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Show HUNTERS WILL HAVE LESS SHELLS IN '45 Word comes from Washington that the nation's hunter will have to get along with 200,000,000 shotgun shot-gun shells this year, or about half as many as they had in 1944. Even so, the allocation by the War Production Pro-duction Board is more than double dou-ble the 120 million shells proposed by the Army last December. Most of the sportsmen of the country will cheerfully accept the fact that the nation at war must produce ammunition for its fighting fight-ing men. They will willingly forego fore-go shotgun shells in order that there may be an abundance of ammunition am-munition for men in contact with the enemy. If there are hunters In this country who would presume to put their sport ahead of the safety of fighting men, they should be banished from the nation na-tion altogether. Naturally, you will not hear hunters contending their needs should have priority to those of fightin gmen. They will not take this preposterous position. There may be a few, however, who will loudly profess their desire that fighting men have all they need but, for various reasons, grumble and complain about the allocation, asserting that it is unnecessary etc. |