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— General Dakin lias recently made an interesting ex- 

 periment testing the effect of transportation upon rifle 

 shells. Previous to his departure for Ireland with the 

 American team he prepared some cartridges and carried 

 them over the entire route, some 8,000 miles. A few days 

 since he used some of these same cartridges in a match at 

 Creedmoor, making the following scores:— 



S^ore at 200 yards, standing 444444 4 55 4—42 



500 yards.. 55555 555 5 5-50 



Aggregate 92 



This test is very important, as showing that if cartridges 

 are properly and carefully, made they will stand long jour 

 neys and variations of climate. It would be an interesting 

 experiment for some of our riflemen to load a number of 

 cartridges and test them occasionally through a series of 

 years until it was ascertained how long they would retain 

 their properties. Above is General Dakin's target made on 

 the occasion referred to, with a Remington rifle. 



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GAME IN SEASON IN OCTOBER. 



Moose, A Ices ?nalchis. Red Deer, Caricxs Virginianus. 



Elk or Wapiti, Oervus Canadensis. Squirrels, red, black arid grey. 



Hares, brown and grey. Quail, Optyx Virginia. 



Wild Turkey, Mileagris gallapavo. Pinnated Grouse, Tetrao cu-pida. 



Woodcock, Bcolopax raslicola. Curlew, JSfamenius arquaria. 



Hulled Grouse, Tetrao umbettus. Sandpipers, Tyingance. 



Plover, CImradraius. Willets. 



Godwit, Linwsince. Reed or Rice Birds, Bokchonyx oriz- 



Rails, Rallus Virginianus. von. 



Snipe and Bay Birds. Wild Duck, 



Caribou, Tarandus rangffer. 



Game in Makket. — As our close time for quail in this 

 State expired on the 1st instant, these birds, are now to be 

 found in market. They are not in first rate condition, al- 

 though they sell for $4 50 per dozen. Reed birds from 

 Savannah bring $1 25 per dozen. Bay birds of all varie- 

 ties are coming from Long Island, and sell from 25c. per 

 dozen for ox-eyes to $3 for large yellow legs. English 

 snipe, shot in New Jersey and on Long Island, are coming 

 in in fair quantities, and sell for $2 to $2 50 per dozen. 

 Prairie chickens are worth $1 25 per pair. Ruffed grouse 

 are more abundant and cheaper, selling for $ 1 per pair. 

 Mallard are worth $1 50 per pair; teal, 75c.; widgeon, 75c. 

 Wild pigeons, from Fulton county, $1 75 per dozen. 



— By an advertisement in this issue it will be seen that 

 the duck shooting season has commenced in the Peconic 

 Bay. The locality known as Nayack — about four miles 

 west of Sag Harbor— is a quiet spot, but little visited, and 

 in the adjoining woods there is good sport. The ducks fly 

 over Jessup's Neck in the morning by hundreds, and the 

 bays are full of them from October 10 to the first week in 

 December. 



—The sportsmen of Bangor, Maine, have formed a shoot- 

 ing club. We have forwarded them the by-laws of a simi- 

 lar association for their guidance. 



Massachusetts.— Newport, Sept. 27.— Have just returned 

 from a camping trip in Southeastern Massachusetts, and 

 have the unwelcome report to make that partridges (ruffed 

 grouse) are very scarce, in consequence of so much snar- 

 ing being done. In fact, we were tiampiug over last year's 

 hedges in nearly every hundred yards. I took pleasure in 

 removing strings from at least a dozen newly set. This 

 silent but powerful enemy of our noblest game bird should 

 be prohibited by law. Shot. 



[It is true that the game laws of Massachusetts permit 

 any person to take ruffed grouse, and only ruffed grouse, 

 on Ms own premizes, by means of snares, for his own use 

 and not for sale, but this provision extends only from the 

 1st of October to the 1st of January, so that if during an- 

 other season our correspondent will acquaint the Rod and 

 Gun Club of Springfield of any infraction of the law they 

 will attend to the case con mucho gusto.— Ed.] 



