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On the body of the cup is the inscription, and an engraving 

 of a Creedmoor target with two riflemen in reclining posi- 

 tions. 



New York.— The Rochester Amateur Rifle Association 

 held a meeting on their range last week. The first day's 

 match was at 200 and 500 yards, 10 shots at each range. 

 There were 23 entries. Dr. C. E. Rider and Geo. F. Still- 

 son tied for first prize, but the former having made the 

 best score at the longest range, it was awarded to him. 

 The following are the scores: — 



200 500 



Name. yds. yds. 



Dr. C. E. Eider.... 38 49 



Geo. F. Stillson.... 39 48 



A. B. Smith 37 



S. A Servis 39 



lien rv Allen 43 



Wm. J. Babcock... 39 



H. T. Hart 35 



B. O Sa^e 26 



J.H.Brown 43 w 



R. B. Yates 33 42 



Adolph Rhoda 23 23 



E. S. Combs 37 39 



46 



82 



44 



83 



41 



83 



25 



61 



38 



73 



w 



w 



200 



T'l Name. yds. 



J. J. McGowan — 25 



S. S. Eddy 37 



G. W. Fish 31 



D. D Knapp 35 



83 E.F.Wells 25 



T. n. Klase 28 



A. Hilderbrand 34 



W.B.Campbell.... 17 



P.H.Stafford 30 



Cyrus Bradley 38 



46j A. EL Bruman 27 



'6 



500 





yds. 



T'l 



w 



w 



20 



57 



45 



76 



36 



71 



42 



67 



44 



72 



44 



•78 



32 



49 



12 



42 



35 



73 



29 



56 



On the following day a match was shot between teams of 

 six men each from the Rochester Amateur Rifle Club and 

 the Waverlev Club. The conditions were 10 shots each, 

 at six and 1,000 yards, and the following are the scores:— 



800 YARDS. 



WAVERLEY TEAM. 



Knapp 23 



Wells 34 



Klase 39 



Hilderbrand 41 



Campbell 3? 



Fish. 



ROCHESTER TEAM. 



Smith 33 



Stillson 32 



Coombs 36 



Han 41 



Yates 34 



43 i Rider 47 



Total. 



....217 1 Total. 

 1000 YjiRds. 



823 



ROCHESTER TEAM. 



WAVERLY TEAM. I 



Knapp 38 Smith 35 



Welis 29, Stillson 40 



Klase.. 34 ■ ombs 32 



Hildeonmd 44 



Campbell 30 



Fith 36 



Total 22b 



Total for Waverly Team 



Total for Rochester Team 



Hart 30 



Yates 36 



Rider 41 



Total 214 



43? 



437 



Total. 



40 



B. B. Kelley 40 



J. S. Williams 40 



A. ij. Hodges 40 



Total. 

 23 

 16 

 24 

 21 

 26 

 21 

 16 



The result it will be seen was a tie, but the Waverley 

 team won on the best score at the longest range. 



Massachusetts. — The eleventh competition for the gold 

 badge of the Taunton Sportsman's Club, was shot at that 

 place on the 6th inst. The badge has been won once each 

 by Dr. Hayward, A. P. Clark, B. B. Kelley, and Wm. P. 

 Parmiee; twice each by A. B. Hodges and Henry D. At- 

 wooti; three times by T. R. Breed. The shooting shows 

 much improvement at each time. The following are the 

 scores, each competitor having 10 shots, 200 yards off- 

 hand. 



Name. Total. I Name. 



Thomas Breed 45 J. M. Cushman 



W. H. Bent 4,5 



W. h\ Farmlee i'i 



H. P. Cojeland 4fe 



J. A. Woodward 4 



— The Holyoke Rifle Club held their prize shoot on Sat- 

 urday week, with the following result, the range being, we 

 presume, 200 yards, seven shots each: — 



Name. Score. 



H. White 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 



A . Chase 3 3 4 4 2 



J. P. Franklin 3 4 2 2 5 5 5 



D. 11. MiutLi 4 5 3 3 3 3 



E. C. Small 4 3 3 5 3 4 4 



R. McDonald 233 4243 



R. liho, es 4 3 2 3 2 2 



As will be seen by the above scores E. C. Smith took 

 the first prize, J. P. Praukliu the second, and H. White 

 the third. In shouting for the badge the members only had 

 time to shoot three times each, owing to the lateness of 

 the hour, and made the following scores: H. White, 13; 

 J. Chase, 11; D. H. Smith, 10; J. P. Franklin, 9; E. C. 

 Smith, 12. The two previous weeks the badge was won 

 by M. White with scopes of 28 and 29. 



