Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 21, 1882. 



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Editorial. 

 The Defeat at Creedmoor. 

 Forest and Stream Fables, - tj 

 Adirondack Survey Notes. — x. 



' :' rr-'ju:,- Tot sis". 



The Wilderness of Labrador. 

 Natural History. 



Tin <;;,sper-Gou. 



Flight of Birds. 

 Game Bao and Gun. 



Game in Seasc 



CONTENTS. 



i Septei 



■!>pi. 



Septei 



Hits ol 



On (fit 



TheCt_..._. 



The Birds ir Kentucky. 



Bruin on the Rampage. 



The Facts of the Jersev Case. 



I'll, I, |,l-f|, : l|. 



A Colorado Camp Hunt. 

 Loading and Penetration. 



A \ i-ll [ i. :■ ','.)■: Yn cl a S:n IN A, lll.'i 



Sea amd River Fishing. 

 Fish in Season in September. 



5ba and River Fishing. 

 C'amping at Luke Meerautic. 

 Seven Ponds and Deer River, 

 wishing at Indian River. 3iich. 

 ThePluukettsGoa Fishius. 



!"ISHCULTITRE. 



The American Fishcultura.l As- 

 sociation. 



Phe Kennel. 



The Prairie Chicken Trials. 



Toronto Dog Show. 



Fox Hunting in Maryland. 

 Sifle and Trap Shooting. 



Internatiou tl Military Match. 



The America Cup. 

 Safe Sailboats. 

 Don Quixote Abroad. 

 The Question of Type. 

 Annasona. 



East River Y. C— Sept. 18. 

 Knickerbocker V. C— Sept. lli. 

 New York C. C— Sept. 16. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



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TEE JJEEEA T A T CREEDMOOR. 

 VJ OBUDY was surprised tit the victory of the British 

 -L ' team at Creedmoor last week, because everybody knew 

 that the American team had carefully worked toward defeat. 

 Everything seemed to have been done on the part of the 

 home team to secure a low score, while a dozen matters 

 which ought to have been looked after to secure a victory 

 were entirely omitted or neglected. Nobody, either, appears 

 to be very sorry over tlie defeat, for il was recognized that 

 a high score on the part of the Americans would have been 

 almost tantamount to a cessation of all farther international 

 shoots with the marksmen of Great Britain. Small-bore 

 shooters have a sort of unwillingness to try further con- 

 clusions with our team men, Imt in military shooting the 

 Wimbledon experts have discovered the. vulnerable point; of 

 the Creedmoor shooters. The recent match brings out in 

 bold relief the real weakness of our National Guardsmen, 

 especially in long-range marksmanship, and after all, it may 

 be a question whether^ t is worth while for men belonging 

 to city regiments to cultivate a style of shooting so distinc- 

 tively professional as this of sending over a half mile through 

 uncleaned rifles. 



The Americans did themselves credit at the first stage of 

 the match, and showed that the work of Creedmoor has not 

 been thrown away. There are a dozen ranges where shoot- 

 ing may be had up to 600 yards, to one where 1,000 yards 

 can be shot over. To have made then so close a rub for 

 the magnificently trained English team at these distances 

 was a performance which should have the effect of pro ving 

 to the home shooters that it is after all not so difficult a task 

 to overtake the Wimbledon representative. 



The good feeling which prevailed from beginning to end 

 of the match, between the two teams, shows that in a social 

 way the inalch was a success, It was really a contest forthe 

 honor of victory. There is no pot-hunting flavor about it, 

 and the men who have given their time and effort to the 

 patriotic duty of representing their respective countries, 

 deserve a great deal of credit. Each country was fairly 

 represented, for though in time America will put a much 

 stronger team in the field, it is doubtful whether at the pres- 

 ent time a better squad could have been mustered. 



The defeat has shown us that work is needed, and the first 



effort should direct itself to the making up of an arm cap- 

 able of rilling the requirements of the match. There must be 

 no serious fouling of the barrel as successive shots are fired. 

