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flesh and bide on the off side. But if, on the contrary, it 

 only strikes meat, it may, and generally will, go completely 

 through. Wiih heavii r charges of powder aud ball, of course 

 9 are different, but i am now speaking of the forty 

 grain powder cartridge. Of one thing I can vouch, viz., 

 that after I gave up nay Winchester, I ueed a 45-100 calibre 

 regulation Springfield rifle, 70 grains powder and 400 grains 

 lead, and that with this gun, which was infinitely a stronger 

 shooter than the Winchester, I lost many an antelope, shot 

 clean through (perhaps a little loo far behind the shoulders), 

 •when I feel satisfied 1 would have bagged him with my 

 Smaller but explosive, bullet, which did not weigh half as 

 much, nor would it have had one quarter the penetration. 



This summer I am using a Sharps', ca.libre_.45, 110 grains 

 powder, and an explosive ball <Vbi.cn weighs about 370 grains. 

 The effect of this on an antelope is fearfully demoralizing— in 

 fact, it absolutely floors them. On my last hunt on the Belle 

 Fourche, near Beat Butte, Black Hills, where we are camped 

 this summer, I killed four antelope in five consecutive shots, 

 all over 300 yards; the only reason I did not kill the fifth was 

 that 1 overestimated the distance and overshot. On this same 

 hunt I killed several other antelope, and never failed to "call 

 them in " at one shot with these bullets. The objection to an 

 explosive bullet in shooting in timber is that it may strike a 

 branch and explode before reaching the object aimed at. I 

 have experimented on that, shooting with my Sharps' through 

 a three-inch stick of cottonwood, after which the ball went 

 Straight enough to strike a deer's body for over thirty yards; 

 in fact, when the centre of the stick was hit, the ball wont as 

 true as a solid bullet would go under same circumstances, a) 

 that if , by misfortune, one does hit a branch, in either case 

 the chances are that a miss will be the result. 1 make my 

 own bullets, having had the mould made by the 'Winchester 

 Rifle Company, at the moderate charge of $3. I place in the 

 cavity a long calibre 33400 rim-iiic shells, and have found 

 them in every way entirely satisfactory. They do not com. 

 pare with an Enii'llsh Express rifle bail, prihe pally because 

 the rifles themselves are groove I differently ; also in the 

 matter of trajectory are they somewhat different, from same 

 cause. 



I entirely agree with Van Dyke. His ideas are precisely 

 like mine, for although a Fair shot myself, I never count on 

 an antelope over 250 yards, and even under that distance they 

 frequently show me their ''white shields" and skip. 



It would not do, however, to expect to kill buffalo wiih a 

 Winchester, calibre 44, with explosive bullels. I have seen 

 that tried repeatedly, and know beyond a doubt that the solid 

 ball in that gun is tar belter, as there is not penetration enough 

 in so light a shell ; but with a heavier load the old bull comes 

 down as gracefully as the antelope, for nothing can stand be- 

 fore a shell, if of sullicieut weight and driven by, say 120 

 graius powder— 1 mean no game on this continent. 



For deer shooting I cannot, imagine a better gun than the 

 new model Winchester, if properly built; as lliey make them 

 now, the stocks are so straight that 1 cannot handle them at 

 all ; but by ordering one that can be remedied, such a gun, 

 with explosive shells, is about perfection. Gauoho. 



Camp of Cavalry in the Field, Bear Butts, D. T, 



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GAME IN SEASON FOR OCTOBER. 



Moose, Ahesmatrhis. 



CarlboQ, Tarandus rangifer. 



Elk or wapiti, Den . i » iii i 



Bed or Va. 'leer, <\ riitjinlriius. 



Squirrels, rc-d, black ami gmy. 



Bare*, browmuw gray. 



Kent! or rice lard, botlchonyx oryz- 



Wilil r.urtev, ileh:mirl< nitllopavo, 



Pinnated urease or prairie Chick- 

 En, Cupirtonia eupido . 



Huffed grouse or pheasant, Bonasa 

 timbeUv*. 



Quad or partridge, Oriyx virc/inia- 

 nus. 



Black-bellied plover, ox-eye, Squt 



tarola helvetica. 

 Ring plover, ^Egialilis semipalmt 



his. 