Wisconsin' — Milwaukee, September 5(7i. — The eighth and 

 last contest at 1,000 yards for the Remington revolver prize, 

 was shot on the 2d inst. Chas. Turner won the prize the 

 third tin.e, by a score of 38 out of possible 50. The scores 

 were as follows: — 

 Name. Total. I Name. Total! 



Chailes Turner 38| John C. Wells 32 



J. M. Arnold 3< John Meunier 33 



J oh a Juttniston 37 lb rank llawley 32 



E. D. Ban-s.... ....35lJS. Fielding 26 



The first annual meeting of the Milwaukee Rifle Club 

 was held in the evening, at the rooms of E. D. Bangs, a 

 large number of the members being present. After the 

 usual business was trausacttd the following officers were 

 re electetl the ensuing year: President, John Nazro; Vice- 

 Prebiaent, (ien. E. W. Hincks; Secretary, D. B. Franken- 

 burger; treasurer, John Johnston; Executive Committee, 

 Joim iNazio, D. B. Franken burger, Charley Turner, John 

 Alison, Jr., John R Goodrich; Finance Committee, C. T. 

 Hawiey, O. R. Hopkins, E. Fielding; Range Committee, 

 Col. J. M. Arnold, Jolin C. Welles, Cliauncey Simonds. 



• Canada. — The annual matches under the aupices of the 

 Dominion Rilie x\ssociation of Canada, were begun on the 

 5tn inst., at the ludeau Range, Ottawa. There were nine 

 maicnes in ail, with good prizes, and a large number of 

 competitors. Seven ot the latter came Irom Prince Edward 

 Islttnu, it being the first time the Province has been repres- 

 ented in the .Dominion matches. There were 118 competi- 

 tors in ttie allcomers match, and all the others were 

 equally well tilled. Our space wiil not allow us to give de- 

 tails oi the match. 



Pawttjcket, R. I., September 2d. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



Would it not be a good idea that in connection with the Centennial 

 matches or during the fall meeting at Crtedinoor, there shouid be a 

 matcn specially arranged to test the aosolute accurracy of rifles at sport- 

 ing ranges > -Nearly all game killed with the- rilie is killed at ranges be- 

 tween 50 unci 3U0,vards. And as all the best makes of rifles wonicl be re- 

 presented and couid be suot Dy the best marksmen in the world it would 

 be a splenuid opportunity to test accuracy at sporting distances. In order 

 to make sucna test the most reliable it would seem to me that a me- 

 dium distance should De cnosen, say 200 yards. That the marksman 

 should be allowed any nile within the rules and any position with a 

 rest for head if preferred. That the targets should be of card board, 

 one for each competition, and that a group of at least ten shots should 

 be fired bf eacu without special regard to the center of target, but to 

 make as small a group as possible. The marksman making the smallest 

 group, or a group measuring the least from a common center to win 



Some such an arrangement would simplify the problem as much as possi- 

 ble and give a pretty reliable test. This would be a match which every 

 sportsman in the world would be interested in. We want to know 

 which kind of rifle will shoot every time the nearest, the same spot at a 

 sporting distance. And I appeal to you on behalf of my fellow sports- 

 men to use your potent influence with the ''powers that be," to have 

 some such match arranged for the coming fall meeting. Of course the 

 time is short and the programme is out but I should think a supph- 

 mentary match of that kind might be arranged. 



F. T. Rabbeth. 

 [Several of our leading matches are shot at Creedmoor 

 with any rifle and at 200 yards range. To be sure they are 

 shot "offhand," as seems eminently proper at such short 

 range. If the match our correspondent proposes was merely 

 to be a test of rifles it would answer better to use a vice or 

 gunmakers rest, as in the other case very much depends 

 upon the skill of the marksman, and the possession of the 

 most accurate rifle will not make a good shot. We present 

 the subject, however, for consideration. Since the above 

 was placed in type Mr. Rabbeth, if we mistake not, has 

 won the 200 yards international championship at Creed- 

 moor. He certainly, should be satisfied with his rifle, and 

 his own skill as well — Ed. 



