224 RECREATION. 
sportsmen, while the wiping out of game 
will certainly injure those engaged in the 
manufacture of firearms for sportsmen. 
Selah B. Strong. 
Trenton, N. J. 
Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 
Dear Sirs: 
I am informed you intend to manufac- 
ture an automatic shot gun. The placing 
of such a weapon on the market would 
hasten the extinction of the wild game of 
America, and this would be a national 
calamity. None but pot hunters and game 
butchers will ever use such guns; and if 
you cater to these classes you are no friend 
of sportsmen; I strongly protest against 
the manufacture of any such weapon. 
L. W. Johnson 
A CHAMPION FOR ROBIN HOOD. 
I noticed a letter in REcREATION from 
. W. Crampton regarding Robin Hood 
loaded shells, and a reply to it from C. H. 
Bentley. I have used several thousand of 
these shells the past 2 seasons, and am sat- 
ised from reading Mr. Bentley’s letter that 
he has not done much experimenting with 
Robin Hood loads. He may have shot a 
few, but the shells must have been of the 
cheapest class. I want to ask him to give 
them another trial, not on game, for the 
best of us blame the ammunition when we 
are out of form, but on penetration sheets. 
I took regular stock loads of Robin Hood, 
3% drams powder and 1% ounces No. 7% 
chilled shot. With these went Winchester 
Leader shells loaded with the same load of 
Du Pont smokeless and another batch 
loaded with 24 grains of Infallible. I made 
targets with each at 60 yards. There was 
little perceptible difference in penetration, 
but the distribution with Robin Hood was 
perfect, while both other loads clumped 
shot and left spaces in a 30 inch circle that 
a duck could have gone through. At 75 
yards Robin Hood distribution was I00 per 
cent. better than either of the other loads, 
while the penetration was 12 sheets better 
than Infallible; but Robin Hood, after pass- 
Pont. I made 5 targets with each load at 
this distance, and that was the average. 
I then made 5 targets at 85 yards and 5 at 
1oo yards. The farther I shot the more 
pronounced was the difference. Every tar- 
get showed Robin Hood to have the greatest 
penetration and to give the best pattern. 
At 100 yards Infallible would not stick the 
shot in the sheets, and on 2 of the targets 
not one shot struck the sheet. Du Pont 
showed better all the way through 
than Infallible, but Robin Hood, after pass- 
ing the 50 yard mark, was greater in pene- 
tration and not only put more shot into the 
targets but distributed them far better. Mr. 
Bentley will get the same results if he will 
target these powders and not take snap 

'there is no loosening of the gun. 
_ loads: 
judgment becattse he happens to miss a few 
birds with the Robin Hood. 
I know at least 50 good field shots here 
who will use nothing but Robin Hood, and 
all pronounce it stronger than any 
other smokeless. Robin Hood gives a 
little more smoke than Infallible or Du 
Pont, but even on damp days it is not great 
enough to interfere in the least with second 
or third shots. Recently I killed 5 -ducks, 
one with each shot, with Robin Hood and 
No. 7% shot, and the last kill was as clean 
as the first. 
The recoil from 3% drams is not so 
great as that from 24 grains Infallible and 
I shoot 
a Parker $100 grade in the field, and it is 
impossible to keep it tight many weeks when 
using Infallible powder. Robin Hood does 
not seem to loosen a gun any more than 
black powder. My opinion of Infallible 
powder is that the factory advises over- 
24 grains of it give fearful recoil, 
and 26 are simply unbearable. 
I advise readers of RECREATION to test 
Robin Hood carefully for 2 reasons; it is 
cheaper, and, I believe, better than any 
other. In addition, it is advertised liberally 
in RECREATION, and we ought certainly to 
favor those who favor us by advertising in 
our magazine. 
John E. Clincher, Austin, Tex. 
IT ES. THE “MAN! 
Several of your correspondents say there 
should be laws in all the States prohibiting 
the use of repeating shot guns. I claim that 
the gun a man uses has nothing to do with 
his being a butcher. If a man wants to 
be a game hog he will be one no mat- 
ter what gun he may use. Some of the 
biggest hogs I have ever known used 
muzzle loaders. I have seen another man 
take a repeater and a brace of dogs and go 
after birds. He would watch the dogs 
work, and when a bird got up would bring 
the repeater around, take time to shoot 
straight, would kill his bird, seldom shoot- 
ing a second shot. I have known such a 
man to hunt all day and get 4 or 5 birds 
where he could have killed 50. He had as 
much enjoyment out of watching the dogs 
work as another would in shooting. It is 
all right to allow such a man to use a re- 
peater and dogs. What we need is a law 
to send a man to jail who kills more than 
a reasonable number of birds in a day. 
I have known a game butcher to take a 
muzzle loader and go to the woods and 
shoot everything that moved: chipmunks, 
phoebe birds, grouse, squirrels, rabbits, any- 
thing. It is natural for such men and it is 
only the fear of the law that keeps them 
from shooting any kind of stock, and even 
human beings. Such a man will sneak up 
behind a grouse, take a rest over a stump 

