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fores t and s t r e a :\i 
April, 1919 
TO THE ^ 
Anglers of Chicago 
^HEN starting on that long* 
planned fishing trip do not 
invite disappointment by taking 
nondescript tackle of unknown 
origin that is placed on the mar* 
ket without name or reputation. 
Every penny saved on such tack- 
le will be offset by hours of 
bitter regret before your trip 
is over. 
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a nationally-respected name and 
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OivistOD of Baker, Murrejr A Imbrie, Inc, 
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For 
35c 
Poitpaid 
all lubrication and 
polishing around the 
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for 35 cents. 
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CALENDAR 
Contains FISHING SIGNS FOR 1919. Shows 
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recumbent attitude, if time permits — yet 
I must confess the difference is very 
small, if any, and the chief virtue of the 
squat-method lies in the fact that a man 
can drop into it and hop out of it in a 
split-second, just the sort of thing the 
hunter needs. As to its value in in- 
creasing accuracy, which is the main ob- 
jective of all firing positions, I would 
call your attention to this: When using 
this pose the Bluejackets put ten con- 
secutive shots through the 20-inch bull’s- 
eye of their “B” target from the 500- 
yard line with such frequency that the 
performance creates no comment except 
a satisfied grunt from the man who made 
the score. And let me whisper this to 
the Tyro, that’s “some shootin.” One 
friend of mine boasted he could beat that 
method from the standing, off-hand posi- 
tion. I led him out to the 500-yard line 
and after he had carefully “sighted in” 
from prone, getting the “white disk” six 
times, hand running, we started in for 
record — and the skeptic finished with a 
score card full of “goose-eggs.” Now 
he’s squatting with the rest of us. Like 
all positions it comes awkward at first, 
but don’t be discouraged, there’s a knack 
to it you will soon catch. The first time 
Ed. Crossman tried it he added to the 
gaiety of the occasion by “looping the 
loop” as the gun cracked. Ed’s feelin’s 
got all mussed up, so I’d suggest you 
make your initial experiments with a 
.22 rifie as the element of balance and 
poise plays an important part because 
of your short “wheel base.” 
STANDING 
R ight here is where the doctors dis- 
agree. I will not run an illustration 
because to do so will start a use- 
less argument that would begin nowhere 
in particular and end in exactly’ the same 
place. If I sided with the old “stand-up- 
and shoot-’em” boys who made history 
and performed miracles of accuracy at 
200 yards on the Standard American and 
Ring Targets, every hunter in the coun- 
try would “draw a bead” on me, “cut it 
fine” and send a high-power letter con- 
taining enough journalistic “T.N.T.” to 
sink me without trace. All I dare do is to 
give the result of long and patient obser- 
vations and experiments. During “slow 
fire” at a stationary target, or when 
snap shooting at moving objects the sling 
can, with propriety, be dispensed with. 
I use it at all times, so do a host of 
others, and that is the “dope” Colonel 
Harllee prescribes for the Navy Ranges, 
and Harllee is rather well informed on 
the subject of military marksmanship. 
That is why he prescribes, “always use 
the sling,” even for slow fire from the 
standing off-hand position, because when 
a man is called upon to empty’ magazine 
after magazine in rapid succession he 
needs the help of the strap and needs 
it mighty badly. Also one standard ad- 
justment of the sling is suited to all po- 
sitions and in battle a man is called 
upon to make some mighty sudden 
changes, therefore he should have his 
sling properly secured and adjusted at 
all times. 
I have given the positions in the order 
in which the Tyro should learn them. 
