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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Deer Park or Oakland, on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- 

 road. At the former there is a boarding-house, the Wing 

 and Wing;, which I would recommend, terms, $1 TO per 

 (lav : $8 per week. At Oakland there is a large hotel, one 

 of' the largest in the State, Glade's Hotel, John Dailey, 

 proprietor. From either of these places guides can be pro- 

 cured for a small sum. and on reaching the hunting-ground 

 you can camp out and have good sport. This region bor- 

 ders the Bhickwater country, which Porte Crayon has 

 rendered famous-'. Anyone who wishes to come here for 

 pigeon-shooting had better come at once, as no one can tell 

 how long they will last, but I think they will stay two 

 weeks. Our season for grouse is from August 12th to Feb- 

 ruary 1st ; for quail, from October 1st to January 1st ; for 

 woodcock, from June 10th to February 1st. Although this 

 law is in existence, no attention is paid to it. Anyone who 

 wishes to learn more of this country and where to get good 

 shooting here, may write to P. L. W., Office Forest and ; 

 Stream. J 



MnojBsoTA— Winona, Sept. SO.— Such grand sport as ; 

 can be had in this country during the months of September I 

 and October ! Such fishing and shooting does not exist | 

 an)- where east of the Mississippi. Ducks, prairie chicken. I 

 anil quail shooting was never better. We are beginning to 

 hear the " cronk, cronk," of the wild geese, and such 

 promise of fine shooting this fall never was known even in 

 this country. The ponds from St. Paul down the river for 

 miles are literally alive with ducks today. As our train 

 came down with its loud, clashing noise, the ducks would 

 raise their heads and eye us curiously and— sit down. 



Tom. 



jtjHNKBOTA.— Slept 28.— Another correspondent writes 

 us that the prospect for duck and goose shooting was never 

 better than at present, as the rivers are swarming with my- 

 riads of both the anserins and anal in*. He also reports 

 that the plains teem with large game, and that sportsmen 

 are satiating themselves with die pleasures of the chase. 



Wisconsin— There is to be a general two days' hunt, to 

 come off in the big woods, beginning :October 8 and con- 

 tinuing for two days, for the purpose of having some 

 sport. All are invited to provide themselves with twp 

 days' rations and plenty of ammunition, and participate. 

 Officers of the hunt have been elected. Recruits will re- 

 port at Hersey Station at 8 o'clock on the morning of the 

 8th.— Baldwin Bulletin, 



Nebraska— Temmseh, Sept.. 28.— In regard to the chicken 

 shooting, we have not had very good success this season. 

 The farmers burned the grass to a great extent in this sec- 

 tion earlv this spring. This, in connection with the dry 

 weather," has had a bad effect. We have reports from the 

 vicinity of Lincoln, Neb., forty-eight miles north, thai ('hick 

 ens can be found in great numbers, but we have no per- 

 sonal knowledge of the fact. The quail shooting here Is 

 excellent, and we could guarantee some good sport. We 

 are too far north for ducks and geese. E. R. Barnes. 



The Bogaudus-Padte Match.— The pigeon match be- 

 tween Bogardus and Paine, for the Lorillard badge and 

 $250 a side, was shot Friday, the 2d ult., at Stamford, 

 Conn., in the presence of about one hundred spectators. 

 The conditions were fifty birds each, English rules, thirty 

 yards rise, and 1| ounce charge. Each man to furnish fifty 

 birds and toss for the first shot. 



The score at the close stood : Bogardus, '.Vi killed. 1 1 

 missed; Paine, 37 killed, 13 missed. Bogardus thus won 

 the match and badge. 



