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hard to enforce, as are all restrictive laws where the violator 

 has the advantage of a quick get-away." 



A statute enacted by the Maine Legislature in 191 9 makes 

 it a penal offense to have a rifle or shotgun, either loaded or 

 with a cartridge in the magazine, while in any motor vehicle 

 on any highway or in the fields or forests; and the Legislature 

 of Minnesota in the same year passed an act forbidding anyone 

 in a motor vehicle discharging a firearm at any game animal, 

 and also forbidding carrying a rifle or shotgun in such vehicle 

 ^'unless the same be unloaded, in both barrels and magazine, 

 and taken apart or contained in a case." 



M. 



THE SPRINGFIELD RIFLE IN BIG-GAME HUNTING 

 (See page 156.) 



Many young men who served in the recent war are con- 

 sidering the Springfield rifle, and the United States Govern- 

 ment cartridge, for use in hunting. Being much too old to 

 engage in the pursuit of a military antagonist I gave this 

 weapon a trial when moose-hunting in 191 7. My bullets 

 weighed 180 grains, being of the full-jacketed "spitzer" type, 

 and they were driven with an initial velocity of about 2700 

 feet a second. 



One November morning, while following some promising 

 tracks on a hard-wood ridge in New Brunswick, I saw a good- 

 looking bull seeking safety in flight, some eighty yards away. 

 The Springfield went promptly into action, and then I ran 

 forward. In a few seconds I came upon the moose standing, 

 and looking back with dull eyes. It was evidently impossible 

 for him to travel further. He soon lay down: he needed no 

 second shot. . . . The bullet had entered between two ribs, 

 then evidently turned end over end, and, after doing great 

 internal execution, passed between two ribs on the other side, 



