FOREST AND STREAM. 



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small chance given any bird, and but very few escaped. In 

 that way I got twenty mud bens, and added to my lone duck 

 I had twenty-one pieces, if my arithmetic is reliable, and if it 

 isn't I hold New ffftVen, Conn., responsible. 



We got tired of that soiv id came in at about 



five o'clock. Tli : .;,.-] no better and many not 



so welL One bud four docks, the llUUt of the day We. had 

 dinner, and, as we had a half hour Or so to spare, sauntered 

 over the premises adjoining the house. 



Back of it was a garden with some orange trees and 

 splendid oaks. Beneath one of those superb moss-covered 

 trees was a grave covered with pretty lake-shore, shells. The 

 moss touched the ground about the head, and on inquiry we 

 were told the sequence of Miller's shooting himself. There 

 were his remains carefully interred by his home, and nothing 

 todisturb him save the music of the wind in the trees and the 

 sound by which he lived and died— that of the shot-gun. 



We strolled about and then went in. 



By 7 o'clock Mrs. Miller came in, and though she said noth- 

 ing, she looked " two dollars." 



We gave them, took our game (?) and Edward and Mac 

 again bent to their work and we started for the station. The 

 tram soon came, and we reached town by 9 o'clock, having 

 resolved that Miller's Bayou was " shot out," and that we 

 should not again be parties to a gauntlet for birds to fly ; nor 

 would we ever again clasp the hand of Mrs. Miller or suffer 

 the arms of Edward and Mac to pull our carcasses, or those 

 of mud hens, the victims of a hunter's desperation. 



Man Orleans, September 14, 1878. Sand Snipe. 



ARKANSAS TURKEY SHOOTING. 



Motrra of Devil's Fork, > 

 VAN Boben Co., Ark., Aug. 27, 1878. j 

 Editoh Forest and Stkeam : 



this section wnat shall I say? Such as Peter Whetstone 

 described it. such it is to-day. Readers of Porter's old 

 Spirit will remember his spirited descriptions. It is a 

 country of mountains, and pines, and gorges, and roaring tor- 

 rents, and game that can never be exterminated. Rip Van 

 Winkle might go up some of the rocky valleys hereabouts 

 and nap it and wake up at intervals as long as he pleased 

 "Without having his mind troubled by changes going on around 

 him. The mountains bere are founded upon rocks, they rcat 

 upon other rocks, and so on all the way down, giving an air 

 of permanence and stability to the whole country, as pro- 

 nounced as it iB delightful. But I started out to tell you 

 about the game. It is plenty, consisting of bear, deer, wolves 

 panther, wild turkey and quail, with ducks in the winter! 

 To the hardy climber of hills and rocks a liberal supply of 

 some or all these is always attainable in the proper season. 

 The best gun for all work here is a moderately heavy 10-bore 

 breech-loader. One will naturally use shot of Nos. 7, 3, and 

 2 buck. Except occasionally in the open barrens, long shots 

 never present themse Ives, so that the rifle is more ornamental 

 than useful. The natives here, however, sport their long 

 squirrel guns, of range scarcely greater than a good shot-gun, 

 and display at times wonderful dexterity in their use. 



I had hardly gotten over tie fatigue of my journey hither- 

 ward when an old and valued friend broke in upon my medi- 

 tations with a " Let's go and bunt some young turkeys with 

 your 'pinter,' " adding, "they'll do it," meaning they would 

 lie to the dog. Having some conscientious scruples about 

 killing immature game, I told my lriend I did not want to 

 take any unfair advantage of the little things. He assured 

 me, however, that they were as large as Brahma chickens, 

 full feathered and as well qualified to take care of themselves 

 as any young prairie chicken in September, and, added he, 

 " they are oneducated now, and will let the pinter fool with 

 them. Just you let them birds get educated once and you 

 nor no other man won't get 'em." Knowing the remarkable 

 facility with which the wild turkey becomes not only edu- 

 cated but thoroughly accomplished, i concluded to go, and I 

 enjoyed a phase of sport entirely new to me, and which I 

 will endeavor to describe. 



