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[Nov. 20, 1909. 
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other things the left hand which supports the 
gun and the right hand which pulls the trigger, 
both assist to furnish the estimate upon which 
gun stock length is based. Some idea of the 
effect of moving the left hand backward or for¬ 
ward may easily be ascertained by sportsmen 
for themselves. Take a well fitting gun and 
instead of holding it as usual, stretch out the 
left arm and grip the barrels at a point as far 
as possible beyond the accustomed position. 
What then is the result? It will be found that 
the gun cannot be shouldered; the end of the 
stock gets underneath the armpit. By thus ex¬ 
tending the left arm the reach is lengthened be¬ 
yond the capacity of the right arm; the stock 
is then too long and the proper length, with left 
arm so extended, will about be reached when 
the forefinger of the right hand is brought back 
to engage in the rearmost trigger; i. e., if the 
gun has two triggers, if not then the hand would 
have to come actually behind the one trigger 
to get the right adjustment. Again, instead of 
extending, retract the left arm backward of the 
usual holding place, holding close up to the 
trigger guard and note the result. The reach 
of the right arm is then so altered that instead 
of the butt coming under the armpit it rises 
above the shoulder and cannot without some 
difficulty and deliberate care be brought to bed 
in its proper place against the shoulder. 
When a sportsman moves his hand on a two- 
trigger gun from the right to the left trigger, 
or vice versa, he does not shorten or lengthen 
the stock. The length of breach action and 
stock to the end of the butt remains the same. 
He has extended or shortened his reach and this 
a perfect fitting stock enables him to do with¬ 
out any drawback, for in doing so he subcon¬ 
sciously readjusts his gun and shoulder so 
quickly as to neutralize any ill effect resulting 
from this forced movement. Such movement, 
however, were better absent, and herein lies the 
great advantage of the one-triggered gun—any 1 
possible error arising from the movement de¬ 
scribed being entirely non-existent in the case 
of the one trigger, the grasp of the right hand 
remaining precisely the same for the second shot 
as for the first. 
Those gunmakers and gunfitters who confused ■ 
the alteration in the personal reach with a short¬ 
ening of the stock, consequent upon the manipu¬ 
lation of two triggers at different distances, also 
fell into the error of giving' longer stocks to 
one-trigger guns when the one trigger has been 
a left-formed one as regards position. Accus¬ 
tomed invariably to measure from the trigger to 
the end of the butt, and ignoring the influence 
of the left arm, they have advocated and given 
an addition to the butt of the stock by just so 
much as the difference between a right and left 1 
trigger—say three-quarter inch—and the stocks 
of such guns have been found too long by that 
amount. Had the combined movements of left 
and right hands been duly brought under care¬ 
ful consideration, any such palpable error could 
not have arisen. A simple illustration of this 
point would be to take away the front trigger 
of a perfect-fitting two-triggered gun, using only 
the left, when no disadvantage would be experi¬ 
enced. No gunmaker would dream of recom¬ 
mending, nor sportsman of adopting, an increase 1 
of the stock length under such conditions. Such 
increase, therefore, is equally unnecessary in the 1 
case of a one-trigger having the position of the 
ordinary left trigger. 
SAVING THE GAME. 
Laws for the protection of wild life grow 
more stringent. There are new game laws this 
year in twelve States and Territories, most of 
them west of the Mississippi River. The 
tendency to protect big game in the far West 
is noticeable, especially in the case of antelope, , 
whose killing is now prohibited everywhere in 
the United States except in the State of Wash¬ 
ington. The number of states that prohibit all 
game shipmens from their limits was increased 
by the action of Iowa, West Virginia and Wy¬ 
oming. Every State west of the Mississippi, in 
fact, now forbids the export of its protected 
game. The license system now obtains in all 
the States except Arkansas and Georgia.— 
Loveland (Colo.) Herald. 
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