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Model." In noticing these traps in the columns of Fokkbt 

 and Stbeam when they were first introduced, we spoke of 

 them in high terms, and the judgment of shooters through- 

 out the country has sustained the decision which we then 

 rendered. We have no hesitation in saying that the "New 

 Model " is a very great improvement on the traps earlier made. 

 The spring is sttong and admirably tempered by hand, the 

 machinery of the various parts is carefully fitted, and the trap 

 works easily, and without the need of any force in pulling It. 

 By a recent improvement the trap can be made to throw in 

 any and all directions, or can be stopped so that the balls will 

 fly in all directions except that of the person shooting. A 

 man who is unpracticed in glass ball shooting needs to be 

 prompt in deciding and quick of finger if he is to break many 

 of his balls from one of these new traps. We recommend 

 our readers to consult Mr. Cruttenden's advertisement in this 

 week's Forest and Stream. 



Ka*'s Chips Again.— New York, May 5.— Editor Forest 

 and. Stream : Experiment? have satisfied me that your cor- 

 respondent " Abraham " is right in his estimation and tables 

 of targets made with the Kay chips. They are certainly all 

 that is claimed for them, and are just the thing for pigeon 

 shooting at long distance. Even if the bird is a quick in- 

 comer the spread of shot is sufficient to cover any moderate 

 inaccuracy of aim, and if hit with the center of the charge he 

 is not reduced to pulp. The chip is the only article of the 

 kind which can be absolutely depended on for uniformity of 

 distribution, nearly all of my targets appearing at first glance 

 as if made with one charge. Messrs. Kay & Co. can hardly 

 desire a better advertisement than the fact that the new but 

 redoubtable Wagunhas Gun Club have declined a challenge 

 from the Newark Club unless the latter will agree to dispense 

 with the chip in a match at 30 yards rise, one barrel. All the 

 Ne walkers are loud in their praises of the chip. Why should 

 we have our guns choked when by using the chip we can 

 make a cylinder choked? Side Lbvek. 



The Auxiliaby Kifle.— A Pensacola, Fla., correspondent 

 writes that the Shelton auxiliary barrel is giving the fullest 

 satisfaction wherever it is introduced in that part of the 

 country. It has proved especially adapted to deer hunting. 



