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Yo. 1.— Conditions. — "Distance, 200 yards; po- 

 irl: rifle, any within rules. Five scoring shots. 

 Two sighting shots allowed. Entries not limited. Entrance 

 tee, *i. 



Subscription, fib. 2. — Conditions.— Distance, 200 yards; po- 

 sition, any; rifle, State military. Five scoring shots. Two 

 sighting shots allowed. Entries not limited. Entrance fee, 

 50 cents. 



Firing in ahove matches to commence at 1 p. m, Entries 

 iclose at one. 



On Saturday, May 5th, a special match will be shot for prize 

 machine, value S75, presented by .Rem- 

 ington Sewing Machine Company. Open to residents of 

 -;> only, 



Conditions.— Must he won twice (not necessarily consecu- 

 tively) before becoming property of winner. Distance, SOU 

 yards; position, any; rifle, any. Ten shots. No sighting 

 shots. Military rifle, State model Remington allowed twelve 

 shots. Entries not limited. Entrance foe, $1. 



The following prizes will be shot for as soon as possible 

 •this season. De Peyster Medal, value, $300; must he won 

 'three times (not necessarily consecutively) before becoming 

 property of winner. Distance. 300 yards; position, off- 

 hand, Shonnard prize, silver; Wright medal, gold; A. E. 

 ,A. prize, gold, silver and bronze. 



Conlin's Benefit, — The rifle tournament tendered to Mr. 

 J. S. Conlin for the purpose of assisting him in the refitting 

 • of a now gallery has ended; it was held at Zettler's gallery, 

 and the success of the undertaking was beyond the expecta- 

 tion of its originators. The prizes were forty in number 

 and valued $250 ; they were all presented as trophies by Mr. 

 >Gonlin's fellow riflemen and patrons. 



The conditions were: Three shots, rifle, 22 cal., off-hand, 

 distance 100 feet at a two-inch bull's-eye, string measure- 

 ment: that is to say, the total measurement of the three 

 shots from the center of each shot to the center of the bull's- 

 eye. 



A: competitor can shoot as many tickets as ha may desire, 

 but can only win one prize. 



The shooting was kept up with great spirit, and to win the 

 first prize was' a victory indeed, for, without doubt, the best 

 shots in this part of the country were competitors. 



The following are the names of the winners: 



Chas. Judson, Frank Patterson, C. E. Blydenburgh, J. F. 

 Murch, Leon Backer, D. L. Beekwith, John Maguire, Wm. 

 Weigandt, Eobt. O'Donnell, Bobt. Miley, M. L. Biggs, T. 

 Wildes, M.D., P. Fenning, J. R. Grohmau, J. B. Blyden- 

 burgh, A. Ermish, Wm. Klein, H. D. Blydenburgh, Fred'k 

 Kessler, H. Masen, C. A, Cheever, John Dutil, T. C. Noone, 

 W. F. Banks, A, Seitz, John Fenton, L. V. Sone, W. Kruber, 

 W. H. Candee, E. Duff, M. B. Engel, B. Eelse, Wm. Haves, 

 E. B. Gray, G. A, Schiirman, J. L. J. Kellner, I. Kleisrath, 

 David Miller, Wm. Eobinson, M. P. Lennon. 



The. best target measured 9-16 of an inch, while the last 

 of the winning scores was only If inches. By this it can be 

 soen the contest was a olose one, and to win the last prize 

 was no easy task. 



New York. — The first match of the Jamaica (L. I.) Bod 

 and Bifle Association for the champion badge of 1877 

 was shot for on their range on Wednesday, April 25th. The 

 following scores were made; 



Name. Score. Total. 



JohnM. Crane i 5*56*556 5—17 



Wm. S. Elmendorf i 45355565 *— 45 



Thomas Lloyd * 54*64*56 4—** 



John Fleming 4 444465*6 4— 48 



Geo, H. Creed , 6 4455*444 4—43 



Wm.S. Cogswell 4 4**544*5 4—42 



John B. Fleury 4 5*4*4544 4-42 



Qoo.A. Hicks 4 4 4*444*4 4—40 



Theo. liogern 4 44440444 4—36 



Milner, Irish team, has had the rheumatics almost aB 

 winter. 



