Dkoembee 15, 1881. J 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



389 



REDUCING EXPANDED SHELLS. 



BfOME lime since I had an English breech-" 



e gun, in which I used paper shells. Being desir- 

 ous of using iira^s ones I got 45 niekel-platud ones, and 

 after firing them in the gun they came out with difficulty ; 

 and after closely examining them I found they were nut in 

 pe, and anon looking at the chambers of ihe gun 

 noti< ed for 1 1 to first time that they were not bored true. 



thi Jim and kept the shells; and shortly 

 : i . ■ i lade " American .mm. of which the. 

 ■probers were bored true; but I found these she] 



igUD, although I fried in many ways, by dress- 

 ing down will) emery, and subjecting thorn lo the action of 

 vi . ingth T fixed them in this way. 1 had a 

 thick, put iu the ftice-chuck of a 

 Jathfc, aud .■ y tapered and polished hole put 



tun aid: [lie bar of such size that a new shell which had 

 ■per been fired, would, after being oiled, enter the larger 

 1 - ■ i :>!!' an inch if introduced with con- 

 : -ce and with a boring motion. Then, taking the 

 jjtoells and sm< aring them with oil and driving them in at 

 i nd of the. hole (with a mallet of wood; up to the 

 tractl d them with a wooden plug (of slightly less 

 Siameter than the inside of the shell), in which was bored a 

 so that it would not strike the anvil seat. I put 

 this in the shell and drive the shell out, using the wooden 



mallet. Shells which are treated iu this way are re 



their original dimensions. It often happens that a person 



-hells iu his gun has allowed them to be fired 



gun, and upon attempting to.use them again has 



to be expanded so as to be useless ; to all such 



iimioation may have some little value. 



Id state that the charge made for making ibis 



"swage" was twenty-five cents; and as labor i3 cheaper 



' your side it could probably be done for less. 



Cot otb. 



THE MOBILE GUN CLUB DINNER. 



Mobile, Ala., Dec. 1, 1881. 



Editor Forest, and Stream : 



i annual , side-hunt of the Mobile Gun Club, Nos. 

 Baud'23, resulted in a tie, each side scoring 476 points. 

 The dinner was, therefore, a joint affair. The editor of the 

 i isdesc i ed it so well that I will let him tell the 

 ; me".— J. P, S. 

 The report inclosed is as follows : Last Wednesday night 

 and elegant dining-room at the Battle House 

 a memorable aud not soon-to-be forgotten appear- 

 ance. On each side and across the head of the room, firm- 

 ing three sides of a hollow square, were long Hues of tables 

 every variety of game in profusion and served and 

 i 'a in the art of gastronomy. There were 



Bats for one hundred and twenty participants, the Gulf City 

 Gim Club aud invited guests. 

 At :i o'clock sharp, the doors were opened and the seats 

 lied. Attention was first paid to the tempting dis- 

 uehire r.hem ami the manner in which the edibles 

 showed both persistence aud due apprecj 

 The wants of the inner man having been Satisfied, the 

 was commenced by Mr. II. P. Vass, whose remarks were 

 jiotieeable for their exceeding brevity. Judge Semmes 

 now next and roused the first hearty laugh of the evening. 

 ! apt. W. J. Brainard was the next brief speaker, after which 

 on. 1! B, Owen spoke in deserved praise of the elnb 

 and its object in furthering that most important coi 



■ ' in a sound body." W. B. Holt was next 

 ailed on, but not being ready, gave place to Dr. T. P. 



