March 30, 1883.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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the button) of the river. His huge hunting dog sprang in 

 from me overturned boat and seized him by the coat. A 

 farmer near by put out in a flat boat and pulled over to 

 where Sehutt 'had gone dowu, succeeded in getting him 

 safely into his boar. It was tt narrow escape from a watery 

 grave. 



The death of, B. H. Turrill hat! been profoundly felt 

 through this section of She country, and letters from sports- 

 men all over the State expressing regret and condolence tor 

 hta family have heen daily received by his friends. The 

 Illinois State Sportsmen's Association met Monday, 

 March 26, at the Palmer House, to draw up suitable resolu- 

 tions of respect for his memory. 



At the time of the heavy floods and rain storms this year 

 about January them seemed reason for thinking that most of 

 the ijuail in Illinois, Northern Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska 

 had been killed off in the open Ileitis. Now more encourag- 

 ing reports tire being received by local sportsmen from every- 

 where. A letter to the FOREST AND StbBAM correspondent 

 from Jerscyville, Ul., says that the informant has heard from 

 all through Central Illinois, and that about two-thirds of the 

 quail survived, and that the shooting will be better thau last 

 year. From Iowa comes very encouraging news. With a 

 good breeding season and a let up on the breaking of game 

 laws there will be fine quail shooting next fall. 



ANOTHER HETERODOX SCREED. 



Editor Fonxt and Stream: 



I have seen a great many articles in your paper on the sub- 

 ject called "The Protection of Game," and most of the 

 writers blame the "market-shooters" and "pot-hunters" for 

 Hieing the excuse for the scarcity of game, .so as to need pro- 

 tection, But if there were no "market shooters" nor "pot- 

 hunters," the so-called "gentlemen sportsmen" would kill 

 more game, and they would soon find that the game still needed 

 protection, The only way to protect game is to .slop killing 

 it entirely, when it is scarce, for a term of vears; and to 

 hunt only where it is plenty, if one hunt at all. 



As far as the "market-shooter" ir, concerned, L thiuk it is a 

 great deal belter for a man who kills large quantities of 

 game to sell it (so that many tolks who are not able to spend 

 the time and money to hunt themselves, can have a taste of 

 game once in a while), than it is for a "gentleman sports- 

 man" to go on a shooting trip and kill to throw away. 1 

 read an article in a paper a while ago, where a sportsman 

 started after woodcock the day the law was off, and the car 

 conductor (old him it would be no use to go to the place, as 

 a gentleman had been there two or three days before and 

 ahot sixteen. This made my gentleman sportsman mad, 

 but he thought he would go there anyway, thinking there 

 might be a few birds left, but he found none; so lie said he 

 would see if the game could not be protected, and the gam* 

 laws lived up to, and he would put that "lawbreaker" 

 through if he could find out who he was Now, I ask the 

 question, would the game laws be better protected if he 

 had found the sixteen woodcock instead of the man that 

 broke the law 1 I say no. He would have shot all he could. 

 The fact of it is, the rich "gentlemen sportsmen" want to 

 have all the shooting themselves, and only go in for "pro- 

 tection" so that they can slaughter more themselves when 

 they go out. 



Now. I can see no fun in -.hooting from forty to a hun- 

 dred ducks, grouse, etc., a day for a month at a time, unless 

 you sell them. If I wanted real sport, I had rather work 

 hard all day for ten good fat ducks or grouse, than to murder 

 a hundred "or so. There is no skill about it where they are 

 SO thick that all you have, to do is to take out and put in 

 shells and Arc, away. There 1b no sense in a man— even if 

 he is worth millions — shooting more game, or catching more 

 fish than he can use when he is off on his annual shooting 

 or fishing trip. I have read your _ paper from No. 1 up to 

 date, and 1 must say I am sick of seeing in every paper a 

 howl from a so-called "gemleniao sportsman" saying, 

 "Death to the market-shooter!" "Down with the' pot- 

 hunter!" "We must protectthegame!" "So we kid-gloved 

 boirs" will have more to shoot and more to brag about! Of 

 course I do not mean to say that all "gentlemen 1 sportsmen," 

 rich or poor, are hogs, but I am afraid a gieat many of the 

 rich ones arc. I think those "sportsmen" who hire guides 

 to point out and help shoot the game, ought to be placed in 

 the same category with I lie "skin-huniers, who leave hun- 

 dreds of buffaloes to rot on the plains." 



