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seven grouse ; Smith and Cruttenden three grouse and 
ten ■woodcock. All unite in saying that they never put 
up so few birds. Hammerless. 
New York Gun Club.— Bergen Point, N. J., Sept , 6th. 
— In a match at 25 birds, 80 yards rise, 5 traps five yards 
apart, Dr. Fellner and Col. Armstrong tied on 22 each, 
the former winning the shoot off. 
Stamford, Sept, 6th .—Buffed grouse will be exceed¬ 
ingly plenty this fall, and bears have shown up near the 
settlements on several occasions, much to the annoyance 
of berry-picking damsels. Ned, 
Long Island.— Match shot by Wm. King, of the Long 
Island Club. 25 double birds at 21 yards, against Cornell 
Ditmer, of Flatlands, 50 single birds at 24 yards rise. Shot 
at Parkville, L. I., Aug, 29th. The score was King, 
40; Ditmer, 37. 
An Old Veteran on Moonlight.— Stamford, N. Y.. 
Sept , 6th .—There is more honest sense in the brief but de¬ 
cisive language of your correspondent, J. A. Lindsay, 
from Arkansas, in your last, regarding deer feeding by 
moonlight, than in columns from my pen and those of 
all others in your paper on that subject published hither¬ 
to. His experience Bhould be enough to satisfy all moon¬ 
shiners on the subject. 
I wish he had written a word or two on the sporting 
rifle controversy. I hold that my Sharp, 45 calibre, 2j 
shell, 500 grains lead and 100 grains powder, is as good as 
the host, and needs no expressage on large game. 
Ned Bcntline. 
Remarks. —The matter of fact of the whole business 
is, that deer feed when they can see best. If the nights 
are dark they feed by day ; but they prefer to feed at 
night, because they are less apt to be disturbed then.— 
Ed. F. & S. 
New Jersey,— Red Bank, Sept. 2d. — Prospect for 
quad in this country good. G. H. IV. 
—The gunning season was opened in Pennsylvania on the 
1st, and never before were so many sportsmen out after 
rail and reed birds. The reports of the success of the reed 
shooting are very encouraging to sportsmen. 
Pottsville, Sept. 5th .—On Tuesday evening, this week, 
the Pottsville Game Protection Association had a meeting 
at the Merchant’s Hotel, and a committee appointed to 
make arrangements for the opening day shuffle and 
spread, the advent of the occasion being the 15th hist. 
Usually our sportsmen and their former friends look 
forward to these occasions with enthusiastic anticipations. 
But information comes to ns that the partridge crop will 
be very short thiB season on account of the extended fire- 
fiend of our mountains. The mower and reaper ma¬ 
chines annihilate the propagation of the birds in uncovered 
grounds ; this seems to be confirmed by leading opinions. 
Whether this will apply to other winged game of the field 
and forest I have no authority to say at present. Rabbits 
are well distributed and plentiful, and yet, here, right 
under the nose of the association they are dogged to 
death long before frost removes the inevitable worm. 
Don Pedbo. 
Pennsylvania Wild Turkeys— BIain,Sept. 3d—Editor 
Forest and Stream: — Dr. McCoy, a gentleman of sport¬ 
ing proclivities, drove me to the adjoining mountains 
and “turned me loose ” on the fox squirrels that abound 
near town. Having shot all we could conveniently carry 
through the woods, returned to the carriage. On the 
way off the mountains we flushed any quantities of wild 
turkeys, but as they cannot be shot" until October 15th, 
we had to keep hands off. I intend to visit this pleasant 
town of Blain after the loth of October to renew my ac- 
uaintance with the Doctor and give the turkeys a whack. 
wish some of my sporting friends would try and make 
it suit to he on hand at that time, as I intend camping in 
one of the many “shanties” on the mountain, and have 
a promise from the Doctor to spend as much time with 
mo as possible. The woodsmen report more turkeys this 
year than there for years. Salesman. 