Weber, American team, is greatly pleased with California. 

 The riflemen, and in fact everybody, treated him "bang up." 



Homer Fisher thinks he has the gun. It is a muzzle-loader. 



The Zettler Bine Association will have, a shooting festival 

 during the early pai't of this month at Jones' Woods. 



Several of the American team of '76 are shooting in the 

 present competitions at Creedmoor under assumed names. 



California is to be represented by a regimental team to 

 shoot at Creedmoor this fall. 



A match between the Zettler Bifle Association and Oonlin's 

 Gallery Team will take place May 10. Each side to be repre- 

 sented by ten men. 



§>;ime j?## ttnd %tm, 



MAY IS A CLOSE MONTH FOR GAME. 



The State Badge. — We printed last week a cut of the State 

 Badge, presented by the President of the State Sportsman's 

 Association, Greene Smith, Esq., to be shot for during the 

 coming Convention at Syracuse. Our space prevented us at 

 that time from giving the description of it. which wiB be 

 found below : 



The badge is of tine gold of various colors, and measures 

 7J inches in length; ihe upper part or bar pin is about 3J 

 inches across, and is beautifully ornamented with the most 

 minute scroll engraving, on which is enameled in bold 

 black figures 1877. From this piece hongs a massive medal, 

 having the arms of the State of New York with the sup- 

 porters, two female figures, liberty and justice, raised in 

 a bold and artistic manner. The effect of the different 

 colors of gold used in the landscape part of the arms is 

 a very beautiful piece of work The box which contains the 

 badge is a mini a ture gun-case of silver and copper, the hack 

 of the case being an excellent imitation of wood, the grain 

 being worked in copper by a process never before tried. 

 It calls to mind the twist of a tine Damascus barrel. The 

 straps and buckles are a splendid imitation of the real thing. 



Shooting Tournament. — A grand shooting tournament will 

 be held in Lexington, Kentucky, from the 12th of May to 

 the 19th inclusive. Nearly S1.0U0 in prize money is offered, 

 divided between some fifteen matches. All information can 

 be had by addressing Major J. M. Taylor, Lexington, Ken- 

 tucky, or E. T. Martin, Chicago, Illinois. 



A Stngexab Beuc. — We have received| froml anj esteemed 

 correspondent, "Guyon' of Corinth, Miss, pel express, a 

 percussion musket which was picked up on the old battle- 

 field at Corinth, and being carelessly handled went off one 

 night accidentally and killed a wolf, which happened to 

 be within range, three hundred yards away. This is the. 

 wayJtho legend runs, as stated upon the. cabalistic card that 

 accompanies tho gun. We believe it. We believe that any 

 gun which goes off will hit something, whatever that some- 

 thing happens to be— it may be a wolf— it may be a major- 

 general. We are much obliged for this relic. It has seen 

 rough times during the. war, and no doubt did its duty then. 

 But whatever its duty might have been regarded at the time, 

 we consider it much better employed in killing wolves acci- 

 dentally than in annihilating men on purpose. 



— We take pleasure in referring to the removal of Messrs. 

 Hodgkins * Haigh to their spacious rooms 298 Broadway, 

 where can be seen one of the finest assortments of guns and 

 sporting goods that can be found in the city. The mem- 

 bers of this firm were born in the trade, and their fathers 

 before them; and if long service, strict integrity, and appli- 

 cation to business constitute legitimacy, we see no reason 

 why this house may not receive a large share of the trade. 



Lino Island. — The regular monthly contest of the Long 

 Island Shooting Club for the Members' Cup was shot on 

 Friday last on the grounds at Dexter Park. The conditions 

 were, '7 birds each, 25 yards rise (the holder of the cup 27 

 yards), Long Island rules; 17 members participated with the 

 following result: 

 C. Hanoe fliKoddon 



Thompson 2 



Walton 2 



Broadway 2 



Blake 1 



Eddy 1 



Jordan 1 



Webster 



Talbot 



Johnson , 4 



Brown 3 



Blankley 3 



Henderson..., ,....,3 



Appleyard 3 



Wynn 2 



Williams a 



Bbooelyn. — The first match of the United Pigeon Club of 

 Brooklyn was shot on Thursday, April 26, 1877, at New Lots, 

 L. I., the conditions being 11 birds each, 21 yards rise, 80 

 yards boundary, with tho following result: 



Name. Total.. Name. Total. 