 The rilles used by the English did not foul, and until Ameri- 

 can riflemen have the same sort of weapons they have no 

 chance against, the better equipped foreigner. Of course our 

 armorers can produce such a rifle, but they did not evidently 

 do so in time for this past match, still the match served as a 

 point from which to take a departure in the right direction. 

 There has been tt pretty thorough exhibition of what we do 

 not kn ow in the matter of long-range rilles of this sort- 

 Now it remains to be seen whether or no that deficiency can 

 be remedied. 



The matter of the selection of the team is a point over 

 which the directors of the National Rifle Association have 

 complete control, and it is worth considering, in view of the 

 results shown, whether the team of 1882 was really fit to be 

 molded into a good working team. It is well conceded now 

 that to get a team up by a review of competitors, jumping to 

 the conclusion that those who survive the tests are therefore 

 the best shots, is not the true theory. It is not the plan else- 

 where where teams represent mere individual effort on the 

 part of their members, and especially is it not the correct 

 plan with us where the team should be so constituted as to 

 get whatever of strength there is in a carefully worked out 

 team S3"stem. This pan only be done where the closest bond 

 of friendship exists, and where there is not constant struggle 

 for personal preferment. 



The team captain should be something more than a mere 

 figure-head, not one of the "has beeus," but one of the 

 smart, young, energetic officers of to-day, full of ambition, 

 and not so set in a certain line of opinion that the most 

 stubborn array of facts produce no result in changing his 

 plan. The National Guard of the C. S. may not be a large 

 body, but it is amply large enough to pick out a most excel- 

 lent team. Abroad the men pick themselves out by going 

 down to the great Central range near London, and there 

 showing their ability. Here the men will have to be looked 

 up. If necessary good holders could be taken, and with 

 good coaching taught to make very fair scores at long range. 

 For off-hand shooting each man must be in great measure 

 Ms own drill-master, and secure the secret of excellent 

 shoulder-shooting by private aiming drill. 



To have a defeat through sheer weakness at Wimbledon 

 in 1883 will be a far more serious matter than the knock- 

 down just experienced. For if a year passes and the same 

 inability to cope with the English riflemen is still shown, 

 then it will go far to indicate that we are after all not likely 

 to become good military shots, and that we had better yield 

 the palm to the Englishmen, and draw in somewhat of our 

 boastfulness as a nation of marksmen. No such result, 

 however, is likely to come about. We might have won the 

 recent match by a great effort. It is gone from us ,and the 

 Britishers have done us the favor of showing the American 

 public that there is after all something for our guardsmen to 

 learn, and for our expert gunmakers to do. Another year 

 should see the weapons made and a, team armed with them 

 ready to do battle before the butts of the strongest team 

 Great Britain can muster on her own soil. 



The Bow us the Barnyard. — A prominent Western 

 sportsman kills chickens for bis Sunday dinner with bow 

 and arrow. Although disdaining to shoot at a deer in the 

 woods unless it be on the biggest kind of a jump, or to kill 

 a game bird except on the wing, he ignominiously pots his 

 chickens on the ground, alleging that the meat is better when 

 the domestic bird is killed in serene repose. Yielding to his 

 sportsman's instinct, however, be is now engaged in devis- 

 ing a trap to propel the fowls into the air. When this bal- 

 listic machine is perfected we may look forthe formation of 

 a National American Archers' Association for the Protection 

 of Poultry, with annual tournaments for trap-shooting old 

 hens at eighteen yards. 



The Rifle Stolen from Walsut Hill by burglars 

 last August has not yet been recovered. The owner, Mr. 

