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to the everlasting desire for improvements in 
the minds of such men as Dr. Hudson, William 
Hayes and others. The results each successive 
year show improvement over the preceding. 
Impossibilities, however, should not be ex- 
pected, and if they are, they will not be realized. 
To expect a rifle barrel with an exact bore and 
depth of rifling to a fractional part of a 
thousandth of an inch is too much. When 
thought is given to the hardness of the steel 
from which these barrels are made, one 
wonders how it is possible to get so near to an 
exact uniformity, and especially when the wear 
of tools is taken into consideration. 
Sea Girt meeting of 1906 further demon- 
strated the fact that the Krag rifle is a first- 
class arm, although criticisms were to the 
contrary when it was first issued. It also 
brought out that the United States Govern- 
ment, as well as the private manufacturers, can 
and do make first-class ammunition. The 
experience and information gathered will be 
silently working during the coming months for 
the good of the next meeting, which we all 
think will be so conducted as to realize our 
most sanguine expectations. 
Joun H. BAR tow. 
Killed Shark with Shotgun 
Mr. C. S. Cummings, of St. Louis, Mo., 
whose article, ‘‘Duck-Shooting with Gun and 
Camera,” in the October number of RECRE- 
ATION, attracted widespread attention, on 
RECREATION 
September 5 sent us the photograph from 
which the accompanying cut was made, 
together with the following letter, dated 
Atlantic City, N. J.: 
“T had an unusual experience while plover- 
shooting back of Brigantine Beach last week, 
with Dr. W. J. Burleigh and Captain Ez Bowen. 
When we were passing through Steelman’s Bay 
I saw the fin of a shark, which was hunting 
eels in the shallow water. The boatman poled 
up close to the shark and I shot it with a 465 
grain 14-gauge round bullet fired from my 12- 
gauge choke-bored double-barrel shotgun. It 
took four of these bullets to kill him; then we 
dragged him up on the sandbar and made the 
photograph. He was eight feet six and one- 
half inches long—the largest seen around here 
in some moons. The round bullet is a perfect 
paralyzer. 
‘It was raining when the picture was made.” 
‘Hunting Moose for Money 
The supposed protection of this noble game 
animal in certain States is a pitiful farce. If it 
were called protection against money leaving 
these States that in any way could be retained, 
it would better cover the circumstances. The 
general public, the amateur and even the fairly 
well-posted hunter do not realize that certain 
States are furnishing moose meat and moose 
heads for market, on call, when desired. So 
long as the cash is returned to these States the 
stringent laws are relaxed, or waived, to a 

MR, CUMMINGS (ON THE LEFT) AND THE 
SHARK HE KILLED WITH A SHOTGUN 
