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{hole in the skin. 
|authority on rifles will.say that any 
Small Bore High Power Rifles 
By BYRON E. COTTRELL 

in the October 
HAVE just read 
number of FOREST AND STREAM an 
unsigned letter entitled “Big-Game 
| Rifles,” to which I cannot refrain from 
making a reply. What the writer has 
to say in regard to the big-bore rifle is 
true, but what he says about the mod- 
ern small-bore, high-velocity rifle shows 
that he has had no experience at all 
with them, for what he says is far 
from the actual facts. 
The great trouble with a lot of our 
“knockers” is they know only one side 
of the question. They write the other 
side from ideas and imaginations of 
their own. If they would just tell the 
side they know and quit they would 
cease to be “knockers.” 
As for the all-around gun, I don’t 
know of any arms company trying to 
make one, but almost any of our 
high-power rifles of .30 caliber or less 
can be adapted to all kinds of rifle 
shooting, if the shooter wishes to take 
‘the trouble necessary to work out the 
/correct loads. 
I own but one gun, a Savage bolt 
action 250/3000. I use it for all kinds 
of hunting, and on the trap lines. It 
is as fine a squirrel rifle as I ever 
used. It will make a four-inch hole 
in a woodchuck, or nearly shoot the 
shoulder off a deer, or with my light- 
est load I can shoot a squirrel or a 
weasel and the holes in the stretched 
skin will be less than one-quarter inch 
in diameter. It has the finest accuracy 
with all the loads I use in it. For me 
it is an all-around rifle—for some one 
else it might not be. 
I will have to call the author of “Big- 
Game Rifles’ HE for lack of a better 
name. HE says the big bullet will 
make a big hole, which is true, and 
then he says, “If, on the other hand, 
the bullet had been small, no matter 
how fast it might be traveling, it would 
not make a large hole. True, the bullet 
itself might travel farther into the 
flesh, but—” 
Ye Gods and little fishes! Then the 
87 grain bullet of the Neidner Spring- 
field with a velocity of 3,300 feet per 
second must make a smcll hole! How 
do you do it! The last fex I shot with 
an 87 grain bullet at oniy 3,000 f. s. 
was docked $2.00 because of the BIG 
T believe that any 
Tt will identify you. 
form of expanding bullet, even as 
small as a .22 caliber going at a veloc- 
ity of over 2,000 f. s., will make a 
larger hole in flesh than a .45 or .50 
caliber bullet at a velocity of 1,200 or 
1,400 f. s., or even an ounce ball from 
-a 12-gauge shotgun, but the high speed 
bullet will not go as deep as the heavier 
bullets. Our friend has things slightly 
turned around! 
Even a full metal patched 250/3000 
or .30’06 bullet will often make a very 
large hole in small or medium sized 
game at fairly close range, at, say, 
50 to 100 yards, or even 150 yards. 
About the largest hole I ever saw put 
through a woodchuck was done with 
a .300 Savage, shooting a full patched 
bullet. The reason for this is quite 
generally believed to be caused by the 
bullet displacing the flesh so quickly 
that it gives enough velocity to drive it 
into and through the adjacent flesh, 
thus making the large hole. 
If I wanted to make the largest 
possible hole in an animal, regardless - 
of penetration, I would use the highest 
velocity cartridge I could get (.30’06 
with 110 grain bullet at 3,500 f. s. 
velocity for instance). 
In a recent account of his Tantet 
Major Townsend Whelen tells of shoot- 
ing a large bull caribou just back of 
the shoulders with a .30 caliber 180 
grain bullet at about 2,775 feet per 
second velocity. Where this bullet 
came out it made a hole 3 inches in 
diameter through the hide, and after 
skinning the hide back, the hole in the 
chest was large enough to put one’s 
head into! And no one ever heard of 
Maj. Whelen being accused of exagger- 
ating. Whatever he says is authentic. 
No big bore low velocity rifle would 
make a hole like that! 
One often reads where both the big 
bore and the small bore high velocity 
bullets fail to stop its game, and I am 
sorry to say I am afraid we always 
will, but it isn’t the fault of the rifle 
—not always. 
One could hardly help but agree with 
the saying, “Don’t send a boy to do 
a man’s work,’ but who would class 
such rifles as the .25 Neidner Spring- 
field, the modern 7 mm, the .300 Say- 
age and the .30’06 as boys, and then 
class the 45-90, 50-110, etc., as men? 
The old 45-70, 45-90, and 50-110 Win- 
chesters, Model 1886, were, and always 
will be, great killers, but they are use- 
ful only for short and medium ranges. 
No one ever heard me making fun of a 
fellow because he carried one of these 
rifles. What I don’t like is to hear either 
the big bore or hte small bore high- 
velocity rifles “raked over the coals” by 
a man who doesn’t know them. 
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