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RECREATION. 



THE .30-30. 



Last July I bought a .30-30 Winchester, 

 take down, half octagon, full magazine. 1 

 consider it the best shooting, best balanced 

 and most accurate gun I ever brought to 

 my shoulder. The first shot I fired at 

 game was at a hawk perched on a tree 

 about 250 yards away. When the gun 

 cracked the hawk came to the ground. 



The next day I got a shot at a deer 

 standing about 200 yards distant and look- 

 ing at me from behind a large spruce tree. 

 I could see only one ear and a shoulder. 

 I aimed at the shoulder. The deer turned, 

 ran about 50 feet and fell. The bullet went 

 through shoulder and paunch, and on 

 through the hip, smashing the bone. 



The light weight of the .30-30 is a great 

 point in its favor with me, as I hunt deer 

 entirely on foot. I have used several 

 makes of guns, and not one would stop a 

 deer better than the .30. I am a stickler 

 for light guns and as light a bullet and 

 powder charge as will kill the game one 

 hunts. I believe in trying to kill my game 

 with the first shot, if possible, and not in 

 whanging away to empty the magazine. 



I have read and heard a great lot about 

 the .30's and other mushroom bullets 

 causing bloodshot meat. I have seen game 

 killed with the .303 Savage, the .30-30 and 

 the .30-40, and not one ounce of the meat 

 was injured, except what the bullets ac- 

 tually hit. 



J. J. McNamara, Cimarron, Col. 



SMALL SHOT. 



If the use of shotguns for bird shooting 

 could be prohibited, and hunters allowed 

 to use only rifles, the birds would have 

 more of a chance to get away and there 

 would be better hunting. 



A. W. K., Merrill. Wis. 



ANSWER. 



I should say the birds would have a 

 better chance to get away. If a man 

 should hunt quail, ruffed grouse, wood- 

 cock, and snipe with a rifle, it is safe to 

 say that 99 out of every 100 birds flushed 

 would get away. A man who might be 

 fortunate enough to have a dog that would 

 tree ruffed grouse and bark, could get 

 many of them; but of the other species 

 named nearly all would escape. 



A. W. K.'s scheme is not practicable at 

 present. Broadly speaking, I am in favor 

 of anything that will give the game a bet- 

 ter chance for its existence than it now 

 has; but .so long as we allow men to shoot 

 or to hunt these birds at all, we must al- 

 low them to use shot guns. — Editor. 



10 pound gun, taking a 3 inch shell, was 

 particularly effective for goose and duck 

 shooting. Loaded with all the f f f g pow- 

 der the shell would hold, together with 3 

 layers of buckshot, it was deadly at ex- 

 tremely long range. The other gun I 

 had made to order. It weighed 8^2 

 pounds, and had 32 inch Damascus bar- 

 rels bored for field shooting. No gun I 

 have used is more deadly up to 60 yards. 

 I have fired thousands of shots from it, 

 and it is still as tight and perfect as when 

 made. 



Daniel Arrowsmith, Ellsworth, 111. 



Some of your correspondents waste lots 

 of ink in abusing the repeating shot gun 

 and men who use it. I shoot a pump gun 

 because no better arm can be had at its 

 price. Just how that makes me a hog I 

 do not understand. If a $16 gun makes 

 a hog, does an $8 gun make a pig, or does 

 it run the other way? And what makes 

 a man a piglet, the possession of a $4 

 gun or of a $64 gun? Let us have more 

 light on this subject, dear Chappies. I 

 am trying to figure out whether the own- 

 er of a $400 hammerless ejector is a gen- 

 tleman sportsman or a wart on a hog's 

 ear. 



Snap Shot, Stillwater, Minn. 



I should like to hear from users of .25- 

 25 Stevens rifles as to range and accuracy. 

 Also, 11 anyone has reloaded with low 

 pressure smokeless powder. 



I have a Stevens Ideal rifle, No. 44, .22 

 1. r., with 28 inch barrel and Lyman sights, 

 that can not be excelled. With it I killed 

 2 great blue herons at one shot, at a dis- 

 tance of 125 yards. While not a table bird, 

 they tasted mighty good to my partner and 

 me, for we were out of grub at the time. 

 C. O. M., Columbia Barracks, Cuba. 



My choice of rifles for deer and smaller 

 game is the '86 model, Winchester. I 

 own one made as directed by me. It is a 

 38-56, 28 inch barrel, nickel steel. I had 

 the factory stock removed and replaced by 

 one made after my own fancy. I use the 

 open rear sight with the ivory bead in 

 front. Have used Lyman sights, but have 

 obtained best results with the former. 



A. A. Divine, Elk Rapids, Mich. 



In answer to various inquiries regarding 

 Ithaca guns, would say I have owned 2 

 12 bores of that make. One, a 30 inch, 



What is the price of a model '99 Savage 

 rifle? And what is the extreme range of 

 that arm? 



I. W. Payne, Tuttles, N. Y. 



ANSWER. 



I have requested the Savage Arms Co. 

 to mail you their catalogue. The extreme 

 range of the full jacketed and expanding 

 Savage cartridge is 2 miles. It is exceed- 

 ingly accurate up to 2,000 yards. — Editor. 



