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FOREST AND STRJLwi. 





Lakge and BmA.T.1 Bobes.— In your issue of Aug. 33d, Ifind 

 my views on the above subject very ably indorsed by your 

 co'rrespondent •• Forest Aisle." He gives some notable in- 

 stances of what small-bored, light-weight guns have done for 

 him and for others in his presence. 



" Forest Aisle," as he says, is an Englishman ; a native of 

 the land where the building of the high class breech-loading 

 shot gun is brought to a state of perfection not yet attained 

 by any other nation upon earth. Like most English spirts- 

 men, he has had full opportunity of seeing not only guns of 

 different weight and bore thoroughly tested, but the different 

 styles of actions as well ; and he "prefers his positive actions, 

 as is very evident from his having ordered his favorite Tolley 

 built in that way. Here is another indorsement of my views 

 that have been so often called in question and so heartily abus- 

 ed, as by your correspondent "Equity," in your issue of Julv 

 5th. 



Although agreeing in the main with "Forest Aisle," I think 

 for American sport, 12- gauge more effectual for general shoot- 

 ing than a 14 or 16 gauge. 



In the matter of gunmakers— if I understand " F. A." 

 aright — I am with him entirely. I think, and for years have 

 thought, that J. D. Dougall, of London, and J. & W. Tolley, 

 of Birmingham, are the two most reliable firms in England, 

 and their charges as moderate as aoy who can be found who 

 turn out equally good work. So far as Birmingham is con- 

 cerned, my experience teaches me that the Tolley Bros, are 

 the only makers worthy of the name in that city. 



The one fact that they absolutely refuse to build for " the 

 trade" should go far toward recommending them to sports- 

 men here, as such fact does recommend themto the best Eng- 

 lish sportsmen, who look with strong suspicion upon ■' trace 

 guns," no matter wdiose name they may bear. 



I am well satisfied that any one who cannot afford the price 

 charged by the London makers, and who orders a gun of the 

 Tolley's -will never have reason to regret the choice; and I 

 may here say that it gives me pleasure always to recommend 

 their work, though I am, alas, not rich enough to be able to 

 own one of their guns. Eecappeb. 



Remarkable Shooting.— At the weekly practice of the 

 Savannah GaEifle Association, held Sept. 1st, at the Hermit- 

 age, the most remarkable shooting since the organization of 

 the association was made. The teams were firing at 200 yards, 

 five shots each, and Dr. Jno. D. Martin, one of our most 

 popular physicians, and member of the association, proved 

 that he was as skillful and successful with the rifle as with 

 the scalpel. He made twenty-five out of a possible twenty- 

 five, or five bull's-eyes in succession, with a Remington ar- 

 tillery rifle, six-pound pull, off hand. The association justly 

 feel proud of this record, and it may be marked as an extra- 

 ordinary s core. 



GAME IN SEASON FOR SEPTEMBER. 



Moose, A kes mah-his. 

 Caribou, Tarwndvs rangi/cr. 

 Elk or wapiti. ■." 

 Kid or A a. deer. ". 

 Squirrel?, red, black and gray. 

 Hares, brown a,id gray. 

 Keeii or rice bird, 



ioarous. 

 Wild turkev, Meleagris gallopavo. 

 Pinnated arouse or prairie chiek- 



en. Oupidonia 

 Ruffed arouse or pheasant, Boiuisa 



(Jnatl or partridge, Orttp 



or ox-eye, 

 itis semipal- 



Stilt, or long-shanks, Himantopus 



nuiricoUis 

 Woodcocfc. Philohela minor. 

 Bed-breasted snipe or dowitcher. 



Mavrorhamplwa prisem. 

 Red-backed sandpiper, or ox-bird' 



rW(l;)« a I '.'..'. 



Great manned godwit Or marlln, 



maipahnatus. 



Tattler, Tehtnni< mdano'.mciw. 