Salem, Oct. 4.— Shooting news rather meagre, the chief 

 sport being "cooting," one gun securing twenty-eight on 

 one day last week. Swampscott gunners arc also at them 

 off the Ledge. A few teal of both kinds have been taken 

 Notwithstanding the frosts, I have to report eighteen rail 

 being shot on Parker River last week, between slack 

 full aud half ebb tide. Partridges are around, with an oc- 

 casioned woodcock; snipe and quail are also about, though 

 not yet in season. These with a few bay birds make up the 

 list ; Teal. 



Gohasset, Oct. 4. — Gunning now on our shore is in its 



are now being made by good gunners. Would like to hear 

 from Cape Ann. g, K. Jii, 



New Bedford, Oct. 1 .—Shore birds and ducks are scarce 

 and very shy, they having run the gauntlet of all the gun- 

 ners along the whole coast. Partridges, woodcock, and 

 land birds are plenty and numerous; covies of quail give 

 promise of good Fall shooting. Concha. 



i K5 W T? 1 ^-— Syracuse, Oel 4.— Ducks begin to appear 

 m this vicinity in small flocks. Two gentlemen from this 



city went out on Onondaga Lake last week and brough 

 home eight teal duck and sixteen golden plover, which is 

 considered fair shooting for this region. 



Wisconsin. — Mo niello, Sept. 29.— Duck shooting is now 

 fine at the Lakes of Buffalo and Puckaway, though as yet 

 the mallards are not very abundant. Wood ducks and teal 

 are plenty, and the sportsmen are migrating to their favor- 

 ite grounds, or waters, to enjoy that pleasurable occupa- 

 tion — autumn wild fowl shooting. The Puckaway Club 

 will enter their cosy quarters, at the head of Puckaway 

 Lake, on the first of "hearty brown October," and then Ave 

 may look for large scores. Snipe shooting is not good as 

 usual at this season of the yeai, and grouse shooting has 

 been superseded by water fowl shooting. The season is 

 not far enough advauced to furnish the par excellence of the 

 sport when the wild geese add their clamor to that of their 

 smaller kin, and the noble canvasback stops on his way 

 southward to feed on the favorite valisneris and be shot 

 for the enjoyment of the sporting fraternity. October will 

 bring about this "consummation," etc. Fiied. 



Minneapolis Trap and Field Club. — The members of 

 this club have been doing some good shooting of late. On 

 the 18th ult. they participated in the State Fair Shooting 

 Match against teams from the Stillwater and St. Paul 

 Clubs, and although they were third in the match, one of 

 their members, Mr. Reickman, made the best score of the 

 day, killing all of his twelve birds. The following are the 

 scores : — 



STILLWATER. 



Name. Score] Name. Score. 



C. J. Bustlee 9i George Watson 7 



Samuel Jucld 9| J. N. Castle 11 



William Veazie 10 J. E. Carli 11 



J . McCnsick 10| H. Simmons J) 



Total 70 



ST. PAUL. 



Name. Score. I Name. Score 



William Goleher t 10|Mr. Finch 11 



Mr. Slater 7| Mr. Taylor 10 



Mr. Baldwin 10 1 Mr. Larpeutour 10 



Dr. Day lOJCal Uline 9 



Total 77 



MINNEAPOLIS. 



Name. Score.i Name. Score. 



John Harvey lO'A. W. Reickman 12 



George W. Tinsley 11 1 A. O. Rami 10 



Major Camp . ... OjL. C. Shoplcy 11 



FrankMorse G|MikelIoy 9 



To t al 75 



On the 20th they had a shoot for the club championship, 

 nine birds each, usual rules. Seventeen gentlemen con- 

 tended, of whom three tied on nine. The following is the 

 score : — 



Name. Score. 