 F. J. Rabbeth, requests riflemen to be on the lookout for the. 

 arm, which is easily identified. It is a Remington Hepburn, 

 .38 calibre, Swiss stock, with check piece on the right side 

 for a left-handed shooter. The rear sight is also peculiar, 

 being a Winchester vernier without, elevating screws, and 

 attached to the, rifle with but one screw. Only the base of 

 front wind-gague sight was on the rifle when taken. A lib- 

 eral reward will be paid for information that will lead to its 

 recovery, 



The Moodus Dog Swindler. — The enterprising andpoly- 

 nomial young gentleman of Moodus, Conn. , who displayed 

 so much ingenuity in exchanging mythical dogs of won- 

 drous virtues for greenbacks, money-orders, cheeks, guns, 

 fishing-rods, and other like substantial booty, has come to 

 grief. His real name is Frank Fowler. He was arrested at 

 Middletown, Conn., Sept. 7. on complaint of one of his 

 victims, and at a hearing last Friday he pleaded guilty and 

 was bound over to appear at the November term of the 

 Superior Court. Fowler was a very successful dead beat, 

 and has swindled numerous gentlemen out of sums of 

 money. He is one of a pestiferous class of dog thieves who 

 ought to be driven out of their business. We trust that 

 those who have been victimized by this fellow will appear 

 against him. This is u capita] opportunity to make an ex- 

 ample of one tlog swindler, and one such example will go 

 far to deter other r,iscals from taking up the same line of 

 business. It is said that Fowler has been combining with 

 his dog frauds a patent medicine swindle. 



The Field Trials.— We give in our kennel columns this 

 week the details of the running of the derby stakes at Fair- 

 mont. A description of the all -aged stakes running will be 

 found in our next issue. The plan adopted at Fairmont of 

 appointing additional judges and running several braces of 

 dogs at the same time was a wise expedient and proved very 

 satisfactory in its workings. There is every indication that 

 the field of entries at the coming trials will be large, and un- 

 less some such measure is again adopted to expedite matters, 

 the meeting will drag its slow length along to an unreason- 

 able extent. Field trials should not be prolonged beyond a 

 week. That is long enough time for all concerned. By 

 confining the trials to a reasonable length of time their pro- 

 moters will render them more popular, insure a larger at- 

 tendance and give satisfaction all around. The majority of 

 gentlemen who attend these meetings cannot- well afford to 

 spend more, time than a, week on the grounds, and the 

 judges should not be expected to do so. We hope that this 

 matter may receive the attention it so imperatively de- 

 mands. 



The Coming Anglers' Tournament.— The proposed 

 tournament which is popularly called the fly -casting tourna- 

 ment, will, in consideration ol the attention which will be 

 paid to bait-casting for striped bass, be known in future as 

 the Forest and Stream Anglers' Tournament. The com- 

 mittee of arrangements consists of many gentlemen who are 

 prominent in the angling clubs of the country and in game 

 protective societies. A feature of the tournament will be a 

 contest for prizes to be cast with single-handed fly rods 

 which weigh less than five and a half ounces, which will be 

 given by the house of William Mills & Sou, New York. 

 In a few days a circular asking for prizes will be issued and 

 no doubt a tine list will be the result, as it is intended to 

 make this contest the largest and best ever held in America. 

 It is expected that it will come off about October 16, but the 

 place is not yet decided upon. 



The Forest and Stream Prize Award.— As stated in 

 our last issue, the prize offered by the Forest and Stream 

 at the last convention of the New York State Association 

 for the Protection of Fish and Game, has been awarded to 

 the Onondaga Fishing Club of Syracuse. We had hoped to 

 receive from the Association such particulars in reference to 

 the competition for the prize, and the record upon which it 

 was awarded, as would have enabled us to publish the same 

 this week, but in the lack of such information we ire com 

 pelled to defer the matter. 



FOREST AND STREAM FABLES. 

 NO. TX,— THE BAR MINNOW PROTECTORS. 



rpHE King of the Fishes, when he found that his law was set 

 J- at naught, was first of a mind to let the destruction of his 

 small subjects continue till the. Pike, Bass and Perch were de- 

 prived of food, and so brought to obedience. But being a 

 good King, he could not help but have some kindly feeling for 

 the poor Minnows, and so he appointed certain Gars Minnow 

 Protectors, and sent them to enforce the law. But instead of 

 doing what they were set to, the Gars went Minnow hunting 

 along with the, biggest. Pike and Bass, and destnryed more in 

 day of the week than the Perch had in the wnole seven. 

 When this came to the King's knowledge he took their office 

 from the Gars, and cursed them, and ever since, to this day, 

 they have been hated by all Fish, big and little, and despised 

 well as hated by all men. 



MORAL. 



A dishonest game protector is worse than a poacher. 



