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WINCHESTER AUTOLOADING. 5 SHOTS IN 4 SECONDS
Loaded and cocked by it5 own recoil.
FOUR OF THE SEVEN MACHINE GUNS
more than one hundred thousand are being made and sold annually by the five companies that produce them. Recently the annual output has been carefully estimated from known facts to be about as follows:
Winchester Arms Co., New Haven, Conn. (1 Automatic and 1 Pump-gun) Remington Arms Co., Ilion, N. Y.
(1 Automatic and 1 Pump-gun)
Marlin Fire Arms Co., New Haven, Conn. 1 Pump-gun. . Stevens Arms Co., Chicopee Falls, Mass. 1 Pump-gun Union Fire Arms Co., 1 Pump-gun
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50,000 guns.
25,000 12,000 10,000
5,000 103,000 guns
The Ethics of Shooting and Shot-Guns.—Are the American people willing that their wild birds shall be shot by machinery?
In the ethics of sportsmanship, the anglers of America are miles ahead of the men who handle the rifle and shot-gun in the hunting field. Will the hunters ever catch up ?
The anglers have steadily diminished the weight of the rod and the size of the line ; and they have prohibited the use of gang hooks and nets. In this respect the initiative of the Tuna Club of Santa Catalina is worthy of the highest admiration. Even though the leaping tuna, the jewfish and the sword-fish are big and powerful, the club has elected to raise the standard of sportsmanship by making captures more difficult than ever before. Ahigherdegreeofskill,andnerveandjudgment,isrequiredin the angler who would make good on a big fish; and, incidentally, the fish has about double "the show" that it had fifteen years ago.