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Tim Union Metallic Cartridge Company’* sheila are 
much better suited to this dimate than the Howard’s, 
which expand in. the house on a damp day so they will 
not enter the chamber. 
Will yon through your columns name some lubricant, 
or rust preventive, that will keep salt spray from rusting 
a gun ? Eaton's rust preventive does not answer the pur¬ 
pose as well as sperm oil, but neither fill the bill. 
Bexar, 
In permitting a free discussion of topics of interest to 
sportsmen, we have no idea of evoking acrimonious re¬ 
marks. ‘‘Everlasting,” we are sure, had no personal 
insinuations in view, and 11 Bexar” is wrong in ass um i n g 
such, That the shells stick in the chamber is proof of a 
fault, and it is our object, as it is of every one who has 
written on the subject, to find out where the trouble is. 
Wo have found cosmoline to answer very well as a pre¬ 
venter of rust in salt-water shooting. 
Ackno w ledohent.— We have received the following 
card, which explains itself 
Publishers of Forest and Stream :— 
Gentlemen - Permit me to acknowledge receipt of the very 
handsome'and valuable badge, kindly presented by your Company, 
of prize in the Long Range Tournament, held at Oreedmoor, Sept, 
22d, 23d and 2tth, and for which please to accept my hearty 
thauks. Tours very sincerely, 
JVeio rorJf, Oct. 13th, 1879, VT. W. PS Forest. 
The Schuetzen Corps Cup. — New York, Oct. 15 th.— 
Editor Forest and Stream :—At a regular meeting of the 
New Tork Schuetzen Corps, held on Monday the 13th 
inst., at 99 Forsyth Street, Captain Yuengling presiding, 
Mr. F. Harenburg uncovered in your behalf the iuost 
beautiful present you presented to us. Everybody present 
was full of ad miration, and a resolution offered was at 
once unanimously passed, as follows : 
Resolved : That the most heartfelt thanks of the Corps 
be tendered to the Forest and Stream and Rob and 
Gun Publishing Co. for the beautiful meerschaum pipe 
they presented us. This resolution shall be entered on our 
minutes and a copy of the same bo sent to the named 
Publishing Company for the New York Schuetzen Corps. 
Dated G. Yuengling, Captain. 
B. H. TTenkun, Secretary. 
(^<w\c m\d 0wf. 
GAME IN SEASON FOR OCTOBER. 
I Wild turkoy.afeleaprte gallopmo. 
Pinnated grouse or prairie 
chickens,’ Cupidonta cupido. 
Ruffed grouse or pheasant, Bo- 
nasa umbcllus. 
Quail or partridge, Ortj/x vtrgtni- 
anus. 
Moose, Alee Americana. 
Caribou, Rangifer caribou. 
Elk or wapiti, Oervus canadensis. 
Red or Va. deer. C. oirginianus. 
Squirrels, red, black and gray. 
Hares, brown and gray. 
Reed or rice bird, IMiUchoni/x Or. 
yxivorous. 
£5?*Tins table does not apply to all the States. It Is meaDt to 
represent the game which isgenerally in season at this time. State 
regulations may prohibit the killing of some species of game here 
mentioned. 
The Gajlt.ard Club of Natchez.— -The Editor of 
Forest and Stream has received formal notification of 
his election as an honorary member of the Gaillard Club, 
of Natchez, Miss., and in acknowledging the courtesy so 
unexpectedly extended, wishes to say that gentlemen at 
the North, so far as our personal acquaintance extends, 
appreciate such evidences of comity and good will coming 
from that section. We shall ever take an especial in¬ 
terest in the proceedings and prosperity of the Gaillard 
Club, and wish it all the success which its praiseworthy 
objects deserve, namely, the “ preservation of game in 
Mississippi, trap-shooting, and such sports as are enter¬ 
taining to markesmen and sportsmen in general.” We 
are glad to observe that increasing attention is being paid 
to game preservation in the South. 
The officers of the Gaillard Club are R. H, Calhoun, 
President; W. Dunbar Jenkins, Secretary. This club was 
organized in 1875. 
Massachusetts Men in the Southwest. — Messrs. 
Win. Jarvis, the breeder of the celebrated Elcho-Rose 
puppies, and John Fottler, jr., owner of Berkely, and a 
leading member ot the Massachusetts Kennel Club, are 
visiting the St. Louis Bench Show, and taking a couple 
of weeks’ chicken shooting. The dogs they have with 
them are the well-known Irish cracks, Elcho, Rose, Duck, 
and Berkely. 
Tin-Coated Shot. —I recently made some experiments 
with different kinds of shot, which proved conclusively 
that tin-coated shot gave a pattern much inferior to either 
soft- or chilled shot. My experiments coincide perfectly 
with those of 0. M. A, ” in the October 2d No. of Forest 
and Stream. The guns used were a Fox and a Sootfc. The 
cartridges were carefully loaded exactly alike, and in 
every shot fired the tin-coated shot gave a poor pattern. 
