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either by superior judgment or the greater weight of their 

 ammunition, they were more successful in dealing with 

 laterial deviation, and secured many more bullseyes and 

 centres. Their knowledge of the range, on which the Ca- 

 nadians shot for the first time, would sufficiently account 

 for this." That is it exactly. Rigby rifles for long ranges 

 -want more powder and more lead. 



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RIFLE SHOOTING EXTRAORDINARY. 



Chicago Gtxn Club, Chicago, 111,, Nov. 9th, 1875. 

 Editor Fokest and Stream:— 



One of our club— Col. J. A. Shaffer— did the best shooting that has 

 ever been done on our range. Has it been beaten at Creedinoor this 

 year? The following is the score at 503 yards, Remineion Creedmoor 

 rifle:-5 55555554555555555555 5, 114 out of a possible 

 115. Major Fulton arrived here to-day. We have 120 members piid 

 np in our club. The Inter-State match comes off to-morrow at Jackson, 

 Mich. Major Fulton accompanies our team. W. R. R. 



GERMAN AND SWISS RIFLEMEN AT 

 THE CENTENNIAL. 



Philadelphia, Oct. 28, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



One part of the preparations of the Philadelphia Rifle Club for the 

 Centennial celebration of next year has been nearly completed, and the 

 programme has been concluded upon. The committee in charge of this 

 matter have held their sessions every other week, and are now prepared 

 to submit their shooting programme to the Committee Of Organization 

 and Board of Directors for approval. The main portion of the pro- 

 gramme embraces the "Bunderfesr, 1 ' i. e., the meeting'of the rifle clubs 

 forming; the "Schuetzenbund of the United States of North America." 

 This great rifle contest will commence on June 26th and close on July 

 1st next, the distribution ot prizes to take place on July 3d next. On 

 July 5th it is proposed t&at a competition between the cadets of the 

 united clubs will take place. July 6th is set apart for a contest of teams 

 selected by clubs everywhere from among their members, and July 7th 

 for a competition of teams organized by nationalities. At the Bunder- 

 fest will be put up five classes of targets, all for individual competition, 

 two of them only for members of the Schuetzenbund, viz.: the "target 

 of honor 11 and the "stich target, 1 ' and three open to all comers on pay- 

 ment of $1 entry, viz.: the "man target, 1 ' field target," and "bullseye 

 target. 11 The ranse is SCO yards and the rule off hand shooting, standing 

 at all targets. A description of the different targets may be interesting 

 to some readers of Forest and Stream who may probably take part in 

 the sport. 



