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FOREST AND STREAM. 
When, badly friyliInno.il,iL Is escaping from enemies and seeking 
safety. In this onse its Might means business. it is bold, sliaii>, 
vigorous, straight us an arrow Hies, and precisely like the Might 
or our native quail. from which It ennuot in auy way be distin¬ 
guished. I ts second stylo of flight Is unite different, and appears to 
ho usod only when the bird Is loisnroly Jlylng Crorn one spot to an¬ 
other, nod is not hndly frightened. The fiightisnmde up of n sne- 
oossion oC sharp halt strokes of the wings, with a momenta ry glide 
hoi ween oneh stroke. The wings do not complete tho stroke, hut 
are stopped when upona horizonLnl lino, held for Ian instant in 
that position, and then raised for another quick and similar 
stroke. Tho whole opnration is that known ns *' Mieking," and is 
very similar to the Might or the marsh ciuail or the little shore bird 
known as tho “tip up." It is to bo observed, however, that there 
are no undulations in the Hue of Might, which is .at might or in a 
long sweep. So far ns my own observations extend, this stylo of 
flight is never used by the-American <ivia.il, and 1 hazard the state¬ 
ment, subject; to correction by any whose observations may have 
boon closer end more accurate, that a quail Hying in this peculiar 
style is unmistakably a migratory quail. I should add, however, 
that .this Might is not in he confounded with the Setting of the 
wings and “skimming" of the American quail when In tho aetof 
settling down or alighting, at which time it will scale fora con¬ 
siderable-distance, but without, so tar as I have seen, the nick¬ 
ing of the wings abo ve described. 
Passing Iron I t.ho question of identification, I will give my ex¬ 
perience in reference to two points which have to do with 1:hc 
value of tho migratory quail as a game bird, namely: Will it lie to 
dogs, and is its scent readily taken and recognized by dogs? 
After releasing my Importation of last year I was naturally 
curious to know whether the birds remained noar the places at 
which they were released, I, therefore, wpnt out occasionally 
with a dog to llntl them. I never found them running before the 
dog, and never know them to riso Out of distance. On the other 
hand, I have seen them lie in an open Hold, in short grass, within 
four feet of the dog’s nose, and remain there until I walked up to 
the dog and Unshod them. Tho dog took thou- scent readily at long 
distances, and stood as firm and with as much evidence of zeal 
and excitement as upon native quail. Before releasing my birds 
I put a few Into a large pen, and these I kept for several mouths 
after the others were released. Being desirous of ascertaining 
just bo w strong a scent was given out by the birds, 1 took one 
from those in my pen and put him into asmaUiron cage, conceal¬ 
ing him in the woods, i worked the dog towards him from down 
wind— that is, I worked up wind. At a distance of forty yards 
(subsequently measured) the doi? threw up his head, drow cau¬ 
tiously about live yards nearer, aud stood firm as a rode, 
remaining staunchly in position until I went to the hiding place 
and took out the cage and bird, and cnlled him in. The bird was 
subsequently concealed in other plaoes, and the same experiment 
tried several times, with about the samo result. 1 1 is not, there¬ 
fore, too much to say that under favorable circumstances a dig 
can scent a single migratory quail forty yards. > 
JIORACE P. Todey. 
Violation op (Same Laws in Hew Hampshire. —We 
wish to call the attention of the New Hampshire Fish 
Commission to the following note from a correspondent 
who has just returned from the Winnipiseogee Lake :— 
Trout are being speared by the boat load on ledges, 
spawning. Our Fish Commissioners have neglected then’ 
duty in this direction, I am sorry to say, very much. In 
fac t, no attention has been paid to it whatever. 
The New York Association. —Tho first meeting of 
tho New York Association for the Protection of Game 
was held last Monday evening, the Hon, R, B, Roosevelt, 
President, in the chair, Secretary Cuthbert reported that 
he had received during the year a great number of com¬ 
munications from parties requesting information about 
the game laws and also relative to the formation of similar 
societies. In supplying such information the usefulness 
of the association has been very great. The venison 
question was discussed at some length. Under the old 
law the restaurant-keepers were allowed tho month of 
December in which to dispose of the venison killed in 
November. Under the new law no provision is made for 
this, "Whether or not to prosecute dealers in enforce¬ 
ment of the law was, after some discussion, left to the 
discret ion of the association's council. It was proposed 
at the nest Legislature to secure the passage of the law 
providing for the appointment of ten State Game Con¬ 
stables ; and the destruction of fish by steam fishing craft 
in the Sound was adverted to, a United States law being 
advocated as the only practicable method of suppressing. 
