f vz dreams nor amaller than $3 drama of powder, absorbed in the operation,which does away shoulder and headache , ot herw wise The with: she “bli resulting fron the A gook yn $ " ag Tt shoots two shote with the same rapidity as the double gun; and then,as shooters KnOW, is reas one Ly careful aim is taken, whe game is sure to be out of range and the remaining shots arte exoeec dingly handy to quickiy dispatch cripples, which any sun will make @ Tt is an exceedingly pleasant oe ficient as caapared with other guns with moderate Loaday: but it is not the it has been represented 4° be, Ti to shoot the same tertibply is net as gauge double gun with the loads this gun is and 2 man will eet more birds with & Single with an automatic fun and no dog. Skill gun, Tt a light and the idea is is requi ived handy t° bag 12 the geuge shoulder of comparing cae St with it with and is quite ef gauge when 32.0% destructive weapon destructive as a 10 capable gun and gun any a punt of shooting, a dog, than with which thé Game is as unfair as ot her gum sporteman's most of the agitation against it. The punt mun is a cannon, made to be fired fron a swivel attached t° the bow of a beat at ducke on the water. It is loaded with a pound or 60 of shot, and is Capable of killing more than the Legal limit at one shot. The autanatic gun cannot be fired more than one shop at a tine osequentiy is entirely under the control of the shooter at afi +times. 1 cannot understand the logic oF 7 ae assertion, that if it were not more deadly than other guns, it would not be on the market; for guns have been put on the market every year Shas were no more deadly than the existing tybes. £ could give you mumer cis illustrations of incidents where great ie ‘le have been made with all kinde of guns,where in shootinc side by side with double guns, the aut aquatic _gun frequent ly has the least bagywhere whtle coveys have been cleaned out with guns,that would show eonclusively that it is not the gun, eg but the man that is the "game hog". But, T have already written much more than I expected,andwill only say "antolusi on, that the doing away with our gur would not give the ged Lay Slichtest protection, but would merely be & op d4rection :of disc owraging imventionyst movenent in es Rip the doing away with as Legitimate an engerpz ene ever Was. for yam tT thank you kindly nd bes to yemain