Nov. 27, 1909.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
869 
WINCHESTER 
GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 
RED 
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BRAND 
TRADE MARK 
REG. IN U. 8. PAT. OFF. 
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THEY NEVER FAILED ME.” 
_ -HARRY WHITNEY 
From the frozen north as well as from 
sunny Africa comes more enduring praise 
for the entire reliability of Winchester Guns 
and Ammunition—the Red W Brand. Harry 
Whitney, who recently returned from the 
Arctic, where he spent fourteen months 
and hunted farther North and achieved 
greater success than any sportsman ever did 
before, wisely pinned his faith to the 
Red W combination. He says of it: 
“I used two Winchesters: A Model ’95 .30-40 and 
a .22 Automatic and Winchester Cartridges with both. 
Neither the extreme cold nor rough handling affected 
their working or accuracy. They never failed me.” 
H E success or survival of many an important expedition 
has hinged on its Winchester Guns and Ammunition. 
They never fail, but work as surely and shoot as accurately 
in the Arctic regions as they do in the temperate zone. 
Neither the severest climatic conditions nor the rough usage 
of the trail lessen their dependability, because they are made 
right. For that reason experience-taught sportsmen and ex¬ 
plorers when leaving the beaten paths in search of rare game 
or conquest always carry Winchester Guns and Ammunition 
in preference to any other make. Invariably they constitute 
The Equipment of Hen of Achievement. 
which is the assumed limit range of the B size of shot, 
it might easily happen that there were at least five 
birds in the four or five feet circle which the charge 
would cover at that distance. Thus, eighty-fiVe pellets 
fired at five birds gives 425 actual killing chances, as 
compared withn the 1,500 or so wounding chances of 
No. 6 size. The arithmetic side of the question is very 
fascinating, but it need not be carried further than this. 
For the purpose of making some kind of rough prac¬ 
tical test of an ordinary weight of charge consisting of 
Pattern at 50yds. from half-choke gun, firing 1 l-16oz. 
of B shot, (85 pellets). Target 2ft. square divided into 
2in. squares, 39 pellets registered. 
Same conditions, 34 pellets recorded. 
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pellets of B size a number of cartridges were loaded for 
pattern and other tests. Five rounds were first of all 
put through the proof gun, and the following records 
were obtained: 
Table I.—Proof gun results with long-range 12-bore 
cartridges; charge, 42grs. of Schultze and 1 l-16oz. (85 
pellets) of B shot; size of felt used, 7-16in.: 
Chamber 
No. Pellets 
pressure, 
Recoil, 
Pattern at 
striking 
Velocity, 
tons. 
inches. 
22yds. 
wires. 
ft.-secs. 
2.70 
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1088 
Generally speaking, the results may be passed as 
eminently satisfactory. The one scatter round at the 
start was of the ordinary cartwheel type, and not, there¬ 
fore, important, so long as it does not occur too often. 
The number of pellets which struck the velocity record¬ 
ing wires have been mentioned in the table because of 
their exceptional interest in the present connection. In 
the usual way an average of five pellets break wires. 
Here the average is 1.4, showing how the hitting 
chances have been diminished. A larger charge than 
1 l-16oz. might have been used, or at least tried; but the 
extra five pellets is so small a matter in relation to the 
general principle at stake that variations of this nature 
need not be considered. To test the patterning proper¬ 
ties of the charge was the next procedure, and although 
a full choke would naturally be chosen for long-distance 
shots at wildfowl, the idea of the cartridge is essentially 
that it should be used in an ordinary gun. Therefore, 
the half-choke, whose results were reported three weeks 
ago, was employed as a useful medium size. The fol¬ 
lowing results were obtained at 40yds.: 
Table II.- Pellets in 30in. circle at 40yds. from a half¬ 
choke barrel with long-range 12-bore cartridges; charge 
as above: 
42 Grains of Schultze. 
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true 
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70. 
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lin. left 
71 . 
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lin. left 
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2in. right 
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