Philadelphia, Sept. 2d .—Myself and friend went out on 
to the Delaware marshes yesterday and killed forty-eight 
reed birds, of which we lost more than half, however, 
having no retriever with us. We also bagged several 
dowitcher snipe. The pot-hunters wore out in full force; 
some in order to get the start came down Sunday, but 
were prevented from shooting by the police. The reed 
birds were numerous but flew high; they are not in good 
condition, being very small and lean. " Dupont. 
Delaware.— Rail and reed bird shooting is now in full 
progress. Scores of birds are bagged daily, and, as 
usual, the favorite marsh shooting grounds are over¬ 
crowded with gunners. 
Delaware as a Shooting Ground—M r. Editor :— 
Dover is a small town of about 3,000 inhabitants, situ¬ 
ated about a quarter of a mile from Jones’ Creek, eight 
miles from Delaware Bay by what is called the Bay road 
and five miles by a straight line. The mouth of the creek 
is ten miles distant by the road, but more than thirty 
miles by the creek, which is the crookedest stream you 
ever saw. In the channel it is pretty deep, but on both 
sides it is very shallow and grown up with spatter docks. 
It seems to me very strange that in a country like this, so 
very sandy, the bed of this creek and of all others is all 
mud, soft and shmy, though you wouldn’t think so to 
look at the water, which is very clear. Another peculi¬ 
arity is that on one side of the creek is a steep bank from 
ten to twenty feet high, and on the other there is a 
swamp. Sometimes the. swamp is on one side and some¬ 
times on the other. Running from the creek into these 
marshes are small inlets five to ten feet Mode, but deep 
enough to float a light skiff. 
The most serviceable boat here is a light skiff. Mine is 
thirteen feet long, top measure, narrow and low, and 
painted a very dark lead color, so that fifty yards off you 
can scarcely see it. It wiJl easily carry two persons, but 
no more, In going long distances 1 use a pair of very 
light oars, six feet long. I do a great deal of shooting, 
and shoot a great many small birds for their skins and 
Wings, for we have some beautiful birds here, 
A peculiarity about the birds here is that when scared 
np they start straight away, hut in a few moments they 
return and fly past you so close that often you can get a. 
better shot at the smaller birds when they return, It is 
very tantalizing, after you have fired at one as soon as it 
started and missed, it, to see it return and fly past within 
ten yards of you before you have time to slip in a new 
shell. This would not happen if a double gun were used, 
but the best gun for general shooting here is a light single 
barrel, as most of the shooting is snap shooting, and the 
gun must, be handled very quickly if you want to bag 
anything. I use a single-barrel Remington shot gun (not 
rifle), which works on exactly the same plan as the Rem¬ 
ington rifle, and. is in my opinion the most convenient 
gun for loading that ever was made. The barrel is slight¬ 
ly choke-bore, thirty-two inches long, sixteen-bore, and 
the weight'of the whole gun is only six pounds, bo that 
one can carry it a long distance without tiring, and it 
can he handled very quickly. When I showed it to an 
old sportsman here he said he would rather have one like 
it with a laminated steel barrel than any double-barrel 
gun he ever saw. That is saying a great deal, as he used 
a double-barrel gun which cost $300. 
We have here woodcock, snipe,frail-birds, reed-birds, 
partridges, and ducks. The principal kinds of ducks are 
the wood or summer duck, and the crow or black duck, 
with a few canvas-backs and teal, and occasionally a 
straggler of another species from another place. 
C. D. G. 
Minnesota.— Spring Valley, eight miles west of La 
Crosse, is a good place to start out for pinnated grouse 
shooting. There are several well-trained dogs at Spring 
Valley, among them Prof. M. F, Varney's Kaiser and Mr. 
E. W, Allard’s Kaiser, jr. 
Window , Aug. 31st.—Am having good grousing here. 
—W. A. W., of Memphis. 
Nevada. —The Sierra Valley Shooting Club, of Vir¬ 
ginia City, are organizing a great hear hunt to begin 
Sept. 15th, and last six days. The hunters will shoot any 
bear coming in then - way, but the particular object of 
their pursuit is “ Old Bruin,” a monster which has been 
known and dreaded for over twenty years. 
