FOREST AND STREAM. 



33 



mge was 310, and the highest possible total 630, 

 rtjf-lt. Remington State model, oaL .50, and the 



tl "" tie Sunier, cal. .57. Last year a similar 



hatch was fougbt, the scores then standing: Belleville 

 Range— -Oswego team, 878; Belleville team, H52. Oswego 

 Range— Oswego team, 483; Belleville team, 430. Totals-. 

 Oswego team, 805; Belleville team, 777. The success of the 

 E Dr Oswego team was not; quite so sweeping this year, though the. 

 rj scores show a marked improvement. The Oswego men 



:...-..-! ni P.. II., it! tin ,o 7-r.li /iVIiinl.' ml flip mm-nincr nf tlio 



Adjt. Hurst, Burgeons Tracey and Parley and Lieut. Johnson, 

 who conducted the guests to their hotel. At 10 a. m. the 

 match commenced at the rifle ranges. Major Boulter was 

 range officer, and Adjt Hurst register keeper— positions which 

 were ably rilled by the same gentlemen at, the previous match. 

 On the range, which was in admirable trim, the men set to 

 work scoring as follows : 



AMERICAN TEAM. 



200 yds. Buu yds. 600 yds. Total. 



CA Barton ?9 n H 71 



Geo White *7 31 22 SO 



.11, Wood « 29 ffi) SJ 



,t r nan Si) 'is ao sk 



L I. liaxnes 28 32 27 ST 



JSBarlou ••;« is M 



i tin Kit) m m 



CANADIAN TEAM. 



■tM> yds. r.uO ydfl. 600 yds. Total. 



w Hilton 21 27 24 82 



W ('ninth 20 27 "l 7.1 



,1 Marshall 25 15 22 72 



o CuaainghaTO "" '■" 27 71 



11 Titilmailjje - SMS 20 20 71 



Gape Oroutiier 2» it as 



157 ll.O 131 US 



In the evening the visitors were entertained with a ban- 

 quet at the Queen's Hotel, and at 1 r. M. the next day the 

 aval teams set oil! across the lake for the. return bout 011 the 

 Oswego range. Here the scores ran higher on both sides. 

 standing : 



CANADIAN TEAM. 



g()l) yda. 5ii0 yds. 600 yds. Total. 



J Marshall 29 24 21 74 



Wililiuu 2S SI 23 82 



D Cnuniughani 30 23 25 84 



W Ciouliier 31 27 21 79 



T Talmadge 26 28 22 71 



WOairmh 30 13 22 65 



174 147 134 455 



AMERICAN TEAM. 



200 yds. 500 yds. 600 yds. Total, 



C A Barton 28 lis 29 82 



Gfceo White ,30 2=i 16 i4 



J L Wood 25 '11 10 6ti 



Jr'ilatl - 29 23 12 61 



TL Barnes 29 2r 23 79 



JSBartou 27 27 21 75 



iBSoutUef 4 4 1 B I 4 i r. I 



.1 ROSiborn ■ - B - i 5 4 4 4 1 IS -cs 



JALowell B f. j 4 44 4 5 



WmGerrlat) B r 1 14 4 4 4 4 5—12 



1; L Vvuibhip 4 114 4 4 5 5 4 4— 42 



,j Bora mi 4 3 3 4 6 4 4 4 6 & 41 



Carl Dltt mar 4 4 1 1 .? 4 5 4 4 5— J I 



WH.iackson 4 :: 111 I 5 B 4 4—11 



SWil.ltr 4 4 4 4 i S 4 1 4 4-118 



JWemyHS.Jr 3 4 3 2 4 4 4 4 4 5-37 



Mabybahp — JBaMmoret Aug. 13.— The third monthly com- 

 petition match for a Remington revolver was sbol at Patapsco 

 rifle range, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, Saturday ; 

 eleven entries ; 200 yards range, off-hand, with military rille. 

 The revolver was won for the second time by Mr. Jos. ti. 

 Smith, who scored 34 out of a possible 35. 



J S .SmUU 24 ,111 Armstrong ....19 



3 .1 'turner, Jr 1'B G It Reiner 14 



KM ward Helchior 20 US Uolderi IB 



BB Lynch 23 1) v Heesc 



Edward Norvall 16 HBCoulaon 20 



W J Davidson 13 



FaOHMOOfe— 'Mem Orleans, July 29.- Following are. the 

 scores of the team and reserve. Wiud varying between 10 

 and 1 ; light very bright. 



