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RECREATION. 



PREFERS A RIFLE, 



I think the shot gun is one of the things 

 the L. A. S. should condemn. It is too 

 easy to get game with a shot gun, and so 

 men kill more than they need. If they 

 don't get 15 to 50 rabbits in a day here 

 they think they are not doing well. Six 

 or 8 men, 3 or 4 dogs, shot guns and a 

 ferret or 2 make the combination. I 

 had a rifle and was glad to get one or 2 

 squirrels in a day, but I once got the 

 shot gun fever, though I did not get my 

 share of game. I borrowed a shot gun 

 and went out with 2 companions, a dog 

 and a ferret. We got 6 rabbits. I came 

 home disgusted and cured. Too much like 

 butchery. The game had no chance for 

 their lives. 



We have some quails yet, but the winters 

 are hard on them, and the shot guns are 

 worse. 



A. J. Knowles, Otsego, Mich. 



ENDORSES THE REMINGTON. 



I have a 12 gauge, 7V2 Remington ham- 

 merless, grade A, with 30-inch barrels, and 

 I don't think there is a better gun made. 

 The balance is perfect, and the rib is 

 straight and flat instead of being sagged 

 in the middle like that of some guns I 

 have seen of the same or even a higher 

 price. I have never seen a gun, regard- 

 less of price, that shoots any better. I 

 compared it with a gun of another well- 

 known make, that is often praised in Rec- 

 reation, and the owner himself decided 

 in favor of the Remington. I think a 

 sportsman's outfit should consist first of all 

 of Recreation, then a Remington double 

 barrel, a Winchester repeater, of calibre 

 to suit the owner, a Stevens or Reming- 

 ton target rifle, and any powder or am- 

 munition advertised in Recreation. 



D. C. Avery, Dunmore, Pa. 



SMALL SHOT. 



I have a .30-30 Winchester, 94 model, 

 26-inch barrel, half magazine. Is there any 

 other gun better than that for big game 

 hunting, excepting, of course, the 95 model 

 Winchester? Is the Savage enough better 

 to justify me in selling the .30-30 and buy- 

 ing one? 



What would be the range and penetra- 

 tion of a .32 and .38 ball, fired from a re- 

 volver? 



On the box of a revolver I have read, 

 "do not use smokeless powder." Does 

 that refer also to King's powder in Peters's 

 cartridges? 



Would a .32 revolver be big enough to 

 carry on a cattle ranch? Or would a .38 

 be better? 



J. D. N., New York City. 



I notice "Subscriber's" contention in re- 

 gard to the rule of falling bodies, as ap- 

 plied to a rifle bullet. If "Subscriber" will 

 put on his thinking cap he will remember 

 that the muzzle or initial velocity of the 

 .30-30 bullet is so great as to almost en- 

 tirely overcome the force of gravitation 

 for the first 300 yards, and that, therefore, 

 the bullet does not fall 4 feet in that range, 

 nor anywhere near that. As an example 

 of speed overcoming gravitation, I refer 

 "Subscriber" to the old school-boy trick 

 of gliding at a high rate of speed, on 

 skates, over thin ice where the first slow 

 step could not be taken without a dead cer- 

 tainty of getting wet. 



J. H. M., Jersey City, N. J. 



There is an error in my article in No- 

 vember Recreation. The length of bar- 

 rels of the 11-pound Parker, 10-gauge, is 

 not 24 inches, but 40^ inches. The shells 

 are 3% inches long, and the gun was given 

 all the powder it would use. 



I never knew what an immense advertis- 

 ing medium Recreation is until that arti- 

 cle appeared. I have received letters from 

 everywhere, Canada to California, York 

 State and Pennsylvania, and am daily ex- 

 pecting one from some game hog in h 1, 



wanting a gun to outshoot those of his 

 unfortunate kind who are there with him. 



J. A. Elliott, M. D., Northumberland, 

 Pa. 



Have just bought a .30-30 Winchester 

 nickel steel barrel rifle and tested it. 



I set up target at 20 rods and shot 5 

 shots at it with a heavy wind blow- 

 ing across the line. For one shot I used 

 the soft nose bullet. After the explosion 

 I found 5 grains of powder in the barrel 

 unburnt, and a depression of Y% of an inch 

 in the shell. Can anyone account for this? 

 I think Recreation is a grand magazine 

 for sportsmen, because it gives so much 

 valuable information. 



Will C. Root, Carthage, N. Y. 



I have an innocent looking little shot 

 gun that "kills 'em away 'round the cor- 

 ner." It is a single-barrel semi-hammer- 

 less Remington breech loader; weight, 6% 

 pounds; 34-inch barrel, 16 gauge, and 

 closely choked. While out hunting recent- 

 ly I killed 3 squirrels at a great distance 

 and a rabbit sitting in the road was killed 

 stone dead at a distance of 109 steps. The 

 gun, of course, is only for long range 

 shooting. It would be useless for brush 

 or wing shooting. 



D. P. Cramer, Springfield, 111. 



