FOREST AND STREAM, 
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To the competitor making the second and third highest aggre¬ 
gate scores, second okas, $25 aod $15. 
To the competitor making the second nnd third highest aggre¬ 
gate scores, third class, $23 and $15. 
To the competitor making the second and third highest aggre¬ 
gate scores, fourth class, $25 and $15. 
To the competitor making the highest aggregate score of three 
days with a Remington rifle, a Remington Oreedmoor rifle. Value 
$100.—Prize offered by E. Remington Sc Sous. 
To the competitor making the highest aggregate score of three 
days with a Sharp's rifle, a Sharp's standard long-range rifle. 
Value $100— Prize offered by Sharp’s Rifle Company. 
To the competitor making the highest aggregate seore of three 
days with a Ballard rifle, a Ballard long-range rifle. Value $100.— 
Prize offered bv Schoverllng. Daly & ualea. 
To the competitor making the highest aggregate soore of three 
days with Lanin & Rand powder, $50.—Prize offered by Laflin & 
ltaud Powder Company. 
To the competitor making the first completed score in the three 
days, forty-five shots, exceeding 219 points, $50. 
To the competitor making the most centres, 135 shots, one year's 
subscription to the Tu »•/, Field and Farm and one copy of " Perry’s 
Green Book.” 
To the competitor making the most inners. 135 shots, one year's 
subscription to the Forest and Stream and one copy of “Perry’s 
Green Book.” 
To the competitor making the lowest seore, 135 shots, one oopy 
of “Perry’s Green Book." 
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GAME IN SEASON FOR SEPTEMBER. 
Moose, Alee Americana. 
Caribou, B/lngifcr caribou. 
Elk or wapiti, Cactus canad&nsts. 
Red or Vii. deer, C, cirgin'tanus. 
Squirrels, red, blaok and gray. 
Hares, brown and gray. 
Reed or Hoe bird, Dotichonyx or- 
mtuorous. 
AViid turkey, McleagSts gallapavo. 
Pinuated grouse or prairie 
olilckens, Cupldnnia cupido. 
Ruffed grouse or pheasant, Bo¬ 
rneo, umbellus. 
Quail or partridge, Orly.rvirginl- 
Black-bellied plover, ox-eye, 
Syria toroid helcetUM. 
Ring plover, JBgiaHtis scmtpal- 
matus. 
Stilt, or long-shanks, Hlmanto- 
pusniuriciilli*. 
Woodcock, PMlbhda minor. 
Red-breasted snipe, or dwiteher, 
Macrorhampws griseuS. 
Red-backed sandpiper, or ox- 
bird, Tringa Americana. 
Great marbled godwit, or mar¬ 
lin, Limosa feaoa. 
Willet, Totanue semipalmalus. 
Tattler, Totanue mdannlcucus. 
Yellow-shanks, Totanue flavipes. 
“ Bay birds " generally, including various species of plover, sand 
piper, snipe, curlew, oyster-catcher, surf bird, phalaropes, avoceta, 
etc., coming under the group Limaeoloe or Shore Birds. 
EWTliis table does not apply to all the States. 1 1 is meant to 
represent the game whioh is generally in season at this time. State 
regulations may prohibit the killing of some species of game here 
mentioned. 
KfVTho seasons foreliootlngplnnnted grouse or prairie chick¬ 
ens and other birds are as follows in the States named herewith;— 
States 
Pinnated 
Grouse. 
Ruffed Grouse 
Quail. 
Woodcock. 
Jll. 
Ind... 
Iowa.. 
Minu.. 
Wia. . 
Neb... 
Kau... 
