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was the next order, and the music echoed on the moun¬ 
tain side aB they were marched to the large saloon for a 
few parting words, and the ceremonies opened with three 
hearty cheers for Capt. Yuenghng, and a speech giving 
him great credit for selecting so fine a resort for the 
annual festivities. Capt. Yuengling responded hand¬ 
somely, and proposed three oheers for ex-Capt. George 
Aery, which met a hearty response. After which, speech- 
making, cheers and music were in order. Col. Wyhert, 
the landlord, was highly complimented. The toast to the 
ladies was not forgotten, and the affair closed with a 
hearty cheer for our guests. During the remarks made, 
the Captain referred to the change of scenery, the new 
life imparted, and the wonders of the Switzerland of 
America. Maj, Aery spoke handsomely of the trip, 
highly complimenting the landlord, and'remarked that 
the corps always came as men, and went home as men. 
At 4,30 p. M. the party started on the return trip atnid the 
firing of cannon, music by the band, and cheers from the 
multitude assembled, 
Oreedmooi■, Oct. 8th . — The New York Rifle Club met 
to-day for weeldy practice and to shoot for the “Donald¬ 
son Trophy," 300 and 300 yards ; seven rounds at each 
distance : winners onoe handicapped, two points, and 
winners twice handicapped, four points. Owing to the 
lateness of the hour in which the match' was shot, the 
scores were not very brilliant, Mr. S. 1\ Wells winning 
the trophy Cor the first time with the following score :—- 
son Yarns. i son ranis. 
S, P. Wells ....5444 44 6-31) |. 4 3 4 4 4 3 S—37—5T 
This was the tenth competition for the trophy, which 
has to be won throe times before becoming the final 
property of the winner. The following is a record of the 
competition for the trophy, showing how it stands : — 
No. of Comp. TT-fniicr. SOI) 300 Total. 
1 .A. J. Hewlett. 20 33 1,3 
2 .n. D. Blyrteixbnrg'li . .. 34 27 HI 
3 .1 . S. Contra. 20 28 ;7, 
4 . .A. ,T. HoxvleH. 30 28 68 
3.K. O’Donnell. 31 27 58 
8 .W H .Dunlap.8t 23 59 
7.Fred Alder. 30 27 57 
B.Fred Alder. 32 30 02 
9 .D. S. Dunks.23 23 57 
70. S. P Wells ... . 30 27 57 
—A prize shooting “ everybody’s match ” commenced 
in Conlin’s Shooting Gallery, 1.222 Broadway. New York, 
on Wednesday, Oct. 15th. Twenty-five (25) valuable 
prizes will be presented. No competitor to win more than 
one prize, 
Jamestown, Oat. lith . — Some very good work was 
done last week with the “ Gallery Rifle" at R. H. Burns’ 
rifle range, distance sixty feet : Creedmoor target reduced 
for range. Among the best scores, possible 25, were: — 
S. C. Van Vleok, E. S. Blakesly, A. F. Warner, W. H. 
Hotchkiss and S. G. Dove, 25 each at 300 yards; C. W. 
Hatch, A. H, Johnson, D. I. Langworthy, Dr. A. F. 
Ward and H. W. Watson, 24 each at 500 yards target. 
Monday, the 20th. commences the “Prize”"shooting for 
38 cal. Ballard rifle and three cash prizes. 
PlNACENTER. 
—The Columbia Everybody’s, which was called for 
October 20th, is postponed till November 3d. 
