812 
FOREST AND STREAM, 
In pistol cartridges twe sizes smaller of the above brands 
will give the best results. Where the powder is to be 
compressed in the shell, U. S. Government musket 
powder is especially recommended for cartridges contain¬ 
ing from fifty to eighty-five grains. In such cartridges 
none of the high grades of powder should be used ; we 
refer to such brands as Hazard's Electric, Dupont's Dia¬ 
mond Grain, etc. ; these powders (most excellent for use 
in shot guns) owe their quick burning properties to their 
peculiar manufacture; they are not hard pressed powders, 
and when compressed in a cartridge shell they cake be¬ 
hind the bullet more than the harder pressed brands, and 
give high initial pressure, without greatly increased ve¬ 
locity and very irregular shooting.’’ 
They should have added, “besides frequently causing 
the shells to expand and burst, making them difficult to 
extract, etc." I venture the assertiou that there is no shell 
made that will shoot fifty or more grains Orange Light¬ 
ning, No. 4, or Electric, No. 3, repeatedly without sucli 
expansion as will cause trouble. Such charges would 
probably burst a majority of the rim fire shells at the 
first fire, and cause decidedly more unpleasantness than 
that complained of by these gentlemen now, 
“C, L. J.” has a great deal of advice to offer which is 
rattier amusing. He tells us “ not to use bullets patched 
with paper in breech-loading rifles ; they won’t dc.” We 
are also informed that “ this upsetting business of a loose 
ball is all bosh.” Perhaps it is, but our long and short 
range riflemen manage to run up some pretty fair scores 
with these same “ loose starting bullets." 
Most riflemen after reading “ 0. L. J.’s” communica¬ 
tion will agree, I think, that there are several things 
about rifle shooting for “0. L. J." to learn before he is 
competent to write on the subject in the dictatorial strain 
he has seen fit to adopt. Rabb. 
Everybody’s Match. —The Everybody’s Match, in 
which everybody among the riflemen has been interested, 
closes at Oonlm’s Gallery Nov. 20th. There are seven 
prizes, and anybody can enter at any time, and as many 
times as he pleases. 
Connecticut — Collinsville, Oct. 2Wi.— Canton Rod and 
Gun Club, Riverside Range.—Practice meeting at 200 
yards, o ff hand ; 3 pounds pull; 10 shots:— 
Maes. Creed. 
Hull . 10 10 9 12 10 11 10 It 1110-10* 41 
Bictwell. 10 1110 1111111112 8 11—101 45 
Laubenstein . 11 0 0 11 0 9 11 11 11 9-100 45 
Murks. II 10 10 10 fl 6 8 9 10 11— 94 41 
Lewis.. 7 11 1 ) 7 5 S 11 11 12 11 — 93 44. 
Paueher. . 11 8 10 4 9 9 11 8 9 13—01 43 
Andrews. 8 10 10 10 0 0 11 8 10 9— 91 40 
New York vs. South Brooklyn.— The New York 
Rifle Club shot a friendly return match with the South 
Brooklyn Rifle Club at Brinton Range, Wednesday, Nov. 
5th. The day was a favorable one for this time'of the 
year, with the wind pretty Bteady from 11 o’clock. The 
following are the scores:— 
NEW YOKE Itll'Lk CLUB. 
Narnci, 3?l. 
E. T. Davis. 5 5 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5—48 
Dr. Maltbjr. 4 4 4 6 4 3 t 4 5 4-42 
Jus. S. Conlin, Captain. 4 4 4 3 6 1 4 5 4 4-42 
A. Mclnness .44 4 444354 4—40 
N. O'Donnell. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 4-39 
J. W. Manffum . 3 5 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 4-39 
1Vm. H. Dunlap. . 54334444 4 4—39 
Total.389 
LONG RANGE. 
SOOTH*. 900 Fill. 1,000 Yds. Total. 
