202 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



900 



1000 





Tarda. 



Yards. 



Total. 



65 



68 



198 



69 



63 



198 



68 



63 



1^5 



67 



62 



195 



66 



55 



193 



65 



63 



185 



66 



52 



184 



bl 



55 



180 



61 



55 



178 



62 



40 



154 



J. E, Willard 



W . Robertson t j 28 



C. H.Eagle 26 



Gardner 25 



Price 23 



Cochrane, Jr 20 



Burdett..-. 19 



Poole 12 



,^-Yard8-> 



200 500 



Capt J. L. Price.... 45 40 



Lieat. T.R.Murpby..*! 39 



A. B. Vanheusen 36 41 



been presented by the Sharp's Bine Company, but under 

 such "conditions as makes it appear probable that some 

 time will elapse before the double eagles find their way in- 

 to the pockets of any aspirant. The match is shot at 800, 

 900 and 1,000 yards, 15 shots each, but the winner must 

 lead all other competitors at all three of the ranges, and 

 coaching or practice on the day of the maich is strictly 

 forbidden. The winner in this instance was Mr. C. E. 

 Blydenburgh, who was obliged to content himself with 

 one fourth of the entrance money. Mr. B. is one of Mr. 

 Conlin's pupils, and it is astonishing how many of the ris- 

 ing "generation of long-range maiksmen have graduated 

 from that popular resoit. The following are the scores of 

 those who shot through :— 



800 

 Names. Yards. 



C. E. Blydenburgh 65 



E. H. Sanford 66 



Ma j. H. S.Jewell 64 



L. Weber 66 



A. V. Canheld, Jr 72 



H. A. Gildersleeve 67 



William Hayes 66 



C. E. Oveibangh 64 



H. G. Baldwin 62 



G. L. Morse 52 



The second match was for the marksmen's badge, for 

 which there were 18 entries. This match is shot at 200 

 and 500 yards, 5 shots at each distance. The following aie 

 the scores: — 



Names. Total. I Names. Total. 



J. L. Price.... 41 



James Harrison 40 



George Waternun 40 



A. B. Van Heusen 8 r . J. W. 



L>. Chauncey, Jr 3i si. W. 



G.D.Scoil 35, vV. H. 



N. D. Wood 85 «. M. 



J. A. Gee 38 k*. H 



L. Cass 32 1 



The third event was the contest among the individu"' 

 members of the winning team in the late Inter-State match 

 for the second prize in that match. It was won, it will be 

 remembered, by N. Y. btate team. The conditions were 

 10 shots each at 200 and 500 yards. Capt. Price of the 

 Seventh Regiment, was again a winner. The following 

 are the scores. — 



| • ,-Yards-, 



T'l 200 500 T'l 



85,Lleut. A. Steele.... 39 22 61 



81 Win. H. Bevan 34 24 £8 



7? I 



Lieut. McCartin, of the Forty-ninth Regiment, shot at 

 Syracuse, making an aggregate of 80 points, and Sergt. 

 Barton, of the Forty-eighth Regiment, put his score on 

 record at Oswego, accomplishing an aggregate of 78 points. 

 The badge is a handsome gold medal worth $100, the gift 

 of Messrs. Baker & McKinney. 



The last match was for the badge presented by the citi- 

 zens of Nevada, of the value of $1,000, to be shot for by 

 companies of the National Guard of this State with mili- 

 tary rifles at 200 and 500 yards, each company to bring at 

 least 46 men to the firing point. There were four entries. 



On Friday last the men of tbe Forty-eighth Regiment 

 shot at their own ranges, near Oswego, Gen. Woodward, 

 Col. Scott, and Capt. Treslaw being present to represent 

 the New York and Brooklyn regiments. On Saturday the 

 companies belonging to the Seventh and Twenty third Reg- 

 iments shot at Creedmoor, and that coming from the Sev- 

 enty-first on Monday. The following are the company to- 

 tal aggregate scores that have been made:— 



Team. Total. | Team. Total. 



Forty- eighth Regiment l,l69|Tweniy-third Regiment 956 



Seventh "Regiment 1,042 ijeveuiy-lirut Rtgimenl 861 



The Forty-eighth won this valuable trophy last year. 



Glen Drake.— Report of best scores made during the 

 matches of the American Rifle Association at Glen Drake, 

 range October 26th, 1876, 600 yards. Association, R. 

 Raihbone (winner), 555555555 5—50. Subsciiption, 5 

 shots, R. Rathbone, 25; H. Alton, 24; M. Ransome, 23; 

 J. VV. Todd, 21; D. F. Davids, 20. West Bergen match 

 day, Saturday, November 4th. Distance, 200 yards, off- 

 hand. 



