54 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



[February 19, 1880. 



tare of chlorate of potash and sulphate of antimony in 

 equal ports by weight ; these should be ground fine sep- 

 arately and mixed "dry on a plate of glass or china with a 

 quill feather in very small quantities— (lie mouth of the 

 bullet should be closed with a wax pellet. This mixture 

 is cot at all sensitive, and the loaded bullets can be car- 

 ried very safely in the cartridge— it is used for ex- 

 plosive spherical shells for smooth-bore guns as well as 

 for rifles, with great success. BeKOai, Sepoy. 



Poona, Dec. 20th, 1879. 



- — ■ * -^ 



EANGE AND GALLERY. 



MASSACiurSEns-Bostcm, Feh. Nth.— Mammoth Rifle Gallery.— 

 The $50 riflo matoh is progressing; finely, and Was fair to excel 

 the January match. Mr. N. Wilder, of the Glass Eifle Association, 

 has made three cleau scores of eight consecutive bull's-eyes 

 each, or the highest possible score in the match, and now heads 

 the list, closely followed by Mr. B. F. Richardson, of the same 

 association, with two clean scores and a splendid 39. This places 

 him second, butas the incentive to make clean scores is twenty 

 dollars in gold, no doubt Mr. Eichard3on, before the month is 

 fiti Isaed, will try and outrank Mr. Wilder in this respect ; but there 

 are other gentlemen who have their eye on the extra prize, and 

 no one is sure or it until tho month is ended, or until the last 

 shot is fired on Saturday night, the 28' h. Last month Messrs. 

 Richardson and Merrill were tie with three clean scores each, or 

 the highest possible, namely, 120. They met in tho gallery last 

 ■Wednesday evening 1 to shoot off for the first and second prizes. 

 The gallery was crowded with riflemen and friends of the con- 

 testants, and some excellent shooting was shown. Mr. Richard- 

 son was in the best form. Mr. Merrill had been unwell for a 

 week. They shot ten scores each, or a possible 400. Mr. Richard- 

 son made a splendid record of 397 (average, 379-10), which was re- 

 raaruable shooting. For the first four scores they wore tie, but 

 from that time Mr. E. had the game all his own way. Mr. Merrill 

 took bis defeat kindly, and no doubt will try and tie Mr. Richard 

 son's score this month, whatever It maybe, fora chance to try and 

 win on the next shoot off. The following is the summary in the 

 February matoh :— 



Total. 



N. Wilder 40 40 40 120 



E. F. Richardson 39 40 40 110 



DharlesC. Edwards 39 39 39 117 



U. A. Pollard 89 39 39 117 



J.Merrill 33 39 39 118 



William H.Harrison 38 39 39 116 



Frank Mollis 38 38 39 115 



P.O. Moves 38 88 39 115 



G. rdou McKende 37 33 39 11+ 



N.S.James 37 37 39 113 



E.Walters- 37 37 38 113 



E. Sears 36 37 38 111 



Bwton.— Mammoth Glittery.— The second week of tho fifty-dol- 

 lar rlfie match has shown some wonderful shooting. Mr. N. 

 Wilder, of the Massachusetts Rifle Association, was successful in 

 get ting three scores of eight consecutive bull's-eyes, the highest 

 possible soore in ihe fifty-dollar match. Hemado two consecu- 

 tive scores of eight bull's-eyos. Last month Messrs. Richardson 

 and Merrill were tied with three clean scores each, or the highest 

 possible score, namely. 120. They met in the gallery Wednesday 

 evening, Feb. 11th, to shoot off. Mr. Richardson made a splendid 

 record of 379 in possiblo 400, and won. The following is the 

 Btandlng of tho several competitors to date in the February 

 match ; 150 feet. ; rounds, 8; possible, 40:— 



Total. 



