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Forest and Stream 
^T^HE feature which makes Peters 
•** Shells better — and safer — is the 
rigid construction of the head, which 
embodies “steel where steel belongs” 
—an idea originated and perfected by 
the Peters Cartridge Co. A steel rein- 
forcing cap covers the entire head of 
thePetersShellprotectingtheshooter. 
In addition to “steel-where-steel- 
belongs” there is the .upset battery 
cup which rivets t_ s base-wad into 
the head, and prevents gas leakage. 
These two features make the Peters 
Shell the most reliable ever produced. 
Cincinnati 
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Duck 
Hunters 
‘Balsa ModeT’ 
know that the “shine” or “slitter” of a decoy is deadly for wildfowl shoot- 
ing. “Sperry’s Balsa Model” is solid wood, yet lighter than cork. Both 
“Cedar” and “Balsa Models” are painted with our famous non-glint paint, 
are flat-bottomed, and are perfect reproductions of the specie. 
Circulv on request — Sold by all Leading Dealers — Recommended and sold by Abercrombie & Fitch Co., New Tork City 
PAUL A. SPERRY Manufacturer New Haven, Conn. 
covey rise in the open ; furthermore, he 
could always say how many flushed and 
locate them with unerring certainty. 
There are many sportsmen to-day who 
knew and loved Jim Jordan, and who 
will vouch for all I have written; in fact 
I am not competent to do so grand a 
shot full justice, much as I admired him. 
Well, he shot a 28 gauge 28-inch bar- 
rel gun for a long time, and after- 
wards one of still narrower bore, but I 
am not sure of its caliber. The shooting 
I saw him do, was nearly all with the 
28, and it would have been a waste of 
ammunition for so superb .a marksman 
to use a bigger gun, his loads having 
less than 2 drams of E. C. powder and 
ounce of No. 8 shot; most of his 
shells were loaded by our dear Uncle 
Billy Wagner of Washington, the best 
beloved sporting goods dealer in Amer- 
ica (himself a splendid game and trap 
shot), who, by-the-way, was the first 
man of any prominence to bring these 
small bore guns before the public when 
he introduced them to the Washington 
sportsmen who had such fine Sora shoot- 
ing on the Potomac marshes. 
The next man I have shot with whose 
work is of the highest order, is my 
grand old chum Maurice Abraham of 
Portland, Oregon, who has bagged so 
many duck, some geese, snipe, quail aird 
Chinese pheasant with a long 28 gauge 
that I am bewildered even now when 
writing about them. Last fall when 
pheasant shooting with him in Oregon, 
I saw him kill “Chinks" stone dead in 
the air at all distances from 30 to 45 
yards — and as for quail, he just smashed 
them right and left. His loads were 
2yi drams of bulk nitro powder and 
of an ounce of No. 7 chilled shot in 
2% inch cases — a deadly load when fired 
from a good gun with a good man be- 
hind it. 
r^OCTOR JAMES VANCE of El 
Paso, Texas, shoots a 32-inch barrel 
highest grade double gun exclusively 
at all kinds of game, and while the Doc- 
tor makes no pretense at being a target 
shooter, yet he has scored 39 straight 
Blue Rocks at 16 yards rise — regulation 
targets — and El Paso is no picnic of a 
place to make high scores at any time 
of year. His general average is about 
44 to 47 out of 50. He shoots factory 
loads, 2 drams of powder and ^ of an 
ounce of shot, and his gun patterns from 
75 to 80% in the 30-inch circle at forty 
yards, using No. 7 chilled shot. Imagine 
if you can the silly folly of attempting 
to prove that such a gun is not to be 
depended on beyond 25 yards at any 
kind of game ! 
Lester Reid, one of the foremost trap 
shots in America, shot for several years 
a 28 gauge 28-inch barrel gun, and as 
men in the Puget Sound country can 
testify, did remarkable work with it on 
“Chinks” and ducks, some snipe, blue 
grouse and sage hens. So entirely satis- 
factory was the little gun that he shot 
no other afield although he had guns of 
wider gauge. 
It occurred to me some time ago while 
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