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FOREST AND STREAM 
April, 1918 
An 
ITHACA 
Won 
high average over 
all at the first big 
shoot of 1918— the 
Pinehurst shoot 
—800 targets— 
112 best shooters 
in the world. 
The picture shows 
the winner, C. L. 
Richards, of Wisconsin, 
and his ITHACA. 
Joe Vause, of Ohio, won 
the big preliminary 
handicap with another 
ITHACA. 
Any man can break more 
targets with an ITHACA. 
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EIFLEMEM 
THE PERPETUAL 
QUESTIONNAIRE 
By CAPTAIN ROY S. TINNEY 
1 LIKE to hear from the chap who signs 
his inquiry, “Bob Smith, 880 Broad St., 
Newark.” But the same note from the 
same man has a very different tone when 
branded with the cryptic symbol, “B. S. 
from Jersey.” This coy little custom of 
hiding one’s blushes behind initials or the 
startlingly original “nom de guerre” of 
“Constant Reader” has gone out of fash¬ 
ion. If you do not want your name pub¬ 
lished, say so. Frequently I could and 
would mail you just the data you want, if 
I knew where to send it. We fellows sign 
our stuff and like to talk to someone more 
personal and substantial than a pen-name, 
after laboriously digging out accurate data 
showing “Which came first, the chicken or 
the egg?” I do not blame folks for not 
signing some of the questions I receive, 
questions that can only be made into lino¬ 
type fodder by giving the answer first and 
then rewriting the query to suit the occa¬ 
sion, same being a perfect example of reck¬ 
less quill driving. Was once forced to 
reply to a lengthy letter as follows, “C. O. 
D.: Yours of the tenth received. Awfully 
interesting. Whatcha talkin’ about?” I 
will not quote the typewritten letter that 
came after the above met C. O. D.’s eagle 
eye—some hi-velocity stuff—but never a 
word about guns, except a threat to shoot 
me on sight. Moral: Never criticize, a 
man’s handwriting or his dog. Which re¬ 
minds me, every gun bug should have ac¬ 
cess to a typewriter, or a friend who can 
wiggle “one o’ them things”—it would save 
a lot of trouble. 
History does not contain a single in¬ 
stance of a man horning into the Morgan- 
Rockefeller Class by writing gun dope and 
laboriously explaining to his brother bugs 
just why a bullet fails to return after 
puncturing the target, and why said bullet 
is made of lead and not pure platinum. 
The work in itself is its own and only re¬ 
ward. We spend hours and hours search¬ 
ing through books, catalogues, periodicals 
and manuscripts—days on the range burn¬ 
ing up costly ammunition and splintering 
equipment—buy new guns and build in¬ 
tricate and expensive devices to register 
the results of the firing—and all for the 
love of the game. I am telling you this 
in order to demonstrate that the study of 
ballistics is pure science, not a business 
proposition. 
Reading these questions and answers is 
a delightful indoor sport and answering 
them is a liberal education in guncraft. 
The acid test of knowledge is to be able to 
convey accurate information to another, 
and years of service on the bug page should 
confer the degree of “D. G.” (Doctor of 
Gundope). Mail ’em in, brothers, both 
query and comment are welcome, particu¬ 
larly the latter, but remember that a legible 
letter carefully written is the only sort 
that scores a bull’s-eye. Random shots are 
a waste of time, paper and postage. 
R. L. C. Cincinnati, Ohio: 
We recently read in a recent publication 
“With sights at zero, and held on the bull 
at 200 yards, the .22 long rifle bullet will 
drop approximately 21 inches below the 
point aimed at, and will be 5.8 inches 
below the line of sight at 100 yards,” for, 
says the author, “the highest point of the 
200 yard trajectory is approximately 21 
inches, and that of the 100 yard trajectory 
is 5.8 inches.” We disagree with the au¬ 
thor in his statements; but to be correct, 
we wish you to prove that the statement is 
either correct or incorrect. 
Ans.—It is such erroneous statements that 
leads one on the wrong road, hindering 
progress and leads to many misses. 
Assuming that the highest points of the 
100 yard and of the 200 yard trajectories 
are approximately correct, the bullet will 
drop below the point aimed at just 4 times 
the height of the trajectory, which will be 
approximately 84 inches at 200 yards, and 
23 inches at 100 yards. The solution is as 
follows: the distance (in feet) a body 
falls in a vacuum equals 16 (exactly 16.08) 
times the square of the time of falling, 
and is expressed thus D (in feet) = 16.08 
X T 2 . This formula is applicable to bul¬ 
lets not falling any great distance. It takes 
the bullet ]/ 2 of its time of flight over a 
range to rise to the highest point of its 
trajectory and of that time to fall to 
the line of sight. The highest point of 
the trajectory (in feet) equals, then, to 
16.08 X (H of T) 2 = 16.08 X ^4 T 2 = 4.02 
T 2 or simply multiply the time squared by 
4.02. To illustrate, the time of flight of the 
30-40 over 500 yards is .101 seconds, the 
highest point of its 500 yard trajectory 
equals 4.02 X .101 X ioi=:4.i ft. With 
sights at zero, the bullet drops the entire 
time while passing over the range. The 
distance it drops, then, equals 16.08 times 
the square of its time of flight = 16.08 X 
T ! =14 X (4.02 T 2 ), but (4.02 T 2 ) equals 
the height of the trajectory, as seen above; 
hence the distance the bullet falls equals 4 
times the height of its trajectory over the 
same range. 
C. M. Y., New York City: 
Where can I obtain information about 
the manufacture, operation and efficiency of 
the best known types of machine guns? 
Ans.—The book of the Machine Gun, by 
Longstaff and Alleridge, is generally re¬ 
garded as an authority on the subject. , 
M. L. D., Cleveland, Ohio: 
In your December number of Forest and 
Stream , page 634, C. C. DeHart writes 
regarding .30-20 latest model Smith and 
Wesson six shot revolver as the very last 
word in revolver perfection. Dealers here 
seem not to know about this gun. Can you 
tell me where a new or used (if in new 
condition) revolver of this model can be 
bought and the cost? ij 
Ans.—There is no revolver of the cali¬ 
ber mentioned. Lhidoubtedly the writer in 
question had reference to the .32-20, which, 
