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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Milwaukee Hifle flub met at their range on the 20th for prac- 

 tice at 900 and 1,000 yards. The score was as follows: 



(100 yarns. 1,000 yards. Totals. 



Johnson 5 5 S 5 5 5 4 4 S 5— 4S 35566644 S 4-Aa— 53 



Berry 4 S i 3 S 5 H 5 4 4 — -in 4 5 5 6 4 ■! 3 4 I 4-1*— S3 



Dr^ke 4 5 44 35 8*4 3-;<9 5 540084 r. 5 5—»>i— ?5 



Yale. S :; 5 5 -1 5 4 - 5 U— 34 6 4 4 i S •] 3 D 0-33—67 



The Milwaukee South Sirle Rifles picnicked at QreeenBeld 

 Pnrk. June 33, and some good scores "'ire made. 



On the 13th t ■ ■ i. with 15 shots at each distance, 



as follows: 



Jinn vo>. 1,000 yds. Tl. 900 t«1b. 1,000 yds. TJ. 



Bangs 07 64 181 Drake 64 57 1H 



Johnson Si 51 125" Berry 63 49 112 



SOHTTETZBN NOTES. 



—The Charleston Shooting Association have elected the 

 following officers: A.. Meletiers, President; J. F. Meyer, H. 

 W. M illenbauer, W. Fischer, Vice-Presidents ; D. LilienihaJ, 

 Shoo ' F Liebs, Treasurer; A. F. Melchers, 



St i 19. Bimona, Counsel ; Finance Committee. Herui. 



iberandN". Bischoff. 



— The officers of ine Long Island Scbuelzenbund are now 

 as follows : Major Schulten, President; Capt. Uater, Secre- 

 tary; Capt. Winschigel, Treasurer i Lieut Mueller, Finance 

 Secretary ; Capt. Bott and Capt. Aibrecht, Trustees. 



—The Bridgeport Independent Shooting Club have organized 

 for 1879 as foilows : F. Druefce, President; F. Egge, Secre- 

 tary; C. Becker, Treasurer; Geo. Quittmeyer, Shooting 

 Master. During the summer seas in the praclice shooting of 

 this club will take place at Sea Side Range. 



— TheN. J. Central Shooting Corps, Capt. C. F. Gen- 

 nerich, recently held their opening shoot for 1879 at Jones 

 Wood 



Target of Honor— 25 rings; distance, 350 feet; 3 shots in 

 i a each : 



AuzKlg-s M 19 23—65 R spitz IS 16 24—5S 



Fred Miller 14 2'' 23—62 liy iirogcr 17 17 24-56 



WJKee 13 22 8U—«1 H Mailings 23 !S 21— 63 



i i as ii' !i0— «n Juhnliasner 16 is 21—65 



Kobert Fllerdl 10 id si— 09 



Overbaugh Target— Ring Target— Distance, 350 feet; 10 



shots in succession without leaving the stand. The gold 



which Mr. Overbaugh gave for this occasion, must be 



won 3 times by one and tee fame shooter before becoming his 



property. In the possible 250 the scores of the leaders siood: 



RSdIIZ 23 23 20 22 21 19 20 18 21 23—31(1 



jtz-ilfr «3 17 25 16 19 25 22 14 20 23—2 4 



JlOtl f'lierdl 90 22 24 23 8 22 24 19 U 15—199 



U Ur-yer 19 16 >ii 14 19 15 IS 22 23 21-198 



AugliiugrS 19 17 IS 23 16 21 V3 IS 23 --1 - 



U Helling 90 S 23 92 84 



,,d BndriS - Bl 18 16 20 M S3 23—194 



B-Kanbe] S "■■ - '-" '" > !) 2i 19 16 22—193 



fler.- 22 15 13 22 21 23 2'1 15 17 24—183 



J rinx 19 17 18 20 IS 20 20 IS 17 23—190 



Besides the above targets, they also fired at a regular ring 

 target, and also man-target, and very good shooting was done 

 by "some of them. 



