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Show Ricochet Deadly -, , i, Bullet is hidden by splash as it almost goes under. Science cautions shooters against firing rifles where bullets may ricochet rico-chet off water or stone, warning that such bouncing bullets lose very little of their velocity and will carry car-ry almost as far as a direct shot. Facts to support the warning were established by scientific tests made at the nation's foremost ballistics bal-listics laboratories. The tests were dramatically documented by super high-speed photographs taken at 2l,000,000ths of a second. The tests conducted in the interest of safe shooting by experts at the research and development labora- Water disturbance subsides as Super-X 22 begins to deflect. tories of Olin Industries' Western Cartridge Company of East Alton, Illinois, show that a Super-X 22 caliber long rifle bullet has a velocity veloc-ity of 1,240 feet per second at 13 feet from the muzzle. Ricocheting from water at this distance, the bullet still has a velocity, after leaving the water, Df 1,195 feet per second a loss of only 45 feet per second speed! And bullets will ricochet from water at angles up to 11 degrees, although they will not ricochet at 15 degrees or more, the tests disclosed. Bullets ricocheting from stone , ,v,... With practically no loss of velocity, bullet leaves water on its deflected course. also lost little velocity and were deformed and upset so that they would cause severe wounds. Cubes of gelatin, backed up by blocks of wood, caught the bullets after they ricocheted, and it was noted that penetrations were almost as deep as those of bullets fired directly into the blocks. The upset bullets which ricocheted off stone did not go so deep, but instead plowed wide channels. Rifle experts who have warned of the danger of shooting at water or stone now have the scientific data to back up their warnings. AAA Praise for DU Canada's prairies, while home to the continent's waterfowl, has an even larger stake in the democratic nations' economy. The prairies produce pro-duce much of the world's wheat, rivaled only by that produced in Russia's Ukraine, and to a lesser extent, in our mid-west states. The source of all this economic wealth is inevitably tied to waterfowl, for the same ingredients water and prairie land are what produces both. Thus sportsmen of the United States, out to produce waterfowl for hunters, have aided the economic eco-nomic recovery of a nation. Ducks Unlimited has been officially official-ly recognized and praised for the role it has played in nearly every corner where water conservation is of primary interest. The water stabilization sta-bilization committee of Alberta recently re-cently issued a report showing the work it has done since 1947. RecogT nition of DU importance in the work is illustrated by its membership member-ship on the committee, appointed by the provincial government, consisting consist-ing of engineers from the government govern-ment and Ducks Unlimited. The objective of the committee is the conservation of water, the objective ob-jective of DU is the conservation of waterfowl. With their objectives so closely knit, the two have provided a model of cooperation. When propagation of wild fowl is the main purpose of a project, Ducks Unlimited Un-limited pays two-thirds of the cost and the Province one-third. When the major . benefits accrue to the people of Alberta as a whole then the distribution of cost is reversed. On one lake where thousands oi waterfowl nest, the Province provided pro-vided $140,000 of the cost as against DU's $10,000. AAA Use The Reel Although one can successfully land the average fish caught on a fly-rod by using the line, it is both smart and good insurance to use the reel when playing a really good-sized fish. When the slack is taken up, you can let the fish take line directly from the reel, which will mean that the tension is kept uniform and there is no danger ol too m;ich snubbing, as might ba the case in hand-playing, and thui losing the fish. |