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Updated: June 18, 2025
A gentleman is incapable of taking an unfair advantage of any wild creature; therefore a gentleman cannot use punt guns for ducks, dynamite for game fish, or automatic or pump guns in bird-shooting. The machine guns and "silencers" are grossly unfair, and like gang-hooks, nets and dynamite for trout and bass, their use in hunting must everywhere be prohibited by law.
Still they promise to be a help, and they are lively and attractive features of our present scene as they drone along over the floe. At a little distance, without silencers, they sound exactly like threshing machines. The dogs are getting better, but they only take very light loads still and get back from each journey pretty dead beat.
She could ride and drive, though forbidden to follow any of the local packs of fox-hounds, and it has been seen that she was a first-rate swimmer. Brodie, too, had taught her to drive a motor car, and she could discourse learnedly on silencers and the Otto cycle.
"I have never seen anything like that before." "Of course you haven't," Garson answered with much pride. "I'm the first man in the business to get one, and I'll bet on it. I keep up with the times." For once, he was revealing that fundamental egotism which is the characteristic of all his kind. "That's one of the new Maxim silencers," he continued.
Robin shot a quick glance at the speaker. "Go on," he said. "It's a marvelous thing, really," the boy continued, warming to his theme. "A man at Havre had one when I was at the base there, during the war. It's a little cup-shaped steel fitting that goes over the barrel. You can fire a rifle fitted with one of these silencers in a small room and it makes no more noise than a fairly loud sneeze ..."
Montana has not yet adopted the model law for the protection of non-game birds. Only seven states have failed in that respect. The use of automatic and pump shotguns, and silencers, should immediately be prohibited. Montana's bag-limits are not wholly bad; but the grizzly bear has almost been exterminated, save in the Yellowstone Park.
If we can legislate punt guns and dynamite out of use, the machine guns and silencers can be treated similarly. No immunity for wild-life exterminators. The following unprejudiced testimony from a New York business man who is a sportsman, with a fine game preserve of his own, should be of general interest. It was written to G.O. Shields, March 21, 1906.
All previous types of mufflers or silencers had to be discarded and a new one evolved. "Jackson, I need some one to help me," said Tom to his chief mechanician one day. "Haven't you a good man who is used to experimental work that you can let me take from the works?" "Why, yes," was the answer. "Let me see. Roberts is busy on the new bomb you got up, but I could take him off that "
And the Altamont company had recently finished making a series of "underworld" motion pictures crook dramas featuring gunmen with "rods" made eerily noiseless by Maxim silencers.
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