FOREST AND STREAM. 



59 



— A match has been made between Capt. Bogardus and 



Win, Carson, of Philadelphia, in that city, on the 23d. 

 Mr. Bogardus shoots from five traps. English rules; 30 

 yards; Carson shoots from one trap, same distance. 



Besh Tax. N. V., AngustS8th, IST4. 



EllITOK Fof,e*T AND STREAM:— 



On the 19th Of August a trap shoot came off at Braneliport, Y*ate* 

 county, >". Y., eight miles from Penn Tan. Five birds each were shot 

 at, 21 yards riee. SO yards boundary. 



Score. . Total 



A Amidon ,.11111 5G Wyckoil 1 1 ! 3 



lllli SG.Wagenar 10 10 1 8 



R B. Strong 1 1 1 1 4 ' -J . Coryell 8 2 (I i a 



A Wadley.. - 10111 4 W. Sheldon 00101 9 



. . ,11011 4 W.Keenier I 1 8 



101 11 1 W. Race, oiioo 3 



". Conklfn 110 1 3 



They then went bHck to 31 yards, and undei he rati - md Ire, 

 ehoi at more pigeons, Mr. Strong being (riot - ' - 



succession. Hone of the others killed more than two. Strong used a 

 .,i Beldpiece, a ten-pounder, which vrnsdi ■. idcdl: mutderouE 

 ai colli morale and hint. Pi in ok Tjup. 



Byeu's Station, Jackson county, Ohio. August 23d, 187-1 



Et-ITOK FoRKST AND STREAM:— 



1 sen! y„M enclosed score of a pigeon match shot at Fori - 1 , 

 an the IStij inst. : 



i.BAHAJl'* 



a n Tata 



Vfm. Martin 1110 



I - B i 10 11 D 



EW1T12 T)a\is 11111 



T'. Stowe. .. .10 



G. Stewart I 1 1 



Torn Kinney 11000 



James Code 11110 



A. Lawsou.. .. 1 U I) 10 



soury 10 110 



Tom Noel 1 1 i I 



S. H. Graham 1 1 



icon 



HiCaptain Williams... 1110 1 



SlCbarles Burt 1101! 



i Brown .. .01011 

 '.-■--.•■ | l || 



a i d - - 



: ..-::.... I l 1 1 



; l is SlSTH s. . (1 I 



j \ rtn M- .11011 



3W. H.Peleis 



4|EnocbHeiies I 



-.' Sam Tearger 1 I 1 o 1 



Total 39 Total 



Vet) i i II. C. sn-o-M IK 



INOPERATIVE GAME LAWS. 



goal 



Prioi 



to. JJ- .1.. Mtgisl 



my koowledgi ol «dod l< Lt-i toi 



to say I know of none tOi - 



3 J c 



od t 



edi 



Conn i 



N. J., koon i 



partridge "rounds. Tbe severity vi that wintei --no-.-. 



(crusted. i and extreme cold, destroyed nl ni - - n-rt 



staned, and th- greater part of the ruimundm 



those who should have protected thrill. ] he Boot Utile h . ; - red, 



nearly frozen quails sought sh and food aruund : ., -- n\d 



within the bank, and •- 



farmers and theit buy-. With a full knowledge 



same, kiiov.ii-i^ a'.-.- :"!,..: it w-<e«lo* si ison, n stil . c --'. : 11 d 



them. Xotbing was done about if. Right here 1 imagine hearing you in. 



dtgnanrty exclaim: -'Why [he d !. uheie. I kneu jroti would swear,) 



didn't you prosecute them':'' Well,Mr, Editor, sit down, keep 



ni press : -■ ; facts d the i ta ft it kt o« a u on it 1 . ■ ■ a 



claiming Sutletn as my home, donol i side ■> I 



ITS. Well I '' I tllii act of 



barbarity and endeavored to make a ■ u 



At once 1 was persuaded to lei the matter drop, and mat, i.y In 



men of -he place. The farmers, with but few exceptions, had always 

 , i r-.,; -.-. ... table sportsmen to shoot over their grounds, and shoi.ld 

 1 move in the mailer it w "-' arouse the i ttimosity of the elan, ami tlu-n. 