Canada. — St. Thomas, Sept. 4th .—Woodcock have been 
very scarce around here this last month (August), sev¬ 
eral of the sportsmen bagging as few as one and two, 
after a good deal of walking and sweating. There is a 
good show of quail and partridge, however, and a few 
wild pigeons, which will have to be bagged next month. 
G. R. 
Practical Penetration— Editor Forest and Stream:— 
My gun is a Parker, plain twist, 30 inch, 10 lbs. weight, 
and shoots 10 A shell, f inch long. The gun is evi¬ 
dently choked-borea, but whether full or modified I do 
not know. I poled myself through the wild rice, drop¬ 
ping the pole and snatching up the gun and shooting 
when I flushed a duck. The average of ducks rose at 
30 yards ; the longest shot was 11 or 13 rods; the nearest 
6 rods. Every shot that hit, but two, brought the bird 
down dead. These two fell dead 20 to 25 rods away. 
One shot at five mallards, at 11 or 12 rods, brought down 
two dead and wounded a third badly. Wood duck fell 
at 7 and 8 rods as dead as if wilted by lightning. These 
birds if wounded will, four out of six times, get away by 
diving and hiding ; lienee yon see how important it is to 
kill them at once. 
At 8 rods the shot is, with this load in this gun, not 
only carried close but distributed in a circle as evenly as 
if the holes had been punctured for a large pepper-box. 
Repeated trials prove this. The gun certainly shoots aston¬ 
ishingly well. I missed twice ; those mysterious misses 
sportsmen cannot account for except by bad aiming, 
There were 14 ducks killed out of 10 shots that hit, one 
shot killing two. The load was 5 drs. powder, 1 pink 
edge No. 8 wad, lj oz. No, 0 shot, and 1 No. 8 pink edge 
wad, shells metallic, powder not very coarse. Veritas. 
Oconto, Wis., Aug. 25th. 
American Guns.— Messrs. Parker Bros.: I order this 
gun against the opinion of the great majority of sports¬ 
men here who have strong prejudice towards t he American 
guns, giving invariably the preference to English ones, 
which they consider the very best; in which opinion I 
do not join, thinking that under the Stars and Stripes as 
good a gun can be made, if not better, than anywhere 
else, ana only hope that Messrs. Parker Bros., will send 
me such a gun as will teach them a good lesson, and 
make them change their minds. Let the gun serve as a 
sample of what the Americans can do. Joseph F. Ulmo, 
Matanzas, Island of Cuba. — [Ado.] 
—The gun cleaning implements advertised by T. Yard- 
ley Brown, of Reading, Pa., are well worth the cost, and 
anyone investing a dollar and a half will not regret it, if 
all are furnished like the sample sent us. 
—W. S. Macey, Esq., and a son of Rev, Dr. Van 
Dyke left this city last Tuesday for Northwestern Minne¬ 
sota and Manitoba, where they will work with pen and 
pencil in the interest of Harper's Magazine. They will 
prepare two illustrated articles, one on the resources, im¬ 
migration, and internal improvements of that section, and 
the other a purely sporting sketch, giving sornej account 
of the game of that region and the variohs methods of 
taking it, While in Minnesota they will make their 
headquarters at thc„town of Hallock, the county seat of 
Kittson county, and ocoupy the shooting box of John 
Swainson, Esq., which is located, in the timber, in the 
moose and elk country twenty miles up the river. They 
will be gone six weeks. 
A Syracuse Expert.— Mr. O. G. Jones, of Syracuse, 
has recently come into prominence among the sportsmen 
of that city, as an expert, shot, The other day, using one 
of the Baker & Co.’s three-barreled guns, Mr. Jones ac¬ 
complished several times in suceessjou the difficult feat 
of breaking three glass halls thrown into the air at once, 
twenty feet apart, using both of the shot barrels and the 
rifle barrel. 
TRAP SHOOTING. 
