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and BOW a summer dweller on beautiful Gvosse Isle ucar 

 the mouth of Detroit;, go down to Point Monillie Chib 

 grounds next. Monday for a, )\ack at duck sliooling, stii-- 

 red to the venture by yesterday's receipt of as pretty a 

 lot of blue-wmgoil teal a? I have ever seen. They were 

 killed by lifispitable Jack Jardine, and have already 

 founil vheir way to the broiling griddle and thence to the 

 more y>artirular enjoyment of those lovers of gamy flavor 

 wlio fronuent the headquarters of sportsmen who find a 

 field of operations in Michigan. Duck are now very 

 ii:iili[ul and the kill for a week last past has bean such 

 r-t the blood tingling and made business cares irksome. 

 A. Mack, of Detroit; lias struck it rich on the planta- 

 tion of a friend about thirty-five milea from Loui.sville, 

 Ky.. on theSliort Line Railroad. The aforesaid planta- 

 tion is bierally alive with quail, but lieing a private pre- 

 serve youi' reader.'^ who do not enjoy the acquaintance of 

 the reigning liaron will, I fear, be obliged to content 

 themselves witli ;i wiieks shooting there in imagination. 

 How friend Banks would rerei in it if he could snatch 

 the tiirio fronr looking after the anbstantial but sordid 

 affairs of Forest and Stream. 



rJuBTTH Bask.— One of our aoldier correspondents 

 sends tliese notes on Judith Basin :— 



What days have I passed in that same " Juditli Basin " 

 ill which Col. Pickett and Ur. M,as8iter were two years 

 ago. On clear days one is alile to "stand and measure 

 the earth " from some of its points. The changing hues 

 of the mountain sides at different hours of the day is 

 enough (o nil the soul of ,a Jlottertot with poetry. And 

 then ihe fish and game— elk, n-ouniain sheep, deer, an- 

 telope and ail kinds of fowl. In the sv.nft waters of its 

 rivers tlie gamiest kind of trout. I say no more, hut 

 only hope that some one will go there that can 

 tell "all about it, and how it is done." The best way to 

 retMsh there is to go to Benton, via Missouri River, and 

 there see Dennis Halpine. He will either go himself or 

 furnish men that will, and see about horsses and all that 

 sort of thing. A moment ago I spoke of narrating facts. 

 1 heave one at you. On the 2d ot this month, being out 

 of meat, I started out hunting, and on my way back to 

 the hills I went across a bare alkali spot. On this spot 

 I found a medium sized rattlesnake. Thinking to have 

 a little sport, I iiulled the ramrod out of my gun and 

 commenced poking him. Snakes do hiss! for this fel- 

 low did so twice. SabeJ Arthur HAiauT. 



'QvEREC—Montteal. Sept. 13ffi. — In company with 

 friend C. C, Beatty, of Phillip.sburg, P. Q., I spent the 

 first t'A-o diiys of the open season at tlie mouth of the 

 Missisiiuui h'.iver, and in the surrounding marshes, where 

 we bauged a few l.ilack duck, more snipe, less woodcock, 

 and caught alxnil fort',- Lass (sniall-moutliedl. My plea- 

 sure wiis sonu'whnt daaipenoit by our bigd'ooted " (Ja- 

 nuck" coolr, who tread on and broke my li -ounce .Scrib- 

 uerroil. 1 sent it for repairs to its matter at St. .John, 

 and received it back to-day as good as new. During the 

 past week I have shot over most of the best ground and 

 water up the Ottawa River as far as Buckingham, Quebec, 

 but to httle effect, as the "Pot Kunter" was ahead of 

 mo in August. Wo have plenty of game laws, but so far 

 they are almost a cipher. Sept. 1st the grass and 

 weeds along the^" small ereelcs in the Missisquoi marshes 

 were ti'oddeii down by men and dogs who, during Au- 

 gust, had been running down the unfledged ducks that 

 iiad bred there, if the directors of our game protection 

 societies would take as much interest in enforcing the 

 game laws as they do in getting up grand annual dinners, 

 we might expect at least a portion of the laws put into 

 elfect. Stansti^ad, 



A Pistol Attac!Hsiekt. — WatervUlii. N. Y.. Sept. Uih. 

