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adopted before going to such an expense, 

 because as soon as the new cartridge is 

 issued to the U. S. Troops, the present 

 30-40 will be an obsolete cartridge. One of 

 the greatest advantages claimed for the 

 30-40 ammunition is the fact that the Gov- 

 ernment ammunition can be procured in 

 any part of the country, especially where 

 there is a military post. As soon as possi- 

 ble, the Savage Arms Company will manu- 

 facture a rifle to take the new cartridge, 

 but it will be 18 mouths or 2 years before 

 this can be turned out for the market. The 

 22 caliber is under way, and will come 

 out this fall. 



Arthur Savage, 

 Managing Director Savage Arms Co. 



TO PREVENT RUST. 



Some of your readers have asked for 

 advice regarding the prevention of rust in 

 small caliber rifles, and have been advised 

 by others to clean the gun thoroughly .and 

 then draw an oiled rag through it. That is 

 excellent as far as it goes ; but it by no 

 means goes far enough. I have had a rifle 

 so treated rust badly in 2 weeks. The 

 reason is obvious ; acid in the oil. Most 

 lubricating oil is unfit for such use. The 

 officers of the Ordnance Department and 

 Artillery Corps of our army know well 

 that ordinary oil must not be placed in the 

 carefully machined recoil cylinders of 

 heavy guns, and accordingly use only spe- 

 cial oil furnished by the Ordnance Depart- 

 ment after careful test of its neutrality. 



The safest protection for guns is prob- 

 ably the gun grease sold by reliable manu- 

 facturers and to be had of any gun dealer. 

 My shot gun does not rust when stored 

 for months or when used in rain or even in 

 salt water spray. It is protected by grease 

 made by Scott & Richards, Boston. So 

 little grease is required that the gun apuears 

 perfectly clean and does not soil han3s" or 

 clothing. A 15 cent tube contains sufficient 

 to keep a shot gun a year even if the grease 

 be used after every hunt and at the rate of 

 2 hunts a week. 



R. R. Raymond, 

 First Lieut., Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., 



Montgomery, Ala. 



A RECORD-MAKING REMINGTON. 



In March Recreation C. A. M. asks 

 about the shooting qualities of the Reming- 

 ton double gun. I have been using one 2 

 years in the field and at the traps for both 

 live and clay birds, and will tell him my 

 experience. 



The gun I use is an A. grade, 30 inch 

 full choke Damascus barrels, patterned at 

 336 left and 334 right, with f.f.g. powder 

 and No. 8 shot. I have made as eood 



pattern^ 9 r P ea /ly §°? with j^o. 7^2 shot 



and Ballistite powder. Also with Laflin & 

 Rand new Infallible powder. Am using 

 the latter at present with No. 7 shot. 



I began tran shooting with this gun in 

 May, '01, and as I never had shot over 

 traps before I did not make a brilliant show- 

 ing. Now I am able to make 22 or 23 right 

 along and have made 25 straight. Am 

 shooting against Parker, Ithaca, Marlin, 

 Trancotte, Smith and Winchester guns, and 

 my gun has the high record in this club and 

 town. If C. A. M. wants a gun for trap 

 work 30 inch barrels probably are best; 

 but for brush I should choose 26 inch bar- 

 rels, right open and left slightly modified. 

 Dr. R. L. Williams, Kane, Pa. 



U. M. C. BETTER THAN GERMAN. 



I saw in January Recreation an article 

 on the Mauser by E. E. Stokes, giving his 

 experience with German and U. M. C. 

 ammunition for that gun. I have a 7 m-m 

 Mauser, and have found the same trouble 

 with German-made ammunition that Mr. 

 Stokes did, but I have had no trouble what- 

 ever with U. M. C. shells. The U. M. C. 

 Co. uses Troisdorf powder in loading Mau- 

 ser cartridges, and I fail to see why it should 

 not be as powerful here as in Germany. 

 I load my own ammunition, using Du- 

 Pont's 30 caliber military powder, 40 or 42 

 grains, and U. M. C. 7 m-m bullets. Occa- 

 sionally a shell will split at the first dis- 

 charge, but I have a clip of 5 shells that 

 have been fired 12 times each with full 

 charges of DuPont powder, yet show no 

 signs of weakness. With that charge, 42 

 grains, I have put a full metal jacketed 

 bullet through a green button ball tree 26 

 inches in diameter, at 200 yards range. 



Am sorry the Laflin & Rand Co. do not 

 advertise in Recreation, now, for they 

 make the best shot gun smokeless I ever 

 used. L. H. Higgins, 



Master S. S. Admiral Sampson. 



ANSWER E. E. VAN DYKE. 



Readers of Recreation at this place think 

 E. E. Van Dyke should have filed an affi- 

 davit with his story in the February issue. 

 That was a wonderful little rifle he had. 

 Mr. Van Dyke could draw a large salary 

 in a gun factory. They could fit him out 

 with a hickory log, and shut down the 

 other machinery. If he can straighten a 

 rifle barrel by whanging it over a stump, he 

 can doubtless, also, enlarge the bore by 

 blowing through it. 



C. E. Wilson, Mt. Carlon, Colo. 



In February Recreation is an article by 

 E, E. Van Dyke. He shoots a deer through 

 the heart with a 30-30 and it runs 250 yards 



lefor? falling, Again he shoots 4 deer 



