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FOREST AND STREAM 
November, 1917 
THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST 
EL PORVENIR, NEW MEXICO 
The Big Game Hunters’ Paradise 
Located in the Pecos National Forest Reserve at the foot of 
Hermit’s Peak in the very heart of 
THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES 
Reached via Las Vegas, New Mexico, and the Scenic Sky Drive. 
Noted for its Bear, Deer, Lion and Wild Turkey hunting, Beautiful 
Scenery, Mild Climate and good Trout Fishing. 
We furnish horses, pack burros, guides, guns, hunting and fishing 
equipment at reasonable rates. 
First Class Hotel accommodations, also furnished and unfur¬ 
nished mountain cabins for rent by day, week or season. 
Free telephone connection with Las Vegas—Post Office in Hotel and 
tri-weekly mail delivery. 
Address 0. L. Williams, Proprietor, PORVENIR, New Mexico 
Hotel Powhatan 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
Pennsylvania Avenue, H and Eighteenth Sts., N. W. 
Overlooking the White House, offers every comfort 
and luxury, also a superior service. European Plan. 
Rooms, detached bath, $1.50 and up 
Rooms, private bath $2.50 and up 
Write for Souvenir Booklet and Map 
E. C. OWEN, Manager 
NewIhbmam 
Cor. 11th & Market Streets 
European 
Plan 
Philadelphia 
IS 
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Better Than Ever 
Thoroughly Modernized 
Remodeled and Equipped 
NEW MANAGEMENT 
CAFE and ROOF GARDEN 
In connection 
Special Club ^Breakfasts 
and Luncheons 
Rates—Without Bath, $1.50 
With Bath, $2.00 and up. 
FRANK KIMBLE, Mgr. 
If 
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tunity for you to display your skill. If 
you evade the issue or “fall down” the boy 
feels hurt and disappointed in you; make 
good, and that youngster is your friend 
for life. There is no character builder 
quite equal to good, clean sport, and teach¬ 
ing a boy the unchanging doctrines of our 
craft is a sacred duty to be performed 
with care and discretion. The only way to 
make a riflleman is by graphic demonstra¬ 
tions and this method requires many bull’s- 
eyes and very little bull. 
KICKS ABOUT THE KICK 
M Y first long range shooting was done 
with a beautifully sighted .45 caliber 
Sharp’s rifle loaded with 90 grains 
of powder and a 500 grain ball, wrapped 
in a paper patch. This old gun had a voice 
like a cannon, smoked like a bonfire and 
kicked like a mule. Up to 500 yards she „ 
was absolutely accurate, made many a fine 
score at 800 and a 1,000, and the bullet 
struck a sledge hammer blow that gave me 
a feeling of confidence in my weapon. My 
first field experience with the piece was to 
dispatch a mad bull that had charged 
through a barbedwire fence and was terror¬ 
izing the countryside. I fired just one shot 
at about 150 yards and the animal went 
down as though he had been hit by a bolt 
of lightning. The old girl had a fearful 
trajectory and many other defects, but she 
possessed a latent effectiveness I still recall. 
Her chief fault was her kick. Either 
you held her exactly right or got a nasty 
bruise. To shoot her was a man’s game 
and she gave a Spartan course of training 
that has ever since enabled me to blissfully 
ignore the recoil of all subsequent guns. 
She gave me my first sore shoulder, which 
was also my last. 
To an old war horse like the writer, 
who inventories 16 stone as he steps under 
the shower bath, the kick of the Krag or 
the Springfield is simply an interesting 
and pleasant sensation, and I often wonder 
if it would not be a good idea to require 
that every beginner master one of those 
old rough-riding “forty-fives.” It would 
develop his perspective and teach him a 
lot of things that would prove useful later 
on, and as a mollycoddle eradicator the old 
“45-70-405” gaspipe would certainly shine. 
SHOOT THE GUN YOU LIKE 
1 HAVE heard several criticisms of the 
National Rifle Association rule which 
„ permits the use of “any rifle, any sight” 
on the ground that when a man practices 
with his pet gun, bored, sighted and bal¬ 
anced to suit his own peculiar tastes, the 
training is of no value when a service rifle 
equipped with military sights is placed in 
his hands. By personal experience I know 
that this criticism is unfounded, mislead¬ 
ing and untrue. 
I had shot for many years before I ever 
fired one of the new Springfields. One day 
while watching the work of some U. S. 
regulars, I was asked to try their rifle, 
and borrowed a gun from the Q. M. Sar- 
geant who explained the method of setting 
