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FOREST AND STREAM. 



THE OFFICIAL TIME RECORD. 

 Shooting 



Time 



Lead, pur too. 



h. m. s. 



5tlj 



em 



tttt 



8tll 



9IIi 



10th.... 



lith.... 



I2tn.... 



13th.... 

 Ulli.... 

 I5tll.... 



16th.... 

 17th.... 



lath .... 



Uth.... 

 20th.... 



8iat 



2'2d 



2Sd 



24t-li.... 



25ttl 



26th 



2Tth 



23th 



aatn 



SOtll 



Blflt .... 



32d 



33d 



34th 



35th 



30th 



37th 



38th 



39th 



40th 9 BO 



41st 9 80 



4«d 9 40 



43d 9 50 



44th 10 00 



45th 10 10 



46th 10 20 



47th 10 30 



48th 10 40 



49th 10 60 



SOtrtl 11 00 



It. . 



..a so 



. .3 00 

 ..8 10 

 ..3 20 

 ..3 30 

 . .8 40 

 ..3 5H 

 . .4 00 

 ..4 10 

 ..4 20 

 . 4 30 

 ..4 40 

 ..4 00 

 ..5 00 

 ..5 10 

 ..5 20 

 ..5 80 

 ..5 40 

 ..5 50 

 ..6 00 



,.e io 



..6 20 

 ..C 30 

 . .6 40 

 ..6 50 

 ..7 0C 

 ..7 10 

 ..7 20 



r so 



. .8 00 

 ..8 10 



,S 40 

 .? 50 

 9 00 

 S 10 



h. -ill. 

 2 46 16 



2 52 00 



3 58 35 

 3 05 15 

 3 U 40 

 3 17 05 

 8 24 40 

 3 31 30 

 3 38 15 

 3 .14 30 

 3 51 10 



3 58 00 

 i 05 10 



4 13 10 

 4 20 00 

 4 27 46 

 4 34 35 

 4 42 10 

 4 49 30 



4 5T 00 



5 50 40 



5 57 25 



6 03 45 

 6 10 30 

 6 16 45 



- 6 24 05 

 6 31 20 

 6 38 10 

 6 45 00 



6 52 20 



7 19 25 

 7 28 10 

 7 36 10 

 7 43 50 



7 52 25 



8 00 60 

 8 10 15 

 8 18 00 

 S 26 55 

 8 38 25 



8 57 55 



9 05 35 

 9 13 25 

 9 22 80 

 9 31 05 

 9 47 20 

 9 66 15 



10 10 10 

 10 25 50 

 10 40 35 



11 25 

 14 45 



18 20 

 22 55 

 26 20 



28 30 

 31 45 

 35 30 

 33 60 

 42 00 

 44 50 



46 50 

 50 00 

 52 14 

 55 25 

 57 60 



1 00 80 

 1 03 00 



19 20 

 22 35 

 26 15 



29 30 

 33 15 



35 55 



38 40 



41 50 

 • 45 00 



47 40 



30 35 



31 50 



33 50 



36 10 



37 35 



39 10 

 39 45 



42 00 



43 05 

 41 35 



32 05 



34 25 



36 35 



37 30 



38 55 



32 40 



33 45 

 29 50 

 24 10 

 19 25 



6 16 



5 44 



6 35 



6 40 

 C 25 



5 25 



7 35 



6 50 

 6 45 

 6 15 

 6 40 



6 50 



7 10 

 7 00 



6 50 



7 46 

 6 49 



6 45 

 6 20 

 6 46 



6 15 



7 20 

 7 15 

 6 50 



6 50 



7 20 



7 40 



8 35 



8 2> 



9 25 



7 45 



8 55 

 11 30 



6 20 



7 40 



7 50 



8 15 

 8 35 

 8 35 



8 55 



9 15 

 9 50 



10 05 



Total 



Hooting Num. 