earnest aud congratulatory words upon the 

 iicccjs, the gratifying success, of the scheme of a gun club, 

 if which he was one of the originators, who had believed in 

 ts ultimate sucesss from the start. He was proud or the 

 ^un Club, and now that its success was "an assured 

 act, ho hoped its future would continue as bright and 

 irosperous. He concluded by calling on one of the 

 nvited guests, General James Gordon, of Pontotoc, Missis- 

 sippi. General Gordon responded in eulogistic terms of the 

 uernbers of the Gun Club and the magnificent spread that 

 signalized their first annual hunt. After indulging i 

 ceirriuisceeces be called on anolhir invited guest, Mr. Pon- 

 tine, of the New Orleans Gun Club. This speaker 

 the time when s ime of the members of his club met those 

 if the i iulf City Gun Club, and handsomely acknowledged 

 ' iat they found their foemen worthy of their steel. Oue cf 

 is gentleman's allusions brought up C J. Semmes, who 

 .made a very neat point, and then called on one of the mem- 

 bers of the Club, General .1. W. Burke, who gave a very in- 

 erecting description ... hi:' first hunt after wild gee-e and bis 

 i nee Some allusion was made to that modern 



Nimrod, Mr. Joseph Stein, but he bore his blushing honors 

 i' and could not he persuaded to talk. Captain 

 Biily Brainard took the witness stand, andin glowing Words 

 described the adventure of his party on the Spray, hoi 

 embarked at (1.-20 on Saturday nigh', bound for Hickory 

 iidge, mid how every hour after that so m thing happened. 

 Sear half the night had gone before they reached the bridge, 

 ailed. Next morning, a little liefore daylight, 

 hied a :vd light, and ordered all hands aloft to 

 i >m the coming steamboat. To their great 

 delight (?) they were at the railroad bridge, 

 laving suied up the river, turned around and coin 

 again, without knowing it. Then they burst their water 

 gouge, run the Spray full head on a big Band ba ik, 8nd I tl 

 hey had not reached that promised laud, Hickory Ridge. 

 This was a very sensational narrative and it was greatly up- 



id. erne e 



tin Brainard's moving' allusions 



POU tup CJaplai 

 who askc 



i Rauchenstein, sometimes known as Old 



I . Information on some incident 



trip. 



Captain if. P. VaSS called npflu 



' 



of the /.'• 



IMS foi 



curing Hi': .: Dr. Scales, who, 



:■ ; _,H: 



.. calle i "M Mr. DreSsbaeb 1 a mm 



■Of his trip after game and his pai'ty, and the Iron! le Ll 

 iad with a ui igbt conductor. Mr. fir. 



lariated their troubles aud showed that ihev had 

 'u.tlier. limited liai ■< 



fore, all for the glory of their side. June ; 



JOIUO questions to n-k, and then Dure Levi ■:,-■ ■ 



ailed for. Not heeding the suggestion to "get up on a 

 i . del he ioi pun 



i -.lit down the house and suee: 

 of the smoke of the explosion. Thea I 

 iw:>u had some i|uestions to ask the tux i 

 tirade* ' brought Major Sheftield 



arrated some of the! 



atiei s in the State of Baldwin. He finally 



alluded to a game man who was with them, all game, and 



wanted to hear from Mr. 1). H. Lay, who gave another 



en tures of their party and what was done 



on that memorable occasion. And then allusions were made 



i iph man and what he did, and this brought up 



1 ■ ■ an outline of their trip after game 



down toward Fort Morgan, of the sand banks down there, 



e shot who was fool enough to try 



to live there. He expressed, confidently, a belief that he 



would not, go in that direction at the next annual hunt, 



Capt. Wm. H. Williamson was the next speaker, and he 



spoke of the predicament of the hunters getting where there 



Of game, only to bo stopped because there was a 



in four miles. Aud then that march in the 



sight of a bird, the first shot for twenty-three 



years and the safe escape of the would-be victim. 



Under the inspiring influence of the Roederer the talk 

 become more general, and -Mr. E. Carre, Captain Williamson, 

 Dr. Scales (wh I n Vass shot his doer), H. P. Vass, 



Judge Semmes, T. T. Dorman, L. H. Kennerly and Dorman 

 it. The entertaining description of Mr. Fontaine's 

 fox hunt, by that gentleman, was one of the most entertain- 

 ing things of the whole evening, and brought out enthusiastic 

 roars of applause. He certainly deserved to score 500 points 

 for that. 