Taking to horse we rode for about seven miles, all the way 

 up hill, to the top of a very high mountain, knowu I believe, 

 locally, as the "Devil's Back Bone." Here a level plain 

 stretches for some miles, with here and there a settlor. In the 

 peach orchard of one of these we tether our animals, and 

 after a short visit, to the well and the melon patch, proceed 

 to skirt a wheat field in search of game, and though tracks 

 and " sun " of all sorts are abundant, are nearly to the place 

 of starting, when the dog comes to a staunch point in a thicket 

 near a bare place of ground used by the turkeys as a wallow- 

 ing place. Peering cautiously into the thicket we see not 

 lesa than thirty turkeys, old and young, squatted and evident- 

 ly greatly moved by anxiety about my dog. He, however, 

 has no notion ot disgracing his pedigree by jumping in, and 

 both parties are awaiting a move from the other side. There 

 were the mother bird and five or six others of, evidently, last 

 year's growth, and what appeared to be part of two broods of 

 this year's growth. At the cluck of the old bird, slowly, 

 and, as one, they move forward. The dog, unable longer to 

 stand the pressure of his anxiety, just as slowly and just as 

 cautiously begins to draw on them. A sharp word of caution 

 to the dog has the effect to check him, and to put every turkey 

 in the gang on the wing. A sharp ring from my 10-bore 

 Greener, and down comes the old bird as if a thunderbolt had 

 overtaken her. Another, and one of the last year's chicks 

 tumbles from a lofty height, and the whole gang alights badly 

 scattered. Marking them down as well as able for the 

 timber, I proceeded to retrieve the younger, which proved to 

 be what in local parlance is known as a tow-head— that is, a 

 ben of last year's growth that has failed to mate and rear a 

 brood. This arises from the pernicious habit of killing off the 

 males in "gobbling time," i. e., in the breeding Beason, a 

 practice that cannot be too strongly condemned. 



But to return to the hunt. Taking the dog to the neareBt 

 place where I saw one light, aud placing him upon the trail, 

 I had the Satisfaction of seeing him come to a point in a very 

 short time. Cautioning him to be steady, 1 gradually ap- 

 proached and saw— yes, saw— a turkey lying to the dog, as if 

 fascinated by the rigidity ot his position; with every nerve 

 stretched, ready for instant flight on the slightest motion. 

 Flushing and knocking over this one we proceed to the next 

 best place, where like good fortune awaits us, our friend re- 

 marking that the time for his squirrel gun has not come yet. 

 Proceeding to where we saw several alight the dog is put out, 

 and trails and circles and quarters, but makes no point. A 

 moment more and all is clear, A yelping noise fifty yards 



away tells us that one of the gang is calling the others to- 

 gether there. Running to the place the turkeys get up here, 

 there, all over, and so excite the dog that he pitches in and 

 follows them up, putting several of the older ones into tall 

 timber. In the scramble I get in a double, two of the largest 

 of the young brood, just of the frying size, and a very desira- 

 ble piece of meat for the table. My friend, turning his atten- 

 tion and his squirrel gun upon those in the timber, manages 

 to bring down a pair before their curiosity about the dog is 

 fully satisfied. And so ended the hunt, eight birds to two 

 guns — as many as we cared about. 



Yell. 

 • — -#- — « 



PIGEON MATCHES. 



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Bonney n 



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Baker l> 



A (J Guild 



Keyes 1 



Tort 



Perry 



o o i l l t l 1 1 1 1 



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10 10 1110 111 

 110 111 1 1 J 

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 10 1—4 



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1 1 1-10 

 W. A. B. 



NEW Haven Gun Club.— Regular pigeon shoot; Hamilton Park; 

 rules, the man winutug the badge Hie greatest number of times In the 

 year to become the owner ; Bogardus rules and traps ; the last holder 

 to shoot. at 28 yards, and handicap all others from 13 yarda up, accord- 

 ing to the number of balls broken m last, match : 



Pntton 1 110011001010111011 0— IS 



Polsom l 111111111111111110 l-ig 



Hanson 1 11010101010 1101 111 1— u 



Armstrong 1 lioooioil 1001111 l 0—12 



Penn 1 001111101111110110 1—15 



Jorey 1111111111 otliiino o— n 



B-nnett oilllllioloioimoio 0-12 



Leaf o 11110101011 I 1 l o 1 1—12 



Long*™ i oioiliiiiiiiiloi t i o-ir, 



NDFolsom 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 w 



Sweepstake matches; Bogardus traps : 

 Bennett.. -.0 1 n 1 1 1 0— 4 Fulton.. ....1 110110011—7 



Armstrong.! 1 1 1 1 1 1 1— S Jorey 1 11111111 1— 10 



Folsom. .0 11 1111110—8 Hanson 1 lloioiooi— - 



Ties on eight. 