The prize won is composed of filagree gold, made in the 

 form of a laurel wreath. This encircles a small looking- 

 glass, which has a knot of gold at the end, in the centre of 

 which is a large and brilliant diamond. The upper por- 

 tions, near the clasp, holds two minature shot guns of gold, 

 crossed in alto relievo. As a whole it is a chaste and ele- 

 gant piece of workmanship, and Captain Bogardus likes it 

 so well that he intends to keep it in his own family here- 

 after. All persons challenging him for it must go where- 

 ever he desires the shooting shall be ; so the probability is 

 that he will retain if for good. 



—There was an exciting match last week at Dexter Park, 

 Chicago, for the possession of the Gun Club gold medal, 

 between the present holder, Mr. H. J. Edwards, and the 

 challenger, Mr. George B. Quigg. By the conditions of 

 the club contest, the holder must hold against all con- 

 testants for a year, to become possessor; and this is Mr. 

 Edward's third effort as bolder. The match was al flfteerj 

 single and five double rises each. Mr. Edwards won, by 

 killing twenty-one birds to his antagonists' sixteen out of 

 the twenty-five. The veteran Thomas Stagg has challenged 

 Mr. Edwards for another trial. 



Chicago, October 3d, 1S71. 



Editor Fouest akd Stream:— 

 A match of 100 birds, S1W a side, was shot at Tom Stags'* October 3d, 



1874, between W. T. Johnsonond John Kleinraann, of Chicago. H and 



T traps, Keunicott Club rales, Klemumnn giving odds of 4 yards. 



Johnson-Si yards 101 111111111111 111110 1111110+0 



1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 '0 1 1 111 1 1 1 I 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 

 1 »0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 J 1 1 1 1 *0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-90. 



Kleinmann-25 yards. . . .1 1 1 1 1 1 1 t 1 "0 1 V *0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 *0 I ! 1 1 1 



1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 *o : 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 o 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 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1—91- 



*Dead outside . 



Weather chilly; wind strong at times, blowing birds toward* shooter*; 

 birds strong and quick. 



Mr. Welch judge for Johnson. H. J. Edwards judge for Kleininaiui. 

 Seth Green, referee. True, scorer. 



aWEEPSTAKKS— 5 BIfllH, g5 EACH. 



•I 3 Kleinmaun 11111 SIBruce Wilcox 1 1 (I 1 1 1 



SGreen 11011 4 U. J. Edwards 11111 5 



Welch 1110 1 1 Ed. Thomas ill 11 t 



Sampson 11111 gW.Btagg 10 1 111 3 



C. E. Felton 11111 o| 



The 5s, divided. 



Toronto, October 1st, 18/4. 



ErirroR Forkc-t and Stbeam:— 



Our club had their annuul match here yesterday on the Garrison Com- 

 mons. The duy was very unfavorable for good shooting afi 

 cold and a strong north wind blowing with its full force right across the 



main i The matchwas held just one week in advance of rhi- regular 

 day, on lUM ouuiof several at the gentlemen going away for their annual 

 Fall duck shooting. Tin -.-.■ -.v..-,-.- iii irh-en prizes, all caah, Thefii I » it 

 $20, second $15, third and fourth $10 each, firth and Bl ttn $8 each 

 seventh and eighth, 57 each, and the other five of $5 each. The follow- 

 ing are the scores. The match was a handicapped one. 

 A McGregor.. 000 1111011 11C.C. Small 101 till Hill 



011 101 011 18 



J. Morrison 1 1 11 00! 1101 1 W. Bogg Ill 11111110 1 



000 9| 0111..-- 13 



The following are the semes made in shooting off the ties-.— 



W Bugg 10111 4:C.C.Small 11111 5 



J.Taylor 10111 4| 



C. C. Small took the second prize, and the others retired five yards 

 further, with the following result: — 



WBugg Ill 3.T. Taylor Oil J 



W. Bngg third prize and J. Taylor fourth, and for the thirteenth pri ze 

 there were four ties shot off . and below is the score : — 



W.I.Smith 01111 i G. Bunks 11 101 -l 



J.Morgan 11111 5,R. Ardagh 10 000 1 



J. Morgan took the only remaining prize. Everything passed off to 

 the satisfaction of each individual present. 



frame. YarOt. Seore, Toitil. 