 Stilt, or lorjg-Bbanks, UimmUum, 



ni.Jricutli.H. 

 K.ed-t.lvIVed Mi'ip" 



, Or dowitehor, 

 id sandpiper, or ox-bird, 

 a iled godwit, or marlln, 



Wrllet, Tolanus semipalmatitA. 

 Tattler, Totauus msJanoleiicus. 

 Yellow-shanks, Totanm Jlavipa. 



"Bay birds" generally, including various species of plover, sand 

 piper, snip.-, curicw, .jtsirr-rau'iu-r, surf lards, pimiaropcs, avoeets, 

 etc., coming under the group Mmncolce or Shore Birds. 



tw~ This table does not apply to all the Slates. It is meant to repre- 

 sent the game which is generally In season at this time. State regula- 

 tions may prohibit the killing of some species of game here mentioned. 



Game in JIabket.— Pinnated grouse (prairie chickens), $1.25 

 per pair; partridge (ruffed grouse), $1.25 to $1.50 per pan'; mal- 

 lard ducks, 75 cents to SI per pair ; black do., 75 cents per pair ; 

 widgeon do., CO cents per pair; broad bill do., 50 cents per pair; 

 teal do., 60 to 70 cents per pair; Wilson enipo, .$3 per doz.; 

 rails, $1 to $1.25 cents per doz.; reed birds, 75 cents to SI per 

 doz.; Phildelphia squabs, S2 to t3 per doz. 



Ponllrj — Philadelphia and Bucks County dry piohed chickens, 

 18 to 22 cents per pound ; do. fowls, 10 to 18 cents ; do. turkeys, 

 IB to 20 cents ; do, ducks, 18 to 20 cents; do. geese, 10 to 18 

 cents ; State and Western chickens, 16 to 18 eents ; do. turkeys, 

 16 to 18 cents ; do fowls, 15 to Hi cents ; do. ducks, 13 to 15 cents; 

 do . geese, 10 to 12 cents, 



Cahada— Gr&oenkwtt, Sept. 23.— The first deer brought 

 into the village this season had an extra horn, which had 

 grown out of the. one on the right side of the head, about au 

 "inch above the base of the skull, was nearly as large as 

 either of theother two. It had three antlers, the others "four 

 each. The deer was in prime condition, weighing 175 pounds 

 when dressed. He was shot near the village. J. S. 



Deer's horns are subject to all eccentricities of shape. 

 German illustrated sporting papers very frequently contain 

 cuts of misshapen antlers. We have in our office a single 

 horn, once worn as a distinguishing ornament by a doe. 



Massachhsbtts— New Bedford, Sept. 28.— The Pasque and 

 Cultyhunk Club fishing houses close their doors nest week. 

 Some few striped bass taken the past week. Mr. Ghas. S. 

 Randall caught one Monday of large size, but the fishermen 

 are waiting for the fall run of Menhaden as as to bring the 

 striped bass iu shore again. Conoiia. 



New 3w3axi—Ham,montuwn,Bept. 21.— On Mulberry River, 

 Some thirteen miles I rom here, we have good shooting when 

 the rail birds do come. I can kill more birds on a hundred 

 acres of meadow than I could on a mile along the Delaware 

 River. Have boen down twice this year; tides were good, 

 but no birds, they not ye* having made tlunr appearance. The 



wild oats being green and not, ripe probably was the cause. 

 I have shot rail for twenty-five years, and never yet have I 

 seen as many birds as I did last full. Quail and pheasants 

 promise to be uo usually abundant this falL, and I calculate on 



having grand sport. I,. \V. S. 



KiiuKi/'a Axhhy Jhuse, September 22.— Black ducks and 

 sprigtails are coming on in large numbers. Yesterday the 

 flats between High Bar and the (Ham island was covered 

 with them. The season opens October 15. 



Ssim atFobked River— Ekeehold, A r . J., Sept. 2(i.— Lasi 

 Saturday morning we came to anchor oif Bamrgit Light, 

 jumped into our yawls and went over on to the tints. The 

 birds (tew Ihick for about three hours, red marlius, ring-tail 

 marlins nnd beach snipe. The two shots of the party, J. A. 

