, 
than three easy ones, but we do not 
call shooting a bird out of range, mak- 
ing a difficult shot. All sportsmen 
avoid, as far as possible, shooting at 
birds out of range, because such shoot- 
ing results in too many crippled birds 
under the best of circumstances. 

No. 8 chilled—35 yds.—18"-24” circles. 
Western 2%” cartridge. This pattern shows 
how close the gun may shoot at the extreme 
quail range of 35 yards. Number of pellets in 
18” circle, 99, or 61%—24” circle, 121, or 74%. 
This pattern is only 4% above the average in 
the 24” circle, but the 18” density is much above 
the average. 
With the 410, we have had as few 
cripples as with any gun we have 
ever used, and since the gun kills per- 
fectly to 31 or 32 yards, and.very 
well to 35 yards, it can well be seen 
that the gun in capable hands is far 
from a toy. We have tested the 410 
on all kinds of quail shooting from the 
easiest over dogs to the most difficult 
shooting in high wind and thick brush, 
and we have never yet ceased to be as- 
tounded at the effectiveness of this 
tiny gun on a quail. 
E shot on two occasions only, 
when quail were really abun- 
dant, and on both of those afternoons 

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No. 4 chilled—35 yds.—18"-24" circles. 
Western 21%4” cartridge. Number of pellets in 
18” circle is 46, or 72%—24” circle, 55 pellets, 
is 82%. This, and other No. 4 patterns, show 
well the tendency of these big pellets to give a 
killing center, and so kill ducks at astounding 
ranges for so tiny a gun. 
<p Fae 
a very high wind was blowing. On the 
first afternoon, December 17th, Mr. 
Sherrod and the writer began shoot- 
ing at 2.30 p. m., and both had the 
limit of 20 birds before sundown. Mr. 
Sherrod was using a 28 gauge, which 
he has shot with great satisfaction on 
all kinds of game for four years. 
Shooting two and one-half hours, the 
next afternoon, still in a high wind 
and just as many birds, Mr. Sherrod 
bagged his limit, while we killed only 
17, but our shooting was poor on that 
afternoon compared to the previous 
one. 
HROUGHOUT the season we aver- 
aged fully 40% kills of all chances 
offered, and on the whole the shooting 
of this little gun and its ammunition 
was so satisfactory that we have never 
had more sport and so easily stayed 
within the bag limit, as this past sea- 
son. We have our gun case full of 
guns; from 12 gauges to 410, and we 
doubt if we ever again use even so 
large a gun as a 28 gauge for quail 
shooting. 
If your game bag is limited to ten 
or a dozen quail, as it soon will be if 
it has not already been done, try one 
of these lovely little 410 guns and see 
if you do not get just as much sport 
and more real genuine pleasure out 
of killing the fewer number of birds, 
than ever you had from killing twenty 
or twenty-five birds with a twenty or 
larger gauge, just as the writer has 
done. 
Our duck and snipe shooting is no 
different from any other inland shoot- 
ing with the same amount of game to 
shoot at. Ducks are shot along the 
Rio Grande River, or on marshes in 
the irrigated valley. Wilson snipe, 
or jack snipe, are shot in the marshes 
and we have very few of these splendid 
game birds. Ducks have also been 
rather scarce since 1918, but were 
rather more plentiful this past fall 
than usual. We have all the ordinary 
varieties of ducks including a few can- 
vasbacks. 
CTOBER Ist is the opening day on 
ducks and snipe in southern New 
Mexico. Ducks were quite abundant on 
the opening day in 1924, so we decided 
this would be a good time to test the 
little 410 on these birds. Four of us 
went out on this occasion and two of us 
stopped in a little marsh of a few acres 
in extent, about half of which was open 
water and the other half grown up 
thick with patches of high tules (cat- 
tails) and open water between. Our 
other two friends went on up to an- 
other marsh about half a mile away. 
These tules grow six or seven feet 
high and make splendid natural blinds. 
Mr. Coles took the east side of the 
marsh and we took the west side, put- 
ting us about one hundred yards apart. 
We had scarcely gotten into our sta- 
tions in the tules—half an hour before 
sun-up—when firing began at a distant 
marsh, and soon ducks began to arrive 

No. 9 chilled—30 yds.—20” circles. 
W.. S. 2” brass cartridge, 
in 20” circle, 163, or 71%. 
Number of pellets 
—blue winged teal, pintails, spoonbills 
and mallards. It will be a long time 
before any of us forget the wonderful 
duck shooting we had that October 
morning. We had no decoys and we 
shot the ducks as they passed over or 
around us. No ducks were shot rising 
from the water, or when going to light 
—we did not have to that wonderful 
morning. We could choose almost any 
kind of shot we wished, and conditions 
could not have ben more favorable for 
trying the little 410. 
N the early morning light we shot 
rather badly, but as the light im- 
proved, our shooting became better and 
at 8 o’clock we picked up our twentieth 
duck—the New Mexico limit. We were 
shooting for experimental purposes 

No. 4 chilled—40 yds.—18"-24"-30” circles. 
Western 214” cartridge. Number of pellets in 
18” circle, 32, or 50%, and in the 30” circle, 50, 
or 78%. This pattern shows well how large 
ducks may be killed at even 40 yds. if hit center. 
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