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In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream, 
main in plain view, and let me get 
within a hundred yards, without mak- 
ing an effort to escape. Still, as I ap- 
proached, the object took on more and 
more the aspect of a blue quail, and 
soon there was no doubt. 
9 Pee not fifteen feet away in 
that bare open spot, stood a quail 
with his head under his wing, appar- 
ently sound asleep. I stood for some 
moments in astonishment, then ap- 
proached quietly until I stood within 
two feet of the bird. Still he didn’t 
move. I leaned over and got my hand 
within a few inches of the bird, think- 
ing to pick him up. That didn’t seem 
to be quite a square deal and I checked 
my impulse though it would have been 
easy to seize him. Still the quail re- 
mained oblivious of my presence. I 
finally walked away a few paces and 
coughed. Up came the head and a 
most comical look of astonishment was 
painted in the eyes of the bird. He 
looked steadily at me for a moment, 
ran around in a circle, stopped and 
looked again, ran wildly about again 
for a turn or two and after a final stop 
and stare at me he took wing. I let 
him get fairly away and then brought 
him down with a fair shot. 
Was this not a fitting end to a good 
hunt? He was my fifteenth bird, still 
ten below the then legal bag limit, but 
I was content. This last bird gave me 
more pleasure than all of the other 
fourteen in the bag, simply because of 
the unusual ease with which he was 
taken. As I hurried on to catch the 
train, I thought of those lines by 
Wordsworth: 
“Think you, ’mid all this mighty sum 
Of things forever speaking, 
That nothing of itself will come, 
But we must still be seeking?” 
Thus it is with hunting. The things 
which come to us “out of a secret and 
mysterious generosity” without any 
effort on our part confer a greater 
thrill than those which come as a re- 
sult of strenuous endeavor. 

Are We Overlooking the 
30-.40P 
(Continued from page 730) 
500 pounds is using a first-class car- 
tridge and one which should give no 
trouble at all from blown primers, gas 
| leakage, or sticking shells. 
The reason the .30-1906 is developing 
slightly higher velocities than the 
.30-.40 is because it is regularly loaded 
to give 10,000 pounds higher pressure 
and not because the shell is any bet- 
ter. If we had just one really mod- 
ern rifle for the .30-.40 that shell could 
also be speeded up to give higher vel- 
ocities with, of course, higher pres- 
sures. There are a lot of woodchuck 
shooters who would be glad to know 
that they can get nearly 3100 f. s. 
velocity in the Krag with a perfectly 
safe pressure of less than 42,000 
pounds. They can do exactly the same 
thing with the 7.62 Russian as well. 
fhe who has ever shot a Krag 
at rapid fire or offhand :f the Krag 
happened to have a good trigger pull, 
is almost certain to prefer it to the 
Springfield for such shooting. It had 
less kick—appreciably so, much less 
muzzle blast on account of its six inches 
more barrel; it was faster to operate 
both because it had less recoil and a 
much faster bolt, and because the long 
thin. barrel settled down better. 
What ruined the mid-range shooting 
reputation of the Krag was war am- 
munition. Get a good Krag and use 
180 hand-loaded cartridges in it and 
up to 600 yards it will shoot right 
along with most any rifle. When a 
man gets out of the 20-inch bull he 
has no one to blame but himself and 
that, by the way, is about twice the 
accuracy of the average sporting am- 
munition. 
Super-accuracy is not, as many seem 
to think, the result of high velocities 
or high breech pressures. The most 
accurate 300 yard cartridges ever 
tested in public in this country is this 
year’s International 300 metre Frank- 
ford Arsenal load which consist of 37.5 
grains of HiVel and the government’s 
172 grain, 9°, boat-tail bullet in the 
-30-1906 shell. In the 24-inch barrel 
of the Springfield it develops 2200 f. s. 
velocity with a pressure of only 29,500 
pounds per square inch. The corre- 
sponding load can be developed for the 
.30-.40. The same bullet and powder 
charge in the shorter .30-.40 cartridge 
when shot in the long Krag barrel gives 
325 f. s. higher velocity and a perfectly 
normal Krag pressure of 42,220 lbs. 
As a matter of fact this is a .30-.30 
load in ballistics but which makes a fine 
target load in either .30-.40 or .30-1906. 
Such a charge has practically no dis- 
turbing recoil in a target rifle, it would 
develop no metal fouling to speak of 
with any type of modern bullet jacket, 
not a trace of poor extraction, gas leak- 
age or weakness, and be a peach of an 
all-around match cartridge for most 
any .30 calibre shell. But the charge, 
of course, would have to be regulated 
to give about 2200 f. s. velocity. If 
the regular International Springfield 
powder load be shot in a short shell 
both velocity and pressure would nat- 
urally be increased. 
T seems unfortunate that the old Krag 
shell is still “.30 and unmarried.” It 
needs a good bolt action rifle and a 
properly chambered barrel to show the 
world its full possibilities. 
The .300 Savage is practically the 
It will identify you, 