DEER HUNTING IN TENNESSEE. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



When a meet of Her Majesty's staghounds takes place in 

 the great park at Windsor Castle, with the Earl of Hardwicke 

 as the master of the hounds, with his huntsmen and whippers- 

 in and some thirty couple of the finest bred dogs in the 

 country, and a field of from fifty to one hundred splendidly 

 mounted huntsmen, with their red coats, leather breeches and 

 top boots, it furnishes a sight that is not easily forgotten, and 

 one that would arouse in the breast of any one fond of sport 

 the keenest sense of enjoyment, or else it would indeed be diffi- 

 cult to say what would. A fine stag has been captured from 

 the large herd of deer bred on the royal domain especially 

 for this sport. He is yonder in a large van, having been 

 transported to the place of meeting. When all is ready the 

 door is opened, and out he leaps and away he goes. It may 

 Tie an old one, who has been out before the hounds more than 

 •once ; he knows what is coming, and makes the best of his 

 time from the start. At a given signal the hounds are cast 

 off, and away they go, filling the air with that beautiful music 

 peculiar to such animals. Pell-mell come the horsemen, over 

 hedge and ditch, stone walls, up hill and down ■ now through 

 some park, another moment skirting a country village or ham- 

 let. On and on they go, until at last the stag is brought to 

 hay and the chase is at an end. It is true that great courage 

 is required to follow the hounds closely ; the pace is some- 

 times prodigious, and many of the leaps that come in one's 

 way in a good run would rarely be taken by the pluckiest 

 riders but for the intense excitement. As it is, of the starters, 

 but few ever turn up at the finish. In our country, a chase 

 after a full-grown buck is not only the nearest approach to 

 the above, but to the true sportsman is preferable, on ac- 

 count of its more natural and savage character. For in- 

 stance: On the estate of Mr. D. Hillman, which consists of 

 75,000 acres in one tract, such occasions often present them- 

 selves. In this large body of land all kinds of country are 

 to be found — bill and dale, forest and prairie, water courses, 

 marshes, gullies, fallen timber ; all offering difficulties of no 

 mean kind to be surmounted. Our huntsmen have no red 

 coats or top boots, but, as a rule, are well mounted. Our 

 hounds are not kept in kennels under the supervision of a 

 regular huntsman, but the pack is made up from the neigh- 

 borhood, each man bringing what he can ; as many as thirty 

 or forty is a large pack. Our stag is not in a van, but in 

 some covert, hidden away, full of all the cunning instinct of 

 the absolutely wild deer. It is he who has to be found, start- 

 ed, chased and caught or shot. 



Deer in our country have stereotyped habits, by which their 

 whereabouts are easily discovered by the old huntsmen. 

 They have their regular feeding-grounds and watering-places, 

 and near which they can almost always be found, or, if not 

 their feeding time, they generally resort to some place near 

 by to rest. Sometimes, when the whereabouts of game is 

 discovered, the hunters dismount at different places along 

 which signs can be seen, and wait a chance shot, as he may 

 run by after the dogs have started him from his hiding-place; 

 or else they all remain mounted and follow the chase in regu- 

 lar style, always with the difference with English stag-hunt- 

 ing—if any one gets an opportunity they shoot the game. 

 Those best acquainted with woodcraft fare the best generally, 

 as they can from the music of the pack tell pretty nearly the 

 way the deer is running, and thus, by cutting across and 

 about, stand a better chance of a Bhot. But then a deer is 

 hard to hit from a horse when both are in motion ; and then 

 there is always a little nervousness on such occasions, so that 

 the mortality from that score is not very great. Besides, a 

 deer will run a long distance after being wounded, unless hit 

 in some vital part. It facilitates the dogs' catching him, how- 

 ever ; and then they often have trouble, for an old buck is a 

 dangerous beast to tackle, oftentimes killing and wounding 

 many dogs with his antlers and hoofs. The favorite breeds 

 of hounds and for deer hunting throughout the South are the 



black and tan and common, hounds. The English stag and 

 foxhounds have been tried, but, as a rule, are too fast, and 

 will not be called off from the chase. Young Mr. Hillman 

 told a friend of mine that he was out lately with his pack of 

 hounds and had a splendid run of several hours, and at last 

 killed the deer in the inclosed grounds around his house. 

 When the season opens next fall I would be glad to hear of 

 some of our Eastern sportsmen making preparations to come 

 out here and hunt that country. I am confident they would 

 have excellent sport, and certainly a hearty welcome. 

 Nashville, Tenn. 3. D. H. 



HOW TO LOAD FOR GAME. 



Painbbvilzk, Ohio, May 1, 1879 

 Editob Forest and Stkeam : 



I shall not attempt to lay down any rules— it would be folly 

 to do so, as no two guns shoot alike with the same load. I 



rite my experience in loading my 12-gauge, 30-inch, 7ilbs. 

 W. & C. Scott premier gun. 



though I have owned 10-gauge guns, my experience with 

 them has been limited. I am very much -in favor of light 

 guns for all except wild fowl shooting. Even in this shoot- 

 ing, light 12-gauge guns will do much better than one is aware 

 of, unless he has tried it. The trouble lies not in the shooting 

 qualities of the gun, but in the lack of necessary weight to 

 take up the recoil of the heavy charges required. For all 

 upland shooting give me a light 12-gauge gun ; it is much 

 pleasanter to carry. To be able to cover a strong, swift-fly- 

 ing bird, that starts most unexpectedly, before he is out of 

 shot, you must be reasonably fresh and elastic — not distressed 

 and dispirited. Your gun must be of such a weight that you 

 can carry it all day without severe fatigue. 



