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FOREST AND STREAM 
September, 1921 
He’s Telling Them 
about the ‘big one’ he got with the 
S N x expanding 
luba/ov. 
NON-FOUUNC BULLET 
And in the same enthusiastic spirit, 
sportsmen everywhere are telling of the 
merits of 
dte&l&tn' Cortridges 
loaded with this modern ‘game getter,’ 
and besides the 30-06, it is now fur- 
nished with the Newton 256 cartridge. 
When this bullet is placed anywhere in 
the ‘vitals’ the game is yours; no 
animal, large or small, can survive its 
terrible tissue-destroying effect. 
And, too — along with its other superior 
qualities — metal fouling is unknown 
with this bullet; Lubaloy takes care of 
that. 
dtefiCWTi Ammunition 
in all calibers and for all kinds of guns 
is right up to the minute in everything 
which makes 
For Better Shooting 
Western Cartridge Company 
Makers of the famous ‘FIELD’ 
Patented, Steel-Locked Shotgun Shell 
East Alton, Illinois 
Send for “Forty Pounds,” ana 
Mention this Magazine 
FUN WITH THE 
TWENTY-TWO 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 404) 
very accurate and are not much more 
deadly than the regular solid bullets. 
This is a mistaken idea. The .22 hol- 
low point cartridge, when loaded to 
give high velocity like the N. R. A. 
outdoor ammunition, as is the case with 
several makes, will kill about as well 
as a .25-20 rifle. A fifty-shot group is 
shown herewith that scored 960 points 
out of 1,000 on a one-inch bullseye at 
fifty yards. This is an average of 96 
per cent. It is only about 2 per cent, 
less than the average made at 50 yards 
by the All American Team in the last 
Small Bore Match, where it was only 
necessary for them to maintain an av- 
erage for twenty shots per man and 
in which the best shots at the National 
Matches were entered. It is needless 
to say that they had the most accu- 
rate rifles and ammunition that they 
could obtain. These targets were shot 
from the prone position, without rest 
and by using peep sights. 
The .22 hollow point will shoot just 
as well for you if you will try two 
or three makes of ammunition to see 
which does the most accurate work in 
your rifle. When ammunition shoots 
like this and makes a one-half to one 
inch hole in an animal as large and 
as tough as a ’chuck we can be sure 
that it will kill anything from a dog 
down to a sparrow. It is sufficiently 
accurate so that the shooter can place 
his shots where he wants them, and 
the noise is not loud enough to arouse 
everyone within a half mile or so of 
the shooter. That is one of the pleas- 
ures of using the .22. It is possible 
to obtain a large amount of practice 
almost anywhere without worrying 
about annoying others. There is just 
one thing to watch for and that is 
that a .22 bullet will carry over half 
a mile and will penetrate an inch 
pine board at half this distance. It 
is, therefore, necessary to consider 
where the bullet will stop before shoot- 
ing. A large caliber revolver is prac- 
tically useless on the average camping 
trip, but a .22 rifle is almost as use- 
ful as the cooking untensils. It is also 
necessary to keep it clean. 
The time of the year is here when 
the outdoors appear to be regulated 
for the benefit of the chap who likes 
to get out in the country. Don’t for- 
get to take a .22 along. 
THE FROSTFISH AND 
THE DRY FLY 
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rection to meet the fish if he tries to 
cast to a rise he may happen to observe. 
For its size, the frostfish is a good 
fighter. I hope to see it adopted 
among the game fish of the country, 
and that the New York State Fish and 
Game Commission will take steps to 
have it properly protected. All that 
this requires is to have the taking of 
it by nets in the autumn at the spawn- 
In Writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It will 
ing season prohibited. Then it will last 
indefinitely and furnish the best of 
sport to the summer fisherman. 
LETTERS, QUESTIONS 
AND ANSWERS 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 408) 
birds, from the unchecked ravages of 
destructive insects. This is the fact that 
is constantly being verified and empha- 
sized by scientific investigators the 
world over; this is the fact that our 
State and National departments of ag- 
riculture have for years been trying 
through various publications to impress 
on every farmer and gardner in this 
country; this is the fact that local bird 
clubs and nature clubs have been doing 
their best to make plain in their respec- 
tive localities. What are a few cherries 
or a few raspberries sacrificed to the 
birds compared to a whole wheat field 
sacrificed to the fly, or an orchard sac- 
rificed to the meadow mice, or the health 
of a community sacrificed to the mos- 
quitoes? A quart or so of fruit is a 
small premium to pay for the protection 
that nature is ever affording us. 
Fred Ziegler, Penn. 
REFINEMENTS IN 
GUN-FITTING 
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towards the left and lowering the face 
brought the left eye nearer to the line of 
the rib. In practice when the gun was 
discharged the muzzle flew up as all 
crooked stock guns do and the cheek was 
frequently bruised. Following this Eng- 
lish makers worked out another stock 
which had a right angle crook just for- 
ward of the grip or hand grasp which 
threw the breech of the gun across the 
line of the face over to the left eye. In 
a way this was an improvement, but 
it did not entirely succeed in overcom- 
ing the difficulties for the simple reason 
that when you grasped the gun in your 
two hands to point it at some object 
at which you were looking, it was im- 
possible to point as accurately with a 
crooked stock gun as it was with a 
straight one. 
To overcome these difficulties, to get 
rid of the big drop and to do away with 
the castoff to left and retain the desir- 
able straight line gun stock has been 
the problem of all gunmakers. 
The accompanying illustrations indi- 
cate how this has been accomplished 
in a stock recently built by the Ithica 
Gun Co. They have taken a stock of 
ordinary length and drop, and by scoop- 
ing out the stock it allows the face of a 
man whose left eye is the master eye 
to rest in this depression in the stock, 
thereby bringing the master eye direct- 
ly over the center of the top rib. 
The determination of the master eye 
is the first step in gun fitting; it can 
be easily accomplished and it can be 
set down that no man can do himself 
justice in the field or at the traps who 
does not use a gun adapted to his 
strength and peculiarities of body, 
limb and vision. 
identify you. 