The "target of honor 1 ' is a ring target with twenty-five half inch rings, 

 of which those numbering from 1 to 13 are white, those from 14 np to 25 

 form the black centre. On this target each shooter who is a member of 

 the association is allowed three shots, the ticket costing $5. The highest 

 possible score is 75. The "stich target" is a bullseye target, the black 

 visual centre of which is twelve inches in diameter; on this centre rests 

 a black circular bullseye six inches in diameter. Only members of the 

 i-ssociaticn are permitted to shoot at this target. The shots are limited 

 to three; price of ticket $5. No ticket for this target can be obtained by 

 any rifleman unless he has taken a ticket for the target of honor. The 

 best bullseye of each shooter is taken into account; the bullseyes of the 

 different shooters range according to measurement, which is taken by -a 

 gauge which measures to the 1-800 inch from the centre of the bullseye to 

 the centre of the bullet hole. The prizes for these two association tar- 

 gets consist in honorary gifts and the regular contributions of the asso- 

 ciated clubs, and will probably amount to $10,000 or more. The "man 

 target 11 represents the upper portion of a man's body and is divided in 

 half inch wide horizontal lines. The middle line counts twenty points, 

 the next line on each side is nineteen, and so on down to one point on 

 the extreme right and left. This target is open to all comers who have 

 made their entry. The ticket costs $10, allowing the shooter two series 

 of five shots each, of which the better series is taken into account, and 

 the lesser one only to decide ties between the former. Each marksman 

 can obtain but one target. Two thousand dollars will be divided in 100 

 prizes from $150 down to $5, all to be distributed to winners on this tar- 

 get. The "field target" consists of a black oval 17 inches high by 11 

 inches in width, in which i» described an inner oval with diameter 9x3 

 inches. Open to all comers like the man target. The inner field counts 

 two points, and the outer one point, on tickets for ten shots for $1, 

 while on tickets for five shots for $1 the inner counts four and the outer 

 two points. The number of tickets is unlimited. For 120 points a sil- 

 ver cup is giveu, for 60 points a Centennial medal, and for 20 points a 

 trade dollar. For the first 120 points shot by one shooter before the rest 

 a silver cup worth $25 to $30 will be awarded. The "bullseye target" has 

 a black visual centre of 12-ii ch diameter with a 4 inch black bullseye; 

 open to all comers; twenty tickets for $i; number of tickets unlimited! 

 On this target the best bullseye of each shooter counts for prizes; the 

 measurement is taken in the same manner as on the stick target; $1,000 

 will be distributed in seventy-five prizes from $75 to $5. Besides 'the 

 prizes premiums of $1 are given for the first and last bulleeye shot every 

 forenoon and afternoon; $35 in premiums distributed every day among 

 those ten shooters who have made the most bullseyes during the day, and 

 ¥250 m tif teen premiums from $60 to $5 among those who have obtained 

 »e most bullseyes during the week. 



