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Forest and Stream! 
HOUSE FOR SALE 
FOR SALE — At Belhaven, 
N. C., large, roomy, modern 
home, with one acre of land 
fronting on Pamlico Sound. 
The climate is ideal all the 
year, being tempered by Gulf 
Stream; sports of all kinds 
and boating unsurpassed ; 
suitable for Summer and 
Winter home, small hotel or 
club purposes. Price $11,000; 
half in cash, balance on mort- 
gage. 
Apply 
H. C. Hoggard & Co. 
400 Dickson Building 
Norfolk, Va. 
WATCH CHARM PISTOL 
WITH 24 
5^LVERAND GOLD 
PLATtD 
fiCTUAL 
The very latest and most unique 
novelty out. This miniature “Hreau 
Open” pistol is the smallest pistol in the world — 
shoots real ammunition and makes loud report like 
a regular 25 Cal. gun; can be used as watch charm, 
appeals to every sportsman and arouses the interest 
of all. Made of hard metal beautifully finished in 
silver and electro plated in 14K gold with charm 
ring attachment. Rush your order with remittance. 
$2.55, to-day or you will be disappointed. No C. O. 
D.’s accepted. Quantity limited. Going fast. First 
Come — First Served. No others obtainable. 
Edwards Import Trading Corp. 
258 Broadway, New York 
^-WlliD RICE-- 
ERINGS/^eDUCKS 
Ducks are swarming in to places 
planted with our WILD RICE 
SEED. Now, before the freeze-up, is 
the ideal planting time. Write for 
prices and helpful booklet. 
TERRELL’S AQUATIC FARM. 
Dept. H‘237, Oshkosh. Wis. 
You Fishermen and Duck Hunters 
WE HAVE IT. 
A SECTIONAL STEEL BOAT, which can 
be strapped on run-board of auto. 
Write for catalog and prices 
The ALFRED C. GOETHEL CO. 
DEPT. B, £29 31st ST. MILWAUKEE, WIS. 
Become Member 
VIRGINIA SPORTSMANS 
CLUB 
Long established, well equipped out- 
ing club on sea coast of Virginia, 
above Cape Charles, wants new mem- 
bers. Used all the year. 
Duck shooting and other sports — 
fishing, canoeing, sailing. 
Delightful, invigorating ocean cli- 
mate. Pine forests come down to 
water edge. 
ADDRESS S. G. FISHER 
688 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 
SPORTSMEN! 
Sheepskin Goods of all kinds 
with the Wool on 
Boots, Moccasins, Mittens 
Vests (Sizes 34 to 44) 
Also Innersoles 
W rite for prices and description to the 
Manufacturer direct 
JACOB KEENE 
ATHENS, MICHIGAN 
S S S Manniicher-Schoenauer Rifles 
Highest grade, perfect condition. Calibers 6.5 and 8 m./m. 
Lighter, handier and harder shooting than any other rifle of 
the same bore. Each rifle carefully sighted in at our range. 
Accuracy guaranteed. 
S S S hand-loaded ammunition. Have your pet loads for 
your shotguns and Springfield Sporter made up by us. 
SPORTSMAN’S SERVICE STATION, TENAFLY, N. J. 
vided by waterproof bags which can be 
filled with water at the anchorage. I 
For carrying decoys a four-inch wasg 
board can be fitted across the stern an4| 
along the sides held in place by dowels i 
and loops just as wagon stakes are at- 
tached. The side boards should be short ’ 
enough to stow in the cockpit. A grating ■ 
or slat floor is put in an inch or so 
above the bottom to keep the crew out 
of the water. 
I have seen such a boat used in fairly 
rough water by means of a canvas apron 
or fender about 6 inches wide and 10 
inches long attached to the stern (the 
boat being anchored stern first by the 
apron). 
By fitting a piece of canvas to the 
bow to fill in the curved space it would 
make a better job. 
One who is accustomed to tools can 
cut all the timber or scantling dimensions 
an eighth of an inch and get a much 
lighter boat. If, however, this is your 
first attempt at anything but a box you 
will do well to use the heavy stuff indi- 
cated. 
Dwight S. Simpson, 
New York. 
SHOTGUN DEVELOPMENT 
{Continued from page 502) 
with killing at all is unquestionably the 
best. Very much more game is killed 
within than beyond 25 yards, and very 
much more is missed clean than hit and 
not killed. The consensus of the opinion 
of sportsmen is generally correct, and 
in England, where A'ast quantities of 
partridges and pheasants are reared and 
shot every year, the favored sportsmen 
who have wealth enough to indulge in 
this hobby acquire immense experience 
and their opinion finds expression in the 
guns they use. At least 99 per cent, of 
these will be improved cylinder right, and 
a very little choke left, and with the 
relatively wide dispersion this gives, 
charges are reduced to 1 1/16 and 1 oz. 
to avoid mutilating the game quite as 
much as to permit of the use of a light 
gun without undue recoil. 
Amongst United States sportsmen it is 
common to find very heavy full-choked 
guns, and a demand for guns equally 
suitable for traps and quail. Well, 
“there ain’t no such animal.” The re- 
coil of lj4 of shot pushed oft' by a big 
powder charge is a serious factor when 
it has to be resisted several times a 
minute consecutively; hence trap guns 
which are not carried around much may 
he a bit heavier with advantage, but the 
reduction of recoil is only one of several 
considerations. A gun may he so heavy 
as to be unhandy and fatigue the shooter 
to an extent which will certainly slow 
his follow and lead to misses. 
A gun weighing 100 times its shot 
charge has its recoil tamed to a degree 
that is not unpleasant or exhausting to 
the average man. Such a rule gives 125 
ozs., or 7 Ih. 13 ozs., for a gun firing 
1)4 of shot, and this is as heavy as a 
well-trained man can continue to handle 
to advantage in a long match. English 
game guns by the first-class makers fol- 
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