 Folsom l 111 1—5 Armstrong ion 0—3 



Card revolving trapB: 



Hanson 11 110 1 1—7 Pmn 11111111 i_ ;, 



Armstrong. .0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0-6 Lougdon 1 111119 11 1— » 



Bennett 00 100010 1 1—4 J rey 1 1 t 1 t 1 o 1 i— s 



Folsom 1 19100001 1—5 Thompson.. .1 10 10 1 0—4 



Penn and Langdon divided mat money. 



Bogardus trapB : 



Folsom 1 llllllll 1—10 Armstrong .0 l l l l l l o o— g 



Hanson.. .001110010 0—4 Bennett 000111011— 6 



Lougdon ...1 111101110-8 Penn l 0001 11011—6 



Jorey 1 10 1111111—9 



Folsom 001111110—6 Hanson 1 110 10 10 11—7 



Armstrong. 1 110 11111—8 Bennett ....1 000011101— g 



Longdon.,.1 10 10 11111—8 Penn 1 1 1 1 1 l 1 o 1— s 



Jorey 1 llllllll 1—10 



Armstrong, Longdon and Penn divided second money. 



Sept, 6.— Glass ball match, between K. Penn and Joan More, of New 

 Haven, fifty balls each, Bogardus rnles and traps to govern, resulted 

 In the folluwlug : 



B Perm. . ..ill Ul 11 1 111 11 11 1 0111 1 1 [ 1 J 11 1 01 

 1010111101111111011 0—38. 



j More 1 01111111 111101111111111110111 



1111111111111011111 1—48. 



Long Islakb— Frttport, Btjpt. 7.— Bogardus rules ; 24 yards riBo ; 



Jno P Wright 1 OOlllOOllllllllllliiiii i_2i 



Chaatoit » 00000101111011111111110 1-16 



Poster Sprague....O 00 110010011111010000 0— a 

 Pok-cU Wright.....!) 111001O111001111110000 0— 13 



Will Ellison 000000111000000110 1 11111—6 



T Lloyd 110111000 000000000000000—S 



CSDiagae OOnoOfllllOOOOOOOOOoooOOO— 3 



H Eliifoa OlOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO—l 



J W Baynor OOOOOOlOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO— 1 



C smith 00000000 00000010000 II 0— 1 



Martin Smith ooooooooooooooooooooooooo-o 



MICHIGAN.— lloivell, Sept. 12.— The third contest '»r the Jowett re- 

 volver resulted in a victory lor C. G. Jewett, as follows ; 21 yards rise. 

 Bogardus rules, and trap behind screen at setter's option : 



Jewett 1 llllllll 1— to Fisher 1 111110 w 



Beach l 11111110 1—9 Lee o o l l i l i o o l— o 



Knmsey....l 11011110 1— 8 Kupert 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i— 8 



Wilcox 1 low Mulliken....l w 



Holt 1 111111011—9 Angell 1 1 w 



C. G. J. 



Kansas— Ottawa— A grand bird and glass ball shooting tournament 

 will beheld at Ottawa, Oct. 8, D, 10 and 11, under ihe urn agement, or 

 the Kansas State Sporismeu's Association. There are fourteen contests, 

 with $3,600 in cash prizes. Bogardus gives an exuibillon. 



Chicago, Sept. 12.— J. J- Gore against \V. IV. McCullum, ot the Austin 

 Gun Club ;' single rises at 26 yds.: 



Gore 1 loliooooillllioiillliiliiooioio 



0110111111111001 1-36 



Mccullum..o 0001 II 10110 111 tlOllllOllllllll 



1 1 1 t 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0-8» 



Afterthis shoot there was a sweepstake match at 26 yds.: 



SHTurrill 1 111 1—5 Abe Kletuman 1 I l l— 4 



J J Gore 1 110 1—4 Kellogg I 1 1 1 l-g 



JNLydston 10 10-2 FPTa.ylor ..0 1 1 1-3 



Oliver Organ 1 10 1 1—1 Abner Price 1 1 1 1 0—4 



OfflWUhu-d 1 1 1—3 WrnBrice 1 1 1 1 1— 5 



MBich 1 111 1—6 Miles Johnson 1 000 1—2 



McCnUum 1 11 1—4 George Newberry. 1 1—2 



CEFelton 1 111 0—4 Chapm ,0 110 1—2 



Tom Stage 1 10 1 1—1 



In shooting off ties at 31 yds. Turrlll took flrst; McCuUnm and Abo 

 Kleinmau divided second. 