)mm ^ng mid %nn. 



GAME NOW IN SEASON. 



Moose, Alces malchis. Black-bellied plover or ox-eye, Sgna- 



Caribou, Tarandus rangifer. turoia helvetica. 



Elk or wapiti, Oervus canadensis. Ring plover, JtJgialUis semipal- 



Red or Virginia dnbV,L.virginiunus. maluS. 



Squirrels, red. black and gray. Stilt, or long-shanks, Himantopus 



Hares, brown and gray. iwj'.itoUis. 



Reed or rice-bird, JJoiichonyx oryz- Woodcock, Philohela minor. 



ivorus. Red-breasted snipe or dowitcher, 



Wild turkey, Mdeagiis gallopa- Macror/urmpkus qriseus. 



>uo Red- backed sandpiper, or ox-bird, 



Pinnated grouse or prairie chicken, Tringa americuna. 



Cupidonia ciipido. Gr< at marbled godvvit, or marlin, 



Ruffed grouse or pheasant, Bonasa Lhnosa fedoa. 



umbcllus. W illet, Totanus semipalmatvs. 



Quail or partridge, Ortyx Virginia- Tattler, Totaniw indunoleucus. 



'nus. Yellow-shanks, Totanus jlavipes. 



"Bay-birds" generally,including various species of plover, sand-pipers, 

 snipe, curlews, oyster-catchers,suri'-birds, phalaropcs, avocets, etc., com- 

 ing under the group Limicohe or Shore Birds. 



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ffl^ 3 * Correspondents and subscribers will oblige us and 

 serve the cause by sending four-line reports of the shoot- 

 ing in their respective localities. 



Good Ground Again.— Mr. Wm. Lane of Good Ground, 

 L. L, again has our thanks for a bunch of bay birds, com- 

 prising jack curlew, yellowlegs, dowitches, etc. The re- 

 cent storm appears to have driven the birds into Shinne- 

 cock Bay, and we hear there is fine sport tlieie. At all 

 events sportsmen desiring this kind of shooting can rely 

 upon having "straight" information by telegraph by ad- 

 dressing Win. Lane as above. 



— Rail were plenty on the 1st of September on the Hack- 

 ensack, but owing to the meadows all being cut so early 

 they are about shot off, and being little cover we will not 

 have much shooting. 



New Hampshire — 2?#e, September 5ih.— Woodcock and 



pari ridges continue scarce, partly owing to the moulting, 

 and partly to the long drought. The best bag in this sec- 

 tion, thus far, has been made by Dr. Nelson, of Portsmouth. 

 Snipe, yellow-legs and plover, have just commenced to put 

 in an appearance on the marshes, and the first loon (great 

 Northern diver) of the season was killed off Foss' Beach 

 yesterday morning. The southward flight of coots has not 

 as yet commenced. cmmoukai. 



New Hampshire— -Tdmworth, September 8th.— Ruffed 

 grouse are going to be very plenty this season. Bears aie 

 getting very numerous. Charles Knox has shot three the 

 past month (August) on Chicorua Mount, and seen several 

 others. A young fellow shot a young eagle that measured 

 5 feet 4 inches from tip to tip. 



Laconia, September 11 th.— Ruffed grouse are plenty, and 

 good shooting may be expected as we have at last had a 

 good rain. No large bags have been made as yet. Ducks 

 are beginning to come into Lake Winnepesaukee. 



