GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 



Anybody can shoot all day but a gentleman always quits when he gets enough. 



OTHER EDITORS CONDEMN THE AUTO- 

 MATIC. 



An editorial in the November number of 

 Recreation takes up the subject of auto- 

 matic guns and handles it in a manner that 

 will be especially pleasing to the true sports- 

 men of the country, and to the general pub- 

 lic that is opposed to the ruthless slaughter 

 of birds of song and plumage as well as 

 to the wholesale killing of game birds. The 

 article is drawn out by the invention of an 

 automatic gun. The editor of Recreation 

 declares that any reasonable man, no mat- 

 ter how eagerly he may seek the mighty 

 dollar, should be satisfied with the weapons 

 already on the market for destroying Ameri- 

 can birds and wild animals. He adds fur- 

 ther that we have repeating rifles, repeating 

 shot guns, double barrel and single barrel 

 shot guns by the million, and with these the 

 birds and wild animals have been reduced to 

 pitiable remnants of their once great num- 

 bers, but now, as if not satisfied with the 

 slaughter which has been and is being car- 

 ried on, the big gun houses are putting out" 

 still more murderous engines of destruc- 

 tion, for market hunters and pot hunters. 



Many people who have not kept up with 

 the developments of recent years in the way 

 of firearms may not know what is meant 

 by an automatic gun. It is simply this : 

 A gun with a magazine holding a number 

 of cartridges which may be discharged as 

 fast as a man can pull the trigger. The 

 shooter jumps a bunch of quail, ducks or 

 geese, cocks his gun and fires. The recoil 

 of the first shot throws out the empty shell, 

 throws a new one into the chamber, and 

 cocks the gun ready for another shot. From 

 that on, all the shooter has to do is to swing 

 the muzzle of his gun from one bird to 

 another and pull the trigger until the last 

 shot is fired. Pistols built on this plan 

 hold 7 to 10 cartridges, and it is possible 

 to fire all of them in less than 2 seconds. 

 The magazine of an automatic shot gun 

 holding 6 cartridges could be emptied as 

 quickly, and if the shooter were an expert, 

 as many of the game butchers are, it would 

 be possible to kill 10 or more birds out of 

 a covey before they could get out of reach. 



The repeating rifle has been an important 

 factor in wiping out the big game of this 

 country. The pump gun, so-called, has pro- 

 ven little short of a national calamity. An 

 automatic shot gun would be a disgrace to 

 the nation, and its introduction should be 

 prohibited by law. This may not be, but 

 the sale of any such weapon to decent 

 sportsmen can be prevented by the creation 

 of a proper sentiment. — Detroit, Mich., 

 paper. 



The latest thing in shot guns is an auto- 

 matic firearm that may be fired 6 times, as 

 fast as the shooter can pull the trigger. 

 The recoil 'of the first shot throws out the 

 empty shell, sends a new one into the cham- 

 ber, and cocks the gun ready for another 

 shot. An agitation protesting against the 

 sale and use of the gun has been started 

 by G. O. Shields, editor of Recreation. His 

 contention is that the use of the automatic 

 gun will hasten the extermination of all the 

 game birds in America. One of the new 

 guns was exhibited at Barre during the 

 Brunswick club field trials, and sorrow was 

 expressed by a number of sportsmen that 

 such a gun should have been invented, as 

 the rapidity with which it may be fired is a 

 sure indication of the speedy destruction 

 of any game going in front of it, no mat- 

 ter how poor a shot the hunter may be, for 

 at least 5 shots may be fired in the time 

 that 2 could be fired from the ordinary 

 double-barrel piece. — Worcester, Mass., 

 Evening Post. 



A NEW LOAD FOR THE KRAG-JORGENSEN. 



Owners of high power rifles using the 30- 

 40 Krag-Jorgensen military cartridge, who 

 have vainly wished for an inexpensive load 

 for short and mid ranges, as well as for use 

 in hunting animals up to and including deer, 

 should extend a vote of thanks to Dr. Hud- 

 son, the well known rifle shot, to Mr. Bar- 

 low, of the Ideal Manufacturing Co. and to 

 the Laflin and Rand Powder Co., for their 

 services in this direction. 



Thousands of riflemen have pondered 

 over this riddle which, briefly stated, is 

 as follows : 



Can a lead bullet without a jacket be 

 fired from a high power rifle without strip- 

 ping and leading the barrel to the destruc- 

 tion of accuracy and power? The men 

 named have solved the problem, and here is 

 the how : 



Dr. Hudson and Mr. Barlow together de- 

 vised a bullet composed of an alloy of 80 

 per cent, lead, 10 per cent, tin, and 10 per 

 cent, antimony. This mixture, properly 

 fused and moulded, gives a bullet of nearly 

 the specific gravity of lead, with a surface 

 that has a resisting strength equal to that 

 of a jacketed bullet. Brother Barlow in- 

 jected into the formula an idea of his own 

 in fashioning the front shoulder of the bul- 

 let, which first engages the grooves and 

 bands of the rifling. This shoulder makes 

 the path of the bullet free, in that it cuts 

 away the fouling of the preceding discharge 

 and its value may be guessed when it is 



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