Frank L. Morse 9 



A. W. Keickman 7 



A. C. Rand 5 



R. J. Baldwin 4 



John Harvey 9 



R. S. Williams 



Georqe Purmoit 3 



B. Grimshaw fi 



Charles Cyphers 6 



Messrs. Morse, Harvey and Tinsley having tied went 

 back to 26 yards,. Mr. Harvey missed his first bird, and 

 the others each killed their Ave. The distance was again 

 increased to 31 yards, and after shooting at three birds Mr. 

 Morse was declared the winner, having killed seventeen 

 birds straight. This club has challenged the St. Paul Club 

 to shoot for the State badge. 



Name. Score. 



J. Haley 7 



Baldwin Brown 8 



George W. Tinsley ; 9 



George A. Camp 3 



Roger S. Pease 6 



L C. Shepley 7 



W. W. McNair 6 



Charles Hepp 8 



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St. Louis, Sept. 25th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream.: — 



Since your able correspondent, Mr. Barker, was here, very little has 

 been done in the way of trap shooting, owing to the scarcity of pigeons 

 no wild ones to be bad, and tame ones very scarce. The boys have made 

 up, however, by setting to rights their shooting traps, trying new dogs, 

 and forming parties for the Fall hunts, &c. Arrangements have been 

 made by the gun club for the erection of a house to hold fifteen thou- 

 sand pigeons. Large roosts abound in Southeast Missouri, near Spring- 

 field, and arrangements have been made by the club with netters to fur- 

 nish the number, when the pigeons arrive, at very small expense. With 

 plenty of pigeons shooting here will be lively this Winter, and some 

 fine scores may be looked for, as St. Louis boasts of many amateurs. 

 When our club is sufficiently aged and equipped we hope to invite broth- 

 er sportsmen from abroad, and especially from Chicago, to Yisit us and 

 compete for honor, if not prizes. 



Captain Bogardus has been in the city several days, arranging for an 

 exhibition of his wonderful shooting,-and for a grand tournament dur- 

 ing f air week, to be held at the A b by race track. To-day Captain Bo- 

 gardus accompanied a few members of our gun club to their shooting 

 grounds at Rink el's Six-mile House, to witness a match between Mr. C. 

 Jeff Clark, President of the club, and Mr. H. C. Pierce, holder of the 

 club's champion gold medal. The match was at fifteen pairs, 18 yards 

 rise, 80 yards boundary, from H & T plunge traps set five yards apart, 

 tame pigeons, very strong flyers, and were aided in iheir attempts to get 

 away by a strong wind blowing directly away from the score and traps. 

 Captain Bogardus acted as referee, and pulled traps. Mr. John W. 

 Munson kept the score. Clark used Bittmar powder, 5} drachms S. B., 

 \\ oz. No. 8 N. Y. shot; Pierce used American black powder. The fol- 

 lowing is the score:— 



Clark 10 11 10 11 10 00 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 11 00- 21 



Pierce 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 U H 11--30 



Captain Bogardus pronounced the score of Mr. Pierce wonderful, as it 

 was the third time he had ever shot at double birds, and in fact Pierce 

 never saw a trap shoot until June of this year. He has participated in 

 ten club class shoots at ten birds each, at 21 yards rise, and made a score 

 of 96 out of the 100 birds. 



After the double bird match a shoot at five single birds, 20 yards, was 

 made up, in which Captain Bogardus joined. 



SCORE. 



Captain Bogardus 1 111 1— 5jF. C. Hodgman 1 110 1—4 



H. C. Pierce 1 1 1 1 1—5 Dr. Nubey 1 l o 1 0-3 



C. Jeff Clark, Jr 1 1 1 1 1—5 John W. Munson 10 1 0—2 



Jeff C. Clark, Sr 1 1 1 1 1— 5|Gaston Souland 10 —1 



A large delegation from this city will attend the Memphis Bench Show 

 and Shooting Tournament iii October, and from there branch out 

 through Tennessee and Arkansas to enjoy the fine general shooting 

 those States afford, Reel Foot Lake, in Tennessee, being the objective 

 point of many. Yours truly, c. 