5 4 5 5 4 4 6— 681 

 i 4 4 5 6 5— Tl \r SOB 

 5 4-65) 

 5 5-67 } 



1 5 ' 

 John K Itenaud, KG.... -4 4 - ., 5 



( I 3 -t 4 



I ,| :■ :» 4 5 I 5 5 5 6 B 5 5 6 B— 7u / 

 Major Wm Arms, B C - 5 B 2 B 4 3 B S 3 5 4 5 6 5-61 1ST 



I 1 4 3 4 4 4 o 5 5 3 4 3 5 3—56 \ 



i3 6 13354.53 5 4 655 5—64 i 

 A D Babbit, KG ....-{445334463 4 5 5 5 B 4 (',:, 166 



| 5 1 2 4 4 10 4 3 3 5 3 I 5 4—50 \ 



| 6 4 4 5 5 4 5 4 5 4.' 

 It GBvricb, EC --5 5 5 4 5 5 5 s 5 & - 



(5 6 4 6 6 6 ' 



i-l 3 2 B 6 E ■ ■ 

 Ool .) oil a G ty nn , ,1 v, S c - a 4 s s r. . 



U S i i 5 4 < 



E T Manning, 



169 



152 



120 



441 



The' Canadians, it will be noted, gained a lead, leaving the 

 totals for the two days: Americans, 916; Canadians, 903; 

 and on the two years'' work : Americans, 1,721 ; Canadians, 

 1,680. The trophy consists of a, beautifully engraved silver 

 water pitcher and mug, and is valued at $'6u. 



M assacitt-setts— Worcester'.^ The Worcester Sportsmen's 

 Club rille team have settled down to work on their Greenwood 

 ranges, and expect soon to have their share of the top scores. 

 On the. 27th ult. a few tried the 800 yards distance, 15 shots 

 per man, the scores standing: Mann, 73; Washburn, 72; 

 Bice, 69 ; Kugg, 69 ; Clark, 62 ; Wesson, 60. On August 3 

 full scores were made as follows: 



S'Oyds. 900 yes. 1,000 yds. Total. 



Holden 66 70 65 201 



Wesson 66 69 59 104 



Kugg 61 67 58 186 



Kioe 67 f,i 55 18J 



Washburn 63 64 55 ls2 



Claik 62 56 5& 173 



Mann 69 51 31 161 



Walnut Mil, Aug. 9.— The regular weekly practice at the 

 range of the Massachusetts Rifle Association, at Walnut Hill, 

 took place to-day. The first shooting was the fourth compe- 

 tition for the Ballard mid-range rifle. Mr. 3. A. Lowell had 

 led in the contest on two previous days, and Mr. W. H. Jack- 

 son had the highest figure on this and one former occasion. 

 The distance tired was 800, 900 and 1,000 yards, seven 

 rounds at the first distance, eight at the second, and ten at 

 the third ; position standing or lying. The following was the 

 score, the highest possible being 12o : 



( S00— 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 —34 I 



WHJackBOn < 900—5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 -391-120 



|l,000— 5 45564545 5—47) 



I 800—3 5 5 4 5 4 S —311 



THGray < 960—5 3 5 4 4 5 5 5 —861112 



(1,000—5 34455555 4—45) 



1 800—5 5 5 5 5 4 5 —34) 



James Wemyss, Jr •< 900—5 5 5 5 3 5 5 5 — 38 1 111 



1,000-4 55544532 2—39 



| 800—5 3 5 5 6 5 5 —33) 



Win Oerristi < 900—5 5 5 4 5 4 5 —33.100 



(1,000—3 54555534 4—43 



| 300—3 4 5 5 5 5 5 —32 1 



AWHowumd i 900—3 5 5 4 5 5 5 4 —36 LlOT 



(1,000-4 55550434 4— 39 ( 



j 800—5 5 5 5 5 5 5 — 351 



A P Clarke 1 900-0 6 5 3 3 3 5 4 — SffiUfM 



(1,000-3 44553354 5—41) 



I 800—0 3 4 5 5 5 5 —27) 



jEShepard -I 900—0 4 5 4 5 5 5 5 — 33l 



(1,000—3 34544435 4—39) 



