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REISING 22 AUTOMATIC 
THE GUN THAT YOU HAVE 
HEARD ABOUT 
It is the three-part target and small-game gun 
that shoots with deadly accuracy. 
Cleans from the breech — the correct way. 
Takes down in three seconds without tools — 
only three parts. 
Shoots inexpensive, but extremely accurate .22 
Ex)ng Rifle R. F. Cartridges — Lesmok, Smokeless, 
or Semi -Smokeless. 
Ask your dealer. He carries 
this new small game gun, 
or can get it for you promptly. 
Without tools. 
It’s in 3 pieces, in 3 seconds. 
The Reising Arms Co., Inc. 
7 Jefferson Ave., Hartford, Conn. 
BOTH EYES OPEN GUNSI6HT 
Automatic Range Finder. Much 
QUICKER and EASIER. Pat- 
ented and Guaranteed. Elimin- 
ates FLINCHING, GUESSING, 
STRAIN, Raising Sights, Fuzziness, Crossfiring. 
Without interference, easy on or off any One- 
Barreled Gun or Rifle, $3.00. Junior Sight for 
Boy’s Air Gun, $1.50. 
RANGEFINDING SIGHT CO., Lewispert, Ky., U. S. A. 
Robert H. Rockwell 
1440 East 63rd St. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
1 >YRA MID 
$QtV£NT 
for all firearms. Dissolves smokeless 
powder residue, loosens metal fouling 
easily, quickly. Contains no moisture. 
If your dealer can’t supply you, send 
us 30c in stamps for 3-oz. can. 
Three-in-One Oil Co..l65-P Broadway, New York 
FOREST AND STREAM January, 1922 ] 
SPOT TRAPPING I 
GOOD RESULTS ARE OFTEN OBTAINED BY 
CONCENTRATING ON A SMALL TERRITORY 
By F. E. BRIMMER 
HERE are two ways 
that you may trap : by 
following traplines or 
by spot trapping. Just 
what it means to fol- 
low a trapline the old 
trapper knows best. 
It means getting on 
the job at daylight 
and hiking until night 
finds you in “No 
Man’s Land” in the 
wilderness, and there 
you make your sleeping quarters. Of 
course, the amateur trapper may have 
lines that only run a few miles in length 
and that only take him a few hours to 
cover. If you have never tried spot 
trapping it may pay you to do so. 
Spot trapping means applying your 
whole efforts on one limited locality for 
a short time. Instead of having the traps 
strung out over several miles you have 
them concentrated in a few acres. You 
may think of a place along the river or 
creek where there is a swamp, say two 
acres in extent. Suppose, instead of put- 
ting your traps up and down the river, 
you bring the whole outfit right here and 
set them close together for a time. This 
is spot trapping. You select some favor- 
able spot and there you put all your 
efforts. You can see that every fur- 
bearer that passed up and down the 
watercourse will have to run through 
your traps. It is up to you to have the 
spot selected so well guarded that no 
furbearer will be likely to get past. 
Spot trapping has many advantages 
over the trapline methods. In the first 
place your traps and sets are near to- 
gether where you can look after them 
easily and quickly. They are in such j 
a limited area that you can safeguard 
them more easily from the hands of the 
trap lifter. Besides these considerations 
you will be able to visit the traps more 
often and skin the furbearers more 
quickly after they have been trapped. 
Probably the biggest argument for spot ! 
trapping is the fact that you make so s 
many sets that a furbearer cannot help 
visiting at least one of them, while on 
a trapline he might pass a few rods to 
one side or the other many times. ^ 
In spot trapping you show your ability . Ii 
to specialize and to concentrate your | 
efforts. This has become a popular || 
method of trapping that the professional 
trappers are now using considerably. | 
The first thing to consider is the fur- | 
bearer that passes up and down the 
and then make sets for each and every ; 
one in the limited area at your disposal, j 
Do not feel discouraged if you have only | 
a small place to make your sets because 
land on each side may be posted. Trap 
faithfully this small area and you may 
do better than by covering many miles. 
The trapline is measured in miles, the 
art of spot trapping is calculated in acres. 
That is the difference. 
Trap set on top of debris pile 
In Writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It will identify you. 