Chilled shot gave the best pattern by a slight percentage; 
soft shot next; while tin-coated shot was about 20 per cent, 
behind. I did not test for penetration, as I regard tliis 
merely a question of more powder. I was favorably im¬ 
pressed with tin-coated shot, until repeated nnaccounta- 
bles, while hunting, led me to test it as above. 
W. L. Carpenter, U, S. A. 
Fort Omaha, Neb., Sept . G< 7 i. 
Grouse Shooting in Scotland,— Shooting upon the 
Dahiawellan moors in Caithness is good, Wm. A. Adams,of 
Walford Manor, Shrewsbury .England, has killed 618 brace 
of game, besides sundries to his own gun. This is the 
largest bag this season to any one gun, and was made over 
dogs in twenty-one days. Mr. Adams uses a central 
fire, No. 12, with Bessemer steel barrels, weighing six 
pounds six ounces in all, and shoots with three drachms 
of Curtis & Harvey No. 3, and one ounce of small No. 6 
Newcastle chilled shot. Mr. Adams is well known in 
America among railroad circles, and, we may add, has 
reached his fifty-eighth year. 
Rhode Island— Newport, Oct. 9th.— The fall shooting 
so far has been very good ; one man bagged sixty-two in 
one week's shooting. Teal and wood ducks and other 
kinds of small ducks are shot at the Large Pond, near 
the beach. Some few snipe and woodcock are killed be¬ 
fore the law is off. In fact but few sportsmen pay any 
regard to the law. Occasional. 
Pennsylvania — Youngstown, Oct. 9th. —The season for 
ruffed grouse began on September 1st, yet few bags have 
beenmade tliat arc worth mentioning. A gentleman re- 
sidingon the outskirts of this city was somewhat sur¬ 
prised onemorning last week, to see a pheasant come 
crashing through his parlor window, and fall dead on the 
carpet. Dior. 
Georgia— Macon, Oct. 9th. —Here we go down our 
river, the Ocmulgee, in the fall and winter, when it is 
sufficiently swollen by the mins for the water to reach 
the overhanging branches of the willow. The shooter 
sits forward and the paddler In the stern. The boat is 
made to skim noiselessly and closely to the willows, and 
frequently the ducks are flushed only a few yards, and 
sometimes only a f ew feet away, and are brought down as 
they go down stream. The secret of success is in keeping 
very close to the bank, so as to escape observation of the 
keen-eyed game. This could not be done with oars ; the 
various obstructions would compel going far out. 
J. S. B. 
Cairo, Oct. 10th, — The bird season has opened 
gloriously, and I am having all the sport I want. You 
Northern spoilsmen who have never been South 
have no idea of the number of birds a moderately 
good dog will find in a day; at least twenty 
eovies on ground with favorable weather, or say from 
three to four hundred birds. How is that for high ? 
A. W, 
Ohio —Ndsonville, Oct. 5th. —Quail are very abundant 
here, and if it were not for the foolish Granger law ex¬ 
cellent sport could be had. I know of at least a dozen 
coveys within half a mile of my house. Ihavenot pointed 
a gun at them yet, but it's very hard to say what I may 
do toward them before next New Year’s. I have been 
shooting ruffed grouse and grey squirrels, which are also 
very plenty, ana as for rabbits, there am lots of them. 
There are very few bird dogs here, and very few wing 
shooters. The quail am not hunted till the snow is on the 
ground, when they are tracked and killed when they are 
huddled together. 
If a couple of spoilsmen were to come hem (Monday 
Creek Station), and bring a couple of good pointers or 
setters, I nil! guarantee them exoellent ruffed grouse 
shooting. 
I have seen several flocks of wild pigeons in the woods. 
Rob Rot, 
Ohio —Cincinnati, Oct. 3d.— The Mercer County Shoot¬ 
ing and Fishing Club, of Cincinnati, O., are making 
preparations for then - annual fall visit to their shooting 
lodge, situated on the south shore of St. Mary’s Reser¬ 
voir, in Mercer Co. They have laid in a bounteous sup¬ 
ply of provisions, and their cook has been engaged. This 
fall they have had built in Cincinnati ten new boats, 
which axe models in the way of shooting craft, particu¬ 
larly adapted for their lake shooting. Two years ago the 
club purchased somel60 acres of land, with a frontage of 
one mile on the water : and have sown wild rice, which 
makes feed and shelter for the birds. They are antici¬ 
pating as usual a glorious time with the ducks. The 
club is a joint-stock organization, and the membership 
numbers amongst them the best wing shots of the State. 
Then - shooting lodge is capable of accommodating twenty 
persons, and is well and substantially built, and furnished 
with every appliance for comfort and convenience. 