 Time. Mla'd 



ft. m. a. 



e iK 2 



12 00 



18 35 . 2 



25 16 2 



31 40 1 



37 05 



44 40 5 



51 30 A 



58 15 5 



1 04 30 3 



1 11 10 2 



1 18 00 5 



1 25 10 2 



1 S2 10 2 



1 39 00 4 



1 46 46 5 



1 63 35 2 



2 01 10 4 

 2 OS ISC 3 

 2 16 00 3 

 2 21 25 2 

 2 28 10 2 

 2 35 30 1 

 2 42 15 4 

 2 48 30 1 



2 55 50 1 



3 03 05 3 

 3 09 55 3 

 8 16 45 2 

 3 24 05 2 

 3 30 25 5 

 3 39 10 

 3 47 10 



3 54 50 



4 02 25 

 4 10 50 

 4 20 16 

 4 28 00 

 4 36 55 

 4 48 25 



4 54 45 

 6 02 25 



5 10 15 

 5 18 30 

 5 27 05 

 5 35 40 

 5 41 35 



5 63 50 



6 03 40 

 6 13 45 1 



SUMMARY. 



Shooting Time. it. s. h. m. s. 



First thousand {JaJoo™:^ oof T 04 40 



\lst500 34 301 



■ )2d 500 37 00/ 



JlStSOO 31 30) 



■ 12(1 500 35 45/ 



Fourth thousand ISffc.-.te oo} * »'' 



thousand SJfSSbirS 40/ 



Total shooting time 6 13 45 



Misses. 

 23 



.Second thousand., 

 Third thoasand.... 



, .1 11 30 

 .1 07 15 



.1 25 20 



CAPTAIN BOGARDUS ACCEPTS DR. 

 CARVER'S CHALLENGE. 



New York, Jan. 5, 1S78. 

 Editor Forest and Stream and rod and Gun : 



Sir— In your paper of January 3d I have read the challenge issued 

 by Dr. W. F. Carver, of San Francisco, Cal., dated Dec. 12th, 1877. I 

 shall be glad to shoot with Dr. Carver, and will accept the three 

 matches, numbered one, two and three, as follows : No. 1, To break 

 move glass balls thrown from a Bogardus trap, 25 yards rise, than any 

 man in the world ; 2, To break 1,000 glass balls quieter with a shot gun 

 than any man living ; B. To break more glass balls from a horse's back, 

 the horse to be on a run 21 yards from the balls, than any man in the 

 world can break at 30 yards and stand on the ground. 



1 will wager $250 a side and upwards in each of the three matches. I 

 will agree to let Dr. Carver name time and place, providing the 

 matches are shot East. Yours truly, Captain A. H. Bogardus. 



For Forest and Stream and Rod and Gun. 

 WE MUST HAVE A QUICKER GUN. 