 good by to all future- sport. "- Ince gel a Jersey Dutchman mad, and he 

 w-Ul tight to the death." is an old sayinsr. and not without -omen ilh in 

 it. So finding the sentiment strongly against iaw. together with the fact 

 that I could not depend o a a single to and would be left with noth- 

 ing but hearsay, which would not be evidence, the murder was allowed to 

 pass by. although noticed, unforgotteu and unfoigiven. Since then there 

 has been a scarcity of email in that h nullify. Last fall, on a certain farm, 

 there were several flocks of birds, and, having an invitation from the 

 Qwnsr to come and shoot them. I weut November 1st only to find two 

 bevies and a few- scattering birds. Was informed that 1 had waited too 

 long, that the pot hunters, [what a contemptible, despicable set they are! 

 had preceded me, aud that they had bean shooting them on tit sly, 5 

 bird, or two. at a time, ever since the. middle of October, Bverj Jay. Sun- 

 days included. He had tried to prevent it. but before he could get to 

 them they were gone. 



Anothar reason why there are so few quails found after November let 

 in that portion of Ihe State, is, on account of the ignorance of many 

 sportsmen of the State boundaries, which proven the necessity for Dram.pt 

 legislation which will enact a general law f.. rgami rougl [States 



As you know, the quail shooting begins Qctobu 30 . StateofNew 



York, and not until November 1st in Xew Jersey. A sportsman, being a 

 stranger, starts out in New York, intending to coniine* himself to its 

 domain; what is Ms surprise to learn that he i- a poacher— a transgressor 

 f law— in fact, that he is killing bird- in New Jersey. 



Many such scenes have 1 witnessed, and I couldn't donbt the siiieeriiv 

 of the parties when expressing their infeigued regrets. An unseen and an. 

 unknown dividiug liue. with laws dissimilar, except as Co penalties. 

 How many liave^suffered unjustly through them? Do your level best. 

 Air. Editor, to accomplish no: only the repeal ol the old lav - (game,) and 



the passage of a general law. but to prohibit I rer thekniiiuj at an] 



birds during the spring and summer. Pi 1 tranters are qui how ostensibly 

 hunting woodcock in the corn, but who. in reiilii . ire Selling . -. ei unai] 

 they flush: aye. even more, they are actually hunting quails, and so h will 

 be up to the last flight of the woodcock, where we, poor devils, who re- 

 spect and observe the laws will find feathers of quail long -in. e shot, 

 but no birds. 



Beside the pot hunters, we are cursed with a still meaner lot of 

 hounds— the market men. who trap and. snare birds for a living, and who 

 formerly took ten birds with their snares to every one shot by a tporlS- 

 man. You have seen these devices. ha\ en't you :- A pathw ay cleared l.o 

 brushing away the leaves for the distance, of say twenty feet in length, 

 and a foot in width— « few grains of corn sprinkled hen, and there on it, 



by a st.-. : 1 d I 



brass wire- the little stick 

 suspended and in the foi 

 comes the partridge, he see- 

 reaches the -gate." takes a 





I go a 



nmd, v 



it li 



inshes his breast firmly against li goes the bar from the 



notches, up springs the sapling aud the poor bird is snared. Sometimes 

 in mid>arf they hang dead, and again li they are heavy, and tbe sapling 



i ■ uk -I i :. tannd with theu-toes |nsi tow bine tl e & i fuN i, 



but being constantly choked. Aud so the bud- are murdered and taken 

 by hunters. This year mj fumflj ate at Suffern and 1 spend the Sab, 

 bath* with them, audit the birds dou't have a better show for lung life 

 than heretofore, it will be because they fell at the sharp crack of a shot 

 gun. 

 As to shootiug quail out of season this year in that part of the world, I 



think it will be utterly impossible to do it without getting shot in return, 

 it is now an eye for an eye aud a tooth for a tooth, for the motto with the 

 people there now is taken from scripture, (and you being of the Church- 

 going kind like myself, will like it. I "He who killeth" game out of 

 season with any kind of weapon, so shall he also be killed likewise— 

 Selah. You remember the passage, don't you? If was one of the 

 Deacon's' favorites. 