 — On reading your article "Pistol Arms," in the FoaiesT 

 And Stream Sept. 9th, p. 110. 1 thought such a pistol, 

 with my son's brace attachment, would make an arm just 

 perfect. Did it ever occur to vou that in shooting a pis- 

 tol the I liumb of the right band lias nothing t<i 'do. and 

 that it miglit phay a, veiy iniportai.t jinrt in that ai_!. f 

 presiuue not, but .about a year since that idea made so 

 strong an impression in the mind of my boy that he car- 

 ried out the idea in actual experiment, apph'iug one to a 

 revolver, and with it he could beat all the gunners in our 

 vicinity. It is simply a brace for the thumb. .Just im- 

 agine about one-third of the bowl ot a teaspoon placed on 

 the side of a pistol, just at the riglit point to receive the 

 ball of the thumb. That is, in short, tiie idea. The brace 

 is so hinged, and attached to the hammer, Uiat when the 

 arm is discharged and the tliuudj taken oft, the brace is 

 folded up against the side of the pistol, and when cocked 

 again the brace is thrown down ready to receive the 

 thumb, 



Now you have no idea how much firmer a grip can he 

 obtained by a use of the thumb thug, than without it. 

 If such a ijlstol as you referred to ia to be made, I should 

 like to know the address of the parly, to open a corres- 

 poneiice on the subject. ~ R. S. B. 



BfPKALO NoTKS. — Sept. 20<7i.— Plover in large num- 

 bers are being shot on the river and lake beach in 

 Canada James Rafferty, and a party of gen- 

 tlemen from Wyoming County, leave this vfeek for 

 Iowa, where they will intruding themselves to the 



prairie chickens Blackbird shoothig ou 



Strawberry Island and in Cherry's marsh is affording 

 plenty of sport for those who seek it, Alois Vincent has 



Jiad llis old gas-pipe straightened for the fun 



William Christian and Henry A. Roy, of this city, and 

 members of the Audubon Club, left for the far West last 

 week for a two weeks' hunt. It will be their fault if 

 they don't ha^'e good luck, as they have taken with 

 them one of the best broken and stanchest dogs in the 

 city, loaned them by his owner, John DeWolf. Esq, 

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Pennsylvania Notes.— A correspondent of the Oer- 

 mantown (Pa.) Tele<jraph, writing from Bellefonte, says 

 that the work of the sporting club there has resulted in 

 an increase of game and fish. Deer, and blaok and grey 

 squirrels are numerous this j'ear ; pheasants and part- 

 ridges abundant in the Alleghenies, some distance Irom 

 Bellefonte. The same paper says that black-bellied plovex 

 are more abundant this fall than for a number of years. 

 They iiave made their apiiearance in large numbers in 

 Chester County, where they have not been seen, except 

 here and there o, scattered bird ov two, for over thirty 



yeara. Tliey seldona go so far from tlie seacoast. Of 

 course tbey are alwaj-R to be found at this season in 

 lower Delaware, and portions of Jlarykaiid and Now 

 .Jersey, 



FrvE QuKFTiONS AsswER^D.—Cliarleston, 3. C.Sept. 

 iOth.— Editor Forest and Stream:— I. Will you 

 please settle the controversy (if yon can') in regard to 

 Dittmar powder ? 2. Is it dangerous to lite and limb '/ 

 3. H,as any gun, beside that of Dr. Nash's, been burst by 

 this powder? 4. Why has it not buret my gun? 5, Or 

 others of reliable mate ? 



^•Ins.— 1. We hare settled it. 3. Yon can judge for 

 yourself. 3, Yes, See out editorial columns. 4. There 

 is a special providence, which, according to the proverb, 

 watches over children, blind men and fools. To these 

 three must now be added a fourth : users of "Dittmar 

 Sportipg Powder." 5. Dr. Nash's gun was of reliable 

 make for black powder. Please define " reliable " with 

 reference to the Dittmar compound. 



Who Can- Telj F; : --',,:,■,•«, X. 1'.. Sept. 2f,fh. 

 A game note in la ? : ; reads; " Tsvo iS'ew Ha- 



ven gentlemen, dur; _ I,. ■ ys, are said to have killed 

 at Es.sex, Conn,, ovei i.Lt.o ijiijs (rail). One day's score 

 for one of the party was 24S birds on the tide, with but 

 one gun." 



Having had at least forty years' experience in rail 

 shooting, the above interests mo, and I am tempted to 

 ask two questions, which seem pertinent : — 



First, Jiow long a time do they shoot "in the tide " at 

 Essex ? 



