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FOREST AND STREAM 
Fishing! 
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on earth. 
’Way up in the 
MAINE WOODS 
easily and comfortably accessible. 
There the fishing is perfect. 
Experienced, licensed guides know 
every foot of the well-nigh countless 
forest-waters. 
HUNTING, CANOEING, 
CAMPING, HIKING 
and every delight of the wilds 
absolutely safe. Mlsll 
Women Anglers 
will find every facility for their 
comfort; the further and nearer 
streams alike are prolific in sport. 
Send for “ In the Maine Woods, 
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maps, a list of the principal waters 
and how they may be reached, dis¬ 
tances from R.R. stations, rates for 
guides, camps and hotels. Mailed 
for 10 cents and many times worth 
it for it contains everything one 
wishes to know. It is a mine of 
information. 
Address Geo. M. Houghton, Pass¬ 
enger Traffic Manager, Dept. C. 
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catalog showing the many distinctive fea¬ 
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„ map of the roads of the 
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HOW TO TELL WHEN A GUN 
HAS RIGHT FIT AND DROP. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Please state how one can know when a 
gun is a fit, and what drop it should have. 
I have a 12-gauge Baker hammerless 
double-barrel, with s^-inch drop. If I 
do not watch myself very closely, I will 
always flinch. Awaiting an answer, I am, 
C. F. Smith. 
Mt. Vernon, Ind. . 
[It is impossible to tell if your gun fits 
you without seeing you handle it under 
a variety of conditions. In a general way 
it may be said that if you are shooting too 
slowly your gun is too heavy or the 
stock is too long. If you shoot under 
your birds, the drop is too great or the 
stock is too short, and vice versa. 
The tendency of a long straight stock is 
to deliver the shot charge too high. Tall 
slim men usually shoot best with longer 
stocks and require more drop than short 
stout men. 
Flinching is sometimes the result of ex¬ 
cessive recoil, due to a badly fitting gun, or 
may simply be the result of nervousness. 
The most complete and practical work on 
this subject is “Guncraft,” published by 
Forest and Stream. The price is $1.00.] 
“REBUILT” SHELLS BETTER 
THAN TALLOWING METHOD. 
Editor Forest and Stream : , 
In the February number of Forest and 
Stream I read the article of Mr. R. Kings- 
land Hay, who quoted Mr. F. T. Ford’s 
ry a shell or two that will prove effective 
at 100 yards he might try this: 
My gun is a ten-gauge. Take the shot 
out of a loaded shell, then cut a twelve- 
gauge shell off in front of the reinforcing 
near its base. Remove powder and shot 
but leave wad in crimped end. A twelve- 
gauge shell is a trifle too large to fit the 
muzzle of a choked ten-gauge. Peel off a 
layer or more of the twelve, till it fits the 
muzzle of the ten. Load the twelve with 
shot that will chamber, placing wad on 
shot, but do not crimp. Immerse this slug 
in melted tallow and insert quickly into the 
ten-gauge shell, crimped end next to the 
powder. 
I have used such slugs loaded with BBB, 
OOO, and small buckshot effectively at a 
distance of 125 yards and without any bad 
effects on a choked gun. This system can 
be varied to any size <?f shell by using a 
smaller shell for the slug. 
By experimenting on a clean field at a 
target, the casing that contains the shot 
can be found at a distance from 8 to 15 
rods from the point where the gun was 
fired. The distance however will depend 
on how tight the wad on top of the shot 
fits, or in other words the shot will not 
leave the casing until the casing is forced 
back by air resistance and the shot set free. 
And from this point to the target, if it 
is a reasonable distance, the pattern and 
penetration will be nearly as good as tho’ 
shot from an ordinary shell from the same 
point. Therefore the distance for practical 
use depends mainly on the top wad, that 
holds the shot in the casing. 
V. E. Strayer. 
Fayette, Iowa. 
method of “tallowing shot,” to make them 
hold together for long shots at large game. 
I have tried the tallow method and also 
cutting the shell between the powder and 
shot. I found the “tallow” way of little 
use and the cutting of the shell not much 
of a benefit and dangerous, especially in a 
choke-bore gun. If Mr. Hay wishes to car¬ 
PISTOL SHOOTING DEVELOPS 
EFFICIENT CO-ORDINATION. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
From the once wild and woolly west, we 
read very interesting accounts of what 
some of our brother sportsmen are accom¬ 
plishing at revolver shooting, simply as a 
sport of great benefit in developing that 
harmonious, responsive action of man’s 
mento-physical machinery that we know as 
co-ordination; and with remarkable rapid¬ 
ity of accomplishment. The very import¬ 
ant addition of quickening man’s percep¬ 
tion should also be an interesting consid¬ 
eration. Who can question the fact that 
they are both invaluable assets in all of 
man’s active pursuits of life? 
Though we do not endorse the belligerent 
Colonel’s theory of “training your son to 
be a soldier,” incidentally such great pro¬ 
ficiency at revolver shooting might figure 
most prominently in our process of national 
preparedness. 
It is quite true that even the best guns 
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