GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 
Anybody can shoot all day, but a gentleman always quits when he gets enough. 
ROBIN HOOD POWDER. 
Last October my attention was directed, 
by an ad in Recreation, to Robin Hood 
powder. I sent to the factory for a sample, 
and proceeded to make a thorough test of 
it, both at the trap and in the field. 
After trying several kinds of shells, I 
found that the Blue Rival was admirably 
adapted to this powder. ‘I loaded a number 
of these shells with 3% drams of Robin 
Hood; one card and 2 black edge wads over 
powder; 1% ounces No. 6 chilled shot; one 
light card wad over shot; and with 4% inch 
crimp. I used them in duck shooting, both 
at mallards and widgeons, and I found I 
could do better work than I had formerly 
done with larger shot over the same range. 
The pattern and the penetration was all 
that could be desired. 
I have used 3 drams of Robin Hood and 
1% ounces No. 7% chilled shot, at the trap, 
with excellent results. Those who desire 
a powder that will give great penetration 
and a close, regular patern, cannot do bet- 
ter than to use Robin Hood. 
L. L. Burtenshaw, Council, Ida. 

What is the difference between dense and 
bulk powders? How is pressure deter- 
mined on gun wads? What is the compo- 
sition of black powder? 
John Daniel, Eufaula, Ala. 
ANSWER, 
A dense powder, so called, is of the 
smokeless variety and so compounded that 
the quantity required to give a certain ef- 
fect is much less in bulk than other pow- 
ders not of this character. All dense pow- 
ders being of small bulk, should be weighed 
and not measured by volume. The so- 
called bulk powders are also smokeless, and 
have their strength so proportioned that 
~ bulk for bulk with black powder, they will 
produce results approximately the same. 
Pressure om gun wads is determined in 
various ways. In hand loading it is ascer- 
tained by using a special spring rammer. 
The spring, when compressed as far as it 
will go, indicates a certain predetermined 
number of pounds. By applying the ram- 
mer each time until the spring is fully com- 
pressed, a degree of accuracy in pressure is 
attained. 
Black powder is composed of varying 
proportions of potassium nitrate, sulphur 
and charcoal. Black powder has been made 
employing other chemicals, but the ingre- 
dients named have, however, been almost - 
universally employed 
in compounding a 
stable black powder. 
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An ordinary sporting powder would have 
the ingredients mixed in about the follow- 
ing proportions: Potassium nitrate, 78 
parts; sulphur, 10 parts; charcoal, 12 parts. 
E. B. Guile. 
THE REPEATER MUST GO. 
I am with you heart and soul in trying to 
prevent the use of the game hogs’ weapon 
—the repeating shot gun. It is a game de- 
stroyer in the hands of a good shot, a great 
consumer of ammunition in the hands of a 
poor shot, and the tool with which thou- 
sands upon thousands of waterfowl are 
each year bagged by market hunters. 
Most people who buy these guns do so 
because they can fire more shots in a given 
space of time, and consequently kill more 
birds. 
Hundreds of wealthy men use them for 
this very thing. Go to Detroit and see how 
it is there. Paul Bagley and Owen Scot- 
ten are 2 examples. They feel bad if they 
can't put 6 shots into a flock of ducks. 
Scotten will empty his repeater at a flock 
100 yards distant, yet he owns a $1,000 
Greener and a $750 American gun. 
The Winchester Repeating Arms Co. used 
to advertise “6 shots shot in 3 seconds,” 
and “if you had a repeater you might have 
killed 6 birds instead of one or 2.” Four 
or 5 years ago they got down to “A third 
shot to kill a cripple,” when sentiment 
against the use of repeating guns began to 
show. Now they claim to be friends of 
the game and of game laws and. are advo- 
cating a limit on the bag of so many birds 
a day. That sounds nice, but what does it 
amount to? Nothing; because if the limit 
were 25 ducks per day, the man that want- 
ed to kill 100 would find people enough, 
whether guides, boat pushers, or what, that 
would gladly kill 25 ducks for a dollar and 
not fire a shot. 
The deer limit in Michigan is 3 to each 
license, but there are plenty of licenses is- 
sued to people who do not fire a shot nor 
even try, yet somebody does the killing. 
The Winchester people have a lot of 
money and are going to make a fight to pre- 
vent legislation antagonistic to their inter- 
ests. ‘ 
If we succeed in stopping the use of re- 
peating shot guns, it need cause no loss to 
the country lad who worked hard to save 
the $17 he paid for his repeater. The mag- 
azine on every repeater can be easily and 
permanently blocked so that it will con- 
tain but a single cartridge, and at a cost 
of not more than s5ocents. A nice little fine 
of $100 for anyone found using a repeater 