Aug 15i*j Deol 
Oct 1 to Feb 1 
Sep 1 to. Dec 1 
Aug 14 to Oct 1 
Aug 25 toJan 1J 
Aug 15 to Feb 1 
Aug 1 to Feb I 
Oct 1 to Jau 1 
Nov. 1 to Jan 1 
Oct 1 to Jan 1 
Sept 1 to Dec 1 
Aug 25 to Janl 
Oct 1 to Jan 1 
Novi to Janl 
Oct 8 to Jan 1 
Sep 1 to Dec 1 
Aug 25 to Janl 
Octl to Dec 1 
Oct 1 to Jim 1 
July 4 to Jan 1 
July 1 to Jan 1 
July 10 toJan 1 
July 3 to Nov 1 
Aug 25 to Jan 1 
NoRestrietions 
Forbidden 
New Jersey State Sportsmen’s Association. —The 
birds have been heard from, and Tom Stagg assures the 
committee that he will he on hand with several thousand 
about the middle of next month. The committee are 
hard at work perfecting their arrangements. The prizes 
are ample and everything bidB fair for a grand success of 
the first tournament of the State of New Jersey. We 
hope to he able to publish the days of the meeting with 
full programme of events and prizes in our next issue. 
Desirable Shooting Privilege to Lease. —We' call 
attention of sportsmen to the advertisement of Dr. John 
R, Baylor, Greenwood Depot, Virginia, who offers to lease 
to approved parties desiring excellent quail shooting, one 
of the most desirable localities in the State. There is no 
doubt of the quality of the tract offered. The doctor, 
however, wishes us to call attention to the fact that the 
2,000 acres which he advertises to lease, are a part of the 
very section recommended by “ Goshawk ” in our last is¬ 
sue, for the hunt and field trials of the Sportsmen’s Nat¬ 
ional Association this fall. While he is ready to welcome 
any reasonable number of proper sportsmen to his abound¬ 
ing fields, he notifies any or all concerned that if they 
shoot over his land, he will expect to be paid for it. He 
has two rooms and three horses at the disposal of guests, 
Canada— Harwood P. O ., Rice Lake, Aug. Kith. — 
The water is low in the lake, and the wild rice is looking 
fine. Summer duck shooting begins on September 1st, 
and from present indications large bags may be looked 
for. Sportsmen mav expert, good fall duck shooting, as 
the feed is here for tliem in large quantities. Guides are 
making preparations already for the fray with canoes, de¬ 
coys, and camping outfits. Henry Merma n. 
Quebec, August 32 d .—Our shoofng season will 
open in a few days and I am happy to say that the 
grouse shooting promises to be exceedingly good. I can 
go out at any time and raise two or three coveys within a 
few hundred feet of my residence, as I live in the woods. 
Snipe and ducks will not come until the storms of fall 
drive them south. J. W, D. 
Magog, Aug. 18th .—I have have been to Megantic 
Lake this summer, and had a fine time. I believe deer 
are as plenty as rod squirrel, as we saw three on the banks 
of the Spider, and I tell you it required an early religious 
training to keep me from having a crack at them. But 
it is cloie season, so I thought I would see them later. 
A. W. Hubbard. 
Maine.— Buckingham, Aug, 20th.—Editor Forest and 
Stream .'—Sportsmen who like to see nature in its wildest 
forms should come here via M. Q. O. & O. R. R. from 
Montreal and drive hack thirty miles to some of the lakes 
near the source of the River Blanche. These waters are 
unrivalled by any in the world for the number of 
salmu fontinalis that they contain. A few days ago 
two rods, one evening at Little Trout Lake, killed 175 
pounds of trout weighing fronj Imlf a pound to tour pounds 
each. Deer, beaver, and other game are said to be very 
numerous there. These lakes are easily reached by a 
passable wagon road from this village, and are fairly 
within the great and unexplored wilderness that extends 
back to the North Sea, and will sooner or later become a 
favorite resort for sportsmen. So far but few parties have 
visited these waters. A party have just come in and say 
that in a few hours they could catch more trout than they 
could save or use up in a camp in a week. Two dollars 
a day will, at the outside, cover all expense per man from 
the time they leave the hotel until they return. Railroad 
fare from Montreal (return ticket), SJ>5.05. Parties con¬ 
templating a visit to this great northern wilderness would 
do well to communicate with J. W, Lynch, Montreal 
Hotel, Buckingham, Quebec. Don’t imagine by the 
above name that either the hotel or village are “swell.” 
