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identify you. 
block shoot helped to drive home to 
hundreds of people the unmistakable 
fact that the one easy and certain way 
to increase the density of patterns at 
the shorter ranges is to use smaller 
shot. A 50% gun will shoot just as 
dense — and sometimes more even pat- 
terns with 8’s as a 70% gun will with 
7’s. Not everyone knows this offhand, 
because if they did, more people would 
use 714’s or 8’s for close-range shoot- 
ing on practically all small game. They 
would kill cleaner and avoid a great 
many mangled birds and rabbits. 
Practically all shell manufacturers 
publish lists of the preferred shot sizes 
to use for all average game shooting. 
For the average purpose they cannot 
be excelled, but there are special con- 
ditions and purposes where a variation 
from the usual practices is often an 
advantage. 
A GOOD many people know that the 
3-dram 1%-ounce of 6’s is the big 
seller among hunters. And it is likely 
to remain so. It is the standard rabbit 
load—and rabbits are the most widely 
hunted variety of game, particularly 
where quail are shot out. This load is 
also a good squirrel and grouse load. 
It is a good duck load, too, for ordinary 
decoy and puddle shooting. And in 
addition, it just suits the thousands of 
cheap single- barreled guns that are 
used by a large proportion of the com- 
ing generation and by many farmers 
and others who are hunters but not 
gun cranks. 
For ordinary rabbit shooting with 
dogs this is a good load, but a faster 
load with larger shot is often useful for 
long chances across hollows, etc., espe- 
cially when shooting in rather open 
country with fast dogs. 
But there is another type of rabbit 
hunter to whom this load is nct ex- 
actly adapted. He is the chap who 
seldom, if ever, hunts with a rabbit 
dog. He is very frequently a bird 
hunter of sorts, who seldom hesitates 
to take a crack at every rabbit he 
jumps. 
This man must, of necessity, hunt 
the bush and briar patches a good deal. 
A shot size like 7% will be just what 
he needs for quail, grouse and rabbits. 
Practically all his rabbits are shot at 
unexpectedly and at close range. He 
is usually shooting a rather open- 
bored gun. He needs patterns, but he 
not only does not need, but he should 
not have excessive tearing power, be- 
cause cottontails are easily blown to 
pieces inside of 15 or 20 yards. And 
10 to 25 yards are the ranges between 
which he will kill 90% of the rabbits he 
hits. A 3-dram or 24-grain and 1% 
ounces of 7% chilled is just the ticket 
for such shooting, and I very much- 
prefer it for this kind of hunting to 
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