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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Our International. Team. — Tuesday and Wednesday 

 being the regular practice days of the gentlemen compris- 

 ing the American long-range team, they assembled as usual 

 at Creedmoor on those days last week. The most note- 

 worthy incident connected with the shooting was the re- 

 markably fine practice made by Capt. L. C. Bruce, his 

 scores heading the list on each day. As the conditions of 

 15 shots at each range are adhered to, we give only the 

 totals, the highest attainable score being 225 points: — 



Name. Tuesday. W'dav.l Name. Tue°day. W'day. 



L. C. Bruce 199 203iP. Hyde 169 192 



Gen. T. B. Dakin....l94 200 Ma j. Henry FnUon.. 187 192 



Isaac L. Alien 191 19- Lieut. A. Anderson.. 193 191 



Lient. Col. Farwell..l93 198 L. Weber withdrew 190 



K. Kathbone 196 



N. Washburne 150 



C. E. Blvdeuburgh..l96 



19- 

 198 

 196 

 195 

 194 



C. K. Overbangh....l71 187 

 Maj. G. W. Yale.... 173 180 

 Maj. H. S. Jewell.. 189 167 



On Wednesday the aggregate score of the eight highest 

 men was 1,576 points, or 70 points higher than the highest 

 score ever made for the Elcho Shield. 



The Centennial Matches —The Adjutant General of 

 the State has approved of the programme proposed for the 

 Centennial matches to be shot at Creedmoor under the 

 auspices of the Centennial Commission. The first part 

 of the programme includes three international matches, 

 one eacu at short, mid and long range, to be contested, the 

 first two on September 12th, an*i the last on September 18th 

 and 14th. The first of these is open to all comers at dis- 

 tances of 200, 500 and 600 yards, with any rifles, ten shots 

 for each competitor at each range, the prizes being mostly 

 Centennial Commission medals, aggregating for the two 

 matches $730. The International Long-range Match is 

 for a Centennial trophy, to be held for future competition, 

 and two medals of the Centennial Commission, which may 

 be held without reserve. The mat. h is open to teams of 

 eight from all countries, with any rifle, at 800, 900 and 

 1,000 yards, thirty shots at each distance. The second 

 part of the programme opens on September 18th. It in- 

 cludes an inter-State military match for the bronze statue 

 of a "Soldier of Marathon," which shall be held tor future 

 challenge. There will also be a contest for the Wimbledon 

 cup worth $500, presented by the National Rifle Associa- 

 tion of Great Britain, open to citizens of the United States 

 only, at 1,000 yards distance. There are also two other 

 prizes presented by J. H. Stewart, of Loudon, optician of 

 the associations of both England and America. During 

 the latter part of the meeting the Irish-American return 

 match will be shot on the same conditions as heretofore. 



— At a meeting of the Joint Committee of the National 

 Rifle Association and Amateur Rifle Club, held on Friday 

 last, it was decided to have au excursion in the harbor of 

 Hew York, visiting the fortifications and the excavations 

 at Hell Gate Point on Monday, the 11th cf September, and 

 on Saturday, the 16th, an excursion up the Hudson River, 

 stopping at West Point. On motion of Mr. Johnson the 

 Committee on Entertainment w r as instructed to complete 

 and publish the entire programme at the earliest possible 

 date. Col. Mitchell, in behalf, of the Banquet Committee, 

 stated that it had been decided to hold a banquet to be 

 given to the visiting teams at Delmonico's, on Monday, 

 September 18th, instead of on the 15th, as had been pre- 

 viously determined. On motion of Col. Wingate, it was 

 decided to erect awnings at the several filing points at 

 Creedmoor, for the use of the competing teams on the 

 days of the matches. A general invitation was prepared 

 to be sent, to the Joint Committee and officers of the Na- 

 tional Rifle Association, inviting them to hold themselves 

 in readiness to accompany the Reception Committee to re 

 ceive the visiting rifle teams. The Scotch team will arrive 

 by the Bothnia on August 28th or 39th, the Irish team by 

 the City of Berlin on September 2d or 3d, and the Cana 

 h «.n team on the Erie Railway at 7:30 a. m. on September 

 8th, 



The Rifle on Lono Island.— The weekly competition 

 for the challenge gold badge of the Jamaica Hod and Rifle 

 Association took place on their grounds on Saturday after 

 noon. The conditions were: 200 yards off-hand, any rifle 

 not exceeding ten pounds in weight, trigger pull nut less 

 than three pounds, 10 shots each, targets bame size as 

 Creedmoor short range. The shooliug was remarkable, the 

 average score for each contestant being 42 1-10. Mr. Rog- 

 ers making the best 45 out of a possible 50 won the badge 

 for the fourth time this season. 