W J Smith 22 11001 111011 000 H 



,). Morgan S3 10-0 11 01 11010100 * 



S. H.-rruu 31 110 10 10 11 I! 



D. Ward 23 Ill I 1 1 1 1 111 1110 14 



J.Barrett....- .... 23 110 10 111110 1111 13 



G.Banks 21 0O11110110O1100 S 



C.J. Chapman 23 11110 10 1110 110 1 It 



J.Taylor S3 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 13 



Di. Smith 21 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 o 12 



E. 4*3 igh 21 10 I t 00 1 10101 010 8 



James Boss, M. D. . . 23 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 



.1 |v ,;.-.;■, ■... -.>:; I 1 I! t II 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 



B.S.Wheeler 21 o I 00 o (I i 1 3 



C Pickering . 98 . 1 I 1 1 1 1 o 1 1 1 1 10 

 G. Wan-in....!! 33 10 1110 110 110 110 10 



D. Ward, first -prize, 5V0; C. C. Small, second, $15} w. Bngg, third. 

 Sip; .1. Taylor, fourth, JlO; J. Barrett, fifth, 88; Dr. Smith, sixth, $8; 

 I. Kendrew, seventh, S7; C. J. Chapman, eighth, S7; A. McGregor, 

 ninth. So: C. Pickering, tenth, ?5: G. warriu. eluventh, So; J. Morrison 

 twelfth. gS; J. Morgan, tbirtoentl 



Yours very truly, *0tt0sW0 Gun Dim 



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PIGEON SHOOTING IN THE ALLEGHA- 

 NIES. 



Deer Park, Mil , September 18th, 1874. 

 Editor Fobbst and Stream:— 



lhave often seen in the Forest and Stukah dea Tipraous of duck, 

 -!,:;,, , oodcock, 'riip. pigeon. Ac.- shooting, but I do not recollect read- 

 ing any article on wild pigeon shooting in the country. I think that they 

 are worth mentioning, for they afford a great dea! u*epoi :, the 

 frightened. It is: true that they generally fly in flocks of ten or twenty, 

 and therefore they give you more to shoptTat than some ol her birds; but 

 when they get scared, then yon will And thai yon have -grcasea light- 

 ning to aim at." 1 think that I had more run [it could not be called 

 sport) at a pigeon roosl last September than on any other gunning excur- 

 sion 1 ever took. 



About eight nnlc.s from home the pigeons hud formed a roosl, as it is 

 called, a place where they came in Immense numbers to pass the nigh:. 

 Five or six of us, hearing very slowing accounts of the numbers of birds 

 that were being kffled, resolved to spend a night there. So one 

 flue afternoon, about fcur O'clock, we Parted out "seeking what we 

 might devour." \V. soon reached rile edge 01 the iut-t. lull BS it w,i> top 

 early for the birds, we built a tire and ale our suppers and "laid around 

 loose" until snii-.-t; tlieu we started out, reaching the ground as the 

 birds began to settle on the trees and bashes. Our forests I 

 posed almost entirely of oaks of (rations Unds, the white, red. black. 

 yellow, chestnut, pin and |acs principal varieties; the 



lies, with the pigeons, who crowd so thickly upon them th U 

 branches were many of them broken, off. A- soon As It was fairly dark 

 we got to work. We had brought three laborers with us to carry lan- 

 terns, and they now became ol nee. Ail who had gnns advanced to- 

 gether to the front, and kept moving on until we thought! 

 suOicient quantity of ■'noise." We would then lire in the direction 

 from whence It came. The men with lights would then search for the 

 killed and wounded. The first shot we kil least found 



that number, for two runners came with a wagon n.x: 

 found nearly a load of dead and wounded pigeons lying "ii the ground. 

