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Choosing the Gun and Load 
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may have a hundred shots at squirrels, 
woodchucks, coyotes, or vermin, for 
every shot at a deer. An occasional 
miss seldom is expensive, and is of little 
consequence in comparison to the 
opportunity to shoot frequently at low 
cost. The backwoodsman is nearly al- 
ways a far better hunter, a better game 
shot, a better estimator of distance in 
the woods, and a better tracker of 
wounded game than the city sportsman. 
He will get more shots because he sees 
more game to shoot at, and that because 
he has a woodsman’s eyes instead of 
the eyes of an indoor worker. He is in 
far better condition to use a light 
caliber or a weak cartridge effectively 
than the man whose training has been 
different. 
The reason why so many backwoods 
hunters still use the .30-30, the .25-35, 
.25 Rimless and the .32 Special; the 
.38-40, or the .44-40, is because they 
find them sufficiently deadly for the 
short range woods shooting to which 
they are accustomed. Besides, none of 
these rifles is hard to clean, the car- 
tridges may be obtained practically any- 
where. The calibers fit the needs and 
the pocketbook of the shooter. A look 
over the following list will give a good 
idea of how different cartridges com- 
pare in cost. The prices are list, but 
are used because retail prices vary so 
greatly and the list prices give a better 
idea of the relative differences in price 
between the different cartridges com- 
monly used for big game shooting. 
$28 to $42 per 1,000 
.25-20, .32-20, .38-40, .44-40, 
classes. 
About $62 per 1,000 
.32-40 low power smokeless, .38-55 
black, .25-35, -.25 Rem., 351 
W.C.F., .25-86 Marlin. 
all 
Tt will identify you. 
$72 per 1,000 
.30-30, .30 Rem., .22 H.P., .303 Sav- 
age, .382 Special, .32-40 High 
Power. 
$80 per 1,000 
.250-3000 Savage, .35 Auto, .45-70 
H.V., .401 self-loading. 
$90-$94 per 1,000 
.30-40 Krag, 8 M. M.. Mauser, 7 
M. M. Mauser, 6.5 M. M. Mann- 
licher, 6 M. M. Lee, .88 W.C.F., 
.300 Savage, .303 British, regular. 
$104 per 1,000 
.30-1906 all hunting loads, .35 
W.C.F., 9 M. M. Mauser and 
Mannlicher, .256 Newton, and 
.303 British Spitzer. 
$114 per 1,000 
.405 W.C.F. 
A glance at this list will make it 
obvious why the .25-20, .32-40, .44-40, 
.25-35, .380-30, .80 Remington, .32 
Special, etc., are popular, and why 
they will continue to be so with the 
average hunter who is not a military 
target shot, a member of the N. R. A., 
or a reloading nut. 
In selecting the caliber of rifle, 
therefore, it is undoubtedly the best of 
judgment to decide about what caliber 
will cover all of your shooting to the 
best possible advantage; will be 
neither too powerful, too weak, too 
expensive, or too short-ranged to take 
care of the average shot to best ad- 
vantage. Then choose what you be- 
lieve is the most accurate, easily ob- 
tained, and most suitable cartridge in 
that price class. 
MEMBER of the N. R. A. who 
does a large proportion of mili- 
tary target shooting, for which he 
would probably use cheap government 
issue or special match ammunition, 
and for which he would likely reload 
considerably would be foolish to buy 
anything but a .30-1906. 
A trapper who never uses anything 
but factory ammunition and needs 
nothing but a light rifle of moderate 
power would be far better off with a 
.25-20, or a .25-35; or a .380-30 and a 
.22 pistol. The .30-1906, or .280 Ross 
would be nothing short of a white 
elephant for such a purpose because 
it would be both too expensive to 
shoot, and too hard to keep free from 
metal fouling. Besides it would be 
too powerful for most purposes and 
would make entirely too much noise 
when noise was by no means desired. 
Cartridges like the .22 long rifle, 
.25-20, .44-40, .25-35, .30-30, .80 Rem- 
ington, .250-3000, or .382 Special, and 
the .30-1906 in certain loads stand out 
from some of the others because they 
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