Helmstedt 10'Tomford 9 



Knebel MSctilieman 8 



Shroeder 9;tSoa!ing 5 



Lcmken 9; Van Staden 4 



Bhode Island. — Providence, April 26th, 1877. — At the an- 

 nual meeting of the Bhode island Amateur Bifle Club, the 

 following gentlemen were elected officers for the ensuing 

 year: President, F. J. Babbeth; Vice-President, J. H. 

 Crowell; Treasurer, Geo. H. Clarke; Secretary, John Howe; 

 Bange Committee, F. J. Babbeth, Geo. W. Davison, and 

 Charles H. Perkins; Executive Committee, Charles F. Pope, 

 C. H. Guild, C. H. Perkins, Geo. W, Davison, and E. 

 Thomas. 



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THE SHENANDOAH REGION. 



Staunton, Angusta Co., Va., April 18, 1877. 

 Editor Forest and Stream. 



In reading yonr very excellent paper I find news from the sportsmen 

 ot nearly tho whole country, except this Shenandoah Valley and the 

 mountains immediately west of it; and yet there Is much game and 

 fish in this region, and there are many men here who are devoted sports- 

 men; bnt, nnt.il lately, they have contented themselves with pursuing 

 their game in their own somewhat primitive ways, without concern 

 about what was going on elsewhere. There was no conceit and little 

 sympathy, either among themselves or with men of like tastes in other 

 localities. Except a few packs of fox-hounds brought from Eastern 

 Virginia, a few isolated squirrel or coon dogs, of no breed at all, and an 

 occasional pointer of very doubtful pedigree, there were no hunting 

 dogs. The fishing was generally done with tho tail-net or the gig, 

 and partridges (quail) were caught in nets or traps. The rifle waa the 

 usual weapon, with an occasional single-barrel shot gun. Double- 

 barrels of any kind were rare, and flne guns of this description almost 

 unknown. This was the general state of the case, although, of course, 

 there v. ere some exceptions to it. There were a few good bird dogs, 

 and there were some fair wing shots. 



Within the last twenty-five years, however, railways have come among 

 ns, and the increased facility of oommnnicatlon has worked its legiti 

 mate results upon the sportsmen of this lovely valley, as well as upon 

 its farmers, mechanics, etc. Our breeds of pointers and setters are 

 improved and improving, while the coon dog and his squirrel brother are 

 fast disappearing. Shooting on the wing is now considered the only 

 respectable way of taking a partridge, and such a thing as a single- 

 barrel fowling piece is unknown, excepting always the invariable old 

 musket or thrce-doUar-and-a-half single barrel of the colored troops, 

 with which they wage a never ceasing war upon everything that wears 

 far or feathers. We have become familiar, by experience, with some 

 of the best specimens of the breech-loaders of Westley Richards, 

 William Greener, and other famous English gun-makers, and have be- 

 gun to turn our attention to the fly-rod and the oiled silk line instead 

 of the tail-net, the hickory loop hole, and the home-made flax or horse- 

 hair line. 



A marked era in this happy change, is the formation of Sportsmen's 

 Clubs in the various counties of the State, with the design of assisting 

 tbe State authorities in their endeaver to care for the fish and game of 

 the State, which, nndcr a wretched system— or rather no system at all- 

 were rapidly disappearing. Their influence, brought to bear upon the 

 Legislature at its last session, gave ub two very good laws, one for the 

 protection of game, the other for the protection and propagation of 

 fish. At a previous session ('?5-'~6) they had made a small appropria- 

 tion (85,000) for the purpose of enabling the Fish Commissioners to 

 erect hatching-houBes, and procure a supply of fish-spawn from the 

 Commissioner of the General Government. This appropriation, 

 thongh ridiculously small, has been most judiciously expended. Two 

 hatohing-houses have been established (at Lexington and Blacksburg), 

 and young fry of the brook trout {talmo fonlinalis), the California 

 salmon, and tho land- locked salmon, are furnished to w hoerer in the 

 State will engage to turn them loose in suitable streams, (he appropria- 

 tion being too small to admit of tbe Commissioners making the distri- 

 bution in any othor way. Black baaa were Introduced into all the 

 waters of the Potomac and James about 1871-73, and are now begtaniug 

 to afford fine sport. At Clifton Forge, in Alleghany County, last An- 

 gnst, I saw one, just caught, that weiuhod four pounds and a quarter. 

