. The complete American and Canadian sportsman's encyclopedia of valuable instruction. Camping; Fishing; Hunting. bores, such as .10-30 and .25-36, with high pressure powder is attended with more difficulty and less satisfaction. It will be found necessary to resize the muzzles of the shells after each round and the entire shell after each two or three rounds, and the shells split and break in all manner of ways. A small percentage of the shells may be loaded 20 to 25 times, but the majority will break in the^ first 10 shots, and some will splh the second round. Why this is so has not been pos
. The complete American and Canadian sportsman's encyclopedia of valuable instruction. Camping; Fishing; Hunting. bores, such as .10-30 and .25-36, with high pressure powder is attended with more difficulty and less satisfaction. It will be found necessary to resize the muzzles of the shells after each round and the entire shell after each two or three rounds, and the shells split and break in all manner of ways. A small percentage of the shells may be loaded 20 to 25 times, but the majority will break in the^ first 10 shots, and some will splh the second round. Why this is so has not been positively decided. Some authorities hold that a chemical action takes place in the brass, induced by some ingredient of the powder or of the strong priming, while others think that the action is simply a physical one to be expected from the heavy pressure sustained. Smokeless Powders—Smokeless powder is un- doubtedly the powder of the future, but it must be used exactly as directed unless you are in search of an early grave. Within the past few years there has been considerable activity on the part of the powder manufacturers to develop smokeless powders suitable for the various rifles in use. wiih the result that today there are many smokeless rifle powders which can be used with perfect safe- ty and which, further, give excellent results as re- gards power, accuracy and keeping qualities. At the same time we must urge upon all riflemen who desire to reload ammunition with smokeless powder to use utmost caution. Follow carefully the directions of the powder manufacturers, even to the most minute detail; do not experiment rash- ly; let others do the experimenting. Smokeless powders are of an entirely different nature than black powders. With black powder, for instance, you always use a ceftain degree of compression, or at least pack the powder firmly. This is not to be advised with the majority of smokeless powders. A charge of black powder may be materially increased, with or
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