Shall we ever arrive at perfection ? Shall we.ever be able to obtain a 

 gun or rifle that can be loaded and discharged fast enough ? Such are 

 the thoughts that crowd upon me as I reflect on the new weapons that 

 are continually being produced, a year or two ago I thought myself 

 happy in the possession of three fine " Scott" guns, each one a splendid 

 Bhopterand just, the thing for the work it was intended for ; but they 

 are only top-lever with double bolt, though to be sure they have the ex- 

 tension rib. compensating lump and rebounding locks. They have 

 hammers, but I must raise them with my thumb. Why can't, they be 

 cocked by the act of raising to the shoulder? A few makers have 

 brought out a gun that slightly overcomes this objection, i e the ham- 

 merloss gun. We are running only about twenty times the risk of shoot- 

 ing ourselves or some one else with such weapons, but then we gain 

 considerable time, as our gun is cocked when it is opened to load and 

 is of course always ready. With the great quantity of game I hat gen- 

 erally crowds upon us In our shooting expeditions we must have some- 

 thing quicker, farther reaching than the poor weapons now made by our 

 first-class gunmakers. I must have a hammerless gun, if nothing bet- 

 ter can be had. Just to think of the time I will save with it. I may prob- 

 ably kill several hundred more quail in a day's shoot than with my old 

 fashioned top-lever Scott guu, with hammera cocked by hand This 

 very year I spent a week in the month of October in Pike county of this 

 State. T knew the country well and had a good hunter with me, but one 

 ttung was lacking. I wanted a quicker loading, quicker shooting gun 

 W ith my Scott choke-bore I only secured two birds out of three shots I 

 1,11,1 al l ' uffe ' 1 Stftaw, Mia m aeer. I might Have done better even with 

 " r'. gnu, or one of those self-opening, self-cocking °uns ex 

 Molted by Webley & Son and Lang at the Centennial Exhibition with 

 an unproved weapon that would squirt out the charges like tile water 

 from a tire hose I could have secured any lord or animal that oame 

 Within range, There is the Winchester ritle, a good rifle it Is true' 

 but rather too slow. What could one do with such a rifle now in the 

 Admuulaefcs? Nothing. I am just about getting a ritle patented. I was 

 ESS tT^"" " ' S ^^"The Spiral Magazine Replenishing 

 KiUe. I had just returned from the Adirondack wilderness, having 

 T„ Z'T' T lmitol aml "»««■*»« ™.v Siuae. 1 was sadly reflect 

 ZTr ' eS " f k " lMC l could U * ve Slaughtered had I a weapon 



flttedforsuch a country. As I looked out of my back parlor window 

 and saw he garden hose coiled up in ,he yard a thought flashed on mv 

 mind, ami In a moment the , bought had taken a definite shape 



Now I am the inventor of the greatest weapon of modern times and 

 a benefactor to my brol , , flo ^ w - m ^ ™' *** 



nnnnte information ot , , „ of my ^^ ™ «»« 



o. the Winceste, (wh ,, no^uy . %£££££££ 

 below the breech is a tube connecting with a rubber «)«<, m . , , , 



to ninety teet long, when uncoiled, and contalnssooto ooo cartridges 



—a mere nothing in weight for a strong, | ortsmiin. The 



magazine is quite ornamental and compares quite favorably with some 

 of the handsome cartridge vests, belts, bellybauds and other like shoul- 

 der straps and harness worn bj the gentleman sprotsman. My short, or 

 half, magazine holds only 450 cartridges. Jus-, a convenient, amount for 

 sporting in the immediate vicinity of the larger cities, or for a traveler 

 over the Pacific R. B. when one passes through buffalo and autelopes. 

 The foil magazine is Intended for the " Adirondacks" and other choice 

 localities of the same nature. Wi I h th is weapon a person has but to go 

 to a wholesale gun store, lay in a supply of ammunition, sit down on a 

 campstoolin "The Great North Woods" and blaze away at the stream 

 of deer passing and repassing the camp. 11 he is tired or so much shoot- 

 ing, the next day he can [load up the reservoir or magazine and 

 himself and the guides can pick up the choicest of the slaughtered 

 game. By working the lever up and down very fast the cartri dges are 

 pushed forward, fired and ejected in a continual stream, the shooter 

 seeming a living skyrocket or Koman candle, dealing death to the deni- 

 zens of the forest as fast as they appear. If I could have had one of these 

 rifles last year and then have stationed myself on "Murray's Isle" on 

 the beautiful Raquette Lake I could have had a glorious time and would 

 not have lived on pork and "hard tack," as I did after each attempt to 

 slay the noble deer. I intend after perfecting my rifle to turn my atten- 

 tion to the shot-gun, and then, "brethren of the gun," you shall have 

 such a weapon in your hands that, with one end of the magazine dipped 

 in a keg of powder and shot mixed, you can cut the winged rascals 

 down as fast as they rise. Rupee. 



,. „ „ Philadelphia, Dec. 30, 1S7T. 



