GUNS AND AMMUNITION 



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In October Recreation M. L. Parshall 

 says one fault of the Savage rifle is that 

 its soft nose bullets when striking a bone, 

 such as the skull of an animal, will not 

 penetrate, but fly to pieces. Soft nose 

 bullets fired from any rifle will do the 

 same under similar conditions. The fault 

 is not with the rifle, but with the rifleman; 

 he should choose a more favorable mark 

 than the skull. I have used all the latest 

 models of high power rifles, and think the 

 Savage the neatest,, strongest and most ac- 

 curate of all. L. D. Bailey, Lead, S. D. 



THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING. 



The Marlin proposition strikes me as 

 so extraordinary that I must express my 

 opinion of it. It seems almost incredible 

 that such a firm should attempt to adjust 

 a real or fancied grievance by striving to 

 undo the good work achieved by Recrea- 

 tion and the L. A. S. That is where they 

 hit me hard ; though I do not think they 

 could do it with one of their rifles, especial- 

 ly if they had to shoot more than once ; 

 for judging from the many criticisms I 

 have heard for years past it would prob- 

 ably balk and give me time to make myself 

 scarce. 



Every fair minded man must realize 

 the vast amount of good that has been 

 done by Recreation and the League. 

 Sportsmen , it is up to you. Give G. O. 

 Shields the encouragement and support, 

 both financial and moral, he so richly de- 

 serves for his perseverance, nerve and 

 ability as a protector of game. Get your 

 friends to help, too, and show Mr. Marlin 

 and others of that ilk that they have an- 

 other guess coming. The Marlin people 

 are foolish in attempting to do up the L. 

 A. S., for that is what it amounts to 

 when they attack the official organ of the 

 League, and sportsmen will not stand for 

 such a play. 



As I size this proposition, it seems Mr. 

 Marlin brought suit against G. O. Shields 

 and it was thrown out of court. That 

 should have ended the matter. But Mar- 

 lin then accuses Shields of having killed 

 too much game 25 years ago and calls 

 him the "hog of game hogs." We will 

 admit, by way of argument, that Mr. 

 Shields did kill more game 25 years ago 

 than he should have done. Most of us 

 would have done the same in days when 

 game was plentiful and no one thought 

 it could be exterminated. Then Mr. 

 Shields, that slaughterer of game, accord- 

 ing to Marlin, after pleading many years 

 in books and magazine articles for moder- 

 ation in game killing, conceived the idea 

 of publishing a magazine demanding the 

 protection of game animals, fish, birds, 

 forests, etc. If Mr. Shields ever did kill 



game indiscriminately (which I doubt), 

 he has been the cause of saving many lives 

 of game animals and birds for every one he 

 has taken. 



Brother sportsmen, do not judge a man 

 by what some sore-head says he has been ; 

 judge him as you find him. We certainly 

 know what our champion is to-day and 

 what he has been for years past. Follow 

 his advice as laid down in Recreation and 

 in by-laws of the L. A. S. and we will 

 have plenty of game and fish for a long 

 time to come. I believe the time is not 

 far distant when all sportsmen will see 

 where it is to their interest to join the 

 L. A. S. and give us their support in this 

 great cause. 



I have the utmost faith in Mr. Shields's 

 ability to protect himself and our inter- 

 ests regardless of the 2 little pamphlets 

 that are being sent out from the Marlin 

 gun shop. W. S. G. Todd., L. A. S., 3403. 



NOT EVERY SHOT WILL KILL. 



Any man who has killed much big game 

 knows that at times he can kill anything 

 with any kind of gun, while at other times 

 he apparently needs a Gatling. There is 

 no gun made which is equally good at all 

 ranges and for all kinds of game. I have 

 owned 8 different makes of rifles in the 

 last 5 years. If I- were hunting deer only 

 I should want nothing better than a 30-30. 

 For moose and caribou, in a heavily Wood- 

 ed country, I prefer a special, extra light 

 45-70, built for smokeless powder In the 

 West, where the country is open and game 

 is generally seen at long range, I should 

 use a 30-40 with smokeless powder. If I 

 could afford to buy only one gun, and 

 had to use that for everything, I should 

 certainly want the 30-40, as it will use all 

 kinds of loads and kill without much muti- 

 lation anything from a grouse to a moose. 



All who have hunted much have seen 

 many things that are hard to understand. 

 At one time I used a 40-82, and killed a 

 deer with it. However, it took 5 shots to 

 do it ; the first broke the hip and went 

 through the body lengthwise, 2 went 

 through just back of the shoulder, one 

 through the neck, and the last through the 

 head. With the 40-82 I killed a large 

 moose, and found 2 30 caliber bullets stick- 

 ing in its hide. On another occasion I 

 shot a moose through the head with a 30-30, 

 and although the bullet was a soft point 

 it did not mushroom. I shot an elk with 

 a 45-70 smokeless. One shot merely broke 

 one of the forelegs, close to the shoulder, 

 the metal jacketed bullet remaining in the 

 leg. Another shot broke the shoulder, went 

 through the body almost lengthwise, cut- 

 ting 4 ribs, and lodged just in front of the 

 hip on the other side. 



When speaking to Mr. A. J. Stone, 



