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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[FEB. 17, 1900. 



5152 STRAIGHT 
STATE OF NEBRASKA, ]/ 
County OF LANCASTER. § 
without a single misfire: 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th day of December, 1905. 
Capt. Hardy making his wonderful record of 5152 straight. 
That we were present during the entire performance. J. 
Capt. A. H. Hardy, expert Rifle Shot, has for some time 
been convinced that with PETERS CARTRIDGES, he 
could surpass all previous records in wooden disc or wooden 
ball shooting. Business engagements prevented his making 
the attempt until late in December, when he had a day or 
two at his disposal, and determined to prove his conviction. 
How well he succeeded is shown by the following affidavit: 
We, the undersigned, being duly swurn, upon our oath say: 
That on December 23rd and 24th, 1905, Capt. A. H. Hardy, of Lincoln, Nebraska, hit 
without a miss FIVE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO consecutive 
wooden balls, thrown into the air to a height of about twenty feet: 
That said balls were two and one half inches in diameter: 
That said bails were thrown at a twenty-five foot rise: 
That but one rifle was used and it was not cleaned during the entire performance: 
That Peters .22 Short Semi-Smokeless Cartridges were used throughout 
F. SIMPSON, 
C.F, SERERZ 
E.)] SORIBER DR, 
HaveLock, Nes. 
F. L. SUMPTER, Notary Pub’ic. 
THIS MARVELOUS SHOOTING WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE WITH ANY OTHER THAN 
PETERS CARTRIDGES. 

MY SIXTY YEARS ON THE PLAINS 
Sixty-three years ago “Bill’ Hamilton, then 
twenty years of age, set out from St. Louis, Mo., 
with seven other free trappers under the leader- 
ship of old “Bill” Williams. Seven of these 
eight men are dead, but Hamilton still lives in 
Montana and still sets his traps. He has written 
the story of his early trapping days, and the book 
has just been published. “My Sixty Years on the 
Plains” tells of trapping, trading, Indian fighting, 
hunting, and all the many and varied incidents of 
the trapper’s life. It is. full of adventure and ex- 
citement, but the story is told modestly, and 
there is nothing in it that is lurid. Amid much 
fighting, there is nothing that can be called 
“blood and thunder,” but there is much that is 
history. 
The book has all the charm of the old volumes 
telling of early travel in the West; books which 
were simple and direct, and in which there was 
no striving for effect. 
It is illustrated by a portrait of the author 
and one of the celebrated Chief Washaki, and 
by six drawings of old-time trapper and Indian 
life, by Mr. Charles M. Russell, the celebrated 
cowboy artist of Great Falls, Mont. 
223 pages, cloth, illustrated. Price, $1.50. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO., NEW YORK. 





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