Now I find I've written you a "tremein-:. :i lone, and have given 



you the answer to your question, and though it is. not satisfactory' to yn 



or to me. -till, it is the truth. 



There will be considerable more game tlri* year than last, and 1 think 



Hand parti to -ill be fair. Partridge 



are very plentiful: never saw more thau now. and you can find them any- 



h ilieRjimapo /Jountain.s. 



v .o- respectfully, E. S Wan 



«■» 



PROTECTION OF GAME. 



Tin- contributor who sends ihe following communication 

 prefaces it with o subscription to Fouest Ami Stream, 

 rind this very flattering remark: "I have not taken or con- 

 tributed lo a sporting paper since the extinction of I lit- old 

 Spirit of the Times under Porter and Richards."— En. 



Pomtret Centuk, Conn., August 84th, 1874. 

 Editor Forf.st and Stream:— 



In pursuance of a call for n National Sportsmens' Convention, to he 

 held at Niagara Falls on the 9th of September, a meeting was held at 

 Hartford, Conn, on the 18th inst., and live delegates were appointed, 

 with power to appoint live mjjre, to attend with themselves and reprt- 

 .,.',. heState of Connecticut, Cnder these circumstances tl - i usto 



elf a 



,- -po 



proper ome for tb 

 idem of Conneetic 

 that our game law 

 structionof game 





• defec 



preservation, in the tirst place- there should 

 ienall the Ne»»yngland states. The shoot- 

 ing- or otherwise taking of either tufled grouse, quail or woodcock, 



- ad commence alike in each on the same day, and I would suggest 



that day to be the first day of October in each year. Then prohibit trap- 

 ping or sharing, except for a proprietor's own table on their own 

 grounds, with ho power to ti an-mit the same right to others, even on 

 ii-e>. Then make the penalty large enough and possession 

 proof that the person in w hose possession game is illegally found caused 

 its death, utiles- they can satisfactorily prove to the contrary, aud pro- 

 ii tin offender for punishment. Then award one-half the penally to 

 the complainant that prosecutes to effect; also, it possible, empower 

 fti miii with the- right to search all persons where there is just 

 ground for suspicion that .-aid person has game in his or her possession 

 illegally taken. When such laws are enacted alike in all our sister 

 Slate-, as well as our own, we may then justly look for an increase, in- 

 stead or diminution of gume. As the laws have been scarcely two 

 States have laws alike. The summer shooting of woodcock has 

 ever called the. pot hunter into the field, with the exorbitant prices 

 paid by keepers of hotels and other fashlbnable resorts for summer birds: 

 when they are nearly worthless for the table and make no sport for the 

 real sportsman, but a rich harvest for the pot hunter, who makes no 

 scruple in bagging indiscriminately both half-fledged partridges «ac& 

 ring quail, lieeai.^e he eai - great prices. io be e-aleti under [he 



cognomen nl drib. Now. if there is no way to «top this indiscriminate 

 slaughter, the rising generation must look to some distant sporting fields 

 for that enjoyment that, with judicious legislation, they might tind near 

 their own doors. When 1 note the Email auieuut of game here now. in 

 comparison with the abundance of :i:';> yean a 0,1 Can but feel tbat 

 woodcock, and even rutied grouse. \-. ili Boon si retl slate that the pin- 

 nated, grouse or prairie chicken has already in the Eastern and Middle 

 ,- :,,!,-- some more effectual laws are enacted for their preserva- 

 tion. When I saw the call for a National Conveniien 1 fell that it was 

 the fl.-rt step in the right direction towards the preservation ot the game 

 in this country. For myself, the inlirmitt ' of age. according to the 

 common course of events, will soon forbid m uariicipaiiou in tin- pleas- 

 ures of the tield. But while! live I shall alwa . - feci an iuiei. i Inthe 

 success of others, and am not so selfish as to wiea to deprive the coming 

 veneration of that enjoyment 1 so dearly prize. 



Now, sir, 1 have conversed with many prominee gpoztanaen on this 

 subject, and feel 1 do not stand alone in this mallei. I shall t ■:■. in- 

 ward to the doings of this Convention with much interest, andean but 

 hupe they will not only act in unison, butwisely. Respectfully yours, 



Ethan Ai.i.en. 