The progress of the various suits undertaken by the asso¬ 
ciation was reported to be satisfactory. 
—The Board of Supervisors of livings ton County, 
N. Y., have passed an Actprohibiting the lulling of quail 
for a term of three years. 
The Talbot County Arkkooiation, Maryland. —At 
the anuuai election of officers of the club mentioned the 
following gentlemen were unanimously chosen :—Presi¬ 
dent, Col. Sam Wothereil ; First Vice-President, Captain 
J. U. Morris ; Second Vice-President, T. J. Smitners ; Re¬ 
cording Secretary, Oswald Tilghruan ; Treasurer, Robert 
Hough. It is the intention of the officers elected to make 
the club what it is in name, an association for the better 
preservation and protection of game and fish. 
Hounding vs. Still Hunting.— Speaking of the diffi¬ 
culty of successful still bunting as compared with hound¬ 
ing deer, our correspondent in. Bethel, Me., who has hacl 
an unusually extensive experience, says :— 
There are a great many huntors and but a few that are 
good still hunters. I have killed between one and two 
thousand deer, and the majority I still hunted. The lum¬ 
bermen and deep snow deer slayers wore continually 
howling about that still hunter, and saying among them- 
Belves that he would kill all the deer, so when the snow 
got deep they could not get any. They used to steal my 
deer until I made a mistake one day, when I thought': 
saw a deer in tho bushes and shot at it, and it liappbued • 
that it was a man, and the ball went through bis hat, 
shaving tho. hair close i.o the skin ; and it was one of tho 
men that used to follow my tracks for the purpose of 
stealing my deer. I hunted in that part of the country 
for several years after that, and when I killed a deer and 
hung him up, even if lie was in sight of those camps, 
when 1 went after it, it was sure to he where 1 had left it, 
That bullet seemed to tell them that it was best for them 
to let my deer remain where I left them, 
I have killed sixty deer in a month’s still hnnting ; and 
a hundred sportsmen with their hounds would not get 
that many in a month before tho lakes and streams were 
frozen up. My being a successful still hunter don’t pre¬ 
vent my being an expert with my dog and canoe. But 
what kind of a law do we want? Do we want one for 
the selfish still hunter? or do we want one for the good of 
the whole country ? 
If for the good of the country, give us one only allow¬ 
ing us to kill from the 15th of Sept, to the 15th of Dec., 
and during that time to kill them any way we prefer : 
and a fine, or imprisonment if the fine is not paid,|for kill¬ 
ing out of season, If we enforce such a law we may use 
all the dogs in the country during the hunting season, 
and our deer will increase. " I do hope that our Legisla¬ 
tures will ho well posted and make a law that will be for 
the benefit of tho country, and not for the selfish still 
hunter alone. Let them "know that a large majority of 
tho sporting men can't still hunt, and that they are not 
afraid to put out then: money for the privilege of getting 
a deer with the use of dogs ; and they put it out among 
the poor class as a general thing, employing guides, etc. 
I suppose it is the same ill the Adbondaeks as it is in 
some parts of Maine. I have bad parties to whom I have 
furnished several guides to take them up to the lakes, and 
if we should kill a deer for every hundred dollars the 
party pays out, we will hear some selfish still hunter 
howling about it, or some March slaughterer threatening 
to shoot tho dogs ; but if I should hire them to go with 
us as guides, they would jump at the chance and think 
hounding deer was splendid. 
fp$ gifl f 
STICKING SHELLS. 
Editor Forest and Stream : — 
1 have noticed a number of articles in Forest and 
Stream in regard to the expansion of rifle shells, and have 
not as yet seen any satisfactory explanation of tho cause; 
so will Venture to state a few "facts, brought out by ex¬ 
periments in rifles and with shells of different thicknesses 
of metal (brass). 
It fell to my lot not long since to make a»rifle, and for 
certain reasons wished to use a thick shell, so I ordered 
some made five-hundredths thick, using about 70 grains 
powder and 300 grain bullet; shell five-thousandths of 
an inch smaller than chamber, shell perfectly straight, 
Result: after first fire, shell expanded so as to completely 
fill chamber, and all the shells used for experiment, burst 
after tim'd or fourth discharge. Conclusion: thick shells 
a failure. Next tried a thin shell of two-hundredths 
thickness, as much smaller than the chamber than 
the other; shell drawn as hard as possible ; (that is, 
foroed through the dies as many times as possible with¬ 
out annealing), which makes the brass very hard and 
elastic : samo amount of powder and lead used as be¬ 
fore. Shells have stood all tests, and will drop out of 
the chamber’ by holding the gun muzzle up. 