I 8IJ0— 3 5 5 3 5 3 5 — 29 I 



GLWinship -...- 900-0 5 4 5 4 4 5 —alt 



(1,000-5 50545344 5-40 



( 800—3 4 5 3 5 5 —251 



JA Lowell... J, 900^-3 6 4 3 4 5 4 4 — 32^- 



I 1,000—5 34465350 0—34) 



( 800—0 2 5 5 5 5 5 —27) 



Allibbaru < 900—5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 — 4((l 91) 



(.1,000—0 5405540 0— 23 1 



i 80H—0 4 5 4 8 3 4 —23 1 



WlMWurd i 900-3 4 5 4 5 5 4 3 -83 I 88 



( l,00i— 2 35235 43 5—32) 



i 800-4 5 4 4 3 4 4 —281 



LSaanders -; 9IJ °— 5 4 5 4 3 5 5 5 -36- 80 



(1,000—4 53400000 0—16 



I 800—5 4 3 5 5 5 5 — 324 



S Wilder < AO'-O 3 5 2 3 4 2 — 9V 77 



(1,0)0—0 034 3435 4— 2o] 



The fourth competition for the Sharps' long-range rifle re- 

 sulted in some very equal shooting. On previous occasions 

 Messrs. Babbeth, Lowell and Kirkwood have led in tin 

 shooting. Distance 200 yards, position standing. The heavy 

 rain interfered much with the shootmg for both prizes, which, 

 the circumstances, w»8 TO1 'mi could have 



cApected. Bcore; 



;, R C - 3 2 2 2 5 5 ft 4 !> 4 3 4 5 B S 



I- ft 4 5 5 8 5 3 4 4 5 4 2 4 3— 5b J 



The team will leave about, the, 10th of August. Mr. Selph 

 received a very flattering note from the committee asking htm 

 to come on, but 1 don't think he will before the team. 



Gfssie. 



Me. Dudley Selph Declines. —The following correspond- 

 ence has passed during the, past few days : 



New York, July 23, 1877. 

 Dudley Selph, Esq, : 



Dear Sir — In view of the recent extraordinary scores made by 

 you at long range, we feel that, t he duty which has been coiuiiled 

 to us by the. National Rifle Association to select a team which 

 will properly represent, America iu the coming rille match for 

 the championship of the world, requires that we should make 

 a special effort to induce you to endeavor to become, a member 

 of the American team. It is true that the competitions for 

 that team have already commenced. At, the same time the 

 last, two places upon it can be rilled by a majority vote of the 

 committee, and the six highest, competitors from riflemen of 

 known skill. There is but one feeling among both competi- 

 tors and committee— that in this, the first long-range contest, 

 in which America has been pitted against Great Britain, and 

 especially agaiust English riflemen, success is of national im- 

 portance, aud is superior to all personal considerations. We 

 feel confident that if you can and will display the same skill 

 upon the range at Orecdmoor as you have done at New 

 Orleans, you will be placed upon the team by a unanimous 

 vote. We desire, therefore, to urge .you in the strongest 

 manner that, if it be possible, you should come North and en- 

 gage in some, if not all, of th< se competitions, so as to show 

 what, you can do as compared with the other competitors. 

 A-S a Southerner you will appreciate how much more national 

 the team will be with you on it than if it be made up solely of 

 riflemen from the Eastern and Middle States, and how much 

 such a union in a national contest will help to revive the feel- 

 ings of fraternity between the North and South which we are 

 all anxious to promote and foster. As a rifleman you know 

 better than we do whether you can demonstrate your ability 

 to be placed upon the team, and the extent to which your 

 skill will strengthen it ; as an American you know how im- 

 portant it is that we should win this match, and that no per- 

 sonal considerations should allow any one whose skill may 

 ensure that result to deny us the benefit of it. We would 

 therefore urge you in the strongest manner to come North 

 within the next two weeks and engage in these competitions, 

 promising you an hospitable welcome and every assistance in 

 our power. Blease let us hear from you at once. If there 

 are any considerations which influence you which it is in our 

 power to remove please inform us. 



Very truly yours (Signed), Geo. W. Wiscatf, 



i>, 1). WYt.IR, 



Jos. G. Story, 

 Committee on Selection of American Team, 



RESPONSE. 



New Orleans, La., July 30, 1877. 

