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FOREST AND STREAM 
Kentucky— Owenslmty, Dec. 24 th, 1879.—The organi¬ 
zation of a shooting club is being earnestly discussed by 
the leading sportsmen of this city, It is a sensible 
move and one in the right direction. Mansfield Martin, 
a citizen of Murray's Precinct, aged 81 years,'hilled a 
hawk recently with a ride, out of the top of a tall hickory 
tree, being at the distance of 100 yards from the tree at 
the time of firing. Darien County is not exactly the gar¬ 
den of the gods, and yet, wild violets have been found 
blooming in tire woods and fields here in the middle of 
December, while an old turkey here, at Jack Heads, near 
West Louisville, took advantage of the business boom in 
this section 'and hatched out sixteen young turkeys on 
the 19th inst, John Hancock captured an eagle in his 
corn field several days ago that measures eight feet from 
tip to tip. 
The glass-ball shooting match that occurred in Griffith's 
Woods on Friday, Dec. 12th, 1870, resulted in the follow¬ 
ing scores : five’balls each ; 18 yards 
No. 1. Charley Elder, 4 ; Dick White, 8 ; Claude Har¬ 
ris, 2 : Clarence Roulware, 3 ; Seth Palmer, 4. 
No. 2. C. Elder, 3; Dick White, 1 ; C. Boulware, 1 ; 
Seth Palmer, 2 : C. Harris, 4 : Allan Boyd, 4; first money 
divided bv Harris ami Boyd. 
No. 3. C. Elder, 4; Dick White, 1: D. Vowels, 3; Claude 
Harris, 4; C. Boulware, i ; Seth Palmer, 2. 
No. 4. Dick White, 1 ; Clarence Boulware, 2. 
No, 5. White, 5: Boulvrare, 4. 
No, 6. White, 1 ; Boulware, 4. 
No. 7. Elder, 4} White, 3; Hams; Vowels, 1; Palmer. 
2; Boulware. 5. 
No. 8. Eight balls ; Boulware, 2 ; Palmer, 5. 
No. 9. Five balls: D. M. McHenry, 2 ; Palmer, 2. 
Tie shot off ; McHenry, 3 ; Palmer, 4 ; Tennessee. 
Arkansas— Jacksonport, Dec. 27th, 1879.—The shoot¬ 
ing prospects of this region were greatly injured by a 
long continued drought. Ducks and geese came on in 
force, but finding our lakes and sloughs dry, went on. 
In Cache River bottom deer have been moderately 
plenty. Turkeys in reasonably full supply and well dis¬ 
tributed. Only the chosen few, however, are able to 
feast upon birds of this species of their own killing. 
Coons and possums iu abundance, and plenty of squirrels 
to fall back upon. 
Virginia partridges, though known to be in unusual 
quantity, owing to the dry weather, it is thought, have 
been hard to find until quite lately. They seem now to 
have packed, after the manner of prairie chickens, and 
are found in very large droves, are very wild, and do not 
lie well to the dog. They have so far suffered no damage 
from severe weather, and if they continue to take care 
Of themselves, as against the ravenous hunter, there will 
be a magnificent breeding stock left. So mote it be. 
Tell. 
Where are the Ducks 'l—Willie, Tex., Dec. 30 th, 
1879.—Always previous to this winter, when we had an 
abundant mast, we had plenty of ducks. We have this 
season the greatest abundance of mast and all other 
kinds of acorn, together with an abundance of wild rye 
along the margin of the San Jacinto River, yet but few 
ducks have visited us so far. Some friends and myself 
have made some good bags of mallard, wood-duck, and 
green wing teal, yet all kinds are scarce, Some attribute 
Ft to the drought, all the ponds having dried up ; but in 
the river and creeks there is plenty of running water. 
What ducks we do kill are extremely tat. We get 15 
to 25 mallard to the gun, hunting along the banks of the 
river and creeks, which I consider the cream of duck 
hunting, when the day is cool aud you have a good 
spaniel along and a good breech-loader, and a flock of 
greenheads trom five to thirty in nearly every bend—the 
finest sportsman’s duck on earth — the handsomest, 
gamiest of Ids tribe, Talk about your canvas-back, sprig- 
tail, teal, red-head, etc., but of all the feathered tribe on 
land or in water, I think the mallard duck, and the man¬ 
ner and methods of hunting him, combined with his 
beauty, size, and elegance, and his excellence as a table 
fowl, render him the most attractive game bird in the 
world. C. L. J, 
Michigan — Detroit. Jan. 3d. —E. H. Gillman and Jno. 
