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RECREA TION. 



dor charges, on large and small game. Were 

 I again going where large game is found I 

 would take a .45 calibre. 11 pound Reming- 

 ton-Hepburn. Xo. 3 rifle, 32 inch barrel. 

 In it I would use 2 7 s inch Sharp's shells, 

 with no grains powder, a 325 grains patched 

 hollow point bullet and triple F.G. black 

 powder. Xo smokeless for me. I want to 

 hear the sharp, stunning report awake the 

 echoes of the canyons and crags. Then if 

 you know how to point your rifle the game 

 is yours, and no second shot will be needed. 

 Use Lyman hunting sights in their simplest 

 form. I use his rear double peep and make 

 my own bead sights. 



Sangamon, Le Roy, 111. 



LEAD BULLETS AND SMALL BORES. 



P. K. Dugan asks, in February Recrea- 

 ting, if the .30-30 Winchester can be used 

 with black powder and lead bullet. Owing 

 to the quick twist in the rifling of the .30, 

 lead bullets will not prove satisfactory un- 

 less used with a very light charge of powder. 

 With a full load they strip, and lead the bar- 

 rel. I find the .30-40, soft point, just the 

 thing for big game. It is the most deadly 

 cartridge I know of, and I have killed 

 game with almost every calibre from .22 to 

 .50. For deer I prefer the .25-35. Its recoil 

 is less and its ammunition cheaper; morever 

 it is an excellent gun for target shooting, 

 especially in a high wind. Mr. Conyngham 

 thinks the small bore smokeless rifle hard 

 to clean. These guns should never be 

 cleaned. All that is necessary is to draw an 

 oiled rag through the barrel before laying 

 your gun away. I have fired one at least 

 1,100 times; it was never cleaned, yet is in 

 good condition and as accurate as when 

 new. O. M. B., DeBeque, Col. 



THE .22 MUSHROOM BULLET. 



In answer to .40-82, will say I have used 

 the .22 calibre short, smokeless, mushroom 

 bullet in my Stevens and see no superiority 

 in it over the solid ball. There certainly 

 can be no advantage in using it for target 

 Avork. For game it is not equal to the solid 

 ball, as it is so much lighter and gives less 

 shock. I shot at a stone jug, at 30 feet, with 

 a mushroom ball. It went through one side 

 and flattened against the other side of the 

 jug without even cracking it. I then used a 

 solid ball .22 srnokeless, which went clear 

 through the jug, cracking it so I lifted upper 

 half off. This .22 short smokeless is a fine 

 little cartridge, no noise or smoke. It is 

 away ahead of the C. B. caps, having much 

 better penetration and less noise. I would 

 like to know why they don't load the .22 

 long rifle cartridge with smokeless powder. 

 Sportsman, Otsego, Mich. 



calls the .25-35 smokeless, a pop gun. His 

 .45-90 is a pop gun compared with a .25-35 

 using smokeless ammunition. The .45-90 

 bullet has a muzzle velocity of 1,480 feet'a 

 second; whereas the .25-35 has a velocity of 

 over 2,000. Holding the .45-90 point blank 

 at a mark, 300 yards away, the bullet will fall 

 more than 54 inches: the .25-35 falls only 26. 

 This will show any reasonable person that 

 the small bore smokeless had the greater 

 killing- power. With soft nosed bullets, it 

 will tear a larger and a deeper hole in game 

 than any large calibre rifle. This I can 

 prove from experience, as I have owned 

 many large rifles, including .45-90 and .50- 

 110, and feel much safer hunting dangerous 

 game with a smokeless powder arm than 

 with any back number large calibre. 



M. M. Conlon, Traverse City, Mich. 



THE .25-25 STEVENS. 



I heartily recommend to Q., Battle Creek, 

 the .25-25 Stevens rifle. It is just what he 

 wants. I had an old .22 Winchester re- 

 bored by the Stevens Co., to take their 

 .25-25 shell; making of it a rifle similar 

 to their .25-25 Ideal. For accuracy and 

 penetration it cannot be excelled. With 

 a slightly hardened bullet it will penetrate II 

 inches of pine. By reloading the shells the 

 ammunition costs no more than .22 short 

 cartridges. If smokeless powder is used the 

 cost is a trifle more. I use smokeless pow- 

 der, as I find the penetration greater and 

 the report less than with black powder. 

 Last fall I shot a coyote with it at about 300 

 yards. The bullet passed clear through him 

 without breaking a bone. He ran 30 yards 

 and fell dead. 



E. G. Rickart, Dear Lodge, Mont. 



THE KRAG-JORGENSEN. 



The United States Government secured the patent for 

 the manufacture of this rifle in this country by paying 

 Colonel Krag a royalty of $i on each rifle. About 75,000 

 rifles are in the hands of the military authorities in this 

 country, and the Government arsenal at Springfield is now 

 turning them out at the rate of 250 a day. In a short time 

 the output will be at the rate of 500 a day, and Congress 

 has been asked to appropriate $800,000 for the expense of 

 manufacturing additional guns. The Norwegian and 

 Danish armies are equipped with this rifle, and France has 

 shown an inclination to adopt it, but hesitates because it is 

 not a French invention. Colonel Krag, the inventor, who 

 has just been in this country on leave of absence, "was 

 deeply impressed with the Unietd States, and especially 

 with the intelligence of its citizens. For this reason," he 

 said, " I believe the United States can, out of such material, 

 equip soldiers to serve behind rifles much more quickly than 

 any other country." Colonel Krag is the present chief of 

 ordnance of the Norwegian army. — Scientific American. 



SETTLING A SCORE. 



In October Recreation, Mr. Marshall 

 scores advocates of small bore rifles, and 



NOTES. 

 In the June Recreation Mr. Hambledon 

 gives his opinion in regard to the .30-3° 

 smokeless rifle. I doubt if he ever used one 

 of these guns or saw one used. I own a 

 .30-30 Winchester model '94. I am perfectly 

 satisfied with its work, and its recoil is not 

 great. If Mr. Hambledon will try one of 

 these guns and see the great killing power 



