Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, OCTOBER 12, 1882. 



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 "Nutmeggers" on the Ottawa. 



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 In the Old Virginia Lowlnud. 

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Second Breeding of Quail. 

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Quail Introduced into Vermont. 



The Vermont Deer. 



The lleCloud River Panther. 

 Camp Fire Flickertngs. 

 Szi and River Fishing. 



x 1j* Anglers' Tournament. 



Minnow-Casting for Black Bass. 



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Sea and River Fishing. 

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Retrieving and Style. 



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Toronto. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 

 Creedmoor— Oct. Programme. 

 Match Deductions. 

 Col. B odine's Report. 



D ra and Canoeing. 

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TILE TEAM CAPTAIN'S BEPOMT 

 TN another column we give the views of Col. Bodine upon 

 the late International Match. As captain of the de- 

 feated team he is in a position to speak uuiierstaudiugly of 

 the Situation, and in some respects his conclusions are well 

 founded. He coincides with the views held in the Forest 

 and Stream, that the defeat was one of arms rather than of 

 men. The ammunition and the rifle were not properly 

 mated, and with an unreliable arm all attempts to make a 

 good working team were futile. The report of the statuesque 

 Colonel is worth careful consideration, for it contains the 

 conclusions of one who has won distinction as a long-range 

 shot and who has had opportunities to appreciate all the 

 ^difficulties through which the lust team passed, and to most 

 "keenly see what a great task is before us in the match of 1883. 

 He (Joes not take a very buoyant view of that contest, and 

 lucre certainly is little at present to indicate anything but a 

 Mbetition of the defeat of 1882. 



Much of the report of the team captain is taken up with 

 confessions of bad management. The unpleasant incident 

 of the day before the match is revived in whut seems to us 

 ^entirely unnecessary fashion. The report biings out in 

 ight the entirely experimental character of the 

 "hooting on the American side. It does not appear that all 

 the preliminary practice was anything more than a series of 

 teSUs of ammunition, rides, sights, positions, etc., on the 

 Part of the members of the American team, and then over 

 ^Ihe captain came in with additional doses of advice, until 

 || 'or that any sort of a score whatever was made. 

 "he matter of coaching a military team receives a curious 

 remark at the pen of Col. Bodine. He gives it as his con- 

 clusion that coaching a military team is a delusion, and then 



""' i hat he merely "went through the motions" of conch- 



'".- '0 hoodwink the public into the belief that some sort of 

 Preparation was under way. This is certainly refreshing 

 per all that has been said on this point of team drill, and 

 "J the Colonel himself. Because British teams do not enjoy 

 Mynlein of team drill is no reason that the American team 



could not employ it to advantage, No team among the 

 number of small-bore squads defeated by the Americans in 

 past years have shown any conception of what benefits could 

 be gained from effective team work. Of course that was in 

 small-bore long-range work, but the report of Col. 

 fiodine does not clearly point out wherein military 

 shooting differs so much from the other styles of 

 Shooting that the team system cannot be transferred. 

 With guns shooting in some sort of uniform style, mutual 

 help can be extended from one member of a team to another. 

 The records of the team then become valuable as guides for 

 future shooting: but with men changing their powder 

 charges from day to day, it is no wonder that Col. Bodine 

 jumped to the erroneous conclusion that coaching was a 

 ttseiess endeavor. No doubt the coaching attempted for the 

 recent American tenia was effort thrown away. But it is 

 nonsense to suppose for a moment that a military team may 

 not be so accustomed to shoot together, that from the first 

 shot to the last each may serve as a help to the others. 



The report hits a point of couscquence when it advocates 

 the appointive rather than competitive style of selection. It 

 is easy for a committee to make up a team from among the 

 best known shots of the country, and such a team would in 

 all probability be a stronger working body than the hap- 

 hazard group gathered by an all-comer's contest. 



The Colonel lays special stress on the necessity of imme- 

 diate --tcps lot the organization of the team for next year, and 

 of the need of hard work in the getting up of rifles for the 

 match. He speaks of postponement, but that is out of the 

 question, nor will it be thought wise, as he suggests, fonts to 

 go to the British armorers to secure weapons for 1883. If 

 our National Ride Association directors wish to really en- 

 courage rifle practice and the promotion of good shooting in 

 America, they can find a few experts who are able to make 

 the special gun needed for the match of next year. To 

 secure the weapon will require the expenditure of money, 

 however, but if there is a further dependence upon the 

 voluntary efforts of the well-kuowu armorers, it is not at all 

 unlikely that next spring will see the same chapter of ex- 

 perimenting, groping, miscalculation and ultimate defeat. 



Tmi FOBK8T a;-,d Stream Anglers' Tournament will be 

 held in the Central Park, Oct. 19. See notices on, pages 20!} and 

 g09. A cordial In citation is extended to every reader of this 

 journal to be present us a participant or spectator. 



NON-RESIDENTS IN NEW JERSEY. 



THE correspondence published in this journal between 

 the two New Jersey game protective societies has 

 directed public attention to these organizations and their 

 methods of work. The peculiarity of these methods con- 

 sists in the discrimination enforced against non-resident 

 sportsmen. The authority for such discrimination is de- 

 rived from special legislation, which, like all legislation of 

 the kind, may be odious to those whom it does not directly 

 benefit. Without calling into question the acknowledged 

 good motives ol' I he gentlemen who organized these societies, 

 or the results which may have been attained, we apprehend 

 that the legislation under which they act is a legitimate 

 subject of examination, for approval or criticism. 



