GROWTH OF LOCAL SHOOTING CLUBS. 



The growth of shooting organizations 

 in and around this great Metropolis is 

 something wonderful. Within the radi- 

 us of a circle drawn around this city, 

 whose distance shall be a hundred 

 miles across, fifty miles on each side, is 

 a clientage of bona fide shooting organi- 

 zations that we do not think can be sur- 

 passed, if even equalled, in the world. 

 The membership of these clubs run 

 from 20 to 30 in the smaller, up to a 

 hundred and over in the larger ones. 



This refers only to those shooting 

 clubs whose men use the shot gun. 

 The rifle men number almost as many 

 more. In a later paper these rifle or- 

 ganizations may be discussed. At pres- 

 ent these paragraphs are devoted to the 

 men and affairs of the double barrel. A 

 few of these may be mentioned just as 

 they happen to follow the pen that re- 

 cords the names as they come to the 

 writer. Carteret Gun Club, shooting at 

 Bergen Point, N. J.; Country Club, 

 Westchester ; Larchmont Yacht Club, 

 shooting contingent Larchmont ; New 

 York Athletic Club, shooting contin- 

 gent Davids Island ; Westminster Ken- 

 nel Club, shooting contingent Babylon, 

 L. I.; Cobweb Gun Club, Baychester 

 Bronx River Gun Club, Baychester 

 Hell Gate Gun Club, Dexter Park 

 Emerald Gun Club, Dexter Park 

 New York County Gun Club, Dexter 

 Park ; Jeannette Gun Club, Guttenberg 

 Park; White Plains Gun Club, White 

 Plains, Westchester County ; Peekskill 

 Gun Club, Peekskill ; Yonkers Gun 

 Club, Yonkers; Marlboro Gun Club, 

 Marlboro ; West Newburgh Gun and 

 Rifle Association of Newburgh, Orange 

 County; Closter Gun Club, of Closter, 

 and Excelsior Gun Club of Pearl River, 

 both the last named having their homes 

 in Rockland County. Now let us cross 



the East River and note the perfect 

 nest of gun clubs that is found in the 

 erstwhile City of Churches, now of the 

 Greater New York : Phrenix Gun Club, 

 North Side Gun Club, Down Town Gun 

 Club, Unknown Gun Club, Fountain 

 Gun Club, Falcon Gun Club, New York 

 German Club, First German Club, Ver- 

 non Rod and Gun Club, Coney Island 

 Rod and Gun Club, Parkway Rod and 

 Gun Club, and all of these having their 

 shooting home at Lippock's Dexter 

 Park. 



At the Woodlawn grounds the live 

 bird contingent of the New Utrecht 

 Rod and Gun Club hold their shootings 

 at live birds. The same club main- 

 tains another shooting ground at 

 Dyker's Meadows for the purposes of 

 those members who prefer to shoot at 

 inanimate targets — blue-rocks, for in- 

 stance. Another favorite shooting 

 grounds for the Brooklyn sportsmen is 

 at North Beach, Long Island (a suburb 

 of the larger city). These are the 

 Hudson Rod and Gun Club, the Enter 

 prize Gun Club, the Eureka Gun Club, 

 the Excelsior Rod and Gun Club and 

 other organizations favor the shooting 

 grounds at Far Rockaway, Long Island : 

 these are the " Cuckoo " Gun Club and 

 the Averne Rod and Gun Club. A few 

 others travel the old shooting grounds 

 located at New Dorp, Staten Island, the 

 old home of the Vanderbilts ; these are 

 the Columbia Shooting Association and 

 the Bergen Rod and Gun Club. When 

 one crosses the Hudson and strikes New 

 Jersey, still confining oneself to within 

 the distance of that fifty-mile circle 

 spoken of, the number of clubs fairly 

 staggers belief. Not defunct or dying- 

 out organizations, but sound, healthy 

 clubs, whose shooting meetings are held 

 either monthly or bi-monthly through- 