I think the "gun and rod clubs" organized all over the 

 United States for the protection of game, ought to have a 

 prod once in a while to brace them up to their work; they 

 Claiin to be in favor of protecting the game, but its soon as 

 the law is off, each member seems to vie with the rest as to 

 which one of them will kill the most game, and I believe 

 there, are a hundred birds killed now to where there was 

 one before there were any "rod and gun clubs." As soon as 

 . elub it : formed in any town, a number of the merchants, 

 ministers, lawyers, doctors, clerks, etc., who makeup almost 

 Wholly the great crowd called '•gentlemen sportsmen." join 

 the club, a great many of whom never fired a, gnu in their 

 lives, except when boys, nor caught fish cither. Hut after 

 they have been a few times to the "wilderness" of "York 

 State" or Maine, or the Western plains, have the artogance 

 to call themselves "true sportsmen." and tell of their experi- 

 ences, and set themselves up as men able to give good advice 

 on all subjects relating to gun and rod, when t hoy do not 

 know the first thing about the subjects mentioned, but rely 

 on their guides to place them on llie best runways for deer, 

 or the best holes in the ponds and streams for 'trout, and 

 with their help kill and catch more than they can use, and 

 then leave a few of the former and large quantities of the 

 latter to spoil, just for the reason that their vacation comes 

 only once a year, and that they must bring to bag all they 

 can in the two or four weeks they have to spare lor the pur- 

 pose, so that they can brag when they get home as to what 

 great sportsmen they are, and what large quantities of game 

 they got. If this is being a "true gentleman sportsman." I 

 do not wish to join the hand. 



My idea, of what a. sportsman ought to be is-, a man who 

 lias used the rod and gun most of his life, who understands 

 the nature and instinct of all the objects of his pursuit, who 

 when in the woods or on the plain, and by the Irfke or 

 stream, can by his own skill fill his bag, can paddle his own 

 canoe, row his own boat, build his own camp, tie his own 

 flics, and find his way home with no need for a guide, who 

 enjoys being out in the open, free from care or trouble, who 

 floes not kill just for the sake of killing: or bragging, who is 

 willing every man in the world, whether rich or poor, white, 

 red or black, gentleman sportsman or market-shooter, shall 

 have just as good a time as himself, so long as they are not 

 hogs, and do not kill everything they can find on their 



tramps, but after killing enough for a meal, and perhaps for 

 a friend, are ready to quit and go home, and leave what is 

 left forsonie.ouc.el.se or for another year; and finally, one 

 who lives up to the game laws, no matter what anyone else 

 does as long as flic laws protect the game. 



Now as far as the "market-shooter, ' and so called "true 

 spprtsman" are Concerned, there is hut little difference, one 

 kills for profit, and the other for pleasure, and both kill the 

 same quantity of game. The "market-shooter" is the best 

 one of the two, for his game is sold to the market men, and 

 then bought by people who have no time nor money to shoot 

 themselves, while the. "gentleman or true sportsman," after 

 he has shot enough for himself, and a few friends, keeps on 

 shooting to throw away, it is just as Frank Forester says 

 in his "Manual for Sportsmen," page 283, viz. : "The fiat of 

 wanton destruction has. gone forth against all the wild in- 

 habitants of the woods, the fields, the marshes, and the 

 waters, as irrevocable as that against the red Indians, for 

 profit, for pleasure, for mere recklessness and the love of 

 useless slaughter, the work of extermination is going on 

 eastward, and westward, from the salmon rivers and trout 

 streams of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, to the prairies 

 and plainsat the foot of the Rocky Mountains." And again: 

 "Many years will not elapse before no species of game, 

 Whether bird, beast, or lisb. perhaps no wild animal, not so 

 much even as a thrush, or a bluebird, will be left to enliven 

 the fields, or the forest, and then too late, when the healthful 

 toil of the sportsman has no longer an object, and the table 

 of the luxurious epicure is deprived of its choicest dainties, 

 America will bewail its shortsightedness, neither more nor 

 less than that of the clown who slew the goose with the eggs 

 of gold." 



