Motoring to the Indian Pageant 
at Bayfield, Wis. 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
An interesting trip for the motor 
tourist this summer will be motor 
camping to the top of Wisconsin, enter- 
ing at Beloit on highway 13 at the 
southern border of the state, traveling 
north, visiting the Dells of the Wis- 
consin River at Kilbourne, Copper Falls 
of the Bad River at Mellon, and around 
Chequamegon Bay through Ashland, 
Washburn and Bayfield on highway 13, 
and north four miles to Indian Pageant 
Park, where, August 2 to 16, the 
Apostle Islands Indian Pageant is held. 
The two days presentations (repeated 
eight times) depict the Chippewa In- 
-dians—the original inhabitants of the 
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Great Lakes Basin, in their life story 
before and after the coming of the 
white man. More than 300 Indians and 
a hundred whites take part in the 
pageant. The scene is set in a natural 
amphitheatre and the spectator sits on 
the hillside overlooking Chequamegon 
Bay (as it meets Lake Superior) and 
the famous Apostle Islands which tra- 
dition calls the birthplace of the Chip- 
pewas. 
The summer pageant visitor feels a 
dramatic spirit of reality. He is asa 
voyageur among voyageurs; a priest 
among missioners; a fur trader in a 
fur-laden country. He hears the war- 
cry as the Indians peep over the hill- 
top and feels a shudder of horror as 
his forefathers must have experienced 
three hundred years ago on that same 
ground. 
Wisconsin gravel highways, with 
motor camping all along the way, be- 
sides her woods and lakes, offer an ideal 
vacation, and with added educational 
value of an historical pageant of the 
Chippewa Indians—at the very spot 
on the shore of Chequamegon Bay 
where the white men landed three 
hundred years ago, and overlooking 
Madeleine, the largest of the Apostle 
Islands, which tradition calls the birth- 
place of the Chippewas—interest the 
whole family. 
From the south, Wisconsin highway 
10 or 18 cross the state to Bayfield. 
On the western side, highways 11 and 
35 intersect 14 and 16 from the Twin 
Cities. 
We'll meet you August 2 to 16 at 
Bayfield at the Top O’ Wisconsin—they 
say the cream is always at the top, 
you know! 
VERA BRADY SHIPMAN, 
Bayfield, Wis. 
The 20-Gauge Gun 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
Fey ING just read an article on the 
20-gauge gun by Mr. G. R. Mc- 
Vicker, in the June issue, and to help 
a good cause along, I will give my 
experience in the field with the 20- 
gauge. I have used the 20 with perfect 
satisfacion on ducks, snipe, woodcock, 
rabbit, pheasant, and have brought 
down raccoon and squirrel from very 
high trees in a satisfactory manner. 
I will not hesitate to recommend heart- 
ily the 20-gauge for all kinds of small 
game. 
In my experience I have found that 
the 28-inch barrel is the most satisfac- 
tory, at least if you can only have one 
barrel or one pair of barrels; however, 
I give due credit to the 26-inch barrel, 
but if I were getting a 20-gauge it 
would have a 28-inch barrel, as I have 
found the 28-inch the most satisfactory 
for all-round use. If you care to buy 
an extra barrel, then I would recom- 
mend one barrel of 26-inch length modi- 
fied choke, and one barrel of 30- or 32- 
inch length full choke. 
I have found the 20-gauge shell load- 
ed with 2% drams of powder in the 
234-inch case very effective on game. 
Some sportsmen argue that this charge 
does not make an even _ pattern, 
but I don’t care what their argument 
is, I certainly have proven to myself 
that the 2%-inch shell is a game getter. 
I have used on game the Winchester, 
Remington, L. C. Smith, A. H. Fox, 
Ithaca, Parker, and Iver Johnson 20- 
eauge guns and found them all satis- 
factory. However, in the Winchester 
you cannot use the 2%-inch shell be- 
cause the action is too short for it. 
The Winchester barrel is all right, but 
its action is not made long enough to 
meet my fancy. I wrote the Winchester 
Company about getting a longer action, 
but in their reply they sent me litera- 
ture about the irregular pattern of the 
2%4-inch shell. I would rather, on a 
long shot at least, hit the game with 
a half dozen large shot driven at a high 
velocity from a 2%-inch shell, than to 
spray the game with twenty shots in 
an even pattern from a 2%-inch shell 

We publish this photo just to remind you it’s not always hot. 
and have the game get away. In these 
times of the extreme scarcity of game 
one or two long shots a day is some- 
times the only chance of bagging any 
game. 
If I were buying a gun for goose and 
duck shooting, it would be a 10- or 12- 
gauge weighing from eight to ten 
pounds, and if buying a gun for any 
other small game, it would be a 20- 
gauge weighing six pounds or less. I 
do not care for the 16-gauge, as to me 
it is the unhappy medium, and in any 
company you will find the 16-gauge 
outnumbered two to one by the 20- 
gauge. In my experiences I have found 
that some makes of 20-gauge guns 
shoot closer in their full choke barrel 
than other makes. My advice is to buy 
the closest shooting gun, which can be 
determined by the score marked on 
the tag. I also regret to state that a 
good many guns which in years gone 
by were made so that reamer marks 
could not be detected inside the barrels, 
are put out to-day looking as if the 
grinding or polishing machines had a 
leave of absence; also in the older guns 
the breech and muzzle were polished 
and ground even. However, at the 
present time the new guns (in some 
makes) have uneven muzzles, and 
where the barrels meet the breech there 
is every evidence of high speed produc- 
tion coupled with carelessness or over- 
sight. 
E. D. ARBOGAST, 
Toledo, Ohio. 
Note 
Due to a delay in obtaining suitable 
illustrations for the next instalment of 
the 410 Bore article, we have omitted 
it from this issue. Dr. Vance, the 
author of the series, is now working 
on additional material and we expect 
to resume publication of the articles 
starting with the September number. 
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