

DOESN’T BLEED? 
I am a reader of RECREATION and a 
lover of hunting and take a great deal of 
interest in such sport. I would like to 
ask a few questions. 
I see so much about the little .30-30 
and the great work it has done. No 
doubt the little treasure is a great game 
killer, but I have never heard anyone say 
what it will do if it does not strike a 
bone. They all tell what it does when 
it strikes something hard. Suppose you 
shoot a. deer in the paunch or through 
the fleshy part of the body, what would 
be the result? It seems to me you would 
bore a little hole that would close up with 
blood, and the animal would run away 
and die in hiding; whereas, if you had a 
larger bore, you would have torn a hole 
that would have let the blood out and 
the air in, and the deer would have died 
at once. 
I have hunted some in my day, using 
guns from a .32-20 up to a .45-90 and have 
killed most kinds of game. The gun 
that I prefer is a .40-60 Winchester. I 
have killed deer with it at 400 yards, and 
have never had one get away. I have 
shot them with a .32-40 and unless I hit 
them in a vital spot they would get away 
and I could not track them. This has 
been my experience. 
I think it would be the same with a 
high pressure gun, or worse. If some of 
the readers of RECREATION will show the 
effect this ball will have in flesh I will be 
glad to read of it. 
H I. Hill, Springfield, Mo. 

TELESCOPE SIGHTS. 
It is with pleasure I receive my copy 
of RECREATION each month and turn first 
to Guns and Ammunition, where I am 
sure to find something interesting and 
instructive. Now that the red squirrel 
has been disposed of let us have some- 
thing concerning rifle telescopes. .I know 
of no better manner in which to spend a 
Saturday half holiday than to take a tramp 
through the fields and woods, enjoying 
nature and the fresh air. 
A year ago, L. N. Mogg, of Marcellus, 
N. Y., fitted my .32-40 Remington with 
one of his excellent telescopes, with 
which I am entirely satisfied. I consider 
it perfect for a woodchuck gun, as well as 
for a target rifle. With my telescope, and 
by using Vernier rear sight, which can 
be folded out of the way when not in use, 
and wind gauge front sight, it can in a few 
seconds be changed from a hunting to a 
target rifle, or wice versa. The front 
mounting of the telescope is so construct- 
ed that it screws into the wind gauge 
sight base of the rifle and has a simple 
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rear mounting, so that by unscrewing the 
wind gauge attachment the telescope can 
be detached from rifle and regular wind 
gauge sight screwed into place almost in- 
stantly. The only tools necessary are your 
fingers. The best part of woodchucking 
is in watching the actions of a chuck 150 
or 200 yards away, all unconscious of your 
presence. Many times the tough little 
rascal is so. nearly hidden by grass or 
weeds that shooting with open sight, at 
any distance, is mere guess work; but the 
telescope brings his form or sparkling eye 
in view, and the hunter knows a slight 
pressure of the trigger makes him his 
game. Most telescopes have only one 
vertical a * one horizontal cross wire, but 
I had mine improved by adding 3 more 
horizontal ones, so adjusted that they 
cross the vertical wire at the proper place 
for shooting 50, 100, 150, and 200 yards 
each. Then when shocting at different 
distances instead of holding over or under 
your game, your sight is exactly on the 
mark. This insures accurate shooting. It 
may be a trifle confusing ~* first, but it is 
the experience of several hunters in this 
neighborhood, that after a very few hours 
they are much better satisfied with this 
arrangement. The telescope adds greatly 
to the pleasure of an outing in more ways 
than one, and saves many of those long te- 
dious tramps which reveal only a bunch of 
grass, or something, which to the naked 
eye, resempled a wcodchuck and some- 
times even appears to move. In ordering 
a telescope do not get one of too high 
power. I have one of the 10-power glasses 
and find it strong ‘ enough. With 
ii) eercana SnOOr..1ti ar “lioht “where 
it would be impossible to see with 
the open sights. Several of these tele- 
scope sights are in tse in this vicinity, ° 
and their owners prefer them to any other, 
using them exclusively while afield. 
Earle W. Wilson, Syracuse, N. Y. 

SMALL SHOT. 
To correct a very general misappre- 
hension, permit us to say to the many read- 
King’s semi- 
smokeless powder is not intended for use 
in rifles and pistols only. So much has 
been said and written about it in relation 
to these arms, and so favorable have been 
the comments, that the attention of the 
public has been diverted from the fact 
that this powder is equally good for shot- 
guns. It does just as good work ir its 
way behind shot, as behind a bullet. 
It is entirely safe for shotguns. While 
it has the high velocity of nitro powder it 
has a low breech pressure, and does not 
strain the gun or shell, 
It makes a fine 