Philadelphia, October 1st, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream :— 



Below is the score made by the Kensington Hunting Club, at their 

 regular quarterly shoot for the three club medals:— 



Name. Score. 



Chrn. Metzser....l 10 10 10-4 

 Chas.Hebding....l 1111110-7 



Wm. Graber 1 10 10 0-3 



M. Hepfner 10 110-3 



F. Bindewald.....! 10 10 111-6 



F. Deissroth 1 * * 1 1 1 1-5 



J. Ginde 1-1 



Wm. Pfeiffer 0-0 



G. Sonneck 10101104 



Name. Score. 



E. Stees 1 10 10 111-6 



Wm. Knauf.. 1111111-7 



F. Widmayer 00010111-4 



F. Bechman 1 110 10 1-5 



L. Holzscheider..O 110 1111-6 



Wm. Deissroth 1110 1-4 



M. Brierly 1 11110 0-5 



H. Scheuringer 10 1111-5 



*Dead outside. In shooting off the ties Wm. Knauf won first medal, 

 Charles Hebbmg second, and P. Bindenwald third medal. 



Xwm Fr. Deissroth, 



Rossin House, Toronto, October iid, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



To-day the Junior Gun Club held their annual match at Wilson's Ho- 

 tel, Dundas road, for the President's Medal (presented annually) and four 

 other prizes, the lowest valued at $10. There were fifteen birds (wild, 

 pigeons) each at 20 yards rise and 80 yards boundary. The weather was 

 all that could be desired, and all the birds strong. The wind was fresh 

 and caused many of the boys to lose their birds. The following is the 

 score:— 



Name. Score. Total 



C. Shears 1 11111100001111 11 



Crawford 1 1 Withdrawn. 2 



Coen * 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 12 



Marsh 10 1 



Killaly 1 1 1 1 1 1 1* 7 



James 1111110 10 1110 11 12 



Winstanley 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 



Winfield 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 



Moore 1 1110 111111111 13 



Callaghaii... 0*0101000 Withdrawn. 2 



MacNabb 10 10 11110 10 7 



Messrs. Coen aud James then shot off their ties. Coen— 111 1—4, at 

 ..56 yards, five birds each. James-0 110 0—2, resulting for the prizes as 

 follows: Mr. Moore, the President's Medal, value $30, Mr. Coen, first 

 prize, $25; Mr. James, second prize, $20; Mr. C. Shears, third prize, 

 $17; Mr. Winfield, fourth prize, $10. Mr. George Smith, of the Toronto 

 Gun Club, was referee. - S. 

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CHOKE BORE GUNS. 



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Editor Forest and Stream. :— 



Having recently purchased one of an invoice of Mr. W. W. Greener's 

 finest choke bore guns from Mr. II. C. Squires, weight, 9 pounds; 10 

 bore; barrels 32 inches, of laminated steel; treble wedge; pistol grip stock— 

 I think your readers will be interested in knowing what it has done, as 

 I confess it has surpassed my most sanguine expectations. At a target 

 of 30 inches at 30 yards, with a shell charged with 4 drachms of C. & II. 

 powder and 1$ oz. No. 8 shot, it threw 351 pellets within the circle, and 

 so close and evenly were they distributed that the smallest game could 

 not have escaped. A very noted nrake of breech loaders, same weight 

 and bore, was pitted against this gun, but was so thorougly defeated that 

 the owner fully admitted the great superiority of the Greener gun. If 

 any of the readers of the Forest and Stream have a gun that can equal 

 the above record, I should like to hear from him. F. 



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CHILLED SHOT. 



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'SuiiEwsnuKY, N. J., Sept. 27th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest ano Stream: — 



In looking over tlie late gun trial published in the Field, I am led to 

 ask the question if the supposed "now system" of choke boring was not 

 dependent upon the new method of making shot, for the fine results 

 achieved at the late trial over the trial of 1866? With the old system of 

 boring guns, at the Field trial of 1866 Mr. Greener's best gun made an 

 average pattern of 121.4, with Walker's & Parker's soft shot. At the 

 late trial his hest choke bored gun only made an average of 117.6 with 

 the same kind of hIiol, against an average of 185. with the chilled slut. 

