29$ 



FOREST AND STEEAM. 



[Mat 13, 1880. 



splits. v.ith*a draw-lmife and axe. Cut a Btaaigfat-grained 

 cedar in four or six feet junks, split thorn in two with 

 your axe, then into mie inch thicknesses with axe and 

 draw-knife, which can easily and quickly be done. 



_ J. Gh BlCH. 



BtftDT YORK— LtWViHe, May hth.— A few Wilson snipe 

 and big yeUowlegS hare been killed by our sportsmen. 1 

 shot a 'fine gosbi vk reoently, and last week I reeeive .1 a 

 prize a Flc ■/'■' -•. the first that I have known of 



being taken in this vi. . II. W. H. 



SdStBca Gun Cum— The State Associ\Tms.-^Seneca 

 FaUs, N. Y., Mail lOJft.— "We are nicely .located, with 

 three spacious rooms, richly furnished. I'or the enler- 

 taimn eat of our friends nothing more could be desired. 

 The Twenty-second Annual Convention promises exceed- 

 ingly •Well. Messrs. Hoag, Parrisb, Lawrence, Williams 

 and'Selleck are working like beavers, and nothing is left 

 undone that will contribute to a successful meeting. The 

 grounds (which are located within three minutes' walk of 

 the main business street) are being staked out. Pens for 

 13,000 birds are built, aud half the birds are here, with 

 1,000 to 1,500 coming on every train, and a fine lot they 

 .are. loo 1 A grand stand, reporters' stand, benches and 

 covering overhead for judge -'"'1 > some et , an 

 heing built, and much interest is exhibited by all our 

 pe i ! i, The valuable articles in the prize list are not 

 overrated, and man}- gold purses speak for themsefves._ 

 Fortunate is the man -who wins W. E. McMasters' 

 "Spring in 'Normandy," in double bird shooting. Our 

 Reception Committee are exerting themselves in the en- 

 ,:r.i , the coming visitors comfortable, anda.ni- 



v tccommodations ■will he found for all. We look for 

 fi large par! y from Brooklyn and New York. The Seneca 

 Gun Club most cordially invite the sportsmen of New 

 York State to meet here May 84th, and promise that ev- 

 erything shall be done to make their stay pleasant. X. 



GtaOEGHA NOTics.— Macon, On.. April 30/?*.. — We have 

 a gun club of fifty members (Ocmnlgoe Shooting Club), 

 but as this is our second year, glass ball shooting has lost 

 most of its interest. Through the club's influence, ono 

 of our representatives, who is a member, has secured the 

 enactment of a game law, which wo hope will result in 

 much good. Macon can boast of some very fine shots, 

 nr principal game is <pia.il and doves, it behooves 

 list" protect these birds, and we now hope to havo a 

 large increase by enforcing the game law. A few weeks 

 ago I made a visit to Eastman, in Dodge County — both 

 named after excellent and honorable men. I proceeded 

 by buggy to the Ocmulgee River (the same we have here) 

 to hunt turkeys ; but failed to bag any. though I saw 

 aud heard several — also jumped two deer. Spending the 

 nig] it with a saw mill man, 1 learned of a novel duck's 

 nest. I mention my visit more to ask ot; this than any- 

 thing else. The. mill is located by a small pond, which 'is 

 na natural basin, the hills on all sides throwing the 

 wafer into this basin, and here, a small lot of summer 

 ducks roost every night. One pair of these ducks have a 

 nest thirty feet above the ground in a large pine tree, 

 entering through a hole 4x6 or 5x8. Is this a common 

 thing? It strikes me as very unnatural, I.H.J, 



Arkansas in Winter. — Jacksonport, Ark,, May 1st. 

 — In your last issue, a very interesting article by 1- Dar- 

 daneile" struck my attention. I can indorse every 

 statement " Dardanelle " makes, except ope, with a qual- 

 ification. It is true that malaria, and all which that im- 

 plies, is prevalent all over the lower portions of this 

 State. The summer is the sickly season. After first 

 .--■-o-'-.l would have nothing to fear. It is true 

 there are plenty of reptiles and insects. They are only 

 troublesome in summer. The winter cold lays them. 

 The winter climate is admirable -almost perfect. Our 

 summers are too hot ; the winter is our sporting season. 

 Visiting sportsmen should come during that season. 



