adzing that we were wasting shells I 
shouted to Wells that we must make 
the shore opposite from where our game 
was. It took us a very short time to 
land and once on terra firma we started 
a regular bombardment. 
At my third ^hot one of the bears 
dropped and another that had been 
standing directly behind it started off 
dragging a hind leg. The one bear 
had been standing with his shoulder 
directly in front of the other’s hip and 
a fragment of the bullet had gone 
through and crippled the second one. 
The seventh shot I fired the crippled 
one dropped for good. Wells fired thir¬ 
teen times altogether, but his heavy 
bullets dropped so much that he was 
unable to score a single hit. He was 
every bit as good with a rifle as the 
writer, my success being due to the 
superiority of the .280 over such ex 
treme ranges. The curious part of this 
incident was that the first bear I 
had dropped, and which we naturally 
thought dead, got up while we were 
crossing the river and slid, tumbled 
and rolled clear to the bottom of the 
hill before we got there. 
We were obliged to lay over at the 
Lynx Creek cabin a few days and dry 
the bear hides, as they were quite too 
heavy to encumber ourselves with. A 
green bear hide will make a load for 
a strong man, but I have personally 
carried eight of them at once after 
they were dried, and found them not 
so heavy as cumbersome. After tak¬ 
ing stock of our catch that particular 
time, we saw that if we were to take 
advantage of the fact that we were 
allowed to trap beavers that spring 
we would have to do better than we 
had been. We had prospected quite a 
bit of country and found most of it 
void of beavers in any quantity. There 
was but one place left that I really 
had any hope in—that was the Otter 
Creek country, some miles north of 
where we had crossed it in coming 
from Mile 27. 
"We made a trip up to the Cabin at 
the head of Lynx Creek, gathered all 
the grub we had left and then, instead 
of going south struck directly east up a 
small stream that flowed into Lynx 
Creek. We soon came to a nice family 
of beavers, and while trapping and 
shooting them lived mostly on trout 
caught from this small stream. One 
could have caught hundreds of them in 
a single day and Wells vowed that he 
had never been partner in such sport. 
After camping there for a couple of 
nights we moved on over the divide to¬ 
ward Otter Creek and incidentally came 
very near getting lost in the fastness 
of the heavy spruce forests that lay in 
that part of the country. Finally we 
came to the west fork of Otter Creek, 
and this being the branch we intended 
trapping, started upstream. Before 
How the facts about Powder were discovered 
This is the Remington Ballistic Chronograph. It is accurate to the 
hre'\ hOUSan i dth ? art . of 3 second As the shot leaves the muzzle it 
breaks an electric circuit. When it strikes the , U 
second circuit. Thisrecords the time it took the shot fo travel from 
muzzle to target-indicating the velocity of the powder charge. 
The new Remington Game Loads 
are the result of Important 
Discoveries about Powder 
ABOUT two years ago we 
carried out a number 
of tests on loaded shells at 
our Bridgeport ballistic 
laboratories. 
When the job was fin¬ 
ished here’s what we had 
found out: 
A ~A given weight of the same 
kind of powder doesn’t always 
give the same velocity, pattern 
or penetration. 
B —Powder varies batch by 
batch—even the same kind and 
make. One batch, for instance, 
gives a velocity of 925 feet per 
second. Another may fall as 
low as 840 feet per second. 
C—This is nobody’s fault. Pow¬ 
der comes that way. 
^ The man who buys his 
shells by the weight and kind 
of powder, often misses a lot 
of game, and never knows why. 
Once Remington found out 
these facts, the next thing 
was to produce shells of 
uniform shooting quality. 
They created the New 
Remington Game Loads. 
Remington Game Loads 
are loaded for one specific 
purpose— to get the game. 
Each Game Load is guar¬ 
anteed by Remington to give 
you the safe and uniform 
velocity, pattern and pen¬ 
etration for the game for 
which the shell is loaded. 
As Remington sees it—to give 
you these uniform results is Rem¬ 
ington’s job, regardless of varia¬ 
tions in the powder. 
You can be sure that you will 
get the finest American Pow¬ 
ders in Remington Game Loads. 
And you will get exactly the right 
quantity of powder to give you 
uniform shooting quality. Pow¬ 
der varies — Remington Game 
Goads do not. 
REMINGTON ARMS COMPANY, Inc. 
25 Broadway, New York 
Established 1816 
THE. AUTHORITY in FIRE ARMS,. AMMUNITION and CUTLERY 
it 
NOTE: Remington Game 
Loads are loaded exclusive¬ 
ly in Remington “Nitro 
Club” Wetproof Shells. 
W etproof means just what 
it says. 
Write for Booklet A -‘‘The Complete 
Story of Remington Game Loads.” 
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