60 RECREATION. 
of the rear, which made necessary about an 
hour's careful filing. The lens was fitted 
into the ring of a Lyman No. 5 front sight, 
the pin seer been cut out. 
If the Savage people would buy the Mag- 
niscope and make it as well and advertise it 
as extensively as they do their other goods 
it would be only a matter of time when the 
tubular telescope sight would be a thing of 
the past, except for very long range target 
work, where a greater range of adjustment 
is required than can be had in the present 
form of the Magniscope. It would be easy, 
however, to improve the Magniscope in this 
respect. 
The gun and ammunition department of 
RECREATION is worth the price of the maga- 
zine. So is the fish and game hog depart- 
ment. Long may your banner wave. 
L. V. DeWitt, Paris, Tex. 
The men who made the Magniscope sight 
proved thoroughly unreliable, and I am 
glad to say have quit. Mr. Marble, presi- 
dent of the Marble Safety Axe Co., Glad- 
stone, Mich., is working on an improved 
form of this sight, and will probably put it 
on the market in the near future —EDITOR. 

IMPRACTICABLE TOOLS, 
That a tool fails to perform the work for 
which it was designed may be the fault of 
the user, but it is sometimes due to the im- 
practicability of the tool. The latter is 
certainly the case with the Marlin rifle. I 
have taken one apart and polished each 
separate piece of its mechanism in the en- 
deavor to make it work smoothly. The ex- . 
tractor, a wee bit of hook and spring, is 
particularly worthless. I suggested an im- 
provement to the company and got a snub 
for my pains. 
After trying all the new model rifles I 
consider the 32-20-105 the best for target 
work and for game up to turkeys. For 
deer I choose a 40-82, a 38-55 or a 38-56. 
The 30-30 makes too small a wound and 
does not draw blood enough to track by. 
My pet shot gun is an Ithaca. With 
Winchester high base shells it does extel- 
lent work. Some time ago I was persuad- 
ed to try Peters New Victor shells. My 
first attempt with them was on’ squirrels. 
I peppered several at ordinary range and 
they merely looked around to see what hit 
them. I did succeed in killing 2 or 3 with- 
in 25 yards, but I think they died from 
fricht. The load was 3% drams powder 
and 1% ounces No. 7 shot. 
W. B. Seavolt, Newhaven, Pa. 

SMALL SHOT. 
Would it not be well to give the liars a 
department of their own, instead of scat- 
tering their fancies promiscuously through 
RECREATION? We have heard from the man 
who kills deer with 22 shorts, the man who 
never fails to make a heart shot, the man 
who kills quails at 90 yards, and many 
others. Probably we shall hear from them 
again. We may, however, hope that the 
man is dead whom the cougar covered with 
leaves while she went after her cubs, since 
that occurrence was first reported soon 
after the expiration of Ananias’ copyright. 
If you can not spare them a department, 
it might answer to tag them as you do the 
hogs; for instance, “How I killed 4 Bear 
with a Puttyblower, By J. J. Jones, Liar 
No. 747.” Then we would know what to 
expect before reading. 
R. E. Peater, Mansfield, O. 

Do the Ideal people make a mould for a 
bullet, weighing 200 to 250 grains, that can 
be used in a Colt 44 caliber powder and ball 
pistol? 47, R Williams, Omaha, Neb. 
ANSWER. 
I do not know of any mould made by the 
Ideal people to cast a bullet to fit your re- 
volver and weigh as much as you require. 
Their No. 450,225, weighing 170 grains, will 
probably fit. 
The better way is to send the Ideal Com- 
pany a bullet that fits the barrel and takes 
the rifling well, and see if they cannot fur- 
nish you a mould to suit. Most of the 44 
caliber Colt and Remington powder and 
ball revolvers of the Civil War period re- 
quired a ball with a diameter of .450 of an 
inch.—EDbITor. 

While I own and use a 22 rifle, I can 
not help thinking that the world would be 
better off without these destructive little 
weapons, They are too cheap and handy 
and tempt unthinking boys and men to 
wanton destruction of song birds and small 
animals. While connected with a saw mill 
in the woods last summer, I noticed that 3 
of the crew carried cheap 22 rifles to and 
from their work for the purpose of shoot- 
ing any birds they might come across. 
These fellows became expert and seldom 
missed a shot. Either the price of small 
rifles should be raised sufficiently to keep 
them out of the reach of irresponsible per- 
sons or a tax should be put on their use. 
R. B. Stowers, Cupio, Ky. 

Please explain why 22 long U. M. C. 
cartridges stick in my rifle. They will not — 
go into the barrel. Would a 22 long kill a 
rabbit at 75 yards? Have had many mis- 
fires when using Peters shells. 
_A. C. Adams, Pitcairn, Pa. 

Will some one who has had experience 
with W W. Greener guns kindly give his — 
opinion of them? 
W, C. Garthwaite, St. Marys, Ont. 

