632 
FOREST AND STREAM 
December, 1917 
DR. FRANK KENT 
Importer Bob White Quail 
San Antonio, Texas 
Book your orders now for early Fall 
and Spring delivery. Bank references. 
For 
all lubrication and 
polishing around the 
house, in the tool shed 
or afield with gun or rod. 
NYOIL 
Id the New Perfection 
Pocket Package 
is a matchless combination. 
Sportsmen have known it for 
3 ’ears. Dealers sell NYOIL at 
10c. and 25c. Send us the name 
of a live one who doesn’t sell 
NYOIL with other necessaries 
for sportsmen and we will send 
you a dandy, handy new can 
(screw top and screw tip) con¬ 
taining SH ounces postpaid 
for 25 cents. 
WM. F. NYE, New Bedford, Mass. 
can be lured to the lakes, ponds 
f/. and rivers near you, by provid¬ 
es,, ing natural feeding grounds 
3 ^, for them. TERRELL’S wild 
'ice s ®ed is now ready 
for delivery and plant- 
% 1n fi? • , Dependable 
T>J%, seeds widely known 
in D, S. and Canada. Booklet free. 
2m %/,, CLYDE B. TERRELL. Naturalist 
k\./'//a Dept. H-14 Oshkosh, Wis. - 
^niiiiiiiiiiiinniiHniuuiiiuiiuiiimniiifhiumitUiuiDiiuiiimura 
SUNNY! “COLORADO!” 
The Switzerland of America. 
Secure a Mountain Homestead. 
Every U. S. A. Citizen entitled 5 acres. 
H. E. Brower, the Old Reliable Locator, 
608 Exchange Building, Denver, Colorado. 
Anything in Farm Lands, Acreage, Stock 
Ranches, Improved and Unimproved. 
A LAMP WITHOUT A WICK. 
The Sunshine Safety Lamp Co., 344 
Factory Bldg., Kansas City. Mo., has a 
new portable gasoline lamp which gives 
the most powerful home light in the world 
—a blessing to every home not equipped 
with gas or electricity. 300 Candle Power 
at one cent per night. This remarkable 
lamp has no wick and no chimney, is ab¬ 
solutely safe and gives such universal sat¬ 
isfaction they are sending it on Free Trial. 
They want one person in each locality to 
whom they can refer new customers. Take 
advantage of' their free trial offer. Agents 
wanted. Write them today. 
GERMAIN BOATS EXCEL 
Motor Row Boats, Runabouts, Cruisers 
PLANS $1.00 and up 
Paper Patterns, Frames, Materials Etc. 
If you are figuring on a new boat for the 
coming season, why not consider a Germain 
wave collector, our boats satisfy. 
For a limited time we are offering from 
40 to 60% discount on our full size paper 
patterns, also reduced prices on our semi 
erected frames. 
Particulars on request. 
GERMAIN BOAT COMPANY 
32 Lake Blvd. Saginaw, Michigan 
THE GUN WITH THE BOYS “OVER THERE” 
(continued from page 6ii) 
ready for use in i 1 /* minutes. All 
parts are interchangeable—should we break 
a part, all we need is the desired piece. 
Without the use of any tool or device, in 
20 seconds the gun can be disassembled as 
each part acts as a tool for the next part. 
In this way they are the only tools needed 
—no files, punches, or measuring needed, 
the new part will fit and function per¬ 
fectly. We just “slap ’er in” and proceed. 
The gun weighs 2 lbs., 7 oz., barrel is 
5 in. long, and the length over all is 8Y2 
inches. The magazine, which is inserted 
in the grip from the butt, holds seven car¬ 
tridges. If we keep our magazine re¬ 
plenished and a cartridge in the chamber, 
we have eight cartridges at ihe command 
of our trigger finger and usually two extra 
(loaded) magazines in the belt. 
