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I recently bought a 30-40 Winchester, 

 and it certainly is a great killer. I find 

 much amusement in testing its marvelous 

 penetration by shooting at ^-inch boiler 

 plate cut to represent a grizzly bear. Large 

 bones also furnish excellent and instructive 

 targets. A soft nose bullet generally 

 knocks them to flinders. Sometimes, too, 

 I am fortunate enough to secure a dead 

 horse for a mark. No other target better 

 illustrates the fearful killing power of the 

 30-40. A soft point bullet leaves a scarcely 

 perceptible mark at the entrance, but at the 

 point of exit the orifice really reminds 

 one of a woodchuck's excavation. It is 

 diverting to hear the big bore cranks de- 

 fend their old fashioned guns. Come, 

 Brethren, be honest. Which is the most 

 killing weapon : a gun like the 30-40, which 

 will shoot through the shank of a 90-pound 

 steel rail, or a 45-70, which will barely 

 bulge it; a gun which will whip a bullet 

 through a 6-foot oak, or one which shows 

 a penetration little better than one foot in 

 soft pine? 

 H. R. von Lommel. Pleasantville, N. Y. 



I have known many shooters to use 

 smokeless powder in black powder rifles 

 and in each case it has proved disastrous 

 to the life of the arm. They say "The fac- 

 tories load such ammunition and it must be 

 all right." They find their mistake when it 

 is too late. 



The factories do load such cartridges for 

 rifles and revolvers, but first class sporting 

 goods houses now tag even the best re- 

 volvers that they are not guaranteed with 

 smokeless powder. One retail store in St. 

 Louis can tell of 3 burst revolvers in one 

 day in that city. 



I have not known of many burst black 

 powder rifles from using factory loaded 

 smokeless ammunition, but I have known of 

 swollen chambers, and rifling stripped out. 

 A friend spoiled 2 first class black powder 

 rifles and I spoiled the barrel of a good 22 

 caliber repeater by using smokeless powder. 

 My advice based on experience is : Use only 

 black powder in rifles where barrels are not 

 marked to show that the manufacturer rec- 

 ommends them for smokeless powder. 

 M. M. Conlon, Traverse City, Mich. 



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