Connecticut. — The first competition by members of the 

 Connecticut Rifle Association for the kandsome silver 

 trophy, presented by Messrs. T. Steele & Son, of Hartford, 

 of which we give on our first page an engraving by J. 

 MacDonald, of 33 Park Row, this city, was shot on the 

 Willow brook range, near Hartford, on Saturday last. The 

 conditions of the match required 10 shots each, at 500, 

 800 and 1,000 yards. The day was unfavorable for good 

 shooting, being cloudy and raw. Teams from Middle- 

 town, New Britain and Hartford, contested. The follow- 

 ing was the result : 



MtDDLETOWN TEAM. 



500 800 1,000 



Name Yards. Yards. Yards. Tot el. 



OraugeJudd 46 3d 36 Ml 



O V. Coffin 42 U 37 123 



Dr. A. M. Shaw. 47 29 SS K9 



O. O.Judd 48 46 U3 127 



Total 



NEW BRITAIN TEAM. 



C. O. Case.. 48 46 36 



T Weasel 39 31 33 



Wm. Parker 50 41 4n 



H. P. Kiug 46 31 6 



Total * 



HARTFORD TEAM. 



Geo. W. Yale ...48 38 30 



C. 8. Davidson 49 3n ' 30 



N. Washburn 47 45 39 



F. T. Studley 37 18 36 



Total. 



.480 



130 



103 

 131 

 86 



.450 



116 

 103 



131 

 91 



.447 



At the conclusion of the shooting a resolution of thanks 

 to Messrs. T. Steele & Son, for the elegant prize, was passed 

 unanimously. Cheers were given for the winning team, to 

 which Dr. Shaw, of Middletown, felicitously responded. 



The annual shoot of the Association will be held at 

 "Willowbrook on Saturday, November 11th. A variety of 

 prizes will be offered for competition, including a bull's- 

 eye badge presented by the Middletown Rifle Club for the 

 greatest number of bull's-eyes in ten shots at 1,000 yards. 



The Inter State Match.— We are indebted to Messrs. 

 E. Remington & Sons, for diagrams of the targets made by 

 the Crescent City Rifle Club Team, winners of the late 

 Inter-State match, and who used the Remington Rifle. 

 We should like to publish these diagrams, but the crowded 

 state of our columns prevents, 



Conlin's Gallery. — The third competition for the 

 marksmen's badges, and a side match for a neat scarf pin, 

 look place at Conlin's Shooting Gallery, 930 Broadway, 

 last Tuesday evening, Oct. 24ih, 1876. The winners of the 

 badges for the third contest are. — 

 No. Name. Total. [No. Name. • Total. 



1. C. E. Blydenburgh 48,5. C. E. DeForrest ....40 



2. J. B. Blydenburgh.... 42.6. A. B Dodge 39 



3. T. C. Banks 4ll7. Col. J. B. Looniis 39 



4. P. Lorillard 40|8. S.S.Brown 39 



The pin was closely contested for, and finally won by 

 C. E. Blydenburgh; score 48 out of a possible 50. The 

 conditions for it were: ten shots, rifle, off-hand, 75 feet, 

 2C0 yards Wimbledon reduced for the range. The compe- 

 titions take place Tuesday evenings of each week, com- 

 mencing at 4 p. m. 



The Marksman's Badges — We present herewith, cuts 

 of the Marksman's Badges, which were shot for at Conlin's 

 Gallery, 930 Broadway, every Tuesday evening. These 

 badges are for the highest eight scorea made in the weekly- 

 competition, each to be won three times before becoming 

 the property of the winners. The conditions are 10 shots 

 each, at 110 feet, target reduced to correspond with Creed- 

 moor, 200 yards target. The competitions are open to all- 

 comers. 



—The following scores were made by Mr. John M. 

 Crane, of the Jamaica Rod and Rifle Association, at a 

 practice shoot Oct. 24th, 200 yards off-hand, standing, pos- 

 sible 50:— 



Score 

 5 4 4 4 4 



4 4 5 4 5 



5 5 4 4 5 



Total. 



4 44 



5 45 

 4 45 



Score. Total. 



545 5 55455 48 



454 5' 45454 45 



This, I believe, is the best score ever made on a 200-yard 

 range off-hand. Saml. S. Aymak, Secretary. 



%nmt ^ag and %nn. 



GAME NOW' IN SEASON. 



Moose, Alces malchis. Pinnated gronse or prairie chicken, 



Caribou, Tarandus rangifer. Cupidonia cupido. 



Elk or wapiti, Cervus canadensis. Buffed grouse or pheasant, Bonasa 



Red or Virginia deer, C.iirginianus. umbellus. 