Mv Dear Hallock : 



Ilaving been, as you are aware, about the first Eastern sportsman to 

 visit the country opened up by the Wisconsin Central Railroad, a hasty 

 sketch of which I gave to your readers in Forest and Stream and Ron 

 and Gun of July 19, 1 naturally awaited with a good deal of interest the 

 point in yonr highly interesting narrative which should bring you to my 

 (ramping grounds of last summer. I was too much engaged to give if, 

 more than a hasty glance by the light of a street car lamp till this after- 

 noon. Now, fortified by a most excellent dinner, with my slippered 

 feet basking in the genial warmth of a hickory wood fire in the oll- 

 fashioned Franklin fire-place, I seem to fight the battles and enjoy the 

 triumphs of last, June afresh, while perusing your most delightful and 

 accurate sketch. 



I am in receipt of a letter from Henry Pratt, Esq., of the Central road, 

 urging me to pay them a visit again the coming season as a guest of the 

 road, and shall most assuredly do so unless the Paris Exposition shall 

 prove extremely enticing. I am the more desirous of accepting the in- 

 vitation because I really wish to determine, by actual test, the quantity 

 of trout the Hon. Sam Fifield can consume, single-handed and alone. 

 The question is as yet an unsolved problem. 



Passing from the scene of our summer rambles to our winter quar- 

 ters and friends, I have been wondering why Jones, of Homosassa, 

 made no sign. I see, however, by your issue of the 27th, that he is still 

 up to Ms old tricks of surprising and delighting worthy editors with 

 boxes of his mammoth fruit. How is it that common people never 

 come in for such kindly consideration 1 We had surely expected to 

 spend a few months amid the delights and hospitalities of " Homosassa' 

 again the present winter, but. fear that a press of business engagements 

 will prevent. A letter from Mr. Jones, of recent date, among other 

 pleasant items of news and gossip, says : " The sheepshead are biting 

 splendidly on your old grounds. Frank, last week, caught 160 lbs. in a 

 few hours' fishing, and redflsh bite first rate. Eight deer have been killed 

 on Hagen Island since our return from the North (a couple of weeks), 

 and some ten or twelve wounded. We shall be very glad to accommo- 

 date you and Mrs. L.,and trust we may have the pleasure of seeing 

 you before New Year's." There is a " Sportsman's Paradise " for you, 

 as Dr. Kenworthy says, and as you and I, Mr. Editor, know from' 

 personal observation ; and then such living ! * * * * The -wintry 

 gusts are driving the sleet against the window pane, heralding the ap- 

 proach of the long-delayed season of snow and ice. As I listen to It 

 the comforts of home and shelter seem very pleasant, but they cannot 

 entirely drive from my heart the desire and yearning for another taste 

 of " Camp Life in Florida." 



With many wishes for the continued success of your delightful jour- 

 nal and the compliments of the season, I remain, very truly yours, 



William H. Limtncott. 



»- ,#-^^. 



Wakken Green Hotel, Warrenton, ) 

 Faquier County, Va., Dec. 8, 1877.)" 



In this place I have met many of your Mends and sub- 

 scribers, and a more genial set of true sportsmen and gentle- 

 men cannot be found anywhere. My welcome has been kind 

 and warm. Though the farmers are mostly posted to keep 

 " pot -hunters " off, I have had invitations to shoot from every 

 principal planter around here for fifteen or twenty miles 

 Quail are very plentiful, and over about Jeffersonton, the 

 headquarters of Mr. George Myers, recommended in your 

 " Gazetteer," wild turkeys are very plentiful. 



To give you an idea of what can be done, Mr. Jas. H. Mad- 

 dox, a young but crack shot in this place, killed forty-four 

 quail, one pheasant and three hares in one day. He shoots 

 over a splendid red Irish setter. He has killed over 300 quail 

 already this season. I was out with him and Mr, Scott of 

 your city yesterday, and we had glorious sport. Mr. Curtis, 

 well known to you, can vouch for the plentitude of game in 

 this section. This point is easily reached by rail,' and the 

 true sportsman when here will meet with many congenial 

 spirits ready to ride and hunt with him, and in the season to 

 follow the hounds after reynard in old Virginian style. 