A. strong team of twelve men, selected from the Manhat- 

 tan Rifle Cub, a newly-organized shooting association, and 

 consisting of the best men of Zelller's, New York and Jersey 

 Schuetzru Corps, are under way to Chicago to take part in the 

 prize shooting of the North Western .-chuetzenbund These 

 men mill show their Western friends something, and let them 

 know very plainly what the Eastern shots can do. The 

 tournament (Iters seven different kinds of targets and bulls. 

 Union Target— 25 finch rings, only for members; 3 shots, 

 50 prizes, valued at §500. 



Slick target— Bull's-eye of 9-inch diameter; nearest shot 

 to the centre takes first prize; each 3 shots, 60 prize 



King Targ-'t— 23 f inch rings, for members only : only one 

 ticket allowed. The one making the Lighest score to he King 

 of tais festival and receive the King medal ; total prizes, 

 K335, 



The Team Shooting— Each squad consisting of 6 men ; en- 

 trance fee fur each team, $.18 ; 10 shots per member. The 

 iter who makes ihe best score in each team receives a gold 

 medal, and the entrance money will be divided among the 

 teams 



Wan Target— Open for all ; 39 vertical lines, the inner line 

 to count 20. 



Peoples Target— Open to all ) 85"f-irJCb rings; each ticket 

 is divided in 3 series ot 3 shots each, the series with the high- 

 est score only counting. 



TnttTH Steasgbk than Fionoir. — Editor Forest and Stream: 

 I have read sketch • f Mr. F. H. Lord, and emer my protest 

 against such reckless trifling with the credulity of your readers. 

 It this thing continues, there will be some doubting Thomases, 

 whose capacity for absorbing the marvelous is limited— whose 

 lulity will snap under such repeated wrenchiugs, and the 

 Foithsx and Stream will cease to be a law and gospel unti 

 ibeui ever afterward. Fust, we have PartellO'a marvelous 

 seoreof 224outof 225 at the long ranges. That was a stretcher; 

 but of course, every one believed that, as it was duly swo a 

 to Next comes the forty-niner out. of a possible fifty a 300 

 yards oil-hand, and in a snow storm. That gave us an awful 

 wrench, but we tried to take it in, and f erhaps would have 

 succeeded if we had not soon afterward got another yank in 

 the other direction by seeing another score of his— in a mutch 

 —down among the thirties at 200 yards. Then, like ti iitbful 

 James, we asked ourselves, "Can such things he?" But we 

 decided that they could, for had we not seen them wiih our 

 own eyes printed in our trustworthy Fobkst akd Stkbam? 

 Alter that we had a partial rest, interrupted occasionally only 

 by the phenomenal Oaten of a lone fisherman, or the cart-load 

 of game slaughtered before breakfast by some brace of youth- 

 ful Nimrods. Bat now we are set. all aback— dazed— stupe- 

 fied as it were, by the prodigious performances of Mr. Lord. 

 You show us no mercy ! Instead of giving us target, plaster 

 eegs and bullet performances tirst— which are known to be 

 quite among the possibilities— and thereby gradually expand- 

 ing and increasing our capacity to take in the marvelous, you 

 overwhelm us on the start with the tremendous feat of hit- 

 tin" six percussion caps in succession at twelve paces, and 

 .. fore we can n cover, stun us again by the equally impos- 

 sible watch performance. How, in mercy's name, after giv- 

 ing us these statements, why do you exhibit such a target? 

 You say it makes a record of 49 out of 50, Creedmoor rule. 