 To Committee on Selection oe Ameekjan Team: 



Gentlemen— ^Tfour favor of 23d insl. received last Saturday, 

 28th, antl its contents discussed by the officers and members 

 of the O. C. Tl. C, and the consequence I will explain, only 

 postponing a thorough explanation to the time when we shall 

 meet. To your generous and kind offer to place me on the 

 national team, if my skill entitles me to such an honor, and to 

 your desire that I should precede the other members of our 

 State team iu my arrival at New York, thereby granting me 

 time to contest for a position. The members of the team, 

 and also the officers of the club, are desirous that I should re- 

 main and accompany them on or about August 10, and like 

 myself keenly feel tiie regret that circumstances operate so 

 Siiangely against our desire. Like yourselves, gentlemen, in 

 the coming contest, where the skill and nerve of bona fide 

 American riflemen will be pitted against the, world, then the 

 patriot's pride is awakened, and my Southern friends, as well 

 as the writer, are as desirous of success as you gentlemen of 

 Creedmoor, and would feel as bitterly the pangs of disappoint- 

 ment if defeated. Whether or no a member from our Pelican 

 State or of any Southern State be on the team, we recognize 

 the importance of success in the coming match, and join our 

 Northern brethern in their desire for 'victory. 'Tis true, we 

 would like to feel that the skill of at, least otic Southern rifle- 

 man entitled him to the honor of a position on the American 

 Team, and if that lucky one had been myself I would have 

 done my "level best." As it is we wish you success, and 

 when our little team are on the grounds as spectators you will 

 have warm hearts beating for bull's-eyes, and watching for 

 the end of the forty-five row, and then score another battle 

 won for America. Accept my sincere thanks for your kind 

 letter, and believe me to lie your friend, 



n)ig.s Sbhcfb. 



the honors already his to working for greater ones which he 

 may fail to grasp, we can see. nothing in the affair to justify 

 the New Orleans Times in the following language 



Mr. Dudley Selph takes a very proper view of the matter 

 of the internationa] rifle match, and of his relations with the 

 Crescent City team, in decHmnc the, proposition, to shoot on 

 the American team except after due competition and on the 

 game terms as are given to all Other contestants. But Mr. 

 Selph and his comrades have not been able to attend the com- 

 pel, ition practice at Orecdmoor— have not, in fact, been en- 

 couraged to dO so, and in our opinion he shows commendable 

 good tast;, m refusing ta accept distinction sa.'o aa the result 

 of actual test. We predict that the Crescent City Rifle (flub 

 team will beat the record of i he winners, and are quite con- 

 tent to let the glory of New Orleans rest upe.n that achieve- 

 ment. 



Indiana— JTooder Mall, Jtilyl, 1877.— In a recent, issue or 

 your paper some one asks if the rifles manufactured by Fore- 

 hand cVj Wtdsworth are reliable, first-class rifles, and yonr re- 

 ply is in the affirmative, in which opinion I most 'heartily 

 concur with you. I have one of F. & W.'s rifles, .22 cal., 24- 

 inch barrel, which I have been using for some five mouths, 

 and as a squirrel rifle 1 consider it perfection, shooting with 

 as great accuracy as the famous muzzle-loaders of our woods- 

 men, who consider it disgraceful to shoot a squirrel in any 

 part of the body except the head. In regard to the workman- 

 ship, material and finish of the F. & W. rifles, I think their 

 ii'2o rifles stand without a rival. I have enjoyed some delight- 

 ful target shooting with this little rifle, and have made scores 

 at 100 yards off -hand that no shoot ist need be ashamed of, 

 although I do not claim to be anything but a very ordinary 

 shot. Epep.gos. ' 



—A new rifle elub has been established at Newtown, L. I. 

 Already the club have two short and two mid-range targets, 

 and will soon have a long-range target. The officers are.: 

 Frank Hyde, President; W. 0- HofF, Vice-President ; W. S. 

 North, Secretary, and George Jervis, Treasurer. 



— To meet the convenience of the railroad managers, the 

 date of the International match has been changed to Sept. 13 

 and 14, Thursday and Friday. 



—It is proposed to add a new competition to the fall meet 

 ing programme at Creedmoor: seven shots each at 200 and 

 800 yards, open to teams of five from any rifle club or military 

 organization. 



— Forty new target slates will be received at Creedmoor 

 within a few days. 



> .»■ — « 



A RECOIL TALK. 



Gbeedmoor, Aug. 1, 1877. 