 Ward, of Freehold, andCapt. Foreman Matthews, bugged over 

 seventy birds. The season is just opening, birds nreswarm- 

 Ulg, are in prime condition, and all the conditions for success- 

 ful aud satisfactory sport at Forked River most complete. 



Fox. 



Pennsylvania — Philadelphia,, Sept. 30.— Last Monday a 

 flock of quail made their appearance here right in my neigh- 

 borhood, Twentieth and Mount Vernon streets. Thursday 

 morning, 26th, a large flock of wild pigeons Hying to the 

 south. Two of us bagged in Chester County, ten gray squir- 

 rels; 9th, in Gloucester County, N. J., we bagged fourteen 

 gray squirrels. R. F. 



Blairsville, Sept. 27.— The Blairsville Forest Club has just 

 returned from their annual club hunt ou the banks of Black- 

 lick Creek, iu the Chestnut Ridge, and a rant lime they had of 

 it. The camp was a complete success, as their gather! 

 always are. During the camp the club elected the following 

 officers to serve for ensuing year: c. B. .Street, Pies.; Root. 

 Spencer, Vice-Pres.; W. G. Tiieec, Sec: T. I). Cunningham, 

 Treas. The club is growing in numbers and in interest, aud 

 our camps-out are anxiously looked forward to Trom year to 

 year, and each year finds more members, who spend a week 

 in the grand old woods. W. 0. T. 



Bquiebbi HuNTiiKs. — 'She squirrel hunters of Tionesta, 

 Pa., mustered last week for a side hunt, under Capt. D. M. 

 MeGauehey, were twenty-one aimed men, aud an equal num- 

 ber upheld the banner of Capt. E. A.. Leary. Leary's scon 

 was: 22 black, 18 gray, and 374 pine squirrels ; total njirahe 

 of points earned, 1, Pi!?. McGauchey's >id<- sc >tvd 23 black, 

 IS gray, and 328 pine squirrels; the total count of points being 

 1,702. 



A squirrel hunt at Clearfield, Ta., the previous Saturday, 

 rcsulled in a very good record, the biggest squirrel killed 

 turned out to be a hear. 



Kentucky — Ashbynburg, September 22.— Small game in 

 abundant, such as squirrels, cpiail and rabbits. A party driv- 

 ing for deer last week Eaw two, but the whole party failed in 

 getting a shot. The dogs also ran out two turkeys, which 

 were killed. We have no pointers nor setters nor other sport- 

 ing dogs, but deer and fox-hounds, and they have been on 

 the decline for some time. Hunters here use the old-fashioned 

 muzzle loader. I have tho only breech-loading firearm in thi; 

 part of the country. The majority of shot-guns here are 

 single-barrel of the old-time sort, small bore, and from 36 to 

 42 inch barrel. People here hunt, quail very little, and then 

 only when there is snow on the ground, and they can find 

 them huddled so as to kill several at a shot. There are no 

 wing shots, and when one happens to accidentally knock over 

 anything running or flying he thinks he has doue something 

 remarkable; a thing to be remembered and blown about on 

 every occasion. Paddy O'Leaby. 



Illinois. — Charleston, Sept. 24.— C. aud J. Hughes, seven 

 miles southeast Trom here, in the hickory flats, killed 'fifteen 

 squirrels the other day. Good hags are there made. Wild 

 pigeons arc getting plenty ou the flats. Mast is scarce ai 

 they do not. stay long. Quail are here in good number. 



J. B. D. 



Lake City, Sept. 24.— The ducks are coming in, and the 

 shooting on the Zumbro bottoms good. Quails are very plenty 

 and afford good sport. D, 



Minnesota— Owatonna, September 24. — A pelican was shot 

 near this city one day last week, the first one heard of in tl 

 vicinity. Are they found far from the coast as a general 

 tbing? J. p. E. 



Pelican are common in northern Minnesota. The I'elica- 

 rddec are found in nearly all temperate and tropical countries, 

 and are not confined to the coast. In the West the while va- 

 riety is common ; the brown is strictly maritime. 



