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RECREATION. 



or for long range work, and the bore is 

 hard to clean. The 7mm. Spanish Mauser 

 is a cartridge generally liked, but no Ameri- 

 can arm is made to use it. 



I once wrote the Winchester Company 

 i<nd asked if they would make the Lee for 

 that cartridge and the 8mm. and 9mm. 

 They said they would not, but that the '95 

 was amply powerful for anything I might 

 wish to shoot ! 



The Savage is a pretty little gun, but I 

 wish they would make a packet rifle for 

 the military cartridges. I do not like the 

 bolt action of the Krag or its European 

 variation. Can you give us an illustrated 

 account of the new army rifle? Will com- 

 mon people, like the editor and me, be al- 

 lowed to buy and use it? 



If the sale of arms to savages were 

 stopped the Winchester Repeating Arms 

 Company would break in 2 years. The fact 

 that from '91 to '94 they sold 200,000 of 

 the model '73, 44 caliber, shows where they 

 sell their goods. As a consequence any 

 sportsman who goes to a savage country 

 needs the biggest type of arm for his own 

 safety. No wonder Winchester has quit 

 advertising. While they are busy making 

 trade guns will not someone bring out the 

 ideal gun ; that is, a straight pull or lever 

 action packet loading repeater? 



I see by the A. D. G. H. that Winchester 

 has brought out a 10 shot automatic 22 

 caliber repeater. A guilty conscience needs 

 no accuser, so they took their ad out of 

 Recreation rather than face the adverse 

 criticism of its readers. I hope you may 

 succeed in killing the automatic shot gun. 

 It would certainly prove the game hog's 

 ideal weapon. 



Can anyone give the trajectory and ve- 

 locity of the 7mm. Mauser and the 8 and 

 9mm. Mannlicher bullets? 



•C. L. Adair, Cleburne, Tex. 



HALT ON MURDEROUS GUNS. 



I buy Recreation from the book stand 

 and you may be sure I never miss a 

 copy. 



I protest against the Winchester auto- 

 matic 22 caliber rifle and the automatic shot 

 gun, which, I hear, is likely to be made. 



While such a weapon as a 10 shot 22 

 caliber automatic rifle may possibly be used 

 by a sportsman, no decent man would ever 

 be guilty of using an automatic shot gun. 

 While a pump gun may possibly be classed 

 as a sportsman's weapon, when it comes to 

 an automatic shot gun it is time to quit. 



There is no need of an automatic. No 

 skill or individuality is required there. It 

 is not everyone who can use his hands 

 quickly enough to make the sliding forearm 

 repeater shoot rapidly, but if the automatic 

 comes game hogs will simply pull the trigger 



and slaughter the game while it lasts. Pos- 

 sibly the time-worn argument will be used 

 that it is the man and not the gun who is 

 the game hog. True, but the game ■ hog 

 exists. Then why arm him with more 

 deadly weapons than he now has? 



I should like to hear what brother sports- 

 men have to say on this subject. 



Let us hope that the Winchester and, in 

 fact, all gun makers may consider the ca- 

 lamity that such a gun would be to the 

 game. The pump gun is bad enough. Let 

 the murder weapon craze stop at that. God 

 knows the birds are decreasing too fast 

 now. I should honestly be surprised to 

 see such a gun advertised in Recreation, 

 which is, and I hope always will be, in the 

 lead of the many journals now published 

 for sportsmen, in cleanliness and purity of 

 sports. 



I wish you Godspeed in the extermina- 

 tion of the game hogs. 



S. E. Sangster, Ottowa, Ont. 



THE COLT SLIDE ACTION. 



For the information of E. J. Pratt, of 

 Rushville, N. Y., I will say I have used a 

 Colt 38-caliber the past 10 years. Colt guns 

 are accurate, hard shooters, easy -to work, 

 safe, and in every way reliable. In deer 

 hunting in Indian Territory, where I do 

 my winter hunting, quick shooting after the 

 first shot is essential. The greater part of 

 the game bagged is dropped on the run, 

 and the Colt forearm action is much more 

 conducive to quick aim than any lever 

 action can be. 



The loading of the second shot does not 

 necessitate the removal of the arm from the 

 face and the very action itself brings the 

 piece back to position for the eye. The 

 action is natural. I wonder that the Colt 

 people do not build a small caliber high 

 velocity rifle with their forearm action. 

 For big game it certainly would be ideal. 

 I have used all other leading rifles, from 

 Sharp's up, and never felt that I had the 

 real gun until I used Colt's. 



The Colt, like all the others except the 

 Savage, depends on gravity in placing the 

 loaded shell in the chamber. None of them 

 will jump in loading, if held properly, and 

 the Colt, according to my experience, is 

 less liable to do so than 'the others, if mis- 

 held. 



As far as speed and accuracy in shooting 

 at a moving object is concerned, the Colt 

 leads by many laps and none shoots harder 

 or nearer the bull's eye. 



J. W. Farrell, Weir, Kansas. 



WHAT A DIFFERENCE ! 

 In view of the attacks some of your 

 readers have made on the Savage Arms 



