GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 



Anybody can keep on shooting all day, but it takes a gentleman to quit when he gets enough. 



DISAPPROVE OF PETERS. 



Nappanee, Ind., April 28, 1901. 

 Peters Cartridge Co., 

 Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 Gentlemen: — I see by May Recrea- 

 tion that you have discontinued your ad 

 in that magazine on account of adverse 

 criticism of your goods. I call that un- 

 sportsmanlike and I think you will lose 

 instead of gaining friends by such a child- 

 ish act. It is indeed a poor shell that can 

 not stand a little criticism. As for my- 

 self, I know your shells sometimes jam 

 in a repeating shot gun. Although I 

 never wrote them up, from this time on 

 I shall use no more Peters shells. Fur- 

 thermore, I shall try to dissuade others 

 from using them, for you have tried to 

 injure as good a sportsman as America 

 has to-day. 



Respectfully, 



Ed. J. Bowers. 

 Jackson, Wyo. 



Peters Cartridge Co. 



Gentlemen: — Your action in withdrawing 

 your ad from Recreation on account of 

 the criticism your cartridges received in 

 the April number thereof certainly looks 

 as though you did not want the charge in- 

 vestigated. As secretary of the Teton 

 Guides Association (an organization of 

 about 30 of the best guides to be found 

 in N. W. Wyoming) I will say we endorse 

 Mr. Shields and will stand by him in this 

 matter. 



Respectfully, 



S. N. Leek. 



I was much surprised at the letter 

 from the Peters Cartridge Company in 

 May Recreation, withdrawing their ad. 

 Their excuse is flimsy. I read Mr. Rad- 

 clifF's article, of which the secretary com- 

 plains. Mr. Radcliff simply gave his ex- 

 perience with the Peters shell, which he or 

 any other man or woman has a right to do, 

 when writing for a magazine or newspa- 

 per ; and the official of any company who 

 will take the stand that the secretary of 

 the Peters Cartridge Company did, has, in 

 my judgment, a brain too narrow for his 

 position. His communication to you, with- 

 drawing lu's ad, will weaken his cause, and 

 strengthen your own with the shooting fra- 

 ternity throughout the country. 



I am an amateur shot, and own the finest 

 double shot gun Parker Brothers can make, 

 for which I paid them spot cash. T have 

 shot various kinds of loaded shells in this 

 gun, among them some of the Peters shells. 



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They, were the poorest shells I tried. I 

 understand the Peters people have im- 

 proved their shell, and there was room for 

 it. I have never had a poor shell from 

 either the Winchester or the U. M. C. 

 Herman Holmes, Medina, Ohio. 



For years I used Peters' cartridges and 

 bought them by the thousand, as I spend 

 all my spare time in target shooting. I 

 shall not use another while the Peters 

 people continue to play baby over that 

 article about their goods in your maga- 

 zine. I think all true sportsmen, especial- 

 ly members of the L. A. S., should refuse 

 to patronize such a supersensitive concern. 

 The very reason I bought their wares 

 was because of their being so high- 

 ly commended in Recreation, and I am 

 not the only one who looks at their baby 

 act in this light. I live within a stone's 

 throw of 7 sportsmen who, since their in- 

 fantile comedy, have refused to buy Peters' 

 goods. _ I have not the pleasure of know- 

 ing their secretary, but I judge he is either 

 a very young or a very old person. No 

 up-to-date business man would be guilty 

 of such a silly conduct. I wish Recrea- 

 tion and its editor unbounded success. 

 A. C. Goode, Winchester, Ky. 



I took the advice of Recreation readers 

 and bought a Winchester take down repeat- 

 ing shot gun. It has a 32-inch full choke 

 and a 28-inch modifier choke barrel, 

 and am satisfied I have the best 

 thing going in the gun line. I would not 

 advise anyone to use Peters' cartridges. 

 They are hard to eject, and in other re- 

 spects are not so good as U. M. C.'s or 

 Winchesters. Until the Peters Co. has ma- 

 terially improved its goods it is well they 

 are out of Recreation, the best magazine in 

 the world for sportsmen. 



F. L. Hamblen, 



Jersey City, N. J. 



I note the action of the Peters Cartridge 

 Co. on the appearance in Recreation of a 

 mild criticism of their goods. Were I in 

 your place I certainly should not publish 

 altogether one-sided reports on firearms, 

 ammunition, etc. However good a product 

 may be it has some imperfection, generally, 

 and nothing is so flat and uninteresting 

 as constant praise of an article's merits 

 with nothing said of its demerits. Those 

 manufacturers who invite criticism show 

 they believe they have superior goods, 

 and that true merit will win in the end. 

 J. E. Sanford, Henderson, Tenn. 