Second, Do i-,ail rise singly there, or in flocks ? 



I. B. C. 



AL\n.\u\~Mohile, Sept. ISlli.— The arnt hunt of the 

 season is thus recorded : Major Jas. C, Bush and Col. C. 

 A. Holt returned yesterday irom the first hunting trip of 

 the season. Their bags showed seventy-five doves and 

 twenty-li\e piartridges. Gen. W. S. Goodall also con- 

 tributerl bis share of good marksmanship. Major Bush 

 says the partridges he killed were old enough to take 

 cara of tliemsolves, and that be gave them every chance 

 possible to e9{\ape, disdaining to shoot tliem' on the 

 ground or in a tree. We know the members of the Gulf 

 City Gun Club will at some future time tender their ap- 

 preciation of the Major's gallantry in the field, which he 

 has always showm before the traps. S. C. O. 



^Iass itiii->ETT-— Spejicc)-, Sept. 18th. — ^The members 

 of the Sporlsijum's Club of this town are industriously 

 practicing for tlu_' annual hunt, which comes off in a few 

 weeks. Reconnoitering parties are daily skirmishing in 

 every direction, all meeting with more or less success in 

 bagging game of almost^very description, from a gutter 

 snipe to a barn yard fowl. 



Pennstlvanians' Gajce Grounds.— PJ^ts'HOV, Sejit. 

 2ith.—l( I understand your correspondent he wants 

 to know of good hunting grounds for quail and grouse 

 witliin 3iJiJ or HOO miles of Pittsburg. Now, good quail 

 shooting will be hard to And in this locality, but one 

 cannot go anu'ss for grouse, as aU our wooded hills are 

 fidlof [hem, For both, I think Ohio, after the close 

 season for quail ends, Nov. 15th. is the best field 

 near us. West Virginia is good for grouse, and probably 

 Green .md Washington counties are the best grounds 

 near Pittsburg. I. R. S. 



Bay S.mpi; SriooTixd. — rrooi/ (iruuu,/. L. L, S(pt. 

 22d. — At .Shinnceock Uay there is good shooting at late 

 bay birds, and we expect them right along. Mr. H. H. 

 Thompsoii, of the Erie, killed fifty -four in two mornings' 

 shooting, mostly plover. We look for good shooting at 

 big yeliow-legs and plover now for three weeks or more. 

 Duck shooting will commence Oct. 20th, I think the 

 chance looks good. William N. Lane. 



Texas— /)(i?f(:U(o?t(, Calhoun Counly. Sept. \~\lh. — Sea- 

 son very whA. and game vei'y suarce. A few flocks 

 of bhie-Avingc.l teal and broadbilJs are arriving. Fishing 

 first-ela.is. ' G. A. 



Xe'i\- Hajipshire— A'asfi.«a, Sept. 6</i.— Open season 

 for partridge September 1st, but it has been so hot 

 tliat few have been out. Pigeons are said to be plenty in 

 the towns alioid: here, but it is too dry for woodcock, and 

 they \iA\ e disappeared. Web)!. 



Florida— ranyja, Sept. 17</i.. — The rainy season is 

 about through here, and quail in abundance. I own 

 fifty acres of land within a miie ot Tampa, and know of 

 six dift'ereid- loveys on my place. One of our spijrtsmen 

 killed jomig mallard duck in the vicinity of Tampa last 

 week I'l ill of pin-feathers. The supposition ia they bred 

 here, of course, W. A, M. 

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Minnesota— Pfflsbwr^/.— If anyonethrnks of coming 

 here for duck ahooting this fall, then the sooner the bet- 

 ter. If for deer shooting, be on haud Nov. 15th. A 

 week's notice and my team would be at Little Falls. If 

 this is not suflioiently explicit, and any one writes for 

 more iuf.xnuation, do, please, inclose postage (all wlio 

 have written neglected to do it), for ministers are never 

 very Ibisb with money, J. Framc LociiE. 



