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In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
which is driven at the same velocity 
and does not tip or tumble after strik- 
ing. 
HE average .22 long rifle or .25-20 
low velocity hollow point bullet, when 
shot into the body cavity of a small ani- 
mal, is about three times as deadly as 
a solid bullet which makes the same 
kind of a hit. High-speed bullets show 
about an equal increase in killing 
power. The super speed bullet with a 
hollow point develops an explosive or 
disruptive action that bursts the walls 
of the abdominal organs and forces the 
liquid and semi-liquid contents of the 
body at high speed in every direction. 
An organ is therefore not only pene- 
trated by such a missile, but is ex- 
ploded and riddled. Its capacity for 
containing a fluid is completely de- 
stroyed in an instant. Shooting an ani- 
mal with such a missile is like deflat- 
ing a balloon or like exploding a fire- 
cracker in a water-filled sponge. Shoot 
a high velocity bullet through a can 
of tomatoes and you get the same effect. 
Spectators within fifty feet of the can 
get the tomatoes. The inevitable con- 
clusion, therefore, is that no high-speed 
bullet should be used on a small or me- 
dium sized animal unless it will expand 
prompty, easily, and very near the 
surface. Speed alone, unless it is 
higher than that developed by normal 
weight bullets of modern military car- 
tridges, is not enough to insure quick 
and certain: explosive effect on small 
or medium-sized animals. 
REAT energy is ineffective and 
useless unless it is stored up in a 
type of projectile which will change its 
form or direction upon impact with 
easily penetrated bodies. Energy must 
be dissipated in the body of the object 
hit or no appreciable nervous shock is 
imparted. 
Hollow point bullets travelling at 
1,000, 2,000, 2,500, 3,000 and 3,500 f.s. 
velocity develop far different disrup- 
tive or scattering effects. Old style, 
low velocity bullets penetrate. Super 
speed modern expanding and hollow 
point bullets practically revolve the ob- 
ject around the bullet. Centrifugal 
force scatters the liquid body content 
to the four winds. A modern rifle is 
no better than its bullet. Ballistic ta- 
bles which treat only of the weight and 
velocity of a bullet can never tell the 
whole story of killing power. 
IELD shooting, and plenty of it, is 
necessary before one can form an 
accurate estimate of the deadliness of a 
rifle and cartridge on game. It is use- 
less to ask whether the .30-1906 is 
more or less deadly than the .35 W.C.F. 
or the .32 auto loading unless the 
shooter states the specific types of bul- 
lets that will be used and the velocity 
at which they will be fired. A boxer 
can hit any number of different styles 
of blows. How effective each of them 
will be depends not only upon where 
they land, but upon the type of boxing 
glove he wears. The powder charge 
is the force behind the blow. The bul- 
let is the fist. It may be covered with 
a five-ounce glove, a three-ounce glove, 
a brass knuckle, or nothing at all. 
What happens when it lands depends 
upon how the energy of the moving fist 
is delivered upon the recipient. 
No one would expect to stage a prize 
fight between boxers, one of whom 
wears five-ounce gloves and the other 
of whom has a brass knuckle on his 
right and nothing but tape on his left. 
Do not, therefore, hope to obtain or 
give a very accurate comparison in kill- 
ing power between a .280 Ross with 
copper tube bullet, a .30-1906 with ser- 
vice load and a .45-70 with a lead ball. 
There is too much variation in projec- 
tiles. 
Kentucky Rifles 
(Continued from page 649) 
was named “Martha Washington.” Mr 
Tyrrell said that he was also influenced 
to name the gun in this manner because 
it “has such delicacy of grace, some of 
the eccentricities, and altogether the 
charm of a woman.” 
Another gun to which Mr. Tyrrell 
has given a name is an old full stock 
Kentucky rifle. The stock is of black 
walnut. It was much broken when it 
came into Mr. Tyrrell’s hands eight 
years ago in Indiana. With much pa- 
tience he restored its broken parts with 
new pieces of wood and iron. Work- 
ing over the gun, which seemed from 
its very nature to breathe of romance, 
he became interested in learning its his- 
tory. The gun was of a cruder type 
than that of others in the collection, 
and seemed to have been made at some 
cross roads shop in the backwoods 
country. This is the story of the gun 
that Mr. Tyrrell gathered three years 
ago. 
“This old rifle was owned by a Mi- 
ami Indian. His tribe was located in 
southern Indiana, but he dwelt with 
the Pottowatomie in Marshall county 
near my old home. His name was Nigo. 
He was an Indian of good character 
and lived to an old age, respected and 
liked by his white neighbors. In 1838 
the government forcibly removed the 
Pottowatomie Indians from their lands 
in Kansas. Nigo and a few others es- 
caped. The many years that passed 
found the old man with some remnant 
of a family left. A daughter had mar- 
ried a half breed, a drunken renegade 
known as “Bad Indian” Marshall. 
Nigo’s daughter left him and came to 
live in the log cabin of her father, and 
refused any further association with 
It will identify you. 
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