Fountain GUN Club Brooklyn, Sept. 3d. — Fifth con¬ 
test for club prizes Mr. Wingert took the first prize 
IrilUng 13 sraityrt at 25 yards : Mr, Haas the second, kill 
mg 12 out of lira, 26 yards, and Mr, Belovor third, killing 
10 out of 1[ at vu ynAlH. There were 14 shooters. 
Fountain Gun Club —Brooklyn Thriving Park, L. J., 
Sept. 2d .— Regular monthly shoot for the Club badge. 
Weather cloudy and. .-Any ;— 
Name. Yards. 
Wingert . 25 
Hass. ») 
Selover . 25 
Miller. 21 
Madison. 25 
Pike. 25 
White . 25 
Hicks . 25 
Cleaver . 
Bro 
S3 
Sberdtm . 21 0 1 0 1 
He Prairie. 23 1 0 1 0 
Helmsted. 25 110 0 
Curtin. 23 0 1 0 1 
Ties;— 
Wingert. 
Hass.. . .. 
Solovor.. 
1 1 1-7 
1 1 1-7 
1 1 1-7 
11H 
1 0 1-8 
1 1 1-fl 
10 1-5 
1 0 1-fl 
1 0 1-5 
0 1 0-5 
1 t 1-0 
1 1 1—5 
1 0 1-1 
0 10-3 
1 1 1 1 1-8 
1111 0-5 
110 —3 
C. 8,Evans... 
C. Howe. 
T. Martin.... 
L, H. Barrows.. 
P. Taft. 
A.H. Harrison.. 
Hopkinton, Sept. 5th .—At the closing glass ball shoot 
of the season at Wilkinson’s grounds last week, G. S. 
Evans won the first prize, a silver cup. The following 
are the best scores of a possible 20 :— 
C. White . fl 
C. Taft . n 
W. H. Dennett..... .;. 8 
It. V. Brooks..... . 8 
T. Wilkinson. 7 
J. H. Hunter . T 
The ties for the bag of shot, second prize, were shot off 
with 5 balls, and L. H. Barrows won. 
Pennsylvania— Cataivissa, Sept. 2d.—Editor Forest 
and Stream : — Enclosed please find score of a glass-ball 
shoot by the Catawissa F. and G. P. Club; Card’s rotary 
trap; 18 yards’ rise; 10 balls each. A prize of a very 
handsome and valuable trout rod was offered by Presi¬ 
dent H. B. Aldrich to the best score, and winning it him¬ 
self he has offered it again :— 
H. il. Aldrich. 
A. Thomas . 
W. Orange. 
T. P. Cberrington 
I*. Waters . 
Tbeo. Fox. 
G. Lavcyck. 
A. Sl.'nlh r 
T. E. Harder. 
A. A. King . 
L. V. 1< rcigh . 
<". Haley ■ ■ 
J. H. Gear.v . 
G. W. Roifsnyder 
C. M. Drinker . 
J.*. Gibbs. . 
1-0 
0-7 
1-7 
1-8 
1 1 ! 0 1 1 1 1 1 
.1110 10 111 
.1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 
. 0 J 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 _ 
.301110100 0-6 
.111110011 0-7 
1100010101-5 
.111010000 1-5 
.0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 -4 
0101101001-5 
.0101110111—7 
.001001 0010—8 
.000000000 0—0 
0 1 _ 
.000 
10 0 10 
J. K. libiiwu. 0 0 0 0 0 0 
1 0 1-5 
1 1 1 0—4 
10 0 l—t 
1000—1 
G. W. It. 
Franklin, Sept. 3d .—Regular match for club prize 
badge ; grounds of the Outetout Sportsmen’s Association ; 
Card’s trap ; Bogardus rules. 
