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RECREATION. 



rifle, omittting the thumb screw which 

 secures the finger lever, for this lever is 

 handsomer than the round end kind, be- 

 sides not offering- a cavity between the rear 

 end of the finger lever and the rifle stock 

 to catch the sleeve or a twig; but the 

 system of the Winchester model 1892 rifle 

 is preferable on account of having a shorter 

 stock of finger lever. 



The tendency is too much to small guns 

 using little bullets; a lazy man's outfit. 

 Look at the eccentric drop of caliber by 

 the Government Bureau, the 45 pistol shot, 

 30 grains powder and 255 grains lead, 

 down to the 38-19-150. The 22, short at 

 that, will be adopted next for the native 

 musketeer. We do not need a gun that 

 will bore a hole the size of a darning 

 needle through a haystack 5 or 6 miles 

 away, as the smokeless 30-30's will do. On 

 the other hand, when a bear or a man is 

 struck at short range, midrange, or long 

 range, with a 45-100-500 from a Sharp's 

 special, he will stay there. Anyone pre- 

 ferring a little, slender bullet in a bottle 

 neck shell is a 30-30 crank. He would be 

 satisfied in shooting an elk 9 times, only 

 75 yards away. I could have done it with 

 one shot from a 30 caliber pistol. The 

 pistol would have cost $1.50; the 30-30 

 rifle $25. Over in Ceylon a she-buffalo 

 had the hair on her head powder-burned; 

 and after she was shot several times with 

 a 30-30 she got away. Nearly all the tre- 

 mendous ( ?) work done by 30-30's has 

 occurred within easy pistol range, say 30 

 to 60 yards. I have not yet contracted the 

 30-30 disease, hence I shall not go to war 

 with a popgun. The way poor, wild ani- 

 mals have been maimed by little patent 

 bullets shows a lack of both skill and com- 

 passion on the part of the hunter. 



Here is a story told by a Montana man: 

 "We had one of their modern, small bore, 

 high power rifles in our country, and it 

 was a terror. When it went off we heard 

 a sound as of an earthquake. The jacketed 

 part of the bullet went through a tree 5 

 feet thick, sailed down the river 7 or 8 

 miles, and struck a sawmill, tearing it en- 

 tirely down and rolling all the logs into 

 the river. One limb of the injured tree 

 fell on a bear, killing it instantly, and 

 splashing a wagon load of fish out of the 

 water. Four elk were so badly fright- 

 ened they plunged into the river, and were 

 drowned. One deer ran against the splin- 

 tered tree and was killed. The soft part 

 of the bullet spread out and scraped up all 

 the potatoes an old woman had in her gar- 

 den, and then the mushrooming began. 

 One piece of this soft point went over the 

 hill and killed 82 wild geese, and crip- 

 pled 11 more; another piece went out into 

 the valley, killing 125 ducks, and maiming - 

 many more, besides scaring one old duck 



until she laid a basketful of eggs; anothef 

 piece went somewhere else, I don't know 

 where, but I guess it is going yet." 

 We all liked the yarn very much. 



John C. Votaw, Marion, Ind. 



CARTRIDGE CARRIERS. 

 722,124. — Carrier for Small Arms Fixed 

 Ammunition. Anson Mills, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. Filed August 12, 1902. 

 Serial No. 119,415. (No model.) 



Claim. — 1. 

 As a new art- 

 icle of manu- 

 facture an am- 

 munition car- 

 rier consisting 

 of a p 1 i a b 1 e 

 band and a 

 group of cart- 

 ridge receiv- 

 ing pockets on 

 each of the 2 

 faces thereof, 

 the pockets of the one group being opposite 

 the intervals between the pockets of the 

 other group. 



2. An ammunition carrier consisting of 

 a 3 ply woven fabric, having 2 groups of 

 pockets integral therewith, located on op- 

 posite faces of the intermediate ply and 

 opening at opposite edges of the fabric. 



3- An ammunition carrier consisting of 

 a 3 ply woven fabric having 2 groups of 

 pockets integral therewith located on op- 

 posite faces of the intermediate ply and 

 opening at opposite edges of the fabric, 

 the intermediate ply at each edge being ex- 

 tended beyond the other 2 plies to form a 

 covering flap. 



722,123.— Carrier for Small Arms Fixed 

 Ammunition. Anson Mills, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. Filed July 25, 1902. Serial 

 No. 117,037. (No model.) 



Clai 



1m. 



-An ammunition carrier com- 

 posed of a band of pliable material provided 

 with groups of cartridge receiving pockets 

 each of which is closed at one end and 