Col. J. O, P. Burnsldo. 74 
P. J. Lnuritzen. 70 
General John Coughlin acted as range officer, and also 
scored at the long range, while Dr. John Parsons acted 
as scorer at the short ranges, 
The afternoon was fine, and the conditions most excel¬ 
lent for long range work, and the scores would undoubt¬ 
edly have run high in the aggregates for long range had 
it not grown so late as to be quite dark while shooting 
the 1,000 yards range. 
Columbia Range. — The “Everybody’s Match,” which 
was shot at the Columbia Rauge last week, was, notwith¬ 
standing the very unpleasant weather, a great success, 
there being no less than 450 entries and reentries. The 
match was open to everybody ; weapon any rifle (military 
rifles to be allowed two points); distance 200 yards j seven 
shots; position standing; entrance fee 50”cents. The 
first prize was a handsome gold champion badge, pre¬ 
sented by the Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
and was won by Col. Geo. E. P. Howard, of Newark, who 
made 33 points with a military rifle, which, with liis 
allowance, made a score of 35 out of a possible 35, About 
eighty other prizes, consisting of miscellaneous articles, 
ranging in value from $3 to $50, was offered to the com¬ 
petitors. 
The following are the names and Bcores of the winners 
of prizes in their order :— 
Col. E. P. Howard . 
F, H. Holton. 
O. J. Titles.. . 
W. M. Furrow. 
C. G. Zc-ttler. 
N. D. Ward. 
Louis Qiiuncbi . 
C. A. Peake . 
A. Hubbell . 
Tlios. Fitts . 
H. Flslior. 
Col. B. F. Hurt. 
E. 0. Tayutor . 
W. Coohrano . 
Capt. A. Anderson.. 
I. F. Wissohusen— 
A.McInness . 
I. K. Bailey . 
A. G. Hcllwig- . 
Geo. Joiner . 
A. W. Hooper. 
1. W. Man pain . 
Win. Robertson. 
C. A. Krebs. 
T. J. Dolan. 
L. H. Grcve. 
I. L. Paulding . 
I. M. Townsend. 
M. H. Kelsey. 
R. Simpson. 
T. S. Conlnn . 
M. 11. Hellwig . 
•las. H. Symofi . 
J. L. Morse. 
Theo. W.Griffith.... 
S. Benzini. 
S. W. Sibley . 
Osear Terry. 
The above winners will receive their prizes on the range 
O n 4,-1 „ ^ 1 Y4-1-. O t» -»*- 
. 85 I H. 6 . Donnell . 
. 33 D. L. Ranks. 
. 34 hv. H. Sandford . 
. 33 Chits. Barr. 
. 33 J. S. Case . 
. 33 B. H. 11utchiiiBOU . 
33 A. G. Holcombe .... 
. SI w. o. Weatherbee . 
32 P. Fabarins. 
. 32 L. H. Graff . 
. 32 Lieut. C, Cable. 
. 32 W. C. Clarko . 
32 S. Simonds . 
-32 H. T. Farrell. 
. 32 Capt. W. P. Wood . . 
. 32 H. W. Gourley 
. 32 T. P. While. 
. 32 W. H. Dunlap. 
. 31 li. T. Davis. 
. 31 A. B. Van Husen ... 
. 31 S. Parish. 
. 31 H. Downey . 
. 31 P. H. Richardson... 
. 31 C. P. Bennett. 
.31 1). A. Davis. 
. 31 Jus. T. Dempster... 
. 31 J. R. Byrd. 
. 31 T. May. 
.31 K.D. McLintock. .. 
. 39 J. W. Stewart. 
. 30 E. Haddcnhorst . 
. 30 H. Van Sclion.. 
.30 A. M. Murray. 
. 30 J. J. De Mott. 
. 30 I L. Kaysor. 
. 29 | A. P. Clark. 
29 D. J. Winklemann . 
on Saturday. 15th inst., at 2 p.m. 
| m\d 
GAME IN SEASON FOR NOVEMBER. 
SOUTH BROOKLYN RIFLE CLUB. 
Dr. G. W. Welty....... 
