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of New York;" that all men of Scottish depcent be eligible 

 for membership, and that the officers consist of President, 

 Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer. The committee's 

 report was accepted, and a committee of three was ap- 

 pointed to wait on James Gordon Bennett, Esq., and ask if 

 he will consent to become the President of the club. 



— Al Ottawa, Canada on the 18th, the Dominion Rifle 

 Matches were continued. The Provincial Match — 300, 500, 

 and 60t) yards was won by the Ontario team. Ontario 

 610; Quebec 287; New Brunswick 290; Nova Scotia 595. 

 Asst. Surgeon Ark in made the highest score, seventy-six 

 points. 



— On the 21st tit Creedmoor the contests took place between 

 members of the Forty-Fifth, Ninth, Seventy-Ninth and 

 Twelfth Regiments, the Twelfth team made the highest 

 aggregate score yet recorded, 355. Their team will consist 

 ol Messrs. Gildersleeve, Fulton, Smith, Wood, Smith, 

 Murphy, Redely, Dolau, Van Rensselaer, andBeattie. The 

 shooting of all 'the regiments was remarkably good. Vi i \- 

 rei'iiarlcuhh? progress lias been made in regimrntal prftctil'o 

 during the year, which will no doubt be apparent at the. 

 Fall Meeting. 



—It is not often that our breech loaders. are directly 

 pitted against the Metford rifle. On the 10th of this month 

 at Hamilton, Messrs. Adams and Mason, with Remington's, 

 shot against Messrs. .Morrison and Sehwarz, the latter using 

 Metfords. The shooting was to have been ten shots each, 

 at 800, 900, and 1,000 yards, but the Remington ammuni- 

 tion having given out, it was agreed that average- should 

 be taken. .Mr. Adams score was at 



800 yards— I 3 3 3 4 4 3 14 4—31 

 000 "—1314343 —35 



1000 " —4084844 -83 



The total averages were as follows: 



800 900 !,0O0 Total. 



Morrison.. .3.60 3.85 3.00 9.85 Metford. 



Schwara 3:14 3.28 3.90 9.38 



Adam 3.'0 3.57 3.14 10.31 "Remington. 



.f . M ttson 2.80 tCO 3.75 10. 55 



A few facts of this character may do a great deal to keep 

 up our men in heart. 



— The following very handsome score was made lately 

 with aRemingtou military rifle by Mr. F. J. Millen of the 

 toff, and President of the Irish-Americjin team, 500 

 yards:— 44, A, 3, 3-18. 



—It is highly probable that the Third Regiment National 

 Guards of New Jersey will construct a range. 



—A. H Bogardus, of Chicago, and Ira A. Paine, of New 

 York, will shoot a match at pigeons on September 2(ith. 

 Paine 1 select the place. They are to shoot at one hundred 

 single pigeons each, from ground traps, twenty-one yards 

 rise, eighty yards boundary, with one ounce au'd a quarter 

 shot, for ifl.OOO a side and the championship of the United 

 Status. 



liniTuit Fohsst is 



On the 17th inst. 



would like to bear fi 



FgAHKHK, Tenn., September 17th, 1874. 

 i Stream:— 

 I trap shoot came off at this place. Thinking you 



10 -i 



Zfifl 



James li. Hi 



Samuel F. Perkins 1 " 



Henry MeLimon 7 " 



"W. G. Clouetou 6 " 



John F. Gran 3 " 



parkMarsiiall 1 " 



Hugh Campbell........ 2 " 



Xamt. Straight. 



James K. Hughes -1 



S. F. Barking.... 5 



Henrv McLcmor 



T. F. Perkins, Jr 2 



Ed Wells... - 2 



E. M. Perktngs 3 



John Wells 2 



this part, of the 



SB, 80 YARDS BOOT 



Straight. Kill, 

 spr 



Iry, I send yon the 



Sum 



14 T. De Uraffenre 

 9 E. T. Wells.... 



15T.F. Perkins, J 

 IB, M. Perkins.. 



12-iJohii Wells.... 

 9 Fount. Pritchitt 



. 1 ' 



inns boundary/, 5 siuole bduis. 