N. Wilder 40 40 40 120 



E. F. Richardson 89 40 40 119 



C, Edwards ...39 39 39 117 



IT. A. Pollard 89 39 39 117 



.1. Merrill 38 39 39 116 



William 11. Harrison 38 39 39 118 



Frank Hnllls 38 38 39 U5 



S.C.Nove.s 33 38 39 115 



Gordon Me Kenzie 37 38 ;9 115 



N.S.James 37 37 S9 113 



E. Walters 37 37 33 112 



B, Bears •"« 37 38 m 



George W. Morse 37 37 37 111 



A.L. Fames 85 39 37 MS 



W. E. Guerrior 35 35 80 100 



Thomas Howe 35 35 3« 106 



E. Shumwtiy 35 35 38 106 



M. L. Pratt 34 35 311 105 



C.H.Russell 34 35 36 105 



Gen. F.stes - .35 85 35 105 



A. O. Staples 35 35 35 105 



Boston, Feb. 14»>.— A large number of well-known shots of the 

 Massachuseits Riflo Association took an early train to-day for 

 Walnut Hill, to participate in the seventh renewed comaetition 

 In Ihe Everybody's Match, which has proved one of the most pop- 

 ular and satisfactory matches over shot at the hill. The wind dial 

 gave a cross or west wind and steady, indicating 9 to 10 o'clock. 

 There was not a single cloud. The light was capital, and as the 

 heavy rain of the night previous had carried off the snow the 

 gentlemen had no reflection to affect good sighting. Hardly had 

 the match been called when all calculations were upset, for the 

 wind suddenly changed several points, becoming " fish-tail " at 13 

 o'clock, then changing back several poiuts,nnd continually vacil- 

 lating in the most perplexing manner. Windage was taken off 

 and put on, and when all the targetswere opened itseemed to be- 

 come intensified in its velocity, and positively unmanageable. To 

 add to the perplexity of the riflemen, lights and shadows were 

 constantly thrown upon the targets from heavy leaden clouds 

 which sailed across tho horizon. Under the weather conditions 

 the results with a United States rifle, with no wind gauge, are 

 worthy of special mention. Thcro were eighty-five entrits, the 

 best being given :— 



"Capt. W. II. Jackson (mil.) 5 5 5555444 4—48 



W, Charles 4 5 4 5 4 5 5 5 5 5-47 



J. S. Sumner 4 44554555 5—46 



E.W.Law 5 544565 5 4 4—46 



W. Howard 4 5 4 5 4 4 5 5 4 5-45 



H.Tyler (mil.) 5 54454444 4—45 



C,B. Grlfllng 4 45544544 5-44 



J. F. Brown (mil.) 5 5 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 5-44 



J.Nichols.... 4 5 5445454 4-44 



H.Max 4 4 5 444544 5-43 



K. Davis 5 4 5 5 4 3 ! 5 5 3-43 



J. Borden 5 5 6 4 4 i 3 i i 4-42 



* Two added for handicap. 