Washington, D. C., Oat. 11 th .— The Weather Bureau 
provided a good day for the Harkness gold medal shoot 
of the Columbia Rifle Association. The skies were 
evenly ovorcast, the light was gray and clear, and the 
strong wind which blew across the range from the light 
hand was singularly steady in direction and strength, al¬ 
though brisk enough to keep the streamers pointing out 
straight to the Capitol dome which rose westward beyond 
the hill-tops. Only three men presented themselves for 
the contest, but under the rules three make a match in 
shooting for the Harkness medal. Mr. Laird shot remark¬ 
ably well at the 800 yards stage, his clean score being 
nearly all made up of carton shots. Mr. Lauritzen kept 
him company until the fourteenth round, and then 
broke for an unlucky centre, while Mr. Adee brought up 
the red one twice in his string. At 900 yards Mr. Lau- 
ritzen's 72 was the top score, Mr. Laird, through his 
opening “ red bird,” only getting 71 — a tally which was 
tied by Mr. Adee, notwithstanding a provoking “ mag” 
on his second round. At 1,000 yards Sir. Lauritzen main¬ 
tained his good luck, and although the “flamingo” 
bobbed up four times, nothing worse happened, and he 
retired with a fine 71, and a flattering total of 217—his 
_ best score thus far. Mr. Laird also made 71 at this range, 
and toted up the same gross figures, but a “mag” on his 
tenth round at 1,000 yards prevented his taking first 
place under the rules. Mr. Adee’s bad luck at the long¬ 
est range left him well in the rear with a tolerable 208, 
The average for the three contestants was 214. The scores 
are as follows ; — 
( 800.5 5 5 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5—541 
P. J. Lauritzen.... - 900. 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 4 5—74 7217 
11,000.5 4 5 6 5 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5—711 
( 800.5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5-75 ) 
C. H, Laird. 4 BOO.4 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 5 5 5 4 5 5 5—711-217 
(1.000 . 5 5 5 4 4 5 5 5 5 3 5 5 5 5 5—711 
( 800.-.5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 4 5-73 ) 
A A. Artec. - 900 . 5 3 5 4 4 5 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5—71 V: 
11,000.5 4443544545543 5-64 1 
On the aggregates Col.'Burnside still leads with a total 
of 648 for his three best scores. Mr. Laird follows with 
643, his lowest score being 210, which he has yet two 
chances to change for a better and possibly a winning 
score. Prof. Hai’kness, although a noted shot, prefers 
not to enter in the contest for the medal he himself offers. 
Washington, D. C.—The Columbia Rifle Association 
held its penultimate shoot for the Harkness gold medal 
on Saturday last, the 18th; and capped the climax to 
the good shooting done by its members lately at Creed¬ 
moor by piling up the highest individual score yet made 
in a match. The day was apparently unfavorable, for, 
although the lowering skies gave promises of unbroken 
continuance of the grateful gray light without mirage so 
prized by all riflemen, yet the wind shifted from VII to 
X. on the wind dial, and needed four or five points of al¬ 
lowance on the guages of the guns. Four marksmen 
faced the targets, Mr, A, V. Canfield, Jr,, of Baltimore, 
coming over to join Colonel Burnside and Messrs. Laird 
and Lauritzen in the friendly contest. He was unfortu¬ 
nate, however, at the first stage, opening with the red-bird, 
and keeping it in sight for three rounds until he found 
the bull's-eye. The others, more lucky, struck the bull and 
stayed on for four rounds. Mr. Laird was the first to break 
for centers, on his fifth and sixth rounds, the Colonel’s 
turn coming on the seventh. On the latter's tenth 
shot, by an unlucky mishap, his bull’s-eye was on the 
wrong target, scoring as a miss under the rigidly en¬ 
forced yules. Mr. Lauritzen, unmoved by the minor 
calamities around him, kept on without a break to the 
end • and rolled up his first clean string in a match. Mr. 
Laird’s 73 came next. The Colonel’s 68 would have been 
73 had he confined himself to his own target, while Mr. 