Kilhil Name. Straight. Killed 



4'Joiin T. Green 3 4 



,";]T n, De Graffenreid 3 4 



Iff. 6. Clouston 1 



i»|l':ni. Marshall 3 4 



! Hugh Campbell 1 



4 Fount Pritchitt. 2 2 



8 



D. K. H. 



ANOTHER GUN TRIAL. 



Jackbok, Miss.. September 8th, 1874. 

 Editor Forest asd Stukam:— 



Since my letter of July 3d ou the. Chicago Gun Trial, in order to verify 

 my conclusions, we have had a gnn trial of our own, the result of which 

 I give you below. Very few sportsmen know the capacity of their guns, 

 8jCC.pl i it actual result in the field, and few are acquainted with I he 

 propel charges of powder and shot necessary for llteir respective pieces. 

 1 urn more than ever convinced of that fact from inquiries I see in your 

 "Answers to Correspondents.'' Why do uot those querists go out and 

 try their guns, say with one ounce of shot from Xn. 7 to 10, and use 3, Si, 

 3j to i drachma of powder, according to weight; if a IS bore gun use but 

 very little, if any, more shot and powder than Tor a 10 bore, except No. 7, 

 when J or J oz. more, might be advisable. Shoot each charge six times, 

 three front eight and three from the left barrel, as we did, at 30-inch cir- 

 cular targets, remembering that over 130 pellets is fair shooting, so far as 

 pattern is concerned, when shooting No. 7 shot, the standard at gun 

 trials. We used Lailiti .V. Hand "s orange ducking No. 4 powder. 

 BBBmah bun, IS mmr.. 32 inch, 8 lbs. Hqz. weight. 



3 drachms powder, 1 oz. No. 7 shot; average, 77. 



Si '• loz.Xo. 7 •' 91. 



84. " loz. No, 7 " 94. 



4 " loz. No. 7 " 126*. 



DOUGAL GUN, 12 BORE, 30 INCH. 7 LBS. t OZ. 



3 drachms powder, 1 oz. No. 7 shot ; average, 113. 

 3j •' 1 oz. No. 7 " 126. 

 3J " 1 oz. No. 7 " 143 1-3. 



CLARKE*. SNEIDEII, 10 IIOKII, 80 INOH, 8 LBS. 1 02 



Si drachms ponder, 1 oa. No. 7 shot; average, 186 1-6. 



4 " 1 oz. No. 7 " 160 1-6. 

 4i " loz. No. 7 " 204 1-6. 

 44 " Xqz. No. 7 " 217 2-a 



gbbman oira- (Same as above). 

 3 drachms powder. 1 oz. No. 8 shot; average, 185. 

 8i " loz. No. 8 " 168 



84 " lots. No. 8 " ISO. 



84 •■ 1 oz. No. 8 " 1754. 



doucal out*' (Same as above) 



3 drachms powder, 1 or,. No 8 shot; average, 2134. 

 3i " 1 oz. No. 6 - 153 1-3. 

 34 '• loz. No. 8 " 121). 



olArke & SNElUEIt (Same as above). 

 34 drachms powder. 1 oz. No. 8 shot; average. 213 2-3. 



4 . '• loz. No. 8 " 247 2-3. 



From these tables you will see that the German gun and the Dougal 

 distributed No. 7 shot better with increase of powder, while almost ex- 

 actly the reverse is true for the two guns when No. 8 shot was used. The 

 Choke & Sneider, on the contrary, counted more pellets in the ratio of its 

 Hiciease of powder, except when four drachma uvtu Head with No. 7 

 shot. We had no penetration sheets; the German gun penetrated three 



Hostetter Bitters almanacs. Target was made of white pine, nailed 

 against a stump, and not, at all solid. Distance forty yards, measured 

 with tape line. 



There are some things in a gun's shooting that cannot be accounted 

 for. In one batch of six shots the Clarke & Sneider had five sheets with 

 over 200 pellets each, the sixth had leas than 100 pellets; the German gun 

 drove one wad one-fourth of an inch into the target , and showed less 

 than fifty pellets at the same time. 



I would mention that, a 10-bore gun will not chamber live bnckshot, 

 [,.,,,. Fobest am) Stream Sept, 3d) but only three No. 0, and would ad 

 vise sportsmen to use one oz. of No. 8, 9, or lOshot only. 