 Ot coarse I don't mean in lie- particular spot, but all overtlrt roOsl, 

 About midnight we separated into two parties and went in opposite di 

 rections. 



About three o'clock we found we had all the birds we could carry, so 

 we returned to camp and slept until morning dawned upon us in the 

 shape of a fine misty rain. The pigeons were put in ordinary grain sacks. 

 and nhen they were counted we had seventy birds apiece. This ir some- 

 what barbarous sport, but very exciting, the birds flying all around you. 

 men swearing u- they fall into the numerous holes, or run into thorn 

 bushes, -and ii. .■.••: pie- mi idea that some one is abont ro put a load 

 ol shol into yon mat, - II quite lively. 



l'ii, bjrts arc 1 1 . i ■ 1 1 1 . ■_• in In great numbers, and from the present look- 

 ! ah hi n I sport this Fall. 



If any oneof your readers wishes to try this kind of shooting I would 

 be happy to furnish him any information in regard toit that he may wish. 



The town (Deer Park) is on the main stem of the B. and O. 11. B.. 226 

 miles from Baltimore. B. L. W. 



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Hamiltok. Out., September --•-• k i - : : 

 Editok Forkst and Stiieui:- 



As some of your readers are very much Interested in title shooting, 

 and I see by your paper of the 24th an ace nunJ ol out [booting with the 

 Remington iong range rifle, which was our Brat practice. I now send 

 you the "core of our third practice, which came off on the 2oth of this 



month, where -rial Improvement Has beet - le. Mr. Joseph Mason 



mode a . .ery handsome score of 1CB pomts, Without missing tut target, 

 and that with Remington's second-class cartridge-- .lame.- .v: ■ - 

 also a very fair score— 107— but had two misses, oue at 900 and one at 

 1,000 yards. To compare the muzzle loading and breech loading arm-. 

 I give* you the highest scores made by the Metford at the Same practice. 



The scores are as follows:— 



( BOO.-. 2 11-1 -1 1 3 3 4 2 34) 



F. Behwaw, Metfuiil i 900.... 4 3 4 3 8 4 B 4 3 8 34 - 96 



1 1000.... 430 H 8 I 4 ". i 98 j 



J. Adam. Remington 



[ SOO.... ! 



J. 600... 



llOOU... 



8 4 4 3 4 38 1 



fi I 1 8 4 84 - 107 



4 11-1 as 



-14 4 8 4 36 i 



4 3 3 34 -103 



Joseph Mason, Remington - 900. . . 4 3 3 4 4 3 3 4 3 3 34 - 



1 ,1000.... 4 14 434 4434 88) 



Shooter. 



QUAWK HUNTING BY MOONLIGHT. 



Maplewood, Mass., September 16th, 1874. 

 Editor I'orbst AMD St be am:— 



A little incident occurred not far distant from this place, which it seems 

 to me is too good to lose. 



A young gentleman who has quite a fancy for the. gun, took it into his 

 head one moonlight night, a few weeks since, to have some sport shoot- 

 ing night herous, or qnawks, as he calls- them. Accordingly he shoul- 

 dered his gun ami started for his hunting grounds. The evening was 

 one of those beautiful moonlight autumnal evenings, clear and calm, but 

 , dew. such as falls at this season of the yeai after a warm, 

 sultry day. Our young sportsman had scarcely reached his hunting 

 re he discovered a great blue heron dying over his head, and 

 making for the water's edge. As quick as thought our hero dropped and 

 marked down. his bird. "Now.-- thought he, "1 will creep cautiously up 

 ;1 ,| .,:■. <ame," and accordingly he commenced his tedious journey 

 through the- wet grass, which was anything bnt agreeable, aa 

 he was very soon wet through, nevertheless he was determined to havt- 

 his bird. wet or no wet. While creeping cautiously be discovered, as he 

 thought, a post, standing in a direct line with where be marked down his 

 bird .' -Now." he thought, "if I can only get behind that post J shall be 

 within easy shooting distance, and shall make sure of my game." So on 

 he crept, inch by inch, oh bands and knees, until he arrived quite near to 

 his post, when lo! and behold! up went the post on the wings of a heron 



high in the air'. Our young sportsman picked himself up and Rtartcd 

 homeward, a sadder, as well as a wiser man, concluding that the next 

 i . .; h nl shooting on a moonlight night he would make sure whether 

 ii ig up toapost, oron a bird. \ - 



BRASS AND PAPER SHELLS. 