 Such a fish, in a deep, swift running stroam, at the eud of a sixteen- 

 ounce rod, is no joke. Neither 1b be a very bad joke— at dinner in 

 camp, after the day's labors are over, and you feel the gnawinga of 

 such an appetite aa only mountain air and bard exercise for ten hours 

 continuously can give you, 



Our iront are very numerous, but they are generally not large. The 

 average is, probably, nine inches. Sometimes we take thorn running up 

 to fifteen and eighteen Inches, but these are rare. Tho season for catch- 

 ing them has just opened. I saw one lot of one hundred and forty-nine 

 caught by a party of three, and heard of another of one hundred mid 

 twenty-five caught by one man out of one stream within twenty-five 



milea of Staunton. Later in tbe season wo go further rrom home to 

 larger water, and catch bigger Ash; e. g., in the Cowpastere Elver, in 

 Bath County, there were caught last summer, In one pool in one day 

 one man, thirty brook iront, which weighed a fraction over eighty- 

 three pounds. The bait used was live grasshopper. In streams of this 

 Cowpa«tore tho fly oan be used to advantage, but in the most of our 

 smaller mountain "branches"— at we call them— it cannot. For baas 

 we use live bait of almost any description— toads, frogs, crayfish, and 

 especially minnow*. ( have heard of none being taken in the waters of 

 the Jamea or the Shenandoah with tbe fly, although the attempt has been 

 made repeatedly. 



Last fall tbe partridges (quail; were very abundant in all of the 

 Shenandoah Valley counties. In the wide, open fields of these coun- 

 ties this Bport is delightful. Think of tramping all day through the 

 stubble on these breezy uplands, with the November air jnst keen 

 enongh to be bracing, and the sun shining redly through the mellow, 

 Indian summer haxe I Why, even if there were no such things as guns, 

 or dogs, or birds, It la charming of Itself. On such days— and wo have 

 many such— in such air, one feels the true joy of existence— thankful- 

 ness for mere life apart from anything save the bare fact of living. 

 But I grow sentimental, as I always do when I get on this subject. 



To come down to the sober facts of life, our Club, known as the 

 Augusta Sportsman's Association, was organized about the middle of 

 March, with tho following officers: William L. Bumgnrdner, President; 

 H. C Palmer. G. G. Gooch, . Tames A. Patrick, Vice-Presidents; C. S. 

 Arnall, J. H. Woodward, L. Harman, Frank Clemmer, Ex Com.; .1. H. 

 Scherer, Quartermaster! James Ket, Secretary and Treasurer. Its ob- 

 jects arc, briefly, to assist the authorities in endeavors to carry out the 

 provisions of tbe game and fish laws; to cultivate friendly relations with 

 land-owners, lo raise money to purchase more expensive camping and 

 boating oqnippage than individuals can afford to bring together aqd 

 make acquainted men of kindred tastes; to try to improve oar breeds of 

 dogs, etc. 



If any gentleman In search of shooting or fishing In this section of 

 the country dcaires Information as to localities, prices, transportation, 

 etc., if ha will address onr President (Capt. W. L. Bumgardner, Stann- 

 ton, Vn.), any lnformillon or assistance in our power will be cheerfully 

 given . We want people abroad to know what a land wo have here, and 

 we know that to be thoroughly acquainted with a country implies a little 

 more than a glimpse from a car window or the top of a stage-coach. 

 Asa. 



Children are subject to a thousand discomforta that It would be 

 difficult for a grown person to appreciate. One very effectual way to 

 obviata their troubles is by using B. T. Babbitt's Toilet Soap, which 

 has no equal in all ingenious rivalries of manufacturing. In other 

 words, tho hygienic purity of its components, exhaling without ex- 

 trinsic aid a delimits perfume, makes it the apex of excellence, — Adv. 



|«r and Miver 



FISH IN SEASON IN MAY. 