Canfield’s 68 was well fought for, only one point being 
dropped after he got fairly on the bull. At 900 yards the 
Colonel opened badly with a ‘ 1 mag,” followed by a ‘ • flam¬ 
ingo, but he then pulled himself together for an unbroken 
sequence of bull Voyes' to the end. The race at this stage at 
first lay between Mr. Lauritzen and Mr. Laird, the former 
holding on the i ris up to his seventh shot, which brought up 
the red, while the latter dropped hut two points up to his 
fourteenth round, when emulating Col. Burnside’s exam¬ 
ple he too planted a line carton provokingly near t he mid¬ 
dle of the wrong bull’s-eye, and got credited with a 
miss in consequence, closing with only 67 to Mr. Laurit- 
zen's admirable 71. When the marksmen moved back to 
the thousand yards'firing point the interest centered on 
Mr. Lauritzen, who approached the last and most trying 
stage with 149 to his credit out of a possible lot). The 
scorers and umpire carefully focussed their telescopes to 
bring out with tho utmost distinctness the sharp white 
shot-marks on the black of the bull’s-eye, which showed 
clear and round without haze or mirage. The wind grew 
more gusty, and a few warning rain-drops fell from time 
to time ; but on the whole the clerk of the weather did 
his duty .well. Both men found the bull on their opening 
shots, but on the third round Mr. Lauritzen misjudged 
the wind for a puffed-off centre. This lowered his score 
two points from the possible, with a dozen shots yet to 
fire, not, however, a very disheartening prospect. Mr. 
Laird stuck to the hull in a style which would have won 
him forty Wimbledon cups had they been up for compe¬ 
tition, and justified the reputation he gained at Creed¬ 
moor as a long-ranger, but Mr. Lauritzen kept close to 
his heels for four shots more, only breaking once for a. 
flamingo on his eighth round, giving him three points, 
dropped from the total possible, with seven shots yet to 
fire. Could he stand the strain and keep on raising the 
white disc to the end? Mr. Laird set him the example, 
and he followed it bravely. Bull after bull was announced 
by the scorers ns the two men fired shot after shot in the 
midst of a painfully anxious silence ; and when the last 
shots were sent in and the grateful white showed on the 
black bull’s-eyes the restrained enthusiasm burst into a 
cheer to greet the wonderful marksmanship of both. 
Laird had made a dean 1,000 yards' score, so seldom done 
in a match, and Lauritzen had beaten the best record 
hitherto — Mr. Sumnex-’s—by one point, tallying a mag¬ 
nificent 222 out of the possible 225 in a formal match 
conducted with the most rigid adherence to N. R. A. 
rules. General John Coughlin was umpire, and Dr. Par¬ 
sons and Mr. Dingman were the scorers. The following 
is the shot for shot record of the match:— 
( 800 - ,.5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 5 5 6 6 5 6-75) 
P. J. Lauritzen ...A 900. 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5—74 7221 
(1,000. 55455554555555 5—73) 
l 800,,--.,,.5 6 6 5 4 6 6 5 6 5 5 5 8 5 6-781 
0. H. hotel. . < 900 . 5 5 5 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 0 5-67 7214 
11,000.5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5—75 1 
( 800. - ,5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 0 5 5 5 5 4^68 
Col. Burnside .... 4 900. 345655656 5 5555 5—721203 
(1,000.5 353 5 5543544 5 4 5—85 I 
( 800... . 4 4 4 5 5 4 3 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 5-68) 
A. V .'Canfield, Jr A, 900 .3 5 5 6 5 4 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5-59 7203 
11,000 . 3 5 4 5 5 5 4 3 5 5 4 4 5 5 4—68 ) 
But one more match for the Harkness badge remains 
to be shot on Saturday, the 25th instant. The terms of 
the match call for the aggregation of the three highest 
scores of each contestant, the largest total to win the 
medal. Col. Burnside’s aggregate thus far is the highest, 
viz. : 214. 216, 218—648. He is closely followed by Mr. 
Laird’s 214, 215, 217 —646. Mr. Lauritzen’s magnificent 
shooting these last two Saturdays has gained him 203, 
217, 232 — 642, and if his recent luck holds, he may yet 
come out winner. At any i-ate, with propitious weather 
a close and exciting windup to the contest next Satur¬ 
day may he looked for, 
A Large Calibre Advocate— Chicago, HI., Sept. 25 th 
— Editor Forest and Stream: —I have noticed in your 
columns communications from different gentlemen advo¬ 
cating small-bore rifles for shooting. Perhaps they will 
answer well enough for experts, but will not ordinary 
shots save much more game with the larger calibre ? 
