Nov, 1, 1883.1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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from Galwav." but by a large majority of the sport-loving 

 mi u of the &nerakl Isle. He dwells with particular delight 

 on his feat of killing twenty-two snipe with tweuty-oue shots, 

 ami although lie baa had good shooting in America his mem 

 ory lingers fondest on the days he passed with rod and gun 

 amid the green fields of his native land. E. R, 



tlOCHESTKK, Oct. SS 



MOOSE, BEAR AND TROUT IN MAINE. 



\ LARGE mi lose was kill, .1 oil the Mayalloway, week be- 



. \ lure lust. The head went through this place last Mon- 

 day— the antlers spreading four feel.. The animal was said 

 lo girt seven and one-half feet, standing twenty) wo hands 



ii a hi 1 Feigning fourteen hundred pounds." Tin- party 

 -who killed this moose were Mr, Win. B. Garfield and an- 

 other man. of Waltharo, -Mass. I have killed between fifty 

 and sixty moose in my day, bul have never seen one 30 large 

 as the above. 



An old hunter of Somerset county, a friend of mine, 

 write- -ii ly be was guiding a party of trout fisher- 

 men at a certain pond in that county, ami "had just got situ- 

 ated in a camp ii lea cods from the pond, and went to 



ii l, ■ ■. nr a pail of water, and looking up the shore got 

 the glimpse Of a large black animal coming down the shore. 

 and just going behind an intervening point. He dropped 

 hit pail and made for the camp, and told his parly (here was 

 ii coming towiird the landing, and that the 



dot among them had better run with, the rifle and lav 

 for nine They immediately decided that the guide should 



man, as he knew the place he saw him at, and was 



more used to the business; so grabbing his rifle, he was soon 



on the shore, and then another thing bad to be considered; 



i iii ihouldtake i he birch canoe and paddle silently 



up ih" shore under cover of the point, or conceal himself and 

 aw ail his coming; the latter he decided to do, and he did not 

 have to wait long, for almost immediately a large black 

 moose came wading around the point in about afoot of water, 

 being then -nine fcwcnty-Bve or thirty rods distant. 



After rounding the point, the moose stopped short and 

 threw up his bead With a snort and turned half around pre- 

 paratory to starting, having scented the hunter, but that rifle 

 cracked just then, and a large piece of nice juicy venison fell 

 into the water. 



f need not make any comments about the feelings of that 

 hungry crowd that night, how- the marrow bones were 

 roasted and the tenderest steaks prepared for that camp table, 

 aud how after surfeiting themselves, many a distant lriend 

 enjoyed a good taste of the same noble game, sent by ex- 

 press. 



Bears are abundant hereabout t'ais fall. Mr. DextevBlod- 

 gct. ol Berlin, has captured nine this season, aud has had 

 i a i mounted, which look very life-like. 



Beech nuts being very plentiful, the bears stick to the 

 highlands, nutting, occasionally coming down into the hack 

 pastures for mutton. Many single specimens have been cap- 

 tured by the farmers. 



Speaking of troutj Mr. C. P. Stevens, of Boston, caught. 

 the last of September, twenty-three, on the Androscoggin 

 River below Errol Dam, weighing nearly a pound each. 

 This is more surprising, as the river below, and the lake 

 above, are full of pickerel. J. G. R. 



Oct 33. 



MANNERS IN THE FIELD. 



| ALW A YS be polite aud unselfish. 



1 • 2. Never drink liquor to excess. Sportsmen while on 

 their shooting expeditions should be temperate. 



:;. Never under any circumstances allow the muzzle 

 of your gun to be pointed toward a person or yourself; no 



mi, ■ : rhc-a the gun is loaded or unloaded. 



4. Always put your gun on hall-cock when getting over a 



or budge, no matter how easy it, is to climb or cross. 



5. When crossing fences be particular to do as little dam- 

 age as possible, and if done repair if. 



6. Never walk ahead of your associate; keep abreast ; and 

 if by acccldent you should get separated from him and a bird 

 gets up. never shoot unless your associate is in sight, for 

 wdiat shall it profit a man if he. gain a whole score of birds 

 ana shoot his friend? 



