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“ I’m glad that wasn't 
intended for me,” says 
Mr. Bear. 
Every One Should Carry a Colt to the Woods 
COLT’S PATENT FIRE ARMS MFG. CO, 
HARTFORD, CONN. 
OLTS 
Manufacturers of: Colt’s Revolvers, 
Colt’s Automatic Pistols, Colt’s 
(Browning) Automatic Machine 
Guns, Colt’s (Browning) Automatic 
Machine Rifles. 
FIREARMS 
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August, 1921 
Asher C. Skutt, Morton, N. Y., won New York State Amateur Championship, 
breaking 200 straight; long run of 211, total of 419 x 425 targets, 
Using L. C. SMITH DOUBLE BARREL TRAP GUN 
George H. Griffith, of Helena, Ark., won the Clarksdale Cotton Exchange 
Trophy, scoring 482 x 500, 
Using L. C. SMITH ONE BARREL TRAP GUN 
Write for circular describing New Double Barrel Trap Gun. 
SOMETHING NEW FOR THE TRAPSHOOTER 
" THE GUN THAT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF” 
Send for Catalog No. 319 
SMITH GUNS 
Made by 
THE HUNTER ARMS CO., INC. Fulton, N. Y. 
Export Office: 5 State St, McDonald & Linforth, Pacific Coast Representatives 
New York City 739 Call Bldg., San Francisco, Calif. 
SMASH! DOWN 
GOES THE PRICE OF 
OUTDOOR BOOKS 
Log Cabins and 
Cottages 
(Sixth Edition) 
How to Build and 
Furnish Them 
By WILLIAM S. WICKS 
PRICE $2.00 
Forest and Stream 
9 East 40th St soot D«pt. N. Y. Gty 
stepped in the mainmast hole. Too little 
sail is always better than too much, for 
a canoe is always a nervous beast and 
always fast enough in all conscience, and 
one gets spilled so suddently that it is 
hardly worth courting all those compli 
cations over a foot or so too much sail. 
While the cockpit tent is well enough 
for lake and estuary cruising, where one 
hauls up on a quiet beach and camps 
under the shade of a pine forest, for a 
surf fishing cruise, where your sport is 
on the ocean side, a beach tent is better, 
leaving the canoe cached, bottom up, 
somewhere on the bay side. The mos- 
quitoes are absent from the beach in the 
daytime, while they are on the job all 
the time on the bay side, so the best way 
is to turn the canoe over and hit across 
the dunes for the beach with your tackle 
and camping duffle. While a high tent 
like the “Snow”, shown in our illustra- 
tion, will do on the beach, because the 
sail spars can be used for shears, I pre- 
fer a low tent, because long poles are 
mighty scarce to find in the beach drift- 
wood and it is too much work to lug 
the spars across the dunes. The Blizzard 
tent, a sort of Hudson’s Bay tent with 
triangular ends instead of round ones 
(to save pegs) is the one that has served 
me best. This tent weighs 3 % pounds 
and has a floor space of 6 x 9 feet, ample 
for two. The front is totally enclosed, 
with an inside front of scrim sewed to 
the canvas. At night the mosquitoes will 
be fierce, but, with the sand banked 
around the base of the tent and the 
flaps open so that the scrim netting 
makes the front, it is breezy and com- 
fortable. Pitch it just above high tide, 
as far from the dunes as you can get, 
for the nearer you are to them the more 
mosquitoes will find you. Another rea- 
son for avoiding a large, high tent is 
the wind itself, which howls over the 
beach at night and will tear the stoutest 
fabric if too large an area is presented 
to it. All night long it blows like a 
tornado, and, the smaller and snugger 
your tent, the less you will have cause 
to fear being unroofed at midnight, like 
those unfortunates whose whole wall 
tent was playfully frisked by the wind 
into the ocean, all on a summer night, 
leaving them shivering and homeless on 
a desolate beach! 
I often take the “Perfect” shelter tent 
on these trips, a mere leanto, six by five 
feet in area, with three of its sides of 
mosquito netting. It weighs three 
pounds, and has the great advantage 
that one can sleep in it in the day time, 
for the netting lets the breezes blow un- 
der it, keeping one cool and keeping off 
beach flies, whereas all closed tents are 
hot and unbearable on the beach while 
the sun is up. As most of the fishing is 
from sundown to sun-up, a place to 
snooze in the daytime, when the fish are 
not biting, is much appreciated! 
In fVriting to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It 
F OR a cooking outfit on these salt 
water trips I take, first of all, a 
light, wire grate, about 10 x 18 
inches in size, and with it a steel nine- 
inch folding handle fry pan, a couple 
of nesting tin pails, costing about 38 
cents for the two, and an aluminum ba- 
ker. which is verv like the Armv mess 
t iriU identify you. 