E. Long, of this city, were out on a hunt three days last 
week, bagging 28 quad, 25 partridges, and 5 rabbits. 
Win. MoSweeney, of Frazer, Mich., formerly of this city, 
and Ed. H. Gillmati, of this city, paid the feathery tribe 
Of Her Majesty’s domains a visit of two days this week, 
and bagged 21 partridges, 28 quail, and 3 wild turkeys. 
Druid. 
Provoking. — Brooklyn, N.Y., Jan, 2c?.—An old friend 
of mine, and an excellent shot, writes me from the 
country describing his experience in shooting at a single 
solitary duck swimming in the “Old Pond.” “After 
shooting deliberately at the duck eleven times, framing 
it closely with bullet holes, the bird deliberately arose 
and flew away unharmed and untouched. I never indeed, 
or ‘hardly ever,’ felt deliberately meaner and more 
snealringly unwell in my life, and I immediately headed 
for home, avoiding everybody on the way, and crawled 
in.’’ _ L. B, F. H. 
KENTUCKY CAMP LIFE. 
I N my recent account of a trip taken in April last down. 
on Nolin River I promised, after saying I would go 
again, to give an account of the luck we had. I would 
hardly do so if it were not that I remember one of my 
old Professors saying, in lecturing on a certain operation, 
that statistics were not reliable, for only the successful 
oases were reported. If the operation killed, nothing was 
ever said or reported ; therefore I take it that the failures 
in hunts and fishing are hushed up, and only those in 
which the writer himself was surprised by success are 
ever written up. Therefore I shall give you this, though 
I can claim neithersuccessnor failure. I left here on Sat¬ 
urday, September 13th last, on the early train for Mill- 
wood, a station’on the P. and E. R. R. 38 miles distant, 
aud Met the party with which I had arranged to go. 
There we prepared tent, provisions and all necessary 
camp equipage, and left before day Sunday morning for 
Nolin River in Edmonson County, with “Old Elvis” 
(colored) and his hounds. The point aimed at was eight¬ 
een miles away, over a mountain road or path that an 
Indian of the Cooper pattern would lose his way in tra¬ 
veling. After a walk and ride (principally walk) of the 
whole distance, we arrived at our destination at twelve 
o'clock; prepared a hasty dinner, pitched our tents, col¬ 
lected st raw for bedding, putting baggage away, fixing 
eatingtable, etc. Rightbereletmesay wnatl have found 
out in regard to that most important thing in camping, a 
good bed. I liave slept on everything, from a pile of rot¬ 
ten wood to a camp lounge, and wished I was at home 
every night, until I had my better half make me what is 
known as a “ tick/' i. e ., a piece of bed-ticking sewed in 
shape of a matrass with a hole in one end to fill up by. 
Fill this with wheat or oat straw and lay it on a good 
straw foundation, and with a good tent and plenty of 
“ kiver" you can defy the elements. No disparagement 
is intended to the camp lounges, but it is a standing joke 
with us old campaigners to allow the green-horns to rush 
off to bed first for the purpose of getting the lounge and 
then to have the laugh on them next morning. 
Monday morning Old Elvis—the happiest darkey on 
earth—awoke the camp from a deep, peaceful rest with 
his old cow horn bugle that set the hounds a howling. 
A fresh bath iu the clear waters of Nolin gave us new 
life and mastodon appetites. After breakfast Capt. W. 
called the roll and assigned each man to his duty for the 
day. We had been by appointment joined the evening 
we arrived by a party of three from Seuora. Ky. This 
made the party eleven strong, not counting Old Elvis and 
our three dogs. A portion were detailed to drive for deer 
and the rest for fishing, and all left camp to rendezvous 
at noon. I was in the detail ordered down theriver, and 
with a bucket, of minnows and rigging footed it over 
“high hill and low dale" the longest one aud a half miles 
I ever walked; up and down is not counted in that 
country. The river was in a low stage and, if possible, 
in bloom (as I see that is the latest excuse), consequently 
the nibbles were very few, but, as in all such eases, the 
excitement more intense. We fished some of the best 
looking pools I over saw, changing minnows and using 
all the art we were capable of, but almost in vain, our 
efforts being rewarded at noon by a total string of six 
bass of medium size and a five pound catfish. Getting 
back to camp in time for dinner, we found the deer hunt- 
ers had returned with worse luck than the fishermen. A 
good lest until four o’clock put us in the humor for an¬ 
other trial, and we selected the foot of the dam for the 
evening’s fishing. Luck was again poor, and we early 
dropped into camp for supper. After supper came the 
usual flow of good Immor, and jokes were cracked, pipes 
smoked, and the camp fire sent out its ruddy flame, light¬ 
ing up the grand old trees in that peculiar weird and 
fascinating manner so dear to all of us who have ex¬ 
perienced it. Ten o'clock found us all in bed preparing 
to go to sleep, when Tom G. alarmed us by announcing 
that a panther was prowling near the camp. Everyman 
seized a gu n and stood on the defensive. The fire burned 
low and the silence was awful. Soon a low, plaintive 
quivering cry was heard, causing half the crowd to shud¬ 
der, the other half to burst into a fit of laughter, for it 
was the well known cry of the little screech owl. This 
event kept us awake and up until one in the morning, 
when we were more successful in wooing the drowsy 
god. 
