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smokeless powder, unless the smokeless steel 
barrel is specially ordered, and then at an extra 
cost, making the price of this .32-40 not only 
higher than the same rifle with the soft steel 
barrel, but more expensive than the same 
grade of gun, which this company regularly 
places on the market with the smokeless 
steel barrel. The .32-40 cartridge loaded 
with high power smokeless powder can be 
safely used in the Marlin, model of 1893, and 
the Savage, model of 1899, but cannot be 
safely used in the .32-40 Winchester as that 
arm is found on the market to-day. If one 
desires to use such a cartridge in the .32-40 
Winchester, one must not forget to order the 
nickel steel barrel, and in addition stipulate 
that the gun be sighted for this high power 
cartridge—then he will be politely reminded 
of the additional cost. 
The .32-40 cartridge described as the W. H. 
V. .32-40 for which the ballistic data is given 
in the Winchester catalogue, is a cartridge 
made for the Winchester .32-40 rifle as that arm 
is found on the market. And as that arm is 
offered with a soft steel barrel, made for the 
use of black powder, this W. H. V. .32-40 
cartridge made by the Winchester Company, 
and described in that catalogue, is in reality 
a low-power smokeless powder cartridge, as 
only such would be safe to use in such an arm. 
Any .32-40 in which only this Winchester so- 
called high velocity ammunition can be used, 
is without doubt an arm of less power than the 
. 30-30. 
is the cartridge, not the rifle, which gives the 
power, all other things being equal. ‘The 
true high-power .32-40 smokeless cartridge, 
according to the U. M. C. figures, gives an 
average muzzle velocity of 2,065 feet per 
second with an energy of 1,558 foot-pounds. 
The figures given in the Savage catalogue are 
somewhat lower than those of the U. M. C. 
Company, but even with the Savage ammuni- 
tion the .32-40 high-power cartridge gives 
both greater velocity and energy than the 
Savage .30-30. 
I have been recently told by two persons 
connected with the Savage Arms Company, 
whose connection with that company places 
them in a position to know, that the high- 
. power .32-40 cartridge shows by their tests a 
greater velocity than the Savage .303, the gun 
on which this company has built its reputation; 
though the figures given'in the Savage catalogue 
do not disclose that fact. The Marlin figures 
are practically the same as those of the U. M. C. 
Company. 
Thus taking the figures for the .30-30 from 
the Winchester Catalogue, which are the 
most favorable given for that caliber, and 

But it must be remembered that it 
RECREATION 
comparing them with the Marlin and U. M. C. 
Company’s figures for the .32-40 high power, 
we must conclude that the .32-40 high power 
is more powerful than the .30-30. We leave 
out of consideration the .32-40 W. H. V., 
because, as we have above stated, that cartridge 
is in reality a low-power cartridge, made to be 
used in the soft steel barrel of the Winchester 
-32-40 rifle. 
From the foregoing statements it must not 
be inferred that the writer does not consider 
the .30-30 cartridge an excellent one and the 
arm of that caliber an excellent arm, for such 
an inference would be incorrect; but, as there 
seems to be considerable misunderstanding 
regarding the power of the .32-40 high power 
cartridge and the arm provided with a barrel 
strong enough to take such cartridge, also of 
the relative power of the .30-30, the above 
facts and figures are given. 
F. J. DE LA FLEvR. 
Utica, N. Y. 

Liability of an Accident 
The other day a copy of a book called “‘Camp 
Kits and Camp Life” came into my hands, and 
as I do quite a lot of camping I became inter- 
ested in it at once, and sought out a quiet, 
shady spot beside the brook that flows through 
an adjacent meadow, to enjoy its contents. 
Gradually, a feeling of weariness made itself 
felt, and at the end of a forced march through 
the first fifteen pages I cast it aside and have 
not yet resumed its perusal. A few of the gems 
of advice that I found in those pages may 
cause some other open-air men to understand 
why, without further explanation on my part: 
‘“‘As the stock of a shotgun has more drop 
than the stock of the ordinary rifle, many . 
sportsmen have shotgun stocks put on their 
rifles, so that they will not have to twist their 
heads in taking aim, which to some extent 
affects the eyesight.” 
“The lock is the steel frame in the middle 
of the gun, and is the part which holds the stock 
and barrel.” 
“The hammer is the steel plunger which is 
driven against the firing pin to cause the con- 
cussion, and the trigger is the lever which re- 
leases the hammer, this being protected by a 
curved piece of steel called the guard.” 
