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out the year, without stoppage or break 

 in the twelve months : Boiling Springs 

 Gun Club, of Rutherford ; Endeavor 

 Gun Club, of Jersey City ; Greenville 

 Gun Club, New York Bay Shore 

 Grounds ; Union Hill Gun Club, of 

 Union Hill ; Walsrode Gun Club, For- 

 ester Gun Club, wSouth Side Gun Club, 

 Newark Gun Club, Essex Gun Club — 

 all of Newark, N. J. Passaic Gun Club, 

 of Passaic ; Paterson Gun Club, First 

 Ward Gun Club and Paterson Pleasure 

 Club, all of Paterson ; Maplewood Gun 

 Club, of Maplewood ; Orange Field 

 Club, shooting contingent ; Singae 

 Shooting Association, of vSingae ; Union 

 Gun Club, of Springfield ; Rahway 

 Shooting Association, of Rahway ; Cli- 

 max Gun Club, of Plainfield ; Oritani 

 Field Club, shooting contingent, Hack- 

 ensack ; Hackensack Rod and Gun 

 Club, of same city ; Tantocaw Rod and 

 Gun Club and Nutle}' Shooting Associa- 



tion, both of Nutley ; Dunellen Rod 

 and Gun Club, of Dunellen ; the Bruns- 

 wick Gun Club, of New Brunswick ; the 

 Dayton Gun Club, of Dayton ; the Tren- 

 ton Gun Club, of Trenton ; the Free- 

 hold Rod and Gun Club, of Freehold 

 the Midway Gun Club, of Mattawan 

 the Riverside Gun Club, of Red Bank 

 the Central Gun Club, of Long Branch, 

 and the Chatham Association for the 

 Protection of Fish and Game, of Chat- 

 ham. The writer does not think for a 

 moment that the above list is a com- 

 plete one, for it comprises only the ones 

 that come to mind as they are told oflf 

 from the reel of remembrance. As it 

 is, the number of the clubs mentioned 

 foots up the astonishing total of over 

 50 active shooting organizations. The 

 writer is confident if a complete list was 

 made the number of these clubs within 

 that 50 miles enclosure would be very 

 near, if not over, a hundred. 



SOMETHING NEW IN GUN MATTERS. 



What is new in gun matters ? What 

 can one expect where trade is stagnant ? 

 Small inducement, then, to introduce or 

 to push anything new in guns or am- 

 munition. Still one hears more or less 

 of what is to come in the future, things 

 that will be ready when the revival of 

 sales come, and that revival making a 

 demand for things that are novel and 

 new. Among the best of these is the 

 single trigger, double barrel shot gun, 

 that will be placed on the market this 

 fall by the well known dealers in arms 

 cutlery and ammunition, Weibusch & 

 Hilger, of Chambers street, this city. 

 This arm is one the writer has had the 

 pleasure of inspecting, and consequently 

 he can speak in reliable manner as to 

 its character. In the first place it is a 

 weapon that is bound to commend itself 



to sportsmen for two reasons, and both 

 of these excellent ones : first, its com- 

 parative low cost ; and second, the 

 beauty of the lines upon which it is 

 built. The grip of the gun is the dou- 

 ble bolt of the crack English arms, with 

 the addition of what is known as the 

 Greener cross bolt, thus fastening the 

 barrels to the breech block in triple 

 fashion. The barrels of a high grade 

 Damascus. The stock of handsome 

 Circassian walnut and of almost perfec- 

 tion proportions. The gun handling in 

 the same quick, lively manner as a Lan- 

 caster, a Grant or a Purdy. The en- 

 graving was not excessive. The advan- 

 tage of a single trigger gun are obvious, 

 too much so to enumerate here. Here- 

 tofore the great difficulty has been with 

 single trigger guns that the discharge 



