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CHALLENGE 
CLEANABLE 
COLLARS 
‘ome in 15 handsome styles. A fine 
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vater, perspiration, velvet collar crock- 
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.ble, off or on the neck, with soap 
.nd damp cloth. 25c each, one year’s 
upply, $1.50. At your dealers, or 
nailed postpaid upon receipt of price. 
5e sure to state size. Other styles 
n a booklet sent free upon request 
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725 Broadwav. New York 
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Small-Mouth Black Bass 
We have the only establishment dealing in 
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I GUN GAUGES AND GUN FITTING. 
Choosing a Gun. 
EFORE calling upon your dealer or 
placing your order for a gun consider 
among other things your size and 
strength and the game you intend to hunt. 
There has always been more or less mys¬ 
tery about guns and powders and perform¬ 
ances of old-time weapons, so it is just 
as well to say at this time that gun and 
powder makers have made great strides 
in the past thirty years and improved ma¬ 
terially upon the products of their prede¬ 
cessors. 
The old ten-gauge gun so popular in the 
days of black powder is obsolete. The 
all-around service weapon to-day is the 
twelve gauge .weighing from seven to eight 
pounds, with barrels twenty-eight to thirty- 
two inches long. This weapon with a shot 
load of one and one-eighth to one and one- 
quarter ounces of shot is standard at the 
traps and develops the maximum efficiency 
permissible for ducks and geese. The 
twelve gauge gun *is not too heavy to be 
carried afield by a man of average strength. 
The load of shot, however, for everything 
but trap or wild fowl shooting should not 
be over one ounce of shot, as this amount 
will develop slightly higher velocity and a 
more efficient pattern at the distances that 
upland game birds usually are killed-. 
For upland shooting after grouse, prairie 
chickens, partridge, snipe or woodcock the 
sixteen gauge, weighing six and one-half 
pounds, with twenty-eight inch barrels af¬ 
fords the sportsman of moderate strength 
and skill the maximum of satisfaction. The 
effective load for a sixteen gauge gun is 
from seven-eighths to one ounce of shot. 
The twenty gauge is a slim, elegant little 
weapon that is almost as effective for up¬ 
land shooting at the ranges most game is 
killed as its larger brothers. The superi¬ 
ority of larger gauges is at distances over 
thirty yards. Most upland game is killed 
within that distance, therefore in the hands 
of the ordinary shot there is no material 
difference in the accomplishment of the 
; twenty and the twelve. The rational load 
for a twenty gauge is three-quarters of an 
ounce of shot. The real efficiency of these' 
guns is frequently lost through overload¬ 
ing. 
The twenty-eight gauge is a highly inter¬ 
esting little weapon that will shoot a half 
ounce of shot forcefully, but the skill to 
use so small a load effectively is possessed 
| by but a few sportsmen. 
The Fitting of a Gun. 
I T is highly important that your gun fits 
you and that you do not fit yourself to 
the gun. It was believed formerly that 
the only way a gun could be aimed accu¬ 
rately was by squinting along the rib with? 
one eye while the other was tightly closed. 
To-day nearly all good shots shoot with) 
both eyes open. In selecting a gun remem¬ 
ber that the gun that handles so lightly in 
the gun store will feel a great deal heavier 
toward the end of a hard day’s tramp' 
across the hills: therefore, do not make the 
mistake of choosing a gun that is too heavy 
for you. Select a gun that seems to balance 
in your hands, and remember that you alone 
are to be suited. The gun that some of 
your friends might consider unwieldy may 
handle all right in your hands. Be careful 
that the gun you take is neither awkward' 
or heavy at either the breech or the muzzle. 
What you want is one that hangs easily in- 
your hands: one that you can throw to your 
shoulders and reach the triggers without 
having to stretch your right arm too straight 
or to bend it unnaturally at the elbow. If 
your eye catches the center of the rib- 
naturally when you bring the gun up to- 
aim you are on the right track. There are 
a few points about the measurements of 
a gun that you must bear constantly in¬ 
mind. One is that a straight stock and a 
long stock both result in a gun shooting 
high. A short stock or one with a great 
deal of drop causes a gun to shoot low,, 
therefore, as most birds are rising when- 
you shoot long stocks and straight stocks- 
are more desirable than short and crooked ? 
stocks. 
After you have selected a gun that hangs- 
well and that you can handle with facility 
you can get a very good idea of how nearly 
it comes to fitting you by the following 
test: Select some object fifteen or twenty 
yards distant, above the level of your eyes. 
Stand facing it squarely, with both eyes- 
on the object. Then, without shifting your 
gaze or paying any particular attention to- 
the gun, raise it quickly to your shoulder 
and point at the object. Hold the gun in 
this position and then sight carefully along- 
the rib. If the gun fits it will be pointing 
directly at the object at which your gaze 
was directed. If it is pointed below the 
object the stock is too short or it has too- 
much drop, while, on the other hand, if it 
is pointed too high, the stock is either too 
straight or too long, possibly both. 
The decision that you may make at this 
time can be confirmed only by careful test¬ 
ing at a stationary target and later by work 
at clay birds. The invention of the clay 
bird and the hand trap has placed at the 
disposal of those who desire to learn to 
shoot or improve their skill a way for so 
doing that is as fascinating as field shoot¬ 
ing, and with greater possibilities for prac¬ 
tice and repetition until a satisfactory de¬ 
gree of skill is attained. 
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