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RECREATION. 



H. C. French, Brattleboro, Vt. Target 

 No. 7, 1.73 inches. 



O. M. Barnes, Debeque, Col. Target 

 No. 8, 1.75 inches. 



Dr. A. J. Marling.' Greenville, Ohio, Tar- 

 get No. 9, 1.77 inches. 



TARGET NO. 5, MADE BY E 



PHILLIPS. 



Here are reproductions of the winning 

 targets. I realize that the veracity of the 

 makers of these targets, and possibly the 

 judgment of the gentlemen who have passed 



TARGET NO. 6, MADE BY DR. A. B. JORDAN. 



on them, will be criticized; but I have taken 

 occasion to carefully investigate the standing 

 of the men who made these winning targets, 

 and believe the work has been honestly done. 

 Mr. French is too well known among rifle- 

 men to need any endorsement. He is a 

 prominent member of the Brattleboro team 

 and an old time prize winner; so there can 



TARGET NO. 7» MADE BY H. C. FRENCH. 



be no doubt as to his targets having been 

 honestly made. The judges are both civil 

 engineers and expert riflemen of national 

 reputation. They do not, however, wish to 

 be involved in the controversy that is likely 

 to follow this announcement, and have re- 

 quested that their names shall not be pub- 

 lished. 



I wish it were possible for all the contest- 

 ants who have sent in targets to feel perfectly 

 satisfied with the work of the judges. They 

 have done their work conscientiously, and 

 well, and are entitled to the thanks, not only 

 of the prize winners but of all whose targets 

 have been placed before them. 



A VETERAN'S OPINION OF THE .30 



Medicine Bow, Wyo. 

 Editor Recreation: I am an old hunter 

 and trapper and was a good rifle shot when 

 but 9 years of age. My father emigrated 



TARGET NO. 8, MADE BY O. M. BARNES. 