The three hours' session was then adjourned over sincere 

 wishes for man v happy returns of the annual hunt of the 

 Gulf City Gun Club. 



MENU. 



Otm Olab Gumbo. 



Tenderloin of Flounders, en Cartouche. 



Vol an Vent, a la Muscovite. 



Boast Wild Turkey, with Water Cresses : Mallard Ducks, stuffed 



with OliveB i .Saddle of Venison, Currant Jelly Sauce. 



Broiled Squirrel, a La Maitre d'llotol ; Gray Ducks, Poivrade Sauce. 



Mashed Potatoes, Baked, a, la Villurs ; Tiuibide of Macaroni, 





Lady Fingers. 



iRoi 



jack Ducks, a la Chevratino. 

 auxfroid, a la Vert Pres. 

 crloin of Black Dnck. 

 lirrel, Iluuter Style. 



Venison, en Soliel. 

 ison, a, la Polonnaise. 

 uck, a la Colbert 



Loin Sausage. 



Celei 



Olivi 



nd Cake. Fruits. NufB. Coffee. 

 ies. Chat. Lcoville. 

 r Carte Blanche. 



U HIE ABOUT TURKEY CALLING. 



Willis, Texas, Nov. 18, 1881. 

 Kfiiior Forest and Stream: 



I am in. camp now in the woods, have a good staunch 

 Cabin "by the take," probably for the winter. We feast 

 daily on venison, ducks, squirrels and fish. So far I am 

 happy, lint i see that your correspondent " Ixeouk " is not, 

 a ' ■ ' . iis on me lo help him call his turkey. 



In the first place he must make a "caller," or "call," 



such as I will describe presently : then he must go to school 



(a turkey school) with the young turkeys, as I did, and grow 



id learn their language, otherwise he will 



not succeed. If he has a flock of tame turkeys about his 



house let htm get np at daybreak and go and sit down a 



short distance from their roost and watch them. Let him 



notice everything they do, and he will be much interested, 



if not edified, with their performances. Wild ones act in 



ne way. 



In the fall arid winter, when turkeys are in flocks, they 



usually roost in the same tree, or in several trees close by. 



At the dawn of day you will hear them begin by occasional 



"clucks;" thee, shortly afterward, frequent yelpings 



before they fly down. Sometimes the old hen<first, and at 



other times a youDg oue or two, will begin first. This you 



. for the notes from either are not always 



■ '-oii' .. i u, experience will teach you. But if you 



will learn the. "cluck" note, and begin when they do, it will 



attract their attention to you, and if kept up more frequently 



than they do, they will be more apt to pitch down near you. 



when they come down off the roost. You must "cluck" 



and yelp, too, at intervals, and at the same time. 



The "cluck," when well made, is an excellent call note, 



accompanied with the "yelp,"and if you make both well (as I 



do), and use proper judgment at same time, you cannot fail 



to meet with success in getting all the turkey roasts you 



wish. 



Some will tell you to yelp once or twice or thrice, but I 



i ' oat cluck as often as you please, or as loud 



or low aa you like, it makes no difference as to number of 



limes so 01 do it, well, not almost like a turkey, but just 



like a turkey. 



If it be in tiii , ring of the year, in gobbling season, then 



use the best turkey lore. You must put in your 



best skill, aud if you use good yelping, clucking and plenty 



of patience, yen will out-general the cunningest old gobbler 



tb.it over came from an egg. 



Use a rifle to shoot him with, a 38cal, Wesson or Reming- 

 ton or Ballard— all good. Don't shoot an old gobbler with a 

 on >ht yon would I would not tell you a 

 tiling him up. 