 Yellow-shanks, T 



" Bay birds" generally, Including various species of plover, sand- 

 piper, snipe, curlew, oyster-catcher, surf birds, pnajaiopes, avocets, 



etc.. coming under the group l.imacula- or Shore Birds. 



Attention is called to the communication in another column 

 from Chief Game Commissioner Cochran, of Xova Scotia. 



i ; The frequent alteration of game laws makes such con- 

 fusion that, spurt smen are kept quite in the dark as to when 

 shooting on various kinds of game is permitted. We there- 

 fore append the following table for reference : 





in 



Iml.... 

 l"wa... 

 Winn... 

 Wis.... 



Bans... 



Sep 1 to Jan 15 

 Oct 1 to Feb i 

 Aug 15 to Dec I 

 .-vug 14 toOot i 

 Aug I5toNovt£ 



Aug 1 k. Feb 



Ruffed Qrous e Quail. 





Oct 1 to Feb 1 Nov 1 to Feb l Sept l to Jan 13 

 Novt to Jau l Nov I Co Jan ii Juiy i to Jan 1 

 SepiatoDeclSOot ltoJanl Jnlvlto Jan l 

 Sopl to Dec 1 Sep 1 to Deo I July 3 to Nor 1 

 Sep 15 to Jan 1 Sep 15 to Jan t! Julv 4 to Nov I S 

 ■. No Shooting i No Kestilc- 

 u Oct l to J. m 1 nous. 



Jgp** Correspondents and subscribers will oblige us and 

 serve the cause by sending four-line reports of the shooting in 

 their respective localities. 



Fcrri.sbitrg, 17., Sept. 10.— Ducks very scarce, snipe just 

 appearing, ruffed grouse more plentiful than for several years; 

 weather delightful. Vekd Mont. 



MaSSAOHTISBTTS — WitUhmn, Sept. O.-We usually have very 

 fair shooting here, but Sept. 1st found very few birds, and 

 We can safely say there have been but few woodcock in the 

 neighborhood the present summer. Partridge are as plenty 

 as ever, but well scattered, and quail, although sup, 

 have been exterminated by the severe snows of last winter, 

 have again put in an appearance, and several flocks of nearly 

 full-grow n birds have been seen. E. G. L. 



MOOSB in the AmuoNOACKS.— There is the reported r)is- 



S , in the vicinity of Great Sand Lake, of the tracks of a 



bull ,,, has long been thought extinct in the 



North Woods, and the proof of its presence there will be 



B vaited with interest. 



Mew Jsbsky— DeUnee, Sept. 1.— Kail birds were never 

 more plenty, but the season opened with poor i 

 to-day had 31 birds. Reed birds are shot here by do 

 cit\ market and are now in fair order, rushers can be had 

 here for $3.50 per tide, and boatsal 75 cents to si. 50 per day. 



Kail. 



[\ ■„ ig to the local paper. 



a man while berrying near this town, recently shot a deer in 



iSon muter these peculiar circumstances ; "' The 



deer seemed to think he was a privileged character, for the 



man savs the animal attacked him and In self defense he was 



compelled to kill it. It proved to be a large buck, the most 

 remarkable thingabout it being that it had seventeen prongs on 

 each horn." Those prongs are a few too many; the fine should 

 be in proportion. 



Ell-ton, Sept. 7.— Rail and reed birds now furnish excellent 

 sport. We are to have a game protective club here, and pro- 

 pose to check the extermination of our game. 



Partridges are numerous through the State. An otter was 

 recently shot in the woods of East Texas, Lehigh county. 



Kentucky— -LammdWe, Sept. 10.— Messrs. Joe Griffith and 

 Arthur Stokes returned Wednesday morning from a very pleas- 

 ant three days' sporting trip to English Lake, Indiana. They 

 brought 131 ducks and 85 rail. The fishing was not as good 

 as usual, though they succeeded in capturing several fine bass. 



Geegon— Solent. — A party recently shot near Mount Jeffer- 

 son an elk weighing eight hundred pounds. 



