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out any further protection so as not to 

 catch young ducks. In case the No. 12 

 were used a cage or protection around 

 the trap would have to be suppHed in 

 order to keep young ducks from being 



caught. 



This trap would have to be set per- 

 pendicular and should be tied to a flat 



stake and all inclosed by fine chicken 

 wire with opening just large enough for 

 a good sized turtle's head, say 2^4 inches. 



I am enclosing cuts of both traps, 

 also clipping from the Syracuse Herald 

 with reference to owls. In this con- 

 nection, I might mention that I have 

 never seen any reference made to cow 

 frogs catching young ducks, but I recol- 

 lect well when a boy of seeing a young 

 duck pulled under and I caught the 

 frog in the act and killed him. 



The cow frog is not very common. 

 Many people call them bull frogs, but the 

 cow frog proper will weigh from one to 

 two pounds. The largest size could al- 

 most swallow a very young duck. They 

 are easily caught by a fish hook and 

 line with a hook set baited with a min- 

 now or angle worm about an inch over 

 the water. 



The California pocket gopher trap 

 with the alterations I suggested would 

 cost in the neighborhood of 35 cents 

 each. 



The hard shell of the turtle and the 

 extremely short flat-leg makes trapping 

 by the leg a very uncertain proposition 

 with the common steel tra]i. 



Locating a Place for Target Practice. 



By A. P. Lane, 

 Remington U. M. C. Co. 



In these troublous days a great need has 

 sprung up for adequate target range facilities 

 for home guard training. A few hints on the 

 proper selection of a range site and the neces- 

 sary fitting should be of interest. 



The ideal rifle range should be outdoors, 

 facing slightly east of north, and with a body 

 of water several miles wide in back of it so as 

 to eliminate the necessity for back stops. Such 

 locations are hard to secure and in the 

 months to come, we will see the construction 

 of target ranges for rifle and revolver train- 

 ing in all sorts of improvised locations. The 

 first requisite for any range is, of course, 

 sufficient space, and after that comes the ab- 

 solute necessity for safety, and a method of 

 stopping the bullets is important. Perhaps 

 the best back stop of all is a mound of loose 

 sand or soft earth. If several feet in thick- 

 ness it will stop any kind of a high power rifle 

 bullet. 



Indoor galleries are usually fitted up with 

 steel back stops and consequently high power 

 rifles cannot be used ior they would soon tear 

 the plates away. For all revolver work and 

 rifle work with reduced charges and lead bul- 

 lets, 5^" steel plates are very satisfactory. 

 They will last; indefinitely. The best prac- 

 tice is to install them at an angle of about 30 

 degrees so that the splash from the molten 

 bullets will be thrown to the ground. 



On outdoor target ranges the trench which 

 must be dug to throw up the back stop serves 

 as a protecting shelter for the boy whose 

 work it is to spot the shots on the target and 

 give the score. In indoor ranges an equiva- 

 lent construction would be rather expensive 

 and the need arises therefore for some method 

 of pulling the targets back to the firing point 

 without interfering with the other shooters. 

 Target carriers accomplish this result. A 

 number of different gallery equipment makers 

 can furnish them, the prices ranging from 

 $6.00 to $15.00 per unit, depending upon the 

 elaborate qualities of the various parts. A 

 little ingenuity will also permit the construc- 

 tion of these by the members of the club who 

 would otherwise use their energy in tinkering 

 with the plumbing about the house or the 

 family automobile. 



One range I have seen is fitted up with a 

 very good set of "home grf)wn" carriers con- 

 sisting of a heavy wire tightly strung from 

 one end of the range to the other for each 

 firing point and running on it a carrier with 

 wheels and a clip to fasten the target to. It is 

 run back and forth by means of braided cord 

 run over pulleys and an old sewing machine 

 wheel to which has been fitted a handle. 



The properly constructed range i\ a great 

 help to good scores and it is not as simple a 

 subject as would appeal- on the surface. Ques- 



(Continued on papce 59.) 