Y. R. G. 



Massachusetts— Salem, September 11th. — Of the game 

 taken and seen during the past week there have been a 

 pretty good quantity. A party of four just relumed from 

 Eagle Hill, Ipswich, say they count up some 400 birds of 

 different kinds— yellow-legs, plover, rail, etc. We had 

 some northeast weaiher yesterday, but it backed in wrong 

 for birds. There have been a considerable number of the 

 rarer shore birds taken this season, including phalaropes, 

 white-rump peeps, curlew, piping-plover, the yellow rail, 

 and one bird, 1 tiiiuk the white rump, a Bonaparte's sand- 

 piper, but am not certain. Partridges are in older, a tair 

 number having been shot. Woodcock are things that used 

 to be. Twenty-three loons were counted flj ing over Boar's 

 Head, N. H., last Sunday, and a Hock of 40 white- wing 

 coots were seen off shore. Some good rail shooting has 

 been had about the Merrimac and its tributaries, and 1 

 think more may be expected if the weaiher gels not loo 

 cold. Two bald-head eagles were shot near Middleton 

 lately, 12 summers and 2 jack-curlew, and 10 summers and 

 1 dough-bird, by one gun in two days, at Swampscott, last 

 week 1 shot the first uplander taken on the Neck this 

 season last Saturday. There have been a few blue winged 

 teal shot, but no black cucks yet. Sanderling are quite 

 scarce this fall, and of late the ring-necks also. Teal. 



Cohassett, September 11 th.— Bay -birds coming along now 

 first rate. No fault can be found with the gunning during 

 the last few days. The best bag was 15 uplands, beetle- 

 heads, 7 doe-birds, and a dozen small ones to one man. 

 Expect a good flight in a day or two, as they are now 

 about Portland, moving slowly, mostly black- breasts. No 

 ducks as yet to speak of, excepting a few blue-wings. 



S. 1L, Jr. 



New YonK—HomellsviUe, September 10t7i.—I have not 

 heard of any very large bags being made yet. Four meat- 

 beis of the Canister Valley Club nave just returned from 

 their annual hunt at Silver Lake. A party from Mount 

 Morris were ahead of them on their usual shooting grounds. 

 They had to drive 12 miles every day. The best atternoon 

 was 16 grouse to 4 guns. Steuben. 



Louisburgh- on- Hudson, September 11th. — Woodcock are 

 scarce. I think partridges will be more plenty this season, 

 with a few quail. I have been out three times, and killed 

 six woodcock out of seven. The other day, while out with 

 my setter-dog Duke (he's A. 1), I killed two woodcock, and 

 while expecting a partridge to fly out, out jumped a fine 

 dog-fox, which I killed with a charge of No. 6 shot. 



Philip Clayton Rogers. 



Virginia — Norfolk, September 7th. — Saw on yesterday, 

 one-half mile from town, a perfectly white blackbird, and 

 one about half white. Saw also two fine coveys of quail, 

 one covey about half grown, and the other nearly full 

 grown. In the last covey the hen led the flights, and 

 when the whole covey was just cleverly in cover, the cock 

 rose and covered the retreat. The bull-bats (night-hawks) 

 seem to have given us the go-by this season. Bonnot, the 

 florist and nursery man here, stales, that yesterday, he saw 

 on a field on the edge of town, a fox run up a tree to escape 

 a couple of dogs, and that having his gun with him he fired 

 to make the fox jump out. Instead of desending he went 

 higher, so he shot again, and the fox jumped out, but the 

 distance was too great for Mr. Fox, for he broke his neck. 



Drake. 



Wisconsin —Montello, September 8th.— The season for 

 water-fowl shooting in Wisconsin opened quite propitiously 

 on the 1st inst. Ducks were found more abundant than 

 usual at the beginning of the season in this locality, though 

 comparatively small numbers were bagged by those out on 

 the first. 1 he recent heavy and frequent rains have over- 

 flowed the marshes and low- lands, and out on these shal- 

 lows the wary foul will be perched, at present safe and 

 secure from harm. As the water subsides and the ducks 

 are forced to seek their wonted resorts — the sloughs and 

 rice fields bordering the lakes and streams — the sport will 

 doubtless be excellent. Wood-ducks are very plentiful, 

 and mallards and teal are coming in rapidly. A few snipe 

 have put in an appearance, but they have not arrived in 

 sufficient numbers to afford sport in shooting "long-bills" 

 as yet. Ruffed grouse are quite scarce in this locality, 

 though farther north they are reported abundant. 



Fred. 



North Carolina— Morgantown, September 7th. — The pros- 

 pect for good quail shooting is excellent. I hear of numer- 

 ous bevys near this place. M. 

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CONCENTRATING CARTRIDGES. 