THE SCORE. 



Name. Score. Total. 



Theu. Kogers 4 454554455 45 



John il. crane ..4 454545554 45 



George A. Hicks.. ^ 5 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 5 43 



William Lfur and, J r 4 444545454 43 



Geo) ge W. Damon 4 545454444 43 



Charles J. Stewart 3445445545 43 



George H. Creed 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 5 43 



Joon Fleming 4 5 4 4445444 42 



A.J. Wilkinson 4 544444444 41 



Col. William S. Cogs well.... 4 344443545 40 



PRIVATE SCORE— SAME DAY. 



Name. Score. Total 



John Flury 5 4 5 8 5 5 5 4 5 5 46 



L R. Jaggar 4 5 5 4 .5 4 4 5 4 4 44 



Col. W. S. Cogswell 3 454445545 43 



George W . Damon 5 5 4 4 Retired, 



[T lis is the best record we have had yet of 200-yard 



fihooting.— Ed.] 



New York— Jamaica, A.ug. 25th. — The second team con- 

 te i on the range of the Jamaica (L, I.) Rod and Rifle As- 

 SO iation resulted as follows: — 



Name. Total. I Name. Total 



William S. Elmendorf 44 Thomas B. Fish 41 



Joha Fleming 43 George H. Lot; 40 



T^u-odore Rogers 43 (George A. Hicks 3^ 



(i;;rgo "H. Creed 42 William 8. C'pg&tyell. 37 



G) >r#e W. Damon 41 1 A. J. Wilkinson '34 



Ja ies M. Oakley 4l|OharlesM. .Prior .'.'.'.'.'30 



The third contest will take place on Saturday next. By- 

 the- >ye, in our last issue the compositor transposed the 

 "weekly" match of this club to the "turkey" match, much 

 no doubt to the disgust of the members. "Turkey shoot- 

 ing at 200 yards, off-hand," the secretary of the club 

 wri es us, "is not our forte." 



— At Oswego, August 13th, George White, of the Forty- 

 eighth regiment , in practice, made' the following scores, 

 With a strong northwest wind :— 



200 YAR11S. I 500 YARDS. 



Score. Total. Score. Total. 



44544 21 45545 23—44 



45444 21 55545 24-45 



Rhode Island. — A match was shot at .Newport on Sat- 

 iir lay between a number of gen Jemen, mostly summer 

 yesidents, the prize being a Pea body -Martini rifle, the en- 

 tf&nce $3 each. The conditions of the match were, five 



shots each at 500 yards. Of the 15 entries only seven came 

 to the firing point, their scores being as follows: — 

 Name. Score. Total. I Name. Score. Total. 



E.H. Totten 35 444 20|s. Powell, Jr ..252 25 16 



S. H. Eobbins 5 3 244 181 E. N.Scott 2 33 00 S 



M. Van Bur en..... 4 3 4 2 13 R. Barkeley, Jr Retired. 



M.E.Rogers 02 3 25 12| 



Illinois— Chicago, Aug. 22d — The Giles Bros. & Co.'s 

 prize— a silver ice urn — presented by them to the winning 

 team in the Inter-State match, shot Dec. 29th, 1875, at Chi- 

 cago, was shot for by membeis of the winning team on the 

 Chicago RifleClub range on the 18th inst., and was won by 

 Mr. George Willard. The following is the score out of a 

 possible 50: — 



Name. Total, l Name. Total. 



George Willard 49 



J. A. Shaffer 49 



A.G. Alford 48 



W . Bnrnham 45 



R. S. Thompson 45 



O. C. Blackmer 44 



r/The two following scores were shot at the same time, but 

 not by members of the team; — 

 H. G. Howe....4 5544 44 5 5 5- -451S. E. Bliss.... 2 3 3 5 5 5 5 3 3 4— 38 



Chicago ys. Milwaukie. — In the match at Milwaukee 

 on August 25th, between ttams from Chicago and Milwau- 

 kie, the result was as follows: — 



CHICAGO TKAM. 



