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Swimmer* To have swum 250 yards (no time limit), 

 honor; to have swum 5 miles (no time limit), high honor. 



TARGET-SHOOTING 



Revolver-shot: Target 4x4 feet. Bull's eye 8 inches 

 (counts 4 points). Inner ring 2 feet (3 points). Outer, 

 the rest of the target (2 points). Distance, 30 yards. 



96 shots divided in any number up to six days, one 

 hand, standing; 250 points count honor; 300, high honor. 



Half with left hand only; half with right hand only; 

 230 points, honor; 260, high honor. 



Rifleman: To be an expert according to militia 

 standards, honor; to be a distinguished expert rifleman, 

 a high honor. 



BIG-GAME HUNTING 



Inasmuch as Hunting Big-Game must be recognized in 

 our list of national outdoor sports, it should be elevated to 

 a higher plane by the adoption of these rules, because they 

 tend to give the utmost prominence to the many admirable 

 features of the chase, and at the same time reduce the 

 total sum of destruction. 



To have gone alone into the haunts of big game, that is 

 to say, without professional guide, and by fair hunting, 

 unaided by traps or poison, or dogs (except where marked 

 "d"), have killed and saved for good purposes, in ab- 

 solute accordance with the game laws, any of the follow- 

 ing kinds of game (or others of a corresponding char- 

 acter), counts Honors as below: 



Each Species counts one Honor ; that is, one Tiger 

 would count i Honor, 10 Tigers would not count any- 

 more; when he gets his Tiger, his Moose, etc., the 