In a very few years more, and bis prophecy will come 

 true. How can it be prevented? I say it will 'help a great 

 deal toward it, if the guu and rod clubs all over the eouutry 

 would protect the game the whole year through, and for 

 a term of years where the game is scarce, instead of only 

 protecting it through the close season, and then beginning 

 to slaughter it the minute the law is off. It is a great deal 

 better to "hunt without a gun" where the game is scarce, 

 than it is to lay the whole cause on the head of the "market- 

 shooter," when the fault-finders are so much to blame them- 

 selves. 



I ask all the so-called "true sportsmen" why they call a 

 market-shooter or anyone else that knows enough, and is 

 able to kill more game, or catch more fish than they can, a 

 pot-hunter. Now 1 think there is a good deal of honor iu 

 being a first-class pot-hunter, so far as being able to pick out 

 a good tender piece of meat for the pot, at any market, is 

 concerned. A Poor Old Market-Shootek. 



St. AtBJNS, Vs., Feb. gfr. 



HINTS ABOUT LOADING. 



Editor J'bnst anil Strouu-. 



Permit me to call the attention of your readers to an acci- 

 dent that happened recently to a friend of mine. Although 

 such an accident might be avoided by the exercise of no 

 other degree of intelligence than a well-bred collie dog is 

 supposed to possess, yet, I am convinced from inquiry and 

 observation, that very many of those who have occasion to 

 use and load shot shells (and especially those living in the 

 country) are guilty of the same act that caused this accident, 

 viz.. decapping and iecn piping loaded shells held iu the hand. 



The young man had been out shooting and one shell 

 missed fire. After liis return he unscrewed the cap at the 

 butt of the shell (a Draper) and removed the primer, placed a 

 new one on the nipple, and holding the shell in his hand 

 with the butt down, attempted to force the primer home by 

 light blows or taps on the stone hearth. Result — an ex- 

 plosion. The shell burst and his hand was shattered and 

 maimed for life. If he had placed his hand over the muzzle 

 of a loaded muzzle-loading gun, and held it there while forc- 

 ing a cap on to the nipple by repeated blows of the hammer 

 until an explosion took place, he would not have been more 

 careless, Further comment unnecessary. 



I learn by your issue of the 15th, that "Dr. Pirtard, of New 

 York, has invented a new shell, iu which he claims to have 

 the advantages of both paper and metal shells, with the. de- 

 fects of neither. It seems to be his opinion that by using 

 metal shells as heretofore constructed the shooting qualities 

 of a gun are impaired by the use of wads too large for the 

 bore of the gun, etc., and 1 think this is true as such shells 

 are usually loaded. 



After much experimenting I have adopted the following 

 method of loading metal shells when I desire extra hard 

 shooting with a light gun: I use a 12-gauge; powder, 2J 

 drs. Dupont's "choke-bore" No. 7, to which I add 1 dr. best 

 fine powder (putting fine powder into shell on top of course). 

 I then put on to the powder a heavy cardboard 11 -gauge 

 wad, on this a 10-gauge pink-edge; then an 11-gauge wad cut 

 out of harness lealhcrYof about same thickness as felt wad), 

 with from J to l^ ozs. chilled shot (if coarse shot, use not. 

 to exceed H ozs.). with 10-gauae pink-edge wad on shot. 

 By placing the 10-gauge pink-edge felt, wad between the 

 cardboard and leather wads I succeed in expanding the felt 

 wad so that escape of gas is impossible, more BO than with 

 two pink-edge wads alone on powder; and beside, all of the 

 wads pass from the gun uninjured by powder or shot, the 

 leather wad reaching the muzzle perfectly flat and true with 

 bore of barrel. This gives a pattern remarkably free from 

 bunches or open spaces. By using powder as stated, I ob- 

 tain better penetration than any amount of coarse powder 

 will give in my 12-gauge, 28-inch barrel, 7^-lb. Fox gun. 

 In fact, I have yet to seethe gun of any gauge that will give 

 better penetration, or that is" more certain to kill a duck or 

 grouse at any distance. 



