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FOREST AND STREAM 
SEPTEMBER, 1917 
Good Fare in Camp and 
on the Trail 
Every wise woodsman' knows the blazed trail 
to good camp fare. For the most food with 
the best taste in the least space, pack a box of 
HEINZ 57 VARIETIES 
Safe from rain, sure to keep, easy to serve —and always good 
to eat. Pure, wholesome, nourishing foods that satisfy real 
camp appetites. Just heat and serve. Be sure to put these 
on your list: 
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HEINZ Baked Beans 
HEINZ Spaghetti 
HEINZ Cream Soups 
—Needn’t tell you how good they are. Four 
kinds. 
—Delicious. Ready cooked with tomatoes 
and cheese. 
—Tomato, Pea or Celery. They all go to 
the right spot. 
HEINZ Tomato Ketchup —Makes everything it touches taste better. 
HEINZ Peanut Butter —Pure, sweetand delicious on bread. Won’t 
spoil in the hottest weather. 
HEINZ Pickles and Pre¬ 
serves —The finishing touch to a square meal. 
Sold by all good grocers —Send for list of the 57 Varieties 
H. J. HEINZ COMPANY, PITTSBURGH, PA. 
Principles of 
Rifle Shooting 
A rifle consists of a mechanism for han¬ 
dling cartridges attached to which is a 
barrel bored with spiral grooves in it. To 
use the rifle the butt is placed on the 
shoulder, the sights and object to be hit 
lined up by the eye, and the trigger pulled. 
The principle of rifle shooting is to so 
co-ordinate the muscles of the body with 
the nerves governing sight and touch that 
the rifle is discharged at the moment when 
the sights are properly in line. This co¬ 
ordination is the whole art of rifle shoot¬ 
ing as distingushed from the science of the 
sport. 
THE HUNTING RIFLE 
The ideal hunting rifle should handle a 
cartridge sufficiently powerful for the game 
to be shot. The action should work smooth¬ 
ly, easily, and always. It should be re¬ 
loaded by recoil, forearm slide, lever or 
bolt as suits the user. The weapon should 
balance properly and come to the shoulder 
quickly. The sights should be substantially 
built, properly adjusted, and of a design to 
suit the owner’s peculiarities of eye sight. 
The accuracy should be such that the rifle 
can be depended on to make hits at game 
shooting ranges when aimed correctly. The 
tagger should release without drag. 
HOW TO PRACTICE IN AIMING 
The first consideration in aiming practice 
is to carefully study diagrams of sights and 
their relation to each other and the bullseye. 
After this relation has been firmly fixed in 
the mind, the student should paste a small 
black spot on the wall in good light and 
then snap the weapon with the sights lined 
up properly on the spot, endeavoring con¬ 
stantly to pull the trigger in such a manner 
that the hammer will fall without disturb¬ 
ing sighting. 
This sighting exercise should be practiced 
daily. About twenty-five times is sufficient 
a day. Use empty shells to save the firing 
pin. 
AIMING THE HUNTING RIFLE 
Aiming the hunting rifle depends, to a 
considerable extent, upon the sights with 
which it is fitted and the conditions under 
which the hunting is to be done. If the 
hunting is in wooded country where shots 
are at short range, the sights should be 
coarse and easily seen and practice should 
consist in snapping at a black spot, em¬ 
phasis being laid upon getting the rifle to 
the shoulder and the sights lined up with 
the least possible delay. If the shooting 
is to be done in open country, finer sights 
can be used and practice should be more 
deliberate with special emphasis being laid 
on care in pulling the trigger. 
CLEANING THE RIFLE 
Cleaning any firearm properly consists 
in getting the fouling out of the barrel, in 
other words, getting it into a chemically 
clean condition and then coating it with 
some substance which will not, in itself, 
corrode the barrel and which will, at the 
same time, prevent air or moisture reach¬ 
ing the surface of the steel. To accomplish 
this result, a rifle barrel should be care¬ 
fully scrubbed with a brass bristle brush 
which has been dipped in a nitro solvent 
oil and then rubbed with cloth patches until 
one comes out clean. More nitro solvent 
oil should then be put into the barrel and 
one day later the process should be re¬ 
peated. 
The modern hunting rifle shoots a high 
power cartridge loaded with high pressure 
smokeless powder. The fouling left in the 
barrel is of a different nature than that left 
in old black powder rifles and in fact is 
more in the nature of a hard transparent 
film over the surface of the steel than of 
any visible fouling. The fact that a high 
power rifle barrel may look practically 
clean after it has been fired several shots, 
should not be taken as an indication that 
no cleaning is necessary. 
