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over-fed egotist who is too cowardly to 
fight and too lazy to llearn how. 
“The man who refuses to shoot at a mark 
is the man who dares not put his skill to 
the acid test in the presence of witnesses. 
Only a few minutes ago you boasted to 
dropping deer on the run at five hundred 
yards and killing bear at twice that dis¬ 
tance from the standing, offhand, position; 
feats that every experienced rifleman know 
to be humanly impossible; yet now you 
refuse to shoot at a mark fifty yards away. 
Oscar, you are a false alarm.” 
For a moment I thought he was going 
to hit me, but I was doomed to disappoint¬ 
ment and everyone began to laugh. “Brag 
is a good dog,” but never take him to the 
rifle range, he is liable to cause you seri¬ 
ous annoyance. 
A RECREATION RIFLE CLUB 
T HE town of Flint, Michigan, is one of 
the first to boast a Recreation Rifle 
Club among the young men and women 
factory workers. The objects of the club 
are: To promote the art of shooting with 
a twenty-two caliber rifle, to study the 
progress of gun and ammunition manu¬ 
facture, to keep in touch with similar or¬ 
ganizations, to exert an influence toward 
the protection and propagation of game, 
and especially, to provide the means for 
clean, healthful, outdoor recreation for 
busy men and women. 
Any twenty-two caliber rifle, either sin¬ 
gle shot or repeating, may be used at the 
club shoots, the repeating rifle to be used 
as a single shot. The half-inch target is 
used and the latest rifle association per¬ 
centage system has been adopted in scor¬ 
ing, ' thus giving the poorest shooter an 
interest and a chance at winning the 
prizes donated by various organizations. 
E. W. W„ Ill.: 
I have an old rifle. Know nothing 
about its history; I found it. I think it 
is quite a relic, and would like to get the 
history of this gun. 
It has barrel, 33 inches, round; bore 
size of 14-gauge shot gun; brass butt 
plate, brass trigger guard, brass patch 
box; hammer and tube gone; front action 
lock. Would like to know, has this rifle 
been bored out? What size ball did it 
shoot? Did it fire with a cap? Stamped 
on the lock plate, Harpers Ferry, U. S., 
1816. Please give me data on this rifle, 
if you can. 
Ans.—This item is of but little interest, 
for all alterations of military arms save 
those made under government direction 
have the effect of destroying identity. 
The gun described was originally a short, 
heavy rifle, with a flint action, 33-inch 
round barrel—calibre 54. The percussion 
system did not lead to the making of any 
arms by the government arsenals until 
the year 1844, during the late “forties”— 
and early “fifties”—a great many rifles of 
above pattern were made, brass trimmed, 
most of them designed for use by rifle 
companies, carried no bayonet; those 
made in the fifties were adapted to take 
a sabre bayonet, in imitation of those 
used by Zouave regiments in the French 
army. When the Civil War broke out 
numbers of these rifles equipped with 
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