 This would be true if the Creedmoor target at 200 yards had 

 a 19 inch bull's-eye, which is the proportion your diagram 

 bears to the distance shot. Your readers may also undertake 

 to wrestle with the problem of the watch loop, and some of 

 them go crazy figuring the dimensions of a watch capable of 

 receiving " hundreds' 5 ' of such shots through its loop with- 

 out a scratch. I fancy such a watch would make a very fair- 

 sized town clock. Now, all these statements are, no doubt, 

 perfectly true, but there is a limit to poor, weak, human 

 credulity, unless carefully nurtured. What I complain of is 



the abruptness with which they are put. We Bhould have 

 more of detail, and be led gradually up from the lesser to the 

 greater; then there would be no such rude shocks as, I doubt 

 not, many experienced in reading your sketch of Mr. Lnrd. 

 F. J. R. 



§rnnQ jjfa# mid <§wu 



GAME IN SEASON FOR JULY. 



July is a close month Tor game, except as to woodcock, in certain 

 '-i . 



¥B~ New York Law.— Trie open season for woodcock in New York 

 State begins August 1, throughout trie State. 



CARIBOU SHOOTING IN GASPE. 



Gasps BAerx, PaovnrcK of Quebec,) 

 Canada, February 19, 1878, J 

 Editor, Fobebt and STREAM : 



I have hunted three seasons In this part of the country, and have 

 killed, to my own rifle, flf ly caribou. I left here Oct. ills a canoe 

 with a young man. It is two or three days' poling up the river to the 

 barren hills, « here the deer resort to feed. In the winter they never 

 arrive earlier than Oct. 22, and stay till the snow goes off in the spring. 

 The river was very low, so we were three days goiDg up, arriving on a 

 Friday. Saturday moraine I started very early, bu^ the moss with 

 whlcb the ground waa covered was frozen, so I watted till the sun had 

 softened it a little. At 10 o'clock we came to the head of a long, open 

 valley ; so tilling my companion to hunt down as far as he liked, he 

 went off in a great state of excitement, as I showed him some fresh 

 IrackB In the moss golnz down the valley. I took np to the west, over 

 a large hill, tlie other side ot which waB cut up in small, round hills and 

 deep gulches. When I arrived at the top I Btooped, and made out 

 something moving about, half a mile away ; so crossing a small hollow, 

 I started down, taking my time, for I find that fast wa king cuts my 

 wind, and It is impossible to hold a r fie steady when out. of breath. 1 

 reached ike place where I had seen the deer, and found the tracks of 

 four big bucks. I fo.lowed them for about two hundred yards, when, 

 just as I crawled up over a low ridge, I saw them all lying down about 

 eighty yards off. 1 p:cked out the best looking head, and fired at him. 

 He staggered to his feet, and then fell on his knees. The others got 

 up. and stood looking abont, not knowing where to run. I Bred one 

 bail iu'o each of them j the first two fell, shot behind ihe shoulder, but 

 the last one was standing almost stern to me, and the bullet struck 

 him In llie shoulder, breaking ihe bone. I lost sight of him in the 

 thick spruce woods tha' surrounded the smaU fiat where I found 

 them. I followed him for a short distance, but without auow It ia very 

 litt;e use following a deer with bis foreleg or shoulder broken, so I 

 returned to my dead deer, and found that 1 had secured two fine bucts 

 and one sm»ll-sized one. I skinned the deer at once, and covered the 

 meat with bushes, as it would bave to stay until the winter, when we 

 come for it with d"gs and sleighs. 



Cutting the shoulder-blade our of tbe smallest buck, and making a 

 pack of his skin, I started down the hollow to meet my companion. 