On their return I may give you a short history of then- 
trip and its results. McSpegocbacml. 
Amesbury, Oct. 7t7u—Since the fall shooting has com¬ 
menced very little game has been seen around here, and 
but small bags have been made. "While shooting rail on 
Powon stream I shot a large king rail, which measured 
twenty-one inches across the wings, and stood eighteen 
inches in height, and weighed sixteen ounces. He made 
a beautiful specimen when I stuffed and mounted him. 
J. O’L. 
Minnesota,— Atom's, Oct. 10th,— Ducks and geese, 
brant and cranes are very plenty. They are just coming 
on from the North. One man can easily bag from 50 to 
100.ducks per day. W. E, A. 
Nevada— Austin, Sept. 00th— At a rabbit hunt, par¬ 
ticipated in by fifteen man, 486 rabbits were killed in one 
day—from sunrise till dark. The hunting grounds were 
the valleys and caiions surrounding this place. The high¬ 
est number of rabbits killed by any one man of the party 
was 75; the lowest was 9. J. A. Wright scoring the high 
est, and doing the best work. G, E. M. 
British Columbia. — Kootenai Lake, N. W. T., Aug. 
25th. —The Rocky Mountains are the home of tliebig horn, 
elk, deer (three speoies), Rocky Mountain goat or ibex, 
(rare sport, I assure yon, as their ideas and habits are ele¬ 
vated,) bear (three species), grizzly, cinnamon, and black 
or brown. And last, but by no means least, either in size 
or numbers, the moose. Then there are many different 
species of grouse and pheasant, and two kinds of squir¬ 
rels good for food, as well as cougar or California lion, 
wolverine or carcajou, wolves (two kinds), coyotes, foxes, 
(three kinds), and lesser animals of which I do not know 
the name. Buffalo and antelope are prairie animals, the 
latter especially, and seldom come nearer than two miles 
of this place. There is a species of the first named in the 
mountains. All the foregoing I have bought from Indi¬ 
ans who killed or trapped them in this neighborhood, as 
well as beaver, otter, fisher, marten, mink, badger, and 
skunk, which it is proper to enumerate, and Indians have 
told me that there is a colony of prairie dogs across the 
lake. 
Of fish, I have caught in the lake, within 300 yards of 
my house, white fish from 6 to 9 pounds weight, muski- 
nonge fromjg to 23 pounds, and salmon trout from 6 to 17 
pounds, and know of one being caught weighing 47i 
pounds, and brook trout (speckled) from 2J to 6 pounds. 
There are a few Buckers, out very rare ; the others are 
abundant. K, H. A, 
—The genuine Norfolk Shooting Jacket, made of rough 
Scotch goods, oan be had of Schuyler, Hartley & Graham 
of this city. 
Mr. E. H. Madison. 
Mr. Bkidmorc. . 
Mr. Smith. 
Mr. Hess.. 
Mr. Slane. 
Mr. W. Hunter. 
Mr. White. 
Mr. Livingston. 
Mr. Sleover. 
Mr. Conover. 
Mr. Pike. 
Mr. Ditmnr. 
Mr. J.Y. Vnn Wicklon. 
Mr. Wingate. 
Mr. Chappell . 
Mr. Sheridan. 
Mr. Miller. 
Mr. Kerry. 
Mr. Lomkin . 
SHOOTING MATCHES. 
Missouri State Sportsmen.—T he annual convention 
will be held at Kansas City, October 21st to 84th inclusive. 
The prizes in cash amount to $3,100. There are twenty 
contests. All communications should be addressed to D. 
L. Hall, the President of the State Association, Kansas 
City, 
Fountain Gun CLVB.—Parkville, L. I, Oct. 0th .— The 
regular monthly meetiug of the members of the Fountain 
Gun Club ; prize a gold badge ; 7 buds each ; handicap 
yards rise ; 80 yards boundary, from five traps; both 
barrels allowed ; ties decided, "miss and out. The club 
rules to govern 
Name, _ Yards. Killed. 
25 111111 1—T 
. 23 1111111-7 
.... 23 1111111-7 
26 1 J 1 1 1 1 1—7 
. 25 1110 111-6 
. 21 n 1 1 1 1 I 1— 6 
. 23 10 11111-6 
21 1110 111-6 
• • 25 11110 11-6 
. 23 1 0 1 1 l 1 1—6 
. 23 110 1110-5 
. 23 111011 0-5 
. 21 110 110 1—5 
. 20 101110 1—5 
. 25 1 1 * 1 0 3 1-5 
. 21 0 1110 10-4 
. 23 1 0 0 1 0 1 1-4 
. 21 1 0 1 0 0 0 1-3 
. . 21 0 1 U 0 0 0 1—2 
Madison won shoot off with 15 straight. 
