:i;.v SO, 1880/] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



73 



pulled both fcri Novefwaa Sabbath still- 



ileBB "broken, b) d'hion outrageous roar! It tiaiiie boom- 

 ing into the windows of tbi country chun h, aud startled 

 Hi' in:-, oldlaflies and stdjpped the choir in one of btieir 

 ..■nil i efforts. Whal lime Pefe lay on his back vritb 

 one arm broken, and a very large segment of liis woolly 

 soalpblown cleSti away, I shall not record ; nor how he wits 

 toteo dp to the "big bouse'" by hismotherand his father 

 with loud ulhilations; nor bow the chorus was swelled 

 by the ''ilrop-sb.d '" t:;iii;r. e; K ]i of whom bote a "green.- 

 '■i ■.: ■ i as a peace off< ring to the offended powers ; nor bow 

 I found tho barrels blown entirely off the sti 



! : ach to show 'how strong Dupont's 



l'TC powder really is: nor how Pete, fully recovered. 

 never ventured to fire a double charge any mere. fOiS- 

 over ! My gnn was g ice, and this wan the end • 



1. 1. indeed, marked an epoch in my sporting ex- 

 peiletti : and my knowledge of gun . Not long after this 

 m ancle went to Philadelphia, at thai I 

 wliichmosl good Western men went. ETc 1 ■■• ■ 

 hint ;'. lot ..i- <-li. jiji Ldiirlish guns, but all of them strono- 

 and serviceable, 

 2&ineh baili 

 suasion, was turned 

 to 1 p." I am afr 

 with that gui 

 it served me bonesi 

 with it l became a 

 ever been since. '<' 

 wild Linkers tun inn . 

 inferior to sonr 



Anion- Uieni was a little gun, 

 I l4rbore, which-, after loug per- 

 ovi r to me, "to have, lo hold, and 

 lid to say how much game I killed 



.■ill 1 tellwhat hard n.-a.-v it had : but 



lv and faithfully tor long years, and 



On tho wing than 1 have 



have killed deer with it. often, and 



id, as for ducks, 



guns that I have owned, 



law 



■ price, it i 



;il il for tv 



yet Bhe would 1,-ill them at fifty or sixty yards, nearly 

 certain, 



1 rolled on, and I l e f< the home of my boyhood and 

 went South. 1 gave the old gun to a eousin, and deter- 

 mined to buy a fine gun next lime, And i did. too. None 

 ol your §35 guns for inc. I ordered a Westley Richards, 

 for which I paid *1S"> : and. for tl 

 est gun that! ever owned ' 



Id it, for |75, whirl 

 hand-made guns there is i 

 iffg flualities of suns (In 

 makers. Somedefectin t 

 cause poor shooting. Am 

 afterward owned aWestl 

 friend, that was all (hat ; 

 lieve. s?3?r>. or ,.> guineas 



'"■u.ili v, as Mi i •! was too- 



days 

 guns won 



ing is at a 

 ifheldfai 



■..'.,. cli 



power th; 



'.. ' a i 'i ■.'. 



some m-.'i 



adorns so 

 State." 

 is for a n 



i;. ' ■ • 

 anOthi r I 



onld kill e 

 ould shoot 



• tl 



a—] 



for 



.■ " ; "■ 



would shoot tn i I 

 much vim as any of the: 

 ■is. and turn loose among 

 ! : i — il' with a veryhj 

 owned waa a Powell, n»u 

 are 



lehiU, I 



s (he poor- 

 years and 

 that in all 

 ifference in the shoot- 

 onestly made by good 

 ; or in the finish will 

 Iso let me say that I 

 rds, the gift of a dead 

 uld be. "Costing, I bo- 

 snperb gun. Its onlv 

 lniost all guns in those 

 were 1-i-borcs. Euch 

 i, for their game shoot- 

 i ours. But this gun, 

 il every time at sixty 

 4 shot at ducks with a 

 toderu breech-loader- 

 It was carried off by 

 ■herman*s army, and per- 

 id and shorn of 'its beauty, 

 "de bestest gun in de 

 ever shall I own one that 

 .) thee, honest gun, made 

 ah" I bought 

 aizzle-loader, 



Intely -.ale. No common gun is safe. Tho daily strain 

 uphnanj gun will develOpo its hidden wenki 

 even 8 drs. Of powder and J oz, of shot. And 

 her" let me say that I lind :| drs. of powder and I Oz. 