Now, the reason of this is, that thick shells cannot, 
from the very nature of the case, have the same elastic¬ 
ity as thin ones, because they cannot be drawn as hard, 
and, being thick, cannot have the same amount of elas¬ 
ticity ; the result is, that they will swell, and give the 
same trouble “ Bexar” and others, as well as myself, have 
had with the Ballard “ everlasting” shell, which has 
very thick sides and is of very soft brass, or brass that 
has not been drawn much after annealing. 
Solid head shells are also more liable to this trouble 
than what are called folded head, because the soHd head 
is made by upsetting, or squeezing the base of a shell 
into a die, that is, a matrix for shaping the head ; and 
hard brass is so severe on the machinery that softer brass 
is used. Folded head shells are made of thinner brass 
aud of finer quality, because rolled more in the sheet 
from which the blanks are cut, and when made as the 
Union Metallic Cartridge Company make the Russian Ber¬ 
dan musket shell, by putting their reinforced cup in. the 
bottom, are better than any “everlasting” shell ever 
made. * ‘Subscriber” says in your last issue, that he has a 
Maynard that uses very heavy charges, and he expected 
trouble from sticking, but found none. 
Tins is explained by the fact, that the Maynard shells 
are all made from sheet brass, are of very fine quality of 
material, and are drawn very hard, and have a sohd head 
riveted to them, the stool anvil answering the purpose of 
a rivet; so the shell is made in reality of the same grade 
of metal as a folded head shell, is very elastic, and will 
not stick or swell, 
Another source of trouble with'reloading shells (and 
is a thing that ought not to happen with the intelligent 
class of men who use the rifle, but nevertheless does 
sometimes happen,) is this : makers of first-class rifles, 
as a rule, make first-class reloading tools; hut no matter 
how well made, if the user does not take all possible care 
in loading Iris shells and in the casting of the bullet, he 
can use up the best shells that were ever made. 
To illustrate I saw not long Bince some bullets cast 
from moulds: that I knew were of the right size. The 
person who cast them [did not take sufficient care to see 
that the moulds were perfectly closed, and, of course, the 
bullets were not round, and, when forced into the shell, 
expanded it to such a degree that it would not enter the 
chamber. Now, he thought the trouble was wholly with 
the tools, until it was explained to him. 
Trying to get more powder into the shell than it was 
intended to hold, and forcing the bullet on to it, will 
cause enough expansion of the" shell to prevent its enter¬ 
ing the chamber readily. Melting up old tea-pots, pew¬ 
ter spoons, and other old metal, one can get hold of, 
without knowing its composition, is another cause of 
t rouble, and all laid to the gunmaker, because the tools 
are not right, aud the gun will not shoot welh 
A person should be absolutely certain what metal he is 
using. One part tin and fifteen of lead, is an excellent 
composition, and is not liable to lead the barrel if well 
lubricated. Cartridge makers use the greatest care, and 
the most perfect machinery in their business; and one 
has no idea of the perfection of their machinery, and the 
precision and uniformity of their work, unless he has had 
to inspect their product, or is acquainted with the busi¬ 
ness in its details. They make thousands upon thousands 
of bullets that will not vary a grain in weight, or a 
quarter of a thousandth of an inch in diameter, and 
shells that are of the same degree of perfection. 
Now a person who takes less care than he knows is 
necessary to make perfect work, with the tools furnished 
by the gunmaker, and then curses the gun, and the 
maker, too, because he cannot shoot well, is “ barking up 
the wrong tree,” and ought to suffer for his stupidity. 
To sum up, hard drawn brass shells are more durable, 
will extract easier, and are more elastic than soft brass. 
Use the greatest care iu moulding your bullets, and be 
sure your moulds are perfectly closed when doing so ; and, 
if you have the tools, swage the bullets. Do not try to 
put more powder in the shell than it was intended to 
hold, and, after loading, wipe them clean and I think your 
troubles will be reduced to the lowest limi t. Magazine. 