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New York.— Albany t Sept. 21sJ.— Woodcock very 

 abundant this year. A party of four of us went out on 

 a two days' hunt, Sept. 1st. We found partridges 

 very scarce, and bagged three w^oodcook to every part- 

 ridge. Our frieud Billy Gough^went up the rivei- on 

 Saturday last and bagged eleven blue- winged teak a<)"d 

 two snipe. ^ J. W.^T^^ 



Weight oi? Woodcock and Quail.— jVeif York, Sept: 

 l&tli. — Please give me weight of heaviest woodcock and 

 quail shot in Aiuerica, K. T. B, 



The lieaviest reported woodcock and quail ever shot in 

 America, it is safe to say, were not actually weighed, but 

 guessed at. The note-books of our readei-s must con- 

 tain some data on this point, and we shall hope to liave 

 reports I 



Connecticx'T Lakes.— Our con-espondent, "Rangifer," 

 writes tha.t has had "a most delightful snramer in the 

 woods, being seven weeks and more at the Connecticut 

 Lakes. Shot a moose, a big enough bull, whose head I 

 managed to save. I hope soon to avail myself of your in- 

 vitation to write something for the paper." 



Robins.- A score or more of correspondents are in- 

 formed that the New York gun law, as amended in 1881). 

 permits the shooting of robins after Oct. 1st. 



— "Au Sable" has promised us some sketches descrip- 

 tive of Canadian shooting excursions. Those who have 

 read our correspondent's frequent contributions, will 

 welcome these with intere,st. 



SHOOTING MATCHES. 



Hkst on llEOORD.— Our correspondent, ''BaGiU'de," sends US 

 the following score ol^ a match at glass liallfl, shot by tbo Dans- 

 ville Sportsman's Club and the Rochester Gun Club, at Rochester, 

 N. Y,, Sept. ICth ; ISj-ards rise ; 20 balls each :— 



DA!^S^^LI.E SPOBTSMA^-'S CLUB. 



Drake - 20 I WarDcr 19 



War'ijley IB | Williams- '.. 38 



Sweet HO Townsend ]!i 



Dorr 19 .TelFrey l!) 



Robblns 20 I Hyland 19 



'i'otfll ]na 



ROCHBSTEB QVS CLUH. 



Oothoiit 18 



Summer ,.;..,.... 20 



Stearns 2J 



A msden 1" 



W.Ward SO 



Adams ., 



Haymond ]B 



Butler 20 



F. Ward a) 



Cigrelow n 



Total ; 11)3 



Asthere was a tie in the score, it wag decided that it bo shot, 

 allowing- cfich shooter two balls. The Dansvillo Club proved the 

 Victoria, thoy scoring nineteen to their opponents' oig-hteen. The 

 return match will be shot at Dansville on Friday ncit. Our cor- 

 respondent adds: "Am I io error in supposing this to be the best 

 on record ? " The proportion of balls broken, it will be observed, 

 IsOaperoent., and, if we cannot alHrm that this is the best on 

 record, we arc willing- to advance the opinion that it ig for these 

 condition'^, and we shall stick to it until auflicient proof is ad- 

 duced l:o the contrary. But right here comes this report from 

 the Raymoud, Mass., Sportsman's Club, shooting- at SOO glass bulls 

 each, 100 double and 100 single from a rotary trap, other ooudl- 

 Uons uot given :— 



Doublo. Slnslo. Total. 



C. A. Loud .... 

 R. A. Schafer... 

 "W. B. WUhorell 

 ^. b..Iohnson... 



. 99 



08 



[larle, 

 licirr 



real difflouUy in comp 



I lie diversity ot the 



mdthe lack of sulfici 



.spective excellence. 1; 



P3 



97 



190 



19C 

 1U« 

 191 



ring different performances at tho 

 conditions under which they are 

 !nt data for just consideration of 

 this case, for instant, " En Garde " 

 i to the style of the 



alectod to give us any particulars i 



trap- used. 



The recent match between the Gulf Cilj' and the Xew Orleans 

 GurfiJlu^s, at pigreons, 1:3 men each side, 10 liirds each, 5 ground 

 '-"" -ds rise, Boi^-ardus rules, resulted in a score of 100 to 

 ishooters claimed the best score on record. To accord 

 liatiDction, or to deny it to thnm, without a vast deal of 

 Insulting- both reports of matches, would it not be well 

 and gl.ias-ball shooters to conform their ooudllions to 

 itaudard ? Let ua hear from some of those interested. 

