deer at 75 yards running straight 

 from him and the little 22 put a bullet 

 through the heart of every one. The 

 Stevens must have excellent penetration. 



There are a number of good shot guns, 

 but the Winchester '97 model excels them 

 all. With mine, I have put 310 No. 8 

 shot into a 30 inch circle at 40 yards. My 

 load was 3 drams powder, 1 ounce shot. 

 With shot spreaders in the same load I can 

 put about 175 pellets into the same target. 



I gave wire patched bullets a trial in 

 my 38-55 last fall. They are excellent for 

 all but game killing. They do not expand 

 on striking bone. 



M. C. McGowan, Lawrence, Mich. 



rifle will shoot into 50 inches of pine 

 boards. As R. M. C. mentions the 30-30, 

 we take this opportunity to explain that it 

 is our .303 full jacketed bullet cartridge 

 fired from a Savage rifle which penetrates 

 50 inches or more of clear pine. We had 

 an exhibition at Detroit, Boston and New 

 York shows, in which there are pine logs 

 showing this extent of penetration. The 

 bullets have traversed the wood end-wise, 

 which is a greater test than across the 

 grain, the wood being stronger end-wise, 

 and more power being required to crush the 

 fibers than if the bullet were going across 

 the grain. We have in some instances se- 

 cured better results than 50 inches, but 

 sometimes the bullet will not reach so far 

 as that, owing to some extra resistance in 

 the fibers of the wood. We have noticed 

 that if a wood contains much rosin it will 

 materially reduce the penetration. 



Savage Arms Co. 



PETERS' FRIEND DISAPPROVES OP HIM. 



Dover, N. H. 

 Peters Cartridge Co., 



Cincinnati, Ohio : 



Dear Sirs : — I think you are wrong when 

 you accuse Mr. G. O. Shields of doing you 

 an injustice. The fault is probably with 

 the extractor of the gun being worn or the 

 springs weak. It certainly is not with 

 the shells, because I have a Winchester and 

 have shot at least 1,000 new Victor shells 

 in it. I shall be in the market later for a 

 lot of your goods and expect to have large 

 sales. I consider the Peters goods equal 

 to any on the market. 



Yours truly, L. C. Hunt. 



PENETRATION of the savage. 



In March Recreation we came across 



a letter written by R. M. C, Red Lodge, 



Mont., in which he mentions that the 



Savage Arms Company claims the Savage 



SMALL SHOT. 

 For ducking I use a 6y 2 pound Clai- 

 brough, full choke. It will kill at 75 to So 

 yards. Those who claim that black pow- 

 der is superior to smokeless, taking every- 

 thing into consideration, are mistaken. 

 There are good and poor smokeless pow- 

 ders. The 2 best are Dupont and 

 Laflin & Rand. I find Winchester Blue 

 .Rival shells with Laflin & Rand smokeless 

 a load which can not be bettered, and it is 

 within reach of all. I am with you in your 

 struggle against the game hogs. We are 

 troubled with a few here. 



S. E. Sangster, Pt. Perry, Can. 



In looking over recent numbers of 

 Recreation I find no mention of Stevens' 

 Ideal rifle No. 44. I have one, chambered 

 for the 22 long rifle cartridge, that I have 

 given a thorough test. It will shoot short 

 and long cartridges accurately up to 100 

 yards. When weather conditions are 

 favorable it will, using the long rifle 

 cartridge, do good work at 200 yards. 

 For squirrels, rabbits and other small game 