PROTECTION OF ENGLISH SNIPE. 



PtEHMONT, N. Y.. Angus! g.'d. is; i. 



York, C 



hio. ifichi 













Dont 



t the .-nip, 













I hat [hi 

 they art 



'killed or i 



ot 





i killed 



on th 



,; v 



they no 



t be mon 



pie, 



tifnl 



in tb 



: fall, 



wh 



hreedin 



I grounds? 



Tin 



t the 



y bteed 



furth 



srs 



posed. 



r would, i 



not 



er-e 



tuted, i 



le fol 



ow 



been killed and the dale 



5 Of 



killing 



siiow 



Tl 



pose of 



ine-ubiition 



Be 



gen 



H, J- 



.May 



oil 



roe eon 



aty, N. Y. 



Jill, 



28t 



i, 1884 



Piern 



ion 



Thev f 



irmerly br 



sd in 



the 



town 



if Mat 



edi 



Those 1 



tiled near 



Spent 



, ii" 



rt, were 



UlldoU 



atet 



as there 



was quits 





dba 



; made. 



1 Inn 



- n 



-1 6 ,80 that we could have, good she 



some sport, and not work hard for one or 



birds. W. P. Stee: 



Cheedmoor.— On Tuesday August 25th, the contest for 

 the Qildersleeve medal, presented by the able Secretary of 

 the National Rifle Association took place. This prize was 

 open to the members of the Twenty-second Regiment 

 There were also a subscription badge to be shot for. For 

 the Gildersleeve badge, five shots eacli at 200 and 500 

 yards, gave the following result: — 



ivlAN-EATLNii TioEits ni In'dia.— The Tiiite-i of India has 

 the following: — "A man-eating tiger is roaming in the 

 vicinity of Ilazareebagh. It is estimated that, durinrthe 

 last six months he has killed Iwo hundred Hindoos." This 

 Shows that the government 18 doing nothing, and requires 

 a kick. Ilazareebagh is a spot of all others in India where, 

 with little or no trouble, the animal's death should be a 

 question of hours rather than days, or, asit appears tp have 

 been, weeks and months. 



[Where are those wonderful Express rifles V—Kd], 

 -».«■ 



jtySeveral interestieg communications for tins d. pari 

 ment are laid over till next week 



A*..r, 



■-W) v*. 



Private Doian.Co D 3 2 2 2 3 



Sergeant J. 11. Wood. Co li 



Sergeant A. Wood. Co. D 8 8 3 8 4 



Private Doerle. Co F. 288 8 8 



Private Beamo. Co. f) 2 3 2 2 3 



Sergeant Iteddv. Co. D 2 2 2 3 



Private Smith. Co. I) 2 2 2 2 



Private Carson, Co. D 1 2 8 8 3 



5 





i 



s- 





s- 



•ll 



I 8 i 4 4 U 



I.s 



... 



3 4 4 2 3 



us 



14 



4 2 2 4 2 



14 



13 



3 8 a 2 i 



M 



12 



3 3 4 4 d 



14 



9 



13 4 3 3 3 



IK 



H 



3 3 3 3 3 



15 



9 



i .. a i 



10 



19 



To Mr, Dolau was awarded the medal, which was to be 

 won three times to give possession. The wind blowing 

 briskly somewhat interfered with accurate shooting. 



The subscription badge was shot for, with ten shots 

 each at 200 and 500 yards. The following are the six best 

 scores: — 



. — Yards.— 



Kami. 



Sergeant l-'reeman. Co. 1-'.. 

 Private Backer, Co. F. . 





86 



24 



SOU Total. 

 53 



56 



As Sergt. Freeman hud, won Ihe badge twice before.it 

 now becomes Ilia property. A competition for places in 

 the team for Ihe match open lo the several regiments at the 

 approaching fall meeting, then took place. Private Dolan 

 taking the lead We append the seven best scores: — 



Xtimt.. 



jgoo rantt. ' S Isoo r«,-*-. | 



Private !>''.. 



