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RECREATION. 



pivot e, spring h, fastened at one end to 

 said top frame D, and whose free end bears 

 against the inner end of thumb latch d; 

 lever /, arranged under pivot e, and pro- 

 vided with the hook / at its rear end ; 

 also provided with the stud / at its for- 

 ward end ; the pivot k of said lever, trans- 

 verse spindle m, provided with the spiral 

 groove m 1 adapted to receive the aforesaid 

 stud /; spring n, for exerting a longitudinal 

 pressure on spindle m, and means for con- 

 trolling the longitudinal movements of said 

 spindle and for keeping it from turning. 



THE BAKER GUN. 



I have owned a great many guns of all 

 grades, names and sizes, and have dealt 

 in them the past 12 years, so I speak 

 without bias. The first and most impor- 

 tant point in a shot gun or other fire arm 

 is safety. A sportsman who, in. buying a 

 gun, does not first consider the safety ap- 

 pliances is not qualified to handle a gun in 

 company. There is only one hammerless 

 shot gun, the Baker, that is absolutely safe. 

 Other makers in describing their guns are 

 careful to tell you about the safety there- 

 on ; but when you have had your hat shot 

 off by a gun with all the safeties on, as 

 happened to a friend, you begin to doubt 

 the veracity of the maker of that gun. 



The Baker is the best gun in the world. 

 While this is a bold statement a little 

 comparison will prove the truth of the as- 

 sertion. It has shooting power equaled 

 by few and excelled by none ; better 

 material and workmanship than can be 

 found in any other gun at twice the price ; 

 balance and ease of operation excelled by 

 none ; most simple cocking mechanism 

 and lock work ; engraving and general ap- 

 pearance to suit the most fastidious ; inabil- 

 ity of any combinations of powder and 

 shot to shoot it loose; and the first and 

 only absolute safety. 



W. M. S., Deposit, N. Y. 



HOME MADE WICK PLUGS. 

 I have been having great difficulty 

 through the damp weather in keeping my 

 rifles, pistols and shot guns clean inside. 

 I saw in Recreation an ad of wick plugs, 

 and wished to learn whether they would 

 do the work claimed for them. I made 

 some to experiment with. They are excel- 

 lent, and will keep any gun they are put 

 in absolutely free from rust. If you do not 

 care to . go to the expense of buying wick 

 plugs, you can do' as I did, buy some com- 

 mon lamp wicks and cut them into strips, 

 which when sewed up round will fit your 

 gun barrel. Before sewing them together 

 run a cord through the whole length of the 

 wick, leaving enough of this out to pull 



through the barrel, after the wick is fin- 

 ished. Sew the pieces together with the 

 cord in the middle, making a round plug. 



After the wicks are thus sewed together, 

 making the joints tight, soak the plug in 

 vaseline. Then put the cord you have left 

 attached to the plug through the barrel 

 from the breech, pull the plug through and 

 leave it there. With these plugs left in any 

 fire arm, you need have no fear of finding 

 it rusted, even if left several months, 

 though, of course, all fire arms should be 

 looked over occasionally and re-oiled. 



Harry L. Yance, Racine, Wis. 



A NEW LEFEVER PATENT. 

 732,420. Breakdown Gun. Charles F. 

 Lefever, Syracuse, N. Y., assignor of 

 one half to Daniel M. Lefever, Syra- 

 cuse, N. Y. Filed April 13, 1901. 

 Serial No. 55,660. 

 Claim. — 1. In a breakdown gun, the com- 

 bination with a frame and a barrel, pivoted 

 hammer, an extractor bar having a recess, 

 a cocking lever pivoted to the frame at the 

 rear and above the hammer pivot and pro- 

 vided with a forward and upward exten- 

 sion projecting into said tecess for engag- 

 ing and moving the extractor in reverse 

 direction, a cocking member carried by the 

 barrel and engaged with the upper and rear 





faces of said extension, and a shoulder on 

 the lever engaging the hammer in front of 

 its pivot for cocking the hammer, etc. 



SINGLE TRIGGER GUN. 

 732.53 1 - Single Trigger Firearm. James 

 A. R. Elliott, Kansas City, Mo. Filed 

 May 10, 1902. Serial No. 106,714. 



Claim. — A firearm having a plurality of 

 hammers, sears for engaging with the 

 hammer a sleeve mounted for rotary and 

 vertical movements, lugs on said sleeve 