Colorado— Hot Sulphur Sprint/it, Sept. 22.— The fall hunt- 

 ing season is fairly opened ; elk, deer and antelope are plenti- 

 ful aud in tine condition. The first is most sought after just 

 now. Almost every day wagons pass here loaded with elk 

 meat, bound for Georgetown, where there is a ready market 

 for local consumption and for shipment by rail to Denver and 

 other points. At least twenty men arc now engaged in elk 

 hunting for market in Middle and North parks. Incidentally 

 many deer and antelope are also killed. Gordon Cnmmings, 

 the celebrated African hunter, is here, making this place his 

 base of operations, but at present in the North Park. Several 

 other parties from Europe and from Eastern Suites aro in the 

 neighborhood hunting. W. N. B. 



Wild Pigeons. — Will our correspondents throughout the 

 country kindly give us full and immediate information in re- 

 gard to the flight of wild pigeons in their respective seel ions, 

 from which poiut of the compass they came and, if alighting, 

 how long they have remained, in what direction they have 

 gone. 



What it Costs. — The expenses of a day's fun with the 

 birds are now so light tint we rarely hear any complaint on 

 this score. A well known professional gentleman of Nevada 

 City, Cal., went out for a whole clay's hunt recently, and this 

 is all it cost him : Guu and ammunition, $4; spirits fermenti 

 for sun burn, SI. 50 ; horse and carnage $5 ; ruined boots and 

 pants, $33; lost ring, $6 ; lost pocket-knife, $1.50; total, 

 *51. He killed three birds. 



—Mr. F. J. Abbey, of the firm of F. J. Abbey & Co., of 

 Chicago, died in that city on the 23d ult. The firm was 

 among the oldest gun dealers in the United States, and Mr. 

 Abbey was widely known among the sportsmen of the East 

 and West. 



Light Charges— Editor Forest and Stream : I never load 

 my No. 10 gauge Seott. & Son breech-loader, nine and a half 

 pounds, with over Tour and one-quarter drachms of powder. 

 " Can viis-Back," I think, avoids the issue. I simply assert 

 that my gun will burn more powder than that above named— 

 not that it will make hotter penetration or pattern with over 

 that amount of powder. " Canvas-Back " advances a theory 

 that it will not burn more than four drachms. I stated what 

 I considered facts to prove Unit it would, one of which— col. 

 lectmg the uncxplorted grains and firing them again— "Can 

 vas-liack ignores. I doubt also if many will coincide with 

 his explanation, that tne extra powder gives the extra recoil 

 without being burned in the barrel. It is pleasant, however, 

 to dispute the question with so amiable a correspondent as 

 •Canvas- Back" evidently is. I shou'd like a day's sport 

 With bun in spite o his theory , to wide,. I cannot subscribe. 



Boston, Sept. 23, 1878. F[;alIi . 



The discussion between our two correspondents f great 

 interest, because within the last week the queslio f "how 

 much powder a rifle would burn was brought up efore a 

 court iu a criminal case now exciting marked atten in the 

 Slate. Why do not some of our readers try this exo jnient ? 

 Lay a number of sheets of white papa- on the gr mid say 

 ten or fifteen feet along from the muzzle of the gun, and then 

 having a determined load, fire it, and so catch the grains of 

 unconsumed powder on the paper. Such experiments would 

 be useful and interesting. We may state that the general 

 tendency of sportsmen is to overload. 



A Model Camp Stove.— ProL G. H. Rouey, he musical 

 sportsman of East Saginaw, Michigan, who divides his affec- 

 troris between Beethoven and Nimrod, has lately contrived a 

 portable camp stove which certainly does great' credit to his 

 inventive senius, and ii most nearly fills the requirements of 

 a permanent camp ol any stove which we have ever seen. 

 Us heigh ,s 20 inches; depth, from front to back, 20 in ; 