 The above figures would go to prove the desirability of using chilled shot 

 or abandoning the choke bores. Believing it to be a question of import- 

 ance to sportsmen, I will ask through your columns if any of our Amer- 

 ican manufacturers of shot make the chilled shot similar to that used in 

 the Field trial of 1875, and manufactured by Roberts, Sampson & Co. , 

 England? 



I am aware that some makers advertise their shot to be chilled, and 

 have written this article hoping to call the attention of manufacturers of 

 shot and of Bportsmen to the importance of chilled shot. 



Yours truly, Check Coed. 



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LQAD1 JNG SH ELLS. 



Cambridoeport, Mass., Sept. 28th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



Although much has been said in regard to the proper loading of shells, 

 I have never seen the reasons given for so doing. Experience teaches 

 that a paper shell, loaded with two wads over the powder, is much bet- 

 ter than with only a single wad. Why is this so? Is it that the combus- 

 tion of the powder is more perfect, or that the charge passes out of the 

 gun more evenly, or is it that the powder, being more closely con- 

 fined, gives greater explosive power? Why should not the effect be the 

 same with metal shells? Captain Bogardus, in his book on "Field, Trap 

 and Cover Shooting," makes emphatic distinction between the two, 

 using bat a single wad over the powder in metal shells, without giving 

 any reason for so doing. Everyone who uses a breech loading gun de- 

 sires to know the very best manner of so doing, and tne reasons why; 

 and oftimes when reading reports of target practice with shot guns, the 

 question has occurred to me whether there may not have been more dif- 

 ference on account of the loading of the shells than in the guns used. I 

 doubt not this question has occurred to many, who would be equally 

 pleased with myself to know the best method and the reasons why. Be- 

 in;/ a constant reader of your valuable paper, 1 take the liberty of thus 

 addressing you. Yours very truly, J. S. S. 



[The reason why two wads are used is that they produce 

 greater resistance, and consequently the shot is acted upon 

 more forcibly, and they also nil more of the case and more 

 of the chamber of the gun. The tendency of the paper 

 shell is to expand to a greater extent than the metal, which 

 is perhaps the reason why Capt. Bogardus uses but one wad 

 in the latter. — Ed.] 



PARTRIDGES IN MARYLAND. 



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Muiriurk, Prince George's Co., Md., Sept. 30th, 18? 5. 

 Editor Forest and Stream: — 



In your paper just at hand, I notice an article by "M.," in which he 

 says: "The partridge season opened on the 15th inst." Now this is a 

 decided mistake, as the season for partridge (quail) does not open in this 

 county until the 20th of October. If "M:" will inform me, or any other 

 member of the State Society for the Protection of Game, of the shoot- 

 ing of partridges before the 20th of Octobor by any person, giving name 

 and facts, they will certainly be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, 

 as the Society mean business. Partridges are well grosvn in this neigh- 

 borhood and plentiful. It is certainly necessary to have a uniform law 

 for the game season, as now we have a dozen different seasons for the 

 opening of partridge shooting in Maryland. The general law, how- 

 ever, is the 20th of October, and Prince George's county comes under 

 that law. Yours truly, Chas. E. Cofjtin. 



[Mr. Coffin is right, and "M." decidedly in the wrong. 

 Still we find the law conflicting. The act of 1858, which 

 applied to certain counties, including Prince George's, 

 named the 1st of October as the end of the close season, 

 but there appears to be a general law covering the State, 

 wdich gives the date as October 20th. As this law was 

 amended in January, 1864, it is the one now in force. — Ed.] 



It is sensibly suggested that agricultural societies offer 

 premiums for the best walking horses. Walking is the 

 gait that is of most use to farmers, and it is this pace that 

 ought to be encouraged. 



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Personal.— The Key. William C. Wilson, of Boston, is 

 spending several weeks in the Adirondack wilderness. 