Each of these cartridges will deliver a 
230 grain metal patched bullet, at the speed 
of 809 feet per second and a striking en-' 
ergy of 335 foot-pounds—not so much 
when compared to a high power rifle, but 
the most, all things considered, that has 
been worked out of a side arm to the pres¬ 
ent time. From my observation of what 
this load will do to big stubborn game 
that has more than ten men’s grip on life, 
I can easily decide that I have no desire 
to be tickled with a shot from it. 
Now about speed in operation, in Sep¬ 
tember number of Forest and Stream 
some one asked a question as to who was 
the fastest revolver shot. Now revolver 
shot, that is different, but ask me who is 
the fastest man with the .45 auto pistol and 
I will say, Mr. A. J. Geskie, of Connecti¬ 
cut, can do more with this gun than any 
man I ever saw—though there are others 
Fourteen shots, off-hand, 20 yards, by A. 
J. Geskie at Springfield, Mass., February 
23, 1916. Gun used .45 Colt Automatic, 
Peters’ cartridge. Total time for 14 shots, 
13 seconds. 
who might receive “favorable mention’ 
and these are a few records, proof of 
which is easily obtained. 
I am sending with this, an average tar¬ 
get made by Mr. Geskie. It represents 
fourteen shots (2 magazines) from a .45 
auto, shot offhand—standing position, free 
from any rest—at 20 yards, total time for 
14 shots, 13 seconds, time of changing mag¬ 
azines included. Firing for greater speed, 
I have seen Mr. Geskie place 21 shots 
(time of changing 3 magazines included) 
in eight inch “bull” at 15 yards in eight 
seconds. For rapidity of fire without re¬ 
gard to hits he can empty three magazines 
(21 shots) in an average of 6 3/5 seconds 
time from the word “go” to the last shot, 
and I have a few records where he made 
it in as low as 5 1/5 seconds. 
To tell all that this man can do with the 
.45 would fill a very interesting book, and 
I have not the space or ability for that, 
but one “stunt” of his, which I have never 
seen equaled, is to take seven .45 auto 
cartridges in his left hand and the pistol 
loaded with seven more in his right, and 
Seven shots, 15 yards standing off-hand, 
by T. T. Pierce at Rock Island Arsenal, 
August 22, 1917. Gun used .22 on .45 
Colt Automatic frame, Remington cart¬ 
ridge, Lesmoke powder. Total score 64. 
throwing seven cartridges in the air in 
rapid succession, hit an average of 5 out 
of 7 at distances of from 25 to 35 feet. 
Most of the cartridges hit will explode and 
those that are hit on the bullet- end or 
amidships, lose their shape before they 
ever touch ground. Mr. Geskie is on the 
job at this wing shooting and can hit pen¬ 
nies or dimes in the air with the .45 just 
about as fast as any one can throw them 
up at a fair height and angle and will keep 
it up as long as such person desires to fur¬ 
nish the coins to be shot at. 
His argument for accurate shooting with 
this gun, in deliberate fire, is to put a .45 
cartridge in the center of the Ten ring 
of the standard American target (by stick¬ 
ing through target and sheet of paper in 
back), leaving the face of the shell just 
about flush with face of target, and hold¬ 
ing for a Ten, explode these cartridges at 
20 yards from offhand position with the .45 
and full service load. The face of the 
cartridge is less than the diameter of 
the Ten ring and the primer less than Y2 
the diameter of the shell or about Y as 
large as the point of the striking bullet. 
I have met many good shooters, but 
never one who could explode as high an 
average of cartridges as Mr. Geskie will 
with the .45—that is, they will not explode 
those at the target although they may ex¬ 
plode more in the gun. 
The writer possesses a .22 calibre attach¬ 
ment for the .45 frame, which takes the 
place of the .45 slide, being of the same 
weight and general appearance. It has the 
regular type sights, a inch .22 calibre 
barrel, and by the use of a special maga- 
(CONCLUDED ON PAGE 634) 