Norfolk. Va., September Dili. 1874, 

 Editob Forest ash StkBaM: 

 In a note appended to an article from a correspondent, published in ft 



late number of Forest «u Stream, t] dltor expresses the opinion 



thai there la a kind nf brass shed which Is as safe to handle as a paper 

 shell. The remarks of your correspondent as to the danger of bundling 

 brass shells, caused some alarm among the sportsmen here, is we I 

 frequently beside and upon the water, and in , the rain, where metal 

 Shells are pleusantcr to use. as they do not swell when wet, 

 per slieils, when wet. are very troublesome indeed to use. frequently 

 wedging in the gnu. As we wish to continue to use bra>- shells, provi- 

 ded we can handle thein safely, \V. E. Taylor, a constant reader of your 

 paper, wrote in behalf of all of us to inquire the name and style of metal 

 shell which the editor had mentioned »s being as safe to handle as a |m 

 pershell You very kindly answered his letter on 24th or August; bo 

 merely -ay "nil shells ore eqiial'v -afe to use. but the metal shell would 

 be more disastrous if it should accidentally explode.'' There are three 

 kinds of metal shells in this market, two requiring a flat cap spucially 

 oiade for them, aud one having a conical auvil. which is a pari 

 of tie- sheil, the other two having : 



ward. I 

 third e 



t the anvils of paper si,,: 

 I, whichia also the most expensive 

 ■as a tube for an ordinary percussion cap, over 

 e bleb i- (secured by band a metal base with ahole in the middle through 

 nger passes to strike the cap. The two mentioned would 

 seem to lie less liable to premature explosion, us the cap Is belter pro- 

 tected from an accidental blow. 



II may prevent a serious accident to some of us, if you w ill be so kiud 

 as !(■ Inform Us. either by letter or through your column of an 

 correspondents, what kind of shell the editor referred to when he, in the 

 note above referred to, expressed the opinion that there was a kind of 

 lirn.-.- shell us sare to handle as a paper shell. JOSEPH T. A. 



sent our correspondent, a sample of the brass she)!.— Ed. 



tsoN, Miss.. September 38th, 1874 



EUITIIK FoitEsT AND VrnilAM:- 



All error crept, into my letter of September 8th which I would a-* you 

 10 be kind enough to correct in your next issue. As it stand.- now it 

 reads; "try their pins; -ay with one ounce of shot from No. 7 to 10 and 

 . I drachms of powder, according to weight; if 12 bore 

 ery little, if any, more shot ana powder than for B 10 bore," 

 >vc. Ifyour readers will transpose the two flgurce in regard to bore by 

 substituting ID tor 12 and 13 for 10 bore, it vviil read what 1 intended to 

 Bay. Very respectfully, Geo. C. F.vni.-u. 



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Lisbon. Ohio, September Bth, l-ri 



; ..a- Bstnrday that welcome visitor, the Fokest \:>n Stbeajt, makes 

 its appearance, and although il is not strictly a Suuday paper, yet It is 

 generally read at ttiat time. 1 commenced with No. I, \ ol. 1. and have 

 bi i ..in-- so attached to the paper I cannot keep house without it. 1 woidd 

 a- -,..n think of doing without Mri- Winslow- Syinp. The popularity 

 ,,f :1„- paper is deserved, and its nlccces in the future should be assuted. 