1' 00 500 



Name. Yds. Yds. 



Gen. W.E. Strong. ...51 65 



Walter Buruham 42 68 



N. G «Howe 41 6a 



George Willard 47 



A. G. Alford 45 53 



Col. R. S. Thompson.. 58 69 



Totals 284 373 



Grand total 657 



MILWAUKIE TEAM. 

 1000 

 Name. Yds. 



J. C. Welles 51 



E. Fielding ,.37 



E. D. Bang,. 58 



55 Charles 'turner 54 



Col. J. M. Arnold 54 



J. Meuuier 54 



Totals 308 



Grand total 



500 

 Yds. 

 66 

 67 

 62 

 60 

 59 

 61 



375 



683 



There was a sweeping wind blowing. 



The Utica Citizens' Coeps. —This Corps held their an- 

 nual tiial of marksmanfhip at Alexandria Bay August 25th. 

 The prizes were first and second goid medals, to be worn 

 one year; third, $10; fourth, a box of cigars; distance 100 

 yards; position off-hand; no sighting shots, neither was 

 any member allowed to take his rifle from the armory for 

 practice, and as there is no rauge at Utica anyone who 

 wished to practice labored under great difficulty. There 

 were 44 competitors. The following are the best scores: — 



Name. 



Priv. D. E. Pomeroy 4 



Sergt. E. Bagg, Jr 3 4 



Priv. P. F.Bulger 4 5 



Priv John Gompu.. 4 4 



Pnv. A. P.Howes 3 4 



Priv. R. Cole ...'. 3 4 



Priv 'J.A.Howard 3 3 



Priv. F. A. Boswortu 4 3 



Priv. George H. Scranton 4 2 



Sco.e. 

 4 4 4 



4 



4 



5 



5 



4 



4 



Total. 

 20 



20 

 20 

 20 

 20 

 19 

 19 

 18 

 18 



Synopsis of Province of Quebec Rifle Association 



Matches, Held at Montreal, Tuesday, August 15th, 



and Succeeding Days. 



No. 1— At 200, 500, and 600 yards; 5 shots at each; 25 

 prizes; highest possible 75; Rifles, long Snider. First prize 

 won by Mr. O'Grady with 62. 



No. 2 — At 500 yards; 7 shots; 20 prizes. First prize won 

 by Mr. Blacktin, with 85 out of possible 35. Snider. 



No. 3— At 600 yards; 7 shots; 20 prizes. First prize 

 won by Mr. Cruit, with 26 out of possible 35. Snider 

 rifle; light bad, and heavy wind; IX direction. 



No. 4— Battalion match; teams at 5 men a side; dis- 

 tances 500 and 600 yards; 7 shots at each. Won by Three 

 Rivers Regiment. 



No. 5— Wythe match, distance 400 yards; position kneel- 

 ing; 7 shots in each, at 400 yards. Won by J. Mason, of 

 Hamilton; score 32 out of possible 35; Snider rifle. 



No. 6— Association match, open to teams of 5 men a 

 side from all associations in affiliation with P. of Q. R. A. 

 Won by Montreal Garrison Artillery . Highest individual 

 score Capt. lialpe, 42 out of possible 50, at 500 and 600 

 yards, 5 shots at each. 



No. 7— Standing match 200 yards; rifle, Snider's. Won 

 by Bell, of Toronto, with 80 out of possible 85; 20 prizes. 



No. 8— Strangers' stakes optional; Snider's, at 500 yards, 

 vs. small bores, at 800 yards; 7 shots. Won by Harris, 

 with 84 out of 35, after a tie with D. Mitchell; Metford 

 rifle; 20 prizes. 



No. 9— Ladies' stakes; rifles optional, as in No. 8; 

 Snider's to shoot at 500 yards, small bores at 900 yards. 

 Won by J. J. Mason, with iVIetford rifle, with score" of 47 

 out of possible 50, Mr. Fisher vs. A. R. C, New York, 

 being second, with a Snider, scoring 44 at 500 yards; 20 

 prizes. 