The hotel is small, but clean. The proprietor, Lynch, is 
somewhat of a sportsman, and the village—well, deer and 
bear are often killed within its limits. Stanstead, 
Massachusetts— Plymouth Co., Aug. 24th .—Bay bird 
shooting opened with us the first of the month, and has 
been better than for some years past. During the four 
days of storm last week the" gunning on the North river 
was all that could he wished—also at Out river and Clarke's 
Island. There is room for all on North river, and I can 
recommend the Fourth Cliff House, Scituate, to any sports¬ 
men who want good shooting near Boston. A few coots 
have made their appearance, and one party bagged four 
this week. Woodcock are quite plenty this year, and 
some sport will be offered when the law is off. 
S. K. Jr. 
Boston, Aug- 20th. —T. C. Snow, son of the secretary 
of the Tremont Sportsman’s Club, of Boston, shot 13 up¬ 
land plover in the vicinity of East Concord, New Hamp¬ 
shire, on the first day of the open season, H, R. B. 
Hampton Marshes .—An Amesbury (Mass.) correspond¬ 
ent writes relative to a recent report published in these col¬ 
umns, that the abundance of game there stated is not to be 
found ; that sportsmen visiting the Marshes for bay bird 
shooting are sadly disappointed and will he prudent if 
they Btay away. 
Mendon, Aug, 18th .—Very few partridge here. Quail 
bid fair to he plenty this fall. Very few woodcock. 
C. T. 
Connecticut —Bridgeport Aug. 22 d .—Game promises 
to be quite abundant this fall, if not slaughtered before 
the law goes off. Some woodcock have keen killed by 
the pot-hunters, but I don't think that the practice is as 
prevalent as last year, when the law was broken with im¬ 
punity from June 1st on through the summer. As there 
is no game club here no one likes to take upon himself the 
responsibility of prosecuting. S. H. H. 
New York. — Cohoes, Aug. 21st .—There are a few 
partridges here, but the pot hunters have been shooting 
since the first of the month, and by the time the season 
opens there will be none left for those who observe the 
laws. What are we going to do to stop it? The only way 
that 1 can see is to stop all summer shooting, and make ft 
a m isdemeanor, to preserve game, and enforce the laws. 
The laws as they stand now are a dead letter, and might 
as well he abolished. It would not interfere with wood¬ 
cock shooting in this section, for there is none to shoot, I 
only Baw three last August, and they were as wild as 
Comanche Indians, H. M. 
New Jersey —Bloomsbury Aug. 20th .—We have had a 
pretty good woodcock season, aud think game will be 
quite plenty this fall. P. H. 
Il lin ois — Newport, Ind., Aug, 18th . — The open season 
for prairie chicken shooting in Illinois commenced 
August 15th, and on the 14th my friend, William S. 
Reed, of Richmond, this State, and myself started for 
White’s, our old stopping place on the'prairie, 12 miles 
from Newport. But our hopes were blasted, for the next 
morning it was raining a cold, drizzling rain, and con¬ 
tinued aurinjr the day. White went out with us, but we 
only obtained a few hours’ hunting. The chickens were 
mostly under cover in the com, and we only secured a 
bag of 22, and those at the expense of a wetting. The 
morning of the 16th was cool arid pleasant, and Read and 
I had an early start. We took a long tramp over some 
unacquainted' lands which promised well, but were not 
very fruitful—only getting an occasional chicken. About 
ten o’clock we returned to the pasture lands we had per¬ 
mission to shoot upon, where we found several fine 
large coveys of young chicks, aud had some splendid 
shooting until noon, making about one day’s shooting, and 
a total bag of 39 chickens. R. E. S. 
Ohio. — Fulton, Stark Co .—My brother Bert and I were 
out for wooodcock July 18, and bagged twenty-five. 