Very respectfully. Quo. C. Eyrich. 



NOT DERELICT. 



We are glad to print, on so good an authority, a Bat tlB- 

 j nial of the report alluded to in the letter subjoined.— Ed. 

 : Philadelphia, September 17IIi, 1874, 



; BntTxm unhm vwo Stream:— 



tunity to spread all manner of evil reports. For their benefit, let me 

 state, they will be as closely watched in the future as in the past, for we 

 intend that onr game laws shall be recognized. "Homo." 



NOVEL CAPTURE OF A DEER. 



Marquette, Mich., August 26th, 1871. 

 Editor Forest and Stream: — 



1 will tell yon of a little, adventure that happened here a short time 

 sluce. Last week, as a parly of three were returning from a tlay's fish- 

 ing at l'resque Isle, which is a few miles from Marquette on the lake 

 shore, they espied something dark in the water, which, as they neared, 

 was found to be swimming towards them. It was almost dark, and they 

 were in a small boat, a mile or more from land. Getting close r it proved 

 to be a large buck. They seized him by the horus and placed his head 

 over the edge of the boat. He made several frantic attempts to gel m, 

 But having no foot hold he was unable, to do so. Before reaching shore 

 they decided it was host to kill him, as they ,vere afraid if he once 

 touched bottom it wonld he good-bye, so they slaughtered him then and 

 there with a dirk knife which one of the party fortunately Unit. lie had 

 ten prongs ou his horns, which proved htm to have been at least 

 ten years old, and weighed, when dressed, 2H7 pounds. Why he was 

 there al that, time of day no one can conjecture. Sevoral years ago an- 

 oiher one was taken in almost the same place and manner. 



In your publication of my last you make me say that font teen trout 

 were taken in two hours in a lake near Grand Marias. It should have 



Partridge are very plenty now in the woods. Two guns bagged 

 twenty-fire on last Tuesday afternoon. I remain yonrs truly, 



H. K. Mather. 



j|*»# mid t§iver Jffahitig. 



FISH IN SEASON IN SEPTEMBER. 



Black Bass, >iw;rvi>irrus mlmmiltn, vucropl-ente nigricans. 

 Striped Bass. Nnrrus lin.atns. Weakflsh. 



BItieflsh.femnorfon saltator. 



Troutingis permitted in Maine and Canada until October first, 



SOUTHERN WATEB3. 



Pompano. Trout (black bass). Sheepshead. 



Snapper. Drum (two species). Tailorfish. 



Grouper. Kiugflsb. Sea Bass. 



Rocklisb. Striped Bass. 



Fish in Market. — Wliat fish is that lying gaunt and 

 ghastly on the slabs? Certes ! he is not a pretty fish. He 

 has an ugly snout; his under jaw is hooked and has worked 

 up into a socket in his upper jaw. He looks slimy and out 

 of shape; has huge girth and squat form. He uo more 

 looks like the lordly salmon than does a pewter mug look 

 like a silver flagon, ne is more emx than salmo; aud yet it 

 is a true specimen of the king of fish, the beautiful shapely 

 salmon, but now in the ugliest of his Protean forms. We 

 turn from him in pity and think it a shame that Ik- has been 

 caught in the Miramichi and sent to New York market, but 

 that full of milt he should have been left to reproduce his 

 kind in the Canadian River. Nature points so clearly 

 wheu the salmon is out of season that simply to look at 

 this fish, makes one loathe him. As it is, he is worth only 

 thirty-five cents a pound, with no takers. Fish, owing to 

 the storms of last week, are rather scarce. Blue fish, how- 

 ever, "animated chopping machines," as Professor Baird 

 calls them, "the business of which is to out to pieces aud 

 otherwise destroy as many fish as possible in a given space 

 of time," these hungry blue wolves are in great abun- 

 dance, and worth eight cents. By the end of next mouth 

 blue fish will be even finer, aud then our winter stores will 

 be put up. Spanish mackerel are very scarce. It is likely 

 that by the end of the month the finest of the Scomber 

 family will betake themselves to warmer climes. Spanish 

 mackerel are worth fifty cents a pound. Perhaps Spanish 

 mackerel have not been quite as plentiful this year as last; 