A similar sweepstakes was shot again : 



Organ 1 1 1 1 1—5 Taylor 1 1 1 0—3 



Abnerprice 1 1 1 0-3 Odell 1 110—3 



Gore 1 11 1—4 McCullum 1 7 1—3 



Eich 1 1—2 Lydston 1110 1-4 



Chapln 1 6 1—2 Wlllurd 1— 1 



Newberry 10 1-2 Stagg 11 1110—3 



Kletnman 1 ill 1— fi Gua Mosher 1 1 1 1 i_ 5 



Fe.toa 1 1 1 1 1— S Bnce 1 1 1 1 1-5 



JohuHaskell 1 1 0—2 Johnson 1 1 1 1 l— g 



Kellogg 1 1 1—3 Turrill 1 oil 1-4 



In shooting off the ties at thirty-one yards, Organ took first money, 

 and Tamil second. 



Bogabdus Afro Cakver.— St. Paul, Sept. T — During the Pair week 

 those noble ohampUniB— Bo^ar.iua and Carver— formed one of the chief 



attractions, ex ;b(flt people at olcc-. aud doing more 



thanhonorto tneir air afly meritorious ecor.is. «'e print a score of 

 each shooter, made with shot-guns, Hoganins using his Scott's and 

 Carver the Porter gun. Wednesday, Sept. 4, to break 600 glass balls on 

 time. Uogardus shoots 535 times in 25m. J7a.: 



First hundred....! 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 

 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 t 1 1 1 1 t 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 

 1111111111111111111111111111111110101 

 111101 0—9t. 



Second hundred.. ..1 011 11 1 11 1 1 OU11 11101 Hill 1 

 1111111111111111111111111111111111111 

 1-1 11111111111111101 111 111110 10111111 I 

 11111 1-62. 



Third hunired 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 I 1 1 I lllllllll l • 1 1 



1) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 l 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 

 1111111111111111111110 111111111111111 

 —93, 



Fourth uunttad. ..1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 I 

 11111101 11111111111111111111111011111 

 U1111M1U1I11I 1111111111111 llllllll, 

 01111111111 1—97. 



Fifth hundred. ..lOllllllllllltllllliiiii,!! 

 1111110 1110 1110 111110 11111110 1110 1111 



ooioniJiL i 9 i. iiiiii,ii,iiitiii]1111111 



fieanlt— boo hit, 85 missed ; time, more than four minutes ahead of 

 best time. 



Carver— Wednesday, Sept. 4— To break 100 glass balls on time, from 

 Sri ,t*P' 1>ilr . ker sun, sev uteen siralgtit, one missed and a clean 



1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 t J, 



CAiniB.-Atthe close of the Minnesota State Fair Dr. Oarver, the 

 celebrated rifle shot, did the following teal s on Sept, 7 : He broke 96 

 out of 100 glass balls with a rifle ; broke 100 glass bills with a rtae In 

 4m. 80s.; hit 22 out of 28 balloons, set afloat in the air at onoe, and 

 broke 111 balls straight with a shot-gun. 



PrrasBimo, Pa,, Sept. 12, f.78, 

 Mttmar Powder Co., BinnluinUnn, N. T. ; 



Gents.— I took 300 shells, loaded with your powder by Squires oi 

 New York, to Minnesota with me. 1 hunted prairie chickens and'aB- 

 tonished my companions with very long and difficult shots. I thlukyou 

 should make a point on field shooting. I shot 100 shots without clean- 

 ing my gun. That is quite impossible with black powder. 

 Adv.[— Very respectfully, dr. W F, Cabveb. 



For Forest and Stream and Rod and Gun. 

 ARCHERY RANGES AND BOWS. 