J. B. Hazleton. 
.Tas. H. Roche, Captain 
A. R. Andergon . 
D. Trotter. 
A. W. Ford. 
,T, Dunne. 
4654 1 4 444 5-43 
5 44 4 45544 4—43 
546444436 5-43 
444444544 4-41 
3 5 4444444 1—40 
5 1 5 4 3 4 4 4 4 3-40 
3 4 4 4 2 4 3 5 5 3-37 
Total.....287 
Mr. E. T. Davis’ score of 48 is the best on record in a 
team matih, and as he was one of the last to shoot, he 
saved the match for the New York Club. It was made 
with a Sharps Borchard rifle, which was made to order for 
Mr. Conlin. It is a .40 cal. Swiss stock, shooting short 
shell, 60 grains powder, and 285 grains patched bullet, 28- 
inch barrel. At the conclusion of tne match the two 
dubs convened about the festal board, where fun, frolic 
and speech held high carnival. Among the guests and 
speechmakers was Mayor Bennett, of Elizabethtown, 
Pennsylvania — Mcad/ville, Nov. 8th.— Mr. Jacob O. 
Worst won the beautiful gold badge last Saturday even¬ 
ing at the match of the A. E. T. S. Shooting Gallery, 
making forty-six bull's-eyes out of forty-eight at 500 
yards. He is counted one of the best shots in the coun¬ 
try. 
An Echo of March Chunk.— The New York Schuetzen 
Corps held a regular monthly meeting Thursday, the 6th 
inst., Major George Aery presiding, in the absence of 
Capt, D. G. Yuengling. After transacting the business, 
a committee was appointed and directed to receive and 
introduce to the meeting Capt. John J. Diehl and some 
of his boys. This ceremony over, Major Aery presented 
Capt. Diehl, in an eloquent speech, with a handsome gold 
medal, the latter having done the best shooting of all the 
guests at Mauch Chunk. Mr. Diehl answered in a few 
appropriate remarks, and drank to the welfare of the 
New York Schuetzen Ccrps, and the Sehuetzens drank 
several toasts, until they had nothing more left. 
Columbia Rifle Association. — Washington, D. O .— 
The executive committee of the Columbia Rifle Associa¬ 
tion has determined to continue the shooting ou the Ben- 
nings’ range every Saturday afternoon until January 1st 
next. A Bhort range ana long range contest will be 
called by the range officer at 1:30 p.m. every Saturday, 
weather permitting, and if two contestants enter in either 
match the contest is to go on : the short range match to 
consist of ten shots at 200 yards and ten at 300 yards, and 
the long range match to consist of fifteen shots at each 
distance of 800, 900, and 1,000 yards, 
On January 1st, next, the contestant in each match 
having the highest three scores to be declared the winner 
of a club badge, to be struck in the new die prepared by 
Tiffany for tbe association. 
On Saturday afternoon last, the 8tb inst., tbe first con¬ 
test in this series of matches was shot, resulting as fol¬ 
lows 
SHORT RANGE. 
2flO I'tte. 800 Yds. 
J.B, Burnside. *1 38 
A. A. Adee. 39 85 
H. uimm. *# » 
Moose, Alee Americana. 
Caribou, Rangifer caribou. 
Elk or wapiti, Cervus canadensis. 
Rod or Vo. door. C. virginianus. 
Squirrels, red, black and gray. 
Hares, brown and gray. 
Heed or rieebhd, Bolichontfx or- 
yiivomus. 
Wild turkey .Meleagris gallopavo. 
Pinnated grouse or prairie 
C'hiekeos.’OMpKloiim cupido. 
Ruffed grouse or pheasant, Bo- 
nasa umbdlvs. 
Quail or partridge, Ortyxvirgini- 
anus. 
Swans, Brant, Wild Ducks, Geese, &c. 
D^Thls table does not apply to all tbe States. It is meant to 
represent tbe game which is generally in season at. this time. State 
regulations may prohibit the hilling of some species of game here 
mentioned. 