T. When the dog -stands, never flush the bird and shoot 

 alone, always call your companion and wait for hitntn eome 

 Up, and when the bird starts, if your companion is on your 

 and (lie bird Hies moie to the right than to the left, no 

 matter how little, do not shoot until your companion has 

 shot one barrel; if missed then the bird is common prey. If 

 the bird flies to the left, .your partner should not shoot imle.-s 

 you have missed with the first barrel. If the bird flies 

 directly in front ot both of you it is allowable for both to 

 shoot, though if yon axe entertaining afriend with a day's 

 bag, courtesy would suggest giving him the first shot. 



8. Never shoot through a hedge when your companion is 

 on the Other Side, even though yon be a long way ahead of 

 Mm. 



9, Never shoot toward your companion no matter how far 

 away he maj Ix 



11). Never speak to nor interfere with your friend's dog. 



11. Do not fondle aud pet your dogs; treat them kindly, 

 bul with decision, and punish them "when they require it! 

 Do no! over-feed fhein when at work. One good meal at 

 nigh; on the return home is all they require. 



1'.'. Do not uress too fancy when in the field, There is 

 such it thing as a "dude" shooter. 



13. When both of you shoot and the bird falls, never. 

 under any circumstances, intimate that you killed it, if 

 your dog' retrieves, offer it your guest, and if you killed it, 



lie is a hog, he will say so. If it is impossible to tell 

 who killed it, let your sense of justice tell you what to do 

 with it, but under no circumstances dispute over it. !xo 

 true sportsman cries out as soon as he shoots, "I killed one. ■" 

 lie waits until the guns are loaded, and you are ready to 

 start on. 



14. Never sell any birds you may kill, and when you give 

 them away, give them to sportsmen aud they will appreciate 

 them. It is of no use giving them to people who never 

 -ii i i, they do not appreciate them ; it is like casting your 

 pearl before swine. I sent some quail to a gentleman in 

 New York once; when a few days after he thanked me for 

 them, he said they were very nice. His wife ale one or two 

 of them, and gave her pel cat the rest . as for himself, he 

 seldom ate game, it is only sportsmen that can understand 

 the Iron file ot killing game', and appreciate the compliment 

 n hen they are presented with birds. 



15. These are some of the cardinal rules of the craft. 



hi) little points of etiquette, ho 

 observed in shooting, Loo numerous to write, act whi i 

 custom alone will teach, One of these I desire to emphatic- 



ally impress upon would-be sportsmen. Never lie about 

 your exploits. I am sorry to say this rule is more observed 

 in its breach thau iis observance. It is sickening and insult- 

 ing to one's credulity to lislen Do would-be sportsmen, as liny 

 lie about the wonderful shots they have made, aud the larg'e 

 lumber of birds they have killed upon different occasions. 

 Genuine sportsmen never do it. They never consider it a 

 disgrace to miss a bird, or make a bad shot, or come home 

 with no birds. They fake this as a matter of course. 



One of Ihe would-be sportsmen class told me once witli t ue 

 most serious face, and would have been insulted it I had not 

 affected to believe it, that one day while shooting with a 

 singh -barreled gun. he -aw live ducks sitting on a narrow 

 point, two on one side and three on the other. After con- 

 sidering a loug time how to kill them all at one shot, at last 

 the idea struck him; he put, his gun barrel in a post hole. 

 bent it the shape of the point, backed round and fired. The 

 charge went round flic point and killed all the ducks. 



Gascoio^e. 



[The bent barrel story is venerable enough to deserve ac- 

 ceptance.] 



A HOME-MADE SHOOTING BOAT. 



I WOULD like to see such a canvas canoe put on the 

 market as a correspondent speaks of in your last num- 

 ber; the ribs running lengthwise and sliding together, so that 

 the boat can be carried in a light wagon or buggy. Five 

 years ago I made, from a hint in your" paper, a canvas boat 

 out ot barrel-hoops aud three hickory poles, and gave the 

 canvas a few coats of paint. Total cost about $2.50. If has 

 carried five men with their guns and three dogs; has been 

 over on the Platte several times, and on the Missouri bottom 

 lakes, besides making a great many trips on our river here. 

 the Nishuabotna. It is in good shape yet, but is unhandy 

 to carry. 