Squirrels, red, black and gray. Quail or partridge, Ortyx virginia- 



Ilares, brown and gray. nus. 



^Vild turkey, Mekagiis gallopa- Woodcock, Philohela minor. 



■vo 



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

 snipe, curlews,oyster-catchers,6urf-birds, phalaropes, avocets, etc., com- 

 ing under the group Limicolce or Shore Birds. 

 ♦ 



—We are requested by Messrs. Holberton & Beemer, of 

 No. 102 Nassau street, to mention that they have on ex- 

 hibition a Nichols & Lefever gun^the cost of which is 

 $100, that. they think will compare favorably with im- 

 ported guns at the same price. 



—The Oswego Times says the "flocks of pigeons are be- 

 ginning to appear, and it is prophesied that there will be 

 aa unusually large number of them this year. This will 

 be cheering news for sportsmen." 



The Georgetown (Colorado) News notices the arrival at 



that place of a noted hunter, named Charles Utter, and 

 two assistants, after a three months hunt. They brought 

 in one hundred elk, one hundred and forty antelope, and 

 three hundred and nine deer. His field of operation was 

 the Middle Park, and his main camp on Grand River, be- 

 low the canon, at the upper end of which the hot springs 

 are located. Besides this he has sent one thousand pounds 

 of trout and a wagon load of ducks to Georgetown. No 

 count was kept of the small game, such as grouse, sage- 

 hens, jack-rabbits, ducks and geese. Not a single bear 

 was killed or seen. About the 22d of September the party 

 was overtaken by a terrible snow storm, which caused the 

 loss of four mules. Plenty of bison were seen, but none 

 were killed. 



Alabama.— At the Alabama State Grange Fair, held in 

 Montgomery, on the 23th of October, the prizes offered by 

 the Montgomery Shooting Club, amounting to $2,500, were 

 hotly contested. The silver tea service won by E. S. 

 McClurg, of Knoxville, scoring 33 successive birds, the 

 entire number. The diamond badge and championship of 

 the United States, was won by W. K DeLong, of Chatta- 

 nooga, scoring 19 out of a possible 20. 



Pennsylvania.— A challenge having been made by Geo. 

 Watson of the Oxford Club, to shoot any man in the 20th 

 Ward, was taken up by Mr. Keane, who engaged to shoot 

 for him, Wm. Glenn, the well known real estate agent. 

 The match was shot at Echo Park, on the 23rd inst., for 

 $25 a side, and the loser to pay for the birds. Rhode 

 Island rules and traps. We give the scores:— 



Name Score. Total. 



Watson!...... 101001 1 1 1 1 1 11 10 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1-25 



Glenn 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-25 



The judges were Robert Oberman and Hugo Oppermann. 

 Referee, Geo, Bartholomew. The day was all that could 

 be desired, J\ 



Long Island Shooting Cltjb.— The regular monthly 

 match of the above club was shot on the grounds near 

 Dexter's on Friday last. The strong wind and keen, chilly 

 air, together with the good quality of the birds, prevented 

 large scores. The conditions of the match were seven sin- 

 gle birds each at 25 yards rise. Mr. Radin was the winner 

 for ihe fourth time in the ten contests already shot. The 

 following are the scores of those who shot at their full 

 quota of birds.— 



Names. Total 



Kadin , 6 



Dr. Wynn 5 



Blankley 5 



Broadway 4 



Van Wyck 4 



Walton.. 4 



Gildersleeve 4 



Total. 



Names. 



R"ddy 



Race '" 



Hartshorne 



Miller ;;;;•■ 3 



Dr. Atkins ' ' g 



Martin ...... 1 



New Hampshire. — Our Sutton correspondent sends us 

 an account of a squirrel hunt which took place in that 

 town some days ago. The two parties engaged were led 

 by Capts. George Chadwick and Hiram K. Davis. At 

 night when the game was counted Chadwick's party scored 

 5,775 and Davis's 6,475. Included in the lot were 101 par- 

 tridges, 93 grays, 14 hedgehogs and a live owl. Each 

 party contained 16 men. The beaten party furnished an 

 elegant supper at Putney's Hall, and the day closed with a 

 musical entertainment and speech making.— Manchester 

 Mirror. 



Salem, October 30th. — Shooting for the past week has been 

 fair. " Cooting," owing to the cooler mornings, is getting 

 more quiet. The -wood gunning has been pretty good 

 lately, woodcock having been found quite numerous, as 

 also have quail and rabbits. Partridges are numerous, but 

 very wild. Teal. 



Cohasset, October 30th.— Coot shooting is nearly done, and 

 we all haul up next week. Theie is now a large flight of 

 southerly ducks, but they don't decoy well; also some 

 shelldrakes and brant. Twenty-two geese were shot one 

 day this week. S. K., Jr. 