Tue Bore of Guns. —When we were very young a cer¬ 
tain good dootor, who was active in the town educa¬ 
tional matters, used to tell the boys never to use a word 
of which they did not know the meaning. Very good in 
principle, and a safe rule to follow where practicable. 
But the truth is that we are constantly employing com¬ 
mon terms about common things of which we do not 
know the significance. There is that word “bore," for 
example. A man says he has a 10-bore gun. Ask him 
what 10-bore means, and he is at a loss to explain. A 
correspondent has been investigating this point, and has 
arrived at the true solution. We doubt not that there was 
some satisfaction in bringing the derivation to bag: * ‘Ihave 
interested myself a good deal trying to find out on what 
the calibres of shot guns were based, but could find no one 
(till quite recently) who could tell me anything about it, I 
finally asked a gunsmith, who told me be had often 
thought of the same thing, but had never studied it out; 
so we, I think, have solved it together. The old style of 
measuring the size of a rifle was based on the number of 
spherical balls it carried to the pound, and I think the 
calibres of shot guns is expressed in the same way—that 
is, a 12-bore gun will oarry a ball twelve of which will 
weigh a pound, a 10-bore ten balls, and so on.” 
— A number of prominent sportsmen from St. Louis, 
Kansas City, and St. Charles, Mo., leave St. Louis on the 
16th inst. for a month’s hunt in Texas, The party go to 
Atlanta, a small station on the Texas Pacific Railroad ; 
and some twelve miles from this station on the Sulphur 
River deer, wild turkey, duck, and geese are found in 
large numbers, as well as quail, snipe, and some black 
bear and panther, Among the gentlemen that will join 
the party the Forest and Stream is pleased to mention 
Mr. L, D. Dozier and Mr, McManus, of St. Louis; Mr. 
James H. McGee, W. H. MeDearman and J. E. Caven, of 
Kansas City; Capt. Fred. Dozier, and the MeDearman 
brothers, of St, Charles, 
“Wood Duck’s” Loading Board.— Inreply to Frank 
Forester’s inquiry about the loading board, our cor¬ 
respondent, “Wood Duck,” of Montreal, obligingly 
writes as follows :— 
In the first place I went to a furniture manufacturer, 
where I could get the material and where they had the 
tools, for the holes ought to be made with a boring ma¬ 
chine, so as to have them perfectly true, which is almost 
impossible if done with an ordinary brace and bit. I got 
out a good, solid piece of black walnut, seventeen inches 
long, six and a half inches wide, and one and a half inches 
thick; then another piece, same size, but three-quarters 
of an inch in thickness. These were fitted together by 
putting two dowels, or pins, at each end, about four 
inches apart. I then took the thickest piece, and marked 
it out, as in the accompanying sketch, so as to give me 
five rows of holes, with ten in each row, thus giving me 
space for fifty shells. I then took it to the boring ma¬ 
chine, put in a bit exactly' the size of tbe rim of the shell, 
and set the machine so that it would bore just the depth 
of the thickness of the rim, or about one-sixteenth and 
one-thirty-second of an inch. 
This will allow the shell to set down flush with the face 
of the board-when tbe shell is in the hole. After boring 
these I took out tbe bit, and inserted another, exactly 
the size of tbe shell, and bored completely through the 
hoard. I then took the thinner board and bored that to 
correspond with the other, using a quarter-inch bit, so that 
when the two boards were fitted together, and the shells 
put in, preparatory to loading, the small bole in the thin, 
or under board, was directly under the cap on the shell, 
thus preventing the possibility of any accident from ex¬ 
ploding the cap in loading. After getting the board 
made I put it into a tank of boiled linseed oil, and let it 
soak for several days, until the pores were completely 
filled, then took it out and carefully wiped it as dry as 
possible; then set it aside for a few days, and after it be¬ 
came completely dry took some fine sand-paper, rubbed 
it down smootlu and gave it two coats of shellac varnish. 
The board is as solid and hard as a bone, and will never 
Warp or split. 
