



GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 
Shooting qualities first class. Ducks 
and rabbits I have killed at 60 yards with 
No. 6 soft shot. No. 8 shot will kill quail 
and other small game. “BB” shot I have 
put through 1 1-3 in. soft pine at 50 yards. 
Before buying a gun look at the Ithaca. 
It will pay you. 
Norman Peterson, Carpentaria, Calif. 

I would like to add my ideas to the dis- 
cussion regarding 16 g. double guns and 
loads. My standard load in a Remington 
16 g. 634 lb. gun is as follows: 32 and 
34 grains smokeless powder, 1 hard 
card, one 3% felt and one field wad, 7% oz. 
shot, 7 to 10, one regular top shot wad. 
U. M. C. high brass shell. For No. 6 
shot and ‘under, 36 g. I oz. shot wadded 
as above. These loads give excellent re- 
sults. 
Should like to hear from any rifleman 
who owns one of the captured Mausers, 
’°93 model, as to its accuracy, and whether 
withY4 jacketted bullets itwould not prove 
satisfactory for deer and large game. 
G. E. M., Somerville, N. J. 

We have lots of game here, also lots of 
game hogs. There are deer, antelope, 
mountain sheep, bears, cougars, wild- 
cats, coyotes, quail, sage lens, grouse, 
-ducks and geese. Rabbits are so numer- 
ous as to destroy crops. 
I should like to hear from someone 
who has used a .30 Winchester model 
95. I have used almost all sizes and mod- 
els of Winchester, except the .30. For 
deer I like the .38-56 better than any I 
ever tried. For wing shooting I use a 
Winchester repeating shotgun, slide ac- 
tion. For close shooting I think it hard 
to beat. 
G. C. Goddard, Little Pinto, Utah. 

Will some one inform me _ regarding 
the .32-40 Winchester, model ’94? 
Bene 2. yeats), Li have “used: a. 32-20 
indeed have mis-used it in every way, 
—leaving it uncleaned. and wet, and it 
is still in perfect condition. The 
barrel is all one could desire in durabil- 
ity. It is an ideal weapon for ducks and 
geese. I know a man who has shot deer 
with one of the same caliber, though I 
think it too small for such game. 
Which action—lever or slide—is best 
in a Winchester repeating shotgun? 
Does the slide action jam the shells? 
T. M., Southborough, Mass. 
I have read the article by S. W. Siddal in 
regard to the repeating shot gun. He says 
the objection he has to it is the shells stick- 
ing when going in the barrel. He must have 
had one of the first ones made, for I have 
used a ’97 model more than a year and 

_smokeless ones came out. I 
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never had a shell stick yet. I consider the 
repeater the best shot gun made, regardless 
of price. 
Keep right on giving it to the game hogs. 
George Winter, Dannebrog, -Neb. 

Noticing that 300 yards range point- 
blank is claimed for the _ .30-30, I 
wish’ .to inquire how the rifles’ are 
sighted to obtain this result. If the 
line of sight and the bore are exactly 
parallel, why would not the bullet fall 
about 4 feet in 300 yards? With a muzzle 
velocity of 2,000 feet it would take the 
bullet nearly % second to travel goo feet, 
and a bullet will fall very close to 4 feet 
in that time. The (number of seconds) 
squared X 16.1 feet being the formula 
for falling bodies. Does the twist of the 
bullet affect this rule? 
Subscriber. 
— 
March 3, 1809. 
I wish to say to those who want an all- 
round gun get a Savage. It is the gun. 
Aside from the regular factory loaded 
ammunition, I have had the best of suc- 
cess reloading. For target use 100 to 200 
yards and for woodchucks, 40 grains F. 
IF. G. powder, 100 grains miniature metal- 
covered bullets. In shells that have been 
used it is necessary to have a shell re- 
3izer. 
Dough Boy, Athol, Mass. 

One thing that amuses me is the talk 
about large and small caliber rifles. If 
some of these Eastern fellows would 
come and stand up with me in front of 
our Northern grizzlies, they to have the 
old fashioned smoke stacks, and I my .30- 
40, they would soon see the difference. 
The old rifles were all right till the 
have shot 
34 bears with the .45-90, and 12 with my 
.30-40; therefore I think I know what is 
the best rifle for dangerous game and 
would take chances with a .30-40 which I 
should dodge with a .45-90 Winchester. 
~ A. Jordan, Arrowhead, B. C. 

Is it not a fact that the right or left bar- 
rel of any double gun will put a majority 
of the pellets to the right or left of a sta- 
tionary target? If so, why should not a 
single gun shoot truer than a double gun 
of equal quality, since the sight of the 
single gun is directly in the center of the 
barrel? It is to the left of the right bar- 
rel and to the right of the left barrel in 
case of the double gun. Let’s hear from 
some practical sportsman on this subject. 
M. K. Barnum, North Platte, Neb., for 
instance. 
J. H. Ramsay, Seaboard, N, C, 