The great veins and arteries yield with great f reedom 
to the slightest pressure and escape marvelously from 
the track of a bullet. When severed they retract , and if 
not too large soon seal up their torn ends with a clot. 
The tissues also retract and close up small wounds very 
soon. The shock is more suddenly fatal than the flow o’f 
blood, and both inorease with the 3ize of the bullet. I 
have known a buck to go several rods with a .40 bullet 
through his heart and leave not a drop of blood on his 
trail, so that he was only found the next morning by the 
help of the ravens. -I saw another run more than'fifty 
yards with 2i inches square of his liver shot clear out of 
While hunting in the Upper Peninsula, Midi., last 
month, I had the good luck to send a .45 bullet through 
both shoulders of a large bear, hardly half way 
above the brisket — not far enough forward to strike the 
heavy bones nor far enough back to touch the heart, but 
it brought the black blood spouting from both sides. He 
made off slowly through a thick swamp. After follow¬ 
ing about 200 yards I got in.another shot behind the butt 
of iiis ear. The bullet was 350 grains of soft lead and 
propelled by seventy grains Hazard’s F. G. It pulverized 
the large processes at the base of the skull, also the first 
vertebra, and lodged in the thick, tough skin on the 
opposite side, losing about half its weight in its passage. 
It- was badly upset, and so was the bear. 
If my first bullet had been a .35 I do not believe I would 
have got a second shot. There would have been much 
less shock, much less internal bleeding, and almost non© 
externally ; and as it was after 6 p. m. when I first met 
him, he would probably have gone so fast and so far that 
I could not have renewed his acquaintance that evening, 
and the chance of finding him the next morning would 
have been next to nothing. 
It may be all very well for a skilful, cool-headed, iron- 
nerved marksman like Dr. Hornaday to use a ,40 bullet 
and take a tiger’B eye for his target, but for myself I pre¬ 
fer making a large-sized hole in any game that I want to 
take into camp, or that may possibly hinder my taking 
myself there. Nothing smaller than a .44 is good enough 
for me in the woods ; nor would I use less than seventy 
grains of powder. A flat trajectory helps to correct many 
errors of judgment as to distance and saves many misses. 
Less powder and less lead may often do just as well, 
hut with that amonnt (.45 — 70) one is ready for any emei’- 
geney except a grizzly, and an explosive bullet will help 
through that. B. w. Pike. 
fxg mid 
GAME IN SEASON FOR OCTOBER. 
Wild turkejvT/eteiff™ qallopavo. 
Pinnated grouse or prairie 
chickens, ClipMonia cupido. 
Bulled grouse or pheasant, Bo- 
nasa unibelius. 
Quail or partridge, OrlyxvirginU 
Moose, Alee Americana. 
Caribou, llangifcr caribou. 
Elk or wapiti, Ccrvus caunflcnsls. 
lied or Va. deer. C. vfrolffibcniis. 
SqtlittojBf red, blank and gray. 
Hares, brown and gray. 
Beed or rice bird, Dolichonyx or- 
yxtvoraus. 
tSWTliis table does not apply to nil the States. It Is meant to 
represent the game which tsgenerally in seasonal, this time, State 
regulations may prohibit the killing of some species of game hare 
mentioned. _ 
Few Woodcock, — The very warm weather of the past 
few weeks has ruined the woodcock shooting, all tha 
customary resorts of the birds on their migration south¬ 
ward at this season being dried up by the warm weather 
and the absence of rain. There will, therefore, be noth¬ 
ing of a season this year from woodcoak shooting. 
New Brunswick — Campbellton, Oct. 10th.—Wild 
geese and ducks are now near this place in the Bay Cbal- 
eur by the thousands. The geese are in prime condi¬ 
tion. I have just knocked down a young gander that 
weighs a little over ten pounds. Decoys are unknown or 
not used here in the fall. The usual way that geese and 
ducks are killed is for the gunner to lie in the bushes near 
the shore and shoot as they come in with the tide. With 
decoys and blinds built out on any of the marshes along 
this bay, sportsmen would be sure of good sport until the 
ice forms which will be about November 20th or 25th. 
