Show 7 HUNTING NOW mORE 11 Shot Guns and Rifles Are in 10 Greater Demand Than ThanE E Ever Before SPORTING DEALER TALKS SMALL BORE WEAPONS ARE MOST IN FAVOR The rho number of shotguns rifles and sporting goods generally being sold In Salt Lake Lalm this Tall raIl said a u prominent dealer yesterday Is greater than during d ring any previous season within my recollection tion This Is not because be guns and am ammunition ammunition ammunition are arc cheaper this year than Ulan for formerly formerly formerly merly because they are arc not and as a matter of fact ducks are rather scarcer so far than they have been for tor a num film number number ber of seasons The Tho fact of the matter Is Isa a greater number of people are turn turning turning turning ing to hunting and shooting as a means of recreation every year and the present season so Ed far has lias 1183 been a Not only p are arc more people engaging in the shooting gamo game than ever eyer before but the thes sport s ort la Is attracting a better class of peo people people pie all the time and becoming more and more popular as a means of spending a av vacation v bo b it for one on day or thirty Another noticeable fact in connection with Uh this years shooting is the general tendency towards a smaller bore weapon Where a 0 few years y ars ago a shotgun any less thaix 12 gauge was a rarity there are arenow arenow arenow now hundreds of in active use to say say nothing of an occasional twenty Men il n are beginning to learn that a n small bore gun in capable hands bands can be made to do almost as much execution as the thc larger bores and do it tt cleaner and more quietly and and with more satisfaction to the shooter in every way The average load 10 d of smokeless powder used In a six teen gauge shotgun is about two to two and a half balf drams drains as against three to three and a quarter in a twelve gauge and to of an ounce of ot shot as a compared with an ounce to an ounce and a quarter used In the twelve The difference in weight of the two guns Is In itself an Important consid consideration where a a long days shooting is concerned to say nothing of the der derf which Invariably follows the din charge of ot anything over forty or fifty shots from a n twelve gauge and which is utterly lacking with the smaller arms Yes lack hIack b ack powder is still used to a considerable extent but the great mass massof massof massof of the people arc are rapidly becoming edu educated educated educated to the advantages of the smokeless s brands and these are gaining in popular ity every day da The difference in price of the tile loaded shells Is i so small as to be hardly 11 worthy of consideration while the many points of ot superiority of ot the nitro powders over the black are bound to tomake tomake make them a favorite in the long iong run Of O course there is Js a difference in the shooting qualities of the two brands The rue appear to have a greater carrying power and a greater penetration and they are undoubtedly undoubted quicker in ing not to mention the ease and rapidity with which a gun from which only smokeless ponder has been fired tIred can be cleaned compared to the th time and labor required to cleanse the same gun after the th ue u e of black powder Practically all trap shooting is now done with smokeless powder of one brand or another and the scores made this year average higher than ever before As a dealer In sporting goods and a sportsman I 1 how people can bring themselves to t use tib black powder at atall atall all but there are always a certain num berof people either through prejudice pr or for some other reason who decline to make a change in the tomed order of things no matter what the Inducements in favor of such a Change hange may ma be The use of black pow der Is growing less year by year how howver however over ever while the smokeless continues to reach rc ch a higher state of perfection The solution of the question of smokeless or therefore is simply a mat ter of time |