 Editor op Fokest and Stream and Bod and Gun : 



The article in an cent number of your paper, and Major Fulton's 

 prompt endorsement of it in the following number, I tliinkneed a little 

 ventilating. 



It prubab'y will be new to most of your readers that the flight of a 

 skyrocket is only a "prolonged recoil " as assumed by "Straight-Bore." 

 Let us take the familiar plaything of the sehool-boy, an upright turbine 

 water wheel, a simple tube with arms at the bottom, openings at the 

 sides of the arms; fill the tube with water, it presses on all pans alike at, 

 equal heights ; open one side of an arm, the pressure is relieved on that, 

 side »uil the arm moves from the opening with a power in exact ratio 

 to the size of the opening and height of the water. Here the ontllowiug 

 medium is so slow that the air can be of no possible help in its "recoil," 

 and in fact it will rotate equally strong in a vacuo. Now, the flight, of a 

 skyrocket is on precisely the same principle; the pressure of the gaa of 

 combustion opposite the " choke " where the pressure is relieved causes 

 it to ascend— that and nothing more. 



Philosophy teaches nothing more plainly than that when two bodies 

 in motion meet, each receives an equal blow ; if of unequal weight, the 

 heavier will be less disturbed ; if the power is applied between the 

 bodies will not alter the caBe ; if the bodies are both free.to move, the 

 lighter will move the faster and the farther in exact proportion to the 

 relative weights. All bodies resist a change of stale: the moving to 

 being stopped ; those at rest, at being started— the more sudden the 

 change the more marked the results. 



Mtro-glyeerine by its instantaneous action will break rocks by the 

 resistance of an inert column of air above it. Not so with powder, a 

 pound exploded on a sheet of glass will not fracture it. Tons may be 

 exploded in a powder house and not injure the side walls if the roof is 

 only light. It burns so comparatively slowly that the air has time to move 

 away, and is felt, as a strong blast, only. This shows that the air is not 

 so very important an item m recoil as " Straight-Bore " would have us 

 think. 



^Exploded in a rifle barrel, the inertia of the bullet, aided near the 

 end somewhat by the compressed column of air in the barrel, causes 

 the recoil of the gun in exact proportion to their relative weights, and 

 both commence to move at the same instant of time in proportionate 

 speed— the ball at some 1,200 feet or more a second, capable of penetrat- 

 ing many inches of timber or dirt ; the heavy gun more slowly, only 

 blackens your eye or bruises your shoulder. 



Did "Straight-Bore" never get by accident both charges of shot in 

 one barrel of his double gun '! Hid he lind no difference of recoil ?— the 

 air pressure was the same? Will his "only reliable theory" account, 

 for the extra jar he got? Our marksmen make bulls-eyes in spite 

 of the movement of the gun. The barrel points in the direction 

 the shot is to take and recoils in that exact line, the ball speeds 

 to its mark, and the variations must be calculated aud allowed for by 

 the arrangments of the sights, and in no other way can he become an 

 expert shot until he has mastered all of these points. 



How can "Straight- Bore" account for the results of these experi- 

 ments of that veteran rifleman and riflemaker, L. L. Hepburn, on his 

 theory. Mr. H. took a rifle barrel, secured it perfectly, sighted it 

 through the barrel at a target at 100 yards, screwed in a breecli pin, and 

 tired the charges by a very fine fuse. The resu t of ten shots was the 

 placing of them in a radius of one and one-luill inches : but gravity had 

 acted her part, and they were all at eight inches below the line of sighv* 

 ing. 



Here t he bullet had received as nearly as possible the full force of the 

 powder, no movement of barrel to divide it. Next he adjusted sights 

 while it was yet fixed to line the same target, so there Could be no mis- 

 take, then prepared the barrel to receive shell, and stocked it in the 

 usual way, and tired ten rounds of same ammunition from shoulder 

 (Creedmoor position). The result was, the shots were all in the same 

 narrow compass (\% inch radius), but were twenty inches below 

 the line of sighting. The barrel had divided I he force with the bullet, 

 and the bullet had lost speed in proportion and had fallen lower, and 1 

 am inclined to think that some of our boys' "goose eggs" may I p 

 counted for by their letting the gun take a little more recoil; for If the 



!, was 12 indies iua 100 yards a very slight difference 

 letttftlifci - ' ^. at- 1,000, and. tnc utisses are mostly t,e;, 



