Gl/NS AND AMMUNITION. 



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His skull was smashed as if it had been 

 struck with a pile driver. 



The great brute wilted and died in his 

 tracks. I was more surprised at the ef- 

 fect of the shot than at the sight of the 

 bear. No ordinary gun could have stopped 

 him. I took his skin, which measures 13 

 feet square. 



In October of the same year I killed a 

 bull moose with one shot, which cost me 

 7 cents, and netted me $1,000 in Dawson. 

 Moose meat sold then at $1 a pound. 



The Savage was the only rifle in our 

 camp that stood the test in the extreme 

 cold of the North. I have stood side by 

 side with those other magazine guns and 

 have heard them click, click, while the 

 Savage was splitting fire and causing 

 death. Their guns had frozen up. 



If I were going to Africa to hunt ele- 

 phants I should want no better gun than 

 the .303 Savage. 



Frank Hoyt, Seattle, Wash. 



DON'TS FOR BEGINNERS. 



Don't get rattled and empty your gun as 

 fast as the lever can be worked when you 

 jump a deer and he starts off on a run. 

 One cartridge, well aimed, is worth a mag- 

 azineful fired rapidly and at random. 



Don't forget that a sharp eye, a keen 

 ear and a steady aim are essential to a 

 hunter. 



Don't shoot where you imagine a deer's 

 body to be when you can only see his head. 

 Take the smaller mark or lose the meat. 



Don't wear corduroy hunting clothes. 

 When wet they are a mass of sticky pulp. 

 Canvas clothes are better. Overalls are 

 strong and tough, though easily wet. 



Don't hunt in a single pair of cloth trou- 

 sers. If this rule is not followed bare skin 

 and the lower portion of your shirt are 

 likely to shock the ladies on your return. 



Don't forget that practice makes per- 

 fect. Practice is cheap and may be ob- 

 tained with an empty gun. 



Don't count your game before it is shot. 



Don't, when tracking deer, be hoggish 

 and follow the largest footprint. The ex- 

 perienced buck knows more than the fawn, 

 or you. 



Don't shoot at game which is out of 

 range, or that which you are not reasonably 

 sure of killing. This only causes useless 

 suffering, and you are seldom benefited by 

 so doing. 



Don't shoot at every moving thing seen. 

 *ou may be imprisoned for murder. 



Don't use dogs in hunting deer. By so 

 doing you admit yourself no sportsman, 

 but rather a hog. 



Don't get the idea that all hunters are 

 sportsmen. Some of them are game hogs 

 and belong to the lowest, vilest, most 

 despicable type of humanity. All sports- 



men are hunters, but all hunters are not 

 sportsmen. 



The other day an old friend of mine told 

 me how, when a lad of 15, he had ap- 

 proached the most noted hunter of the vil- 

 lage, who was an Irishman, and asked him 

 for a few rules on deer hunting. The Irish- 

 man looked at the boy with a knowing 

 twinkle in his eye as he replied, "Well, me 

 bhoy, I'll tell ye. There air no rules, but 

 there is a rule. Thet is, 'Say the dheer 

 before the dheer says you.' " 



"But how am I to follow that rule?" 

 asked the youth. 



"Thet is fcr you to find fer yoursilf. Eg- 

 sperience will show better than all the 

 blarney in kingdom come. Dheer hunting, 

 as a rhule, cinnot be teached. Best it is to 

 be self-eddicated in the art." 



Sherman A. Paddock, Lancaster, Pa. 



SEMI-SMOKELESS AND OTHER POWDERS. 



To satisfy my curiosity, I have been try- 

 ing several kinds of black powder, one or 

 2 low pressure smokeless powders and 

 King's semi-smokeless in my .32-40 and 

 .40-65 Winchester rifles. 



Of the black powders, a certain F. G. 

 rifle which is not advertised in Recreation 

 is the best for velocity and accuracy. 

 King's semi-smokeless does the same 

 work with less smoke, less report and re- 

 coil, and far less dirt than any black pow- 

 der. The low pressure smokeless is ac- 

 curate, but its penetration is far less. 



My .40-65, with a full mantled bullet, 

 penetrated 22 pine boards Y% of an inch 

 thick and nailed one inch apart; distance, 

 15 feet; powder same F. G. rifle. King's 

 semi-smokeless F. F. G. did the same. 

 Shells were loaded with the Winchester '94 

 tool. The penetration in seasoned oak with 

 the grain was 11^ inches. The Winchester 

 catalogue gives the penetration for this 

 charge as 11 ^-inch pine boards. With a 

 half mantled bullet in front of the right 

 load of semi-smokeless powder there 

 should be shock enough to stop almost 

 anything inside of 150 yards. 



Two steers that I shot with half mantled 

 bullets, one at 75 yards with a .32-40 and 

 the other at 10 yards with a .40-65, were 

 killed so quickly and thoroughly that 

 neither moved a muscle until their throats 

 were cut and the blood began to flow. 

 The bullets were torn to pieces and only 

 small parts of them could be found. 



Semi-smokeless for revolver practice, I 

 think, is the best powder in existence. 

 There is no fouling whatever; it shoots 

 the same each time and hits hard. I had 

 my .32-44 target revolver rechambered to 

 take the regular rifle shell, and I prefer it 

 either for gallery practice or a longer dis- 

 tance. I always wash my shells as soon as 

 possible with strong hot soap suds. 