Jno. 10— Small bore, championship match; 15 shots at 

 1,000 yards. Won by Mr. Little, of Toronto, with 64 out 

 of possible 75. 



No. 11— Consolation match, at 200 and 500 yards; 5 

 shots at each. Won by McGillivray, with 45 out of 50, 

 Snider rifle. 



The weather on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 

 was all that could be desired, but the wind was a very 

 unusual one and most puzzling, varying from 11:30 to 

 12:80, and with large-bore rifles, like the Snider, very diffi- 

 cult to deal with. In first small bore match No. 8, wind 

 was very squally; squally from IX quarter, with a dismal 

 rain. In Nos. 9 and 10, light and wind were both good; 

 wind over right shoulder. The entries averaged about 120 

 for match, and the shooting was extremely steady; in fact, 

 misses were rarely to be met with at any distance. The 

 management was good, and nothing unpleasant occurred 

 to mar success at meeting. The Governor General's gold 

 medal for highest aggregate score, was won by Mr. Shaw, 

 of Danville, and to show the closeness of competition there 

 were only 4 points diffeience between 10 highest aggregate 

 scores. Mr. Mason, Jr., carried off aggregate piizes for 

 small arms, aud Mr. Crutt was second. 



Canada.— In the provincial rifle competition, at St. 

 John, N. B., on the 24th inst., the National silver medal 

 was won by Captain Bixley, with 83 points, at ranges of 

 20l, 500 and 710 yards, seven rounds at each. Tne Gov- 

 ernor General's silver medal was won by Lieutenant War- 

 den, of the Eighth cavalry, making 84 points, and the 

 bronze medal by Sergeant Hunter, of the Engineers, with 

 83 points. 



— T. B. Brown, No. 1 Bond street, sends us a photo- 

 graph of the badge presented by Mr. J. L. Mott, of Mott 

 Haven, to the Eighth Regiment Rifle Club for competition 

 at 200 and 500 yards. It is made of red, yellow and green 

 gold, wrought in with platina. The arms of the State of 

 New York are of red gold (satin finish) in semi-relief. The 

 target is platina and black enamel, the markers in red, 

 white and dark enamel. The rifle, which is an exact mod- 

 el of a Remington military, is of red, gold and platina. 

 The laurel branch is green gold with bright feuds, The 



badge is beautifully finished, the combination of the differ- 

 ent colors of gold and platina having a very pleasing effect 

 It is from the establishment of T. Kirkpatriek, 859 Broad' 

 way. 



— There is some talk out West of choosing a northwest- 

 ern team to contest with Fulton's Creedmoor team for the 

 championship of America, if not of the world. 



— T. C. Kinney, of the Hartford Courant, has been an 

 pointed by Col. Hudson Superintendent of rifle practice 

 for the First regiment, C. N. G., and will rank as captain, 



)nmt §JHg nnd (§nn. 



GAME NOW IN SEASON. 



Moose, Alces malchis. 



Caribou, Tarandus rangifer. 



Elk or wapiti, Cervus canadensis. 



Red or "Virginia deer , 6 .Virginianm. 



Squirrels, red, Olack ana gray. 



Hares, brown and gray. 



Keed or rice-bird, Doiiclwnyx oryz- 



vous. 

 Wild turkey, Meleagris gallopa- 



vo, 

 Pinnated grouse or prairie chicken, 



Cupidoma cupido. 

 Eufftd grouse or pheasant, Bonasa 



wnbeUus. 

 Quail or partridge, Ortyx Virginia- 



nus. 



Black-bellied plover or ox-eje,S<Jua- 



tarola helvetica. 

 King plover, ^Egialitis seminal- 



maius. 

 Stilt, or long-shanks, Himantopus 



aigricollin. 

 "Woodcock, PJiilohela minor. 

 Red-breasted snipe or dowiichur 



Macroriiampkus qristus. 

 Red-backed sandpiper, or ox-bird 



Tringa americanu. 

 Gr- at marbled godwit, or marlin 



LiniOba fedoa. 

 Willet, Totanus semipalmatw. 

 Tattler, Totanus melanoleucw . 

 Yellow-shanks, Totdnus Jlavipes 



''Bay-birds" generally,including various species of plover, sandpipers 

 snipe, curlews.oy8ter-catcher8,surf-bird8, phalaropes, avocets, etc., com- 

 ing under the group Limtcolce or Shore Birds. 