Daylight, Tuesday, found us around the breakfast table 
in a cloud of steam from hire coffee boiler and hot rasher 
of breakfast bacon. Pretty much the same work was 
laid out for us as on Monday, and as far as fishing went 
pretty much the same success. However the hunters re¬ 
turned at an early hour with a spike buck as a bag, and 
great rejoicing followed, for we had begun to fear that 
our trip would be a failure. To make this long story 
short, I will say that we remained until Friday morning, 
having a fair share of success in fishing and lots of fun 
in driving doer, as one or two were started everyday, but 
they seemed to know where the new hands were sta¬ 
tioned, and invariably run through their stands, conse¬ 
quently we got no more. But the one we had gave us 
ail the meat we wanted and a saddle to carry home. The 
same ca,n be said as to the fish, for we ate all we wanted 
and carried some home. The country is extremely 
rough and rugged, and some of the people are 
the reverse of hospitable; but we treated them 
well and I think won over the most of them. It is a 
great country for “moonshine,'* and they look on every 
one with great suspicion, being always on the lookout for 
revenue officers. A. W. M. 
Elizabethtown, Dec. \3th, 1870. 
SHOOTING MATCHES. 
New York City— Jan. M.— Match at pigeon"; 25 yards rise ; 
80yards boundary; Hurlingham rules; sweepstakes;— 
A. 14. Brown ... 1 10 0 1—3 I 8. W. Johnson. 1 0 0 0 1—2 
Will Hetring ... 10 11 I—4 J. K. Taylor.... (J 1 0 I I—3 
Harry Pitt. 1111 0— 4| 
Herring and Pitt divided. 
In shooting off tie Tay.orwon, killing land missing 1; Brown 
missing 2. 
Second sweepstakes:— 
Anderson-. 1 0 0 0 0-11 Grain . -0 1 1 1 1—t 
A. H. Brown.... U 1 1 1 1-4 Taylor.. .110 10-3 
S. W. Johnson... 0 011 1—3 Will Herring.... 0111 1—4 
Harry Pitt. lill 1—5 | 
Ties shot off—Brown, 10; Herring. 10; Grain, 1L 
Third sweepstakes :— 
A, H. nrown. 0 l 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0-6 
Taylor. . 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1—a 
Harry Pitt... 1 1 U 1 1 1 1 1 1 0-8 
S. W. Johnson. 110100011 1-S 
Grain. 0110111011-7 
Ties shot off, miss aod outTavtor, 0; A. H. Brown, 1 1 0 0 0; 
L. VV . Johnson, 110 0 1. 
Long Island— Brown’s Driving Park, Jan. 1st.—The following 
match was shot (or satisfaction, “ etc.," New Year's Day utter- 
noon. The birds flew wild and had to be hit hard; 25 birds each; 
6 traps; 5 yards apart; handicap rise; 80 yards boundary; 1} 
ounce shot; Amerlean-Hurlingham rules 
Allan Nichols, 38 yards. 21 4 25 
W. tt. Handers in, 25 yards . 17 8 25 
George Henderson, 23 yards ... .. 17 8 25 
Mr. George Henderson won in shooting off the tie, killing three 
birds straight; Mr. VV. R. Uendersun missing his third bird. 
Referee—Mr. Lcnnard Brown. Manager- Elvert Brown. 
New Jersey— Saturday, Jan. 3d. — A fifty-bird match between 
Messrs. M. 1). Slocum ami Walter Dayton was shot at Faiming- 
dale, N. J. The conditions were 21 yards rise, single barrel, H. 
andT. traps. Slocum killed 40 and liuyton 37 birds. 