The statement I can not indorse is in regard to nius- 

 epiitos. They are unusually numerous and attentive in 

 every part of the State where I am acquainted. It is ten 

 years since I have been in Veil County ; the supply was 

 iu the excels of the demand ihero in those days. I think 

 " Dardanelle " will cheerfully admit that most, if not all, 

 the non-attractions of which he speaks, are applicable 

 only to tire warm season. Yell. 



Canada— Montreal, April IWu— There has been a 

 fearful slaughter of ducks and geese at the foot of the 

 Lachine Rapids. One man is credited with killing over 

 B thousand last week. They have actually taken carts 

 up the lower Lachine road to bring them to the market, 

 not being able to carry them otherwise. I was told this 



,oi ingtl all onehasb lo i to] oh I , ■ <ur gun at I be 

 locks i iiiv approach, pull the trigger, and I 

 not help getting lots. Erculapius. 



Audi Alterum Partem— Cheap Guns Aq-ain.— Editor 

 Forest and 8ti<eam:— Several articles have recently ap- 

 peared in your paper strongly censuring the pi 

 several manufacturers, and importers of guns in selling 

 gttnsal o those who use them. 



Now there is something to be said on the other side ; 

 will you allow me space to say it? 



There are a very large number of sportsmen (perhaps 

 the majority) who wish to secure the best gun that their 

 Oieans will "allow, aud who yet are unable to pay the 

 high prices asked by most retail dealers. To this class I 

 freely confess that I belong. Must we, then, content 

 ourselves with an inferior arm because we cannot pay 

 the 35 or SO per cent, profit asked by the retail dealer? 

 In such a course we should be shut up, if the advice of 

 your former correspondents be followed, and manufac- 

 turers and importers be compelled to discontinue the dis- 

 count io act nnj users Of guns. 



" But," say your correspondents, "it is a manifest ln- 



tie i b the retail dealer, which in the tod must drive 



him out of business." Let us look a little closer at the 



- r.ible. It is 



quite true that we must and. ought to gay cheerfully for 



whatever is necessary. In many lines of trade, middle 



..ailed, are a necessity"; for example, 1 cannot 

 order a suit of clothes Of the manufacturer of eassi- 

 nieres in New England. His business forbids that. Nor can 

 my tailor order his goods direct from 

 Hence I tun compelled to pay the profit of the jobber aud 

 , : . and 1 do so cheerfully because the necessities 

 ... th a*e require it. in the! there is no 



ould go to the retail dealer in guns. 1 

 maintain that if I caul ought to buy direct, from the 



manufacturer, because there is no sort of necessity for 

 the retail dealer ; the exigencies of trade do not require 

 hint': he Is not a necessity, nor even a convenience, and 

 hence there is no reason why I should pay his profit, be- 

 cause it is just as easy for me to deal with the manufac- 

 turer or importer directly, 



Our country is cursed with the enormous number of 

 "middlemen." It is perhaps more manifest in the dry 

 goods trade than any other. When the goods pass out 

 of the hands of the manufacturer they are handled 

 by the commission merchant, the jobber and the retail 

 dealer, and to each one of these the consumer must pay 

 a profit; audit is wrong, because unnecessary. People 

 everywhere feel and understand the truth ami justice of 

 the position that lam trying to maintain, and no clearer 

 proof that they do understand it could be adduced than 

 the success of such houses as that of Lord & Taylor of 

 your city; houses that buy directly from the manufac- 

 turers in this country and abroad, and so are enabled 

 to sell goods without the additional profits of the com- 

 mission merchant and jobber. A similar' success does 

 and will attend any other business where the effort is 

 made to save profits to the consumer. It is this same 

 principle which lies at the bottom of the "Q 

 movement, and whatever may be thought of that body 

 as a whole, this foundation principle is true. 



But it will be urged, " You will ruin the business of 

 the retail dealers in guns." Well, if he is not a real 

 necessity, he ought to be. made to yield ; and that he is a. 

 necessity can scarcely be shown. '"But if you drive him 

 out of business what will he .lo ? " A gain/let mo reply 

 in general terms, audi leave the objector to draw his 

 own conclusion. It is a crying, glaring evil of the times 

 that men leave the country and rush to the cities. The: 

 result is that agricultural interests are neglected, while 

 mercantile life is overcrowded. The consequence is that 

 the whole land , city and country, suffer. It is well known 

 that not only does the " backbone" of any country lie in 

 its rural population, but that its prosperity is always iu 

 direct proportion to its agriculture. Let the men. then, 

 who in our great cities are striving after a living, and 

 in the great majority of cases are ,not making it, till up 

 this broad land of ours ; let them become sturdy Bonsof 

 toil, and we shall have a healthier, happier, richer and 

 more prosperous nation than we have ever seen before, 



But I beg pardon for these truisms in Political Econ- 

 omy. My pen ran on to a greater length than I intended. 