We have good ducking here, river, field and slough shoot- 

 ing; but my favorite plan is to take the canvas boat up stream 

 aoout ten miles, which, on account of the bends, will make 

 forty miles of afloat; and then with one man to steer her 

 witli a paddle, come around the bends and take the fowl as 

 they raise from the willows and sand bank-. 



My partner in business, who is notmuch of a shot, thought 

 he would like to try that way. as it looked easy, and said if 

 I would lend him the boat and gun and load his shells and 

 let our engineer off' to steer him down, he thought perhaps 

 he would go. As he was always willing to stay in the office 

 and let me out, I agreed to all his requests except lending 

 him the gun, and that was out of the question. So he bor- 

 rowed a line gun of a banker in town. and started ai 3 A.M. 

 so as to be on the river by daylight. I cautioned him to 

 kneel on the bottom on some hay to do his shooting, but no, 

 that would cramp his legs; so he took a small DOx.tO sit on. 

 The next thing we saw of my partner and the engineer they 

 were coining in afoot, rigged out in the old clothes of a fsxmi 

 who weighs about 250" pounds. They were miuus guns, 

 ammunition and ducks. The next morning they collected 

 all the long-handled rakes they could find and started north 

 again. Well, the upshot or rather upset of the whole mat- 

 ter was that the adventure cost him -ome ninety dollars. 

 He has since manifested no desire to borrow auofher gun or 

 to go ducking. 



If any of your readers want good tisbiug. camping, shoot- 

 ing. Clearwater and shade next August or September, let 

 them go to West Okoboji Lake in Northwest Iowa. I was 

 in camp there with my family last fall and know whereof I 

 speak. M. 



Hastings. la, _ 



THAT VETERAN TRAPPER. 



Editor for,-; and Strcb n. 



I see by your issue of the 18th that the Sain Damp has 



been sent to your office, and is on exhibition there. Mash 

 allah! it is well. I hope a- thousand canoeists will see aud 



inspect her. Let them look her over carefully. Weigh her; 

 ■■heft" by hand, and say if her keel, sidings, and stern show 

 scars of honorable work. I never paddled any other canoe 

 — and I have paddled many — that came so near getting in on 

 my affections as a living thing, as the little Sairy. 



"Of course she ducked me. Ask Pliny Robins, of Little 

 Tapper. Pliny, next to Paul Smith, is one of the grandest 

 woodsmen I ever mei, And it was a compliment that made 

 my pulses throb, when he said: "I have never seen a man 

 go through these woods go light as you do — or care so little 

 for a ducking." Brave, quiet, old forester ' "May your crip- 

 pled foot get well without the threatened amputation, and 

 may we meel once again in ihe North Woods, as we met on 

 the* Raquette; you, in \ our blue Saranae boat ; 1. in the little 

 canoe. If flic wind gets up you may take me aboard, as 

 you did before. If your foot gives out, I will manage to 

 scuffle along with you. till we get out. 



Now. 1 did not intend to write any such literary duffle 

 as the above. I started in on the text of the "Veteran Con- 

 necticut Trapper," Burton Hoadley, to wit: who is 84 years 

 old, who trapped for the American Fur Company, and has a 

 ■'secret bait tor foxes,' etc. Aud can '"outwalk most men 

 of half his aye." "Thinks be can get one hundred birds a 

 week!" etc. Why, you senile old depredator and law-breaker! 

 You have borrowed fourteen years from the allotted life 

 of man; and you are spending i lie fag end of your time on 

 earth in breaking the laws of your State, and slaughtering 

 the noblest of our game birds for so much per head. Aral 

 you bring them into Hartfbrtaud sell them npnnly. And 

 the city papers, aud the local papers, only notice to praise 

 and commend. And the game constables and law-keepers are 

 silent. And only last week twenty respectable citizens of 

 Connecticut were penned up in a filthy cow-yard for picking 

 up hickory nuts on Sunday! On Monday they were taken 

 before a justice (?) aud fined §3 each for Sabbath breaking. 