 at least fishermen say so, but we can never determine these 

 points accurately, until Professor Baird's tables of receipts 

 are used by the fish dealers, when more exact data will, we 

 trust, be obtained. Weak fish in great abundance, selling 

 at ten cents. Some cent, caught off Long Island, coming 

 in, worth twenty-five cents. This fisli should be better 

 known, as it is very excellent food. Sheepshead scarce, 

 and selling at twenty-five cents. Old Wadenorth in 1649 

 says: "This fish makes broath so like Mutton broath that 

 the difference ia hardly known," Sea bass hard to find and 

 worth twenty-five cents. The catch will increase before 

 long, and Irtlei this line fish will be plentiful, Softerabs in 



abundance at $1.25 a dozen. Frogs scarce at sixty cents a 

 pound. Noank lobsters in good supply. *As the harvest 

 of the ocean diminishes, not as to quantity but as to 

 variety, we will commence to draw on the fish of our inland 

 seas, and soon salmon trout and white fish from the lakes 

 will be on the slabs. 



New Jbbbky— Beverly, Sept. 18th.— Friday, 11th, crossed 

 bar and found numbers of skip jack, but they refused 

 squid. Sailed to the northward about eight miles and 

 found immense quantities of blue fish, but, flier refused to 

 look at, a squid. Worked south with the fish and succeeded 

 in landing twenty-four. As soon as hooked they would 

 commence disgorging young porgies; and when landed in 

 the bout they would scatter them far and wide. Curiosity 

 induced me to open one fish weighing about three and a 

 half pounds, and I removed from its stomach thirty-five 

 young porgies averaging about three inches in length. The 

 opinion of the Smithsonian authorities appears to be, that 

 blue fish do not prey upon porgies, but, ray experience 

 proves tne opposite. On Saturday we proceeded to sea at 

 7 A. M., and returned at 12 M. with forty-one blue fish and 

 one Spanish mackeiel. From the amount of food dis- 

 gorged by the fish caught, we deemed it best to abandon 

 the sport and wait until the blue fish have captured all the 

 young porgies between Barnegat and Sandy Hook. If this 

 is accomplished by the 2.5th, I am satisfied that there will 

 be rare sport at Barnegat for the disciples of the squid. 



Ai, Fresco. 



Rawgemiy Lakes.— During the two months of lulv and 

 August the fishing in this vicinity has been remarkably 

 goorl, better than usual in fact. But, from September 1st 

 to the week ending September 14th the fishing lias been very 

 poor, and tit a lime wdien it ought to lie perfection. The 

 following large, trout only have been captured, two pounds 

 and over in weight: — 



Mr. Hobbs, of New York, captured at the mouth of the 

 Rangeley River, on the 7th instant, two trout weighing 

 each four pounds. Mr. E. S. SvUes, of Hartford, Conn., 

 took on the 11th instant, oft Sandy Point, Mooselucumgun- 

 tic Lake, in half an hour, three trout of two pounds each. 

 Mr. T. L. Page, of Boston, Mass., landed at the outlet of 

 Rangeley Lake, ou the 12th instant,, one trout weighing 

 five and a half pounds, also had a rise from two other fish", 

 judged to be about the same weight, but ho failed to strike 

 them. Mr. Stadlinair, of Brooklyn, N.Y., captured on the 

 same day in Rangeley Lake one trout weighing 2T| lbs". The 

 temperature of the Rangley and Kiennehago rivers is 00°, 

 of the Mooselucmaguutic Lake, 64". The weather has been 

 clear and bright, only one rain storm since the month came 

 in. The thermometer at (3 A. M. ranges from 34° to 38"; at 

 12 M. 7(T to 85", and at 7 P. M. from 50° to 58°, and the 

 black flies and mosquitoes are as plenty as in June. Br. 

 Ordway and parly of Boston have been camping on 

 the Cupsuptuck stream and fishing with fair success. John 

 J. Gr. Whittier, the poet, has been stopping on the. Rangeley 

 Lake the past week. 