Twenty-four woodcock "had been shot on the ’ same 
ground before, making forty-nine killed along a creek in 
one mile. Bert and I killed all we saw but three. Our 
dog, Old Bob, is an A1 dog, and knows better where to 
find game than most hunters. I also shot a crane five 
feet high and six feet stretch of wing, that had a bass 
in his craw nine and a half inches long. 
Geo. Hoover. 
Wisconsin.— Baraboo, Aug. 10th.—A few of onr noted 
Nimrods, consisting of the following gentlemen : C, A. 
Swineford, B. K. Cowles, R. H. Strong, George Vittum, 
A. M. Daggett, and George Potter, have just returned 
from their annual chicken hunt near Tracy, Minnesota. 
They say that chickens are not as plenty as last year. But 
had fine sport, bagging about 300 and a number of Jack 
rabbits. E. Holland. 
T exa s —San Antonio, Aug. 0th .—In traveling about I 
have seen abundance of game. The quail are so thick 
that I have not a doubt that an ordinary shot could go 
out almost any where and bag a hundred birds in a day. 
“Bob White’’ ia heard on every side. The deer were 
badly thinned out last year owing to the “black tongue." 
At “ Camp Verdie,’’ from which place 1 have just returned, 
it was almost impossible to ride a mile, on the “ Divides " 
without seeing one or two skeletons. J. O 
Graham, Young County, Aug 15 th.—Editor J 'ettd 
and Stream: —Dear Sir: Will you pardon iav again 
bothering yop about the special wads mentioned by me 
iu my communication which yon were kind enough to 
publish May 32d ? Tha letter of “ Forest Aisle” ip mv i 
last Forest and Stream of August 7th, again brings 
this subject most forcibly before me, and I would 
most earnestly solicit your kind offices in inducing some 
one or other of the large gun firms to get on some of 
these wads—please give me a line or two on this sub* 
ject in the column to correspondents. Mataban, 
One Way to Kill a Duck.— Editor Forest and 
Stream :—Of course, the more plentiful the game the 
greater sport, yet it is not always so; and, il not too 
tedious, I will narrate how my mental faculties were 
profited and my patiences brushed up by the p ersuit of 
one duck. Hunters, like doctors, have great need of pa¬ 
tience whether in sitting all day watching or learning to 
bear a loss occasionally. This was a fine, dreamy, hazy, 
drowsy, golden October day, and just breeze enough to 
make an inland swell from the bay, Far and near tho 
tall rice, bent with tiie weight of a lavish harvest, stretched 
away to the right and left, It was near noon, when the 
teal aud mallard sat priming themselves on the bogs, the 
wood-duck in the bullrushes on the margin, and the 
blue-hills far out on the bay. One blue-bill, an old 
drake, probably settt in as a scout to reconnoiter the 
situation, preparatory to the evening’s flight, came 
suddenly along a cross-shot athwart my bow. To 
cram down the rest of my biscuit, snatch up my gun, 
blaze away, and wing hun was the work of a moment. 
The next instant he dove. When he came up he was a 
loug shot, but I let the other ban-el at him, as a signal to 
heave to, but he didn't heave worth a cent except to 
’• hove up ” his tail and go under. I re-loaded, picked up 
my pole (for we use a polo instead of oars iu the rice) and 
started after him. Whenhenextappearedhewasfour rods 
ahead of the boat. I dropped the pole and fired at the 
tip of his bill which was all that was visible ; still he did 
not heave to, but went down. When next he rose he 
was behind the boat but dove too quick to shoot. I laid 
down the gun and concluded to drown him; so awaited his 
fourth appearance, which was only a little snake-wake on 
the water away out, steering fast for the bay. To pole a 
boat well is a science requiring skill and strength. I flat¬ 
ter myself I have become a sort of combination variety 
of both at the poling business. I went for that duck 
with a vim worthy a better cause. The duck had dived, 
and to see him now, as the boat began to rise and fall 
with “the swell,” whenever he appeared for an instant, 
was no slight accomplishment. The water runs out 
pretty shoal for a half mile and the bottom is good, Btill 
it requires effort to keep up to the duck and not lose him. 