New York — Rainbow Pond, Adirondacks, October 19th. — 

 " We are having a glorious time; killed four deer in three 

 days on Rainbow, and a party of trappers killed three at 

 the same time. There are no sportsmen here, and the 

 neighbors all club together and have a grand hunt. It has 

 frozen so hard that we are obliged to walk to the head of 

 Rainbow, the creeks and rivers being frozen over. We 

 have had about six inches of snow, and it is an easy matter 

 to follow up the deer's tracks. Two bears have been 

 caught near Buck Pond and Haystack. They are very 

 plentiful this fall. 



Niagara Falls, October 29th.— Quite a variety of game 

 killed here the past week, largest bag of quail being eleven 

 in one half day; largest bag of woodcock six, and 13 snipe 

 by two different parties; also, there were three wild geese 

 taken below the Falls. The quail were all found in the 

 open fields, and pretty hard to hud on account of the fine 

 Weather for the last week. Niagara. 



New Jersey— Med Bank, Monmouth Co., October 30th.— 

 The prospect for quail in this county is the finest for years. 

 Woodcock scarce; killed one yesterday. Three of our 

 young duck-shooters start for Barnegat this week. There 

 average ages seventy-five years. " Squire," where are you? " 



Geo. Wild. 



Pennsylvania— Blooming Orove Park, October 28th. — The 

 members here now are Messrs. Greene, Myers, Burns, 

 Dove, Avery and Brown. Last Saturday a fine black bear 

 was shot in Balsam Swamp; a fine buck on Monday, and a 

 red fox. Wednesday, another bear, weighing 300 pounds 

 was shot, and is now hanging in front of the Club House. 

 It will be served up at John Sutherland's restaurant, on 

 Thursday next. Birds plenty. John Avery. 



Maryland— Bed Bank, N J., October 30th. — Just re- 

 turned from Maryland. Spent a most enjoyable time 

 among the quail. The pot hunters had taken the cream. 

 Weeds quite rank. Weather warm. No snipe. No 

 Woodcock. Millions of wild fowl on the flats at Havre de 

 Grace. No decoying in Spesutia Narrows. Sone flying 

 point shooting. Blinds in readiness. Prospect good after 

 November 1st. Ducks will trade after being driven off 

 of the flats. Some fine shooting at Carrol's Island, on the 

 Gunpowder River. Big gunner caught at Havre de Grace. 

 I noted 1). W. Lindsay's name in your last issue. I can 

 recommend him to all in search of the finest duck and 

 goose shooting in America. This ground joins the old 

 Currituck Club grounds, and are tne best in the Sound. 



George Wild. 



Kentucky— Louisville, October 28th — Partridges are 

 plentiful. Our season opened on the 20th. The gnnners 

 were out in force, but owing to the dry season light bags 

 were made. A recent rain, however, has made hunting 

 more favorable. S. N. 



Illinois— Lebanon, St. Clair Co., October 23d— Quail 

 abundant in this vicinity; ten or twelve large coveys can 

 easily be found a short distance from town, though some 

 are not yet full grown. A few pinnated grouse may be 

 found in prairies east of this place. Several flocks of 

 mallards and teal were seen migrating lately. Wilson's 

 snipe scarce in autumn. Ptarmigan. 



TO BROWN GUN BARRELS. 



Chicago, 111., Oct. 23d. 



Editor Forest and Stream:— 



Having seen several inquiries in your paper from correspondents as to 

 the manner of browning gun barrels, I Gan, if you choose to publish it 

 give to them the desired information . First for the fluid : Tmct. of mu- 

 riate of iron, 1 oz. f nitric ether, 1 oz.; sulphate of copper, 4 scruples 

 rain water, 1 pint. Now for the modus operandi; First, securely plug 

 up both ends of barrels, leaving one plug in each end of sufficient length 

 to be used as handles; then thoroughly clean with soap and water, afte 

 which cover with a thick coat of lime slacked in water, and when that 

 has become dry remove it with an iron wire scratch brush; this is to re- 

 move all dirt and grease from the barrels. Then apply a coat of the fluid 

 with a rag, and let it stand for twenty-four hours, when a slight rust will 

 have appeared; then take barrels and immerse them in a trough contain- 

 ing boiling hot water, after which scratch them well with the scratcu 

 brush. Repeat this until the color suits, which will be after three or 

 four applications. When completed, let the barrels remain in lime wa- 

 ter a short time to neutralize any acid which may have penetrated. Tate 

 great care not to handle the barrels during the operation, for the lease 

 particle of g ease will make bad spats. That the above may piove satis- 

 factory to some of the readers of Forest and Stream and that those 

 readers may increase in number each year is the wish of 



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