 shot amply sufficient for all upland Bnooting, When 

 gatneis wild 1 pul in 8 drs. powdoi'i 1 oz. shot, None 



shocks^ render ihe lighter charge the favorite with ail 

 knowing sportsmen. Early in the season, for quail 

 shooting, I use'.', drs. powdorand 1 oz. No. lOshot. "\\ ith 

 No. 12 i can do good work, but my 6rs1 lard from the 

 covey is torn to pieces on account of the great number of 

 shot with wld.d, i strike it, 



\eain there is another mystery that soienci 

 solve. I on. v had my boat anchored in a mill-pond 

 among buttonwood bushes for the purpose of shooting 



roosting-places in the adjoining bushes, Well, mv first 

 • , a pair of wood ducks, killed dead as the tra- 

 ditional Cassar, with one barrel. Hardly had I slipped in 

 mother shell when four mallards flopped down— three of 



the four killed dead. 



In rapid succession they came, mallards and wood 

 luoks. I missed five shots oul of sixteeual twenty-five 

 yards. That, the shells were loaded alike 1 know. with. 

 H ounce No. shot, for I loaded them myself. Now, 

 who can account for those five tnissesJ Keen bird must 



have I n hit. for the milter found three mallards in the 



pond the nexi morning dead : and as I was the only per- 

 son shooting in the pond on thai evening 1 presume that 

 the birds fell to mv gun. Now. no one can Bay thntat 

 point-blank distance 1 should not have killed every bird, 

 '• l.'naccouiuables." says some wise fellow, That is no 

 answi r. if a good gun— and 1 shoot no other -every 

 charge should be distributed in precisely the same man- 



With a promise that 1 shall resume this interesting sub- 

 feel again, I will close by saying that no one can tell 

 when that accommodating and often contrary weapon— 

 a shot gun— is going to shoot. Yon drive your charge 

 Of No. 8's clean through a, bird, and the next one escapes 

 forwani of penetration. You hit one with two dozen 

 shot, and another one at the same distanceand same bar- 

 rel is killed with two shot. Who knows? Quien sabe! 

 With this consolatory reflection I sign myself, 



Lawtonville, Ga., Feb. 6th. . St. Clair, 



nan 



did famous work, too. among 

 -ortliless with coa rse shot. Sip 

 Sty yards with 8s or 9s with as 

 ; but put in a charge of 6s or 

 e ducks, and you came home 

 The next gun that I 

 ■ 1 or. a maker whose guns 

 Thirty-two inches in the 

 ids weight, she 



lounas weight, she was 

 have often killed duck: 



barrelsar 1 of i ight andone-1 

 ii.i]' gun with No. 8 shot. 



with her a1 ninety yards i hut with 10s she was -no ac- 

 count." 



And this brings me to the subject of breech- 

 TJnfcldnkiiig partisans of 



ently contend for their 

 in breech-lo; 



tode 



made there was a V 



pattern. These defei 

 measure, and now m 

 and close. Of C011B 



could not; give the. sai 

 shaped like the lotto 

 choking (.begun, or 



at the. muzzle, the to 

 very compactly, and 

 derthegaswassooDi 

 A fli-st-class rnuzzli 

 tell the truth, put tl: 



but i 



mat I 



'St. 



tion and. indeed, of 

 liminated in a great 

 Loot hard 

 oned breech pattern 

 s the patent breach. 

 ssle-loader. But by 

 ie diameter was less 

 -I dehverthecharg< 

 ie b ads on the pow- 

 tration was secured 

 to beat. Indeed, tc 

 oader in the world 

 world, and my word 

 > wall, especially i 

 made ob either sid, 

 elusion of the whole 

 von get rid of three 

 od, "the shot -pouch 



miisancesat one fell swoop, the 



and the powder-flask. You load your shells at home by 

 iii . ■ uarge and do not trust to uncertainties. How 

 "oadingdays have we cut off about 

 : then there was a black 

 :\m was fired. Then, for flexibility 

 rting ■ toy .-i:l an ecstasy, 

 culer. Allsportsmennow who order 

 breech-loading, for the day of ninz- 

 ..«..,:. J acility of loading, flexi- 

 on all defects are cured, equality of 

 ion or range, will render the breech- 

 e future, especially the hammerless 

 ' gun at full 



often in i 



i 

 bould 



bill! . i use, andw 

 pattern and penetri 



'■.;... I i. ' I 



Ih; 



thf 



gun. 'i 



CO 'I. lull ".'. Lnj 



only abso 



thai the jai leprjncipl 



I never saw one. but tl 

 should think, i 



But there a r ■ DM 



can never solve, i oi 



take about the la a] 

 the top of the tallest 



. . i|: , ,i..i I 'I I'M' 



111 



lo 



uld do 



shooting qu tUtii 



last loiv: i ....' 