Canada. — A great improvement is taking place in the 

 salmon fisheries of Quebec, and in some localities the yield 

 has increased 300 per cent. This result the Commissioner, 

 Mr. Whitcher, attributes entirely to protecting the fish 

 whilst breeding, and in reducing the number of nets used. 

 The river Moisie has improved greatly, and the beneficial 

 effects of decreasing the netting is proved by the fact, that 

 with 15,000 fathoms of Lets in 1859, tbe'Moisie yielded 

 75,000 pounds of salmon, whilst in 1873, with only 2,500 

 fathoms of nets, it yielded 204,000 pounds. 



— The Cape Ann Advertiser mentions a swordfish cap- 

 tured by the crew of the fishing schooner Laughing Water 

 of Swampscott, Cs.pt. John Higgins, while off Koon Island, 

 on Friday evening, probably the largest ever caught, in 

 northern waters. Upon being "dressed it weighed 690 

 pounds, and must have turned 1,000 pounds when caught. 



AS TO BASS. 



Leesburg, Virginia, September, 1S74. 



EDITOB FOREST AND STREAM:— 



I promised to let yon know if the black bass took the tly in Elk Diver, 

 near Sewanee, in Tennessee. Dr. Elliott, one of the professors in the 

 University of the South, whipped the above mentioned stream upou two 

 different occasions with no response. I tried the sum.- rod from Andrew- 

 Clerk & Co., in the same en-earn, but failed to take a bass, 1 caught, how- 

 ever, a black perch about fourteen inches long-on a baas tly. The black 

 bass certainly will take the fly, notwithstanding all this, for as I passed 

 through Knoxville I found that sportsmen fake them there with the fly. 

 And upon my arrival iu Leesbnrg I found Major FetgusBon, fish commis- 

 sioner for Maryland, taking them with the fly when no one else could take 

 them with live bait. I heard of authentic instances of their capture on 

 the Tennessee aud one of its tributaries before I left the Wist Lees, 

 burg is quite a sporting (owu now. Nearly every young man has a good 

 rod, breech loaders are common, and fast horses are not unusual. VTlth 

 boats and bait furnished on the river, the bass tishiug has,, , ,i , 

 that laborious pastime it used to be. Twenty-three baas, weighing fifty 

 pounds, were brought to town yesterday by one of our enthusiastic an- 

 glers. T.W. 



SALMON -SCORES OF THE RESTI- 



# GOUCHE. 



Metapedia, Quebec, September 8th, 1874. 

 Editor Forest axd Stream.— 



The season for salmon Ashing has closed, aud as 1 know you are fond 

 of statistics I thought I would let you know what has been done on the 

 Bestigouche thin summer. The first caught was by Captain Llewellyn, 

 on June 20th, and his score on Augnst 8th was OB salmon, 14 grilse; aver- 

 age of salmon, lfl pounds. Mr. Whitly, a parson, killed VW; George 

 Stephen and two friends, 51; Mr. Brydges* party, 117; Mr. Fleming's 

 party, 76; other Mends of the lessees, 14fl, the largest 42 ponnda. A 

 brother of Llewellyn, 'K; frieuds of Sir Hugh Allan, is-t; residents of 

 Metapedia. 82. And now my score, which is the biggest, Iu the river. I 

 commenced on last day of June, when I caught 1 ; on the 6th of August 

 I stopped at 117, the largest being 34 pounds and smallest luj- pounds. 

 On the 28th I started up river and returned on the 1st; this time, inclu- 

 ded Sunday. 1 killed 13, one of them the largest ever caught in this 

 river. It weighed 4oi pounds. This makes my score 130, ■' 

 average of 10} pounds. Beside these I have 22 grilse. ?o you see the 

 fishing has been good. I was disappointed in not seeing you here, hut, 

 hope to have you for a month next year. Yonrs truly, C. S. Shaw. 



[Mr. Shaw's average of 19J pounds is very remarkable, 

 although it is said that forty years ago the salmon used to 

 run eleven to the barrel in this river. His 45£ lbs. fish is 

 the largest we have ever heard of, and we have talked with 

 Adam Ferguson, the oldest settler ou the Uesiigouche — 

 Ed. F & S.] 