Stanstead. 
Maine.— Indian .RocJc, Oct. 18th .—Ducks are uncom¬ 
monly plenty on the Lakes this fall, and partridges are 
recovering in numbers from their terrible winterkilling of 
thi’ee years ago. We are having very pleasant weather. 
Last week at the Upper Dam the mercury stood in three 
successive days 100, 100,5, 100.7—pretty" warm October 
weather for us. F. C. B. 
Massachusetts — Ashfield, Oct. 15 th, —Lest my sport¬ 
ing friends should think I am pai-ting with my wits or 
have got a new kind of grouse, please state that I wrote 
that: “ There being many late broods they had conse¬ 
quently hung together later than usual." Your composi¬ 
tor left out the word late, thereby destroying the sense. 
Ruff. 
New York — Buffalo, Oct. 14(5. — The hot weather 
near Buffalo lias checked in some measure active sport¬ 
ing operations. Woodcock are more abundant than last 
year, and bags of fi-om eight to twelve birds are occasion¬ 
ally made. Partridge arc very plentiful, since they are 
never affected by severe winters, and the fine, dry spring 
weather favored the raising of their young broods. Nia¬ 
gara River during September was' literally alive with 
several species of small gulls and terns, among these lat¬ 
ter two species never before known to occur here — 
Sterna macrura and Plumbia. A few blue-bills are now 
coming Id, though the great army of aquatic migratory 
birds betrays as yet no signs of activity. One of our 
great Nimrods, P. Heinty, Esq.^is getting ready for an¬ 
other of his annual shooting excursions. Beaver Lake, 
Ill., will be his objective point, and the magnitude of his 
preparations may be judged from his ammunition bill, 
which amounts to,nearly $70 for three weeks’ shooting. 
C. L. 
Adirondacks. — Loieville, Oct. 16(7t.—We are having 
very fine weather and the sportsmen are having rare 
8portin the Adirondacks. Large bucks are brouglit out 
from the Beaver River chain to Lowville. Woodcock and 
mffed grouse are quite scarce this season although some 
of our sportsmen have made fair bags. H. W, H, 
New Jersey Quail.— The New Jersey quail season 
opens November 1st. 
The Florida Rainy -Season.— Titusville Brevard Co., 
Fla. Oct. 6th. —Teal, blue winged (Querqoedula discors) 
are reported as having arrived in numbers in Banana 
Creek and the marshes off this place. The rainy season 
has been very excessive. Only two days since Sept. 1st, 
in which rainhas not fallen during the twenty-four hours. 
The whole country is flooded with water." A traveller 
just returned from the lower southwestern part of this 
county, rode 40 miles in one stretch and could find but 
one little knoll above water, on which he could alight 
dry shod. The cattle there feeding in water up to their 
bellies. Al. I. Gator, 
Louisiana —New Orleans Oct. 12th. —Our sportsmen are 
beginning to prepare for an active campaign this fall. 
and many are leaving for the swamps in quest of wood¬ 
cock, squirrels, deer, etc. E, C. 
Michigan. — Escanaba , Oct. 12th.— 1 see you told some 
one in your last paper about turkey at Escanaba. I 
never heard of any, but a few tame ones in the eleven 
years I have been here. Game — deer, bear, grouse, and 
plenty of fish. _ A. F, Y. 
Indian a — Washington, Oct. 13 th. — Last week a party 
of four went about eight miles north of this city for a 
day’s hunt, and killed sixty-one squirrels and five ducks, 
The quails are rather scarce this season, having been 
about all frozen or trapped out last winter. M. P. R. 
California. — Benicia, Oet. 11th. — The duck and quail 
season opened here on the 15th of September. Quail ar© 
abundant in the southern counties. Owing to the mild¬ 
ness of the weather the ducks have not come in yet in 
large numbers. Benicia and its vicinity are noted as the 
best resorts for ducks known in tlie State. Three 
years ago I bagged alone in one week nine hundred 
ducks. If ever you should come to California during tile 
ducking season, give ns call, and we will show yon soma 
good duck shooting. L, W, 