New Bedford, Feb. 13th.— The New Bedford Rifle Association 

 held its regular meet at Bay View Range to-day and did very good 

 work, consider. ng the weather conditions. The conditions were 

 off-hand; 200 yards; 10 rounds. The following scores show how 

 the el nb is progressing :— 



George W. Parker 5 45444454 4-43 



fv-lmar Eggf-rs 4 44454444 5-42 



Oliver E.Gifford 4 4 * 5 4 4 4 5 1 S— fi 



Daniel I). Brigirs 5 3 3 4 5 3 4 4 5 5— 41 



Charles A. Gray 3 6 4 6 4 3 4 13 5-Jo 



Thomas A.. -inlih 4 4 3 4 4 5 4 3 4 4-39 



Willtird Nye, Jr 4 4 5 3 4 4 3 4 4 4—39 



Clifford Baylies 4 4 4 4 3 4 3 3 4 5-3-S 



Barleon P. Babcock 3 4 4 4 13 4 4 5 3-33 



Gardner Feb, Hihi— At the. Hackmatack Range to-day the fol- 

 lowing scores were made by the members of the Gardner Rifle 



Club, ten shots each, using the inch ring and Creedmoor target 

 combined; distance, 200 yards ; off-hand; in shots:— 

 n-CKnowlton j P.... ......... 78 80 1| 



«- T - E1| s™ rlh Ifl::::::-;-::::^ % 9 



CtatorHlWi $ S8 47 % 



'•*>*#* -■■■■]£:::■::. :::.::.% 1 "S 



o-o.Bent Ifc:::::::::::^ I % 



^.Nichols ig.v:.:::::::::::43 S 1 



Charles Shumway \ £ .""Vi'lo 42 'ffl 



Boston— Magnolia Gallery.— This gallery, with its now targets of 

 iron and general rofittings. has been well filled during the week, 

 id the new " Cornell" match is becoming popular. Tho condi- 

 tions of the match are off-hand, 100 feci.:— 



F.Hollis 5 55555655 5-50 



E. F. Richardson 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5—50 



R. F. Schaefer 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5-49 



W.Henry - 5 4 5 5 4 5 5 5 3 6-48 



G. E. Harris 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4—48 



G.Gronio 4 5 5 4 5 4 5 5 5 5-47 



G.K.K. Hehanfcr 5 4 5 5 5 5 4 4 5 4-46 



A.B. Thomas 5 5 5 4 5 5 4 5 4 4—46 



S.Fogg 4 54445455 5-4.) 



C. G.JJraekett 4 4 5 5 5 4 5 5 4 4-45 



.1. J. Pass 3 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 4 4-45 



.1. Anderson 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 4 5 5-44 



N. James 5 44444544 5-44 



W. H.Farnham 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 5 5-43 



M. E. BailG — ...4 4 5 445444 5-43 



I.. H. Houghton 5 5 4 5 3 4 4 4 4 5—43 



H.Roseow 5 4 5 444444 4—42 



On Feb. 14th Mr. E. F. Richardson doubled his previous per- 

 formance, as the following record shows :— 

 E.F.Richardson 5 5 5 5 5 6 5 5 5 5—50 



Re-entry 5 5 55555555 50 



Massachusetts— 3fcdford.— In October last the Medford Ama- 

 !ur Hille Association adopted anew method of dividing the short 

 range target. It is the regular target of the N. R. A. in size, 4 ft, 

 B ft. divided as follows : Bull's-eye 8 inches di imeter ; bull's-eye 

 circle 17 inches diameter ; center 26 inches diameter ; inner 4S 

 inches diameter ; outer4 ft x 6 ft. Bull's-eye counts 6 ; bull's eye 

 circle counts 5; center!; Inner3; outers. It will be seen from 

 the above that the only variation from the regular target is in 

 dividing the center into two rings thus enabling it finer compari- 

 son of scores. 



The Fanciest or FANCY Shooting— Boston, Feb. Utlt. -Editor 

 Forest and Stream:— We notice an article In your last upon fancy 

 shooting done by Dr. Knight of Kingston, Canada. It was very 

 fair for fancy shooting, but we have a man who tells a bettr r 

 story. He used to knock ten cent pieces from between the teeth 

 of a friend at 100 yards, and could shoot a whole line jf pieces 

 from the Augers of his friends. The first was placed off twenty- 

 five paces and held an old-style three-cent piece ; the second five 

 paces further, and held a ten-cent piece ; the third five paces 

 further and held a two-cent piece; the fourth, a quarter; the 

 fifth, a half; the sixth, a silver dollar. The seventh was placed 

 twenty-five paces from the last man and held a tin pail and caught 

 all the pieces. He never missed till one day the tin pail contained 

 six index fingers instead of coins. And now his sport is stopped 

 because he has no friends. Another gentleman shot off- 

 haud at the head of a flour barrel one mile, and never missed, 

 and was never so happy as when cutting the heads from wile, 

 geese as they flew over. His rifle was the " old pet " muzzle- 

 loader, 32 to the pound. 