Yanka*, Feb. £3i?. Pigeoainfltch; 30l)irdsastilo; '■■ i 



Is exceptionally lively! heavy srind; na \ :.n-o mim- 

 Derof ffcntlcmen Bpeotafors. il. Warlnff, U); I. Waring, Jr., S> ! 



loiiil. IS 1 . 1 il< :ul out i.t ' homiils. A. Austin.. "i; \V. i.inn.s; total, 





nds. 



I \i 



Gtjh Qixm-Smlen Ptifni, .v../., Vcb.Sfkl— Opiioaai 



: Imii'lieap rise; one money : - 

 Yards. 



. 28 



.".,/;.,' 



!l. Dmilqavy 



A. B. Qexter M 



Col. Armstrong : ; " 



SI. SlmoD^on 27 



H.Knowles 30 



■SeoonO sweep; sarno conditions :— 



A. B. n.-M.r at) 



It. Knowlcs SO 



I I I 1 1 1 



illl 



1 



8 



SHOOTING MATCHES. 



Scores.— Secretaries of clubs are invited to send iu 

 scores of matches. Such reports should reach «<s_0.a 

 early as possible after the date of the meeting. 



a Goose-egg s 



of Brooklyn,!.. I.. 



soot.— The me 

 held theirmnn 

 St., at McMahi 



Bav.L. T. The club 

 at Harry Miner's in 

 ences foragood Hi i 

 for sport made byd 

 Fountain Gnu Tlulj 

 rise. Thaatrongoc 

 some of the poor si 



Bisga 



Wfin-ht I 



Clmppell 



Atlantic Hotel, Sh 

 ad friends left tlieirelega 



ay shoot 

 epsliCa.l 



•.•it. 



Brown — 

 Murray — 



Banks, .lr 

 KeiliUnu... 



Total. - 



. 1 I) - 

 ,10 10-2 



(10 1-3 



,0011 0-3 



,0113 0-3 



. 1 1 0-3 



.01 0,1 0-3 



. o II 0— 

 . II (I 0- 

 , 1 1 1-S 



0- 1 Walsh... 

 0—3 I Madison . 

 1 21 Smith.... 



Total.. 







n 











0-0 



. . . 1 







1 



1 



u-a 



1 



i 



1 



1 



a- • 



1 



i 



1 



1 



1— ii 



.... 



i 



1,1 



(1 



0-3 







i 



1 



1 



1—t 







n 



rt 



1 



1 -" 



.... 



i 







1 



1— B 



... 



i 







1 



1— X 







I 







(1 



(1-1 



. ... 1 



i 











(1-3 



1 



ii 



•(i 



II 



(1—1 



.... 1 







II 



I 



u a 







1 











0—1 







II 







II 



a n 















(I 



i-i 







t 







.:■ 



1—2 



>rs and 





,-... 





■rwt, 









At tlu 



partaken 



o ( 



at 



tlie 



TlifiHhoot ihoiuiilifiur afforded both rue 



,. ..... -■■'. rii'i E OS shots made ttii 



alose of the aoutest a bountiful collation 

 hotel. 



BROOKLYN Ocn Club.— Vcxicr Par/,, Jamaica Road, L. I,, Fcl>. 

 2Pll.— The monthly handicap contesl at 111 birds eneli ; K'i yards 

 Boundary; Eroiil too ground traps; li ounces of shot: gau to 

 lirst, 500 shells to second, 300 shells to third, and 200 shells to fourl 

 Ties 



Killid. 



nt-aetion locks this vras th. 

 carrying a gun. I presume 



tins in the hamnierlesB gxtn. 



i nst be carried at full cock I 



must be front-action. 



rics about guns that Science 



rvv a pot-metal gun, no mis- 

 would kill a squirrel out of 



in the creek swamps of Mis- 



;,iii that a gum tree in that 

 a I lily tall; but only one 



■ ■', , . up to the full ,-. 



■. i b boring is all I have 

 . : : i . ; i -,,!■■ , "i , ith the 

 if oourei fceelwill 



1 ''ling gnu, and is abso- 



Roblnsmi.. 



tllillinjfS... 

