Fur, Fish Game Magazine sells historical books (reprints) and for your enjoyment, here is a quote from A.F.Wallace’s “Land Cruising and Prospecting“:
"Some time ago I came to the conclusion that I wanted a light, strong take-down gun that I could put in a pack-sack out of the way when traveling or in town. One that I could kill either a deer or a rabbit with. I found in the gun store a Hopkins & Allen, single gun that suited, but the barrel was too long. I wrote to the H&A people and got a stubbs twist barrel, 28 inches long, modified choke, bored, 16 gauge take-down and automatic ejector. It weighs 6 ˝ pounds and cost the whole sum of $8.00.
"This gun answers all my purpose to do all my killing with and as there are no more long shots on the prairie at buffalo and elk the largest thing I can find are chicks, coyotes and ducks and I never made a howling success shooting these with a rifle. In the timber 40 or 50 yards is all the distance you can see. My gun with a bullet cast from a mould I had the Ideal people make and backed up with 60 grains of good black powder, rather course in grain so it will burn slow and give power the whole length of the barrel and not kick. It is dead medicine up to 70 or 100 yards and its smashing power is sometimes immense. You don’t have to follow a deer all day after he is hit and with a small load of shot I have put many a rabbit and partridge in my kettle and fry pan, when I wanted a change of meat."
Some of the sentence structure is a little strange, but it all makes sense when you consider that the copyright is 1933. Change the H&A to H&R and you are right up to date.
-Winter Hawk-