THE writers on archery give preference to long-rang 

 shooting, recommending, as docs your correspondent 

 Mr. Holberton, in the Fouest ani> Stbbam of Aug. 1 from, 

 fifty to seventy-five yards for ladies and odc hundred 'yards 

 for gentlemen. This long-range shooting is very attractive 

 and exhilarating, but it may be doubted whether sixty yards 

 is too short for the longest accurate shooting for the average 

 man. Forty yards, using from fifty to seventy pound bows 

 is the best distance at which to shoot a test match. Beyond 

 forty yards, an element of accident begins to affect results 

 which element may give to the poor shooter the victory over 

 the expert. To explain this : Suppose you are shooting at 

 one hundred yards, using the regulation target described by 

 Mr. Maurice Thompson in his book on archery. The expert 

 may bit the target ten times out of fifteen shots, while the 

 poor shooter may bit it but twice. But suppose the two hits 

 of the latter are one in the gold and one in the red. They 

 coimt sixteen, while the expert's ten .hits may be one inner 

 white, counting five ; one black, counting three, and eight 

 outer whites/counting one each. The game is a tie I Indeed 

 I saw this happen the other day. Of course, the ten hits 

 wore really better shooting than the two. 



At short range the archer may become wonderfully accu- 

 rate. I do not at all doubt that Dr. Oarver bit blocks of 



the air, and they are known to have killed birds on the wing 

 and to have broken balls from a trap with their favorite 

 weapons. Now that archery is one of our out-door sports 

 why not begin at once to discuss it and study it ? Here in 

 America we have generally beaten the world at everything 

 else, why not lead in this noble sport ? No doubt archers 

 will differ about bows as widely as gun-shooters do about 

 different makes of guns. Mr. Maurice Thompson in his 

 book, gives preference to self lemonwood bows for general 

 purposes aud to snakewood bows for fine, quick actioD 

 Mr. Holberton prefers Spanish yew. So did the old English 

 archers. But Mr. Thompson may be right after all, for the 

 Spanish yew is not so good as it formerly was, haviDg been 

 culled for hundreds of years ; and then snakewood or lemon- 

 wood were not used or known of old. 



I wish to agitate the question of an American manufacture 

 of bows. Dr. Carver says he prefers a hickory or ash bow 

 to the finest English make. Mr. Thompson recommends our 

 mulberry, cedar, black locust, sassafras and ash. Archery 

 never can become widely popular so long as good bows cost 

 so much and break so easily. I have broken several fine 

 Highfield bows this summer at an average cost of seven dol- 

 lars each, including one snakewood backed bow, which cost 

 sixteen dollars. This might please a millionaire, but I feel 

 a little purse-sore over my losses. A good, durable, horn- 

 tipped bow ought not to cost over three dollars at the outside 

 and ought to last at least one season. The backed bows that 

 are imported by our dealers seem to get injured in their tran- 

 sit across the ocean. The glue seems weak, and the back 

 parts from the belly. Let us have through your journal the 

 ideas of your readers upon this subject. We must have good 

 cheap bows. 



Crawfordsulle, Ind., Sept. 1878. 



The MacKinnon Pen.— Why, it is a perfect substitute for 

 brains, for it walks along the page of its own accord. With 

 this fountain pen it is as easy to write down a thought as to 

 talk it. When a man writes a good deal— and an editor has to 

 do it— sometimes the most brilliant idea goes on the wing and 

 is clean out of sight while you are dipping your pen in the 

 ink. The fountain pen wants no dipping, but just keeps on 

 writing. There is no smearing of one's lingers with ink, no 

 overflow of black fluid, no pressure of the fingers on the hold- 

 er is necessary. The point is most ingenious, the ink always 

 flowing around it. As this portion of the pen is of iridium it 

 must be everlasting. There is no scratching, no spluttering 

 of the ink. It is light, and does not encumber the hand. In 

 fact it is the best pen we ever put our fingers to. 



Long Island Ratlkoad. — Having carried already this year 

 over 600,000 passengers, the L. I. R. R. has been very fiee 

 from accidents. This most encouraging fact is due to the un- 

 tiring energy of the officials. This road may be said to have 

 commented a new era of usefulness. It has devoted itself, in 

 contradistinction to its former policy, to render the road in- 

 viting to those who wished to make Long Island their perma- 

 nent or summer home. With increasing traffic, it has kept 

 place with the demand for extra accommodation. It is no 

 longer an arduous task to reach one's home in Long Island 

 Passing through a beautiful country, the L. I. K. R. has 

 known how to take advantage of the situation. By giving 

 greater facilities to travelers and sportsmen, it has becomeone 

 of the most popular of all roads running out of New York. 



P-~«H • 



Dudley's Loader.— We call attention to the adTertise- 

 meut of this useful;instrument. 