 The sporting fraternity .-ire making their preparations for fall sporr. Our 



el, it, lias not been out yet fur g -e. hut will bag a few before many 



.; -,-. . I:, :,.; ;! - of -. -,i ■:'■■■ : - i .- ,aub is very small, but in the other esaen- 



■ of these is but live years old. yet he can claim a place in 

 .in. . lob. lie is colored liver and white, answers to Ihc name of "Mas." 

 and "ill travel with the best dogs in Ohio. He is a great ravoritc with 

 the club, and don't care whether tie- quail toith/U&l 'their - 

 He will do hi- level best at all limes. He will "point" a rabbi: .,- n.-i; 

 asa woodcock, anS stand on a grouse at twenty yards as c.i-ily a- al 



ing from every field and thicket. By-the-way. don't you iliiuk tin- leto) 

 October late enough to commence shooting quail in this * 

 seems a long time to wait, yet our club livesnp lo the very letter of the 

 law, and make the mo.i of the time allowed us. We will go into camp 

 ahonl last week of this mouth and he content with grouse, squirrel, and 

 bii-^. I suppose there is no use of exieudiugan invitation to • ye editor 



, t" to come t>ul i" see ne, and see how we do thin :e sre 



in Ohio, as he would accept an invitation nearer home. Bat neverlheleSa 



we would welcome him. "Bob" says the FoitE-r am, sn. 



only pup-r he can read with any comfort, for it is the on] 



not lilled with that wretched Beecher scandal. Re proposes to go to the 



woods for a mouth to escape the coming "statements." More anoii. 



n. w. b. 

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Tun Martini-Henry.— Something like a punk: baa jnst 

 arisen in regard to the value of the Martini-Henry rifle, 

 whir-h has been adopter! as the weapon of the British army. 

 At, the last Wimbledon competition there were loud aotn- 

 plnints of the manner in which this rifle, by its violent re- 

 coil, bruised and blackened the cheeks and shoulders of 

 the shooters. The outcry against the rifle has since been 

 taken up by other critics, and it has been denouin - a 

 most inefficient military weapon, and a snare to the country 

 which trusts to it. It is obvious that the choice of a wea- 

 pon of this kind is a very serious thing, especially to a 

 country with a small army. It has been asserted that, in 

 consequence of the recoil and escape of gas from the Chas- 

 Bepol the- French soldiers in the late war got into the way 

 of firing from the hip, the result being that their tunics 

 and sometimes their bodies were burned, and that their 

 Bliooting was generally ineffectual. This has been denied, 

 but the f act^eems to remain that whatever may be the 

 case with the Chassepot, the Martini-Henry rifle has » very 

 bad recoil, and it stands to reason that this must be ex- 

 tremely prejudicial to its use iu the field. At Wimbledon 

 the volunteers were allowed to wrap cloths round the 

 butts of the rifles, so as to deaden the blow, but it would 

 be ludicrous to think of soldiers having to be protected in 

 this way against their own arms. — Cforfespondem of X V. 



Tlme »- -~ 



—Piineli has in his last number a capital caricature. 

 You s,.,. ;, grouse all miifilcd up in a shawl, an invalid bird 

 kthlg softly trundled along^in a Bath chair over a 

 stubble Held by a careful gamekeeper. A set of partridges 

 all hale and strong, dressed up in smocks like sturdy chaw- 

 bacons, are looting on. The picture is entitled, -'Sick and 

 sorry." The legend is as follows: "Master fSwMse— Tln- 

 usually early harvest I his year, friend partridges. Nice 

 Dare stubbles ! Bad look out for you and the young 'uns 

 though, I am afraid; we're all right you know. \V< J'w :gpt 

 twelvemonth's sick leave." Tenniel never made a better 

 picture. So as may have been already intimated by out- 

 correspondent Idstone, Jr., the grouse are to be saved and 

 the partridges to be destroyed. Great are those two artists 

 of Punch, Tenniel and Du Mautier 