 The Hollow was about three, hundred yards wide, with a good many 

 buncbta of thick spruces scattered along it. On each aid.: waB a steep 

 bank, abont sixty yards in height, with thick woodB on the level 

 country above. 1 waB walking fast, thinking my companion would get 

 tired of waiiiDg for me and wander away, when I heard the snort of a 

 deer ahead of me. I threw off my pack, and saw two caribou trotting 

 up the side of tbe hollow about a hundred yards off. I whistled, and 

 they stopped. I fired at one, and he staggered about and stood with 

 his bead flangiog down; tbe other one gave two or three jumps, and 

 stood mil. aB they always will uniesa they wind you, and these had only 

 heard me. I fired at him behind ihe shoulder, but being rather out of 

 wind from carrying my pack, the ball sirock him through lite paunch, 

 when he walked off a few yards, and lay down. I waa just going up 

 to pee If he wanted any more shooting, when I saw five more ahont 

 three hundred yards further down the hollow, and nearly to the top of 

 tbe ridge. The laBt one had a splendid head, so I llred at him, and saw 

 blmBtaggerat the first shot, but 1 fired twice more without hitting 

 him, and he disappeared in the ihlck woods. I started up the Bill af.er 

 him, pasting close to the Aral two I fired at, and as I came close, the 

 one that was lying down jumped np and started as if nothing was the 

 matter with him, so I took a running shot at him, and waa lucky enough 

 to hreik his hip, which sent him down the hill on his head. I would 

 not stop for fear of losing the last one with tbe big horns. When I 

 came to where 1 last saw him 1 fonnd he bad separated from the rest, 

 and wa9 bleeding very badly. 1 could track him well on i he white 

 • iter a quarter of a mile T came to a Btrlp of burnt ground, 

 and I could not recover bis tracks, so I had to leave Mm. I returned 

 to where I had Bred at the two, cud after a ong hunt I fonnd the one 

 with the broken hip and a ball through his paunch. He bad dragged 

 himself Into a small thicket and died, but the other one 1 oou'd not 

 find ; so after skinning the one, I shouldered my pack, and started 

 again to meet my companion. I found him where 1 had told him to 

 wait for me, and in a very bappy frame of mind, having killed two, a 

 doe and a fawn ; but being a novice, be could not butcher them, so I 

 went with him and performed that necessary but disagreeable opera- 

 tion. Then we started on a four-mile walk to camp, well Batlsfled with 

 onr day'B work, I having bagged four and wounded three, and my 

 partner two, aDd I made up my mind that on Monday we would try 

 and ilnd Borne ot the wounded ones. 



Xext morning i Suuday) 1 was surprised to And it had snowed nearly 

 three Inches. It was very soft, and a nice breeze blowing, and I am 

 afraid I was strongly tempted to go out, but did not. Monday morning 

 found to my disgust what little Bnow there was frozen hard, so s*.ayed 

 at camp. Tuesday, snow nearly all gone, and a soft day, so .started am 

 to look for the buck with ihe big head that I had lost .Saturday. I 

 came straight to him, he tiaviog been dead since Saturday. I skinned 

 him with a good deal of trouble, as the deer was half frozen. Tben I 

 went to work to sttn out the head, for I wanted to Bave it for stuffing. 

 While I was doing thiB I told Scott to cut some bushes and cover the 

 meat, as it would do to feed the dogB in tbe winter. While I was en- 

 gaged in skinning the head, 1 heard a olashlDg noise, and looking up, 

 ti my astonishment saw two big buck's with their brads together, 

 fighting, and four othtr deer looking on, not more man Bfiy yards 

 from wnere I was. Soott saw them about the same rime, so without a 

 word being spoken, I took sight at one ot the Blngle deer with my rifle. 

 I kilted the one 1 tired at, and peeing the other deer were starting, 1 

 dropped one of the bucks and pcotf the other. Skinning them and 

 coverli g them up with bushes, Scott wanted to go to seme small bills 

 about a mile further. On arriving at the place, 1 crept to the top of 

 the Brat little hill, and looking over, saw a One buck feeding toward 

 me. 1 took Sight where the neck joins the Bhoulder, and Bred, and he 

 fell as dead as a stone. The suot. started a fawn and two does oat o! a 

 small thicket. Took a Bnap shot at the fawn, and dropped aim with a 

 bullet throngs both shoulders. The two doe. were now trotting up a 

 small hill ai.out one hundred and fifty yards from me. I fired at the 

 larger one, broke her backbone, uud she rolled over and over to the 

 bottom of' the lull. The other one Btopped and looked back. I fired, 



and broke his foreleg high up, but lost him in Che thick woo, is, After 

 putting away the meat we started for eamp, having m de a good 'iay— 

 kith d six and found another, m?king thirteen tor two days' hunt. 