 The turkey call I uae is, I think, the best turkey call that 

 was ever made. I am, in part, the inventor of the instru- 

 ment myself, and if you will practice it right aud take notice 

 with it, you can soon become ex- 

 pert in the art. 



lallei bone, of the second joint of the wing of 



oil square aud smoothly at each 



end, f use n file in cutting off and in squaring aud smoothing 



the ends. Glean out the inside and outside nicely. Then 



get a seasoned or di v cane or reed joint, that the round end 



o will just euter. Push the hone into the 



reed prim ttb . | irtera of an inch aud wedge it. in 



oil not tight enough to split 



- pi' ce of reed be about two inches loner, 



, another piece of reed just 



to enter. Tien begin back from the 



joint tlirie i - down s'nping to- 



i :■ alike, and wrap nicely with a 



section of reed be one ami a half 



wrapping will lender the joined 



; lr-ib. hi, which is essential to making 



Ihe instrument should be 



Mow it " !'■'■ OUR " d es not understand, then wriie to me 

 at i nee and le1 h'm give me his name and address and I will 



. ' i ' one. 



Now, when the call is made after this method, try to yelp 

 and cluck with il. Place the bone end in your lips and 

 "pucker" and — goodness ! I dou't kuow how to tell you to do 

 wilh the rest, but goto sip o that's all. Practice as you 

 would a flute or fiddlo until you have learned, then you will 

 never forget it. The following is a rough penciling of the 

 "call" as best I cab draw it in the woods where 1 am. It 



t^ 



Bone. Reed. o'ee.rt, 



gives the design, and it seems that any one could make it. 

 Iu order to "cluck," place the tip of the tongue on the end 

 of the bone mou'.h-piece, and by a quick suck and jerk of the 

 tongue you em learn the cluck. I make any note that the 

 turkey does wil the i I his instrument. I call like old 



hen or young hen, young gobbler or old; cluck like either 

 as a call note, or "put" like either as an alarm note. I 

 have used every contrivance that I ever heard of, but I 

 have yet to find anything but the real turkey that can equal 

 this call, and I hive yet I. » find en old gobbler that I cannot 

 bring with it. I will put myself on one side of an old 

 gobbler aud let another man with all the " fixens" he ever 

 saw, put himself on the other side, with a live turkey hen to 

 boot, and if the old chap is an hour or two in makiug up his - 

 mind which to go to, I will give my gun if f don't get him. 

 I made one of these things for a friend in Mississippi once 

 and taught him how to use it, aud have been sorry ever Bince. 

 The first spring after I made it he killed nine old gobblers 

 with it, and has been malting havoc among them ever since. 

 He broke up my "rootin' around," so I left the country; 

 but I did the same service for ray brother out- there, and he 

 is now a stand-off for the other man, and even beats him a 

 little, for my brother can gobble just like a turkey, and 

 Smith, the other fellow, can't — that's all. C. L. Jordan. 



A MISSISSIPPI CAMP HUNT. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



Thinking, perhaps, that some of your many readers might 

 like to hear from this section of the country, I shall try aud 

 drop you a few lines which may fall in a fertile spot or laud 

 in the waste. A party of some eight or nine of us left on the 

 13lh for our annual camp hunt, and only one who has par- 

 ticipated in these jaunts can appreciate the pleasure that each 

 one anticipates, except the commissary, who is the draught- 

 horse of the trip ; and unluckily this has fallen to the writer's 

 lot twice in succession. 