We all like fancy shooting and would be pleased to do the 

 honors for the Doctor should he come this way. However, he 

 will find ns but very plain shots. We never dared to shoot should 

 a man put his head out of the pit 100 feet from the target. We do 

 not like to risk maiming or killing a friend just for our sport. 

 We know that a rifle bullet will just as quickly go through a 

 friend's head as exhibit our skill. Therefore any friends of ours 

 we try to keep out of the way, and satisfy ourselves by pounding 

 away at an iron target. Wchope before we put our friends up. 

 and it is our intention to make use o£ them, a straight-Jacket will 

 prevent it. B. I. L. 



Connecticut— Collinsville, Feb.llt/i.-Canton Rod and (Jtra C'lui i 

 Riverside Range ; practice meeting at 200 yards, off-hand; 3-lbs. 

 pull, 10 shots :- 



Mass. Creed. 



OB Hull 10 11 611 8 111110 10 11-00 44 



j'lJ Andrews U 9 9 11 9 8 8 8 10 10— 93' 42 



Bidwell 8 10 10 10 10 11 5 8 1011—93 41 



'i ■ ,. ;■• ii ii n» '■' ■' ■' v '' ■" ii ii-t't: 4.; 



,; v Lewis 13 10 10 12 5 9 7 8 10 8-W -10 



K' l'aneher 7 9 s •' » 5 10 5 8 12-79 39 



J. Pfister 4 7 9 613 10 3 9 3 8-70 38 



New TOHk— Jamestown, Feb. nth — The regular monthly medal 

 shooting of the Chaut. Sportsmen's Association took place thi- 

 afteruoon on the 200 yards range, Hut on account of the rough 

 weather there was a poor attendance and some poor shooting. 

 The leading shots were (rounds, 10; possible. 50) : H. V. Perry, id ; 

 D.I. I.angworlhy, 38. We use the " Mongrel" target, a cross be- 

 tween the German Ring and the Creedmoor, but there is a move 

 made toward adopting one of tho " thoroughbred " targets. 



There are a few breech-loading rifles here, but so far they fail to 

 come up to tho point ot securing the medal. Mr. Perry has now 

 won the modal four times inside of a year with a mnzzle-lbadtng 

 rifle of his own make. Pixacentke. 



Brooklyn, Fisher's Gallery, Fch. fi'Ji-Tho Ballard riflo match 

 opened this evening ; open to all comers using .22 jabber rifle ; Id 

 shots at 300 yards target reduced ; for a .22 Ballard rifle ; to be won 

 three times. T. P. White won it for the first time with 47 out ol 

 50. On the evening of the 7th .1. W. Todd won the special match 

 with U3 in possiblo 126 at ring target reduoed. 



New YORK RtFLB Club.— Feb. 11th .— At the regular shoot to- 

 dav the tctal score for 10 men was 613, or 01 3-10 average per man 



F. J. Donaldson, our Captain, made 70 out of 75. Messrs. Daly and 

 Howletmade 69 apiece, Mr. Daly's ranking first. To sustain in- 

 terest tho team is divided, and shoot side against side. 



Schuetzen Notes— The first meeting of the Directors of tbe 

 Schlietzen Park at Union Hill, N. J., took place last week. The 

 following officers were elected :— President, Colonel E. C. S. Lewis ; 

 First Vice-President, Fred. Harenburg; Second Vice-President, 

 ex-Captain Aug. Emiiseb ; Treasurer, By. Offermanu ; Financial 

 Secretary, J. F. W. Mangels; Recording Secretary, A. Brtegnefj 

 Corresponding Secretary, F. C. Crevier. 



Practice shooting will commence this month :as soon as the 

 Captain and the two Schuetzen masters set up the programme for 

 It. A fox hunt wUl take place on the 23d inst. at the Schuetzen 

 Park, Union Hill. 