. Newark, August, 1876. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



In looking over a receut issue of your spirited paper, we notice another 

 communication from "Old Sports-man." relative to the ruerhsofour 

 make of cartridge concentrator. Permit u* to use your valuable columns 

 lo respond to "Old Sportsman." In liis communication he begs the 

 question on loading the particular shells th&t he described in his origins,! 

 letter. No man, be he sportsman or otherwise, can load those shells in 

 the manner he described, with two wads, and our concentrator cartridge 

 without damaging the roll at the end of the cartridge, and so destroying 

 a part at least of its actual merits. 



Ai-ain, every sportsman does know, or should know, that all guna of 

 the same guage are not bored exactly alike. Take the 12-gange gun 

 that "Old Sportsman" speaks of, the chances are that it is not a 12-gauge 

 exactly— he may, and doubtless does think, that it is, but the test of the 

 gunsmith's callipers, would in a'l probability convince, even "Ola 

 Sportsman" that the gun he speaks of, no doubt a good one, is not a 

 true 12 yauge. 



In this age of so-called improvements we have the choke-bore, the 

 modified choke, the so-called true cylinder or parallel bore, which like 

 the Dutchman's canal boat, is apt to be wider in the bore at either end— 

 than it it in the middle. And again, we have the open muzzle— all these 

 different varieties and no two of which are alike, or will bear the test of 

 a nrst class mechanical investigation. We have seen dozens of fine 

 guns, so called 10 or 12 gauges, that would vary from one-thirty-second 

 of an inch to three-thirty- seconds, and this, even in what are called 

 parellel bores or true cylinders. We write this to show the want of ex", 

 actness in boring-guns is a very common occurrence and as before said 

 every sportsman should know of it, as every gunmaktr certainly does. 



To return to our cartridge, we have this to say, that one of them properly 

 loaded into a shell will give better and more certain results than shoot- 

 ing plain shot, We have commendatory letters from friends of the shot 

 gun, all over the country, that fully endorses all and more than we claim 

 for our cartridge concentrator. Whether. these gentlemen are novices or 

 otherwise, we are unable to say. All we can mention on the subject is, 

 that each and all of their compliments on the efficacy of our cartridge 

 concentrator are voluntary. 



There is no doubt they vary somewhat in their results. The variation 

 in the boring of the guns sometimes causes this or, some people like 

 "Old Sportsman, " who are "not novices." may destroy their good quality 

 by bad or improper loading, and then cry out in the columns of your 

 spirited paper that these cartridges are not what they ou^ht to be, &c. 

 In conclusion, permit uimo say, that our "cartridge concentrators" are 

 made in one of the most elegant and exact machines that ever was devis- 

 ed. Each and every one of them passes through exactly the same treat- 

 ment ana it is a mechanical impossibility for them to vary in any essential 

 particular. 



We cannot finish this communication without saying how much we are 

 indebted to the Forest and Stream for our success in placing our car- 

 tridge concentra'or among the spo tsmen of the country. Our adverise- 

 inent in your col mns has gone the length and breadth of the land, and as 

 a result we have .-old them in quantities— getting letters of praise by the 

 uundred from parties who had ordered and tried them. Wishing your 

 valuable paper continued success, we remain yours, &c, 



Allan B. Kay & Co. 



Nevada.— The third quarterly shoot of the Virginia 

 (Nev.) bhooting Club, for their gold medal, was held at 

 he race track, north of the city, on Saturday, August 26th, 

 at 12 o'clock sharp. Conditions, 12 single rises, 21 yards 

 rise, 80 yards bounds, H. aud T. plunge traps, 1J ounce 

 shot, 80 yards bounds, 8 minutes to retrieve. 



Ajame Total. I Name. Total. 



Daley • HiTaylor 3 



Shay 7 Jackson 8 



Shu J tz." 10 jPerkins 8 



Conroy lOlftobinson 11 



Daly and Robinson having tied, shot off at 26 yards, 

 5 birds each. 



TIB. 



Name. 

 Daly., 



Score Total. 



.11110 4 



Name. Score. Total, 



Kobinson...! 1 



How to Carey a Deer's Carcase —In the last para- 

 graph of "Cuzador's" letter in another column the writer 

 describes a very ingenious mode of "packing" a deer,much 

 in vogue in California, which our readers would do well to 

 read and remember. A man ought to carry a hundred 

 pounds in this fashion easier than fifty pounds in any 

 other way that we ever heard of. 