 breadth, Mm.) .oven, 24x21 in, 13} in. high at back and !)i 

 in high under lire box. Stove is built of best No. 18 charcoal 

 (sheet) iron, and weighs, empty, 128 pounds, packed ready fo 

 carnage, loo pounds. The fire box contains 7,1 feet of tele- 

 scopic stove pipe, tour stove legs and lid lifter, while in the 

 oven is packed thr lollowing list of stove aud table ware • 



One do/., tl-inch tin plates, 1 doz- half-pint fin cups, 1 doz 

 pint tin basins, 1 doz. teaspoons, ldoz knives, ] doz forks -i 

 doz. table spoons, 3 bread plates, 4 pic tins, 2 large iron 

 spoons, 1 carver and fork, 1 bread knife, 1 two.quart tea 

 steeper, 2 six-quart pans, 1 one quart dipper, 2 dripping pans 

 11x18 inches, 1 thirteen inch frying pan, 1 six-quart coffee- 

 pot, 1 gridiron 12x18 inches, 1 eight-quart tea kettle, 1 ten- 

 quart iron kettle, 1 twelvc-quart tin pail, 4 pepper and salts 

 J vinegar bottles 1 cooking folk, 1 griddle paddle, 1 stove 

 rim, 1 grate 14x24 inches. Total 111 articles. 



R. M. Ku.nv's Catalogue.— For the convenience of bis 

 many Canadian patrons, Mr. R. M. Kilby, of Montreal has 

 published an exhaustive c dalogue of all varieties of sporting 

 goods. In it may he found prices of gunpowder, shells and 

 cartridges, guns, fishing rods, lines, and an extensive line of 

 all the leading English and American articles. Mr. Kilby 

 being a courreur des boh, is thoroughly conversant with all 

 camp furniture and the best outfit. No department has been 

 overlooked, and as Mr. Kilby is agent for all the leading man- 

 ufacturers, anything wanted can be most expeditiously ob 

 lamed. Any orders given to Mr. Kilby are under his personal 

 supervision. To our American friends going to Canada on a 

 hunting expedition, we would advise that they call on Mr 

 Kilby, of Montreal, and make their purchases at his estab- 

 lishment. 



Alotion Sale of BitEKon-LoAniNG Guns.— To-morrow 

 and Saturday Messrs. Barker & Co. will sell by auction an 

 assortment of English and American breech and' muzzle-load- 

 ing sporting guns, also several long and short range rifles 

 We were present at the sale last week, and although the prices 

 realized were low, it was pronounced successful. The spa- 

 cious room in which the sale was conducted and the bidding 

 especially when liner guns were put up, was quite spirited 

 1 he present display is said to be much superior to the one of 

 last week, and therefore should awake deeper interest. Every 

 facility is afforded to examine the guns thoroughly before 

 purchasing, and for this purpose catalogues are issued, and 

 guns placed on exhibition two or three days before the sale 

 The firm of Barker & Co. tire well known, and what they as" 

 sert is generally considered correct. — [See adv. 



Mr. Ira A. Paine.— This renowned shot has just finished 

 a most successful engagement at the St. James Tneatre. Mr. 

 Paine goes to Pittsburgh, where he will open at the Academy 

 of Music. Iu the City of Smoke he will make a first appear- 

 ance, aud the spectators will be able to discriminate between 

 the various schools of Paine, Bogardus or Carver. It is Mr, 

 Paiuc's first appearance iu Pittsburgh. 



For Forest and Stream and Bod and Qun 

 OCTOBER SPORT IN VIRGINIA. 



TF there is a profession which is more overworked and 

 -L underpaid than the newspaper business, it is not known to 

 mortal man. There is some rest for tie weary, the hymn- 

 book says, but for tho searcher after news, the seeker 

 afler truth, aud tho hopeless collector after unpaid subscrip- 

 tions, 1 here is no rest this side of Jordan, except now and 

 then when the printer's devil learns how to read proof and 

 takes the reporter's place. 



The acme of happiness for one of the "fraternity " is to 

 have a railroad pass in his hat, and a free invitation to the 

 Springs iu his pockci, and, like Mr. Dick Swiveller, he can 

 sing that song, "Begone dull care." Tie hue Bohemian 

 never thinks of the future, he is essentially :u.a truly improvi- 

 dent, aud, like a soldier, he lives in the present, ho is the best 

 of comrades, for only the scribe cultivates that navoirfraire 

 by which he makes friends and items as he goes along in the 

 world ; he is imaginative, for by stretching that positive 

 virtue, he lives and Urrives ; in fact, to sum it all up, he is 

 what the French call " Ye bon tig." 



The outlook in Virginia for sporting this fall is an un- 

 usually good one. Game of all kinds is more abundant than 

 I ever knew of before, and the sportsman will have his band 