B. Smith . 1110 1 1 
L.Hino.1 1 0 1 1 1 
It. Walker... . 0 0 1 1 1 1 
Isaac Buell . 111111 
N. Jordan. I 0 1 0 0 0 
J. Rutherford. . 1 1 1 o 1 l 
C. Warner . 1 1 0 
D. Bartlclt: . 1 1 1 
D. Harris . 1 0 1 
W. Hamilton . 1 1 1 
Ties ; 
1. Buell. 10 11 1-4 1 1. Buell . '1 1111-6 
D. Bartlett . 1111 0-4 I D. Bartlett. 0 110 1-3 
Following the badge shoot was the free for all, for gold 
lined silver cup :— 
111-9 
111—9 
110-7 
1 1 1-10 
1 0 0- 4 
10 1-7 
10 10 0-4 
1111 1-10 
110 1 l—R 
0 0 111-7 
C. Fuller. 
A. Burdick . 
.1. Rutherford. 
D. Harris. 
It. Walker . 
L. Hfuc.. 
C. Warner.. 
I. Buell. 
D. Bartlett. 
R. Jacobs. . . 
G. Carr. 
A. Clark. 
B. Drake . 
W. Hamilton.. 
0111111111—9 
.1111311110-9 
.10 11110 0 10—8 
1101110000-5 
.1011011111—8 
.1110110100-8 
.0 0 11-5 
111 1-10 
1 J 0 1- s 
0 10 1—0 
110 0-8 
0 0 10—5 
0 1 1 1— S 
10 0-8 
.111111 
.11110 1 
.10 110 1 
.111111 
.10 10 11 
Isaac Buell makes the best score of the day, 29 out of 
30, winning the prize and cup. D. F. 8. 
New .1 ersey— Manahawkin, Sept. 47/t.~First contest 
between Upper and Lower Freehold teams of ten mem¬ 
bers each at ten birds, 21 yards rise :— 
1 .0 
V. E. Hegler. 
a. C. Taltnage. 
D. Buck. 
Jack Buck. 
John Buck. 
T. Snyder. 
T. Laird. 
E. Vandcrveer. 
J. L. Perfume. 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1-5 
J. II. McLain. 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0-8 
Total.62 
_ . _ _ 1 1—8 
110010-8 
ooii l—r 
1111 0-5 
1111)1-7 
10111—7 
0 0—7 
‘ 0-5 
0 10 0 
L FREEHOLD TEAM. 
.10 1110 1 
1 0-9 
0 1-7 
. ..1 H 
0 110 0-8 
01010-4 
11001—4 
11110-8 
0111 1-8 
1011 0—8 
10 10 0-7 
..57 
E. W. Ho war 
C. B. Hears.. 
G. E. llowan 
O. Giberson. 
E. Em ley.... 
H. Stewart.. 
C. Bullock. .. 
E. W yelcoff.. 
G. Giberson 
il. Pointett 
Total. 
The match was shot upon the elegant private groimds 
of E. Vanderveer. A most sumptuous repast was pro¬ 
vided by the Lower Freehold Club. The birds were an 
extraordinary lot of strong flyers, and a stiff breeze pre¬ 
vailing at the time accounts in a great measure for the 
comparatively low scores. M. 
Illinois— Warsaw, Sept. 4th .—On last Friday, the 
Warsaw Sportsmen’s Club had a pigeon shoot on a sand 
bar in the Mississippi river, opposite this city, which af¬ 
forded many advantages, Buch as good hack-ground, ab¬ 
sence of skirmishers, etc. They used a plunge trap, had 
a clear day and made the following scores ; — 
First match, 21 yards rise ; 10 birds each. 
0 J 0 1 1 1 11 0-1 
.,. B. Worthen. 
T. lb Worthen.. ., 
J. B. Worthen,... 
A. H. Worthen. .. 
C. K. Wurthen _ 
W. Zuppann. ... 
W. Piedrit . 
C. Maxwell. 
li. Jeffords. 
W. 8. Hill. 
A. H. Hill . 
J.BreUensieiu... 
O. Edwards . 
J, A, pavte. 
.1111 1 
1 1 1 1 l 
,11111 
_ 1-8 
11010-8 
l 0-9 
1 1 
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.0 0 0 0 0 
1—8 
. _ 0-4 
0 0 1-3 
- 0 * 1-7 
*1111 0—8 
11100 1—8 
11101 1-7 
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111111-9 