On the 0th inst. the Independent New York gelmetzens held 

 their general meeting at headquarters, A. Goib's Walhalla, Major 

 J.J. Diehl in the chair. Officers for the present year were elected 



as follows:— Captain, Colonel J. J. Diehl ; First Lieutenant, Adam 

 Geib; Second Lieutenant, Chs. Brims: Orderly, Then. Fcldstcin ; 

 Shooting Master, D.J. Stein; President, H. n. Hoenack ; Record- 

 ing .-i ■■:■ tatry, Conrad Geib ; Financial Secretary, Adam Geib; 

 Treasurer, D. Brubaehcr; Trustees, ex-Captain Val. Loewer, 

 Fred. Handrieh, Conrad Walcoek. A committee consisting of 

 Messrs. Colonel A. Stauf, Fred. Handrich and Theo, Feldstein was 

 appointed to prepare for the next summer excursion. Washing- 

 ton and Richmond or Newport are in view. Major George Aery, 

 now Captain ot the New York Schuetzen Corps, was again made 

 honorary member of the Independents. 



A grand fox hunt will take place on the 23d inst, at Union 

 Hill Schuetzen Park for the benefit of Win, Kirbel, well known 

 by almost all the German shooters of the United States. The 

 foxes will be let loose on the above said day at 1 o'clock p.m., 

 the hounds unchained a half nour later. 



The Helvetia Rifle Club received lately a challenge from the 

 Zettler's, but declined to accept it, as they are done with muzzle- 

 loaders and only shoot with breech-loaders. The time shooting 

 on practice days was reduced from five to three minutes. 



The New York Schuetzen Corps hold their annual meeting 

 and election February 3d, at 98 Forsyth street. Major G. Aery 

 presiding in the absence of Captain D. G. Yuengling, Jr. The 

 following gentlemen were unanimously elected to form tho Ex- 

 ecutive Committee of the ensuing year, viz.:— George Aery, Cap- 

 tain; B. n. Fienken, Recording Secretary; J. 11. Meyer, Treas- 

 urer; Hy. Roel tger, Corresponding Secretary; I). H. LIppold, 

 Financial Secretary; Philip Klein and John Brummcrhop, Shoot- 

 ing Masters. The corps will have their annual calico hop on the 

 10th of March at Beethoven Hall. 



The Manhattan Rifle Club, George Aery, Captain, will celebrate 

 Washington's Birthday (the 23d mst.) with a prize shootiug mnt;b, * 

 open to all comers, at Schuetzen Park, Union Hill, N. J,; dis- 

 tance 200 yards; any rille allowed; two kinds of titrercts will be 

 opened— ring and bull's-eye [pool) target. On the ring target are 

 10 prizes, viz., $10 the first and £1 the last : entrance fee, $1 ; ad- 

 ditional entrance, 50 cents, without limit. All money received 

 on the bull's-eye targets, after deducting premiums and expenses, 

 Will be equally divided among the buB's-eyes shot ; a premium of 

 S3 for the most, $2 for tho second most, and $1 for the third most 

 bull's-eyes shot will also be paid. Shooting will commence at 10 

 o'clock 'a.m. and end at. dark, intermission from 12 to 12,30 o'clock. 

 Besides the above shooting the grand fox hunt also takes place, 

 to commence at 10.30 o'clock. 



The New York Schuetzen Corps held their annual meeting Feb. 

 121 h at Gcrmania Assembly Rooms, Capt. John F. Gerties pre- 

 siding. Tho following gentlemen were elected officers for the en- 

 suing- year: John F. Gerdes, Captain ; W. Schumacher, Recording 

 Secretary : W. Brinckcrman, Financial Secret iry ; H. W. Cordts, 

 Treasurer; W. Watts, Custodian; A. Krouer, Collector ; F. nance 

 Committee, H. Bi3chor, w. Wahrenberger and — Sihacht ; Shoot- 

 in g Masters, J. W. Schneider and — Raub. 



Tun WiNG.vTii-LAiDi.EV Contest.— In November last a suit in 

 equity was commenced by .Messrs. W. O. & T. P. Church, the pub- 

 lishers of Wingaie's "Manual of Rifle Practice," against. W. R. 