A good 12-gauge gun will serve you honestly in all upland 

 shooting, and while not just the thing for wild fowl shooting, 

 will yet suffice if you find occasional opportunity to put it to 

 such work. I use mostly Dittmar powder, and any rule that 

 applies to that will do for black. The majority of sportsmen 

 overload their guns. Men who have been using muzzle-load 

 ers with the best of success, loading with 2£ drams of pow- 

 der, buy a breech-loader and proceed at once to load with 5 

 drams. Now, what is the use of it, pray tell ? I very seldom 

 load with over 3^ drams of powder and 1 oz. shot. In duck 

 shooting I have been using 4 drams Orange Ducking No. 5 

 and 1 oz. No. 6 shot, but the powder was very coarse and 

 pleasant to shoot. For snipe, quail and woodcock shooting 

 I find that 3 drams of Dittmar and 1 oz. of 8 or 10 shot does 

 the work nicely. Some men seem to have the best luck with 

 certain sizes of shot. I always use No. 7 for trap shooting ; 

 don't seem to have any luck with any other size. For quail 

 I use No 8 ; snipe, No. 10; woodcock, No. 10 ; rabbits, No. 

 8 ; squirrels, No. 8 ; ruffed grouse, No. 6 ; ducks, Nos. 4 

 and 6. 



My experience has been that the finer the shot used the 

 more powder is wanted back of them. I use two pink edge 

 wads over the powder, and a good plan is to place next the 

 powder a thin waterproof card wad, to prevent the powder 

 from absorbing the grease of the wads. Over the shot I place 

 a black edge wad, except in single bird trap-shooting, when I 

 substitute a card wad, as the lighter the pressure over the 

 shot the better the gun will shoot. This I have proved many 

 times, and on that account never crimp a paper shell. If the 

 wads are a size larger than shell there will be no trouble in 

 the wads starting. I have found on trial at targets that two 

 wads over the powder give a little better penetration, and at 

 least 25 per cent, better pattern. I don't believe in pound- 

 ing down the wads with a mallet ; it makes but a little better 

 penetration and makes the gun scatter badly. Any man who 

 is in doubt how to load his gun should spend a half day try- 

 ing it at targets with different loads; he can learn in that way 

 what all the books on the subject cannot tell him. 



This is for those who are just taking up the gun and are in- 

 experienced, and, little as it is, what I have written has cost 

 me many dollars and much time to learn it. 



In reply to "Dexter," I would say the shot I used in target- 

 ing my gun were Tatham's soft shot, No. 8. 399 to the oz., 

 making the average pattern of the gun about 90 per cent., 

 using 3 1 drams powder, 1£ oz. shot. Nanit. 



Rockingham, N. O , April 5, 1879. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



In your last issue you invite discussions as to how to load 

 for game. I will tell you how I load, have always loaded and 

 ever expect to, yet will not contend that all others should 

 follow my "illustrious example," unless they desire t > do so. 

 Imprimis, I use a 16 gauge W. & C. Scott breech-loader, 30- 

 inch barrel and 71bs. weight, and the charges specified below 

 are for this gun. The gun was originally a choke ; has, 

 however, been rebored, and is more cylindrical. For quail 

 (we call them partridges) I use 2 drams powder to J oz. No. 

 8 shot the season through ; for ducks, 2£ drams powder to 1 

 oz. No. 5 shot ; for turkeys, 2£ drams to 1 oz. No. 3 shot, and 

 for deer, 2 J drams powder to 4 chambers buckshot, 12 and 

 16, the smaller (16) in the red season and the larger (12) in 

 the blue season. T. C. Leak. 



Cleveland, O., April 28, 1879. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



1 have four gunB— one, a 10-gauge, 10-lb. 32-inch barrel. 