 What I want (o say is. that we need good guns at low 

 ad that I trust the manufacturers and importers 

 will not be [lightened out of their present practice. 

 There is and I here can be no reason in the nature of 



things, why they should not deal directly with those who 



use the guns. " One op the Latter Class. 



PATTERN AND PENETRATION. 



Hillsborough, N. B.. April V.ith. 

 ; bluebirds it rue harbingers of spring) far 



ts. and got home to find all nature still 



ibrac.e of winter, ice and snow, and the 

 characteristic, but less sentimental bird 

 dropping in upon the marshes in its 

 naturally reopened the gun case, in fact 



WE left th 

 behind i 

 locked in the ei 

 " gray goose " 

 of the season.! 

 northern flight, 

 as well as theoi 

 The weekly : 

 pleasing chum 

 most imagine a 

 antlered 

 it come: 



hthless fraternal feeiii 



Ivent of the Forest and Stream is 

 itance in our life out hero, and I can a 

 gleam of delight in the eve of the grot 

 Ked. over the gun rack in the ball, whe 

 (It the Monday post. It may be, ho 



- yo 



ttied vour old 



In looking over the numbers which had come through 

 the winter, T came across an article on "Pattern and 

 Penetration." by "An Sauble," which recalled g 

 interesting contribution of last December, "Various 

 Guns and Gun Makers." 



itli of these the writer omits 

 ■y fm- a full comparison. I 

 "thai most, if no"t all good 

 i: the rough, and in this re- 

 diilerencein the shooting of 

 te quality and disposition of 

 all barrels of the same weight, 

 ption of a cylinder : but 



It seems to me that 



elements or facts nece 



am under the 



makers buy their bam 



spect are equal : hence 



guns mav depend upo 



metal, and form of bon 

 We have a mathematical cor 

 . the term choke have only th 



Now is it impossible to adopt 



more than I expected. I am not speaking " by the' 

 card," for I find my nose too near my thumb in delib- 

 erate shooting, and avoid it when I can, 1 know it 

 conies from holding too snug to the shoulder. When 

 shooting quick, it is a light touch and go, and not felt : 

 but a good gun is a good gun. and we don't want to see 

 the pattern to know it "Au Sauble" touches the true- 

 spirit of investigation at the close pf his letter of Decern- 

 ber4th but wh ah« i I Hence of titling 



in a Williams & Powell gun as a defect I fear few will 

 agree with him in that respect. If it is a fault, it is in 

 design, a,nd loose fitting cannot cure it. 



The fact is, all else being equal, every man to his 

 taste — drop action, or side action, the. difference is a re- 

 finement beyond utility. 



I knocked the right hammer off last fall, and for about 

 two weeks carried a double gun to shoot a single one. 

 I am now decidedly for hammers under deck; but stiii 

 divided in opinion between the (i crop-eared terrier" and 

 mining fox. Siiepody, 



SHOOTING MATCHES. 



Maine -Peak's Tdand, Portland Barhm.-A t n shoot of the Peak's 

 Island Shooting Club, Friday, May 7th, (or the Secretary's gold 

 badge, Card's rotary trap, 18 yards, 30 sin sic and 10 double rises, 

 the following scores were made:— 



yv s Jones 111111111 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 -20 



Vv' ?' Brarkott 1 1 1 11 (1 1 1 11 1 1 1 ] 1 1 1 1-17 



F T.ei.rhen, Jr 0111001111111100 I 11 1-15 



H. H. Tretethen 1 l l o 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1-17 



Epps H, Bracfeett 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 10 1 I II t— 16 



id poesiblj 



SO that it may convey 

 strikes me this might 



e foregoing inlerences 

 aide to make the best 



tv. Stylo, action and 

 npriee "taste, ingenuity 



rarioua ; but for many 

 ommering, mostly w itn 



mage lo the cupboard 

 use for keeping a dog 

 or blue puis. 

 and convenience of a 

 ly conservatism. I hesi- 



ckley. 



