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Forest and StreamI 
®‘Hey, Hank, what are you 
trying to do— throw salt on 
their tails?’' 
“No, but I gotta inch up a 
bit closer than usual; be- 
cause our store’ s all sold out 
of Infallible.” 
Infe^llible 
A Smokeless Shotgun Powder 
BEKCULES POWDEIl CO. 
906 Kinj* Street ^ 
Wilmington Delaware 
LUGER 
pistols, barrels 4, G, 8, 12 and 16 inches; 
MATSElt pistols, long ])arrcls; Imlster 
stocks f.)r bolh. MAl'SER SPRING- 
FIELD and MANXLICIIER SFIlOENArER sporting rifles. 
Catalog ten cents. PACIFIC ARMS CORPORATION, 
San Francisco. 
6si' Hand iMlprn 
A powerful, portable lamp giving 300 Candle 
Power white light. Just what the camper 
needs. Safe, reliable, economical. Abso- 
lii'ely rain, storm and bug prottf. Burns 
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cial priee 01) pt)Sipaiil. 
Ths Best Light Co. ohio 
drams of bulk smokeless, or 24 grains 
of dense powder and 1 or 1%, ounces of 
No. 8, 9, or 10 shot are ample. A 3-dram, 
1 oz. charge is a light but snappy load, 
that develops an average velocity of 882 
foot seconds over 40 yards with 8’s and 
844 foot seconds with lO’s. The usual 
3-dram, ounce load gives 862 foot 
seconds with 8’s and 824 foot seconds 
w'ith lO’s. 
With the usual shorebird charges, 
therefore, there is a loss of twenty foot 
seconds in velocity, when using an extra 
Yi ounce of shot and a difference of 
forty foot seconds in velocity over 40 
yards between 8’s and lO’s. To make 
up the loss of twenty foot seconds in 
velocity which is only 2%, we gain 12>4 
per cent, in patterning possibilities, this 
when choosing between 3-1, 8's or lO’s 
and 3-ly^, 8’s or lO’s. Of course, if we 
wish a higher velocity load with lyg oz. 
of shot we can use 3y^, lyg oz. shot. 
This develops 902 foot seconds with 8’s 
and 864 foot seconds with lO’s, or twen- 
ty foot seconds more than the 3 dram, 
1-oz. load, in either shot size. 
Patterns are the next question. One 
ounce of No. 8 chilled shot contains 409 
shot ; 1 ounce of 9’s, 585 shot ; and one 
ounce of lO’s 868 shot. An ounce or an 
ounce and one-eighth of 8’s, therefore, 
contain slightly less than one-half as 
many pellets as an equal charge of lO’s. 
For rough caculations 8’s, 9’s, and lO’s 
compare in the proportion of 4, 6, and 9. 
A charge of 3K-ly^-10’s which has 
an average velocity over 40 yards of 
twenty foot seconds more than the snap- 
py load of 3 drams, 1 oz. of 8’s, has an 
advantage in patterning possibilities in 
the proportion of 1085 to 409 or more 
than 5 to 2. Therefore, at short ranges 
like 24 to 30 yards, the fine shot are 
usually the most deadly on the smaller 
varieties of game like shorebirds 
The average velocities over 40 yards 
are the actual striking velocities at about 
25 yards and as small shot like lO’s lose 
velocity much faster than 8’s at ranges 
over 30 yards, and as they drift consid- 
erably more in a sharp wind which is 
usually present along the coast, the ad- 
vantage of using small shot like lO’s is 
confined to the closer shots and in the 
more open bored or smaller gauge bar- 
rels where the extra density of pattern 
is needed. 
A , NOTHER situation that the shore- 
bird shooter must meet is the un- 
expected shot at ducks, either while 
wading around the marsh or in early 
morning or late evening, when a single 
or a flock is encountered.. Then 8’s are 
often effective when lO’s w'onld be use- 
less. It is advisable, however, to carry 
a few heavy loads of 5’s or 6’s to meet 
these emergencies. 
At 25 yards lO's will simply plaster a 
patterning sheet that 8’s will only mod- 
erately cover but at -10 yards the diff’er- 
ences in relative patterning ability of 
the two sizes is not as apparent in prac- 
tical shooting as in theoretical computa- 
tions. A greater proportion of the finer 
shot are deformed and fail to reach the 
target. 
identify you. 
IS YOUR GUN CLEAN? 
The greatest boon to modern 
riflemen and shotgun users is 
HOPPE’S NITRO POWDER 
SOLVENT No. 9 
It removes every trace of pBw- 
der residue from your rifle or 
shotgun. Oil alone will never 
do this. Prevents pitting and 
fouling. You'll find it an aid 
to accuracy. Your sporting 
goods dealer can supply you. 
(Yon know your inin is clenn — 
if you use Hoppe’s NITRO 
ROWDER SOLVENT No. 9) 
FRANK A. HOPPE, Inc. 
314 North 8th Street PHIUDELPHIA, PA. 
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