Wednesday morning we mode up our minds we would carry out 

 some meat, and prepare to n home, so we starred to our unrest store, 

 aboat four miles off. Weweregoing through some open s.ru • 

 when I bow a fine buck walking toward ex. I put np my rlOe JOet as 

 lie saw us, and was too qniok for him, and down he came on his knees, 

 anil nlied over, dead. I fonnd another party of four, but, alios I Tor 

 then It began lo snow early In the afteraoon, and nev 

 thirty-Bix hours. We spent the whole time smoking, sleeping an I eat- 

 ing, and were heartily tlrnl of it all, and when Satordaj 

 we were tjt'triy disgusted to ilud the su'w bo leej v. mold not 

 walk without rackets, and having none with us, we packid up our 

 traps and started down the river, arriving home on the Monday. 



Atter the 20th or 25 h or Novemoer the Ice begins to block up the 

 river bo that »e cannot get up In a cmoe. Thus the deer grt a rest 

 till the tee Is strong enough to go with dog sleighs, which is generally 

 about Jan, 1. Owing to the soft weather this season, the river was 

 very open, a"d all the old hunters refused to go when I wanted to 

 start on the GLh of the month, bnt I pereuaded Mr. B. Edeu to go with 

 me, and two other men. We had four days' haid work, sometimes on 

 the ice, at other times cutting roads through the woods for the dogB 

 and sleighs, but. we a Tired on Thursday. 



Friday morning started very early, and pusDed on to the open 

 country, about three miles away. About 9 o'clo:k we struck the h- ad 

 of a large valley, a favorite spot for the deer In the winter. The hc-arl 

 of tire valley for about a mt e Is full of thick bunches of spruce, unci 

 below that the ground is very open— a scattered bush here and there, 

 just sufficient for cover. I to d my companions tog>do*n wtllto 

 leeward, and come out at the edge of the woods, while I would go and 

 drive the deer for them. I gave them time to get to their different 

 watching- places; then 1 started. I had not gone more ihiitafew 

 hundred yards when I saw an old doe and a fawn, not more than fifty 

 yards off. I Bred at the doe, and by the. way Bhe staggered tff I l.new 

 she was done for. The fawn ran a few yards and then stopped. I 

 could just see his shoulder through the lre> a, so thinking he might 

 start, I tired quickly. He disappeared at once. X heard the ihnu of 

 the ball as It struck him, but did not like to stop and look after hnu. 

 for fear my companions would come up to me, hearing me snoot. 1 

 hurried on down the valley, and in a few minutes I caught sight of 

 several deer, walking ahead of me directly toward my frieuds. I did 

 not shoot, thinking I would wait my chance, when the other guos 

 drove them back j but any spor'sman can fancy my feejlugs wiun I saw 

 the deer— about lorly, I should think— moving slowly within leas ihan 

 a huodred yards of the edge of the woods. Just then I heaid a sharp 

 whistle from one of the watchers, which was answerr d by another, with 

 a lond complaint tnat he waB nearly frozen, and they were sure they 

 would not see any deer if they stayed there all day. The deer, when 

 they heard the voices, came toward me and scattered In all directions. 

 I headed off a bunch of six. They stopped wlnn they hu a me in front 

 of them. I fired and dropped one. 1 he others seemed entirely stupe- 

 fied wlih the voices on one side and me on tne other. Tney did 

 nothing but jump aoont and look at me untlll killed ttieru all. 