The regulation imposing a tax upon the guns of non- 

 residents in New Jersey is not found among the statutes 

 of the State; it is one of the by-laws of a society. The act 

 of the Senate tind General Assembly of the State of New 

 Jersey incorporating the "West Jersey Game Protective 

 Society provides that it shall be unlawful for non-residents 

 to hunt within certain counties "without complying with 

 the. by-laws of this game protective society," and penal- 

 ties are prescribed for nou-complianee. This is certainly a 

 most extraordinary enactment., for, first, the by-laws of 

 any society can, in the very nature of things, govern no- 

 body except the members of that organization, nor, 

 secondly, can there rightly be any penalty for the infringe- 

 ment of those, by-laws, save such penalty as may be pro- 

 vided and enforced by the society itself. But this act 

 not only declares non-members of the West Jersey G. P, S. 

 subject to the regulations of that society, but it further pro- 

 vides that certain individuals, who may not obey the rides of 

 a society of which they are not members, shall for such dis- 

 obedience he fined, or by the machinery of the State 

 dragged to jail. Such unusual powers having been granted 

 it, the society adopts this by-law for the government of 

 those who are not its members: 



"Any person or persons, non-residents ol this State, wish 

 ing to kill, destroy, hunt, or take, at any time, any game as 

 provided for in the seventh section of the 'Act incorporating 

 this society,' shall first become tnetnbers of this society, by 



payment of the membership fee to the secretary, receiving 

 a certificate of membership, signed by the president and 

 secretary and sealed with the corporate seal of said society." 



By this peculiar combination of State-and-soeiety legisla- 

 tion the system for the West Jersey G. P. S.'s imposition of a 

 tax upon the non-resident Ls complete. The latter pays his 

 license fee and shoots unmolested, or else he does not pay, 

 and is in consequence lined or thrown into jail. Putting 

 aside altogether any consideration of the constitutionality 

 of all this, there cjui be no question as to its legality. 



With regard to the arrests of non-residents by the New 

 Jersey Game and Fish Protective Society, however, the case 

 appears 1c be different; their arrests, so far as we understand 

 them, are not even legal, much less, then, constitutional. 

 This society is organized under a general acl, similar in its 

 non-resident provisions to the act of incorporation of the 

 West Jersey society ; it declares it unlawful for non-residents 

 to shoot in the State of New Jersey "without complying 

 with the by-laws of the. game protective societies," etc. If, 

 now, the New Jersey G. P. P. S. had adopted a by-law like 

 that of the West Jersey G. P. S., or a similar one, prescrib- 

 ing ih.it non-residents desiring to hunt in that State should 

 first become members of the society and pay a fee, then, 

 clearly, the tax system would be complete in this case also, 

 and non-residents not complying with this by-law might 

 legally be arrested. But, as a matter of fact, the by-laws of 

 the West Jersey G. P. S. nowhere contain any such rule. 

 No obligation whatever is placed upon the non-resident 

 sportsman to take out tt certificate, of membership before he 

 shoots; whether or not he. shall do so is with him purely vol- 

 untary. We are at a loss to see, then, how their arrests of 

 non-residents, simply for the atrocious crime of dwelling 

 without the limits of the State of New Jersey, can be other- 

 wise than illegal, harsh, and oppressive. If it can be shown 

 that they are not so ill?gal, certainly the officers of the society 

 owe. it to themselves not less than to the public to make this 

 clear. 



We have said that the New Jersey non-i esident discrimi- 

 nations are odious to those who are not benefited by them. 

 The disfavor with which a law may be regarded is not of 

 necessity any proof that the law itself is inherently wrong. 

 One very general objection, however, namely, that of un- 

 constitutionality, strenuously urged against this New Jer- 

 sey system, is worthy of consideration. If these laws are 

 unconstitutional they cannot and ought not to be defended. 

 The doctrine that "they may be unconstitutional, but they 

 protect the game, and so they are all right" is not good doc- 

 trine; on the contrary they are all wrong. The end cannot 

 justify the means. No one holds in higher estimation than 

 we do the importance of legal game protection, but of un- 

 measurably more account we hold it to maintain the consti- 

 tutional right of the humblest citizen. Game is one thing, 

 justice another. Better that the deer and the quail and the 

 grouse should be exterminated than that men shotdd be sub- 

 jected to the indignity and wrong of illegal arrests. 



We do not propose to discuss the merits or demerits ol 

 these New Jersey laws. We advert to them only because it 

 is desirable that they should be discussed and determined in 

 the proper maimer, and an opportunity to do this appears 

 now to have arisen. If as a result of the Welsh case it shall 

 appear that non-resident members of the New Jersey G. F. 

 P. S., who are not also members of the West Jersey G. P. 

 S., have.on the territory of the lattcr,ouly the rights accorded 

 to all other non-residents, then the New Jersey G. F. P. 8. 

 can enforce its claims in behalf of its members only by tak- 

 ing the case up to a higher court and obtaining a decision 

 that all these non-resident discriminations are unconstitu- 

 tional. 



It will be purely optional, of course, with the contesting 

 parties to take this case up or to drop it, but it will be a 

 pity, now that this opportunity is presented, not to improve 

 it. Whatever be the final decision, the interests of legiti- 

 mate game protection will in no wise suffer. There will 

 still be left abundant constitutional methods of enforcing 

 the game laws; whenever there are not, the game bad bet- 

 ter be allowed to perish. 



Eastern Field Trials.— At a meeting of the Eastern 

 Field Trials Club, hold at Delmonico's on Tuesday evening. 

 October 10, the following gentlemen were' selected to act as 

 judges at the coming trials at High Point: Col. James 

 Gordon, Lochinvar, Miss. ; Mr. J. J. Snelleuburg, New 

 Brighton, Pa., and Mr. Joseph H, Dew, Columbia, Tenn, 

 The club decided that no owner nor handler who has worked 

 any dogs within a radius of eight miles of High Point shall 

 be allowed to compete at the trials on penalty of being 

 debarred, 



