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revolver. It would in no way wear the frame 
any more than the slotted pin and screw now : 
. used. Any one shooting at the target would 
welcome this new idea, as he could remove the | 
cylinder easily and quickly and clean all the 
chambers and barrel after every ten or fifteen 
shots, thereby making better scores. 
Of course, there will be some who will say 
this is another fool’s idea, but if we never had 
any fools or cranks in this world we should 
not have anything. If everybody that use 
guns would give their ideas in the magazines, 
perhaps we might get gunsto suitus. If every- 
thing is left to the manufacturer of firearms, he 
will get up guns only after his own ideas. 
I also use a S. & W. .22 target pistol, with 
six-inch barrel, and think it is the finest of its 
kind made, but it would be better if side plates 
for cylinder were left off, as I don’t think one 
in a dozen who uses one ever uses the cylinder 
and barrel for revolver on it. 
I also use the Marlin ’93 model .32-40 rifle 
with smokeless barrel, and new style rifle butt, 
which I think equals the shotgun butt for 
quickness and far surpasses the old rifle butt 
and shotgun in appearance on the straight 
gun stock. 
I should be pleased to see something more 
about revolver shooting in RECREATION. It 
would also afford me pleasure to hear from 
readers of RECREATION as to their ideas on the 
-new style of locking device for the S. A. Colt 
I have described. Moreover, I should like to 
know of some good book on revolver shooting— 
not about old muzzle-loading revolvers, but 
revolvers of to-day, with hints on the subject, 
that all of us haven’t the time or the place to 
learn by experience. A. W. HILDEBRAND. 
Norwich, Conn. 
[If Mr. Hildebrand will get either the book 
on shooting in the American Sportsman’s 
Library (Macmillan’s), or that published in 
London, by Walter Winans, he will find much 
- information that will be useful to him. The 
first would cost $2.15 and the second $5.35, if 
ordered through RECREATION.—ED. ] 

Requires a Larger Caliber 
I have a gun, rifle and shot combined, made 
in Germany. The caliber of the rifle is 6 mm., 
and I should like to have it rebored for .32-40 
caliber, but I don’t know where I can have this 
done. Would you tell me a good reliable firm, 
which can rebore the gun, and how much it 
would cost? FRANK SCHUHBAUER. 
' Missoula, Mont. 
[Write to the Stevens Arm Company, 
Chicopee Falls, Mass., which does a lot of re- 
boring, and gives satisfaction every time.—ED.] 
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Much Confusion 
There seems to be some very different 
ideas as to the relative powers of the 
30-30 and .32-40 high power rifles, judging 
by recent articles that have appeared in RECRE- 
ATION. This confusion has evidently re- 
sulted from the titling of the various .32-40 
smokeless powder cartridges. 
On page 82 of Catalogue No. 72, issued 
by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company 
in October, 1905, I find the following: 
.30 W. C. F., weight of bullet 170 grains, 
velocity 50 feet from muzzle 1,960 feet per 
second, energy 50 feet from muzzle 1,449 
foot-pounds, and then follow the figures giving 
the penetration, trajectory, etc. On the same 
page in this catalogue, lower in the same 
column, we find also the following: .32-40 
W. H. V., weight of bullet 165 grains, velocity 
50 feet from muzzle 1,700 feet per second, 
energy 50 feet from muzzle 1,058 foot-pounds, 
then giving penetration, trajectory, etc. From 
the above figures there should be no doubt that 
the .30-30 cartridge as here described is more 
powerful than the .32-40 cartridge, described 
on the same page of the Winchester Catalogue. 
But can this .32-40 be truly called a high- 
power cartridge? We think not. At least, 
it is not the cartridge which the users of the 
.32-40 have in mind when they speak of the 
power of that rifle. 
On a further examination of the figures 
given for the various cartridges, we notice 
that the .32-40 described above is the only 
.32-40 cartridge loaded with smokeless powder 
mentioned in the Winchester catalogue, while 
in the Marlin and Savage catalogues, which 
we also have before us, there are mentioned 
two cartridges loaded with smokeless powder 
besides the short range cartridges, etc. These 
two smokeless powder cartridges mentioned 
and described in the Marlin and Savage cata- 
logues are distinguished as Smokeless and 
High Power Smokeless. From this distinc- 
tion, we may conclude that there is a difference 
in the power of the smokeless powders used in 
these various cartridges, which is just the case. 
Going a step further, we learn that the Win- 
chester Company does not manufacture a 
.32-40 rifle, with anything but the soft steel 
barrel used for black powder or low power 
