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FOREST AND STREAM 
November, 1921 
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HAVE 
YOUR FURS 
TANNED! 
For Coats, Sets, Robes, Caps 
or anything in the fur line. You save 30% _to 
50% by getting your fur garments in this way, be- 
sides getting better furs. Your mother, wife, sister 
or sweetheart would appreciate a handsome coat or 
set of furs made from furs you furnish. You would 
get greater enjoyment yourself in wearing furs 
made to your order from furs you prize. Send your 
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guaranteed, first-class workmanship. Our 57 years' 
standing in the fur trade is your proof of our 
reliability. 
FREE Illustrated Catalog 
giving latest style suggestions and full information 
about tanning and making your raw furs into coats, 
robes, sets, caps, gloves, rugs, etc., will be sent 
upon request. Write to-day for your copy. 
H. WILLARD, SON & COMPANY 
Established 1864 
30 SO. FIRST STREET MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA 
THE Durand Paris Field Glass 
GENUINE ACHROMATIC 
genuine morocco 
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258 Broadway N. Y. City 
Robert H. Rockwell 
1440 East 63rd St. Brooklyn, N. Y. 
3 00 ACRES MARYLAND'S 
GREATEST GUNNING SHORE 
Located on Chesapeake Bay. Thousands of wild 
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breech carefully and see if the trigger is 
locked, the firing pin disconnected or 
withheld, or the hammer securely locked 
while the breech mechanism is being 
brought into its proper position for firing 
the gun. Hammer guns should be con- 
structed so that the gun can be carried 
loaded with the hammer in half cock 
position to prevent accidental discharge 
should the gun receive a sudden jar or 
the hammer catch on the clothing, the 
twig of a tree or a weed while out hunt- 
ing. 
Hammerless guns should possess some 
handy contrivance to lock either the con- 
cealed firing device or the trigger, and 
an indicator showing whether the gun is 
cocked or not will come in very con- 
veniently many times. Some rifles are 
locked against opening the breech while 
the hammer is cocked, although this 
feature is not always possible in ham- 
merless guns where the firing mechanism 
is controlled directly by the operating 
lever. 
D IFLES as sent out from the factories 
* ^ do not always have sights that are 
best adapted to the individual require- 
ments of the shooter or the field in which 
the weapon is to be used. It is not al- 
ways possible to lay down a specific rule 
to follow in choosing sights as no two 
shooters would always meet with the 
same success with any particular class 
of sights owing to a difference in their 
visionary powers. Coarse sights are 
better adapted to accurate shooting than 
the finer sights, besides they permit more 
rapid firing — a reverse of what would ap- 
pear to be true. 
From a scientific standpoint, the peep 
sight is the best rear sight as the prin- 
ciple employed is to allow the eye to cen- 
ter itself within the stem aperature and 
devote its attention entirely to the front 
sight and the object aimed at. Peep 
sights are generally fastened to the tang 
of the rifle or to the receiver, and when 
they are used the rear sight on the bar- 
rel should be removed and a blank piece, 
made for the purpose, inserted in its 
place or a folding rear sight that will lie 
close to the barrel may be used so not 
to interrupt the range of vision. Peep 
sights with large aperatures are better 
suited to accurate shooting than those 
with small aperatures. Any of the bead 
front sights of metal that have a shiny 
surface are of little value for hunting 
purposes as they are not only trying on 
the eyes, but the optical disturbance 
caused by the reflected light will result in 
very irregular shooting on bright days. 
Hunting in the woods where a green- 
ish hue or reflection predominates, it is 
important to have a sight that will show 
up well in contrast with the predominat- 
ing color, and for this reason a black 
metal sight should be seldom used in a 
timbered country. An ivory bead front 
sight makes a very good front sight for 
shooting on a bright day or in the woods 
as ivory has the decided advantage over 
other materials used in making sights as 
it does not reflect the sunlight. In 
selecting a bead front sight the surface 
of the bead facing the shooter should be 
perfectly flat and taper gradually towards 
the muzzle of the gun, thereby present- 
ing a well formed globe that will show 
up distinctly and reduce to a minimum 
the possibility of reflections or shadows 
as the light strikes the rear face of the 
bead at different angles. 
D IFLES can be had with either a rifle 
ora shotgun butt plate. However, the 
former looks best on a rifle and for gen- 
eral use it will be found to serve the pur- 
pose better than the more flattened style 
of the shotgun. The shotgun butt plate 
will generally be found best for use on 
rifles intended for rapid firing at short 
distances, as it would permit the gun to 
be grasped and thrown to the shoulder 
and fired at a moment’s notice without 
taking the time to place the rifle in posi- 
sition at the shoulder and fire with 
deliberation as one would do in long dis- 
tance or accurate shooting. Automatic 
rifles and rifles with short barrels are 
generally equipped with shotgun butt 
plates. 
A good cleaning equipment should 
not be overlooked when purchasing a 
rifle, as it is necessary to keep the gun 
perfectly clean and well oiled if it is 
to retain its original shooting qualities 
in the years to come. Select a good 
jointed cleaning rod that has a revolving- 
handle, or a revolving tip, so that the 
cleaning patches will easily follow the 
rifle grooves without interference. A 
brass rod makes the best cleaning imple- 
ment, but sometimes in cleaning high 
power rifles the cleaning preparations in- 
tended for removing the metal fouling 
will corrode a brass rod making it ad- : 
visable to use a steel rod for the purpose, j 
A brass brush for use on the jointed rod 
will come in handy in cleaning the barrel 
if it is allowed to get badly fouled from 
many firings or from the use of black or 
semi-smokeless powders. 
Get a bottle or can of good grade gun 
oil, a tube or can of gun crease, a nitro 
cleaning preparation (if you intend to 
use smokeless powders) and a broken 
shell extractor (if your gun uses the 
high-power bottle-necked shells). Bottle- 
necked shells sometimes break through a 
defect in their manufacture, although 
this is not so common an occurance now 
as it was some years ago before the l 
cartridge companies overcame some of 
the difficulties of manufacturing bottle- 
necked shells that would not split in fir- 
ing. A broken shell extractor will put 
a head on a broken shell and enable the 
shooter to extract it the same as ordinary 
fired shells. Either a gun cabinet, if s 
one has several guns, or a good gun case j 
is necessary to protect a rifle from dust 
or other injurious elements. 
At an additional outlay of a few extra 
dollars the standard arm as put out by 
the factory can be greatly improved from ! 
the standpoint of attractiveness, and 
naturally the more artistic a weapon is j 
the more highly the owner will value it. 
A rifle with a tubular magazine, that is, J 
with a steel tube extending under the 
barrel to contain the cartridges, can be 
had with better balance and attractive 
qualities if the gun is ordered with a half 
magazine. The magazine tube for a half 
magazine gun extends only a few inches 
in front of the forearm and holds about 
half the capacity of the full length maga-J i 
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