GUNS AND AMMUNITION 



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the other side. Mr. Buck leaped into the 

 air and came down, all fours doubling under 

 him, got up and ran about forty yards and 

 sank to the ground. He tried to get up, but 

 lacked the strength. 



I have shot them with the .38-. 55 and 

 .40-80, the ball taking about the same course 

 and had to chase them half a day before I 

 got near enough to bleed them. Two friends 

 of mine used .32 Special rifles this fall on 

 moose in the Lake St. Johns and Logany 

 River districts. The two fine bull moose 

 heads they brought home with them spoke 

 well for the Winchester rifles and Winchester 

 ammunition used in the chase. The .32 U. S. 

 model 1894 is the sportsman's ideal arm, and 

 for weight, balance, beauty of outline, ac- 

 curacy and killing power, it is in a class by 

 itself, and yet to be improved on, with a 

 velocity of 2,112 feet per second in a 170- 

 grain, flat-nosed, soft-point bullet, something 

 has got to give way when it reaches its des- 

 tination. Loaded with black powder and a 

 lead bullet 165 grs. it makes a true .32-40 

 an accurate and powerful black powder 

 cartridge. 



There is abundance of small game in 

 this province, such as partridge, rab- 

 bit, woodcock, squirrel, etc., fox, coon and 

 mink by the thousands ; also a number of 

 lynx, bob-cat, otter and sable. The country 

 is very hilly, in fact, mountainous, if it can 

 be called such, well wooded with maple, 

 beech, ash, birch, pine, hemlock, cedar and 

 spruce. With its deep valleys, countless 

 streams and lakes its scenery is surpassed 

 by none this side of the Rockies. Any 

 brother sportsman coming to hunt in this 

 province next season will make no mistake 

 in outfitting himself with a .32 W. S. Win- 

 chester rifle, an Eastman kodak and field- 

 glasses, and after a two-weeks' camp in the 

 Canadian wilderness if he hasn't filled his 

 game-bag and exposed all the films or plates 

 he had with him and has made no use of 

 his field-glasses I'll never again claim for 

 myself the name of sportsman. With wishes 

 of success for Recreation and all its readers, 



I remain, 



A Brother Sportsman 



HAS SEEN THE PISTOL USED 



Editor Recreation: 



I notice what Mr. John Rowley says in 

 September number of Recreation about the 

 belt pistol, and what he says is about right. 

 I went West in '83. I had a Smith & Wes- 

 son S. A. 32, 4-inch barrel. I thought that 

 was the thing. I will never forget the laugh 

 the boys set up when I showed it to them. 



"What in h do you suppose you can do 



with that thing? Down here, when we shoot 

 a man, if we have to shoot, we want to hurt 

 him, not scare him. If you don't he is going 

 to hurt you." 



Take it all through the West and South 

 west and Mexico — what do llic -Jin ilfs carry? 

 The S. A. Colt 45. Quick enough? Well, I 

 reckon. Many of the Southwesl "bad men" 

 had no sights on their "guns," and filed the 

 notches out of the tumbler so they would 

 not stand cocked — just "fanned tin- hammer" 

 with their thumb. Ben Thompson, of San 

 Antonio, Tex., and the Ear]) brothers, of 

 New Mexico, had their "cutters" fixed that 

 way. 



But some can never learn to be a snap- 

 shot or a good wing shot with a shotgun. 

 It is a "trick" that comes naturally and can 

 not be learned by many. The finger and the 

 eye must work together. 



And the "flap holster" — that is all right in 

 its way, ibut if you want to "pull a gun quick" 

 how then? I once saw a duel in Mexico — 

 not a previous fixed affair, but the outcome of 

 a quarrel, and in the time that was consumed 

 in getting the flaps of their pistol scabbards 

 unbuttoned a "cow puncher" could have killed 

 them both. As it was, one got a death wound 

 and the other was not hit. 



Both had .38 Smith & Wesson pistols, 

 D. A. The Bisley model revolver, as Mr. 

 Rowley says, never was a favorite in the 

 West. The steep in-curl of the handle does 

 not fit the hand (at least not easily), so as 

 to roll the thumb over the hammer. The idea 

 of the "Bisley" no doubt was to check the 

 recoil. But if one wants to overcome that 

 let them try the .38 W. C. F. and the .41 

 Colts inside lubricator made on the .45 frame. 

 This gives a heavier pistol with greater ac- 

 curacy. But never put too much depend- 

 ence on a D. A. revolver — the best of them 

 will hang. 



D. F. Crowell, Boston, Mass. 



Mr. John N. Olson, of Butte, Mont., sends 

 us a description of a new rifle sight that he 

 thinks is bound to win. The invention con- 

 sists of a high foresight with notches or 

 steps for the different ranges. The fore- 

 sight is aligned under the object to be hit, 

 and for each one hundred yards of range 

 one step is seen above the notch of the rear 

 sight. 



He claims ithat gives good results up to 

 five hundred yards. 



We have not had an opportunity of us- 

 ing this sight, but it appears to us that its 

 main drawback is likely to be found in the 

 height that it will be necessary to give both 

 the rear and the foresights. It is evident 

 that with sights low down on the barrel 

 this plan would not work, excepting on a 

 rifle having a very high velocity and flat 

 trajectory. The idea is, however, decidedly 

 ingenious. 



THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS 



Editor Recreation : 



I have followed the correspondence that 

 has been running in Recreation for several 