 I-,', T 1 1 . i ■ ■ ■ ■ 

 p, |..,., o.l 



Id','. 



is and 8 



. "n i i i i n * i- 



,.31 1111110 111— 



.26 01011(1111 

 .. 2(1 11111111 

 26 10 1111111 

 23 1111*11110 

 . 3ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 

 .3(1 11110 111 0-1 

 .311 111110 11 ' 

 .21 11110 111 



II. DmiU 

 A. Alien. 



M.Mdbe 

 I . K. [.(•( 

 \. I :.•.•.» i 

 R CI. 'I'n I 



I I 1 I I I 1 



until 



.an l l t l l ii 



.27 1 1 (i l l I 



.20 l I i o l u 



20 il I 1 I 



-.'.; 10 111 



. 2H o 1 1 n I 



30 



Third su-"cp: saijie conditions: - 



:;; 10 10 



W. Cndl'iev 



Minn.. . 



IT. Il.irton 



M.WIlpo:, 



:» 



30 1 



27 1 



30 1 



I 111 10 



I 1 1 si 



i ii r 



'ih. iioii-.m Cup, presented for 

 run i Open to all member*: enno 

 rise; tobo won three times by BO 

 properly. There were twenty-fi 

 the best scores:— 



Itivers 3R 



Creed 33 



Stephens. so 



IDi\ idied second pri/.e 

 —The tenth average u 



Club for a Par 

 i, L. I., Feb. — tl 







1111*1 



1 1 1 1 

 II 1 1 1 1 

 110 

 ^Divided third prizo. 



onthly handicap coiitl 

 up eai.no off at the Di 



*-l 



0-0 



1-0 



1-1 



1-0 

 1-0 



of the. Fou 

 nst- Park, P 



Tho conditions were J birds each-three at 

 yards, and l.no at 111 yards rise; .,i 5 i,d 

 fc traps; li ounces of shot; the State Asso- 

 irn. Ten gentlemen were iu the contest, as 



mud. 



.0101110 



Col. Armstrong. . 



ll.Clav 



V,-. Omll'rey .... 



A. Arilmr 



.l.l'.Tiillnuui 



II. Hale-; 



Yard*. 



,10 



I 1 I 1 I 1 



I I I I I 



1 1 I I I 



I I 1 I 1 I' 



petition by lie. 1 1 C. riur- 



I'ee, 910 : I" birds : handicap" 

 person indole becoming his 

 ditties. Tlie following were 



111011 

 1 11 1 1 1 1 



1111 



1111 



11 1 1 ( 1 1 11 



I 11 I 1 1 1 1 



10011110 







1 



1 



I 



I 







1 



1 



II 



1 



II 



(1 



1 



1 



(1 







'I 



1 



1) 







1 



1 



II 



1 



1 



I 



II 



1 



1 



11 



D. &, Murphy.... 



SI. 01.1 offi- 

 ce I. Armstrong.. 

 II. Clay 



.30 110 110 



I I I 

 1 



ii -Wednesday afteriK 

 ad. The cxeellon. ■ 1 

 the reasons why ihe 



1 

 Cmjb— Newark, JV. J., Feb. IOHj. — Tho regular 

 ;st of the members of the Ksse.v Gun Club look 

 1 at Erb's grounds on the P.lnom- 

 id convenience, of this place, avo 

 •lub has always 11 large turn 1 

 -as an -unusually largo one seven- 

 teen members going io the score, with the hope of Winning the 

 club's trophy. The shooting began shortly after 3 o'clock, and 

 Mr. lab had furnished a line lot of birds. The wind, v.hieh was 

 blowing a guio from tbescurt to the Irnps, made the shooting un- 

 usually difficult, but this interfered but little with (he good form 



of the cracks of the club. After a closely coutestei 1 it 1 iQtweei 1 



Mr. B. H. Brientnall, Mr. Hayes and Dr. Pindcll,the trio which won 

 thoXew Jersey State Association Cup last October, and Mr. .lohu- 

 the former landed himself the winner.with a clean . -■:-,, : , 1,1, 



• 9 



ut of 10. The fine shooting 

 .-ii 11. almost all oi 1 birds 



as . I. --eiire will show, wilh- 

 onthe eighth round, iiui- 

 inclosnre, there was a largo 

 cessan I picket tire did much 

 feathered tribe. The turn- 

 ely appearance, particularly 

 s-you-plnase after an cscap- 

 i, the accidental and 



each of his antagonists recon 

 of Mr. Brientnall is worthy of eomn 

 were hard-drivers, which were idEei 

 out. the use of the second barrel, say 

 side the ground, and surrounding tl 

 army of " outside shooters," whose i 

 lo alarm the more fortunate of th 

 [dke road presented an unusually li 

 When the outsiders indulged in a go 

 Ing pigeon. During one of the la; 