In the match proposed for July 6th any team of seven belonging to an 

 organized rifle association can engage for $50. The entry must be made 

 before May 15th next, and the money paid by June 15th next, in the office 

 of the Secre'ary of the Schuetzenbund, 534 and 536 North Third street, 

 , miildel Phia. Targets are the same as the above described target of 

 flonor Conditions-Offhand shooting; position, standing; rifles, any 

 nan bore without magnifying glasses or telescope contrivances. The 

 seven forming a team must be members of the same rifle association and 

 not a combination of members of different organizations; no shooter is 

 gwwed to shoot in two teams, and no organization can be represented 

 y more than one team. Bach team can have reserve men, and has to 



nsh an umpire, who has to serve on the committee controlling the 

 at T-lft , EaCh 8h00ter is allowed ten scoring shots, and sighting shots 

 &W\ before the beginning of the match at 10 A. M. Reserve men can- 

 oe take a part in the match after the shooting has commenced. Targets 

 2 t0 . e * ch team > are to be distributed immediately before the begin- 



g or the shooting by drawing lots, and at the same time the umpires 

 Zr ,. their P° st » assigned by the shooting master, so that each of 

 Th7 ° 0n 1 the scorin S of another team than the one he belongs to 



eiewill be one valuable prize given to the team scoring the most 

 and i T~-n V6 K ty 8h0ts ' 250 beiug the highesfc P° S8 iWe individual score, 

 bad J'/ i, t. hlghesfc P° ssiole score for » team. A champion 

 ers ? awarded for the highest individual score among all shoot- 

 in ;77 8ol(iba<3 Se8 of differen t values for the highest individual score 



«rh " i eam - This will be decided by counting twenty-five shots on 

 l "ier Slde> then fche twenty . four shot8> and go on 



Ukert* * ame princi P le8 wm °e arranged the international match, to 



fianlyi. i °! ° a July 7Lh next ' with tMs differen ce, that the teams are or- 



SErf? nationalities. The number of riflemen constituting a na- 



bebJt, , mllbc fis ed when entries have been made, May 15th next 

 m " the closing day /or entrieS- 



lfcd!!Ej/^ wdI as for the interna- 



IMtenri '• thankfully accepted from rifle clubs whose members 



a* sdXJ 1 th f Philarlel P hia Schuetzen Park either as competitors or 

 for t ,pT- *' fr ° m friend8 of the 8 P° rt ' Gif ts not specially assigned 

 and bHT 11 ? atCh * m be C0Dsidere d as made for the association match 

 e * an S e(i among the prizes on the target of honor L 



The American Riflemen Abroad.— The Volunteer Ser- 

 vice Gazette, in an able resume of the year's shooting in Eng- 

 land, has the following:— 



"We have said that we should have more to say of our 

 American guests. The famous American team, including 

 nearly all the men who beat the Irish at Creedmoor last 

 year, came over to Ireland in the Summer and fired the re- 

 turn match at Dollymount, near Dublin. Victory again 

 remained with the American 'Six,' who, in bad weather, 

 and on a strange range, made the wonderful average of 

 161.16, 'Old Wimbledon' points, higher than the highest 

 individual score that has ever been made in the Elcho 

 Shield contest. Many persons were very anxious that these 

 wonderful marksmen should, with the addition of their 

 two reserve men, try conclusions with our Eights, and a 

 proposal was made to the Council of the National Rifle 

 Association to permit the American team to shoot side by 

 side with the Elcho Eights, though not, of course, for the 

 Elcho Shield. A valuable cup had been presented by the 

 Committee of "Lloyds," which was intended to be the 

 prize for the winning team in this special contest. But the 

 Council decided, as we think rightly, that such a course 

 would be open to great inconvenience, and proposed in- 

 stead to organize a match with a composite United King- 

 dom Eight against the Americans. The Americans, how- 

 ever, though they might perhaps have strained a point to 

 shoot in the great Shield match, were not disposed to ac- 

 cept any more challenges, and the end of the matter was 

 that the Council of the National Rifle Association gave a 

 challenge cup to be shot for by the members of the Ameri- 

 can team. It was won with a splendid score of 133 out of 

 150, at 1,000 yards, by Mr. Fulton, and will be shot for 

 annually by the New York Rifle Association. The shoot- 

 ing of the Americans was nothing less than wonderful 

 throughout, and their courteous and genial manners made 

 them great favorites at Wimbledon. We expressed at the 

 time, and now repeat, our regret that a match worthy of 

 the competitors and of the occasion was not organized at 

 a much earlier date. There is, it appears, to be a great 

 match at Philadelphia next year, which may possibly pre- 

 vent a team from the United States from coming to Wim- 

 bledon; but in 1877 there is every probability of their re- 

 peating their visit, and on that occasion they will certainly 

 find a match worth shooting in," 



Scotland.— Captain Horatio Ross has been elected Pres- 

 ident of the National Rifle Club of Scotland. A better 

 choice could not have been made. The latter portion of 

 his letter of acceptance is as follows:— 



"People should, however, bear in mind that, in support- 

 ing a high class of rifle shooting, they are encouraging 

 what is more than a mere feat of skill and strength, such 

 as a boat race or cricket match— much as I admire both. 

 The rifle has now taken the place of the old long bow, the 

 fate of nations will be decided by it in the future, and that 

 country is the strongest which can place in line of battle 

 the greatest number of highly skilled, well drilled marks- 

 men." 



—"Competitive rifle shooting" says the Volunteer Service 

 Gazette is looking up in the Regular Army, and we hope 

 that year by year we shall have more of it to report. On 

 the 3d of this month there was a match at Aldershot be- 

 tween a Brigade Major and five Adjutants against a Brigade 

 clerk and Sergeant Major. So there was some mixing of 

 ranks. The musicans of the 2d Battalion shot with a 

 team of the Tenth Regiment. The prizes were dinners to 

 the losers. The Volunteer Service Gazette states that "the 

 match between officers and non commissioned officers is, 

 we imagine, a novelty in the Regular Arm v." 



Pipes.— In styles of pipe I have experimented largely; 

 have sounded the gamut of plain el-iv, crambirr, meer- 

 schaum, (and chip) charcoal, poreeUiu ' &--.J. brier. " The 

 plain clay— the cutty— is workmanlike and democratic; I 

 think I would adopt it if I were running for high office. 