— The game market is bare — only a few woodcock at 

 $1.25 to 1.50 per pair. No arrivals of prairie fowl as yet. 

 The weather is too warm. 



— The season of rail and reed- bird shooting on the Dela- 

 ware River opens on the 1st of September, and as the 

 associations for the protection of game, both in Pennsyl- 

 vania and New Jersey, are on the alert for those who are 

 disposed to shoot in advance of the season, it is to be pre- 

 sumed that excellent sport will be found by legitimate 

 sportsmen after the proper time arrives; and as rail shoot- 

 as pursued on the Delaware River differs so widely from 

 all other kinds of shooting, we presume that many sports- 

 men from the interior who are visiting the Centennial Ex- 

 position will avail themselves of the opportunity they will 

 now have to indulge in, and perhaps distinguish them- 

 selves in, a day's rail shooting. Before breech-loaders were 

 adopted it required considerable care in fixing up all things 

 necessary for the rapid loading of muzzle-loaders, such as 

 "rail boxes," shot cartridges, loading rods, &e. But now 

 with a breech loader, which can be secured from a friend, 

 or hired at a gun store, and with from fifty to one hundred 

 properly loaded shells, say with two drachms of powder and 

 three-quarters of an ounce of No. 10 shot, one is prepared 

 to strike out for Chester or the Lazaritta, where good, clean, 

 tight boats and the most skillful pushers may at any time 

 be obtained. As this kind of shooting is done altogether 

 frorff a clean, dry boat the shooter requires no special 

 change of clothing. 



To show in what vast numbers this bird is sometimes 

 found'on the reedy fiats of the Delaware River, a few years 

 ago, while we were living in Philadelphia, we ran down to 

 Chester, secured a pusher, and started out with about 

 tw r enty other boats, aud as all shooting ceases when the 

 tide begins to fall, the boats return about the same time, 

 when, by actual count, we found that the number of rail 

 killed amounted to fifty per boat, making full one thou- 

 sand birds killed at one tide, giving a little over three 

 hours' shooting. On that occasion we killed one hundred 

 and three birds, and one or two ether boats did a trifle 

 better. 



In order \o have the best show for a shoot it will be 

 better to secure a pusher, which can always be done by ap- 

 plication at the gun stores of Mr. John Krider, corner of 

 Second and Walnut streets, or Mr. Abm. Peterman, in 

 Dock strees above Walnut, Philadelphia. 



There is no law in this State protecting rail, but fair 

 shooting may be obtained on the Hackensack meadows, es- 

 pecially in what used to be known as the English Neighbor- 

 hood. 



— The first English snipe of the season was flushed on 

 the Hackensack meadows on the 27th inst. by our shooting 

 friend, W. Justin Von Lengerkee, of Hoboken. This is 

 early in the season for Scolojodx WUsoni to put in an ap. 

 pearance. 



— Mr. K., of Baltimore, to whose pigeon match with Mr. 

 Engle, we made reference in our issue of August 17th, 

 wishes us to state that he used a W. & C. Scott & Sons' 

 No. 10 choke-bore gun, 101 lbs. weight, imported for him 

 by Mr. McComas. These two gentlemen have shot sev- 

 eral matches recently, one on August 9th, 50 birds, 26 

 yards rise, Engle 36, K. 38; and another on the 16th, which 

 resulted in a tie on 44 birds out of 50, which K. is inclined 

 to think amateur shooters cannot beat. They shoot with 

 one barrel only, at the Baltimore Club grounds. 



New Hampshire— Laconia, Aug. 28th.— Fair bags of 

 woodcock have been made this season, and prospects good, 

 for more as soon as the moulting season is over. Ruffed 

 grouse shooting begins September 1st, and bids fair to be 

 good, although injured some by lawless pot-huDter«s. For 

 the last fortnight upland plover have been unusually 

 plenty, but are now leaving every day. F. R. &• 



Connecticut— West Meriden, August 29th.— In nearly 

 every part ol this State quail are said to be quite plentiful, 

 e,nd the same may be said of ruffed grouse* Sportsmen 

 ^ook for good shooting keie tM§ fail; YQ$ $< 