—From the official reports of the Naval Department, 
published November 30th, we are pleased to see that the 
Hotchkiss magazine rifle, calibre .45, has been, adopted 
for the naval service, and is now issued to ships. It is 
an arm of remarkable simplicity and efficiency, not 
likely to be soon superseded by later inventions, and is 
one to whioh detachable magazines hereafter devised 
may be applied, 
It gives us great pleasure that an arm manufactured 
by a private corporation is adopted by our own Govern¬ 
ment, and we can heartily congratulate the Winchester 
Arms Company on their great success. 
Massachusetts— Jlfed/orci-The winners in the handicap 
matches, recently closed at the Bellevue Range, are under 
the conditions of 10 rounds at 300 yards, three scores to 
count as follows : First prize, J. S. Bennett, 46, 47, 56— 
14!); second prize, W. Charles, 47, 47, 47—141; third, D. 
Kirkwood, 48, 46, 46—140 ; fourth, E. James, 43, 43, 42— 
128 ; fifth, J. R. Teele, 45, 48, 44—132 ; sixth, E. Sears, 44, 
44, 44—132 j seventh, J. F. R. Schaefer, 44, 42, 44—130 : 
eighth, E. Bennett, 43, 45,43—130. 
The handicap subscription glass-ball match resulted as 
follows, the conditions calling for 30 bafis-rlO single, 10 
double and 10 rotary—aggregate of three scores to 
oount:— 
O. F. Belcher, 30, 30, 80—90 ; G. B. Blanchard, 39, 29, 
30—S8 ; W. B. Withevell, 28, 20, 29—86; D. Kirkwood, 
27, 27, 27—81; W. II. Harrison, 29, 28, 28—85 ; J. R. 
Smith, 24, 24, 24—73 ; L.E. Johnson, 29, 28, 28—85 ; W. 
Charles, 25, 25, 25. 
Medford, Dee. 4 th .—Bellevue range. Distance, 200 
yards; rounds, 10; the aggregate of three scores to 
count ; Medford target count; open to all comers. Mr. 
W. Charles heads the list of seven scorers with a 56 and 
a 54 out of a possible 60. The summary :— 
W. Charles. 
Re-entry. 
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C. P. Gleason.... 
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W. B. Wither ell. 
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Hopkinton —The following good scores were made by 
the “ Vagabonds” Nov. 29th at Claflui’s Grove with a 
pistol at 6 rods :— 
J. Gregory. 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4—74 
3. Stiurt liel'. 5 5 5 5 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 5-73 
W. Smith.-..,..5 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 2 5 5 5 4 6 — 70 
-The Hopkinton Rifie Club had a match, it being tho 
final match for the prizes offered by Rose brothers. The 
weather conditions were bad, the wind blowing in gusts 
from 10 o’clock, and was hard to manage. The light was 
very unfavorable. The match was at 200 yards, off¬ 
hand. The prizes were given to those making the first, 
fourth and seventh best scores, and were awarded to N. 
Jewell, F. S. Phipps, and O. A. Frost, respectively. 
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N. Jewotl. . 
P. S, Phipps. 
O, C. White. 
J. Wadsworth 
O. H. Smith— 
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Mammoth Rifle Gallery.— Boston, Dec. 6l7t.— 1 The 
regular monthly prize shoot has commenced, with some 
very brilliant shooting for the first week of the month, 
excellent scores being made by Pollard, Richardson, 
Staples and Robbins. Although no clean score was 
made, the shooting for the first week was remarkable. 
The following is the standing of the competitors to date, 
150 feet; rounds, 8; possible 40 :— 
TJ. A. Pollard...,. 
E. F. Richardson 
A. C. Staples. 
A.E. Robbins .... 
N. G. Stone. 
G. j. Soabury... 
E. F. Basaott. 
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For last month Mr. Maltoon, with a clean score of 8 
consecutive bull's-eyes, won the first prize, and Messrs. 
Pollard, "Whittier and Pickering tied for the second and 
third prizes, which will he shot off soon. 
Boston, Dec. 4th. —There was a good attendance of the 
members of tho Massachusetts Rifie Association at the 
Walnut Hill to-day. The weather conditions were good, 
the wind, which was light, ranging from 3 to 4 o’clock, 
and varied in intensity from one-half to three-quarter 
points. The “Silverware” Matchwas the only contest 
entered upon, and the following scores were made:— 
F. Earnest. 
J. Nichols. 
C. It. Grilling.. . 
G. D. Curtis.. .. 
F. G. Connell.,., 
.1. II. Williams.. 
W. H-.lackson.. 
G. &. Grilling..., 
J. Nichols. 
W. E. Gurrier... 
F. O. Connell — 
G. O. Curtis. 
•F. Earnest. 
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