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Shotgun Powder 

N choosing a smokeless shotgun powder for general use it 
] is always essential that one should be selected that gets 
there ina hurry. Thereis nothing more aggravating to 
a sportsman than to find the shells he has brought with him 
are so slow that he has to lead his birds or targets by several 
feet more than he knows ought to be necessary in order to hit 
them. Then again if he hasa first class load, the target will 
disappear in a puff of dust or the bird be literally cut to pieces, 
but with a slow powder load the target is perhaps only cracked 
into a couple of pieces and the bird slightly feathered. A few 
experiences of this kind at the traps or in the field will con- 
vince anyone that the powder he needs is the kind which 
wastes no time in getting the shot out of the gun. 
But there is also another thing to be considered and that 
is the pattern which the charge used will make. There are 
several powders which will give a high velocity when used in 
big charges, but when this velocity is obtained the patternis 
ruined ; it is either opened upin patches or else the shot has 
balled. Then too some of the big loads havea way of exerting 
a terrible strain on the gun which is not desirable. 
Therefore, the powder which all should use is one which 
gives a high velocity, a close but regular pattern and a low 
breech pressure. Tests have proved that LAFLIN & RAND 
SHOTGUN SMOKELESS embraces all of these qualities. 
We would like to have you try it and see if the results you 
obtain do not justiy our assertion. 
If you are going out after quail, dove or plover let us sug- 
gest a charge of 35 grains of this powder with 1 or 14 oz. of 
shot. There are toosuchloads in asmallcanister. For prairie 
chicken we would recommend from 37 to4o grains, for long 
range wild-fowl shooting, 42 grains. 
Send us your name and we will mail you a catalog describ- 
ing all of our Smokeless Powders. 
Laflin & Rand Powder Co. 
NEW YORK. 
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