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who does not clean a gun for the pleasure 

 he gets out of it. How should bullets be 

 tempered to get the best results in the 

 cartridge named? How does the Stevens- 

 Pope lubricator compare in effectiveness 

 with the Ideal lubricator? 



W. H., Pontiac, 111. 



I greatly enjoy the gun department of 

 Recreation, and always turn to it first. 

 One can learn from the experience of 

 others, but experience at first hand is bet- 

 ter. Guns from 32-40 up are large enough 

 if held straight. I don't like the jar of a 

 smokeless rifle. Those who claim there is 

 no kick to high pressure powder will 

 change their minds when they get a dig 

 from the corner of a butt plate in snap 

 shooting. Should like to hear from some 

 one who has tried the new Remington No. 

 3 high pressure gun. I prefer a single shot 

 rifle. Among repeaters I like the box mag- 

 azine best ; it does not scrape and smash 

 the points of the bullets. 



P. H. M., Kendrick, Idaho. 



I am sorry the Winchester people have 

 injudiciously withdrawn their ad from 

 Recreation, thus losing the patronage of 

 thousands of your readers. I hope they 

 may see their mistake and return before it 

 is too late. 



I should like to hear from some one who 

 has practically tested the 22-7-45 smokeless 

 in all essential points. 



• Edw. McGaffick, Salena, O. 



Winchester's loss is Savage's gain. Sav- 

 age makes a better rifle than the Winches- 

 ter, and Recreation readers will have the 

 best, especially when it is advertised in 

 Recreation. — Editor. 



I have been shooting and hunting ever 

 since I was able to hold a gun. I am sorry 

 the Winchester Company intends to put an 

 automatic gun on the market. Such a 

 slaughtering machine should not be out 

 within the reach of the bristlebacks. No 

 true sportsman would be caught dead with 

 an automatic gun. If such a weapon is put 

 on the market, I shall never own one, and 

 shall do all I can to prevent my friends 

 buying one. if any friend of mine should 

 be so foolish as to think of buying one. 

 Keep on hitting the game hog till our coun- 

 try is rid of such animals. 



Wm. L. Wallace, Richmond, Ky. 



The automatic shot gun that the Win- 

 chester people are preparing to turn out 

 will, put the finishing touch on what little 

 game the pump gun has spared. If it is 

 all that i-s claimed, it will be just the thing 

 for market hunters and game hogs. I 



should like to see it tested on the man 

 who invented it. No decent man would 

 carry such a gun a-field ; and I do not see 

 that it would have any special value at the 

 trap, except to the kind of fellow who 

 hankers to break 1,000 clays in 1,000 sec- 

 onds. A sportsman can do all the shoot- 

 ing necessary with a double barrel or, for 

 that matter, with a single. 



S. C. Harris, Hoboken, N. J. 



All friends of the game, and this means 

 all who oppose the pump and automatic 

 guns, should do their share of missionary 

 work. If you have a friend who contem- 

 plates the purchase of a rifle or a shot gun, 

 advise him to buy of some of the makers 

 who have too much principle to put a mur- 

 dering machine on the market, or of a re- 

 tail dealer who refuses to sell such guns. 

 This is easy. Work together, sportsmen, 

 and we can soon make our efforts effective. 

 F. L. Wilson, Whitney, Ore. 



In this State the buyers of Browning 

 automatic guns are mighty careful and re- 

 luctant in confessing their ownership. They 

 keep their guns in cases on all public oc- 

 casions, which is evidence that your attacks 

 go home. I hope to see an anti-automatic 

 gun law in Massachusetts before our last 

 glorious old ruffed grouse shall have drum- 

 med in vain for a mate. 



Ernest Russell, Worcester, Mass. 



Can the 38-72, model '95, Winchester, be 

 used with smokeless powder with good re- 

 sults? Can the same model, 35 caliber, be 

 used with black powder? How docs the 

 32 Winchester special compare ■ with the 

 .303 Savage? 



Savage, Monticello, N. Y. 



I should like the opinion of your readers 

 about the wearing and shooting qualities of 

 a Stevens pocket rifle. Which is the more 

 accurate cartridge, the 22 long rifle or the 

 25? Elmer Dukelorn, Hutchinson, Kas. 



"Pardon me, did you see a dachshund 

 near here?" 



^Yes." 



'Where was he?" 



''Partly on Euclid avenue and partly on 

 Erie street." — Cleveland Plain Dealer. 



A foolish young woman named Clara, 

 The rest of her name was O'Hara, 

 Just worried and worried, 

 And kept herself flurried, 

 Because she was tall-^-and so narra. 



- — Cleveland Leader 