By the lime ihey were all cut up and put a*ay in the snow it was 

 time to start for camp, so each taking a akin and some hear s and 

 tongues, we took our back tracks for home. I waa keeping a sharp 

 lookout, when I saw four deer cross our path about two huodred yards 

 off. I threw off my pack and fired at the flrsi one, but. ihe ballet cut 

 the snow just under his belly. They stopped at once, not knowing 

 where the shot had come from. I fired again, aud saw one of ttieru 

 was hard hit. fiden followed suit witu a ball from his smooih-bore 

 breech-loidlog gnn, and dropped a dne buck at the first shot. I broke 

 the foreleg of another, and the others disappeared. We r.,n up to tne 

 wounded, and fonud two dead and the track of the other, with his lag 

 dragging in the snow. I took after him about a quarter of a mile 

 through fine, open spruce woods. I paw a doe and a fawn walking 

 along, going away from mo. The doe was behind, so giing down on 

 my knees for a steady shot, as the stern of a deer Is a srnal: murk, I 

 blazed away and struck her just between the hums, and she fell and 

 never gave a kick. The fawn Immediately lumen round to see what 

 the matter was, but I was ready lor him, and gave him one behind the 

 shoulder, which finished him. By the time 1 got them skinned It waB 

 getting dusk, so I left the one with the broken leg for the next dsy. 



Saturday morning Stewart, Eden, Laws ana myse.lf started. It was 

 very cold and a good breeze blowing. Af;er about an hour's waik we 

 came to a large Btrip of open spruces, wic deer road9 leading iu every 

 direction. 1 told my compai ions ro separate about fifty yards apart, 

 and walk through the woods just abreast of each other. We had 

 hardly got Into position when I saw tuur or flv« deerc mlng rigid. 

 toward m>. I dropped one and Eden another and then a drove of » bout 

 twenty does and fawns ran right among ue. I blazed into a big doe, 

 and she stood nearly dead, when Laws ran np and llred both barrels 

 of hlB muzzle-loader Into her, and riddled her wnh buckshot. 1 went 

 to put in another ear ridge as quickly as possible, when 1 found to my 

 disgust that the cold had frozen the lock of my ilfle, and it wouli not 

 work, the deer all the time running about, wild with terror, fifteen 

 yards ahead of ns ; but I could co routing. In the mean.ime Eden 

 had not been Idle, killing one the first shot, two fawns the second, and 

 a fine buck tbe third, when tne of the empty shells got stnek in ins 

 gun, and before he could get It in order the drove had at cleared oat. 

 We bagged six, but I was nor. satisfied; for, barring accidents, we 

 shou d have killed a dozen. After putting tnem away we all separated, 

 each one going a ronud of hiB own I saw nothing, but uden was 

 more fortunate, killing three more, mukii g nine for that day. 



On Monday, our third day's hunt, we secured nine mure, myself 

 Beven and Eden two, making a total of twenty for me and ten for Eden. 

 A large party of men with dog sleighs arrived on Tuesday, and we all 

 went to worK to haul out the meat, and started for home. 



I use a long rlfie, .44 calibre, the short cartridge, no raised 

 Bights; my hind sight Is a fixture, and fi ed very lew, so that It Is 

 nec-ssary to take a coarseaight at a hundred yards. I find 1: far better 

 for qniok shooting, and you are never likely to over-ahoot on deer at 

 short range. I". H. Beattt. 



— See Bogardus' advertisement. 



PIGEON MATCHES. 



Send in Bookes E.u<i.y. — To insure insertion in current 

 issues all scores should reach us Mondays or Tuesdays. Re- 

 ports should therefore be mailed upon tbe same day the 

 matches are shot. Promptness on the part of correspondents 

 •will materially enhance the proper record of field contests. 



NEW YORK STATE CONVENTION. 



The convention of the New York State Association for the Protec- 

 tion Fish and Game will be held at Kochester, July T to n, in- 

 clusive. The offcers of the association are: President, A, B. Laiuber- 

 ton, Kochester; FlrBt Vice-President, A. L. Child, Seneca Falls; Re- 

 cording Secretary, John E. Sage, Buffalo; Coiresponding Secretary, 

 Edmond Redmond, Kochester ; Treasurer, W. J. Babcock, Kochester 