 In it I use for large shot from No. 1 to No. 4, A\ drams pow- 

 der, No . 2 grain Oriental, and 1^ oz. shot. This is for long- 

 range shooting at heavy ducks. In my 12-gauge gun I use 

 3} drams powder l£ oz. shot. In the field, 3 drams powder 

 and 1 oz. shot, unless birds are wild, when I use 3£ drams 

 pow der and 1£ oz. shot. In a 16-gauge b^lbs. gun 28-inch 

 barrels I use, when birds are not wild, 2* drams powder and 

 same bulk of shot; if wild, 2J drams powder with same bulk 

 of shot. This used to be an old rule for field shooting iu 

 muzzle-loading times, and is a good one for field shooting, as 

 it gives no recoil and makes an even, pretty pattern and good 

 penetration. These charges are, in my opinion, the best for 

 the uses mentioned. For a field gun for quails, snipe, wood- 

 cock, partridges, prairie chickens, etc., the light 16-gauge 

 gun is a beauty. One never tires with its weight ,- can grasp 

 it so easily and handle it so quickly that he makes up any 

 loss he may expect by not having a heavier gun and larger 

 charge. And then it is a satisfaction to see a bird fall dead— for 

 the 16-bore shoots close and hard when moderately choked— 

 and feel that one has aimed at his bird and not a foot on one 

 side, as he may do when 1± oz. of small shot are rained after 

 a bird weighing scarcely more than the charge of shot sent 

 for his destruction. Oantas-Baox. 



AIM AT FLYING GAME. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



Some light may be thrown upon the questions of whether 

 to aim at or in front of a bird crossing the shooter by con- 

 sideration of the accompanying figure and its explanation. 



A is the position of the charge when fired, and B that of the- 

 bird at the same instant, the latter being supposed to fly from 

 B to F in exactly the same time that it takes the former to go 

 from A to BF, the bird's line of flight. 



If the aim is along AF with the gun temporarily at rest, the 

 bird passing B at the instant of firing, then the charge strikes 

 the bird at F ; if along AB, with the gun at rest, the bird will 

 reach F as the charge reaches B ; if the aim is along AB at 

 the instant of discharge and the gun continues to be held on 

 the bird in its flight toward F, the conditions are those of the 

 question principally requiring consideration. 



Suppose now that the line AB represents an indefinitely ex- 

 tended gun barrel, fired in the position AB and swung around 

 with uniform velocity from the instant of discharge, so that 

 when it gets into the position AF the charge reaches the muz- 

 zle at F, then when the barrel is in the position AC the 

 charge will be at 1 ; when in AD, at 2 ; and when in AE, at 

 3. The points 1, 2 and 3 are those of the curved line through 

 which the charge has to pass from A to F. 



Returning to the original conditions : If Al represents 

 the length of the gun barrel (held on the bird flying from 

 B towarJ F after being fired with aim along AB) the 

 charge leaves it at 1 and flies in the straight line 1G, which is 

 the resultant of the forward and angular forces and tangent to 

 the curve at 1, and is therefore outside of the path required to 

 carry it to F. If any other point of the curve A123F is taken 

 as the muzzle of the gun, the breech being at A in all cases, 

 the result shows the charge crossing the bird's line of flight 

 somewhere between B and F at the same instant that the 

 bird reaches F, and palpably chronicles a missing shot behind 

 the bird. 



Such successful shots as seem to argue false theory in the 

 foregoing can generally be accounted for without disturbing 

 it : In some cases the scattering of the shot serves to cover the 

 error in aiming, and in others the gun is discharged just as it 

 " catches up with " the bird and while it is moving with a 

 rapid angular velocity unintentionally and accidentally cor- 

 rect. Coroho, 



Richmond, Va. 



—See BogarduB' advertisement. 



PIGEON MATCHES. 



Riverside Club— 'fopaham, Me., May 1.— Bogardns trap : 



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W. A. 8. 



New Hampshire— Ashland, Hay 9.— Astilana Gun Club. Bogardns 

 trap with screen ; IS yards rlBe : 



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Ties on nine— 21 yds. 



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Warner 1 l 1-3 m. 



Ashland Gun Clot— AMand, .¥. H., May 8.— Bogardns trap witn 

 screen ; IS yards rise : 



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UP Warner 1 10 1111 1— T 



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ASOlark 1 11111111 1—10 



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Ties on ten— 21 yards rise. 



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Second tie. 

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New York— Cazniwvia, May 8.— Cazenovia Gun Club ; Hrst fornigbt- 

 ly match lor a $25 prize medal, to become tbe propeny ot person win- 

 ning moat timet! iu the aeasou ; Card's rotating trap, Bogardns rules. 

 IS yds.: 



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Cruttenden 1 ooillllliioil 1—12 



Ties— 21 yds. 

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