Trout, Salmo fontinalU. Salmon Trout, Salmo confinis. 



Salmon, Salmo ealar. Shad, Alosa iapi4issima. 



Land-locked Salmon, Salmo sebago. 



%*For trout flies in a 



r Issue of April 28th. 



Fish in Market. — Mackerel and shad have been very 

 abundant during the week. The first sheepshead of the 

 season was caught at Wind mi ll Point, North Carolina, and 

 exhibited at Mr. Blackford's on Monday. Our quotations are 

 Striped bass, 12 \ to 20 cents per pound; smelts, 10 cent$; 

 salmon (frozen), 40 cents; Kennebec, 75 cents; mackerel, IS 

 cents each; shad (southern), 25 cents each; native, do. 30 

 cents; Connecticut Biver, 50 cents ; white perch, 15 cents per 

 pound; Spanish mackerel, 75 cents; green turtle, 18 

 cents; terrapin, $15 per dozen; frostfish, 8 cents per pound; 

 halibut 15 cents ; haddock, 6 cents ; codfish, 8 cents ; black- 

 fish, 15 cents; herrings, 5 cents; flounders, 8 cents; sea bass, 

 20 cents; eels, 18 cents; lobsters, 10 cents; scollops, $1.50 per 

 gallon; whitefish, 15 cents per pound; pickerel, 15 cents; 

 salmon trout 18 cents; Long Island trout, SI; Canada do. 

 50 cents; hard sheU crabs, $3.50 per 100; red snappers, 18 

 cents. 



New York. — Lake George, April 25ft, — The season for troll- 

 ing for lake trout has now commenced. Yesterday a man, 

 while hunting rattlesnakes at a den, was bitten on the hand 

 and is not expected to live. Old Pilot. 



The Adtp.ondacks. — KeeseviRe, JV. Y., April 25rt. — You can 

 announce to those on the anxious seat that the ice bridge of 

 the Garanacs is dissolved, and navigation resumed between 

 Martin's and Barttell's — so says a telegram just received. I 

 am off soon on my twenty-fifth annual trip to the dear old 

 woods. J. B. Eometn. 



Meachom Lake, April 16/ft. — Our spring has opened 

 very early and very warm. The snow is nearly all gone from 

 the woods, has melted away with the sun. The blue birds, 

 robins and ground sparrows anived April 1st. Nearly nil 

 of our spring birds have arrived, and the partridges are 

 drumming lively. The ice is out of the lakes. Our season will 

 be full three weeks earlier than any season during the past 

 ten years. The roads are dry and dusty. My little salmon 

 and" speckled trout are all out from" hatching-boxes and 

 tank; they have done very well; I have saved a much larger 

 per cent, "than any year since I began here. Wo find tho 

 little chaps feeding'along the shore of the lake in all direc- 

 tions. They are many of them one and a half inches long. 

 I feel greatly pleased, and am perfectly satisfied I can keep 

 the stock in the lake good at a very small expense each year. 

 This season the whole expense, counting my time and all, 

 has not been fifty dollars, for at least one hundred thou- 

 sand fry. A. B. Fuller. 



[The above letter from Mr. Fuller will be read with much 

 interest by those anglers who contemplate visiting the Adi- 

 rondacks this spring. The month of May is eminently the 

 month for trout. The fish are strong, active and hungry. 

 They lie in the rapids and swift-running water. They are 

 game. Besides, there are no flies, pungies or mosquitoes 

 to annoy. Mr. Fuller's efforts to stock the lakes will be ap- 

 preciated, while the success which has attended them and 

 the collateral trilling expense will nttract the attention of 

 fish eulturists and stimulate them to a prosecution of the 

 business by the encouragementhis experience affords. — En.] 



Massachusetts. — iVeic Bt-dford, April 21M.— The recent 

 "spell" of weather has had the eflect of filling our markets 

 with a "multitude of fishes," cod, halibut, tautog, herrings, 

 etc. The trout fishermen in the Old Colony have been en- 

 joying rare sport. One fish weighing two pounds and five 

 ounces was caught by Frank Washburn. They were hawked 

 around the streets "of Warehara last week 'as plenty aa 

 herrings, Concha. 



