Me.W.t.,Hornaday —§2/ a Bes 2 SSE ee F rational game law— or a law against horse stealing for that mattex Bus we found the law of thie state limits the numberof birds a man may take in a season,which would justify any remarks that might be mad@ @long that lines; for a more dmpossible provision There are but a few shooters who know could not be imagined, themeslyves how many birds they kill duting the season, You know the efficiency of all gums has been imereased. The double gun manufacturer has used every effart to make that gun as deadly as possible; within the last few years it has been made breecn loading, aut onatic cocking, automatic ejecting, and automatic single trigger. It has also been chokedto: inerease the range;frequentily one barrel is open to smother the game at sho8t range, amd the efficient guns it thet than i8 not, are other choked for it a few years was however, responsible the for long range. improvements any S50 it is much more daible guns ago. in scarcity of game; it or is the mense number of guns in use, principally cheap ones; also ity of the game laws and the laxity of their enforcement, is always the case when the came is plentiful. made 1,000 But. few in this people have the country yearly: shotguns bined daily manufacture in- generos~ which least idea how many cheap guns are One manufacturer has a capacity. of (This alone of guns ofher in this is many times more than the comclass a few years ago); end there are no legs than three others who make upwards of 75,000 each and a half a dozen more who make upwards of 10,000 each yearly. Nearly all of the above guns retail for less than $5.00 each. About country guns made two-thirds of all guns made and imported into country sell for than sell for less than $5. each, and imported each. into this and over four fifths less this of the $12.00 whis enables the white boy, the Negro boy and the foreigner to have a good efficient breech loading shotgun, These shooters are legion and sentiment or a law that is not enforced does not have much consideration with them. They clean out the coveys,and foreigners especially are after small birds; far it is well known Such birds are e class 1@sS his tHan ee = 5 ae (which you a § 550,00; lay Eg at sreat of with them. shooters do not buy gune and as for the killing of that song the eun) never waS & gum made gun will not Operate door of which is with the the antamatic less adapted for small leads used de not sell and plumage wold say for birds there that purpose@,as the in killing them. sincle breech leading Shotguns has de@reased in the last ten years, and the mumber manufactured il at present there are at least ten times as many being made in this camtry as there wers ten years ago.There &@r@ Millions of shotguns in use also millions of small calibre rifles,and the idea of protecting game by legislating cur gun out abcut The one delicacy ba half f @xistence when the production of 1 can never excesd 24 percent, not Only absolutely inpossible,but to my mind,it is idealistic a the extreme, if ali the shotguns in use in this country were single barrel mugsle loaders,there being no other restrictions; or if all the laws were like those of New Jersey,the game would have no protecCicn competed with what a little judicious general legislation would give it. | : iow, just a word about the aut aquatic gum: It is not aut onatic a8 4 great many seem ¢° suppose. It is loaded autonatically by the recoil; but the trieser has to be pulled and released for each Shot. It is adapted only to moderate loads, not larger than 34