I have experimented for the purpose of ascertaining how 

 much powder of size grain No. 8 Orange "ducking" can be 

 burned up clean in a full 12-gauge breech-loading gun. I 

 placed a board target, with the surface smeared with lard, 

 two rods away from the muzzle of my gun ; I aimed and 

 shot, both with and without shot in shell. This I repeated 

 many times, with more or less powder, cleaning target when 

 necessary and putting on more lard. With 2f drams powder 

 and 1 ounce shot I could not find any uuburned powder 

 either in greased surface, of target or along the hard snow 

 path leading to it. With 3 drams without shot 1 found 

 some uuburned power both on target and along path, and 

 continued to find Increased amount of unburneel powder as 

 charges were increased up to 4 drains, But. I found less 

 when the shot was used iu the shell. With 21 drams coarse 

 and one dram fine powder, I could not find any uuburned 

 powder, and the penetration of the shot wad much better 

 than with 4 drams coarse, with a trifle better pattern aud 

 with less fouling of the gun, 



Any one who will take the trouble to force, with a large 



rod, one or more 10-gauge felt wads through a full 12-gnuge 

 gun from breech to muzzle will at. once see why tt uniform 

 pattern cannot be obtained. When only 10-gauge wads are 

 used the center of the uppermost wad Will hfr raised in a 

 using dispersion of shot from ccuttT of 



pattern. Now place a leather 

 10-gauge felt wad and fon 

 leather wad will reach the 

 with the bore of the gun, ar 

 Some guns using 12-gauge 

 ;zle. I» sucl 



1 11-gangt 

 through Maine 



jszle perfectly 



vill give an eve 

 etal shells 



on top of B 

 barrel. The 

 flat and true 

 i distribution 

 13 or If 



on top of felt wads and 



hot a leather wad that will just fill bore at muzzle, 

 and an improved pattern will be the result, The same 

 principle applies to any gauge bore. I am well convinced 

 from my experiments that using two pink-edge wads alouc 

 on powder will not give as good penetration as a single pml; 

 edge placed between cardboard and leather wads of proper 

 size. This is due, in my opinion, to the fact that the single 

 felt wad thus placed expands laterally to a greater degree, 

 thereby more effectually preventing the escape of gas with 

 less friction. 



Perhaps some other correspondents may add to my notes 

 a description of their own experiments m loading. 



Willett, N. y„ March 20, 18S3. M E. B. 



NEW JERSEY GUNNING GROUNDS. 



r PHE following list of the names and addresses of equipped 

 -L gunners of the New Jersey coast, with the shooting 

 points at their command and their rates, is taken from n. late 

 issue of the Const Pilot : 



GAPE MAY OOTJNTY. 



Cape May City— 80 miles from Philadelphia., by West 



wharf. " Euos Sehcl- 

 Jerrv B. SchelUnger, Charles 

 Joseph Hand, D. W. Pearson, 

 . Hildreth, E. ('.Taylor, F. Sidney Town 

 , Clark Brothers. Rates, p.SO per 



E— 60 miles from Philadelphia, 



Charles K. Foster, William II. 



i. F. Hewitt. Rates, $3 per day 



Jersey Railroad, via M 

 linger, Aaron Sehellingi 

 Sciie.llinger, Reck Hand. 

 James Clark. A. P 

 scud. Col. J. 1,. La 

 day and board. 



Cai'E M.w OouirrHo 

 via West Jersey Railroai 

 Foster, E, C. Wheaten. 

 aud hoard. 



Mayville — One mile from Cape May Court House. 

 Lewis Ludlam, Benjamin Hawkins. Rates, $2 per day and 

 board. 



Dennisville — Four miles from Seaville on West Jersey 

 Railroad. Edwin W. James. Joseph Blizzard. (Upland 

 and Sound shooting.) Rates, $2 per day and board, 



Seaville — 01 miles from Philadelphia, via West Jersey 

 Railroad. F. Shute. (Upland and Sound shooting.) Rates, 

 $2 per day and board. 



Townsend's Inlet— Via Seaville. William Stilton, How- 

 ard Rice. Rates, $2.50 per day and board. 



Tuckahoe— Six miles off Woodbine Station on West 

 Jersey Railroad — total distance, 62 miles. Major W. B. 

 Brown. Thomas S. Clark. (Inland and Riveis.) Rates, $8 50 

 per da3 r and board. 



Beeslkv's Point— Reached via Pleasant ville, West Jer- 

 sey and Atlantic Railroad— total distance, 07 miles. Thomas 

 Clark, Aaron Clark, William Stites. Rates, $2.50 per day 

 and board. 