 We are all too near ourmuscularaa :•• -r I I,.- jorilla. But, 

 it would seein that Connecticut rather has the pull, as to 

 proximity to paternal ancestry; it remains for the law-abid- 

 ing, blue-law State, to boast of the octogenarian who has 

 snared and marketed forty grouse in one week; and "he re- 

 ports game as scarce this year: bul thinks he cannot manage 

 to get one hundred birds "a week." 



Webster's Dictionary contains 50,000 words But I look 

 in vain for the cuss words 1 would like lo use lo abuse sum 

 beasts. The only two-legged animals I know that kill for the 

 love of slaughter are the gyrfalcou and man. And man is 

 the only one that murders for market. In this respect, 

 .Maine- aud Connecticut seem to be a long way ahead. 



P. S.— I only wish that Paul Smith, Pliny Rollins, Eph 

 Steele, and Ivi Stow ell might hold a few Of these fellows 

 While I drove tenpenny nails in Ihe top of their heads. But, 

 we are powerless. . JSesswuk. 



Wellsboko, Pa. 



Old Gun Barrels — People who have been paving fancy 

 prices for guns with fancy names would be very much aston 

 ished. writes a Washington correspondent, to find that those 

 guns are made from old army rifles that "tit, into" Ihe lure 

 war. saw years of service in the field, or have been knocked 

 round some Western l"°rt until they have been pronounced 

 worthless and sold for $1 apiece. It is nevertheli.- I 



thai gun manufacturers of this aud other countries buy them 

 in great; numbers, and there is no other means 10 account for 

 their course than to suppose they use the barrels for their 

 new guns, boring out the barrels, putting the twist marks 

 and mounting them with handsome stocks and silver and 

 gold trimmings. "We sell a great many to gun manufac- 

 turers of this country," said an officer of the ordnance bureau, 

 ' 'and a great many go abroad for various purposes. " ' -Wha t 

 purposes?" "Well, for the use of the armies of the countries 

 which are not so far advanced in the arts of war as we. afld 

 for the use of fhegunmakers of France and England, who 

 are further advanced than we are in the art of making them 

 ovcrinto first-class guns of the period.'' "Is there much de- 

 mand abroad among the army people for guns twenty -five 

 years behind the times in their manner of loading and firing? 

 "Some, though nor so much as other people wish. I have in 

 mind now a firm of Englishmen who bought something like 

 100,000 guns of us years ago. with the idea oi selling them 

 at a nice" profit to some of the countries that ihey thought a 

 little behind in the arts of war. They have offered them on 

 several occasions to some of the South American countries, 

 but they still have them. We could sell flint lock muskets 

 very readily if we had them, but of course we havn't any 

 that date si) far back." "Flint locks:" 'Yes." "Who in 

 ihe world would want flint locks in this age of progress in 

 Bgh1 'i as well as other appliances?" ■ 'The demand for flint 

 locks conies froin Africa, The natives want them. They 

 have no percussion cap factories, bur. they have flints, and 

 they prefer guns.ou which they can rely as long as their pow- 

 der lasts. "—Bontfin Herald. [The above talk about the uses 

 to which discarded guu ban els are put, is going about 

 through the press and may give a wrong impression. There 

 is a trade in cheap guns, but they are sold as such and those 

 who buy arms from respectable firms bearing the trade mark 

 of responsible makers, may rely upon getting new arms true 

 lo name and thoroughly tested.] 



Gsas. M-AKCy's Pakty.— Gen. R. B. Mrirey, of West 

 Orange. Dr. .1. L. Seward. of_ Orange. Gen. Anson G. 