If deer are wanted, the Blue Eidge rises grandly but a little 

 way West ; is easily reached, and game of all kinds is yet very 

 plentiful there. The climate here is delightful— as balmy a"s 

 the month of May in my own section. I have been tempted 

 to prolong my stay here for weeks instead of days, so 

 pleasant litis my sojourn been made by the gentlemen of the 

 town and vicinity. Ked Bun-tune. 



New \ okk— Chatham Village, Dee. 27. — Was out with the 

 hounds yesterday, and had an exciting and successful fox 

 cbase - W. G. S. ' 



ViBGnriA.— Lwbwrg, Jan. 3.— Oapt. Fauntleroy has killed 

 this season forty pheasants (grouse) ; Powell Hairison, nine, 

 the latter nearly lost the use of one eye, a twig being thrust 

 into it while he was peering about for a shot/but has been 

 cured by the receipt of a fine Westley Richards breech-loader 

 irom England. Quail shooting still good. T. \Y. 



Old Dominion.— Quail shooting is permitted in the Stale of 

 Delaware until Feb. 18th. There is goud shooting now in 

 the vicinity of Georgetown, Sussex County. The place is 

 easy of access by steamers of this hue and cars of Junction 

 and Breakwater Railroad, and the "Brick Hotel" affords 

 good and reasonable acoornmodajiim. 



Floetoa— Crystal Smr t — Our correspondent, Mr A. B 

 ^odge, reports deer, turkey, and duck shooting better than 



South Carolina.— Port lioi/al, Dec. 38.— In Consequence 

 iich land thrown out of cultivation near me. foxes, 

 eats, coons and opossums are quite plenty. A good hunt 

 could be got up by a party up to that kind of sport. The 

 negro left in charge of my house killed three cats close by the 

 house : the largest weighed 45 pounds. The other two were 

 young ones half grown. (j. j, g_ 



Miohigan— Detroit, Jan. 5.— Win. Holland returned from 

 a ten days' shoot with a fine bag, having, during bis absence, 

 bagged 170 partridge, deer and 26 quail. Jno. E. Long and 

 James Canniff, m a four days' shoot last week, bagged 110 

 partridge and 11 quail. William Mylne, Harry Chandler and 

 a couple of friends were out on the 3d inst. with their hounds 

 to give them a run on rabbits, and bagged nine. J, JN'. Dodge 

 and his son Charlie were out for a few hours for rabbits on 

 the 2d inst., and bagged four. Rap Rurus. 



Illinois— Savannah, Dec. 26. --Shooting has been poor here 

 this fall. Ducks scarce; no geese; woodcock and jacksnipe 

 unusually scarce. j ^ 



Mud ! Mud !— Our Western exchanges complain tliat the 

 absence of cold weather has made the country one quagmire 

 of mud. Hunters and sportsmen all stick fast in t heir tracks, 

 and the deer, quail and grouse have a good time of it in their 

 immunity from da mage. 



PIGEON MATCHES. 



Dexter F auk.— Chicago, Jan. 8.— The pigeon match be- 

 tween Mr. Greene Smith and Mr. C. H. Roach, 100 game 

 birds, each, Hurlingham rules. Mr. Roach had the privilege 

 to hold his gun as he liked, Mr. Snuth to shoot by ride. " 

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FISH IN SEASON IN JANUARY. 



SOtTTnEBN WATERS. 

 !'. ni[i:iuo, Trachii.wtiixcarolinu.s. Grouper, Epinephetuwi niaritus 

 Drum (two species). Family Scice- Trout tolack oaasj, GenBrc 

 ."""''■ atranus. 



m -"niirirrv.-: nebuloeu». Striped Bass, or ROcknal ' 

 Si 1 I aSB,Scu enops oci -tlatus. lincatua. ' 



Sheepshead, Archomryus probato- Taitorlish, Pontntmnii* saltatrix 



cephalus. Black Basss, Wei opt 1 m 9aii»w&fe> • 



Snapper, Lxitjanm caxus. M. Mgrieah*. 