Gunning resorts in Cape May county are in and about 

 the various sounds aud thoroughfares, as (Jape Island 

 Sounds, Grassy Sounds, Jarvey Sounds, Cresses Thor- 

 oughfare, Great Sounds, are well-known and availablepoinfs 

 in this county. 



ntHvLiNoroN county. 



TucKEirroN.— Capt. Wm. Ga.skill, Capt. Joseph P. 

 Shourds. ITazleton Jones, Samuel K. Shourds, J. G. Downs, 

 James Marshall, Lewis Parker, Samuel Shourds, Jr., Wm. 

 A. Mathis, John Sprague, Ilenry Shourds, Wm. Horfie'r, 

 Wm. R. McDaniel, Noah Marshall, Charles Horner, Abraru 

 Price. Edward Parker, Mason Price, Peter Parker, .Tames 

 Homer. Rates — $2.50 per day and board. 



Available gunning points in Little Egg Harbor Bay ac- 

 cessible from Tuckerfon: Gauut's Point, Gaunl's Cove. 

 Jerimey's Point, Jeriiney's Cove, Rose's Point. Rome's Cove. 

 Hester "Sedge. East Sedge, West Sedge, Jolmey Sedge, Good 

 Luck Sedge, Shelter Island, Parker's Island, Middle Island 

 Storrey's Island. Hester Isl: 

 Bunches, Barrel Island, Goose 

 Island. 



ocean etuvrv. 



Toms Rivbu.— Vincent W. Applegate, Lane Applegate, 

 George Irons, Samuel V. Piersou, James Robinson, Fred. 

 Grant, Israel Hoffmire, John Grant. (Bay gunning.) 

 Equipped sportsmen with yachts. Rates— $5 per day and 

 board, boats and equipments. 



Cuadwick's.— John Applegate, Charles Seaman, William 

 H. Gaunt, William Vannote, James Lovelund. CUlbcrt Chad- 

 wick, Maxon Chadwick. 



West Cueek— 69 miles i'rom Philadelphia on Tuckertou 

 Railroad, via Pennsylvania Railroad by Market street 

 wharf — 122 miles from New York City. James Horner, 

 Samuel Parker, Abram Price, Edward Rulon, Richard 

 Craumer, Job Parker, William Horner, Abram Pharo. 

 Aaron Pharo, Lewis Parker. Rates— $.3 per day and board. 



Well-known available gunning points in Little Egg Har- 

 bor Bay accessible from West Creek; I lam's Island, Sheep's 

 Head Island, High Island, Little Island, Beach Meadow 

 Point, Egg Island, Marshelder Island, Parker Island, Sand 

 Point. 



Manahawkin — 65 miles from Philadelphia on Tucker- 

 ton railroad; 118 miles from New York city. Ftank Mar- 

 tin, Humphrey Martin, Dell Craumer, Lewis luman, Joseph 

 Cranmer, Joseph Tom Cranmer, William Letts, F. B, Oli- 

 phant, Rates — $2.50 per day and board. 



Well-known available gunning points in Little Egg Har- 

 bor and Barnegat bays accessible to Manahawkin: Egg 

 Island, Thoroughfare Island, Lazy Point, Gulf Island, Beat- 

 Island, Parker's Point. Oyster Point, North Point, Reed's 

 Fishing Point. Main Point. 



Barnegat. — 60 miles from Philadelphia via Tuekcrton 

 railroad; 113 miles from New York city via Central New 

 Jersey Railroad. Henry Grant, John Horner, Stacy Burr, 

 Jefferson Woodmansie, Charles Sprague, James Cox, Jesse 

 Eirdsall, Augustus E. Cranmer, Charles Hjdgway, Geo. II. 

 Vaunote, Jarvis Ridgway, Alphonso Estyrcs, Rates— $2.50 

 per day and board. 



Well-known available gunning points iu Barnegat Bay, 

 accessible from BarnegaC Harvey Cedars, Barnegat lufet 

 and Waretown, are; Bear Island, Carver's Island, Little 

 Sanely Island, Lovelady's Island, A oil Sedge, Gulf Island, 

 Big Sandy Island, Marehelder Island, Sloop Sedge, High 

 Bar, Clum IslaudB, South Point of Gunning River. 



id, Bunches Island, Big 

 Bar, Bunion Sedge, Little 