Messrs. L. Benjamin and D. Thomas, botti of New York, shot a 
pigeon match at. Long Branch. The conditions were 25 birds each, 
25 yards rise, two traps, each to find trap and handle, Long Island 
ruies, $50 a side. Thomas won by a seore of 21 to 20. 
Members of the Middlesex, Amboy and Rahway pigeon clubs 
held a. number of events at Tremley Shooting Park. The most 
interesting match was a competition for a handsome pigeon gun. 
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The conditions were 10 birds eanb, handicap rise, Hurlingi/ 7 
rules, Mr. William Burnett, of Amboy, carried off the trot* 
shooting off a tie of tl with Dr. Mott, ot New York. jr-gv 
A pigeon match came off at New Brunswick, N, J.. between 
Messrs. U. C. John-on and Gustave Granger. The match Ivor tly-, 
$1(10 a side, 60 birds each; find, trap aud liaurllc for each oihe/t 
H. and T. traps, single barrel. Johnson won bv killing 3U; Gran ! 
ger,37. ' 3 h 
Some “sweep shooting took place for purses at. Bayonne, N. • 
J., the first being between Messrs. Fits, Woods and English. The \( 
conditions were 3 birds each, two traps, handicap rise, single bar¬ 
rels. The first round ended in a He. The shoot-off resulted In 
favor of Fits. In another sweep of three, with the game condi¬ 
tions. the first money went to English, who killed all; the second 
money, after the shoot-off of a tie, went to Mr-Johnson. In a 
bird about sweep, first miss out, the first share of the stakes went 
to Mr. Childers on 7 birds; Mr. Fits took second money and Mr. 
English third. 
Newark, Jan, 5th.—Shoot on New Yeai 
18 yards; Bogardus' trap; left, right and 
Witians. 1011 11 11110111 l—la 
Speer. ,0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 (1—10 
Wooden,. 1001011 l 1100000—7 
Mulford. 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 o 0 0 0 0 1 0 0-5 
Heddeu. 0 0 0 0 (I 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0—3 
Rawley.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0—2 
H. E. W. 
Rutherford Park, Dec. 25th.—Match nf the Gun and Fishing 
Club. Pigeons; 21 yards; Hounce shot; elub rules : - 
Glnstaeter. 1 1 0 0 0—2 I Lane.. 0111 1—4 
Ooe . .0 11 0 1-3 | J. Vroeland ./ 1 0 0 0 0-1 
Vail Roden. 0 0 0 0 1—1 Wood.j 000 0—1 
Jeaneret. 0 0 0 1 1-2 | t e e u u-i 
Second match; glass balls; 15 yards; club rules :—j 
Glastaetcr..lull 0—3 I Lane. 0010 1—2 
Coe...0010 0—1 I J. L. Vreelarid, jr,,. i 1 1 i 1—5 
Van Roden.0 0 1 0 1-2 I Wood. l o 1 0 1-8 
Jeaneret.0 1 1 0 1—3 I 
—ThoEsBex Society for the Protection of Game will hold its. 
regular monthly shoot at Erb's, Bloomfield road, Newark, N. J , 
n the;13tb. 
Pennsylvania— ApplebdchsvtlU, Jan. 1st,—Match between the 
sportsmen of Quakertown and ApplebaeksviUe; shooting for 
turkeys and wild geese; 21 yards rise; glass balls :— 
Owen Kramer.. .. 3 3 3 2 —111 S. T. LaubeustineS 4 3 4 4 —20 
Henry Headman. 4 4 5 3 3 4—23 I W. Sleifer. 2 3 2 — it 
Milton Earny- 4 4 3 5 3 2—21 I Lewis Ahern. _ 7 
Champion match between Earny and Headman:—Earny missed 
his JBth, and Headman broke 18. s. F. S. 
PnOMOJi-—Jacksonville, Jan. 1st.—Colonel C. A. Loul and A 
Frcnchv Johnson, of Boston, had a glass-ball shoot to-day under 
the rules of the Jacksonville Gun Club, at 100 glass ball 9 , from a 
rotary trap. The scores ran as fol lo ws:— 
Colonel C. A. Loud.-j § |j{(5§5iS§ 
4 5 5 5 5 3 
A. Frenchy Johnson.. j ,j 
5—49-98 
5-49 
5—48—97 
Glass-Ball Shooting.—jVciii Fork, January 5th.—Editor Parent 
and Stream :—I want to say a few words in regard to glass-ball 
shooting. As I was the first man to invert Ira trap to throw a hall 
so as to afford good practice, and was the means of placfng this 
popular mode of wing practice before the public, I believed can 
justly put forth adv ice without being accused of egotism or im¬ 
proper motives, simply because I sell glass balls or traps. 