VrBGiatA— BerrymOe, Sept. 4.— Birds are very plentiful in 

 this county. The first brood are quite full grown. The good 



shots are jubilant over the prospects of a genuine old fashioned 

 fall shoot. Some good dogs in this section ; one in particular, 

 a gyp, tb -e property of my friend, Mr. Jas Van Derventer, 

 who is an ardent sportsman, and always ready to chaperon 

 any gentlemen sportsman. He will be glad to provide both 

 homelike hospitality at moderate rates and to hunt with any 

 gentlemen who might choose to give him a call. C. S. K. 



Macon, Get.. Sept. 7.— Eice birds arc in season now and in 

 good order. 



Mississippi.— Bears are reported to be more numerous in 

 the Mississippi Valley this year than ever before, since the 

 swamps were first settled. So strong is bruin's appetite for 

 Corn that the planters of Coahoma and Tunica counties, have 

 recently been compelled to place guards around their corn- 

 fields to protect them from destruction. A fine chance is offered 

 to sportsmen in the thinly-settled country, of Memphis. Teno., 

 this year. A dozen or more fine fields 'for the hunter, are to 

 be found, from thirty to a hundred miles below that city. 



A Mississippi Coon.— Mr. Moore, of Madisonville, Miss., 

 recently killed a raccoon, which when skinned and dressed and 

 without the head weighed forty -five pounds. 



Indiana— Elkhart, Aug. 27.— Last spring Mr. Nelson Up- 

 hnm, of Elkhart, Ind., received a pair of California quails; 

 direct, from their native land. He built a lath coop for them, 

 and they have done well. On August 18, Mr. U. found twelve 

 little chicks. Mrs. Quail did it with her little hatch-it. They 

 are now a week old, and very spry. He intends keeping them 

 all another season, when he hopes to be able to turn loose 

 several pahs. H they do well we will keep you posted. 



A. L, F. 



— A Michigan trapper thinks that he has discovered the re- 

 mains of Donaldson, the aeronaut, in the woods, near the 

 south branch of the Manistee River. 



Washington Teeeitort — Seattle, Aug. 29. — Fred Dyer, 

 with a party r and an excellent outfit of dogs, guns and fishing 

 tackle, started this morning for a pleasant" time in the woods 

 and along the streams. W. Thomas and C. D'Oyle captured 

 a gray eagle the other day, near Lake Washington, measuring 

 six feet ten from tip to tip. 



A Bewildered Pheasant. — A policeman's dog, in the 

 city of Milford. Iowa, late one evening last week caught a 

 pheasant in front of the New Opera House on Market St. 



qse Partridge Stort. — In Virginia hens and par. 

 fridges occupy nests in common, as was set forth in this col- 

 umn not long since, but the two do not appear to coalesce so 

 readily in Hew Jersey, if we may credit this : 



A bantam hen belonging to John Logan, near Mount-Holly, 

 some time ago, discovered a sitting partridge in a field, and 

 driving its hen from hex nest, took possession of thi 



self. She now proudly cares for fifteen young partridges. 



A Westeen Diana.— .Miss Melissa Wilson, of Shendan. 

 Oregon, who has already gained a panther notoriety, has just 

 added to her laurels by another exploit of this kind. The 

 other day she found that a panther had killed a large sheep 

 belonging to her father and Lad dragged it some three hundred 

 yards up a mountain. Melissa returned home and took her 

 small rifle and her father's dogs. She then went; back to the 

 place where the sheep had been killed and put the dogs 

 track. They soou treed a large panther up a lofty fir-tree, and 

 Miss Wilson put a bullet right between his eyes, bringing him 

 down with a shot of which Leatherstocking himself need not 

 have been ashamed. 