Bellevue Range, Oct. 3d . —Raymond Sportsman's 
Club: — 
Single Couple Baton/ 
Trap. Trap. Trap, 
W. H. Witheveil.10 10 
Re outry. 10 6 7—25 
Re-entry. 9 0 10—25 
J. C. Smith. 9 8 9—26 
Re-entry . 9 9 7—25 
Re-entry. 9 7 S—24 
A. S. Andrews . 9 6 10—25 
J. R. Smith. 9 9 0-24 
Re-entry. 8 7 0-21 
C.P. Gleason. 9 5 5-17 
J. E. Nnson. 6 3 0—10 
Re-entry. 4 6 3—12 
K. P. Gleason . 6 5 4—15 
Cataunssa, Pa., Oct. 7 th. — F. and G. P. Club shoot at 
glass balls; Card’s rotary trap; 18 yards rise; 10 balls 
each: — 
T. P. Cherringtou . 1 1 1 l 1 0 1 1 1 1—9 
Wm. Orange.1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1—0 
A. H. Sharpless. 110111111 1—9 
G. W. Retfsuydor. 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0-8 
H. B. Aldrich. 1 101011 11 1—8 
A. Thomas. . 1 1 0 1 1 J 0 1 1 1—8 
Wm. Eger. 110 110 1111-8 
Then. Fox . 100 110111 1-7 
A. Starller. 10 110 0 1111-7 
P. Robinson.0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1-7 
T. E. Harder. 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1—7 
P. Waters. 0 10 1110 10 1-6 
Geo. Waters. 11110 10 10 0-6 
Thos. Abol. 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0-6 
E. E. Fessenden.0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 (1-5 
I. II. Geary. 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0-2 
Total .-. 132 
Toronto Gun Club.— Toronto, Oct. 4 th . — Final match 
at pigeons :— 
Name. 
H. Millar. 
J. Barrett. 
R. Wilson. 
W. Kennedy.... 
W. ViUiers. 
R. Morrison. 
J. B. Graham. .. 
Joseph Taylor . 
S. Staneland.. 
rarrts. Total. 
. 20 1111110 1111 0-10 
. 26 11111111111 1—12 
. 21 01011111111 1—10 
. 24 11011101111 1-10 
. 24 1 l 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1—12 
. 20 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1—7 
. 20 110 1 01110 0 0 0-6 
. 20 101101110 lw. — 7 
. 20 111111111 lw. -10 
A special meeting of the club was called for Thursday 
evening, the 2d inst., for the purpose of presenting the 
prizes, and to make arrangements fon the annual shoot. 
Mr. R. Morrison, Vice President in the chair, presented 
Mr, J. Barrett, with the gold medal, he having scored 47 
out of a possible 48 in the 4 shoots; and the silver 
medal he presented to Mr. W, Villiers, he having scored 
46 out of 48. 
Both gentlemen on receiving the medals made suitable 
speeches, and a very pleasent evening was spent, 
The annual shoot is arranged for the 15 inst. 
Habits of Moose.— Second Connecticut Lake, Sept, 
2 1th ,—I have found a puzzler. I often find the tracks 
of caribou where they will follow a trapper's line ; but 
this week two moose have at different times followed a 
well-beaten path on the east inlet, one co mi ng out to the 
lake shore at a distance of over half a mile from where 
he came on it. He did not leave it where a fallen tree four 
feet high crossed, but jumped over it. What is the cause of 
then-usually avoiding my tracks? Snow remained all 
day on the hills about the lake on the 24th. I fear that 
the moose will yard too near this lake this winter for their 
benefit, unless some still hunters drive them back, I shall 
not be here to do my part, but will give a limited num¬ 
ber of sportsmen outline of the most frequented localities 
if they will do their own hunting. I do not wish to 
assist any man who wants to use his snow shoes and a 
butter-bred dog. ^ Norton. 
—Gen, Randolph B, Marcy, Inspector-General of the 
Army, who has written some of tlio most instructive 
books on hunting, camping, prairie travel and wood¬ 
craft, has just returned from a tour in the regions between 
the Mississippi and the Pacific. Great game wanders 
over the vast plains and along the mountain sides of those 
regions, and the General, like Nimrod of old, is a mighty 
hunter. His party killed in their recent excursion 
what was estimated at thirty thousand pounds— say 
fifteen tons—of game, embracing 37 elk, 37 deer, 9 moun¬ 
tain sheep, 4 grizzly bears, 1 black bear, and 13 autelope. 
Many, if not all, of the numerous posts in the order of his 
official tour were supplied with venison from his abund¬ 
ant store, for which was found, from the places where it 
fell, transportation to camp. 
— A man named Gannon has been convicted of foreery. 
Had the crime been murder, Mr. Cannon would have beeu 
safe. They would not have hung him. A cannon which 
hangs (fire)jaever goes off. 
