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His wings didn’t even flutter as he came 
down. Never saw a duck drop so dead. 
That far reaching, hard hitting 
LEFEVER 
Shot Gun 
DID THE BUSINESS 
It will do as much for you. At the traps, 
in the fields, in the blinds. 
You can count on the shooting qualities 
that have made GUNS of Lasting Fame. 
WRITE FOR CATALOG 
TODAY 
Shoot the Lefever Single Trigger This Year 
Lefever Arms Company 
200 Maltbie St., SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
half inch and one inch groups respectively are com¬ 
monly made by good shots, while the highest possible 
score has frequently been made with ten shots on a 
five inch bull’s-eye at 200 yards. 
Height of Bullet in Inches Above 
Line of Sight at Yards. 
Rifle sighted for 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 
50 yds. 1.5 .0 
100 “ 3.5 5.0 3.6 .0 
150 “ 6.0 10.5 11.5 11.0 7.0 .0 
200 “ 9.0 16.5 21.0 23.0 22.0 12.5 11.5 .0 
The .22 short cartridge has a 30 grs. bullet with a 
muzzle velocity of about 900 ft. per second, a muzzle 
energy of about 54 ft. lbs. is admirably suited for in¬ 
door shooting up to 25 yards in rifles chambered and 
rifled for it. 
The .22 long cartridge is an intermediate phase be¬ 
tween the .22 short and .22 long rifle and is not superior 
to either under any conditions. There are other .22 
rim fire and central fire cartridges mostly intended for 
hunting purposes and generally more powerful, more 
costly and less accurate than the .22 long rifle cartridge. 
.22 CALIBRE RIFLE. 
The essential features of a .22 rifle for rifle club pur¬ 
poses are that it should be simple, strong and accurate. 
The necessity for great strength and simplicity in .22 
target rifles will be better appreciated when it is re¬ 
membered that though the charge is small a .22 club 
rifle is generally fired 100 times as often as a larger 
hunting or military rifle is fired once and the wear and 
tear incidental to functioning the mechanism is the same 
whether the cartridge be large or small, consequently if 
all the parts are not of good design and strongly made 
of the best material the life of a .22 rifle is much shorter 
than it should be and however little its first cost it 
will be found expensive in the long run. 
Though extremely rapid fire is not required it is de¬ 
sirable that the action should admit of loading with con¬ 
siderable rapidity and ease. The .22 cartridge is so 
small as to be awkward to handle and few single load 
ing actions lend themselves to rapid loading with it. 
The falling block type of action favored in America is 
strong and safe and those which automatically cock the 
hammer are fairly rapid, but the insertion of the cart¬ 
ridge is not a quick and easy operation, while bolt 
actions might be better if so constructed as to in¬ 
fallibly guide a cartridge, merely dropped into the re¬ 
ceiver, in the chamber when the bolt was thrust home. 
A very strong, simple and safe rapid loading single ac¬ 
tion, once extensively made here and still so in Europe, 
is the Martini. It is hammerless and consists of a 
block hinged at the rear end so chambered on top that 
when depressed for loading it Infallibly guides the cart¬ 
ridges into the chamber, nor is there any other hole 
or space into which the cartridge can fall and jamb and 
cause trouble and danger. The action is opened, the 
empty shell ejected and the hammer cocked by moving 
the underlever through an eighth of a circle. Other 
falling block actions require double this amount of move¬ 
ment. Novices can load and fire it ten times a minute 
and experts nearly twice as fast, while it is a cheap and 
easy action to construct. 
Chiefly for the reason that the rifle club movement 
is as yet in its infancy so to speak, rifles especially 
adapted to the requirements of club shooting are only 
now in course of development here. In the meantime 
it will be of interest to illustrate and describe an ex¬ 
ample of a rifle made by the Birmingham Small Arms 
Company, England, which has already proved ideally 
adapted to the purpose. 
The length of barrel which is of fine steel one inch 
in diameter at the breech and 24 inch at the muzzle 
and made to take down, is 2854 inches. The sight radius 
is 30 inches. The stock is of figured Italian walnut 13L2 
Section of Butts, Showing Bullet Catcher, Fig. 5. 
or 1454 inches long, the fore-end is 11 inches long, pear 
shaped and checkered to facilitate holding, and the ac¬ 
tion, which is dismountable without tools has an indi¬ 
cator showing unmistakably whether the rifle is cocked 
or not. 
This backsight has fine screw mechanism for both 
lateral and vertical adjustments with Vernier scales for 
both, cut to read to 1/100 of an inch. 
The cost of this rifle which can be obtained in Amer¬ 
ica with sights as described is $28 and a somewhat less 
expensive modification known as the No. 8 model with 
the same sights and costing about $22 is also made. 
HINTS ON RIFLES. 
If you have a good rifle keep it clean and never use 
unlubricated bullets which will speedily lead the barrel 
and destroy its accuracy, and do not fire .22 short or 
.22 long cartridges in rifles chambered for the .22 long 
rifle cartridge. 
High velocity and energy are not wanted in target 
shooting and a low pressure cool burning cartridge like 
the R. A. U. M. C. .22 Long Rifle Lesmok will shoot 
better than any other cartridge made and it will not 
wear out the barrel or cause it to lose its fine shoot¬ 
ing qualities as will some of the high pressure hot 
burning smokeless cartridges on the market. 
The greatest care should be taken to see that the 
club rifles are kept properly clean and in good condi¬ 
tion. They have to stand much more work than private 
rifles and twenty-four hours neglect will ruin the finest 
rifle ever made. 
Nyoil Absolutely Prevents Rustl 
Use it on your gun, revolver, blcycle.l 
talking machine, reel— in fact, for any! 
purpose for which a fine, pure, lubricat-1 
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hardens. “ gums” or smells bad. Askl 
sporting goods or hardware dealer. Large! 
bottle, cheaper to buy, 25c. ; trial size, 10c f 
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Ask your watch repairer whose c7 * ‘ 
oil he is using on your watch. 
Sleeping Bag 
with Pneumatic Mattress 
the most satisfactory camp bed made. Can be 
used anywhere and when deflated occupies 
little space. 
SLEEP OUT OF DOORS 
No sleep is more healthful or restful than sleep 
In the open, provided jour bed Is right. Per¬ 
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for home* camp* yacht and automobile une. 
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Mfg. Co. 
284 Ninth Av«. 
Brooklyn, N.Y. 
FOR SALE 
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unless you accept after examination. I ship 
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Ontario's Leading Taxidermist, 
UNIONVILLE, ONTARIO 
OFFICE EQUIPMENT versus SPORTING EQUIPMENT 
Did you select your Office Equipment with the. same thought and careful 
comparison that yon did yo-ur personal sporting equipment? 
Did you give half as much real honest thought to the Typewriter now in 
your office as you did to your Gun and Fishing Tackle? 
The Typewriter has made possible the enormous business development of 
this country. Is it not, then, worth your most careful and hones: consid¬ 
eration ? 
You would not think of allowing your office help to select a ten dollar 
fishing reel for you nor to dictate the kind of sight you used on your gun— 
and yet the most important piece of your office equipment may have been 
seleoted without having had your personal attention. 
Let us send you a Fox Typewriter for trial. If we do not have a repre¬ 
sentative in your locality we will give you the benefit of the dealers price. 
Send for catalog and mention Forest and Stream. 
FOX TYPEWRITER COMPANY from forest and stream for September. 
iName . 
2809-2859 Front Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. Address . 