Revival uf Hawking in England. — To prove that hawk- 

 ing is not an extinct sport, an amateur has lent to the Alexan- 

 dra palace his mew of falcons and tiercels, and yesterday for 

 the first time, at Muswell Hill, two of the peregrines were 

 flown at the lure. The falcons would rise and soar round and 

 round, and then as the dead bird which served for the lure 

 was thrown up in the air. they swooped suddenly down upon 

 it, and struck it to the earth with a blow of their powerful 

 talons. Afterward the red and purple hoods were pulled over 

 their eyes, the jesses were knitted around the wrist of the fal- 

 cons, and the birds were carried back, their bells tinkling, to 

 a lawn in the Japanese village, where they camp out 

 On this lawn are exhibited not only the peregrines wl 



for their quality, but grey Norwegj 

 French goshawks, fatal I res, two fine Nor- 



. . ■falcons, sparrow-hawks and little sharp-eyed mer- 

 lins. Hard by sat nine black cormorants near to it 

 Empress, one of the fine* JSt peregrines known in 



modern rimes, who was a princi] Paris Ac- 



climatization Gardens in 1875, is among the falet 

 others are being imported from Iceland, India, Syria end 

 Greenland. Some smaller hawks are kept in 



arning at feeding times. There are also a 

 's. with which the hawks are "ei. 

 trained. The principal falconer is John Harr. c: 

 birth, who visited, when in the ; . rajah Dhll- 



feep Sing. Syria, India and Holland to learn the secrets of 

 falconry. The flat country of Holland, where the E 

 be watched for long distances without mountains to obstruct 

 the view, is well known as classic ground for hawking, and it 

 is in a similar country that the English Hawking Club pursues 

 its sport. The birds at the Ale s B are the property 



of Captain Dugmore. Their wonderful quickness in swoop- 

 ing on the quarry was excellently show lag at the 

 lure, although, of course, the scene so 



ott and the Flemish painters of knights and ladies 

 riding out 10 tily a hawk was not reproduced by these falcons 

 ihe model Japanese village at 

 Muswell Hill. — I.. 



— The shooting season not being yet opened in I , „.„ _; ~ >n 

 meets often on the bills of fare off he Paris restaur: 

 lowing enigmatical item: P.. 

 P......j: d'l.T choux be?" the guest first asks himseli 



waiter. The latter looks silcut, sphinx-like, and eith 

 aloud, " P-rwnea ," or whispers, "i 



chouse." In the fi -nest enjoys the ad' 



being taken for a detective officer in search of proof 

 traveution of the game laws, and is offered an abominable 

 mixture of plums and cabbage ; in the second he 

 partakes of an excellent partridge. 



. ,« . — . 



PIGEON MATCHES. 



Brooklyn Driving Park, Long Island— Pigei 

 ing of tnns Fountain Gun Ultjb— Wednesd , 

 nual handicap contest for the Champion Gold Badge of lti« 

 club; seven birds each; eighty yards boundary ; Handl! 

 traps j one and a quarter ounces shot ; club rules to govern 

 Yards rise. Bailed. 



Cleaver 81 



Miller 



DeFratm n 



James 28 



Kearney 25 



Livingston 2", 



Handly 18 



Hftnrtseii 25 



Flake M 



Blank-ley ?8 



On ties Mr. Cleaver won. 



New Jersey— Long Branch, Sept. 1. — Handicap sweep 

 stakes match by members of the Long Bran: i 

 15 birds. 5 traps and 100 yards boundary. Shot under Hum 

 lingham rules : 



Yard - 



MeMahon 30 



21 



' 25 



36 



Slane 



Walter 2G 



McLaughlin as 



JADodd 25 Yds.. 



LE-right 29 



W Hoev 



JHoey 26 



w EBabcock 25 



G Bright is 



YV Green 29 



. T J yr Morgan 25 Yds.. 



. 11 \V Henerson 26 



. 4 W Murphy 28 



. 3 BW West 



. 4 Edward Murpbv.. 2S 



. 11 FHLevy 25 



. 11 E Fox 25 



The shoot off of ties for second money won by G. BrigML'l 

 on 4 straight birds ; third money by E. Murphy on thrS 

 birds. 



New Jeesey— Seagirt, Sept. S.— Fourth match betwegfl 

 New York and Philadelphia ; sweepstakes ; ? birds H and 

 T traps, 21 yards rise. 80 yards boundary and La 

 rules : 



NEW YORK. 