 Pelton, the New York agent of Messrs. Llppinoott & Co., the pub- 

 lishers uf Laidley's "Rifle Firing," for having exposed for sale 

 conies of the later work upon the ground that it. infringed their 



notified Doth Messrs. tfppincotl and Colonel l aidley or theactiou 

 andrequesl 



the complainant's copyright was unconstitutional, the following 

 decree was entered by Judge Blatchford, of the United States 

 Circuit Court, on the 18th inst,, perpetually enjoining the defend- 

 ant from selling it :— 



Tbe above-entitled action coming on to bo heard upon tho 

 pla ntiff's bill of complaint and upon the defendant's answer 

 thereto admitting the violation of the plaintiffs copyright, on 

 motion of George W.Wlngatc, of counsel for said complainants, 

 it is ordered and decreed:— 



Fird. That the complainants arc tho owners of tho copyright 

 of the scvoral editions of the "Manual for Rifle Practice, lu- 

 chid ,ng Suggestions for Practice at Long Range, and for the For- 

 mation and Management of Ride Associations," by General 

 (Jeorg i v, \ mngabe, General Inspector of Rifle Practice of the 

 ,! , : . York, mentioned in said bill of complaint, and that, 

 the same and each thereof has been duly copyrighted by them, 



in,: : ■.;, | eooypghts are valid according to law. 

 Sucona. Thai the defendant has infringed upon said copyrights 

 by exposing forsalein the city of New York, without the com- 

 plainant's consent, and knowing that the publishers thereof had 

 not obtained their consent in writing or otherwise, ten copies 

 ofabookoniilled-' A ''ourseot Induction in glue Hiring-," I I 

 Col. T. T. S. Lai iky, U.S. A., which book is largely composed of 

 extracts copied from the several editions of said Wmgate's 

 "Manual of Bide Practice," described in said bill ol" complaint, 

 and is a violation of tho copyrights thereor owned by the com- 

 plainants. 



Tldnl. Thatthesaiddcfcrida.it and :::- • ■! ml associates, 

 and each of thorn, bo, and 1 hey are li-reby, perpetually enjoined 

 and restrained from printing, publishing ,,,- exposing for salo 

 Hi y copy or copies of the said Laidley's •• ltiile Exercises," or any 



.thai-work embracing any portiou of the several editions of said 

 "Manual for Rifle Practice" described in the said bill of com- 

 plaint, or of cither thereof, and that a icjrpetual writ of injune- 

 iion be issued to that effect. 

 — E. M. Riser, of Elk City, Clarion County, Pa., accepts tho 



iff, i ,.: CapfcA.H. Bogardus, as given on his prorrramme, to 

 shoot Eugene Bogardus, his son, a match at mo glass balls with a 

 Winchester rifle, according to rules which govern the champion- 

 ship medal. _^_^_^_______ 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



The Sportsman's Tear Book. Cassell, Petter, Galpiu 



& Co., London, Paris and New York. 



This is the title of a new annual whioh will be welcomed by 

 sportsman and journalist alike. The rapid extension of sports of 

 -ill kinds has rondored a work of this nature an indispensable 



adjunct to all libraries. Though recordsof tho best performances 

 are published in journals of all sorts from time to time, they do 

 uot appear in a shape which renders ready reference a matter 

 easily accomplished. Editors in particular, who are supposed to 

 bo walking encyclopedia; of all and everything, will find the 

 .' Spoilsman's Annual" an excellent book for consultation, and 

 when puzzled about the best time, tho highest jump, the number 



s oi 'clubs, the rules and regulations <tf any depart- 



. ,;,,.,,;, tal-wili give him relief in 



i his i 



nod c 



. at Loggerhead! npoasonre uues- 



: , ..:■..-■.:.! pns -the champions. The Annual, 



being an English publication, docs not take in American records 



in detail, but in some o£ its departments refers in a general way 