 ., N. H., Sept. Btli.— Gla-ss-ball shooting-. The contest for 

 (e, to bo given by the Captain of the club to the winner, 

 ;t Thursday, 3 scores, 10 balls each, 10 straight, 10 rotai-y 

 Mr. Goo. H. Brigham, the winner in the last cou- 

 handicapf ed a balls, and Messrs. Bixhy and Towne ,5 

 [cs Williams was the winner, getting tZ balls, Brisbam 

 Towne 19. The one ^vinning the badge three times 



gol( 



begi 

 and 



test, 

 balls, 

 23, Bf: 

 to becoi 



— CapiflB(*ardus and W. B. Hauworth will shoot a match at, 

 St. LouisVMi,.™! the 9th day of October next on tlio foUowi: 

 terms: 1(» 'si1^|'fe--plg-eoiis each, from H. and T. plun.^-o traps, 21 

 yards rise, 80 'guards bound.s, Illinois State rules to govern, for 

 SlOQasidc. -W.B. Harnworlh lately shot with Erb, of St. Louis, 

 two matches) beating him both times, with the remarkable scores 

 of fit and 9S, out of a possible lOO, at good wild pigeons. 



^■,1^ POINIER. 



Gulf Ciiy S^^ixa.—MtHilh, Sept. 8(ft.— The regular monthly 

 shoot of the cliilf 'V ^^^ medal was held yesterday afternoon at 

 the club groundsi The following Is the score i— 



H.P.A'ass 01 n 11 01 10 10 It 11 11 11-16 



Frank P.Davis 10 10 11 01 10 10 10 U 11 10-13 



E. Carre - 11 11 01 II 11 11 11 00 II U— 17 



T. .S. Scales. „ 10 10 11 10 Ot U 11 II 11 U— is 



Geo. W. Tunstall.... U II II II 10 11 11 11 11 11—19 



Wm. B.Holt 11 10 11 01 11 II 01 11 11 11-17 



W.T. Va'^.s 10 11.10 11 U 01 11 11 11 0-13 



Cbns. L Ilug-er 01 11 UMO 11 11 U 11 II 01-17 



JohnF.Freuia 11 30 01 01 . 11 II 01 10 II 01-Jt 



.Tas. S. .Mevaiider, Jr 01 U 11 UUI U 11 II II 01-18 



K.il.Vauohan 00 11 11 01 It 11 11 00 11 II-IS 



L.C. Fry.- H 11 11 11 n U 01 00 10 lO-K 



Sweepstake Match- Five balls, 18 yards. 



N. A.Lott Oil lO-S 



.1. S. Alexander .... 1 1 1 1 1-a 



J. 0. Bush . 110 11-4 



R. H. Vaughan 110 0-3 



E.Cane Ill 10-4 



J. G. Frelna 11111—5 



T. ScalOB 110 1— .iJ 



G. W. Tunstall 1111 l-,5 



H. P. Vass 11 1 11-.5 



T. McDonald 10 1 1—3 



L.C. Fry 1 1 1 1-t 



G. L. Huger 10-1 



C. Boetz 10 10 1-3 



In shooting off ties Tunstall andlVass" divided flrst money. Cane 

 second, Scales and IHoLionald divided third. The medal la shot for 

 monthly, the member winning It the most times in a year to own 

 the luedal , B, o. Obbr, 



Union Chubch, iJ/fss., Sept. 14th.— Match fromla Card's rotary 

 trap, 18 yards, Bogardus rules, 16 balls each :— 



D.A. Torrey 131 J. D. McArn.... H 



A. M.Newman 13 I J. S. Gillies 11 



Falcon Gpn Club.— Dejiter Park, Jamaica, L.'I.,Sept. Jetft.— 

 Regular monthly contest ; N. Y. State Asaodiition.rulea, plunee 

 traps and Falcon Gun Club handicap rise.-— 



^Olloi-mau 31 Tarda 



Vagig ;;3 yards 



Lager £i yards. 



Miller ;;?/vard3 



J. Nicholas 3.j Viirds. 



Kelly 3Iyardd. 



Doaeher .21 yards 



Van Siaadeu 2o yards. 



Meyer 21 yards. 



Lager and Miller tie, 9 each, which 

 birds each : Lager 3, Miller 3 ; seooni:! jv. 

 bHdge and gtin won by MUler. 1 



1011111110-8 

 1 1 1 1 1 0-S 

 1111111110-9 

 111111011 1—9 

 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-T 

 1 1 1 1 1 J 1 1-8 

 1111110 11-8 

 110 0111111-8 

 110011011 l-I 

 Ited as follows. Threo 

 L.iger8,Mnier3. Club 