Fisit in Market.— The very cold weather has made fish 

 scarce and slightly higher in price. Bass from 20 to 25 cents 

 per pound ; smelts, 15 ; bluefish, 15 ; salmon, 80 ; mackerel 

 16 to 25 ; shad, Southern, $1.00 each ; Spanish mackerel, 30 

 cents; green turtle, 20; terrapin per dozen, $18.00; had- 

 dock, 8 cents; codfish, 6 to 8 ; blackfish, 15 ; flounders, 12.1 ■ 

 eels, IS ; lobsters, 10 to 12 ; sheepshead, 25 ; scallops, fl.jjO 

 per gallon; soft clams, 30 cents per 100 ; whitensh, IS ; pick- 

 erel, 15; hard crabs, $3.00 per 100; soft, $1,00 per dozen; 

 red snappers in fair quantity from the South. 



Movements of the Fishing Fleet. — The number of Bat- 

 ing arrivals the past week has been 9, including 3 from Grand 

 Menan, 3 from Bank trips, 2 from eastern fishing trips, and 1 

 from Georges. Notwithstanding the mild weather last month, 

 the Bank fleet is at its minimum, but. the halibut fleet will soon 

 fit away in considerable numbers.— Cape Aim Advertiser, 

 Jan. 4. 



Flobeda— Grystcil River, Dec. 24.— Vessels nmke three and 

 sometimes four trips weekly between this point and Cedar 

 Keys. Fare, $2. E. K. King furnishes board, boats, etc., at 

 $2o pur month. Sheepshead, cavalli, and ivd snapper, tar- 

 pmn and channel bass and other fishing. For larpum visitors 

 should bring the heaviest striped bass tackle. The "Thou- 

 sand Islands " is the best trolling tackle used here. A. B. £). 



Silk-Wokm Gtjt fop. Anglers.— Mr. Wm. Gray, of Daven- 

 port, Iowa, ha» sent us an interesting article, informing the 

 reader where the gut that anglers use for their leaders or 

 casting lines is obtained. To many persons the information 

 will be new. He says : 



" In all my reading I have never seen a sentence in refer- 

 ence to that most essential article to the sportsman angler, 

 viz.; silk worm gut ; what it was and how prepared. I know 

 that many skillful fishers know nothing iboat'wJ ere it comes 

 from. Others think that because it is called silk-worm gut, 

 therefore it is the intestines of the silk-worm, just as catgut 

 (violin strings) are made from the intestines of a cat (?) or a 

 sheep, after the mucous membrane has been removed irom it. 

 But that is not the case. It is true that it comes from the in- 

 side of the silk-worm, but it is not. what we would call the 

 gut. More than forty yuars ago I was curious to know what 

 this article was, but not until within four years ago did I 

 ascertain. Inside of the silk-worm there are two lobes 

 or sacs lying together, somewhat like the two lobes of eggs 

 in a fish. When these lobes are fully developed they consist 

 of a viscid fluid, and if the worm were allowed to live this 

 would all be spun out of its mouth as a cocoon of silk. But 

 if silk-worm gut is wanted, the worms are taken when the 

 lobes are mature (or ripe, as they term it,) and thrown into 

 rinegar for about two hours. The effect of this im- 

 mersion in vinegar kiils the worms, makes the external part 

 of their bodies very tender, and thickens the fluid iu the fibes 

 into a soft, tough pulp. The next process is to remove it 

 irom the vinegar and remove the outer part carefully, and 

 one at a time these lobes are caught by the thumb and 'finger 

 by the ends with each hand and stretched apart to the length 

 required, and given two or three twists around a small pin 

 placed in each end of a frame, where they remain till dvy 

 enough to be bunched up ready for market. That this is the 

 way that gut is finished we have some evidence by examining 