W. J. '__ 



W.S.Jones 



W. S.Braekctt 



H.Trefethen, Jr - 



H. Tre-fctl.cn 



Epps Q. li. Braeketb.. 



A.N. Aekley • -» 



W.J. Craig.. 



oiiooi i iioioiioooii i— is 

 i) i o o o o o o o o o o o o o 1 1 1 ii- i 



11 11 11 II 11-10 



11 01 11 II 111— 8. 



11 10 11 11 01—8 



00 to 01 10 01- I 



.00 11 01 11 00—5 



ii oo n iii io- a 



10 01 01 01 11- B 



The Peak Island Shooting Club bold one of its annual shoots 



for the gold badge, Fast Day forenoon : at B0 lull Is, 00 from Card's, 



rotary trap, S3 yurtls rise ; and 111 doubles:— 



Single. 



L.B. SKUlingS 11 1 1 1 1 1 01 1 1 1 1 to I 1 1 1 1— Iff 



A ("i sterling lllllllfllOllllllll 1-10 



it Tr " e heii.Jr 11111110 11111111111 1-10 



11 H Tr..(Vl,hen ] 1 1 1 1 1 I I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-1B 



W 8 Jone* 1 1 1 n l i 1 l 1 1 1 1 1 l 1 1 1 1—17 



.1 w. Sterling tiooilll II 1 10011 ill f -if; 



,.- : ui-.n-kt'dt 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I n-in 



'■ ' i, , hnr 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I 1 1 1 1 1 1 0—15 



John Mnssuru 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1-16 



A W. Parsuns 11110 11110 1 111 0-12 . 



H .A. Jones 10 11111111110 10 10 10 1-15 



H S II Braokett 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I 1 1 I 1 1 1 0-14 ! 



E.B.siuung I n 1 I 11 1 1 1 1 1 J 1 1 I I 1 001-17 . 



■ihen 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1-15 



,' s 'st evens 000 1 1 10 1 1 1 1 1 .1 1 II 0-13 



i - i: , ,i ;l ii ii n l l o j o in itn ooilii i-ia 



ok 1 I) 1 1 u 1 o 1 1 1 1 1—9 



i v Ackley. I 010 11 10 1110 111 1 1 0-1$ 



Doi 



J. W. Sterlir 



John Ma 



gUage, the elements of distan 

 " nineetion with the word choke. 

 tine intelligible impression . J 1 

 properly; he associated with patt 

 be associated with powder. If ( 

 are true, all makers should be 

 shooting guns of a gives [1 S 

 shape are outside of thi 

 and fit. 



, ?arsl have done' cole.id, i i 

 one tool, with possibly more Q 



than COCk. It has been an ie:< 

 around, and a capital substitute 

 However, the ease, cleaulines: 

 >ader has oonqu 

 fated between a light, hammeriess Greener, perfect iu 

 style and action, and a less symmetrical Fox gun, with 

 Side action. 1 wished to use it in moose hunting in win- 

 ter, and, as I hare experienced difficulty with a drop ac- 

 tion rifle, by its freezing fast in sleet storms, and by snow 

 falling from the branches upon the barrel, and thawed 

 by the grip of the hand near the break-off, I was at- 

 >ve .iu,, and decided to 

 get an inexpensive one. to try bow 1 would like it. So 

 I gave my order for one, It" was to be a perfectly plain. 

 ling gun, wit.ii a eharge, of one ounce of shot 

 over two pink wads and fOUl i if No. 1, Curtis 



& Harvey's Diamond powder. Barrets plain tv, is 

 with right eylin.; 



(SO-called) j without limit in price. It cost within the 



price named by o iu] : ' : " for a good gun, and 



weighesl just 7 fibs. 



