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FOREST AND STREAM 
October, 1918 
“Point!” 
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your appetite. 
It’s packed in your jar of 
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Pry the cover off the jar, cut a 
few good-sized slices of bread — 
then spread them thick with the 
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That’s the reason for its popu¬ 
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sport. Beech-Nut methods take 
care to retain all the natural 
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Order Beech-Nut Peanut But¬ 
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“Foods of Finest Flavor ” 
Maine Hunting Shoe 
Light as a moccasin (only 
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Price: 5-inch. $4.00; 8- 
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L. L. BEAN 
Mfr. 
Freeport 
Maine 
PHILIPS TRIES IT OUT 
By CAPTAIN ROY S. TINNEY 
HILIPS wrote to me: 
Dear Fellow Sportsman— 
Your most interesting articles in 
Forest and Stream are being read most 
eagerly by the writer as soon as this in¬ 
teresting magazine reaches us, and as a 
consequence we feel like expressing to you 
our thanks for adding considerably to our 
scanty fund of knowledge respecting tar¬ 
get work under military conditions. We 
have never fired a service rifle of the pres¬ 
ent type, but we love a gun of any type. 
Our present armament con¬ 
sists of a 12 gauge “George 
Heslop,” English double-bar¬ 
rel, the first breech-loader that 
was ever brought into our 
neighborhood, some 39 years 
ago; a fine quail and rabbit 
gun yet, and in good service¬ 
able condition. Next comes a 
No. 2 Krupp Ithaca hammer¬ 
less 20 gauge. Lyman sights 
on 26" full choked barrels and 
a Silvers pad on a 2 * 4 " x 14" 
stock seems to fit it up just 
right for us. It seems to be 
giving our fast disappearing 
small game a fairer chance for 
its life to use a full choked 
“20” that causes very little 
crippling than to carry a “can¬ 
non” which leaves no excuse 
for a miss. To use the ex¬ 
pression of one of our friends 
who owns one of them, “We 
would not trade it off for a 
better gun.” 
Coming down to the grooved 
barrels, an old, hair trigger 
“squirrel-rifle” is next on the 
list. Full stocked; moulds run 
“60 balls to the pound,” a fa¬ 
vorite size around here fifty 
years ago, low set of open 
sights and weight about II 
pounds. Muzzle loader, of course. 
A well worn .22 Winchester bolt-action 
goes down here as “one of our guns.” Our 
son, Vernon, thinks it quite a gun and. 
though not very old yet, he takes heavy 
toll among the English sparrows with it. 
J UST here let me say that we restored 
accuracy to a badly loaded barrel by 
washing it in boiling water until the 
barrel was so hot that gloves were worn 
to avoid burned hands. The sudden ex¬ 
pansion seems to force the lead away from 
the steel and permits the surprised and de¬ 
lighted gun crank to attend church the 
following Sunday in a worshipful frame 
of mind. This is probably well known to 
you, but it may help some of the boys to 
get service out of a badly leaded barrel. 
Our house gun for the “gudewife” is a 
Smith and Wesson .32 long, 4%" barrel, 
with a pair of birds-eye maple target grips 
designed and made by the writer to just fit 
our hand. Mrs. P- likes it and can 
shoot some too. 
Last of all we come to our favorite. A 
Stevens 10" Pistol chambered for the .22 
long rifle cartridge, with a detachable 
shoulder stock. Globe and peep sights and 
a fine trigger-pull make fair work possible 
on small game and target work. This is 
the gun we used this evening at 7130 on 
your Hun target at i2 l / 2 yards. We fired 
forty shots, all of which are registered on 
the target, though they are not nearly all 
S’s. Honest, brother, do you not think 1 
those i’s and that low 3 look rotten? We 
made no attempt to count this score as we , 
were only at the target twice during the ; 
firing. We have a good chance to get a 
crack at a real Hun if Uncle Sammie does 
not think our family is too large to sup- . 
port in case we “go west” over there. We 
will try to learn to use the service shoot¬ 
ing-iron even at 39 years of age, and with 
five boys, one of whom is in the service, 
however, if our government thinks our 
serices are needed or may be used to ad¬ 
vantage. 
To this end, Captain Tinney, if you will 
please send us a few of those Hun targets, 
as you so kindly offer to do in Forest and 
Target made by Guy M. Philips, Library, Pa. 40 con¬ 
secutive shots at 1254 yards (=100 yards on the full 
sized target). No sighting shots. Score, 165 x 200. 
33 hits out of 40 rounds. (Note that 6 of the 7 
misses are high and aptly illustrate the very tendency 
the target is designed to overcome.) 
