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WN) Jz hy A 7 ‘d 4 MT Pag Woe). Ask Adventure are plenty of sporting camps with competent - guides to be had. There are many good sections where game is plenty, but many are inaccessible, and it is a hard proposition to get it out to the railroad or a shipping- 189 space. At first many would begin throwing at barely a yard beyond arm-length, stepping back- ward one pace at a time till they could stick the knife at full distance. That is all there is to it. Just mumble-the-peg point. played at a mark and horizontally. We threw the The game laws require a guide for five people; hatchet in the same way. that is, he can not guide more than that number In ax-sticking the object was to stick the ax by at one time. As a rule many sports or hunters a whirling throw that carried it fifteen or twenty employ a guide until they get some idea of the feet up a tree. I have stuck one at twenty-two country they are to hunt over; then they go alone. _ feet from the ground, If a man is not used to the woods it is a safe plan Don’t throw the knife with too much of a whirl. not to go far from camp without a guide. It should pass more than half-way to the target If you will write to the office of the Commissioner __ in its slow turn before the handle has begun to pass of Fisheries and Game, Augusta, I think they will the lower center. Then the point comes on over < send you a list of the registered guides in any im slow time and punctures the bull’s-eye. Take 3e section of the State. But they change so that blade by tip and cast it vigorousky, with the tiniest I can not keep a list of them. The salary or pay of turning motion. a) Ske ed rnaey Leer ri . } 2 : of guides runs from $4 to $6 per day and expenses. a _ Yes, the trip could be made by auto to the sec- Put least five cents postage on all let- __ tions I have marked. ey ana 2: I should say a party of four ought to be able ters addressed to “‘Ask Adventure” editors to secure the limit of game in two weeks’ time, who live outside the U.S. Always enclose = ae the at a weeks in iP a at least five cents in International Reply : OW as to e expense rst-Ciass camp W1 = probably.charge from three to five dollars per day— Coupons for: answer. --_—_— possibly less this Fall. The guide will charge, <a say, six dollars; and his board will be another three =i dollars, so it will vary from five to fifteen per day, . with a few incidentals. = It would be a good scheme to write me about a month before the game season opens, and I might be able to give you some good dope, as I anticipate being in the game country this Summer. Diamond-Drilling ode correspondence was held before we had time to announce that Mr. Beadle, considering himself to be no longer in close touch with mining matters in his territory, had decided to forego that branch of his “Ask Adventure” work: Question: —‘‘T follow diamond-drilling and have an opportunity of a two-Year contract in Belgian ‘Congo. What advice and information you can supply would be appreciated. i. Climate and probable altitude of mining districts. 2. Mining; miscellaneous information. 3. Living-conditions. : . 4. Opportunities for adventure and sport,’ Rost. A. McNea, Britannia Mines, B. C., Can. | Send question direct to expert in charge— _ NOT to the magazine. Knife-Throwing and Ax-Sticking es enough when you know how: - Question:—I have read a number of stories in Adveniure of characters who were knife-throwers and have seen it done in Barnum & Bailey’s, but have often wondered how it was done. I can remember when I used to make darts with feathers in the end to carry them true, but don’t know how a knife could be thrown to go true. I have always found that the haft was heavier than the blade.” — -Mixo Fawcett, Akron, O. 2a so = Answer, by Mr. Beadle:—1. From the mining department I’m supposed to have resigned as I can” not keep in touch with modern developments. But from what I recollect I should guess that your Bel- gian mines will probably be Kanshanshi on the Congo-Zambesi watershed or neighborhood. Alti- tude about 6,000 feet. A fine country with a splen- did climate; never excessively hoy and never cold; fresh or cool at night. 2. The only miscellaneous mining information I can give you is that in diamond-drilling in Africa ~ one white runs several machines worked by natives. 3. Whites probably live there now—as the rail is there or near—in corrugated iron houses; otherwise in houses built of sun-dried bricks, or perhaps huts of mud and wattle; depends where it is, of course. Food mostly canned stuff varied with game, chickens, eggs, milk, etc. 4, Plenty of sport of all kinds, although in your particular district there may be little game; adven- ture lies with you and the gods. Sorry that I can’t be of more use. Answer, by Mr. Harriman:—Did you ever play mumble-the-peg? Do you remember how you had to flip the knife over to stick it? Throwing a knife is accomplished in almost that identical manner, only on a horizontal plane. As a boy I made myself a throwing-knife or dagger from a scrap of sheet-steel from a circular-saw factory. It tapered from an inch wide at the guard to three-cighths wide where the point began _ togrowin. The tip was rounded and sharp. Throwing the knife and sticking axes were a common sport in the woods where I lived. In _ knife-throwing we always used a tree as target and at ten paces for the cleverest, five paces for = beginners. __ We usually marked across the tree at shoulder a and hip height and threw for this enclosed COmmicooolkkSse© nihaet ; cA Ww 7 ., hy rT “5 -* ed is "»