What 1 would say is for the benefit of shooters generally, be¬ 
ing the honest conclusions I have arrived at, after considerable 
excellence in the field and before the trap-. The average shooter 
will practice at, glass balls, in order to lit himself for practical 
shooting in the field; therefore, his efficiency in I he Ib id will do- 
pend very much upon the style of glass-ball practice he adopted. 
Iam still convinced iliat, for practical purposes, there exists at 
present no better system of glass-ball practice than that which I 
first put. before the public, viz.: Shooting from three traps, placed! 
ten yards apart; the centre trap to throw balls straight away, and 
the two outside traps to throw a quarter ball across the line nf the 
central trap, at about fifteen yards behind that trap. One advant¬ 
age of this setting of the I raps, is that the broken glass falls within 
a certain area,and can be more easily cleaned from the ground. The 
reason why I have continued to make and place my traps so as to 
throw balls as I explained it, is that I hunted for many' years in the 
field for market, and I know thatnine birds out of ten raised wiH 
fly straight back or present a quarter shot; and If in glass-halt 
practice all clubs will follow my advice, and not be led astray by 
fancy and impracticable ideas, they will shoot glass balls from my 
traps, and according to my rules based upon extended experience, 
which will afford them more genuine practice than any other, be¬ 
sides having the desirable effect of establishing a standard trap, 
and setting thereof, rules aud ball, for all contests and practice, 
which would result in the greatest good to the greatest number. 
A trap that will throw a.ball straight at the shooter, is not good 
practice at. wing shooting. I am now about to manufacture my 
own traps and glass balls, and it shiiUbe my special care thatmy 
traps shall Le made reliable and serviceatde; andiu order to es¬ 
tablish glass-ball shooting as it ought to be, where clubs wish 
three of my traps, 1 am prepared to furnish them at a discount. 
Mv rough surface glass nail is certainly the best ball in the 
market for all purposes. The smooth hall to break, when nit by 
shot, must be made so thin that it invariably breaks upon the 
ground, is shattered in the trap, and hundreds ate broken in ship¬ 
ping. My rough ball is strong for shipping, does not break In the 
trap, nor upon the ground, while it is sure to break when hit in 
the air hvshot. 
Shooters will therefore find the rough surface b'all more eco¬ 
nomical even at cost of one or two dollars per thousand more than 
the smooth ball. T have perfected arrangements to manufacture 
my own balls, and will place them in the market at a price which 
makes them come cheaper far club use than any other row 
offered. I will establish a depot for the sale of trups-aud bal s 
under my personal direction, and respectfully refer clubs aud 
others Interested, to my regularadvertisement as to pi Ice and my 
future address. A. H ROGARD778. 
J littery. 
NOTES FROM ILLINOIS. 
T HE year just closed lias seen the “Rational Pas¬ 
time”—archery—grow from its infancy, in our 
country, to vigorous youth; and ere another twelve¬ 
month passes it will have arrived at early manhood. 
The year 1879 must always be a memorable one in the 
annals of our favorite sport. A great number of new 
clubs were formed, several State tournaments held, and 
the first meetings of the National and Eastern Archery 
Associations will certainly he long remembered. Then 
the interest in archery shown by the Forest and Stream 
and its correspondents must date from the last year. The 
discussion of the relative merits of American and Eng¬ 
lish bows still continues, aud as one correspondent has 
remarked, probably no one has been converted. And 
argument will not do it. All the printers’ ink in the 
land will not convince an archer that one bow is better 
than another. Unless a novice he will only judge of the 
worth of a bow by a thorough use of it. The best bow 
is not simply the one which will last longest - and carry 
farthest. A steel bow might be made to last a life time, 
aud a sixty pound how will undoubtedly carry farther 
than one of forty pounds made from the same material. 
Yet uo one would think of using either. That is the best 
bow whicli is powerful enough to do the work required 
of it and does it with the greatest ease- to the shooter. 
The 100 yard range In ay be easily shot with a yew bow 
of so few pounds pull that there will be almost no per- 
ceptable recoil; whereas a hard wood bow powerful 
enough to command the distance with any reasonable 
levation would have a very decided recoil. And though 
