owing to its low cost may be shot free- 
ly without noticing the expense. For 
this reason it is a favorite with many 
outers for summer use, since at that 
season of the year game may not be 
legally killed and most of the shooting 
consists of target practice. The Short 
will give fine results up to 50 yards 
and will make splendid groups at 100 
yards under favorable conditions. 
This cartridge may be used in most 
repeaters chambered for the Long-rifle. 
In such guns it will give good results, 
but the chamber must be kept clean so 
it will not pit and rust, making the 
fired Long-rifle shells extract with diffi- 
culty. 
For both game and target work the 
Long-rifle is the best of the .22-caliber 
clan. Witha bullet weight of 40 grains, 
a muzzle energy of 100-foot pounds and 
a muzzle velocity of 1,070-foot seconds, 
it is unsurpassed for accuracy and is 
powerful enough for all small game up 
to 100 yards. Even in the common run 
of light-weight repeating and single 
rifles it will shoot better than you can 
hold, and when used in the heavy- 
weight target arms you have a hair- 
splitter. For target work the regular 
solid-nose bullets are best, but for game 
shooting by all means use the hollow 
points. 
The .22 Automatic cartridge is O. K. 
for the summer outing and will afford 
a world of pleasure. At close range 
they will be found very accurate, but 
at the longer distances they will not 
show the extreme accuracy of either 
the Short or the Long-rifle. But for all 
practical purposes these cartridges will 
give good results, and, being supplied 
in smokeless powder only, are very clean 
to use. But the bore must be kept very 
clean by the use of a good nitro solvent, 
or rusting and pitting and a ruined 
barrel will result. However, the great- 
est objection to the special Automatic 
cartridges is the price. They deplete 
the pocketbook quickly and surely, but 
aside from this they are O. K. While 
the bullets of these cartridges are hard 
and are not supposed to flatten much 
when connecting with game, still for 
reasons I do not try to explain, I have 
found them the equal of the Long-rifle 
in smashing effect and killing power. 
The bullet weight is 45 grains; muzzle 
velocity, 908.44-foot seconds, and the 
muzzle energy 82.49-foot pounds. 
‘THE .22 Special is the most powerful 
of the rim-fire cartridge family. 
Loaded with a 45-grain bullet it gives 
a muzzle velocity of 1,118-foot seconds 
and a muzzle energy of 125.04-foot 
pounds. In the matter of expense it 
is in the same class as the Automatic 
cartridge, but having an inside lubri- 
cated bullet it may, like the Automatic 
cartridge with greaseless bullet, be car- 
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