3 2 4 3 3 

 3 2 i E -. 

 i ' I 



nd 



£ \rotat 



15 | 3 4 4 4 4 ; 16 I 33 

 14 S3 3 4 4 17 ' 



,3 4 3 3 4 , 1 , 



Si.r-(-;ii 



t-I.ll. Wood. C 



i, 1) ... | 23 3 3 3 



14 



4 4 3 2 2 



1S 



?fl 





Vim Rensselaer, 



C o . Li 3 2 3 3 



11 



4 4 2 4 3 



17 



•M 



Smith. Co. D... 



i .; . - : 



14 



1 3 3 3 3 3 



ia 



89 





tKeddy, Co. D 



3 3 2 2 2 



:a 



13 4 3 3 3 



16 



86 



On Wednesday Atigust 2tith, the selected team held their 

 Aral day's practice. As it was a preliminary meeting, 

 though shooting was carried on, it was not thought worth 

 while to report scores. The regulations requiring members 

 of the National Rifle Association to wear their badges 

 \\ hile practicing on ihe range, will hereafter be rigidij en- 

 forced. The fact that the badges had not been issued to 

 life members prevented its enforcement heretofore. It 

 veill also be necessary for members o£ the regimental team 

 to become members before they will be alloweel to practice 

 for the match open to the National Guard at the fall meet- 

 ing. The latter were permitted by the committee to prac- 

 tice free last year for the purpose of producing an interest 

 in rifle practice, but as ail of the regiments have now vis- 

 ited Ihe range, and derived some benefit from its privil- 

 eges, it is considered unfair by the directors to allow them 

 thegratuitious use of the range hereafter. 



On the 27th, the Fifty-fifth Regiment, under command 

 of Col. Grilon took place. Rifle practice was not as gen- 

 eral as it should have been in the regiment, though the 

 order of ihe men left nothing to be desired. We give the 

 five best scores, the general shooting being below the aver- 





Xanie. 



1-200 Ya-rdtl -2 I500 Yards. 

 1 § 1 



Total. 



Total. 



[.'■no 

 Privi 



in Fleischbein, Co. D 



1 3 3 883 



1 2 3 2 3 2 



. . . 8 213 a 



. . . 3 3 3 2 



18 



n 



12 

 10 



3 3 4 2 



2 3 2 3 2 



3 8 3 

 -3 3 2 



11 



10 



s 



23 

 21 

 19 

 18 



Op Saturday August 2!)th, the second "coaching" of the 



team took place. iVegive below the thirteen best scores:— 



.Va/M. 



■ n, ml T. S. Uilkin 



\. V I .mtield, Jr... 



I". S. Gardner 



John Bue.knur - 



al Dakiu's score 140, is a fair one, especially at 800 

 8 in a possible 60. The total score possible in the 

 being ISO. 



—On Monday August 31st, the Third Regiment of Car- 

 airy, Col. Dudke, were at Creedmoor. Arms used were 

 carbines, live shots at 100 and 200 yards. We append the 

 best ten -cores made: — 



Ifiun . «<>< ""■' Tuff Xuou. too 2tii rrr 



Capl l-'ie.iemaiik. Co. li 13 12 2s Sergt. Srruak.Co. li. . Hi 10 86 

 Prut. Se.noeder. Co. K .It. 9 25 Capt. Hoops. Co . P.. 13 13 24 

 Corn Just, Co. K tO S 34 I.I. I.ill-ries, Co. F... 14 9 S3 



Prvt. Kenchner, Co. I ...li 9 iSPrrt. Ooulaberg.Co.B li 8 22 



Sergt. Rhle.v, Co. « II S 22 Sergl. Ranges, Co. G. 13 7 83 



—Two competitions of ihe Provincial Rifle Association 

 Here closed at. Halifax on Ihe 25th, the association's chal- 

 lenge gold medal being won by Sergts. Harnes ami Cogs- 

 well, ami the challenge cup by Sergt. Ilarri. At, Halifax 

 on the 2?lh, Sergt. Corbiu of Hie Sixty-third Halifax rifles 

 won the silver medal. The battalion match was won by 

 the Seventy-eighth, Col. Chester. 



—All members of theiNational Rifle Association in future 

 when shoiuing al l 'reeilmoor, must exhibit their cards. 

 This rule is imperative, and will be enforced. Members of 

 teams arc required lo exhibit Iheir cards before practicing 

 on the range 