This is the way I made my loading board, but, of 
course, it is not necessary for everyone to follow out the 
above directions to tbe letter, as the oiling and varnish¬ 
ing may be left out. The sketch I send enclosed will 
speak for itself, 
I have been engaged for a few days loading shells and 
getting my Bliootmg tackle ready for atrip up the Ottawa 
River and also the upper part of Lake St. Fi'ancis after 
duck, next week. 
Where the Birds Fly.— The country all through 
northern Minnesota abounds in lakes and lakelets, from 
an eighth of a mile to ten and twelve miles in length, and 
there are said to be ten thousand of them in the State, 
and a large proportion of them ore said to abound with 
fish and game. Those who have traveled through it tell 
me it is a perfect paradise for sportsmen, and, indeed, 
large parties of gentlemen from other States, as well as 
from Europe and tbe Provinces, visit this section annually 
in pursuit of game and sport, and health, as consequent 
upon such pursuits. The first evening I arrived one of 
these sportsmen came into the hotel in the evening, fol¬ 
lowed by two men, carrying strings of ducks, but with a 
few prairie pheasants, chickens and partridges, and a few 
woodcock; but the great weight of the game—of which 
there must have been over two hundred and fifty birds— 
were of the Mallard duck, with a few redheads ancl 
canvasbacks, and here and there sprinkled through the 
string were a greenwing or a redwing teal or diver. 
These, as I was informed, were the result of one day’s 
shooting fi-om one gun. The birds are easily reached by 
those who are experienced in shooting them, and so 
abundant are they that you can get a brace of splendid 
Mallards, in prime condition, for thirty cents, or a 
dozen brace for $2.50, 
Such is thereport of a Montreal Herald correspondent. 
Maine.— Eustis, Nov. 10 th. —A letter just received from 
Kennedy Smith, informs me that several parties came 
to Sim Pond, after ours left, and trouting was excellent 
till the last of Oobtoer. Finding that to accommodate his 
visitors he needed more room be has put up two more log 
cabins. He now has four iu all. Large game is more 
plenty there than ever before. A man of one of the 
parties shot a large caribou near the path on his way 
from the pond to Smith’s house; another was shot in the 
“opening.” Bruin is bold, ranges wide, and now and 
then takes home “ good fat mutton." 
J. Warren Tuck. 
Down the Connecticut.— Windsor, Conn., Oct. With. 
—Have just returned from a nine days’ hunting trip 
down the Connecticut. We left Hartford in two boats, 
towed by C. M. Spencer’s little steamer twelve feet long. 
There were six of us, with three dogs. Our first night was 
iu camp just below Haddarn. Early the next morning 
squirrel shooting was in order, and several grays were se¬ 
cured, but no birds. After breakfast we loaded up, and 
started down the river. Ran on to a flock of black ducks, 
but could get no shot. We ran down to Essex Flats, and 
hauled up at tbe lower fish house, which we had permis¬ 
sion to occupy. Inside were bunks and tables, and made 
very comfortable quarters. We pitched our two tents at 
some distance from the house, so that those who preferred 
quiet could be accommodated. Several of the party tried 
the quail shooting, but found the land well posted, and 
tire first discharge of a gun brought out the owners on a 
race, who ordered us off without ceremony. We tried the 
ducks and rail on the marsh, but they were not very 
plenty, the weather being unusually warm. We stayed 
several days at the fish house, and if we did not have 
much success it was not our fault, 
At last we pulled up stakes, and started up the ri ver 
again. Made camp ju&t above Chester Landing, just at the 
ferry. On our trip up we shot a number of rail. Lor- 
rillord’s yacht passed us and anchored just across from 
our camp at Chester. A large cove makes m from the. 
river opposite Chester, and affords excellent rail shooting, ( 
ancl judging from tbe popping of guns, the yachtsmen ! 
were naving lively times willi them. We had (the bestf 
shooting on the trip at Chester—mostly quail, with a very 
few woodcock ; but the hunting, as a whole, was not a 
success, owing to the hot weather, no doubt. The birds 
seem scarce on all the river shores. We tramped one day, 
the thermometer marking 90 deg., and found only tw r - 