Percy Hastings (2S yards) 1 1 1 1 1 1 i_i 



WEWjIsod 1 111 



J M Hamilton 1 111 



C P Peltruan ; 



H Leuord 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 



G Partriche 1 1 1 



M Oakes 1 101 



HOlmstead i 1 11 u 



EHEtlery 1 1 1 11 .1*1 



J T Payne 1 1 1, 



JMSmythe 1 ,, 



I'niLAPELrHIA. 



Seth Greenwood 1 1 1 1 1 1 Al 



L B Voorhees 1 1111 



O L Olsen : 



F C Cook 



3 1 1 1 tj 



BJBarues , 



T CumujiDes 1 1 1 f 



JPCaBxen : 



DLaning 1 



1 1 II |l wS 



S B Ottemlen 1 



'New York Ties. 



P Hastings (88 yards). .1 1 1 1 1—5 J M Hamilton 1 WBI 



VY C Wilson 110 1 1-4 



Philadelphia I 



S Greenwood 1 1 1 1 1—5 L B Yoorhees 1 1 1 O^H 



Final Ties— Ten birds, samf 1 



Percy Hastings (28 yard ) 1 1111111 1 H 



S Greenwood I 0111O11J jKI 



This makes the third successive match that 

 for the New York side by Mr. Percy Hastir 



Beighton Pigeon Club.— The annual contest f or |B| 

 championship badge was shot at Brown's Park, I'leanfe! 

 Bay, September 11. Captain Slocom, the winner, has heloB 

 badge for two years previous. Tl; bandfiHjl 



from 18 to 25 yards, 100 yards boundary, H and T tljjfifl 

 Hurlingham rules, seven birds, 1| oz. nd mmcj 



a handicap for $35 purse, eight bird-, first counted out/MM 

 score of the best shooting was as follows ; 



wain ZSyards , 1 l 1 1 1 l 931 



FrankPrtce 21 1 1111 1 flSl 



Charles >tiker 23 " 1 1 1 1 1 1 Mi l 



Wm Green tl ■■ 



Lewis Phillip 18 1 1101 t W l 



Anson Holmes is " 1 1110 1 BM l 



Frank Gi ierr •m .. „ j j r t i <j j 



Charles Morris ■' { 1 1 l^HI 



Jonu B Siocam XI " 1 1 1 u 1 O^HI 



Wm Cedars ■■ 1 1 j 1 t^^HI 



T Troy 2: ■• 1 1 , 



Joseph Furley is '• 1 u 1 1 



Ties on seven. 



Thomas Slocnm l 1 1 1 1 1 i_t 



Frank Price 



Cnar.es Sticker 1 — 



A handicap match was then shot by Messi 

 and Wm. Green, which was won by' Stifcei 



Long Brakch Shooting Club.— The match fortL_ 

 pionship badge of this club was shot at Long Branch, 



8. The conditions were : Twent] ise, biri 

 bird ; 80 yards boundary and Long Island rules. The 



cipal scoies were : E. Price, 10; W. Green, 9 : B. "W. 



9, and B. West 



Long Branch, Sept. o.— Handicap match for champion* 

 badge of the Atlantic Pigeon Club. The condi: 

 birds each, 100 yards boundary, HurliDgham rules, tii 

 off at 5 birds each ; 1- 



«B, Henry S. Green, Wm. C. Layton and P. 

 ett tied on ten birds each. The shoot off resulted in 

 score for H. S. Green, who thus won the badge. 



Nareaganseti- Gun Gum - 

 stake match, 25 birds. 26 yards rise. 

 Ewr>ayis ... 21 .TohnG Hockscner.. 



T C \anBaren 17 Perre Lnrrilard, Jr.. 



Marim Van Bnren 



Texas— 3e nd match of the Waco Gun C 



airs of double glass balls, B 

 lough, 13 , "Eh 



Garland, 6. Lane wen shoot-off. 





