Adventure Magazine Cover, February 3, 1921 — page 195: what you’re looking at

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Ask Adventure 8. If I decided to go on threugh Canada and go West, intending to cross back into the States, around Michigan or a neighboring State, what will my route be? How willI doit? By ferry over some narrow part of the Great Lakes; or do I have to go completely ar them?”—Caas. A. GrRHARD, Caldwell, he Answer, by Mr. Thompson:—Find following re- plies to your letter. 1. Black sucker minnows. 2. Musk-Oreno, Hildebrandt spinners with buck- tail trailer, any of the large artificial minnows re- sembling a black sucker, or in fact any kind that s an underwater lure. 3. Artificial bait. 4. Small shiner minnows and those mentioned in No. 2 of small and medium size. 5. Bait-casting rod five feet, lime testing 18 pounds or over for muskys, and from 14 to 16 pounds for the others, and a good quality quadruple multiplying reel. 6. Auto Camp Bed outfit. 7. Hotel and meals about six dollars per day. 8. Cross into Michigan so you will hit into about the Sault and you will run into fine nabiag all over. @ross on steamer. Look at map and see the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Nipigon Region "THOSE who plan a trapping-trip, either to Nipigon or elsewhere, would do well to note that lower prices for both raw furs and the finished product are predicted— if indeed they are not already with us by the time this item reaches your eyes: Question: —“‘Would like very much to secure in- formation concerning canoe réutes in the Nipigon region. ‘To what governmental department should I write for maps? Or is it possible to obtain these elsewhere? Have trapped the Tobique in New Brunswick and have wandered quite a lot through the Porcupine district, Abitibi Lake country and down along the T. & N. O. It is my intention to trap in the vicinity of the Nipigon or farther north this Winter; but my ideas of {the country are rather hazy. Is its topegraphy similar to the region about the Redwater Lakes? Please give me information as to the best jump- ing-off places. Am traveling by canoe about the first of October. Want to get away beyond the settlements and lumber-camps.’’—Mourray O’NEr, Radio Operator, Steamship Banicaa, care of Gulf Line, New York, N. Y. Answer, by Mr. Catton:—Write Mr. J. E. Chali- four, Chief Geographer, Department of the Interior, Ottawa, Ontario, for maps. Also the Hudson’s Bay Company or William McKirdy & Sons, both at Nipigon Station (C. P. R.) may be able to supply you with local detail maps of the district. You have been through the Porcupine district? All right; just add as many again lakes and streams, and a few millions more rocks, and you have the Nipigon district. Rocks and water and trees, world without end! That’s it. Thunder Bay district used to be good trapping- ground, and it should be still, But { would advise 189 you to write to some one on the ground there now before you start. A letter to the manager of the Hudson’s Bay post or the gentlemen mentioned above would bring you a satisfactory answer, I believe. You see, the Nipigon is protected, as far as fishing is concerned, by the Provincial government, and there may be other restrictions in force— especially for non-residents. Now you say you are traveling by canoe. From where? If you paddle the Bay you will have the Nipigon River to negotiate before you enter the lake, a paddle of about forty miles, with nine por- tages. But if you put your canoe into the water at Ferland (Grand Trunk Pacific Railway) you will be right on the spot—north end of the lake. After that it’s up to you. Before you you have hundreds of miles of shore-line and innumerable streams to pick on. The best ‘“‘jumping-off place,” were I in your place, would be Ferland. For best results keep to the west shore of the lake. Local maps, obtainable on the ground, will give you canoe reutes. Personally I have been over only one, the Nipigon River. Again, there are the ser- vices of Indian and breed guides always waiting for you. : “Shotgun”’ Pistols PISTOL which shoots either shot or ball? Certainly: Question:—“I have been credibly informed that there is a one-barrel pistol manufactured and sold by some arms company—which, informant says he has no knowledge, but knows there is such a pistol— that shoots only shot in cartridges, can use same cartridges as are used in commen shotguns and are loaded into the pistol as into shotguns, in the breech —of course only one cartridge can be shet at a time —not confined to one certain kind of cartridge but can use the various sizes used in common shotguns. Is this a fact or is my informant remancing? If all O. K. tel] me where the pistel can be procured and at are price.’—ArtTaur C. Everett, Honolulu, .H Answer, by Mr. Wiggins:—There is such a pistol made; you will find it illustrated in Major Pollard’s book “Pistols,” with a brief description of its work. If you have not the book perhaps the following will be of use. The pistel is a common tip-up weapon, chambered for the .410 shell and using either shot or solid ball loadings. It is loaded as in the regular type of wea- pon, and is of the style known as a side lever. It is stated as being good for about twenty yards. Tt do net know by whom it is made, but suspect that the Birmingham Small Arms Company, of Bir- mingham, England, can supply them; prices I do not know, as I have never seen one. A good many continental arms makers furnish these pistols to order, I understand. The Stevens firm once made a pistol for shot, and which was bored and chambered for the .40-63 Remington straight shell. One is in this locality, and does good work for thirty yards on small game; a duck is about its limit, however. I never saw an- other, and they are no longer made. But you might get a Colt or Smith & Wesson revolver for the .44 W. C. F. shell, amd have the barrel smooth-bored to use the .44-shot shell in it, with good results at very short range. g CORMICLOO© (E@)