 premature discharge of one of the ''Long Tom's" occasioned 

 much comment; but, as it only removed the two ornamental but- 

 tons on the back of a coat of one of the shooters, the race (Vent 



merrily on. The most successful of the outsiders n.i' 



man whose residence adjoins the grounds; besides exhibiting 

 some really fancy shooting from his dining-room window, he 

 procured one fine bird which had perched on the chimney of his 

 house, by adjourning to the kitchen and cniptyin;; the , -,,1 -, 



1 1 1 - breech-loader UP the flue. Those, and other like incidents, 

 marked the afternoon's sport. The following score will show- who 

 did the best work: - 



Conditions : At 10 birds each; from live traps; handicap rise 

 li ounce shot; SO yards boundary; both barrels allowed; club 

 rules :— 



Varcl-: 



Ale. 



illl . 



111111111 



Mr. Day.. 



Mr. Browi 



+ Killed 



1 1 1 



1 



+ 



1 



1 



1 



n 1 



+ 11 



1 t 



1 

 1 



1 

 + 



1 



+ 







1 



1 

 1 



+ + 

 1 1 



110 



1 







1 



t 



1 



1 1 



T 1 







1 



1 



1 



1 



1 1 



100 



1 



+ 



1 



1 



1 



1 + 



1 1 1 



1 



1 



II 



II 



+ 



1 1 



+ + 



+ 







(1 



1 



1 



1 1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 







•1 1 



t 1 1 



1 



1 



(1 



1 







1 II 



1 1 



I 



II 



1 



il 



II 



1 



1 1 



I 



11 



? 









1 1 



+ 00 



I 



1 



II 



1 



1 I) 



+ 



+ 



(1 



1 



II 



1 



(1 1 



1 



+ 



1 



II 



1 







(1 '1 



* 







1 







1 







II ',.,. 



Kiltal. 

 10 



icond barrel. 



The Essex Gun Olttbhas accepted an invitatiuu from tlie Jersey 

 Pity Heights Gun Club to shoot a friendly nial oh, March 10 th has 

 been named as the, day; and the contest, which trill take place at 



the Vest Side. Driving Park. Marion, M. J., is to be governed by 

 the rules of the Jersey City Heights Gun Club. 



Ni-;',v Jeusey— Ridjwuod, Feb. 33d.— First, annual shoot, Wash- 

 ington's Birthday, by members of Hidgewood Guu Club ; pigeons ; 



31 yards rise : ground trap ; SO yards boundary :— 



m Heppe 



in r.lareo 

 Henner 



.0001 1—3 I Irvir; 

 . t) 11 1 0-1 Albert Bogert.. 

 1 1 * 1 1-1 I 



Mouk 

 mgton'i 



trap w 



Eirtlida: 



B.-Fo)i Leo, A. J.. Fel, 

 for gold badge ; HubC 



G.A'.H. 



SKSoV-'Wnsh'- 



21 ,1 



rds 



■alls 



leli : P. Tic 



ly his 10th and 3"th ; K. Bcuison, 37 

 lliih and 33d ; E. Hnber, 30, missing bis 0th, 10 th, 3 

 Thomas, 37. missing ltisltth, 33d and 30th ; A. Mai 

 Ids ilh, Pith, 33d. 3oth and 30(b ; t. Annotl, 19 j . 

 I , ., 1 idir, 10 ; J. Mani.y, 3 ; and E. Coxhead, I, 

 shoot William Benison, thirteen yeai 

 bulls with John Glascr, breaking31 to Glnser'sS. 



unto- i7jii-in)(»to td'Ji. I'.i'/i.-Senre.d'a pigeon inateh shot, ill. 

 boss Lake Park, between 11 . J. Koch and Peril. AV 11 1 a I 101 



, . ,,,, | [5 singles; ground traps; 38 yards rise; liud ten 

 doubles from pluioge traps at. the usual distance; each party;to 



shot a mat :i .. ' 



