ITHACA 
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Single Barrel trap guns $100. to $700. 
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ITHACA GUN CO. 
BOX 25 ITHACA,N.Y. 
Davis HY-POWER chambered for 3” shells, kills 
ducks at 80 yds. Made in 12 gauge only, 30 and 
32” barrels. Price $35.00. 
Davis PREMIER made in 12-16 as a gauge. 
26-28-30-32 inch barrels, Price $30. 
Davis MAXIMIM, specially built. Aa 
choked for short range brush shooting. 
Target 70% at 35 yds. 12 ga.-24 
in. barrels, 16 ga.-22 in. barrels, 
20 ga.-20 in. barrels. Record of 
21 successive wing shots and 
21 killings have been made 
with one ° these guns. 
Price $30.0 
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were established in 1853 by N. R. Davis 
und are going stronger than ever in 1925, 
This 72 years of service and durability 
should mean something to every gun buyer, 
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90 Chambers Street, New York 
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In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream, 
observe the golden rule better than most 
humans. Outlaws and cranks are found 
among animals the same as humans, 
but I believe they are fewer among the 
animals. 
The Ansgler’s Page 
(Continued from page 458) 
turned by means of a powerful coil 
spring. When line is withdrawn from 
the reel, this spring is wound; then by 
touching a lever which lies down along 
the rod grip and is regulated by pres- 
sure of the little finger, the spring un- 
coils, causes the spool to turn and the 
line to be retrieved. The pulling 
power of the spring is but slight, and 
serves to take in slack line only, not 
being sufficiently strong to pull in a 
fish. There is really nothing unsports- 
manlike about a reel of this type, be- 
cause the reel merely does automati- 
cally what the angler does by using 
the handle of the plain reel-winds in 
the line. The greatest objection to the 
automatic reel is its undue weight, 
bulkiness and delicacy of mechanism. 
Salt-water reels are made from the 
same materials as fresh-water reels; 
most of them have side plates of black 
vuleanized rubber, and bands, reel- 
base, and other fittings of German sil- 
ver. They are double multipliers. They 
may be obtained in all grades and for 
all purposes from the cheap nickel- 
plated affair, used for catching 
flounders, to the elaborate 9/0 B/ocean 
reel, with numerous brakes and gears, 
employed in the taking of marlin 
swordfish and tuna. 
Surf-casting reels correspond some- 
what to bait-casting reels used in 
fresh water, in that they have a long 
low spool, providing ample room for 
thumbing. They are equipped with a 
throw-off mechanism which makes 
them free spool during the cast. A 
surf reel usually has a capacity of 
about two hundred yards of linen line 
INO OlEL Ds 
Salt-water reels used for the heavier 
forms of angling, such as tarpon and 
tuna fishing, are equipped with a drag 
in order to give the hooked fish a re- 
sistance to play against. These drags 
are so arranged that when the line is 
pulled away from the reel, the spool 
revolves under a tension and the han- 
dle remains stationary. This latter 
feature saves the angler’s fingers; 
many times knuckles are skinned or 
fingers even broken by an attempt to 
catch a spinning crank shaft on a reel 
without a drag, when a heavy fish is 
making a rush.. 
The finest reels made for salt-water 
game fishing are of the B/ocean type 
formerly mentioned. The drag is built 
into this reel, and is regulated by 
means of a star-shaped pilot wheel on 
| the crank shaft. By turning this wheel 
Tt will 
slightly, the pressure may be increased 
or lessened, and as the handle cannot 
go backwards, the fish may virtually 
be played, when running, by manipu-— 
lating the wheel. These reels are made 
in all sizes from 2/0, used for bone 
fish, Spanish mackerel, sea trout, etc., 
to 9/0 used for the largest species of 
salt-water game fishes. The 9/0 reel 
will hold 300 yards of No. 30 linen line, 
Wooden reels are frequently used by 
salt-water fishermen, seeking the com- 
moner species of fish. They are quite 
popular with pier and bank fishermen. 
They are usually four and a half, five, 
six or seven inches in diameter, are 
narrow, and have a double handle. 
Some of them are equipped with ball 
bearings. Their large diameter makes 
reeling in a large fish, plus a quantity 
of lead, a comparatively simple, though 
sportless task. 
The Big Muskie of French 
River 
(Continued from page 466) 
through such disgrace? Perhaps I’d 
leap in after him and be lost, too. 
UT suddenly he grows more docile, 
and hope springs within me once 
more, 
I know now that I shall land him. I 
work away at my reel till my fingers 
ache and every moment brings him a 
little nearer. He is fairly close to the 
boat now. Oh, what a beauty he is! 
Thirty pounds at least, perhaps more. 
But the snarp eye of the Indian sees 
that he is hooked very lightly and that 
we must get him in at once before he 
breaks away. Husband and I have 
frantic visions of trying to lift into a 
canoe a flapping fish nearly half as 
long as itself. But Ojibways are wise 
in the lore of fishing, and Wilson 
paddles swiftly to the shore which is not 
a beach at all, but a great rock, slop- 
ing very gently down into the water. 
He leaps from the canoe and tells me to 
bring the fish alongside the rock. In 
clumsy fashion I reel him in, imploring 
him not to run away and spoil every- 
thing. As the great creature flashes 
past the rock the Indian leans over and 
with one stroke of his unerring paddle 
cleaves his back-bone in exactly the 
right place, just behind the head, then 
draws him up the sloping rock where he 
lies in all the glory of his silver 
armor. 
Then what rejoicing is heard upon 
that rock beside the lonely river. Even 
the stolid Indian is moved, for the 
guides pride themselves upon the catch 
as much as the fishermen do. The metal 
tape line shows four feet four inches of 
beautiful fish, and he tips the scales at 
forty-seven pounds, six ounces. The 
world’s record for muskie caught with 
rod and reel is only two inches longer 
identify you. 
Visions of failure are gone, and © 