At last he comes up near the boat again. Shew! I say, on 
a motion to strike him, and down he goes. The main 
thing now is not to let him get breath, so every time he 
comes up it is necessary instantly to scare him down. At 
last he begins to swim under the boat and shows Bigns of 
striking his colors, and what’s more, if you notice his 
breathing he begins at last to heave too. Soon he cannot 
dive, and then a blow on the head with the pole (which 
it takes several strokes to hit, without missing at all, at 
all), and the cunning old rascal is secured. If the hunter 
don’t lose his poles, don’t lose his balance, don’t fall over¬ 
board—one thing he does lose, and that is about half the 
usual excitement of the chase. R. W, H. 
Fine Guns. —In another column Francis Tomes’ Son 
advertise some very fine imported guns for sale at prices 
below the cost of importation. This concern is winding 
up the gun department of their business which is the rea¬ 
son of their offering guns made by such well known 
manufacturers asWestley Richards, Scott, Hollis, etc., at 
such low prices. 
—We had a pleasant call the other day from Mi-. E. L, 
Raulett, of the New Orleans Gun Club, who has been in¬ 
specting the groundB of the various shooting clubs in the 
vicinity of New York with a view of introducing their 
best features upon the New Orleans grounds. 
SHOOT ING M ATCHES. 
Massachusetts — Walnut Hill Range, Aug. 20 th.— 
Match at glass balls; singles, 18 yards ; doubles. 15 yards: 
Bogardus’ rules:— 
.I 101 1—4) 
1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 J—IMS 
.1 1 1 1 1-51 
.0 01110000 1-4 1-13 
.1 1 1 1 0-4 
. ...1 1 1 1 1-5 
10 10 10 0 11 0—5 -15 
. 1 1 1 1 1-6 
.1 1 0 I 1-4 
.111011110 1—B >14 
. 1 0 1 0 0 - 2 ) 
.1 1 0 1 1—4/ 
..1 00000001 0-2)10 
.0 1 1 1 1-4 
(Single... 
J. Nichols,... 4Double . 
I Rotary.. . 
I Single. .. 
Re-entry.4 Double.. 
( Itotitry . . 
\ Single... 
U. R. Wiliams 4 Double.. 
I Kotary. . 
Single .. 
Re-entry. J Double. . 
Rotary... 
I Single 
Rotary, 
i Single... 
Re-entry . 4 Double.. 
I Rotary.. 
This competition will he renewed on each Thursday, and 
the match will be closed when the fees equal the value of 
prizes and expenses. 
Milford, Aug. 23 d. —Glass-hall sir ■ to-day on Wilkin- 
son’s ground ; following were best -cores made : trap. . 1 . 
G. Mole’s rotary; rise, 18 yards ; possible 20 : Carver 
patent target ball:— 
Wilkinson . . \ * 
Jacobs. j) 
Dement.,. s 
■Whitney . ’_ .7,','.' 7 
New Jersey —Long Brunch, Aug. 20th .—Long Branch 
Gun Club sliot at ten birds yesterday for an elaborate cup 
presented by Mi'. Presbury of the west End Hotel. The 
result was as follows : — 
Martin. 14 
White. 13 
Brooks.... A 
Evans... 9 
Howe. 9 
C. Livingston 
E. 8. Chapin,.... 
E. Sanford . . 
J. Logan .. 
Ben west. 
J. A. Jameson. 
Ed. Murphy. 
P- TUebaud. 
l. Bright. 
A,B.\VMT!er . 
Filled, Misscxl. I 
IT. e. Clark 
Fd.Fox . 
K. L. Tow tisoud 
. Cant, Wall. Green 
J. BKonm-ly 
W- Kink bam. . 
VT, Hues 
I] Count pe Mhurill' 
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