 Gambier is rather fantaslic, but colors as easily as sweet 

 sixteen; to me it is an objection that, being made in molds, 

 I know not how many thousand people may be pulling at 

 the twin brother or sister of that between my fingers. As 

 for the charcoals, they promised well, and were not with- 

 out their season of popularity; there was something of 

 classic elegance and simplicity in their smooth black dress 

 and silver trimming. But they did'nt wear well, somehow; 

 they broke and got incurable croup, and of course never 

 altered their color for better or worse. And the porcelain 

 was hard and harsh, heating and unabsorbent; so the ques- 

 tion finally lay between meerschaum and brier. Now, than 

 a fine piece of true meerschaum nothing is more fas- 

 cinating, sweeter, handsomer. Mark its tender creamy 

 tint, its soft, fine lustre, its smooth texture. Lift it— it is 

 light as a sponge; and you can almost indent it by the 

 pressure of your fingers. You fill it (rather, if you are 

 wise, you fill a false bowl set on to it,) and as you draw in 

 the smoke you can almost see the delicate brown flushing 

 deeper and deeper through the white. By slow degrees 

 lest you overheat it, with most jealous care, lest you chip 

 or scratch it, do you prosecute the experiment, until after 

 some weeks or months the point: of perfection is attained. 

 There is nothing comparable to the warm, intense brown, 

 mottled and shaded, rich and polished, which is now dif- 

 fused around the bowl. It is not like moss agates, or orig- 

 inal marbles, nor precious woods, yet it brings all these 

 delicately to mind. The color lies in clusters, as it were, 

 yet shaded off uniformly toward the lip, which is burned 

 white. Around the neck it is deepest and thickest, and 

 just here you can hardly call it less than black. There is a 

 similar difference between the pipe now and in its primitive 

 purity, to that between a sunlit cloud at mid-day and the 

 same gilded and empurpled by the splendor of sunset. Not 

 always, however, nor indeed often, is such success in 

 meerschaum-coloring met with. In the first place, instead 

 of meerschaum, it turns out to be "chip," which is shav- 

 ings of meerschaum welded together and so recut; the 

 pipes look well enough in the shop, but all the sponginess 

 and delicacy is lost; the oil cannot penetrate, or comes out 

 in blotches here and there; the bowl becomes rusty and 

 dirty, all the perique in the world can produce nothing 

 better on it than a dirty yellow tint, irregularly distributed, 

 and the draft gets easily clogged. Similar is tho result 

 should the pipe prove— meerschaum, indeed, but— of a 

 hard, impenetrable variety. Nothing can be done; you 

 may boil it and burn it, and make it all sorts of colors 

 but you deceive neither yourself nor any one else into 

 thinking it comparable to the -genuine,, inimitable "sea- 

 foam."— Galcuvy. 



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GAME IN SEASON IN NOVEMBER. 



Moose, Alee Americanus. 



Elk or Wapisi, Cervus Canadensis. 



Red Deer, Cervus Virgmianus. 



Caribou, Rangifer caribou. 



Hares, Leporinm. 



Squirrels, Sciurinoe. 



Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo. 



Ruffed Grouse, Bonasa urabellus. 



Pinnated Grouse, Cupidonia cupido 



Quail, Ortyx Virginianus. 



Woodcock, PMlohela minor. 

 Plovers, Choradrhnoe. 

 Willets, Symphemia semipalmata 

 Snipe, Godwits, Curlews, and Bay 



Birds, Scolopacidce. 

 Sandpiper. Tringa. 

 Reed or Rice Birds, DolicJionyx oryz- 



vorus. 

 .Wild Ducks. Anatmce. 



Game in Market. — There is a scarcity of Western game 

 in market that can only be accounted for on the ground of 

 a short supply. The weather, it is true, is somewhat 

 against keeping, and with a freezing temperature shipments 

 will be more liberal, but the late and severe Spring has un- 

 questionably thinned out the "chickens." We quote pin- 

 nated grouse at $1.50 per pair; ruffed grouse, $1.25a$l.$0. 

 Some Western quail are being received, but the hulk of 

 the supply is from New Jersey and Connecticut, mostly 

 full grown birds; price $3.50a$4 per dozen. Woodcock 

 are worth 75 cents per pair; the supply is decreasing, and 

 the demand has been light through the season. English 

 snipe are very scarce, the few in market bringing $3 per 

 dozen. Some fine wild turkeys have been received from 

 Ohio, and sell for 30 cents per pound. Ducks of various 

 descriptions are now received from as far South as Curri- 

 tuck; the finest birds, however, are shot at Havre de Grace. 

