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RECREATION. 



No. I Smokeless Rifle powder; and, in- 

 stead of using the ioo grain bullet, I use 

 the full sized bullet cast by the regular 30- 

 30 tool, 10 parts of lead to one of tin. This 

 makes an excellent cartridge for shooting 

 rabbits, squirrels, and for range work up 

 to 100 yards. There is hardly any report, 

 and no leading of the gun. Of course all 

 30-30 rifles, when using lead and tin bul- 

 lets, should be cleaned after 8 or 10 shots, 

 to prevent leading. 



I had a Marlin rifle, but got rid of it as 

 quickly as I could. The person I sold it 

 to also disposed of c immediately, saying 

 it was not fit to kiii pigs with. I belong 

 to the South Side Lifle Club, which bars 

 Marlin rifles ; Winchester, Savage and 

 Stevens being the only guns used. Shells 

 of 30-30 caliber loaded with low pressure 

 powder, have to be resized when used in 

 Marlin rifles, but never when used in the 

 Winchester. 



For a more powerful cartridge, and one 

 as accurate as the 32-40 and the 38-55, at 

 300 yards, use 15 grains DuPont No. 1 

 Smokeless Rifle powder, and the regular 

 sized bullet, cast, 10 to one. When trying 

 these cartridges use the Lyman rear sight, 

 as the 2 loads, having a trajectory not 

 nearly so flat as that of the regular high 

 pressure shells, require greater elevation 

 than can be obtained with an ordinary rear 

 sight. 



H. L. Yance, Racine, Wis. 



"If you shoot me with that and I find it 

 out I'll kick the d — out of you." 



Will some of the Middle Falls readers 

 please awake Mr. Bodge? He has been 

 dreaming long enough. 



F. M. O., Anaconda, Mont. 



DISAGREES. 



In Recreation I notice S. B. H., of North 

 Rome, Pa., gives his opinion to S. O. In- 

 galls in regard to fox loads and to Nimrod, 

 in regard to 28 and 30 inch guns. S. B. 

 H. says his experience with a 38 inch bar- 

 rel has been that it will shoot 1-3 

 stronger than the 28 inch. Therefore, if 

 an extra 2 inches over a 28 inch gun will 

 shoot 1-3 stronger, a 32 inch ought 

 to shoot 2-3 stronger, which would 

 leave the 28 inch gun out of it entirely, ac- 

 cording to mathematics. What a gun the 

 34 inch would be compared with a 28 inch, 

 according to S. B. H. ! My experience has 

 been that a 30 inch may throw shot 2 

 inches farther than a 28 inch. S. B. H. 

 says the longer powder is confined the 

 more force it has. I again disagree. The 

 harder it is confined the better results it 

 will give. 



D. S. Bodge tells us all about that 22 

 of his. It must be a terror to penetrate 

 36 inches of oak plank. Mr. Bodge must 

 have shot down hill. Those silvertips he 

 speaks of must have been young raccoons, 

 and it is a wonder they did not get savage 

 when he commenced on them with a 22. 

 A Montana barroom bum threatened to 

 shoot a cowboy with a 22 and the cowboy 

 said, 



ENDORSES ROBIN HOOD POWDER. 

 Robin Hood smokeless powder for shot 

 guns is strong, clean and quick, and the 

 manufacturers have resolutely kept out of 

 the combine into which the Peters and 

 other cartridge companies have gone. 

 Robin Hood powder took my fancy from 

 the start and I have used many hundred 

 loads of it with excellent results. It is a 

 moist burning powder, and shoots with 

 great velocity and little recoil. It is load- 

 ed by bulk measure and as high as 3^2 

 and 3^4 drams may be fired in a 12 bore 

 without discomfort. The Robin Hood 

 people are also putting on the market their 

 factory loaded shells and these can now 

 be obtained from local dealers. This pow- 

 der is strictly an Eastern product, made in 

 Vermont and little known in the West. 

 However, it is safe to say that it will be 

 received with satisfaction by sportsmen 

 who want a good thing. The primers in 

 the Robin Hood factory loads are made 

 by Eley, in London, and are quick and 

 strong, making a hard hitting, quick load. 

 If any of the Eastern readers of Recrea- 

 tion have ever used Robin Hood I wish 

 they would let me know how they like it, 

 and we can compare results. 



Chas. H. Morton, Topeka, Kans. 



CONDEMNS THE MARLIN. 

 As a sportsman, I was greatly impressed 

 with the truth and importance of Mr. A. 

 L. Vermilya's article in January Recrea- 

 tion. It has been my fortune for the past 

 5 or 6 years to do some big game shooting, 

 and last summer a friend and I decided 

 to seek bears in the mountains of Northern 

 California. We were armed with 2 Win- 

 chesters and a Savage, but my guide shot 

 a Marlin. It was my first and I trust will 

 be my last experience with that gun. After 

 leaving Sisson we crossed several ranges of 

 the Sierra Nevada mountains and at an alti- 

 tude of about 5,000 feet encountered our 

 first game, 2 rattlers. My guide attempted 

 to kill them, but his rifle jammed com- 

 pletely. Our next experience with the gun 

 was on Cliff lake, where he lost a golden 

 cause. Now, had it been his misfortune to 

 meet a grizzly under similar circumstances, 

 the result we might well imagine. If we 

 sportsmen are shooting large and danger- 

 ous game our lives frequently depend on the 

 rapid and accurate action of our fire arm ; 

 and when we realize the serious conse- 

 quences that might follow the jamming of 



