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Show Choosing A Rifle It you are selecting a hunting rifle for your own use for the first time, your first consideration should of course be to find the particular model and caliber of rifle that best fits your individual needs. For the past 50 years the grand old favorite of both Western and Northern hunters has been the 30-30, 30-30, a cartridge made famous by the Model 94 Winchester and now chambered in the lever action and pump guns made by Savage and Remington. This cartridge is loaded with 110, 150, and 170-grain soft nose bullets and is an effective game-getter for anything up to and including elk. Most hunters prefer the 170-grain bullet for average hunting and this projectile in the hi-speed load leaves the muzzle at around 2200 foot-seconds velocity sufficient to effectively halt any North American Ameri-can game if the shot is well placed. The lighter projectiles attain a correspondingly higher velocity and are generally preferred for predatory preda-tory animals such as coyotes, wolves, etc. A close second in the American hunting rifle popularity contest is the .30-06 the famous U. S. military mili-tary cartridge with slight modifications modifica-tions for big game hunting. No other cartridge can surpass this excellent shell for accuracy, versatility, ver-satility, and availability. Remington, Winchester, and Savage Sav-age all make excellent rifles for .30-06 ammunition, and oustom modifications of Springfield and Mauser actions are made for the cartridge by Sedgley, Griffin & Howe, and others. A notable addition to the list of favorite big game rifles is the Remington Rem-ington 721. It is chambered for .30-06 Springfield, .270 Winchester or .300 Magnum ammunition. The bolt action is short and strong and cocks on opening. The cartridge is completely supported and enclosed by the encased bolthead and barrel. The Remington 721 is rapidly growing grow-ing in popularity because of its light weight and streamlined appearance. ap-pearance. In addition to these, there are a dozen other popular cartridges and a half-dozen well-known rifles that are excellent hunting arms to choose from. In any case, first consideration is a cartridge heavy enough to kill game cleanly and quickly. AAA. Wildlife today bos not only to fear man's gun, trap, and dog. The automobile auto-mobile is coming in for an increasing share of our wild animals, according to reports of conservation agents. AAA Commonsense Rules With another hunting season upon up-on us, the Missouri conservation commission urges hunters to use caution and courtesy in the woods and fields. It will pay to observe the ten commandments of safe hunting: 1. Before hunting, check the gun to be sure it is free of obstructions in the bore, such as mud, old gun-rags, gun-rags, spiders, etc. 2. Secure permission to hunt before be-fore trespassing. Remember, trespassing tres-passing is not only illegal but will spoil your hunting and perhaps that of the sportsmen to follow you. 3. Never load a gun until actually actual-ly on the hunting territory and don't point a gun at anything you don't intend to shoot. 4. Know where members of the party are at all times. 5. Don't hunt in areas near people, livestock or poultry. 6. Empty gun before climbing fences or other obstruction or before be-fore setting it down. 7. Never shoot at flat, hard surfaces sur-faces or at water . . . remember, a bullet skips better than a rock . . . and kills. 8. Leave part of the game for another an-other day. 9. Gunpowder, like gasoline, does not mix with alcohol. 10. Observe state and federal regulations. reg-ulations. These 10 rules are easy to follow . . . easy to forget. If you do follow fol-low them, you're in for some safe hunting in our great outdoors. A A i A Many consider the beaver quite m harmless animal. When aroused, however, how-ever, it becomes one of the deadliest of water fighters, easily killing a hunting hunt-ing dog if attacked in the water. AAA The latest animals to be "discovered" "dis-covered" are the kouprey, "new" kind of wild ox found in Indo-China in 1937, and the okapi "discovered" in the Belgian Congo in 1900. AAA Game Cycles Many theories have been advanced, ad-vanced, but no single factor or group of factors has been found that is generally accepted as the primary cause of the synchronized periods of abundance and scarcity of game. Sun spots have cycles of abundance which were long thought to affect animal populations. In a few cases, direct correlations could be made with game cycles, but for the most part the tie-up is vague. Investigators are puzzled. |