 Canvas backs are worth $2.50 per pair; red heads, $1.50; 

 brant, $1.25. Western birds, such as mallard, bring $1.25: 

 black ducks, 75 cents; widgeon, 75 cents; teal, 75 cents; 

 wild geese, $la$1.25 each; rabbits, 50 to 75 per pair; Can- 

 ada bunting, 75 cents per dozen; venison, 25 to 30 cents 

 per pound. 



— Especially at this time, at the beginning of the duck 

 shooting season and the approach of the holidays, come 

 frequent inquiries where to go for wild fowl, with a rea- 

 sonable prospect of a full bag. We endeavor to so direct 

 our friends that they may not come back to heap ana- 

 themas on our heads for wasted time and misspent money, 

 but the fact is, that from Currituck to Montank, all avail- 

 able points are leased, pre-empted, or held in possession by 

 gentlemen sportsmen or market shooters, who claim exclu- 

 sive privileges within the limits of specified areas. To be 

 sure of unqualified sport, one who is not a member of 

 some club must possess the open sesame to the shooting 

 box of some generous friend, or the good will of those 

 who make duck shooting a livelihood. There are numer- 

 ous places on the Sounds of North Carolina \vhere one 

 may shoot ad libitum, but there are no convenient means of 

 access thereto, and no lodging accommodations. So also 

 on the Chesapeake, along the New Jersey coast, and on 

 the shores of Long Island there are localities where one 

 may shoot without his right to do so being disputed; nev- 

 ertheless, it may be considered reasonably certain that no 

 eligible stand is without its claimant, either by title, abso- 

 lute possession, or the right which might gives. In this 

 dilemma, it is a satisfaction to know that within the past 

 month a new district has been opened up to the duck 

 shooter, most easy of access by rail, where wild fowl con- 

 gregate in untold numbers, scarcely disturbed by the few 

 gunners that occasionally drop in among them. This dis- 

 trict is comprised within the two counties of Virginia 

 known as Accomac and Northampton, dividing the waters 

 of the Atlantic from those of Chesapeake Bay, the outer 

 shores of which are flanked by innumerable islands and 

 islets, among which the ducks gather unmolested. The 

 southernmost point is known as the "Capes." Here are 

 the famous islands of Chincoteague, Mockhorn, and Hog 

 Island, besides scores of others scarcely known by name, 

 even to the few dwellers on the adjacent coast. These are 

 reached from Lewes, Delaware, by a railroad running down 

 nearly the entire length of the peninsula, and to Lewes one 

 may go by all rail from New York, or by the Old Domin- 

 ion Company's steamers, leaving here at 4 P. M and reach- 

 ing Lewes next morning. Where one has a big bag of de- 

 coys and other impedimenta to carry the latter is prefer- 

 able. Any information respecting this shooting ground 

 will doubtless be furnished cheerfully at the company's 

 office in Greenwich street. 



Of other available places not wholly preoccupied, we 

 may safely recommend the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 

 along St. Mary's county, including Choplico and Brittain's 

 Bay, Egg Harbor, Barnegat Bay, the Great South Bay of 

 Long Island, and the Connecticut River near Saybrook. At 

 all these places good lodging accommodations and expe- 

 rienced gunners can be found. We might designate, for 

 instance, as places of rendezvous, Leonardtown, Maryland; 

 the hostelries of E. H. Frame and J. W. Kinzey, at Bar- 

 negat, and Wm. Lane, at Good Ground, Long Island. Other 

 names are recommended in our correspondents' column 

 tc-day. We mean that our readers shall -learn to look to 

 us for information in all things relating to sport; and while 

 we cannot continually fill our columns with hints and di- 

 rections, yet much knowledge of localities, the flight of 

 birds and wild fowl, and the condition of the shooting, can 

 always be gathered by reference to the weekly reports of 

 our correspondents in different States that appear in this 

 department of our paper. 



—If those of our readers who don't believe there is good 

 duck shooting now on Long Island had seen the bunch of 

 scaups brought into our office on Tuesday last, they would 

 surely be convinced of the fact. These fine fowl were jsent 

 to us by Geo. B. Eaton, Esq., of the Sportsman's Empo- 

 riunvlOS Nassa^street, ; and were a, sample of eightv-eighi 