I used it some, in the fall of '78: but, as 1 was weak 



I ii 4li too heavy and too stiff in its 



movement to give me pleasure, so I went back to my old 



I Mesne. Allan & Deaiee 



However, I used it nil last fall upon English Snij 

 blade ducks, and found it soon woie smooth, and very 

 handy aud agreeable. It was all that was promised, and 



H. A. Jones 



H.K It. ltiaekelt 

 E. E. Skillina 



... 11 11 II 11 11-10 



. 1(1 II II 



.... 01 II II 1(1 



... 11 1! 11 II 10 



... 10 11 10 11 11 S 



... 10 II 10 II 11—8 



.... 01 10 11 10 11- 7 



.... 10 10 in II II- 7 



.. ., u n 10 i.«i in- fi 



... Ill 10 II II II— s 



.... 10 le II 00 l»- 5 



.... 10 10 II in 10- ii 



... Ill l»l 91 10 00- 2 



.... bo ii ni in oo— i 



P « Stevens I" 11 11 '" 



t'f Kandali.'... 10 10 10 In 10-5 



E T Kelliie.fdi 10 HI 11 10 10 - ti 



A. Y." Ackley > '" '>"> ' :; 



In the afternoon, five on a side were eboseu by Jones and Skill- 

 ings to shoot for a supper — 



SKIT.I.tNGS' SlilE. 



SingJC. Douhle, Tntal, 



L. E. Skillings hl 1 26 



A.Li.HferhnK ill 10 30 



W.S. Brnckctl - IS 5 S3 



IJ, H. Ti-efetlicn 15 « 81 



f'.S. Stevens 11 5 10 



JOKES' S1UE. 



142 



W.S.Jones 



H. Tri letlu'ti, Jr. 

 j. w. sterling 



a.B. h. 



10 



A. G. Sterling shot SO straight, the Bret consecutive 30 incur 

 club. A. V. Aeaii.EV, 



leu relary Peak island Shooting Club. 



The State shoot BtpteeOns will neheldai Mil pirn sin) epti no 

 her, for the diamond budge, and any one having wild or lame 

 birds for sale later in the season can address A. Y. Auklfi 

 tttry Peak Island Shooting Club, Maine. 



Marlboro', itai) :th.- Glass-ball matoh between a team o£ t 

 men of the Marlboro' Sportsmen's Chili and a team of ten men 



the l.ynu Cen a] B u's cinti, of Lynn, Mass., *|ng D 



thirty balls, thrown from an extra swift rotary i ran at 1H yards 

 rise :— 



M.UU.BOHO' TtASl. 



H W Edsar. ... 11 1 1 1 1 1 1111 1 1 1 01 1 1 1 ] 1 1 10111111-28 



I G Howe. 1 1 1 1 lei, , 1 1 I i Ml I I 1 I I 1 1 I. 1 1 1 1 1 1 l-L'5 



AT Pond....... 111111 011 10111 II 1110 I t I 1-20 



Vk Hudson..., 1011 1 HI 1 1 1 1 1 '"I 1 lion] Ion 1 11 11-2-1 

 T .1 lieandry , i 1 1 I I I I n I 11 I I I I I I I I I I I 1 II ) 0-25 

 E - .,.' s „,i,|i ..ii J l I lot I l I 1 I 10 1 11 nil oni nun -:.';-, 



fi' I'BnirK • oo to l I 101 io i i i i i i o i i K t l i I 0-20 



O B' Brush.... ., 1 10 1 ] I I 1 1 1 1 1 1 o i ; i ,i a 



T v s Fav . .. Oil 110111 111! 011 11111 1 11111 1 t— 2ti 



W. S. Perry". 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-20 



Total 245 



I.V--.H THAW. 



E rinrv i oi ooi i til loooi lioiiooii ion i 



M li. Toekeie... Ill 1 101 11111 1 1 01 01 I I 11 I I 1 



E W Wi-bi-tcr. 1 1 1 loo 1 It 1 1 101 1 10 I loo II I 1 I 10 I 



, 101 I 1 1 101 1 I 1 I 1010) 1110 1 1 1 ill I 



r f Si ha "" ' ! ii J I I ot I I I i l i i i l 1 11 



;;,.„. \y. Baldwin. flOl 1 n o 1 1 I i I 1 I I 1 1 1 o a ' , 



(cowe loiioiti 11(1110 i too i i i oool l i i i i i 



II, Hard I I 000 I 101100 10000010 I 00 



f. a. .loli.e i i : i ; i o iiiinillil 



•p. a. Johnson., l i l nil no ) t 1) i nit it DOo i i ■ i 







' Shut in place of Belcher, who didn't reach 1 je grounds in sea 

 son for the match. 



Naticii i'>.CocuiTi..ATE.-NK!ie7,,^/uy SUi.-Thesij.jii- ' 



their grounds to-day, with the tjoehltuuto tUub, and ha'l a nuueli 

 shoot Bt ten rotary and ten doubles. The visitors stated when they 



i-io 

 io 



n -15 