 McCook aud Mr. Bishop, of New York, arrived at home 

 from a six-weeks Western trip. Tuesday morning. The first, 

 three named left New York Monday evening, September 10, 

 and were followed a week later by Mr, Bishop, a prominent 

 and wealthy railroad director, lo whose courtesy flw 

 owt: much, ot the pleasure of then* trip. Proceeding via 

 Northern Pacific Railroad from its eastern terminus the 

 arrived at Fort Custer, Montana, on Saturday evening", 

 September 15, and on Monday morning started with a pack 

 Iraiu, saddle horses, camp equipage and guides for a thrcc- 

 weefes hunting excursion through the Big Horn Mountains 

 and the Rosebud region of Southern Montana aud Northern 

 Wyoming. Their trip was a most successful and enjoyable 

 one. and" large and small hoof aud feathered game, suc- 

 cumbed in large numbers to the unerring aim of the gallant 

 party. Dining this excurtion Fort C. F. Smith, the scene 

 of Custer's last fight, and other Indian battle grounds aud 

 points of interest were visited, and an insight into the wild 

 life of the West was gained by the uninitiated of the pai i . 

 Returning to Fort Custer, laden with game, pelts aud pleas- 

 ant experiences, the party again started for the Northern 

 Pacific Railroad, thirty -tour miles distant, and embarked in a 

 private hotel car for Portland, Oregen, the western terminus 

 of the road; thence departing on the same car on Tuesday 

 morning of last week, and coming through to New Y'oik 

 without delay in just one week. Dr. Beward has resumed 

 his practice greatly benefited by his. tiin. concerning which 

 he is quite enthusiastic. — Eastum)ge{$CJ.)Q(t*?tte, OokSo. 



ExPBtttESGE ON TtiE Northern Pacific Road.— Spring- 

 field. Mass.. Oct. 11, 1883.— Editor Forest and 8trw»l} A 

 friend of mine who has been out West on a hunting trip 

 complains bitterly of the way he aud party were treated on 

 the Northern Pacific Railroad. This is what lie says: The 

 We-teru roads nearly all advertise for sportsmen to patronize 

 their roads and offer many inducements to such. Hew-as 

 with a party of four ou the Northern Pacific Railroad with 

 then guns in the seat with them, quietly taking in the 

 scenery, etc., when they were ordered In the brakeman to 

 deposit their guns in the baggage car. At first they paid no 

 attention to his demands, but soon after the condui tor and 

 brakeman came in together and repealed ilia order, saying If 

 they did not take them in themselves they should take 

 them in for them. My friend says, "Do you give us checks 

 for them or lock them' up?" "No, sir. we don't do anything 

 of the kind. You are simply to place them in the lsi . 

 room and when you want them you can come for them. ' 

 "But," urged he.' "stippo e I put my gnu worth $150 in 

 there and some one deposits one worth £10 in the same place. 

 and then comes in at some station and pointing to my gun 

 says, Til take my gun.' how are you to know which is 

 which':" "Can't help it ; them's the orders and we must en- 

 force I bem" Arguments were of no usee The guns were 

 placed in the baggage room and they took the chances. 

 Now my friend thinks that if this is a sample of the accom- 

 modation the railroad offers to sportsmen they had better be 

 informed somewhat on the subject.— F, Boi.i'es, .It:. 



Louisiana Game Grounds.— New Orleans, La., Oct. 81. 

 — After weeks of dry, hot weather, at, last the welcome rain 

 has fallen, and the grass that a week ago was parched by the 

 hot rays of the sun, is now fresh and green. The weather is 

 much cooler, and the lover of rod and gun can go forth in 

 search of sport and not suffer from the heat. Ducks are 

 fast mating their appearance in the bayous, lagoons and 

 rice fields, and some good bags have been "ma.de. Mallards, 

 teal aud black ducks seem to he the first in. Snipe shi 

 can be said to lie fairly opeued, and sportsmen of the North 

 who may wish to spend a mouth or so in Louisiana can 

 id o'n good sport. Our best snipe shooting grounds arc 

 in the parishes of St. Landry, Calcasieu and Plaquemines. 

 At New Iberia. Yermillionville. Opelousas, Washington and 

 Welshe's Station not only good snipe shooting, but also 

 excellent sport can be had "otf quail. The sectionals seem- 

 ingly adapted to the shooter and those who wish for a mild, 

 quiet climate. Kail travel from New- Orleans lo any o 

 above places is cheap, and good hotel- at reasonable fj 

 arc open to sportsmen. Should any of my Northern friends 

 come this way I shall take pleasure in directing them lo 

 grounds.— Moss. 