A merrier or happier party never entered a forest than ours 

 as into the sombre woods we defile, and with blowing of 

 horns and the deep baying of hounds we plod our weary way 

 along, till, near night, we draw up to a deep bayou, where 

 we select a camp groi nd. After a refreshing night's rest, ere 

 the golden orb of day his begun to tinge the eastern horizon, 

 we are up, and after a cup cf pure Rio and a few crackers, 

 we are saddled and off. An er a Bhort i ide through pome cane 

 we enter the. hunting grounds. Scarce had we debouched ere 

 the thrilling notes of our noble hounds reached far through 

 the stilly aisles, and the heart of many a timid deer beat re- 

 sponsive to its sweet and stirring sounds. Only afew minutes 

 after three' or four shots are tired, and we have a beautiful 

 doe stranded on the brown and sere grass. But we have no 

 lime to tarry. On we go to a, regular fusillade, to find two 

 boys with the bnek- ague, worse frightened than the noble 

 monarch that they had endeavored to bring down. With the 

 dogs all gone, we try it breasting; and afier a little while 

 we see a . ii o :o run fast, aud our bear 



hunter on horse-back tc hot pursuit. After a ipirited run of 

 fifteen minutes and after several shots the bear finally suc- 

 cumbs to the inevitable, and lies prostrate and lifeless. He 

 Weighed six hundred pounds gross aud cut four inches of 

 fat. 8ome of ihe boys return to camp with him, while the 

 rest go on. After a ride of , an hour we are satisfied tore- 

 turn to camp having bagged three large bucks, which were 

 killed like rabbits, jumping from their beds, in just twenty 

 minutes after the fun began. Not a bad Monday's work. 



Tuesday morning breaks upon u->, beautiful, calm and cold ; 

 and after a hasty breakfast we are oil again, and during a 

 iaost enjoyable day we bag three large bucks and one fine 

 gobbler. On our return at 4 P. M. we find our chief cook, 

 Stephen, "a cullud gemman," ready with dinner. It was 

 undoubtedly, under the circumstances, the best dinner that 

 I ever sat down to. Our menu was as follows : 

 r liver t'fled. 

 n Chops breaded, 

 ion nriiiusiiled. 



. Dal is. eoiree. 

 asts were just about the same, with 

 broiled squirrels and fricasseed tur- 

 div and Friday passed in much the 

 ad aft-r a most pleasant week we 

 iber of thirteen deer, two bears, 

 .nd forty-seven squirrels. We kept 

 we saw. There were seen fifty- 

 rim teen drives of wild turkeys, 

 anted. We arrived home safe and 

 Saturday, the 10th. J. R. W. 



Biscuit 



Our dinners and br a 



the addition of fried an 



key. Wednesday. Tim 

 same way as the above, 

 had bagged the small in 

 thri e turkeys, one ottet 

 an account of game ilia 

 three deer, five bears an 

 with smaller game not i 

 sound, tired and dirty o 



Come., Mm., Won, 23 . i 



^ . — .» — . 



Tknnks3EK Go\M3 N'otks— Nashville, Dee. 4.— Now is the 

 time that the Forest and Stream should have chosen to 

 ventilate, ihe 'possum question, as there never were more of 

 them than this winter and of a finer quality. William 

 Hobbs, thechao ' ': op hunter of this section, gave 

 one to Co). Geo. B\ Akersl si week which weifihed eight 

 and three-qiiMi;.-; pounds dressed. To-morrow he Will be 

 served to a select few of our] eal pencil drivers. Charley 

 HoikPiei's noted ". 7 '".. , ' 1 "-fineltsMubens," has been entrusted 

 with the parbilin', pepperin 1 . taUerin 1 and baking of it. The 

 chief rep . i, a? been fasting for two days 

 on bread and wat-.r in preparation of the savory dish. The 

 vi'h n view of making a dog. 

 ■vi istle " : il oi .J ie Clarke or Jack Bendy, whichever suc- 

 ceeds in killini ; '.lo Ool. R M. Ed- 

 wards]. , . , , ..'I- o'-'o i 9 "t East 'l en- 

 nessee inqjl ..other. The colonel say s that 

 UI my reports 



■ and geese are more 



... i llmi ever known ; hi ndredfl of them are shipped 



J have seen a number of fine, 



fal deer u ne from a genii.'. 



preserve a tew mil From i rday inth< mark"! 



house was a fine display of quail, iquinels, rabbits, 'pi 



nd a few wild to:'!-.,' 1 i e"iet lo say that the ma- 



if the quail brought here for sile have been tiapped or 

 netted, 



