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I read in "Fur News" your invitation to tell the readers of "Fur News" about our rifles and why we liked them. Well, for big game I use a .40-72 Winchester with octagon barrel. For small game I use a .32 Remington and a double-barreled shotgun, 12-gauge. I don't think anybody can say which is the best make of gun to use. whether it
is a Marlin, Winchester, Remington or a Savage. I believe it is all in the kind of gun you are used Jo. You take a rifle you're used to and you can throw it to your shoulder and you got your sight in half a second. I lent my .32 to a friend one time last fall and he took the heads off six partridge on his way to the lumber camp. I have a single-barrel shotgun, an Iver Johnson; the only fault I find about it is that it is a little hard on the trigger. The reason I like the ..40-72 is that of all the shooting it has done it has never had a shell caught in her yet while ejecting them and it has shot a number of moose and deer and shot the heads off partridge. I have a .22 single-shot rifle; it is a Stevens bolt action. It is the greatest little rifle for rabbits and partridge I ever saw. 1 could tell you about moose and deer expeditions for hours, but that would be about hunting and not rifles.
Stanley Spinney.
St. Johns County, New Brunswick.
Fur, News. Fur News, January 1916.
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